Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-02
The Claim Against Ex-Sheriff
Jones.
lis RoNDsMEN LIABLE
10 Says Ho Does Not Owe Amount
Claimed and His surety VIII Re
sist Pnyment-Tho Status of Non.
Resident Insurance Companies-
Tho Next Campnigu-Il
Complaint Against VITO.

Raleigh. N. c., June 1-There is a
Sheriff Jones claims he owes the coun-
ty and the amount which the County
Commissioners say he should pay.
This amount Is S5.21S.41. The Commits
sioners have made n statement, show
ing that this is the amount he owes the
county. 1t is understood that eX-Sheriff
Jones says that this amount should
be included in the list of delinquent
and insolvent Taxpayers.
1t appears that eX-Sheriff Jones has
paid in all the money lie has collected,
and that the difference Of s5,2lS.41 rep
rcsents the delinquent and insolvent
Taxpayers who have not yet settled.
County Attorney Armistead Jones
has been authorized to make demand
on the guarantee company that &c on
eX-Sheriff Jones bond for the differ
encc which the county claims. 1t is I'M
derstood that the guarantee company
VIII resist payment, and that the coun-
ty Will then bring suit. The county au-
thoritics say that the guarantee com
pany Will suffer heavy penalties If it
declines to pay the difference on de-
mand by the county
x-Sherif Jones claimed a delinquent
list of over $1,000. The board only al
lowed him S3.6G7.57 for the insolvcnt
list and $IS7.i0 for the delinquent list
EN- Sheriff Jones will continue the col
lection of delinquent taxes.
STATUS OF INSURANCE COM
PANIES.
Your correspondent specially inter
viewed the Secretary of State to-day as
TO what he proposed 10 do with the re-
quest Of the Northwestern Life Insur-
ance Company. that lie return It's char
ter. file last week under the Craig law.
He said he could not return it unless
the courts ordered him to do so, and
niSh courts Mt that, not lower than the
United States Circuit Court OF Appeals
or the State Supreme Court.
He was then asked il companies could
file charters for limited time. and re-
piled that he knew of no authority for
their so doing: that there was no au-
thority for latitude as to time. This
Is question the courts will have to
pass ON. y case agreed is made u
between John w. IIinsdalc, reprcsen'
ing the Mutual Reserve and Attorney
General Walser. but the courts will
hardly pass on 1t before October. The
Connecticut Fire notifies the Commits
and asks that the unearncd part of its
license be refunded. This cannot be
done. There i? 10 law for it.
The Commissioner says he believes all
IN" IRE companies save about twelve
viii domcsticate and Expresses the be-
lief that in sixty days three fourths of
the life companies will 60 so.
THE NEXT CAMPAIGN.
People who profess to be on the
ground floor. politically speaking. are
thus carly talking about the Demo-
cratic candidates in the next campaign.
They arc saying that Dan Hugh Me-
Lean, member of the House from TIar-
nett. is apt to win the nomination for
Secretary of State in walk. tn use n
sporting Phrase: that Francis u Win
ston ard l.. Dixie Gilmer are apt TO
have n lively contest for the nomina-
ton for Attorney General. and that rs
to that for Governor. Charles q. Az
cock seems to he quito Tar in the load
though NJ. H. Justice of Rutherford is
looming up.
y HUSBANDS COMPLAINT.
Last month in the Superior Court
here Mrs. Pattie Arlington sued her
ex-husband for S7,S3S, claimed due as
alimony. To-day he filed answer TO her
complaint, pleading the statute of lin
itations. and saying that twenty-onc
years ago. being determined to wreck
his happiness. she left his home with
her children and for years kept their
residence secret they being IN Illinois
Then he says: For wrongs and iniu-
r!cs existing only in her distempcred
imagination. she has reienticssiy pur-
sued this defendant with writs and
warrants. bench warrants and capjasos
until he has been crippled financially
and in his old age, he is not even al
lowed the peace of being left alone"