Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-03-13
Home Building and Loan Associa-
ton Given Clear Field.
AN ANTITRUST MEETING
State Laws and Court Decisions Compel
Foreign Institutions to Wind up Bust
ness Horo-A Public Hnnging-A Big
Land Sale "A Long Journey-Narrow
Escape From Death Must Settle Debt :
Other State Nows.

Raleigh, N, C. Mar. 12.-Hereafter the
North Carolina building and loan as
sociations will have things all to them
selves within our borders and will have
no foreign competitors to trouble them.
All the building and loan associations
organized under the laws of other
States, save only the Columbian. of
Richmond, to do business in the State
as fast as they expire. The reason
they give for this is that under the
laws, and the decisions OF the Supreme
Court in this State. they are not al
lowed TO make over per cent. on their
loans.
The companies that have refused to
renew their licenses and are winding
up their affairs are:
Definite Contract Building and Loan
Association, Norfolk. Va.
National Railway Building and Loan
Association, Atlanta Ga.
Old Dominion Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION, Richmond Va.
Southwestern Building and Loan As
ISOLATION, New Orleans, La.
United Banking and Trust Company,
Richmond Va.
This leaves in the State just even
thirty companies, all save one, as
stated. being organized under the laws
Of North Carolina and having their
home Office in the State
ANTITRUST MEETING.
A special from Graham says: A
large number of farmers assembled
here to discuss ways and means 10
fight the tobacco trust and raise prices
General Il & Inv
special invitation, and dilivcred an ex-
cellent speech on the subject Of
Trusts" He said the surest relief
was In legislation.
The address was closely listened to
by the large crowd, and seemed TO
make deep impression.
a PUBLIC HANGING.
The Board of Commissioners of Nash
county have decided to hang John
Taylor and Robert Fortune. the MUIR
derers of Robert Hester. publicly in
rear of the jail at Nashville. An i'm
mense crowd will be present Mt the
hanging. which Is set for March 18th.
Taylor is said to manifest little care
about his impending fate. He is by far
the more Intelligent of the two.
Fortune is much concerned about the
matter.
BIG LAND SALE.
c. d. Cushing has returned from
Knoxville where the title of $4,000 acres
Of land was transferred from the
Scottish Carolina Timber and Land
Company to VIM. r. Uptgrove &
Bro, of New York This deal which
has been in progress since last April
covered one of the finest tracts of land
in Western North Carolina, In Hay
wood and Madison counties. The sur
vey of the tract required three months
of the fine weather last summer and
was no doubt the most extensive and
complicated ever made in this section
LONG TRIP.
''Inez Slocum has completed alone a
trip of nearly 1000 miles by rail from
Butte, Mont, to Winston Salem, N. c."
says the Knoxville journal and Tribune
That she came through that entire
distance without scratch and was
given the best of attention is a tribute
to the watchfulness and fatherly care
of the American railway conductor.
A NARROW ESCAPE
Mr.. Herbert NJ. Jordan, city editor OF
the Durham Daily Sun, came near be-
ing the victim in horrible accident at
the Southern depot in that city Satur-
day. Mr. Jordan slipped and fell under
a moving passenger train. and but for
the promptness of Yard Master Glas-
gov, would have been ground to death
beneath the wheels of the train.
III the fall Mr.. Jordan struck his
head against the platform Of the car
and received u small wound. Fills face
was also bruised and his back hurt.
The latter hurt was done by the steps
of the car when he was knocked under
the wheels of the train.
Elk SHERIFF MUST PAY.
Maj. J. B. Bachelor, the referee to
whom the case of the County Com
missioners against eXSheriff II. 7.
Jones was referred, submitted his re-
port to tho court yesterday and Judge
Hoke ordered that a judgment be
drawn accordingly.
The judgment will be drawn against
ex-Sheriff Jones for sS,34S.09 Then
there is a question as to the payment
of $45210 on an old insolvent list.
This last item may be compromised.
The s3,a4S.41. which is the amount
the referee says eX-Sheriff Jones owes
the county, is taken largely from de-
linquents.
The county attorney stated yester-
day that he would be forced to collect
the amount Of the Judgment from
Sheriff Jones' bond. which is guaran-
teed by the Fidelity and Deposit Conf
pany of Maryland.