The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-17
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months for SD, when MAKES 'o'"' VI
81, 200 a year paid to the veterans OF
that county for their services IN the
Civil War.
T. Picton Warlow, of Orlando, has
been chosen by the Orange County
Democratic Executive committee FOR
recommendation 10 Governor GilchrlSt
for appointment to the place made va
cant by the death of Judge j. d. BeggS
of the County Criminal Court.
Capt. Geo. J. MERCER one of the
best known of the old timers on the
Indians river and on the East Coast,
died at the Friendly Hospital, Miami,
Wednesday evening at O'Clock. He
was 65 years old and had been in failing
health for over three years. Death
was caused by paralysis.
A Bradentown farmer advertised for
a wife and received two hundred an.
swers. After shifting the 200 offers
down to six, he has started out for a
personal injection Of the SIX Or
course the applicants for marriage are
all from out of the state and doubtless
their desire to live in Florida causes
them to be willing to accept any kind
of an old wdower for hubby.
| Rear Admiral Hutch J. Cone, chief
of bureau of steam engineering, Navy
Department. Washington, d. c.. will
address the Navy League convention
at Los Angeles and will be in a position
to advise the west coast delegates of
the attitude of the Navy Department
toward naval questions involving the
Pacific coast. He goes with the full
approval of the naval authorities as
one qualified to speak with authority
of the department. Admiral Cone is a
Florida Cracker.
Some idea may be gained of the
enormous amounts expended by the
three candidates for United States
senator in the recent special primary
election which was Gale to select
candidate to fill the Office vacated by
Senator James P. Taliaferro, by
affidavits filed by the candidates with
the secretary of State. The total
amount spent as certified to the secre-
tary of State by the three candidates
was $50, 1882; Blunt having the
largest amount, S24.O77.ll, Bryan $751;
034.94, and Stockton, SIG, 1893.
The Hotel Halcyon. at Miami has
again been sold at auction, and this
time was knocked down to Mrs. NJ. E.
March. who has been successfully
operating the place under lease, for
S9l. 200. The price is about 81, 900 more
than was bid for the hotel last summer,
the sale at that time having been de-
clared defaulted and a resale ordered
The hotel is a splendid piece of property,
and probably worth great deal more
than the price paid. The price realized
at the auction last week indicates the
upward movement of real estate in
Miami, and the purchase by Mrs. March
suggests that Improvements will be |
made and the place continued as a |
prominent resort hotel.
At meeting of the Daytona Board
of Trade held Wednesday evening it
was brought out that representatives
of the Atlantic Coast Line have recent
" been in Daytona investigating the
proposition of building a branch line
from Daytona TO DeLand to connect
with the main line through the State
at the county seat junction. tits under
stood the proposition looks encourag.
ing to the A. c. L. Representatives and
to make 1t still more encouraging and
show that such line would be appre-
ciated by the people in that city and
NNHity al oSllou was TAKEN DV the 7
Board of Trade by which committee
was appointed to draft a set of resolu-
tons inviting the directors of the road
to build a line from Daytona to De.
Land
The intelligent white women of en-.
lightened Florida, many of whom are
taxpayers, are today not allowed equal
political rights with the negro. The
negro can vote in the general elections,
but the white woman cannot. Will this
humiliating condition be longer per-
mitted to exist? or will the voters of
Florida bestir themselves and demand
Constitutional Amendment for equal
suffrage in the next session of the
Legislature, in April? We are not
arguing for the disfranchisement of
the black man, but we contend that the