The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-11-03
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principal streets in Tampa have been
placed underground.
The total shipment of cigars from
Tampa last week reached 6, 73O, oOo'
The custom house receipts were also
good, being SAT, s29.34.
Nineteen colonists arrived in Winter
Haven few days ago. They were
mostly from Kansas and had purchased
land in Winter Haven previous to their
arrival there.
Florida produced nearly six million
dollars worth of corn in 1909 nearly
five million dollars worth of cotton,
over two million dollars worth of pea
nuts, and a million and a quarter
dollars worth of sweet potato es.
Miss Mary Howard, of Orlando, has
been named sponsor at the division
encampment of the United Confederate
Veterans in session in Orlando and Miss
Alma Delaney has been named as her
maid of honor.
A plants to be established at Tampa
to extract and put up pure juices OF
the citrus and other fruits for medicinal
and food purposes without the use or
any preservative whatever, according
to newly discovered process. A Bal
timore company is back of the project.
The famous Fitch grant not far north
of Ormond was sold a few days ago to
a party of northern capitalists, most
of them from Philadelphia, who con-
template laying out new town before
long, This tract comprises some three
thousand acres, and would make an
ideal location for city, as most of it
is well above the river and covered
with fine tire S.
A negro laborer employed at work
on the New Hillsborough Hotel build
ing in Tampa fell from fifth story
to the ground few days ago and es-
capped uninjured save for few super
fetal bruises. His fall was broken by
beams of the successive floors, as he
caught at everything in sight. The
distance of the fall was nearly seventy
feet.
With considerable elaton O. G.. f.
Cook. traffic manager of the Florida .
Citrus Exchange, has received word
from the interstate commerce COM
mission at Washington, that several
claims which he held against the A. c.
l.. & l.. & n. and Washington South
arn, have been settled by those roads |.
without necessitating
of the case before the
commission.
In our opinion the people or Florida
have an opportunity, by sending Claude
l. 'Engle to congress, for some splendid
advertising for the State, for if he
should go to Washington as a represen-
tative from Florida, the whole world
will soon know that he is there and
where he is from. Figuratively speak.
ing, he will make Florida look as big
On the map as the whole western hem
sphere. Plant City Courier.
A peculiar find was made the other
day in clearing up one Of the lake lots
at Melrose. The skeleton of a rattle
snake, nearly seven feet long with ten
rattles, was found twisted in a wire
fence. The snake was two large to go
through the meshes and the scales
in the wire prevented back
ng out, so it had to stsrye to death
The high grass prevented the buzzards
rom seeing it and tearing it up, the
bones being found intact.
Last Friday, while O.. T. Kimball
and two sons, of Stuart, were taking
home a boatload of iron piping, the
gasoline gave out and the boat coming
'ound into the wind capsized. Mr..
ximball was caught under the piping
and was unable to free himself and it
vas only by great exertion that the
boys kept his head above water for an
occasional breath while they called for
,elp which soon came but not before |
Mr.. Kimball had almost succumbed.
He was in critical condition from ex-
laustion all night, but is now improv-
ng.
Henry E. Bryant, negro, president
# the American Patent Manufacture
ny Company, an Arizona corporation
capitalized at $1,000, 900, to do business
n Jacksonville, Washington, Chicago,
lew York, Liberia, Africa, was held
friday by Commissioner E. o. Locke,
N charge of fraudulently using