The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-12
SUPERINTENDENT DAY,l REPORT.
He Says 1t VIII Show a surplus After
Paying All Debts-Two Cases of Poi |
sonfng for Trial The Government
Wants Part of Smiths ISLAND.
Messenger Bureau.
RaIe;gh. n. G. .Januav 9

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At the meeting Of the penitentiary
directors tomorrow Superintendent
Day viii present his report OF opera
tons for 1899 In this he viii say that
after paying the various debts, includ-
ing the $4,000 advanced by the state
last year there viii be a net balance of
$4,000. State Treasurer Worth said
this morning he expected u see
a penny OF that SIS, ZOO; that if he
could get that sum he could
pay the 100000 Legislative ap-
pyoprsation to the public schools. The
laughed at the idea # getting
any OF the money back and that there
was any intention 10 repay it. Chief
Clerk Denmark said he had heard Day
say he intended TO a the $4,000 and
also the $4,000 appropriated this year
and with II buld barracks for ~convicts
and otherwise equip the ~convicts on
the great Caledonia farm which the
state recently bought. Denmark added
that he believed Day would try to draw
the 5000 o Of this years appropriation.
Treasurer Worth said he could, of
course. get 1T if it was in h treasury,
as it was an unconditional appropria-
ton and is at the deman OF the peni-
Uentiary.
Chairman Travis, of the penitentiary
executive bard, whose term, together
with the terms of w. C. Newland n
w. H. Osborne, expired today, said
some weeks g that the $55, 900 would
not be refunded TO the stalte. The di-
rectors tomorrow and will elect
an executive board.
The state charters the d. l.. Gore
Company, of Wilmington, wholesale
grOcerS, exporters and importers, capt.
tai $4,000; also the Ora Cotton Mills,
in CASTOR county near Kings Mountain,
capital 500, 600, to spin and weave,
stockholders F. Dlfing, c. A. Dilling,
erS.
The agricultural department is rapid
ly receiving petitions from the cattle
breeders and owners in the quaran-
tined asking the
United States to raise the quarantine.
Lists are coming in by the score giving
names of owners and the number each
has of natives, grade and thorough
bred cattle.
In the superior court, criminal term,
now in session here, there are two poEs-
oning cases. In one the defendant is
a boy, who is charged with the murder
of his mother. The dead woman's
stomach has been sent back here, with
analysis. The other defendant is q me-
gro girl VINO trled TO XIII Her empower
and his family.
Among today's arrivals are: DR..
Richard E. Lee, G. l.. Peterson, Clin-
ton; John J. Fowler, Wilmington; b.
w. Hargove, Wilson; Walter L.. Lid
deld, Charlotte; A. j. James, w. H.
McLaurin, Lumberton; S. f. Gidney,
Shelby.
DR.. UIlery, of Chicago, who owns
Smiths or Bad Hea island, at the
mouth of the Cape Fear river. is here
on business with the federal court.
The government desires to acquire 80
acres of land for light house and life
saving station and also to build (and
maintain perpetual right of way) a
tramway across the island. The latter
concession DR.. Ullery does not desire
to grant. He will make the island a
game preserve and resort and will
stock it with deer and h game