Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1910-02-04

Mayor Jordan has headed a move
ment to extend the city limits Of Jack
sonville.
The Florida Citrus Exchange says
there are million and half boxes Of
oranges yet to be marketed from the
groves Of the State.
Sanford is about ready to market a
large crop OF celery and If the market
conditions are good many Of the grow
ers will get rich 10 a season.
An ordinance has been passed by the
city council of Starke which requires
all meats, vegetables and fruit exposed
for sale to be screened from flies.
Governor Gilchrist wants a special
tax on Everglades lands 10 carry on the
work of drainage. This kind Of talk
was rank treason 10 the reign Of Brow
ard.
Private subscriptions in aid of the
Fort Myers school house has reached
the very handsome sum Of IS, go, much
of which was given by the winter resi-
dents.
Theodore Corbonelle, Cuban, is un-
der arrest in Tampa on a charge OF be-
ing an ageeri'f the Cuban lottery. Two
Gu6SGSs Non VI, 800 and f6aT exposed the the
agency.
In cake baking contest held 10 Bar
tow, one day last week, the cake baked
by Mrs, Henney Lightsey won first
prize over thirty-nlne contestants. The
premium was six sacks of flour and one
sugar-cured ham.
]. j. Allen, a rel, estate man from
st. Paul, MINI, while watching the
bathers at Palm Beach last Thursday,
was stricken with apoplexy and died in
few minutes. Some OF the costumes
must have been shocking.
Lieut., Rhodes, Of the artillery garrl-
son stationed at Fort Barrancas, near
Pensacola, has invented a flying ma
chine in which he assembled few days
ago to height of one hundred feet and
remained in the air for some time.
W. F. Holmes, of Daytona, former
resident of Grand Rapids, Mich, has
successfully solved the problem of hard
elirg palmetto trees so that the wood
can be used in the manufacture of fur 9.
niture. Fort Pierce is the place to get
the palmetto.
William Franklin, charged with beat
ing his wife, was fined 500 and costs
aud six months at hard labor on the
county roads, by Judge Beggs in the
criminal court in Pensacola few days
ago. That one good act should entitle
Judge Beggs TO the highest honors
within the gift of the people.
While on drunken debauch and ter
rifying the neighborhood DIR. G.. E.
Boutwell,, a prominent physician of
Mayo, shot and killed A. d. Sapp, an
esteemed citizen, who was assisting the
marshal to arrest him at his home last
Thursday. The doctor is in Jail with a
charge of willful murder against him.
h. H. and C. F. Thomas, alias Stude-
vile, st. Cloud colonists from Missouri.
but who formerly lived in Indiana, are
under arrest charged with the embez-
Element Of 30 head of cattle in fancy
county, No. aud will be taken back.
The prisoners are grandfather and
grandson and their desire to come 10
Florida prompted the crime.
A young couple by the name of JOY.
ner and claiming to be from South Car
DINA, abandoned their baby by leaving
il in the woods near farm house on
Lake Gibson, near Lakeland, one day
last week. The child was rescued and
the parents arrested, but on account Of
their youth and poverty they were not
prosecuted. The penalty for this Of
tense, even If the child is not harmed.
is $500 fine or six months in prison.