The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-03-13

The mill was worth $40 600. The Bran
ming Manufacturing Company is one
OF the biggest timber concerns in the
State, and had q daily capacity OF
about 80, 600 feet. Toe company Owls
large quantities Of sta lding pine timber
In the county and have about eight
miles of railroad in this county and
contemplates building a road into
ay de county, which would give them
a road thirty miles long. IL is probable
that the mill will be built.
Fayetteville correspondence Char
lotte Observer: Moved by several re
cent scenes of laWlessness and roWdy-
ism, the Fayetteville board of alder
men have agreed upon an ordinance
sweeping out of the corporate limits at
least all houses of i'll fame. 1t is a
bold action and heroic remedy on their
part, for cages, political economists and
m0ralists have Wrestled for q matter
of 200 years with the problem of social
evil, and the fact of it's existence,
der police supervision, in all the coun-
tries Of civilization would imply that
long experience had fixed it az an
evil, certainly, but one Of the evils
inseparable from the weakness of hui
mainly.
Col. Odds rrespondenoe: The pine
lumber men have certainly a harvest.
Oae who lately had a little cav mill
now owns IA such mills, all of which
are in operation, and 1t is said his net
income is no y more than $50 a day.
o le man lately bought a timber tract
for $12 600 sid il for $l6 600, and / n
ten days il was resold for $28, 900
There are people in this TO En
whose principal nourishment just now
is cotton futures. A we'll known law.
yer, who ia equally we'll kno ~n as a
politician, is SAID to have made
thing quite near $50 900 on the recent
big jump. 1t is whispered that several
young ladies have made money on
futures.
R 4leighspeciaI to @ larlotte Observer:
President McIver, Of tae State Nor
NAL and Industrial College here, YES
warmly congratulated upon his suc
oeestul re- opening with the 800 stu
dents now present. Examinations take
place this week.. The second term be
gins March 19 b; commencement, June
2O5h Its special feature will be the
laying of the corner stone Of the 8 u
dents building to be paid for by Stu
dents and to cost $40 600. IL will con
tain the society halls. Toe senior class
contains 80 members. None died and
all returned. Nearly every junior re-
covered. Pre- TdsnG McIver's little son
vas out today for the FIST time after
a long attack with typhoid fever.
Greenville Weekly: There was a
homicide near Bethel Sunday night
Ftom what We learn iJ was about as
tolloR vs.: For some tims jesse j mes
had been paying attention 60 a daugh
ter of e 8 LIE Wis. Mr.. L9wis obi cited
out it see rs that the gil was favorable
to Mr. james Sunday night J9sse
James, Sam James his brother, E /
Mayo and another friend went to Mr.
La wis. jesse walked in, with pistol in
MS hand and told the gtrl to go with
him. The girl went to her father for
protection. Some words passed be-
tween Jesse and hr. Lewis, with the
result that ] sse opened fire. 1t SCENE
hat O ro0uEaP row pU-uod hpE wpEO
Jesse and f. lends and Mr. Lawis and
his two sons. When it ended Mr.
Lewis had two WOUNDS In the leg;
Jssss had a wound in the leg, and Sam
was dead from a blow on his head
crushing In his SKULL. DR. Laughing
house, coroner, went over yesterday TO
uold an il quest.--A TarboTo dis
patch, dated 95h, has this to say: The
excitement as to the jesse James
tragedy has about su0slded. J7sse
flames and the six others who went
With him to the house of M. Levi,
have all been bound over to court IN
der bonds of $500 each. Court ia il
session now at G ceenville. It ia SAID
that Jesse J mes has 8 worm out a war
rant against young Mr.. L,Wis, the SOD
of the old man Lewis, charging him
with the killing Of his brother, s m
James. Young L wis was bound Owe
to court also.
THR TRUCK CROPS.