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THB Entcrpriseo VOL. II. RALEIGH, N. O., THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1905. NO. 2 LETTER FROM BILKINS. Real Estate Men Think That Bilklns - Is a nniionare Good Clothes and Sanctlfed Faces are Often Decep- tivA TfiA Main TMnlra tlia f ntnn Acreage Will Be Reduced, and Gives v His Reasons. Correspondence of the Enterprise. Asheville, NY 0. I'm still here an' I reckon my leg islative lokermotive afixia iz improv-' in' jist a little grain. But I'm wor ried purty bad by gittin' so much at tenshun fruml awl sides. I allers travel under an asoomed name. Hit keeps me out ov sum trubbel an' gits me in a gude deel more. When I cum here an' registered at the Flat tery Mark Hotel 'they put hit in the papers an' my trubbels started. I left ter go ter a boardin'- house tr git rest an avoyed the rush. That made 'em hotter than ever. They . were willin' ter bet ten ter one that -I wuz a. millyinary in disgize an' lookin' eround fer a few thousan' akers ter build a finer house on than Vanderbilt, or thet I wuz lookin' eround ter- donate fifty thousan' dol lars ter build a library purvidin' the sitizens raze ten dollars. They hez bin purty nigh a thousan' reel estate men. ter see me, awl havin' k ViiiS in fine farms f rum Black i Aitin' ter . Pidgin' River. . Of t jtturse.j ,loj?ka:rdoii tcut: eny iigger nowadays, so I can't convinse them onless I give myself dead erway. -Not long ergo I seed a feller I thout must be a preacher. Later I found out thet he wuz a prize-fiter. But I didn't -treat him eny different jjst bekase he wuz not a preacher. Sev eral years ergo I wuz interduced ter J ohn L. Sullivan. He wuz on the water wagon at the time an' wuz f eelin' pale an' week. I shook hands with him an passed the time ov day az perlitely az if I had bin speakin' ter the Guvener. In ' talkin' with John L. I wouldn't, say a thing ter wound hiz f eelins fer a ten dollar bill, an' he seemed grateful bekase I wuzzent brutal towards him. I haint never shook hands with Jim Jeffries, the prisint wurld's champion fiter. But if I ever do I'll wait till the next week before sayin' enything re flectin' onhim or hiz perfeshion. Sipeakin' o v not bein' able ter allers judge a man by hiz looks or hiz close, I'll admit that I've never bin dedbeat or bunkoed in my life exsept by the most sancktorfied deakon lookin' fellers, generally with gude close on their backs. An' you will seats in a church than you will find :on the back seats, though I'm not sayin' that qu ite awl on the front ..seats air scoundrels. The bald heds - generally git the front seats in a theatre. But they only wanter be -close, so they kin see that nothin' goes wrong on the stage. x. They ain't no wicked peeple in Asheville exsept the' an,ty prohibish ionists, an' they air in a large ma jority.. , ; -V-i -. Betsy writes me that she iz gittin' crlong fine with the farm ; sez she hez redused the cotton akerage 25 per cent. They iz lots ov reports out erbout this . cotton business, but I guess the akerage will be redused awl . eround. ; The seazon will be apt ter reduce the crop eny way. I wuz talk- in with a feller here the other day. JEIe. 'lowed he'.d bet a hundred dollars , that every farmer in the cotton belt would plant a bigger crop than ever before. "They wont," sez I. "Give your reasons," sed he. "The cotton growers assosiashun won't let 'em," sez I. "Bosh," sed he, "they'll block ade hit. Go down ter the fields along the branches outin' site ov the rodes an' you will find them planting land in cotton that never growed cotton bef ore. They'll plant hit . in the woods, enywhere." "Not on your life," sez I. "The offisers ov the cot ton growers assosiashun will send paraders out an' dig up awl illisit cotton an' chop the fields ter pieces an' hev the fellers whut air block adin' in court. No doubt the last legislature past a law ter fix . the illisit growers ov cotton. At the county courts this summer you'll see every feller that tries ter blackade by plantin' too much cotton line up in the prisoners' box." "Call John Henry Smith," sez the Serlisiter. The Judge will ax: "What iz the charge, Mr Serlisiter ?" "Your Honor, this man stands charged with malise beforethought, sekretly, fel oniously an' illicitly violatin' hiz agreement an' hez planted more cot ton than the law erlows. The ever dense before the grand jury wuz so strong that he pleads gilty an' throws himself on the mersy ov the court.' "Two years in the penitentiary," sez the Judge; "I would hev given him five years if he hadn't acknowledged the cotton. Call the next case, Mr. Serlisiter. "Two years,"' sez the Judge. Yes, siree, this illisit growin' ov cotton will git nipped rite in the bud. ' - - . . . Truly, ZEKE BILKINS. Wake Superior Court. Wake Superior Court convened Monday, Judge Moore presiding. The term is for three weeks. Being Easter Monday but little work was done. The habeas corpus case of Grover Coppege was heard and his bond was reduced froni $250 to $150. He is charged with robbing W. II. Allen of a watch some time ago. Leo D. Heartt, administrator d. b. n. of Henry Pool vs. Pool et al. Set for Saturday of this week from Monday's docket. W. H. Rogers and wife vs. Chas. P. Ray, continued on affidavit of the plaintiff. . Robert Collins by his next friend vs. T.' M. Jordan and A. 0. Jones, continued. W. II.. Cander et al vs. Mollie Morgan et al, continued by consent. II. II. High vs. Eddie Gill, set for next Monday. Ella Ann Prince, by her next friend vs. Alonzo Prince, continued on affidavit. Jno. R. Terrell vs. James II. Mitchell & Co., set for Saturday of this week. : G. D. Sanderford vs. W. D. John son, continued and the defendant al lowed to file amended. answer. Mary A. Stewart, administratrix of S. T. Stewart, vs. S. A. L. Com pany, continued for the defendant. Wiley T. Glenn vs. Neuse River Mills, continued, the defendant to pay the costs. - 7 W. H.. Worth State Treasurer, vs. M. I. and J., 0. Stewart, non suit.";,. r . -' '. -'V Haywood Smith vs. J. P. Temple, non-suit. ,...l4uJ-J i jj j HE IS A DEFAULTER. Frank G. Blgelow, President of a Milwaukee Bank,- and President of American Bankers' Association, Used Bank's Funds to Speculate, and Lost. :.'(., Milwaukee, April 24. Frank G. Bigelow, president of the First National Bank, of Milwaukee, was arrested today, charged with the embezzlement of over $1,000,000 of the bank's funds. The arrest of Mr. Bigelow followed his confession to the Board of Directors of the bank that he was a defaulter to the extent of $1,450,000. Following Mr. Bige low's confession, he was removed from the presidency of the bank and the facts in the case were laid be fore the Federal authorities. The complaint was sworn to by United States District Attorney II. K. Butterfield. . It charges that Big elow, as president of the First National ' Bank, embezzled the sum of over $1,000,000. A complaint and a warrant, identical with those in Bigelow's case, were made out for Henry G. Goll, assistant cashier of the bank, but Goll could not be found. President, Bigelow was taken be fore United States Commissioner Bloodgood and bail was fixed at $25, 000. He was released to appear be fore the next Federal grand jury. Mr. Bigelow had been recognized I as among the toremost financiers oi the Northwest. He has been asso ciated with the First National Bank, in various capacities, for more than fifteen years, and his bus iness connections with trust com panies, manufacturing concerns, real estate dealers and other simi lar ventures numbered scores. He was honored a year ago by election to the presidency of the American Bankers' Association. In making his statement to the directors of the bank, Mr. Bigelow said he had become involved in speculation in Wall Street several months ago. He had also been a persistent bull in the wheat market, and recent losses in grain had been added to heavy losses in Wall Street. From manipulation of the bank's funds, he had extended the defalcations until his shortage had passed the million dollar mark. He saw no possibility of returning the money, and therefore confessed his action. Funds were at once provided by the directors of the bank to protect depositors against loss,, to save the bank from a stampede. More than a million dollars was guaranteed to the bank by various stockholders, and no serious run was made on the bank today. It is not thought that any complications with creditors of the bank will follow. material it is a marvel 6f perfection. It is profusely illustrated, some of the reproductions of old maps, pho tographs and manuscripts are won derfully realistic and artistic. The first volume treats of the first Americans, the "neolithic Ameri cans" and the Northmen. The story of Columbus, the germination and carrying out of his great idea, his voyage and vicissitudes, are splen-( didly portrayed and are as interest ing as a novel. It is said that the author has spent twenty years in getting together, sifting and systematizing this vast collection of historical data, and we are ready to believe it. Without attempting to give a com prehensive review of the volume, we will simply say that it is endorsed enthusiastically by Charles II. Smith, professor of American His-, tory, Yale University; Prof. Geo. F. Wright, Oberlin College; Herbert L. Osgood, Professor of History, Col umbia University, and dozens of oth er leading educators, by leading magazines and newspapers. . Avery's United States History. We are indebted to the publisher, The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland, Ohio, for volume 1 of "A History of the United States and Its People," by Elroy McKendree Avery. . ' ; The work is appearing in twelve volumes, and. iudcrina: others bv number one, it is safe to say that this history will excel anvthimr in that line yet attempted by - any au thor. ..Volume 1 contains more than 400 pages. .; Typographically and in The Establishment of Easter. . "The festival of Easter is to be celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the begin ning of spring." Therefore, if the moon becomes full upon the day on which spring begins, the Sunday after the next full moon is, of course, indicated by the directions of the Council as Easter day. And if the moon becomes full on a Sunday, the ' next Sunday, simi larly, must be Easter day. The history of this controversy re specting the date of Easter which the Nicaean Council happily settled, in cludes a number of diverting anec dotes based upon the disinclination of different people to accept even the Council's rulings. A story, is told of a European of prominence who celebrated Easter every year on the very same day on which his wife celebrated Palm Sunday. Another story is told of a devout old couple in Germany who refused to abide by a new church de cree relative to Easter. The decree altered the date, and on the day on which they had always attended the Easter services the old people walked from their home to the church. They found the church closed and no Eas ter service in progress. The old gen tleman beat upon the door with his stout stick, and demanded admit tance, and when there was no re sponse from the uninhabited church, the old people retraced their steps to celebrate Easter at home. Naturally the most magnificent and imposing celebration of Easter is that which takes place in St. Peter's at Rome. Has a Stepmother. "t- A strapping lad of twelve was reg istered in one of the public schools of Philadelphia. He readily gave the several facts called for, but ho did not know whether his birthday fell on the tenth of November or of December. The principal was surprised at th?3 display of ignorance on the part of so old a child, and he asked how it came to pass that he hadn't learned the' date of his birth. "I wasn't born," said the boy, "I had a stepmother." Lippincott'8 Magazine. .
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