The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-13
A BIG SHEEP RANCH
10 be Established In Western Ndrth
iCaroiina Railway Men Go to Camp of
Detention-Russeii to Decide Reuben
Ross Case Today-To~ Investigate Rise
I'm Price OF Fertilizers.
Messenoer Bureau.

Raleigh. y. e.. February :.
Last week a meeting % the stock
holders OF the Raleigh and CASTOR rail-
way was 20 have been held here. Il
was postponed until today. bur ;oday
lanoxher posxponement was decided on.
Meanwhile the work % organizing the
i~Seaboards Air Line goes on. The stock
holders raeet February 2Sth.
n annual meeting OF tae stock
holders Of the North Carolina Home
Fire Insurance Company was held
here. The showing made was highly
satisfactory. Pulaski Cowper vas re-
ieled;ed president and Charles Root
secretary.
Four white men. all Southern railway
lempioyes, who were exposed - small
lpox at Selma, came here voluntarily
land are in the pest house. a mile and
a half from the city. They are the
only persons there. The city looks af-
ter their wants.
The number of northern visitors t.
Southern Pines and Pinehurstf in
l~creases daily.
Some northwestern men who are in
the sheep ranch business. have been
to Burke county with the commissioner
Iof immigration looking n a large tract
of grass and on the southern slope Of
the mountains. The men intimate -hat
fNltg N&lII SpIift sN.NNg AAEF%-
The state charters the Oseola can
merry. OF Lenoir county. capital $5.0eo.
and the Gibson Drug Company, - Con-
cord, capital SIS. 500.
The supreme cour, is rapidly dispos-
ing OF the light dockeS Of appeals from
the First district.
Governor Russell has now in hand
all the evidence. petitions. afftdavits.
Ietc., ian the case ~ Reuben Ross. from
IRobeson county. The last papers filed
in Ross interest are the strongest yet
received. The governor i expected to
lact in the cas- tomorrow. Day after to-
morrow is the date fixed for Ross ex-
lecution.
Oliver II. Dockery has gone to Wash
Ihgton to look after his congressional
contest from the Sixth district.
Large Numbers OF The business men
here met yesterday afternoon and pro-
tested against the sale Of the city hall
at any price. The sale will not be
made. IL is not in the least probable
that the city will build an auditorium.
THAT Will nave to be done by private
enterprise.
a letter today from one Of the closest
friends OF John :. Cunningham who is
ian earnest candidate for the demo-
~Icragic nomination for governor. says he
will go into the convention with $50
votes.
A telegram from State Treasurer
Worth says he has won his case. at
IGreensbvro, involving the legality OF
the tax of $3.50 o n piano dealers.
The commissioner OF agriculture says
he has made some figures on the ferti-
liZer tax tag sales which show these 10
be 3 per cent. greater SO far this year
than they We're last year 10 date.
William II. Ferguson, Jr.. OF North
lCarolins, stands second in the class Of
naval Cadets who Will graduate at
Annapolis in June. Hollis T. Winston.
Iof North Carolina. stands eighteen.
The funeral Of Mrs. W. N. IL. Smith
WAS held from the Presbyterian church
there this afternoon.
The state chemist will carefully in
lvestigate the causes Of the recent rise
lin the price of commercial fertilizers,
which is causing the farmers consider
liable worry. The trusts dvance was
quite sudden.
The news of the severe injury Of
Sheriff George b. Mcleod. of Robson,
by being thrown out OF his buggy. was
heard here with much regret. He is ex-
itremely popular in Raleigh.