The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-11-03
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q big natatorium as a new enterprise
for that city.
Over forty thousand dollars worth
of sponges were sold in Tarpon Springs
by the Greek fishermen Friday.
Actual work of Surveying the At
lantic, Okeechobee and Gulf railway
from Tampa to Fort Lauderdale was
begun Wednesday.
News comes from Titusville that
after due consideration the writ of
habeas corpus which was sued out by
Ebert Gilbert, defendant in the famous
shaker" murder case, was denied.
Work on the new Kissimmee Valley
division of the Florida East Coast Rail
way is progressing nicely. Forty-siX
miles of grade has been completed and
nineteen miles of rail laid and much
other work done.
The Holmes County Advertiser has
found out what makes prices so high
1t saws: "The idea of teaching every
girl to thump piano, and every boy
to be book keeper, will make potatoes
S. barrel in 20 years"
Sixty eight applications for pardons
were made before the October session
of the State Board of Pardons in ITALIA
hassee. Two sentences were commut-
ed, ten were granted conditional par
dons, ten were passed for investigation
and forty were denied.
Florida has received some unenviable
notoriety through the operations of
INSCRIPTIONS land companies. This.
however, should not deter the honest
man who desires to purchase a home
in the State, for there are thousands of
honest men in the State with lands to
sell.
The board of army engineers which
has been working for more than two
years surveying the route for proposed
ocean to gulf canal across the state of
Florida, will hold it's final meeting in
jacksonville Fla, on November s to
prepare its report. The recommended
tions are expected to reach the war
department about week later.
Adrian Pillars, the Florida sculptor,
has been awarded the contract for the
Gorrie monument, which is to be placed
in the Statuary Hall at Washington,
d. C. The last Legislature, it will be
remembered, appropriated $4,000 for
the erection of this monument. Mr..
PLIERS has resided in Jacksonville for
the past eighteen years and this is not
only an honor to him but to the state
of Florida.
The closed season for mullet begins
November 18th and ends December 3lst
The open season for deer is November,
December and January. Open season
for turkey and quail: From Novem-
Der lst until lst day of March. Par
ties shipping deer, deerhides, venison,
wild turkey, quail or partridge beyond
the limits of the county in which the
. anne were killed to be fined not less
than S25 nor more than 500.
State Printer Appleyard wants to be
a delegate from Florida to the demo-
cratic national convention to nominate
the presidential ticket next year, but
there is very little prospect Of his get.
ting there The peo lie know him too
we'll. In his zeal for the interests of
the american Book Company, Tom
might forget all about Woodrow Wilson
Champ Clark and Gov. Harmon, and
cast his vote for Dr.. Brennan of the
trust. Barlow Courier Informant.
A negro was sentenced to the pen
itentiary for two years, from Manatee
county last week, for selling booze.
We have heard surprise expressed that
Gcv. Gilchrist signed the bill making
The second offense of that kind in pro-
1ibition counties, a felony as his SYM
osthy had usually seemed to be with
The booze seller. BY the way, it is one
If the best laws passed by the last leg
stature, and one of the most stringent
statues in the country. -
3radentown Herald.
The early shipments of green fruit
,ut of the state of Florida do more
lsrm to the Florida orange, taking
he season through and through, than
Ill the combined enemies Of Florida's
!olden globe. It's all right for the
nervous shipper to say 1.-THE high
prices are running, so let's get in"
md suiting the action to the word,
"a thor nm q shinment of these halls of