The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-10-11
PLUCKY WINSTON,
She Takes Her Own Census and Claims
to be the Second City i'm the State.
Jail Breakers Captured.

10 De the Second City in the State.
Jail Breakers Captured.
Especial Cor. of STATE CHRoNIcLE.l
WINSTON. n. c., Oct. 1O.-As wired
the CHRONICLE yesterday the census re-
turns give Winston-Salem (''Twin-Cityn
population of 12,19S. When the re-
turns for Winston alone were sent in
and were found to be 1000 less than the
tamest guesser had declared it would be,
we feared that Mr.. Porter would cheat
US out of our we'll earned position as
second city in the State, but however
much he tried, Salem put forth a bold
front of 4,210, and ran the population
of the Twin City up to 12,19S.
Chairman Whitaker of the city school
board is having the census of Winston
taken in order to get a correct basis for
school taxation, and the enumerator is
spottlng every man, woman and child
in the city. He lacks a day or
so of completing the count, but
has informed me thf. already he has
enumerated over S,000 in Winston and
that when the count is finished the ~
ulation of Winston vii be $500. These
figures will show up mighty bad for
Porter's enumerators. Taking the prot
able and almost certai fact that Saia,a
was as badly enumerated as was Wins
ton, the Twin-C City has a population of
14,O41. This is 234 per cent increase
over the census of 1880. Now can any
one beat that in North Carolina
But in 1880 every person that lived near
enough to be called Winstonian or
Salemite, really lived in the corporate linn
Its of these cities. Now, by the closest and
lowest estimate there are 1000 Winsto-
mans and Salemites outside of the cor
porate limits which really gives THE
POPULATION OF WINSToN-SALEM AT 16, O4O.
This is an increase over the census of
1880 of very nearly 800 per cent. Now
let everybody come with their figures.
Can any city in North Carolina SAY THAT
SINCE 1880 HER POPULATION HAS INCREAs-
ED 800 per cent?
Bad news comes from the Eighth Con-
gressional district. The Farmers Alli-
| ance all over the district that can be
controlled oy the Republicans, are en-
dorsing Maj. Graham for Congress.
Their trick Is to get the Alliancemen to
vote solidly for Graham and every Re-
publican solidly for Tyre York and then
the district will send old Dr. (Yorick) to
Congress in place of Col. Cowles. This
Is bad business, and Mai. Graham owes
it to himself and to the Democratic
party in North Carolina to put stop to
such movements. Unless something is
done the Farmers Alliance will uncon-
sciously defeat that brave and plucky
Col. Cowles for the House.
Chief of Police Bradford, though
sometimes talked about in an unbecom.
ing manner by certain ones here, is after
all quite bustling man and manages to
keep things straight pretty we'll The
other day five prisoners broke Jail here
and of them (Garner) fled iowa d Dan
vile. While released policeman wa.
on his way to Washington he saw hin
at Rufin and arrested him, telegraphing
for Chief of Police Bradford to come OIL
after him. Yesterday Mr.. Bradford wen
for him and while setting in the car will
his prisoner arrested two other men, ant
they are now all in Jail, one here, one a
, Greensboro. and the third in the Gala
boose in New Garden
***
Sheriff Boyer has certainly done som
faithful work to find the other men VIII
, broke out of Jail and three have bee
secured. There remains two more to b
caught and the authorities are almos
certain of them.
Everything is on substantial boor
here. Rumors of big things are foatin
in the air and something big will /
done at an early date toward getting on
t steel works.
g M. VICTOR.