The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-07-07
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ernor to serve on the State Text Bo"N
Commission, has declined the honor, as
he is too busy to serve. The vacancy
has been filled by the appointment u.
Dr.. W. II. Russell, Of StaIke.
Following up Superintendent Ho.'.
ways efforts 70 recover from IN.
trustees Of the internal Improvement
fund, the large sum Of money diverted
from the school fund.- the state hoa.0
of education at a recent session tG'u.-
ed a resolution directing the At'.I".
General to investigate the caim "a"
prepare action to recover the amoah."
claimed.
a deplorable accident occurred 4. San.
ford Thursday, when Officer +. L.
Graves, of the street department. lost
his life by the discharge Of a revolver
in the hands Of Officer J. y, Sl.tord,
both of whom were trying to subdHe an
unruly negro who was making an effort
to escape from the city jail As a re-
suit, Officer Graves is dead, the negro
lies seriously wounded from revolver
shot, and Officer Silford stands eXoncr-
ated from all blame by the coroner :
court.
There seems to be no limit to the
natural resources Of Aachua county
soil for in addition to the rich deposits
of phosphate rock and minerals Of var
led nature, oil is said to have been dis
covered near Gainesville, and at a
depth of only seventy feet from the
surface of Mother Earth. The dscov-
cry of the oil product was made by
Robster Drayton, a colored citizen re-
siding at Willard Station, few miles
southwest of Gainesville. while boring
for water on his property several days
since.
There is a mild protest going up
from all over the State in regard to the
biennial report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture. 1t is demanded by some
that the book be called in, that no
more copies be circulated, as the fig
ures are detrimental to the interests of
the State. The commissioner is not to
blame as he prints returns as given
him. In some products the total for
the entire State is not as great as the
shipments from one county. 1t is the
same in the industrial statistics. Tam
pa is credited with only 5000 cigar
workmen, while that number Of men
are at work in two of the POO and some
odd factories.
The Board of Trade of Tampa is in
teresting all the railroads, land com /
panies and commercial bodies of the
state of Florida in the National Land
Show at Chicago in December. If
sufficient response is given the project
that live organization will undertake to
represent the state of Florida at the
land show. Last years show was at
tended by nearly million people.
One railroad that had an exhibit there
carried on the strength of the exhibit,
IS, 900 colonists west. AS the govern
ment estimates that each colOnist is /,
worth $4,000 to the state this influx Of /,
new blood and energy to the Pacific
states was worth Sl65, 900, 600. There
is food for thought in these figures.
Will Florida put Sl65 600, 900 new capt.
tai into opera.ion--or even 500, 600, 900?
The New York Packer says: "a
new law regulating commission merch-
ants, brokers, and general receivers of
has just been enacted in the
state of Florida and became effective
June IL, and has aroused considerable
interest among the dealers in New York
and other markets. This law applies
to pneapples grown in that state ex- :
which are sold oncommission.
The law, if allowed to operate, will
affect not only commission merchants
but associations, exchanges or any
other body, which acts as an agency of
The grower for the reason that it will
De almost impossible to comply with its
provisions. The associations who for
Instance pool their sales after the fruit
has been handled in perhaps a dozen {
different small markets, will find it
difficult to carry out the letter of the /
aw. Men who act as agents for grow
ers and cOnsgn the fruit voluntarily to
commission merchants outside the state
'r ship to auction houses will hardly be
in position to comply with the law.
n selling fruit at auction, purchases
,ra ma1a fOr Instance in Mom Vo,l,