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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-03-04

Burke is a printer and two of
his brothers are pugilists. One
was champion middleweight of the
coal regions for years, and an
other, younger, is beating every
thing in his class. Joe is con-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-03-04
Missouri May
Permit Boxing
(By United Press Leased wire.)

Nby united Press Leased Wire
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March
Missouri is In line as a fight
state today as the result of the
state assembly passing a bill to
permit six-round boxing matches
with six-ounce gloves before or
ganized clubs under state SUPER
vision.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-03-04
OLD TIMERS WILL
TRY TO COME BACK
(By United Press Leased Wire.

IBy UhIted- PreSs Leased Wire.
PHILADELPHIA, March T.
Two old-timers will be seen in
the ring again March 10 when
Kid Mccoy and Billy Berger will
endeavor to come back" Nc
Coy is full of confidence, and an
nounced today his willingness to
bet $4,000 on his ability to trim
Berger.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-03-04
KNOCKOUT MADE him GOOD

w / L X e s.
b A R r E, Pa,
March A. You
seldom hear of q
fighter b e / n G
helped by a de-
feat, but that's
what happened to
Joe Burke, one Of
the b e S t 120-
p o u n d e r s in
pennsylvania.
The defeat oc-
CURED is months
ago at Old Forge,
B e r t O'Donnell
winning in II
r o u n d 8, after
finding out, late
in the battle, that
Burke was not
there" at in
fighting. M II C h
money changed
hands and Burke
was declared a
dead one.
But Burke did
not believe it. He
employed t h e
man who had
b e Q n handling
O'Donnell, a n d
began again. He
learned the short
arm stuff and six
m o n t h s later
trimmed O'Don-
n e IL in six
T o u n d s. Since
then he has been
winning steadily.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-03-04

his wonderful constitution can't
stand the pace the Parisians set
however, and some of his strength
and speed would disappear after
a visit. Then Kaufman might
beat him-but that would be his
only chance, in my opinion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-03-04

e.. 'SuoIls pue 6JJnIJ 'eayqM 'eInd
81 II 'InoId pImeIGd esn no6
u SuIHBq III WIBqo 81 eIauL,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-03-04

I JOE BURKE.
sidered the classiest of the three,
and his hackers believe he is
good enough for the Philadelphia
and New York short distance
istarS
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-03-04

lably take place in England, for
Hugh Mcintosh is the only indi-
yidual offering big purses.
Johnson and Langford will
doubtless meet first, and it is al
most a foregone conclusion the
champion will win.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-03-04
The EIeCtra-vlta Co.

Seattle. wash.
Please send me. prepaid,
your free. 90-page, illustrated
Name ..............s.
Address NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
CHARLEY SELLERS, THE
LYNCHED RANCHMAN.

Jealous suitors to hang Sellers.
~Eunice's brother, Kenneth Muir
ply, a clean looking lad of IS;
George B. Weed and Alma Weed,
big strapping "cow punchers," and
Harry Heath, expert roper. "
Eunice's cousin, admit that they
hanged Sellers.
I'VE did it because he threat
ened to kill Eunice and the rest
of u.s." they told Sheriff Rosseter.
Sellers had been courting Miss
Murphy three years. She wore a
ring he had given her. She ac-
cepted other presents from him.
Undoubtedly the young ranchman
was head over heels in love.
The plot was Matched, accord
ing to the prosecution, at dance.
Eunice, the Weed boys and Marry
Heath held a number of confer
ences during intermissions and
Sellers, who brought Eunice TO
the dance, noticed 1t, but was not
suspicious.
On the evening of the lynching
the men rode off to Sellers ranch.
Sellers was asleep.
George Weed woke Sellers up
with a gun at his temple and
threw a rope over his head. Then
the gang dragged him out, threw
the rope over the arm of a tele-
phone pole and left Sellers hang
ing. Then they went home.
William MCGEE, who was stay
ing 1T Mrs Heath's, says that while
the BOYS were away Eunice told
him that "the boys have gone over
to string up Charley Sellers"
when Harry and Kenneth re-
turned" says McGee, II heard
Harry tell Eunice: It's DONE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Rent Burdemed
Slave

How long will you stand for it?
Some of these days, and not
very far off, you will wake up
and realize your earning power
Is gone. When that time
comes, IL you have O. neat lit
tie home all your own and fully
paid for, you can surely make a
living, but IL you still have the
rent burden hanging over you it
will be hard struggle for you
to keep out of the poor house.
Just stop and think what an op-
portunity we are offering you
"a neat, new 4-room home, on
a lot 50x115 feet; good soil,
level as floor, in fine neigh
borhood, close to one of Taco
mas best schools, only two
blocks to car line; all your own
for $3.50 on payments of $25
cash and $40 a month. Re-
member it pays to buy from the
owner.
Surety Bonds. Fire Insurance.
e. F. GREGORY CO., Inc.
s.. r. Webb e. T.. Gregory
I'd Floor Natl. Realty Bldg.
1117 Pacific ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26

Defeat for
Taft

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
BOSTON, Sept. 26.-That Pres
ident Taft not only will be beaten
at the polls If he receives the re-
publican nomination for re-elec-
tion in 1912, but also will, in all
probability, be beaten for the
nomination by Senator Robert M.
LaFollette, is the assertion made
today by Louis ID. Brandeis, fa-
nous as counsel for Clifford Pin
chot in the Ballinger-Pinchot con-
troversy.
Brandeis said: "The Increasing
unrest of the people, due to the
activities of the special interests,
canuot but soon express itself for
a man of Mr.. LaFollette's views
and ideas"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col,
Sept. 26.-Declaring that women,
when aroused, are more brutal
than men. and that there are not
twenty men in the country in
human enough to have committed
the gbastly sextuple murder,
which for days has been a deep
mystery here, Detective J. w.
Erb of the Pinkerton agency today
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Boy Is Dead But
White Goes Free

II. N. White, president of the
Standard Paper Co., who ran down
and killed Charles Van Horn as
he autoed home from the Country
Club after golf game, a high
ball and another drink, will go
free.
That is unless the prosecutor s
office can get some additional
testimony.
''If we can get any new evil
dence l will start an action
against White" said Deputy Bur
meister today.
The coronsr's jury heard so
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26

Whats done?" asked Mrs.
Heath.
oh, we hung Charley Sellers
to telephone pole, coolly replied
young Heath.
Something had to be done,
Eunice added" ...
At daybreak Miss Murphy, her
brother and Heath went to the
little cattle town, Cody, and to the
home of William Dunbar. There
they told of the hanging. Dunbar
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Seeking Woman for
Brutal Murders

set his men to work seeking for a
woman, whom he says butchered
the Wayne and Burnham families
with an axe.
Jealousy is the only motive con-
sidered by the detectives. Detec-
tive Prettyman believes that the
case centers about Waynes re-
lations with an unknown. woman
prior to his wife's arrival here
three weeks before the tragedy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Bad Meat Is Good
After 60 Days

freezum into the they sold May
be
The free by Justice Frank H. Graham yes
terday.
they didn't That didn't figure in the
at
whether had "doped" their meat
the alleged
hado before.
law aduteraters must be
wit hin of
When yesterday though Prof Johnson
university chemical testified that he
reezum the meat sold by both Graham let the men
Thompson
The sixtiet fell Sunday that the case could not have
proceedings the
holiday
trial.
legal technicaity oomed bigger in rahams mind
whether people eat aduerated
meat
necessarily make meat unfit for food
That is meat be abs
health but won't show it If
freezum, the food experts
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
An Astounding Tragedy of the
Frontier-Young Nebraska Girl
Charged With mciting Jealous
Lovers to Deed So That She
Might Get Fiance's Money.
BY II. @. Rodgers.

~ 'Hs ~ 'sooSNfSs
VALENTINE, Neb., Sept. 26.-
| have just come from the Rush
Vile jail, where I visited" Miss
Eunice Murphy, a pretty frontier
girl who is held without bail for
melting to murder. That, in Ne
braska, Is capital offense, pun
ishable by hanging.
Eunice doesn't look the part of
a murderess. Although she is "a
she has the face and form of a
girl in her teens. / couldn't de-
tect trace of coarseness, evil, or
anything bad.
why, she's as nice as she can
be-" said one woman caller. ~
Yet this mere slip of a girl
faces the very gallows, for, as
charged, having urged a private
lynching party, composed of three
of her beaux and her 1S-year-old
brother, to hang another beau
Charles Sellers. {
There isn't a doubt in my
mind" said Prosecutor Tucker,
but that Eunice persuaded these
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Jurors Slow to Vote
Hanford indictments

Although it is believed that all
the witnesses have been exam
ined in the case against ex-Mayor
Fawcett, the editors of the Star
and other men arrested for con
spring to defeat justice" follow
ing the Seattle mass meeting call
ed to start impeachment pro-
ceedings against Judge Hartford,
no indictments have been return
ed yet.
- District Attorney Todd did not
return from Seattle today to GO
over the cases further with ! the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
CALVIN SHOT
BY POSSE

At a late hour this morning no
further word about Frank Calvin,
who shot Mrs. Vivian Irving at
Eatonville Sunday night and then
fled to the woods, has been re-
ceived from the posse who are
securing the woods around Roy.
He was last seen yesterday crouch
ing In the shade of fence by
Louis J. Petit. Petit fired and
commanded him to stop. The
fugitive ran on and the raneher
raised his gun to shoot again but
a cartridge caught in the gun and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
NEWS ITEMS FROM
THE HCKTOWN BEE

We wrote letter to ole Nan
Sniflxins at Lower Mills yesterday ON
our new typewrfting machine. He
called In today and stopped his pa
per. Said he could read writin' as
well as the next one. and burned IL
he would have anybody printing
letters TO him.
There was a stranger with whis-
kers in town last night. Some or our
prominent citizens thought he was
old Doc Cooke, but ne was Just
Sagwaw blood bitters. See his arvt.
on page two today.
A fe1ler that pan go through col-
lege and still stick to suspenders to
hold his pants up may amount To-
tower whispers
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26

much testimony, part of It that
White was speeding so much as to
attract peoples attention, and part
THAT he was going slow. that III
practically acquitted him, despite
Mrs. Van Horns charge that he
had been drinking. White ex-
planned that what he drank didn't
affect him.
So White is free.
But Charley Van Horn is dead,
and the little South Tacoma home
is desolate, and a mother out
there will never forget the terri
BILE tragedy she witnessed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
INSIST THAT
WOMAN BEHANGED
FOR KILLING MAN

prepared to prove that relations
existed between Garland and Mrs.
McCree which made the theory
that she shot Garland because he
insulted her impossible.
John Lewis, counsel for the de-
fense, declared today that he will
endeavor to prove that there were
no criminal relations between the
pair.
Mrs. McCree is still in jail here
with no possibility of trial until
January.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26

Makes Two
Tries At
Suicide

An unknown Jap woodcutter
shot himself then hanged himself
i'm two vain attempts at suicide
this morning at Menlo park.
Passersby saw him hang
ing and cut him down. The man
was sent to the county hospital.
He may live.
The man was employed at G.
MerIutia's wood yard, 1022 South
Il street. Members of Tacoma's
Japanese colony were very secret
as To the facts i'm the case, though
number of them hurried to the
park on hearing of the attempt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26

told the prosecutor that "Eunicc
said she wanted to go along and
help pull the rope. but the boys
wouldn't let her. Adding, 4 was
to blame for the hanging, any
way -
At noon the next day the men
were arrested and rushed to the
Jail at Rushville under double
guard to avert another iynching.
They are held for first degree
murder. Eunice gave herself up.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Immortality of the Soul Is
Myth, Says the Great Haeckel

tions of the human mind, insists
the great savant, whether in art,
literature or in any other branch
of intellectual endeavor, are fun
damentally mere muscular activi-
ties. The Immortality of the soul,
therefore, says Prof. Haeckel, is a
myth. Prof. Haeckel is now in
his 18th year and is still mentally
and physically as active as many
men of SO.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26

BERLIN, Sept. 26.-Immortal-
ity Of the soul is myth and with
out scientific foundation, declares
Prof. Ernest Haeckel of the Unf-
versity of Jena, who is generally
considered the worlds greatest
living scientist and evolutionist.
The human soul, asserts Prof.
Haeckel, is only purely physical
function of the brain cells, and
ceases at death. All the produc-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
JOIN
CLERKS IN
STRIKE

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
MEMPHIS, Sept. 26.-Follow-
ing the action of the Illinois Cen
trail clerks who walked out
yesterday shortly after noon, 15.-
600 shopmen, members Of the
Illinois Central Shopmen's FEEDER
alton, struck here today. Armed
guards are patrolling the rail-
roads property, the company re-
fusing to accept freight and every
thing is tied up.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Fear Boycott
LouerPrice
ofSugar

(United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Sept. &c.
Fearing boycott ON refined
sugar, the magnates of the
sugar trust today lowered the
price of that commodity from
81 to $G.25. The first break
in the high price which has
been prevailing was made
when Arbuckle Brothers an
nounced this 10 cent drop i'm
fine granuIated. Other firms
hastened to follow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
OPELOUSAS, La, Sept. 26.-
"Even II 1 am forced to disqualify
myself as prosecutor l will assist
the prosecution in every way pos
sible, and I will insist on hanging
Mrs. McCree," declared District
Attorney Lee Garland here today
In regard to the shooting of Allen
Garland by Mrs. James McCree,
wife of a prominent official of the
Frisco railroad.
The district attorney said he is
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Says She Had To
Work Is Hours

Ernest Fiderson, baker at the
Public Market, is on trial this aft
ernoon on the charge of working
Miss Belle Pennington longer than
eight hours.
The girl told Business Agent
Burns of the Central Labor Coun-
Gil, who brought the complaint,
that she had to work IA and 16
hours a day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
alvin got away.
Found Bloody OverCoat.

Calvin got away.
Found Bloody Overcoat.
An overcoat found nearby,
bloodstains in the right sleeve,
shows that one of the bullets fired
by the posse had hit Calvin. The
authorities believe that he will be
driven into the open soon by hun
ger.
Mrs. Irving is still at the point
of death at the Eatonville hospi-
tai. No further revelations as to
the cause Of the shooting have
been made.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
New Complaint
Against DR..
Hazard

Attorney Frank Kelly of thSs
city has filed new charges of muir
der against DR.. Linda Burfield
Hazard, who is alleged to have
starved Miss Claire Williamson to
death. The case will be heard in
Kitsap county. The first case was
thrown out because the complaint
did not specify what foods had
been withheld from the victim.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Shopn1en Or
Vest May
FoLLoU
(By United Press Leased Wire

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.-
Whether the Federation of Shop
Employees on the Hartman lines of
the Pacific coast will strike as an
aid to the shopmen of the Illinois
Central railroad who walked out
today probably will be definitely
declared before night.
President e. l.. Reguin of the
federation refused this morning to
say whether a strike of the 15,-
600 employees of the system west
of the Mississippi would be de-
clared.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26

Eight women on the jury to try
Reginald Boyer for working a
bunko game on. Joseph Bauer on
Great Northern train, didn't take
long to make up their minds. A
verdict of guilty" was reached In
five minutes.
This involves sending Boyer to
the pen.
Boyer brought w. A. Cozzat,
clerk at the Tacoma hotel, to
prove that he was registered
there at the time. But the prose
cution showed that the train, when
the bunkoing happened, arrived
here before 5.
The women on the jury we're
Mrs. Millie Shock, Hattie John
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Gustav Wants
To BE Freed

Gustav Wuerch might have
got a divorce from his wife Satur-
day had he been asking for it in
stead of fighting her suit. But he
still had hopes of a reconciliation.
Today he gave up, and asked
Judge Card to grant him a decree
on the strength of the evidence in
his wife'S case.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26

jurymen.
1t is limited around the federal
that some of the jurors
are asking pertinent questions
about the whole case and want
more information before they vote
any indictments.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
BANK IS
I ROBBED
=

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
PRIEST RIVER, Ida, Sept
26.-The vault of the Priest Riv'
en- bank here was dynamited early
today by two cracksmen, wht
escaped with 1900 in gold. The,
left no clue.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
WAR CLOUD
IS DARKER

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 26.-
The Italian charge d'affaires here
today notified the Turkish govern
ment that any dispatch of Turkish
reinforcements to Tripoli would
be regarded as a hostile act. The
message is regarded as, a virtual
ultimatum.
Excitement throughout Turkey
is great.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
WORKERS. DO
NOT WANT WAR

LONDON, Sept. 26.-Reports
from Rome say that the socialists
today captured all the Tabor
Unions and that general strike or
ders go into effect tonight. The
order will be a protest of the
workers against war with Turkey.
1t is not known whether the order
will be. generally obeyed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Women Send Man to Pen
After Five Minutes Debate

son, Myrtle Manning, Jeanette
Ryther, Hannah Tuell, Clara Lar
son, Belle DeHuff and Josepha
Welfare.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
VICTIMS OF STRANGE COLO
RADIO CRIME.

Above are A. J. Burnham, his
wife and children, all but Burn
ham being found murdered to-
gether in their crude home at
Colorado Springs.
At the side are Mrs. Henry f.
Wayne and her baby. These two,
and Wayne also, were murdered
at the same hour in the shack
next door. All six were killed
with an AK.
The latest theory OF the detect
ives is that a woman committed
the crime and that jealousy was
her motive.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
PoRTERsvHLE "Hogs

PORTERSVILLE - "Hogs is
hogs" too. When President F. U.
Nofziger of the new Porterville
Northeastern railroad took car
load of them on the roads initial
train he had to pay $3.50 for
three that died. The shipper
paid him $11.65 for freight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26
Whathor.
Forecast

Probably fair tonight. Fair and
warmer Wednesday. Light west
erly shifting to northerly winds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-26

EMIGRANT GAP, Sept. &c.
JIearing weather at noon today
determined Fowler to make a
practice flight some time this aft
ernoon.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-12-08
FOR YOUR HAIR
Here Are Facts We Want You to Prove
at Our Risk

When the roots of the hair are en-
tirely dead and the pores Of the scalp
are glazed over, We do not believe that
anything can restore hair growth.
But, when the hair roots retain any
life. we believe there is nothing that
will so surely promote hair growth as
will Rexall "93" Hair Tonic. To prove
that statement, we promise to promptly
return all the money you pay us for
ReXal '93" Hair Tonic, should it not
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Rexall '93" Hair Tonic destroys the
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Of the hair, stimulating and, by pro.
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ReXall "93" Hair to tic helps to
relieve sea p irritation, to remove dand.
ruff, to prevent the hair from falling
out, and to promote an increased growth
of hair. 1t comes in two sizes, prices
50 cents and $l.00. Remember, you
can obtain it only at our stOre--The
ReXall Store. The st. Lucie Drug Co.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-12-08
THINK THIS OVER
This Offer Should Gain the Confidence OF
the Most Skeptical

We nav for all the medicine used
during the trial, if our remedy la''S
to completely relieve you OF const'pa'
ton, We take all the risk. You are
not obligated to us in any way what-
ever. if you accept our offer nat
a mighty broad statement, but we mean
every word of it. Could anything De
more fair to you?
A most scientific, common-sense treat
ment is ReXall OrderlieS, when are
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is recent scientific discovery that 1t is
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cause darrhpa, nausea, fatuIence, grip
ing. or other Inconvenience. ReXall
Orderies are particularly good Tor
children, aged and delicate persons.
Ii YOU suffer from chronic or habitual
constipation, or the associate on de-
pendant chronic ailments. we urge you
to try Rexall 0rderlies at our risk
Remember you can get them in Fort
Pierce only at our store. Il tablets ~
cents; SO tablets, 25 cents; 50 tablets,
50 cents Sold only at our store The
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The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-12-08

Duval county has about $50, 900 OF
unpaid warrants mot counting wat-
rants issued on the school fund.-. tits
aid that Duval's warrants are worth
only 70 cents on the dollar, but this
seems improbable. This carries one
back twenty years ago, when it was
the common thing for county's war.
rants to he " hooked" about, and to be
sold for just what they would bring 10
the market. Duval gets about q hun.
dred thousand dollars n year out of her
booze joints, to say nothing of an i'm.
mense tax roll.