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1 THE ;:::' Emterp TTT) . se VOL. I. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1905 . NO. 49 I LETTER FROM BILKINS. Some Facts About a Remarkable Town Litigation and the Cause of It How the Name of the Town Originated A Historical Sketch of Hiilsboro-on-the-Enno. Correspondence of the Enterprise. I am still at Durham an' ray loker motive affixia iz gittin' erlong awl rite. I'm goin' ter git well, but I may not rekiver, owin' ter my age. This iz the dadgumest town I ever struck, One minit hit makes me think ov a sircus an' the next hit re minds me ov the war. They iz a con tinyous performance goin' on awl the time. They iz more noize an' racket in Durham in a day than in New York, an' the town aint half az big, I don't reckon. I haint bin here but a week an' they hev hed several fite3, sum skandles an' started 325 new law suits. I've had ter observe lent ter keep out ov skandles an' lawsuits my self. Purty nigh everybody iz sum' sumbody else or suin' the city or suin' the railrode3. Every time a feller does sumpthin' thet don't suit sum body else they iz a law suit. ..." Durham county is full ov illisit still houses an' the town iz full ov illisit railrodes. The town ov Dur ham has bin runnin' a lawsuit with the Southern railrode fer twenty years. The railrode uses injunkshuns fer heatin' purposes instead ov coal, Thiey hev a nice new union depoe there but can't git to hit on account ov a law suit blocking up the only street leadin' ter the depoe. But they hev both churches an' skules in Dur- ham. . '' In talkin' with sum ov the old sit izens I lamed that Durham wuz named after a selebrated 'breed ov cattle in England called the Durham shorthorn cattle. Az they air a go ahead, proud sort ov peeple they never liked ter be called Durham shorthorns an' much litygashun hez been litygated an' bad feelin' wuz stirred up. Sumtimes Durham hez gone fer weeks without speakin' ter Kaleigh. Ter smooth things over they past a prohibishun law in Durham a few months ago an' the shorthorn isshue don't cause so many fites. Most ov them acknollege the corn now. Durham iz a nervous, collicky kind ov a town, awlways sumpthin' goin' on. Frum what I see the town iz made up ov two sorts ov peeple, the Too Good To Last an' the Very Wicked. Every time I see Durham I think hit gits more like Morris ville. I've bin takin' sum little side trips frum Durham jist ter git a little fresh air. I went up ter Ilillsboro an' stopped betwixt trains. They wouldn't let me stay eny longer az I didn't hev my family history with me. That iz a mity pertickular town. Ilillsboro iz situated one mile frum Okaneechee farm. Hit wuz first set tled by the Okaneechee Injuns, but they didn't stay long owin' ter hit bein' so muddy thar in wet weather, the sile bein' red clay mixed with glue an' beeswax. The Enno river runs erlong by Ilillsboro an' wuz the only movin thing' that I notised while I wuz thar. ' In A. D. 302 a colony cum down frum Plymouth Jtbck in Massacbu- sits an' bought Hillsboro frum the Okaneechee Injuns, payin' them 300, Sallie' Mikel clay pipes an - twelve pounds py smpkin' terbacker fer the town an' the hills adjoinin'. The In juns moved West ter Graham, near Haw River an' smoked theirselves ter death. After the colony frum Plymouth Rock got lokated they built houses an' began ter raze Plymouth Rock chickens. The chickens air scatter ed awl over the country now. After razin' chickens erbout eight hundred years the peeple ov Ilillsboro got a few dollars ahead an' begun ter put on airs. Since that they don't mix up with the rest ov mankind much. The populashun ov Hillsboro haint increased but four or five since A. D. 925 an' they were peeple whose grandaddies got shipwrecked on Ply mouth Rock, an' who could prove hit. The streets air full ov plymouth rocks an' they anser fer pavin'. ' Carpenters air not erlowed ter live in Hillsboro an' no buildin is done. If they let carpenters live thar they mite try ter violate the anti-buildin' laws ov the town. When a roof gits ter leakin' they lay a flat plymouth rock over the hole an' keep the rain out. Yours Truly, ZEKE BILKINS. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. Boiler in Shoe Factory at Brocton Explodes Building Wrecked and Burned Hany Killed. By the explosion of a boiler in the building of the R. B. Glover Com pany, manufacturers of shoes at Brockton, Mass., Monday the build ing was rent assunder, soon caught fire and probably a hundred people lost their lives. To this date fifty-five bodies have been recovered and fortv-eight per sons are still missing, while 283 are known to have escaped. It is believed that at least forty-eight people were burned to ashes and their bodies can not be recovered, but the search goes on. The wrecked buildincr caught on fire immediately after the explosion, and it was impossible to rescue all the people buried in the debris. Much heroism was displayed. One Catho lic priest rescued seven persons at the risk of his own life. Oood News for Mr. Roosevelt. From Homstead, Pa., comes a dis patch which, it is to be hoped, will be brought to the immediate atten tion of President Roosevelt. It seems, according to the statement published by our esteemed contem porary, the New York Times, that several departments of the Carnegie steel plant at Homestead were closed last Friday and Saturday on account of the absence of workmen. Industrial peace prevails in that sec tion, there is neither strike nor lock out, and the health of the community is as good as usual. The superinten dent of the plant was puzzled and be gan an inquiry. To his amazement, he discovered that the stork had been visiting the families of thirty one workmen and that the population of Homestead had been increased proportionately. An item of this kind ought to give President Roose velt more joy than the latest news from the armies in Manchuria. Evi dently Homestead has taken kindlv and appreciatively to his counsels on the subject of "race suicide." Balti more Sun. 1 PASSENGER AND POWER CO. First Meeting of Directors Electric Line Will be Built. On Friday night there was a meet ing of the directors of the Raleigh and Durham Passenger and Power Company, which proposes to run a line of inter-urban electric cars be tween Raleigh and Durham and a system of street cars in the city of Raleigh, to prepare for the begin ning of work on the line. Since or ganization of the company and the granting of charter to it by the two towns and counties concerned, prog ress has been necessarily delayed un til the ordinance was procured in a satisfactory shape and the charter procured in a form satisfactory to the directors. At the meeting the ordinance as amended and passed on March 3rd was accepted, and the charter having been procured the directors proceed ed to discuss the beginning of work on the road. To this end, engineers will be at once employed to survey the several routes which have been sug gested for the road to follow one of these to be through Cary and the other by Leesville. It will of course take a survey and a careful canvass of the whole situation considered from both a physical and financial point of view for this question to be finally determined. There were present at the meeting Messrs. W .J. Nelms, of Newport News; T. B. Fuller and Jones Ful ler, of Durham, and B. S. Jerman and T. S. Fuller, of Raleigh. Doings In the Wilds of Durham ":..;' County. The Durham Sun gives an insight into the manner in which the Watts Law IS NOT being enforced in that county: "The revenue officers were on double duty yesterday and last night. Yesterdav afternoon three of the agents for Uncle Sam were out in the bushes and last night the same crowd went out again. "On. the raid yesterday afternoon Deputy Marshals Merritt, Pool and Jordan, accompanied by Morris King, of this city, went out on the Guess road. Not far from the river the officers made a raid. The kettle of the still was gone, but the cap worm and about twenty gallons of whiskey were taken. In addition to this- property the officers poured out a large quantity of beer, about eight or nine hundred gallons. "After returning to the city, the officers remained here for some time, and then went on a raid north of the city. Like the first raid, this one was barren of any stills captured, but considerable other property was taken. On this second trip the officers went to three places. It is learned that at one place the cap and worm were captured, some fifteen hundred gallons of beer poured out, and some distance away from the distillery a barrel containing about forty gal lons of whiskey was found. At an other place visited the cap and worm were found and about fifteen gallons of whiskey. At this place there was also considerable beer, which was poured out. A third place was visit ed and the foundation for what seem ed to be a very large still was found. The still had been removed, however, and very little property was taken or destroyed. "In the recent past the officers have been making it lively for blockade stills in this county. Quite a number have been captured and others are being added to the number every day. The raids of yesterday, while not showing up the capture of any of the kettles, will put several of the places out of business for some time and the Government has a number of gallons of whiskey to add to that al ready stored in Raleigh." Power in Clothes and Title. There is no power without clothes. It is the power that governs the hu man race. Strip its chiefs to the skin, and no State could be govern ed; naked officials could exercise no authoritv; they would look (and be) like everybody else commonplace, inconsequential. A policeman in plain clothes is one man, in his uni form he is ten. Clothes and titles are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivol ous earl, the idiot duke, the Sultan, the King, the Emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it. In naked tribes of sav ages the kings wear some kind of a rag or decoration which they make sacred to themselves and allow no one else to wear. The King' of the great Fan Tribe wears a bit of leop ard skin on his shoulder1 it is sacred to royalty the rest of him is per fectly naked. Without this bit of leopard skin to awe and impress the people he would not be able to keep his job. "Mark Twain," in North American Review. Not Hiring Any Generals. Ever since the war some of the pri vates have told with great relish of the old farmer near Appomattox who decided to give employment, after the surrender, to any of Lee's veter ans who might wish to work a few days for food and small wages. He divided the Confederate employees in squads according to the respective ranks held by them in the army. He was uneducated, but entirely loyal to the Southern cause. A neighbor inquired of him as to the different squads. '"Who are those men working there?" he asked. "Them is privates, sir- privates of Lee's army." "Well, how do they work?" "Very fine, sir; first-rate workers." "Who are those in the second group ?" ' "Them is lieutenants and captains, and they work fairly well, but not as good workers as the privates." "I see you have a third squad. Who are they?" "Them is colonels." "Well, what about the colonels? How do they work?" "Now, neighbor, you'll never hear me say one word ag'in any. man. who fit in the Southern army; but I ain't a-gwine to hire no generals." Balti more and Richmond Christian Advocate.;- Kuropatkin seems to be in good form for the spring races. Memphis News-Scimeter.
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