No. 36.
NEW BERN, CRAVEN COUNTY. N.C.. FRIDAY AUGUST 2. 1907 SECOND SECTION.
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". UKCHISG ROMD
Governor Glenn Invited to Address
'Democratic Club at Brooklyn.
State Beady for Trial of Row
Iaud. Crack Company B.
Third Regiment Jf.
' C. N. G. to Drill
At the Exp-o
i gition.
Special Correspondence. . .: ,
Raleigh; July 29. Governor Glenn
issued the, following letters to the pub
. lie, in with his statement mode last
Saturday afternoon and the agree
ment between himself and the South
ern and Atlantic Coast Line railways.
. "The General Assembly at its last
session passed a law regulating pas
senger rates, the same to go into ef
fect July 1, 1907. Before that date
the Southern.Jind Atlantic Coast Line
railways through the circuit court of
the United States enjoined tle cor
,.. poratlon commission and the attor
ney general from publishing and put
ting the fixed rates into effect. Not
believing that the' circuit judge In an
equity suit by enjoining the corpora
tion and attorney general could pre
vent a self-acting law from going in
to effect, I commenced to prepare a
letter to the Judges and an address
to the people, ulicn cu the 8th of
July 19C7, the Hon. B. F. Long, one
of the ablest and mo3t conscientious
judges in the State, of his own action
hastened action by boldly and ' ' ably
charging the grand jury of - Wake
county that it was its duty to imme
diatelyind!ct the railroad for.vlolat
' ing 'the' rate' law.AV At once T assured
Judge Long of my hearty approval of
his righteous -stand and of my inten
tion to assist him in upholding the
law. 1 My letter was forwarded to the
by writ of habeas corpus to the Fed
eral court. Believing this was .not
- warranted by the constitution and
laws I resisted in every legal way;
directed the State's attorneys to ap
peal from such action, and requested
the State Court to continue to enforce
the law. This brought about a direct
. conflict between the Slate and Federal
courts,' a matter that I regretted, but
other judges and Indictments were
matte in Wake and other counties,
Many penalty suits were also com
menced against the railroads by prl
vate individuals. w ,
' The railroads then applied, to the
Circuit .court to enjln all pri-
' vate persns from bringing penal
ty suits, and to take the persons' ar
rested and convicted in the State
court from the officers of that court
could not under my oath avoid. At
this crisis, assistant attorney general
Sanford, representing the department
of justice at Washington, came to see
me, to try to adjust -9 differences.
I told him that under the, constltu
tlbn I 'could not and would not at
tempt to annul the State law, but If
the railroad would obey the law and
let It immediately go into effect ail
minor details could be adjusted. At
-his requset I put my ultimatum, in
' writing and published It. Nothing
was to be done unless the ralroads
immediately recognized the law.
"After Borne debate and arrange
ment of minor details the railroads
accepted the State's proposition, the
. rate law to become effective August
8th (a few days being given to change
tlcketB, etc.) certain cases to be car
ried to the Supreme court for final
determination, and in the meantime
the railroads to request the circuit
"judxe to commence no contempt pro
ceedings, and I to ask the judges and
solicitors to commence no more in
dlctments and nol pros those on their
' docket, except the two from which
the - appeals were taken, and ' to re
quest the people not to commence
any penalty suUi. In connection
, with my agreement, the law now be
ing fully recognized and obeyed by
' ''the railroad, I do moBt earnestly re-
quest all judges to stop all new Indict
ments and to nol pros those on the
: docket, and" also the peojle to bring
; no more penalty . suits to the end
that peace and harmony shall again
, prevail between the railroads and the
i, people. You cannot Injure the rail
v roads without injuring the State,
When ' they obey the law they are
- entitled to protection. The law 4s
now in full force and no one should
therefore desire to violate the agree-
ment niade between the State and
" railroad, and I confidently ask and
expect that the agreement be carried
out and lie strictly compiled with
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lantlc Coast Line railways, the Caro
lina & North Western, railway, and
the Louisville ft Nashville railway re-
, fuse to obey the new rate law. Gov
ernor Glenn today sent the following
telegrams to L. D. Nichols, superln-
. tendent of the Carolina ft North Weat-
em, at Chester, 8. C: "The Southern
and Atlantic Coast Line railway, hare
i iigreeu xmxx uio mux ul iwu uu a
quarter cent fixed by the legislature
go Into effect August 8th. Will your
road also comply and adopt the rate
on that dayT Please answer, to the
end that it you,; refuse' to , recognise
the law I may. take such action as to
me seems rlght ". ' " '
The' last benches of the great, tres
tle,.'- nearly a half a mile long, on
which - the Norfolk and Southern Ry
enters Ralelgh.-weraiJnjDjace-to
day...;:I:;y : 'rf -'
There Is bow no question of "plenty
of . signatures will be obtained to in
sure the holding of an election on the
question of prohibition or dispensary.
The total dispensary sales during the
past twelve months were (225,000,
the profit being something over $100,-
000. The election is likely to be, a
lively one and will take place proba
bly in October or November.
The number of buildings under erec
tlon here today exceed one hundred,
among these being ten stores and two
nw flats. Grandmaster of Masons,
Winston arrived today to inspect the
work, on the Masonic ,'Temple. He
says that the forms for the concrete
work, are now being laid as rapidly
as possible.
Governor. Glenn is invited by the
Brooklyn Democratic Club to address
it August 29th, and intends to accept
He says hi will give the people and
the newspapers of ,'.' New': York and
Brooklyn this State's version or. this
railway rate matter, which ' he says
had been so greatly perverted and
distorted by the railway version. The
club tells him it will give him an au
dience of at least ten thousand. ,
The State is ready for trial in the
notable Rowland case, and will put
on about seventy witnesses,-some of
these for the purpose of corroborating
other evidence. There will be some
nw evidence.- If Rowland putt his
character in evidence, then the State
will introduce a lot of witnesses re
garding matters in Vance, Greenville
and Wake.
-So -absurd -was the rumor-which
some foolish person ' started here a
bout a proposed lynching of Rowland
the other night, that it was not
worth mentioning. There , was , no
reason to lynch, as the - State has
everything its own way, and the pris
oner' is hard and fast for trial. i
It is learned that Capt Moody, of
the Crack Company B., Third Regi
ment, will take 65 men to the expo
sition, paying the expenses of all
over the number of 45, which is re
quired by the order. ,
WHEN WILL IT MELT?
A 100 Pound Block of lee Will Dis.
appear by Guess Work.
As will be seen in the Simmons &
Ilollowell's advertisement they have
taken up with a very unique and ori
ginal idea In advertising their bust'
ness. Next Wednesday . August 7 they
will place a 100 pound block of ice in
front of their store to melt away with
out help or hindrance. Guesses are4
being registered in a book in the store
on the length of time it will take the
attenuated block ot frigidity to re
solve Itself to Its primary element
Scores ot people are guessing and the
range of the guesses is quite interest
ing. The least guess registered so far
is 1 hour and 45 minutes, and the
greatest guess is 48 hours. A pair of
tan oxfords will be given the person
making the nearest correct guess. It
does not cost one cent to make the
guess and it adds much to the inter
est to have a large number ot guesses.
Register your name and guess.
I. H. Barrai Discharged.
A few days ago Mr. I. H. Barrua,
promlnochi resident of Pollocksvllle
was arrested on a United States war
rant for the crime of peonage. He ap
peared before U. 8. Commissioner C,
B. Hill in the Federal building tor
preliminary hearing yesterday. Ou
account of being unable to locate the
principal witness for the proseoution
upon whose evidence the decision of
the case rested, Mr. Barrua was dis
charged. ' .
The witness was a negro named
Garrison who, It Is alleged, Mr. Bar
rus claimed, owed him a sum ot
money, and without having any inten
tion ot committing crime held Garri
son to work without pay tn order to
have him pay oft his indebtedness
Messrs. Moore k Dunn and Hon. T.
D. Warren ot Trenton were Mr. Bar
rus attorneys. Mr. A. J. Hoyt special
agent of the government was the only
representative for the prosecution.
New Cable la Operation Today,
Special to Journal.
New York, July 31. The new tele
graphic cable from this city to Colon
will be open for services today. This
v lll pive bettor MiH;ra-h CNvlce to
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FREIGHT OiSGRir.l-
::atio;i i;ext
To Receive Attention at the
Hands of Governor :
Glenn
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u::a statistics
TMrtyr-fceT Railways l the tSUte.xiBOr Ballreadg kow Unbecoming I
Negroes Bepatr Old. MmouIc
Temple. Wk riwt ,
County' to Have Poir . "
High Schools.,
Special Correspondence. . ?v '
Raleigh, July SO. The government
report on North Carolina weather for
the week ended, last night says the
temperature averaged two degrees a-
bove normal. Very hot weather pre
vailed from the 23rd, to the 24th tem
peratures rising to a hundred degrees
at some points. The-lowest temper
ature was 57 degrees at Raleigh. .The
rain fall was much below the average
and was Irregularly " distributed.
Tour correspondent Is informed by
Mr. Spencer Balrd Nichols that the
portrait of the three North CaroHnn
Signers of the Declarion of Inde
pendence, have been completed. He
says they have been, painted with thej,
idea of being viewed from a distance I
of eight or ten feet, and hence he has
used the same broad technique as in
the case ot the United States National
Museum portraits, many of which he
has made. He la a Washington art
ist. Vv "'-'':' 'v : " ' V
Governor Glenn said today that heHe said he had thought early tn the I
was taking up tbo matter of freight I
discrimination, and that he bad writ
ten a letter on July 23rd to the vari
ous railways. This ho made public
today, it being as follows: "The last
legislature set apart $4,000 with
which I was to employ counsel for
the State to Investigate the freight
discrimination against North Carolina
aud In favor of other States? with the
direction 'to use this amount, . and
more If necessary, in gathering data
and employing attorneys. I do not
desire any litigation against the rail
road In regard to State discrimination
I hope and trust that the railroads aie
honest and desire to treat our state
fairly and will correct any error that
may have existed tn rates. The con
tention of our shippers, jobbers, aud
retail merchants was thoroughly set
forth In complaint number five before
our. corporation commission in which
Individual instances were cited, show
lug that1 this discrimination existed.
All our shippers and merchants de
sire is that they shall be treated in
the same way that Virginia shippers
are treated and' should have one or
more distributing points in North
Carolina to which and through which
wo can get the same rates now given
Lynchburg. Richmond, Norfolk, etc.To
do that puts u. at a great dlsadvan -
do that puts us at a great
tage in competing with the merchants
of other places, and Is to say the least
of It unjust to our people. Goods ore
shipped at Lynchburg through Wins
ton, Greensboro and Durham for less
than they can be shipped to these
points. In fact our shippers, can have
their goods shipped to Lynchburg and
then pay the low rate' back to their
olaces cheaper than they can have
them shipped direct. This upon Its
face is unfair. Wilr you v please n, president of the Philadelphia consumption of Georgia, Virginia, Ala
through your agent como and invea- Northern National Bank was found bama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and
tlgate with the corporation commls- dead today In the swimming pool of Kentucky, and 6.918 bales mow tbu
slon and myself these facts, to the
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be made In regard to these matters,
which I assure you It is my desire to
settle without any litigation what -
Assistant commissioner anipman, of
the State ot Labor Statistics says the
manufacturers are. responding njore
promptly than usual to the requests
for Information to be used In this
year's report The question is sent
out early In July and already reports
have been received from 159 miscel
laneous factories, 173 cotton and wool
en mills, 146 newspapers, 70 furniture
factories and 15 knitting mlilft. l'e
hopes It will not be necessary this
year to send out two or throe reports
The list prepared today by the cor-
poratlon commission show that there
are 37 railway systems In the State,
The negroes who bought the old
building on the site ot the Masonic
Temple, have pushed the work on
their ow j temple, so rapidly that two
stories aro completed. They aro util
izing every bit of the old material.
Work on five more new stores be
gan hero today, making a total Aun.-
ber 'under construction 15.
Superintendent Juyner says that
Wake is the first county to have tour
High .Schools. It was entitled to
three, one for each representative In
the legislature
$500 gelng gb'cn for
the school by the Etute annually, but
it tm-k t-.mr s-h(.ls, two of t!.pse hive
I f"1 t 'it'll
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end that an amicable adjustment canloma time, and It Is thought that he
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Corporation Commissions Cer-
tilled Statement As to I
Railroad Properties .
ECiEE..!. CLO
eeo'-ests imformatidn
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Delay !h Aeeepiag New Rate.
' Death of Estimable Lady. '
-v Xew Directors Appolnt-
' ed I Confederate
Soldiers Home. .
Special to Journal.
Raleigh, July 31; The corporation
commission certifies to the state audi
tor the value of all' the railways and
other public service corporations to
taling $87,658,375, an increase over
last year of ' fourteen millions. ' The
auditor certifies this report to the
various roads 'which will send ; the
amount of tax due direct to State
Treasurer , Lacy, the rate being 25
cents on the hundred dollars and the
total tax being $217,fi00 Auditor Dixon
remarked that he had thought the
crease this year would be between
16 and. 20 million dollars. He was
what h thought the total in-
creage u vacation of all property
would be and replied he did not think
it would much exceed one hundred
millions. That as yet he had .not re
ceived, the assessments from all the
counties but based his 'estimates on
the returns which had so far come in.
year that the total' increase woul be
ahaiit'two hnndrnit mllllAUH - i
A telegram -this afternoon an
nounced the death at Tajjahannock,
Va. of Miss Martha Mason at the
home of her slste?, Mrs. B. B. Brock- I
enborough. She tfas a native of Ra
leigh and a daughter ot the eminent
Rev. Dr. Richard fihlpp Mason, for 30
year rector fwChriBt Episcopal
church here.
Gov, Glenn re-appoints the follow-
ing directors of the North Carolina I
Confederate soldiers home at Raleigh:
B. F. Dixon. Julian S. Carr, and A.I
B. Stronach and also appoints JamQs j
J. Thomaa of Raleigh a .director under I
a new provision of the law Which pro- j
vldes for an additional one. j
, The governor has a letter from the
president of the Carolina & I North
western Railway asking if the new
two and a quarter cent rate applied to
his road. -The governor tells him that
this was the agreement on the part of
the other roads and calls on him for
a statement of his intentions at once.
The corporation emmission to which
Gov. Glenn referred the letter from the
Louisville and Nashville Railway ask
ing that it be exempted from, the two
an cet rate, it claiming it
H 13 -mile, Hue in North
Carolina, declines to exempt the road
because it is owned by the Atlantic
Coast Line. A reply to this effect it
gave the governor who notifies the
road. He Is awaiting the answer of
the latter.
Prominent
Fhuaeler Dies
Swimming.
While
lAnA.jni tn Journal.
I Philadelphia. Aog. 1. Edmund Wat-
I k oni,.mhii ohth. Ha had been dead
1 -
I Buffered a stroke ot heart disease or
I appoplexy as there Is no evidence of
1 D, drowning. . -
disarmament a Bloody Affair.
Special to Journal. :
Seoul, Korea, Aug. 1: The Jap
anese army are prosecuting the work
of disarming the Korean army. Last
ifieht there was a bloody fight in
whteh tbo Japanese soldiery -' over
powered the Koreans and killed 40
soldier. '' - ' ' ' - '
State In the very -Important , high
school movement. Two villages each
gave $4,000 for one school, and a clt-
uen gave a fine site of ten acres mid-
way between the- points.- Mr. Joyner
says many applications for , high
schools aro filed la his office, many
loans to schools In the country have
been made. ...
Private Secretary, . Arrlngtou. U
back from a little vacation at homo In
Nash County. He says the crops'
there are very bad and about all the
talk Is about their poor condition.
Secretary of State Grimes' returned
today from Beaufort has a letter
from Pitt county, where he has a
large farm, saying crops . have Im
proved very much during tho past ten
days, yet It Is doubtful whether half
croj's will bo mad-'. He says the cot-
o t
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VALUABLE
FOR THE STATE
Commercial History ot North
Carolina a Handsomely
Bound Volume
DANGEROUS BLAZE IN
lumber district
Th State Manufactures More Cotton
Tbaa Five Southern States Com
;: lined. Much Compliant .
'Made of the Inequality
of Tax Assessments.
Special Correspondence.
Greensboro, July 30. At a meeting
here last alght of the board of du-oc-I
tors of the North Carolina Travelers
Protective Association, it was decided
I to have published an lllust rated vol
ume to he known as the Commercial
History of North Carolina. Th Ux)k
will be handsomely bound and finely
Illustrated, and will contain a full and
accurate write up of ajl the Important
towns 'of the state together with two
ful data and -historical matter connect
ed with the state's growth, "'especial!)
lta commercial imnortanc t, aud co-
in-stantly Increasing development. The
book will be ready for distribution l-y
May 1908. aud will, U is hoped have un
important bearing on securing the na
tional convention for some North Car
olina city for 1908. Mr. T. B. Harvey
of New. York, who has had much ex
perience in this line of work, was
made editor ot the proposed publica
tion, and was elected as chairman of
the history committee of the' North
Carolina division of the T. P. A. Mr.
Harvey will at once enter upon his
duties, and will open an office here
tor the work' on next Wednesday. A
similar work to the volume proposed
tor this state, was prepared by Mr.
Harvey two years ago tor the state
of Virginia, and, the book attracted
much favorable comment, and was
widely mentioned in the press.'
Yesterday afternoon and last night
there were two fires, both being from
the same fire alarm box, 52, but con
siderably separated. In the afternoon!
it was tenement house on McCulloch
street, which escaped with but little
damage. Last night there was a very
dangerous blaze tn the lumber yard
district on West Lee street and thou
sands went out expecting to see a
great conflagation. It turned out how
ever, be a block away from the lum
ber yards and plants, and was the old
Wilkerson factory, now used as a stor
age house for the W. H. " Chlsolm
building block factory. The building
was gutted before the flames were ex
tinguished,' the loss being estimated at
$2,000 with nominal insurance.
The Southern ralway has placed a
temporary trestle across East Market
St. It will , remove the present iron
br,dge, and in its place construct a
$5,000 arch wide enough tor' Its new
double track, now in process ot con
struction between Greensboro and
Danville. ' ' ;
A ' cotton manufacturer here . In
speaking of North Carolina's con
sumption ot raw cotton last year, says
that last year according to the United
Sates compilation, ot the 2,292,249
bales used in southern mills, North
Carolina consumed 77.H Dales, tnis
ne was -more man mo commuea
1 " ne nne souinern siaie,
The county board of tax assessors
are in session yesterday hearing com
plaints of property holders In this
township and city who think they
have been rated too high. ' It is under
stood that when the city of High
Point is reached the boot will bo on
the other foot, and complaints Willi be
I lodged ot a wholesale low rating by
the assessor for that city. Greensboro
citizens are universally complaining
that the tremendous increase in valu
ation of property here, while there
has been an Uniform low rating In
Hleh Point and some other parts ot
the county, means not equalisation
and uniformity of taxation, but aim -
ply an Increase of taxes at this point
without corresponding benefit to the
state and county. In two townships
of hs county outside ot High Point it
Is declared that the assessment this
year Is lower than it was tour years
ago. In High Point ono gentleman
said that property there which - was
openly known to bo worth from two
hundred to three hundred dollars a
front foot was assessed all the way
with buildings on them at from $50
to $60 and tmat he knew ot ono lot
worth $20,000 any minute, which wai
returned as being valued at $2,600
and another which sold sometime ago
for $9,700 returned" at $1,900. It Is
this feeling of Inequality that Is mak
ing people here more and more r '"9
under t!ie very I.': !i ! "vi nfi r '
on 1 1 'y I 1 1 : 1, ! "
They say that with equalltsatlon, it
would be all right, as the rate of taxa
tion could bedecreased, but with one
section, doing all the high assessing, i
it simply puts a burden of more taxes .
on one part of the county for the
benefit of those escaping fair valua
tion. ;-' ., . : ' "
Mohammedans Engage in Massacre.
Special to Journal. . -
Algiers, Algeria. Aug. 1. Without
any cause save the lust of loot the Mo
hammedans ruthlessly murder - for
eigners and strangers. They are ter
rorizing the whole country.
Brad street's Trade Report
. Richmond, Va., August 1. Brad-
street's tomorrow will say for Rich
mond, Va., and vicinity, which In
cludes New Bern.
Manufacturers of and wholesale
dealers in, shoes and-rubber foods are
active. Orders for'uture shipments
continue to come In and sales show
an increase over a comparative period
of last year. Dealers continue to ex
tend their territory further into the
west and south wlh encouraging re
sults. The cotton crop in North Caro
lina continues to show improvement
In the sun cured belt of Virginia aud
North Carolina the average of tobac
co is about 25 per cent short, condi
tion of the crop la fair. Lumber con
tinues to show a decline in price. The
metal market Is not as active a It
was earlier in the year, orders for
some lines show a falling oft. The
produce market is at its usual end-
season dullness. Banks have active
demand ( for all available funds and
current rates are not questioned ' by
borrowers. Retail " trade shows a
falling off and collections are fair.
A Novel and Grand Display.
Work ot designing and constructing
the floats for the grand irrigation
night spectacle which is to mark the
closing of the Fifteenth National Irri
gation Congress In ' Sacramento , in
September Is being rushed. Artists
and mechanics are employed on the
magnificent allegorical display, repre
senting the evolution of irrigation from
the dawn ot civilisation down to the
present day. This event is planned
on a scale more ambitious than any
ever before attempted on the Pacific
coast Its Buccess Is assured and it
Is destined to mark a new era In such
displays In that part of the country.
The Muho and Kuanylng Shan gold
mines in Heilungkiang, China, which
have been restored to China by Rus
sia on the repayment of the expenses
Incurred by the latter during the last
several years, are said to be still very
rich, and may be again made pros
perous if sufficient funds are put into
the working of them.
6EH. .""FIELD'S ORDERS'
For the BegdnsatLof Jl. C ITaooaal
. Guards at Jamestown.
Raleigh, Aug. 1. Brigadier General
Joseph F. Armsfleld commanding the
first brigade North Carolina guards
has Issued orders as follows
Second and third regiments of in
fiMttry, first battery field . artillery.
CMntoo- ft Reidaville hospital corps
detachments, will go Into camp for in
struction, at Jamestown Exposition,
Aug: 12th, for five days. The first
regiment of infantry aod Charlotte
hospital corps detachment will pro-
I (rom at Morebead to camp
jame-to-- 00 the 13th. of August
I feporttng arrival for duty to the
commanding ofncer ot tbo first brig
ade.
Vaicehoro Items.
Vanceboro, Aug. 1. Miss Lucy Wil
liams is spending this week with Miss
Mamie Adams at Bath. N. C.
Our postmaster, Mr. J. F. Edwards
went to Washington Monday after
noon to a attend a meeting of the Im
proved Order ot Red Men of that
place. "' .'-.;-
Mr. Elbert Smith of Wlntervlllo was
In our town last week.
Little Tula May. daughter of Mr
and Mrs. J. J. Edwards, gave a birth
day party last Saturday afternoon.
There was quite a gathering ot little
folks and they had a nice time.
Mr. R, A. Colvln went to Aurora
I Monday. . : : , -
I The house of Mr. John Causey was
1 burned down last Sunday. The family
I were all attending church and noth
ling was saved.
Drummers like tho poor, aro always
with us. To Judge from tho number
of them and tho amount of samples
they carry wo would say that this
burg Is a very prosperous place for
them. " i
Wo aro pleased to Dote that there
Is another new building being erected
here. Mr. N. M. Lancaster being the
owner of sams.'
Mr. J.'F. Edwards has cone to Au
rora to attend the dUkt meetlni of
tho I. O. O. F.
The wes!
crops tuve
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POMTAILEO
Newspapei Men And Politicann
Seeking Interviews With v
Governor Glenn ,
ISA RIILIB
ACT SLC'.'.IY
Poor Grapo Crop. More Railroads
Chartered by Last Legislature-;
Than Ever Before. Good To- " ' ;. .
baeco Crop. Drought .
Assuming Serlaas
Appearance.
Special Correspondence.
Raleigh, July 31. Today it wa '
found out tn tho office ot the seero
tary of state that chapter 1003 ot tho .
acts of 1907 contained the following
important section, limiting the powers
ot notaries public: "That no Notary
Public shall have power or authority
to take tho proof and acknowledge- .'
ment of deeds or other : papers re
quired by law to be registered in tho
office ot the register of deeds in tho
county or to take the private exami
nation of a feme covert to any such
paper in which he is Interested as at
torney,, counsel or otherwise, nor to
administer an oath to any person to
any affidavit or other paper in matters
in which ho is interested as attorney, s
counsel, or otherwise." A great many
papers reach the office of the secre
tary of state the proof ot. which la
taken by attorneys. : :,;
An order is made for an election la
tbo first regiment, at Camp Glenn, Au
gust 12th, for a lieutenant-colonel, to ,
succeed George E. Butler, who resign
ed sometime ago.
The big newspapers hare boguu to
send men here to Interview Governor
Glenn. One of these, Mr. William
Hoston of the Hurst syndicate, came
in today and goes from here to Rich
mond to see Governor Swanson. With '
Mr, Hoston was another, gentlomaxv.
who was said not to be a newspaper
man but a sort of. visiting statesman. '
Governor Glenn heard nothing to
day from the Carolina k. North West
ern railway aa to what it will do ts to
the rate matter. The Louisville It
Nashville railway reported It had only
13 miles of land In this stateall in
Cherokee county and that this is ope
rated at a loss. The governor turned
this case over to the corporation com
mission, for action. -,
The grape crop In this section is tho -
poorest in a number of yearn. Tho
very cold spring Is tho cause of tho
trouble. . . f
The drought is beginning to tell on
the corn, and In tho course of a drive
into the country yesterday afternoon
the effects of the unseasonable dry
ness were very appearant
The managers of the Jefferson
Standard Life Insurance Company say
they expect to begin business by Au
gust 10th.
The legislature at lta session this
year chartered more railways thaa
were ever before chartered during any
one session, ' these being tho North
Carolina Union, South port Northern,
Raleigh ft Winston-Salem, Northamp
ton & Hartford, Western Carolina,
Bladen ft Northern, Rockingham ft
Caswell, Randolph ft Cumberland
Graham County, Washington ft Van
demero, Nantahala, Dover ft Southern,
Tuckaseegeo. Elkin ft Alleghany ft
glnla ft Carolina Southern, Deep Riv
er ft Farmers Creek, Alleghany , ft
Piedmont Southern, Southwestern,
Greensboro, Seaboard ft Great West
ern, Mattarauskeet Klnaton ft Caro
lina, MOnroe ft Southern, Fran!.:.),
Sraokey Mountain. - It would bo very
Interesting to know upon how many
of these numerous lines work has be
gun. ;.,;;!-'';? '
R. J. Ragsdale, who has been la
about $0 counties, looking at tho to
bacco crop, tells me it is very f
one in general. It certainly lor:!, a
well In the east, between Rale'., "1 C.
Beaufort as your correspondent ob
served last week. Cures aro sail t)
bo very good indeed.
Governor Glenn grants a coi '"' 1
pardon to Chase Price, a v ' ' ; 1 :,
ot Rockingham county, iet.-hc ! "
five years for murder In ti e
degree, he having served two
There was no evidence of 1. ..' ;
design and Trice had a p c-' 1
character. Ho lnhavel wt'.l v'
the pentenltUry.
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