Fort Pierce news., 1911-08-25


1900. raised by popular suoscrlpi'on'
A schooner carried 400 imported
va.ermelo1s from Miami 10 Key West
last Frids, and now the underiakers
. business will pick up.
The contract for printing the State
Supreme Court Reports has been given
70 the Painter Pripi.rg Company OF
DsLand for % cents per page
. r. Mugge. Of Tampa, will soon erect
[ a tea-story sky-scrapsr Of steel and re-
'infoced concrete 10 that city 70 cost
about 100000. The city will beer it.
\ county site removal electioa will
( be held 10 DeSoto county on November
/ Il as the resll, Of an attempt Of Area
( dia 70 secure the erection Of an $4,000
courthouse.
The voluntary weather observer al
New Smyrna has been supplied by the
government with flags and rockets for
hurricane signals, the rockets are for
+. warnings at night.
/ Norman Wyeth, Of Lynn, Mass, so
years Of age, while working near Da'
MIA last Saturday. vas bitten on the
calf Of the leg By 7-toot dlamond-back
rattler and died three hours later.
The Florida East Coast Railway Co.
has been cited 10 appear before the
/ Railroad Commission of Florida on the
+ 3Oth day Of this month AMI make answer
70 charges for violating freight rates.
Another time killer.
George Gordon, Of Palm Beach. tried
to capture a six foot alligator he met on
the Lake Worth bridge near midnight
and got chawed on the hand and his
nervous system shook up, while the
saurian gave him the ha ha.
II is said that within short time
strong British syndicate will be trans
forming the peat bogs Of Duval and st.
Johns county into power for the opera
tion OF small industries and reclaiming
sulphate of ammonia and other valua.
ble bi-products out Of what is ordiua.
rily called muck,
At Sulphur Springs, pleasure re-
sort near Tampa, l6.year old Cuban
youth was drowned while bathing last
Sunday, aud few minutes later T.
year old boy fell from his mothers
arms while riding on scenic railway
and was killed. a hundred yards away
the band played and dancers danced.
An exchange says ha the editor Of
West Florida paper holding com.
mission as notary public married a
couple 10 graveyard at midnight and
that the groom ne ver paid him his fee
nor never lived with the woman. OF
the three people referred 10 in the
above gruesome story there were either
three fools or one liar. The editor can
take his choice.
The chairman o! the railroad com.
mission says that the reason union
depot is not ordered built at Ocala is
because 10 do so would be virtual con-
fscation Of the brick depot now owned
by the A. c. L. railway. The mayor
OF Ocala says that il the railroads are
required to build union depot thai he
will pay the Coast Line what it cost
them TO build their depot.
A bulletin sent out by the Tampa
Board Of Trade says Florida will be a
great state when il begins TO feed COW
peas, velvet beans and casssga to thou.
sands Of hogs and cattle. when we raise
enough corn for our own use, when we
make all the :butter we use, and when
condensed milk is not sold by the hun
dred car loatls. With the influx Of new
settlers, IL will be few short years uL-
Til Florida will lead as an agricultural
state.
q The trusty who murdered Mrs. Jesse
Weeks and was shot by her son, In Clay
county two weeks ago, was serving 9
life sentence for killing Two men in
Pensacola At the convict camp, while
left alone, he drank several bottles Of
various kinds Of bitters kept in the
commissary and got crazy drunk. He
then took gun and ca-triges, and
went down the road shooting AZ Iany-
thing that came in sight until he got TO
the Weeks home. Before d. ing be gave
information that led 70 the arrest Of a
couple Of camp employees named Creek
| rnnra uZhn a re NOW In iail nendinr Ia.