The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-15
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ment on foot, looking towards securing
a Carnegie library for that city.
Twenty-Five million feet of yellow
pine lumber was exported through the
port of Pensacola during the month of
March.
A private census of st. Cloud gives
that town a population of |, 700. and re-
ports that new corners are going there
every week.
An average of twelve carloads of let
tucc and cabbage are leaving Gaines
vile daily, and later it is believed the
lettuce shipments will reach solid train
loads daily,
Editor Crawford of Pensacola News
is authority for the statement that Edl-
tor Stovall of the Tampa Tribune clean
ed upan even ten thousand at the races
at Moncrief the other day.
The Cocoa board of trade has passed
a resolution condemming the advertise
ment in Everybody's Magazine of the
Florida Indian River. Land Co., Of Vim
ton. Iowa, as misleading and untrue.
and issues a warning to probable in
vestors.
The Florida Everglades Land Co.,
recently bought 1900 acres of land
from the Florida Coast Line Canal and
Transportation Company through the
latter's agent. Mr.. j. M Bars of Jack
sonvile. The land is situated in Palm
Beach county and lies five miles west
of Palm Beach.
A son of Italy lately arrived in Tam
pa and greatly enjoyed the many new
found delights of southern Florida until
one day he met his waterloo. Between
paroxysms of pain in his stomach which
alternately bent him double and then
stretched him fiat, with perspiration
flowing from every pore, he explained
that "Bigga chiha, what fly high, no
good for italia man." He tried eating
buzzard. Exchange.
1t appears from the Jacksonville
Floridian, Albert Williamson, editor,
that Pleasant Holt, the accredited man
ager of the saloon mems campaign in
the state, is running the state campaign
of the democratic party also is the
whole thing in state politics. William
son, in the last Issue of his paper, GER
tainy shows up Pleasant in very bad
light, and if the chairman of the state
democratic committee remains silent
about the letter he received from Holt,
will not publicly denounce it and its au.
thor, why nothing remains for the peo-
pie to Judge but that Holt and the said
chairman are yoked up together for
whskey and open saloon campaign
against tho decent people of the state.
--DeLand Record.
Ancient and rusty and relic of the
older days of Americas Oldest city, an
anchor of the type used by Spanish
ships early in the last century and in
the one preceding has been found in the
mud on the bottom of Matanzas bay.
The interesting relic was hooked up by
the anchor of one of the canal company's
boats and has been secured by j. +.
Dodge for his old curiosity shop. The
finding Of the anchor was, of course,
purely accidental. When an attempt
was made by those on the Dispatch
to lift their anchor they found it stuck
and an investigation at low tide reveal
ed theirs firmly caught in the old one
which was Solidly buried in the mud.
The anchor is over five feet long and
has laid in the salt water until the rust
has eaten in very deeply. 1t is some
what different in shape from modern
ships anchor and is undoubtedly of an
old type. 1t Is believed that it was lost
there before the change OF flags which
was ia 1921. Many have viewed the in
teresting old relic of the citys earlier
days.
Shortly after four O'Clock Thursday
afternoon the case of a. Lee Allen,
former county, commissioner. of Dsde
county on trial for the past four days
in the criminal court, was given to the
jury and in a very few minutes the jury
returned to the court with verdict of
acquittal. The case against MIR. Allen
gained considerable notoriety because
it implicated the entire board of which
Mr.. Allen was a member. The grand
jury which assembled during the for
mer board of which Mr.. Allen was a
member and the investigation resulted
in the Indictment of Mr.. Allen and the