The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-01-14
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Fishermen at Cortez landed $4,000
pounds Of mackercl and mullrt one day
last week,
Tampa ranks tenth in the list OF
American ports in the amount OF Gus
toms collected.
More than million tons Of pho3pha te
were exported through the port OF
Tampa during 1909.
Fully two years will elarse before
the extension of thclFlorida East Coast
is completed to Key West.
Doc Walker, a Tampa negro, was
stabbed twenty-five times during a row.
He was dead when found.
A training school for nurses has been
inaugurated at st. Petersburg in con-
nection with the city hospital
st. Petersburg now owns its entire
waterfront. The shores of Tampa Bay
for fully two miles in front Of the city
are to be transformed into a beautiful
pleasure park.
Captain Buckshot of the Homosassa
run, reports tat the run of sea trout
up the Homosassa river is unprecedent-
ed. One darkey Sunday landed $40
worth of them. -Ocala Star.
Quite colony of people from Dan
bury, Conn, are expected to arrive in
| Pomona this week. Some of the num-
Der all eady own homes there, and it is
expected that more will purchase.
The home of r. o. Burton of Palatka
was recently destroyed by fire. Mr..
Burton's loss is said to be quite heavy
one, and he has only fraction of the
worth of his home covered by insurance
One hundred and two acres of Sanford
land has been purchased for the sum of
S3l, 900. The property is to be develop
ed into terminal on the st. Johns riv-
err for the proposed Sanford and Ever
glades railroads.
Jefferson Foster, son of Thomas Fos-
ter of Evaville. was found dead recent
ly near his home. with gunshot wounds
in his neck. An empty gun shell was
found near the body. Foul play is sus-
pecled and the sheriff of st. Johns
county has been notified.
Walter Kitching, of Stuart, E. M.
Brelsford of West Palm Beach, and r.
f. Saxon, of Deerfeld, have been APP
pointed Road Bond Trustees for Palm
Beach County. A bond of $25, 600 will
be required of eachof the bond trustees.
These men were appointed, with the
understanding that they would serve
without any cOmpensations, other than
their actual expenses incurred in the
work.
The building mania has certainly
struck Kissimmee, for at the present
time there are thirty houses in course
of construction, and many more will be
commenced as soon as the necessary
material for same can be had. This
number does not include the two-scOre
that have been completed and are now
occupied either as dwellings or for bust.
ness, and yet it is almost impossible
for one to procure vacant room.
In struggle early Saturday with
two safe blowers, Paul Sauls. of Tall
ahassee, seventeen years of age, killed
both his men. The youth was left in
the basement Of the postOhice to act
as night Waterman in the absence of
the regular Waterman. He caught the
burglars in the act and fired on them
with the result stated, but they were
not killed until he had a hand to hand
struggle with them in which he was
NllSn'lI NbUittu. ne tWO crucKTnpn
are believed to have been professionals
though they have not yet been identi-
fled. One is believed to he Tennessee
Dutch a notorious yeggman. Young
Saul has been complimented for his
work by Governor Gilchrist and is the
hero Of the hour.
Residents of the Palmetto Beach sec.
ton have sensation. A few days ago
a calf with two fully developed heads
was born to faithful old cow on the
place of Perry Tucker. The calf was
dead at birth and the COW succumbed
soon after. Mr.. Porter, the veterin-
arian, who pronounces the specimen
remarkable one, is preparing a case in
which the freak can be preserved. The
heads are. independent of each other
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