The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-03
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nance in that city enforced IN order
that free mail delivery may be secured
Governor Gilchrist, after consultation
with landscape gardener, has begun
the work of laying out and planting the
grounds about the mansion. The man
sion is also receiving a much-needed
coat Of paint.
For the next sixty days hardly day
will pass without warships being at an
Choir in the Pensacola harbor. Late
Friday afternoon the first Of the vessels
arrived when the torpedo boat destroy
ers Pauldng, Drayton, Terror and Roe
entered the harbor and dropped anchor
A deal was consumated Saturday be-
tween the Florida East Coast Hotel
Company and A, Stanley Stanford the
president and managing director OF the
American Resorts Hotel Company,
whereby the latter secures the famous
Continental hotel at Atlantic Beach for
q term of ten years,
A very sad accident occurred in Live
Oak, Friday when HerndOn, the four
teen months old son Of Mr. and Mrs. X.
G. Thompson fell into tub Of scaldng
water from the effects of which he
died. The child was spending the after
noon with his grandmother, Mrs. I. j.
Myers, and was playing in the yard
where Mrs. Myers was working, when
the accident happened.
The steamship Suwannee, built for
the Merchants and Miners Transporta-
ton Company, was launched at Phila-
depha last Friday. She will be put
on the line between Baltimore and Jack
sonville. The new steamer is the twen-
ty-ffty ship built by the Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company since
the establishment Of the line fifty-seven
years ago, and will be one of fleet of
forty steamers owned by the line.
The corporation controlled or owned
newspapers of Florida are publishing
the following; IA law that should be
repealed and forever cast aside by the
approaching Legislature is the branless
measurement prohibiting newspaper
men from exchanging legitimate, boni-
fide adverti-ing space for legimate rail-
road passage, How body of intelli-
gent men could ever conceive and pass
such law is beyond our understand
ing"
Probably the most impressive feature
of the big parade in Kissimmee was
that of several hundred school children
in line, each waving an American flag.
Probably this is the first time in his
tory that southern children have taken
part in apublic demonstration by Union
veterans, and it presents a profound
object lesson Of the harmony now eX-
listing between North and South. Kis-
smmee is to be congratulated on her
spirit in this matter st. Cloud Tri-
bune.
Dave Turner, a desperate negro
character, was killed Tuesday afternoon
one mile north of Newberry by Deputy
Sheriff Wynne, who had called to place
the badly wanted man under arrest,
charged with the daring robbery of the
store of Tom ChesbOro. a negro mer-
chant of New berry. The officer used
a double barrel shot gun loaded with
buckshot and the load of lead entered
the negro's right brest, knocking him
to the ground and thereby saving Mr..
Wynne's life as Turner had two pistols
in his possession and was leveling one
on the officer when the gun was fired
at distance Of ten feet.
A complimentary banquet, in honor
of Hon. Nathan p. Bryan was the
cause of a gathering together of num-
Der Of his friends from various sections
of the State last Wednesday evening
at the Leon Hotel, Tallahassee. At
ter number Of splendid enthusiastic
speeches by those present Hon. Nathan
p. Bryan closed the speechmaking. He
took up matters of State interest, one
of which was the primary system. He
also was in favor of amending the law
so as to lessen the expense. He want
ed the individual voter to exercise his
right in naming the man he wanted to
represent him. Mr.. Bryan said he had
no personal i'll will or feeling against
the corporation as such, because they
were very necessary in the affairs of
government. They were proper in their
place. They had the same rights as
the individuals no more; no less.