The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-30
From the State Capital
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., August %.

Raleigh, y. C., August %.
The agricultural department has d.
rected State Veterinarian Butler to go
at once from the mountain section to
Dare county, tn investigate the disease
now raging among the horses,-a fever
which is transmitted to we'll horses
from sick ones by mosquitoes, n
which is Increased in the sick ones by
the constant biting of the mosquitoes.
Wake Forest college opened today,
with an increased attendance.
State business Agent Parker, OF the
Farmers State Alliance, urges all the
cotton farmers in the state to Coop
crate regarding the sale OF their cotton
seed. He says the crop Of G VIII De
about 100000 bushels, and that II the
farmers DO Cooperate they can In all
probability ge. 10 cents more a oushel-
There viii be a sharp dVanc IN the
demand Tor and price OF cotton seed
meal, to take the place OF corn for
feeding stock, the corn crop being
short, and there will also be a marked
increase IN the price of cotton oil to
take the place OF lard which will De
necessarily made Scarcer and higher
by the short corn crop Mr. Parker
says that there are excellent reasons
for believing The American and the
formed or about to form a pool
10 reduce or keep down the price OF
cotton seed ard he wants all the cotton
growers to DC so prepared that they
can get their snare of the profits aris-
ing out of the increased demand.
Today the trustees OF the Methodist
~orphanage hero met and decided upon
h design and plan for the $4,000 main
building. IL Will be OF brick, three
stories and basement n will have d
front of $50 feet and depth of 40.
There may be p renewal of the plan to
build a railway to the northeastern
part of this county, and perhaps to
SpringhOpe, Nash county, to get a con-
nection with the Atlantic Coast Line.
The Norfolk and Western railway, it
seems to be pretty we'll assured, win
soon be at Apex. fifteen miles west OF
here.
The sheriff of Craven yesterday
brought a white man to the criminal
insane department of the p~enitentiary.
but it is FULL and today he took the man
back to raven.
A number of merchants here are in
directly boycotting the Seaboard Air
Line by writing to persons who ship
them goods TO ship by the Southern
railway. They do not say they will re-
fuse to take the goods if shipped by the
Seaboard Air Line, as that woul be a
boycott.
The county superintendent of educa-
l1OLl VI N1dNS NOuLllg "I4Ato Lit q
superintendent that the authorities Of
New Bern threaten that they Will i'm
pose no more fines if there is enforce
ment of The payment to the school
fund of the fines imposed during the
past three years.
The Bell Telephone Company today
began to put its wires under ground.
1t is laying them in wooden conduits.
The city ought to require all wires to
go underground. The linemen are sac
rifcing the trees and the streets are
disisured and made dangerous by
wires.
The state superintendent Of public
instruction finds hat two of the text
book firms under the new contracts are
flooding the state with blanks in which
they prescribe the conditions for book
exchanges, making these narrow and
harsh. He says he will stop this mat
ter. He laid the case before Attorney
General Gilmer today.
Attorney General Gilmer ave his
opinion today. In it he says:
THE certificate prepared by the book
contractor to be signed and undertake
ing to define the conditions upon which
the exchange of books can be effected
by public school patrons is authorized
nder the text book law The statute
does not confer pon the contractors
authority to issue instructions to man
ayers of school book repositories, de-
signed as their own Interpretation OF
conditions under which an exchange OF
school books a be effected, these
questions being, in my opinion. within
the Jurisdiction of the state text book
commission, to be determined in &C
cordance with the law and the contract
entered into with publishers.