Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-18
THE NORTH CAROLINA
ROAD PROSPECTING.
Tree. In Capitol Square Dying-1E'
crease in the State Pension List
to $4,000 is Predicted.

RALEIGH, N c., September 17.-tSpe-
cial.)-The annual report on the condl-
ton of the Atlantic and North Carolina
railroad made to Governor Aycock last
evening by Messrs. Beckwith and Bal
lard, the State Board of Internal Improve
ments. will be gratifying to President
James A. Bryan. % that road. The board
heartily commends his administration as
a Whole, and says there are improvements
all along the line, and that there is
handsome increase in business.
The Supreme Court heard yesterday all
the arguments In appeals from the Fourth
District There were only half dozen
cases.
State Superintendent of Education JOY
ner was at Greensboro to-day, to be pres
ent at the opening Of the term of the
State Normal and Industrial College Tor
women.
A charter was granted by the State to-
day to the Southern Manufacturing Pub
fishing Company, of Asheville' which viii
publish a trade journal magazine, or pa
per. devoted to Southern manufacturing
George L. Hackney and others are the
stockholders.
Secretary Bruner. of the Agricultural
Department, and Curator Brimley, OF the
State Museum, left to-day for Western
North Carolina, to be absent at least a
fortnight Secretary Bruner Will collect
apples from a dozen counties. and Cura-
tor Brimley will go to Macon Mitchell,
and two or three other counties after
geological specimens, timber ana natural
history specimens.
By a misunderstanding the name of
the man interested in the oyster business
in the upper Sounds, whose case was be-
fore the Governor and Council of State,
was given as Hadly. It is N1akeley. There
are two sides to the question. which is
left undecided. One is that the FISHERMAN
claims were taken in good faith and are
proper; the other that the claim is on a
natural bed, where the oysters can, be
plainly seen, in the shallow water.
The belief appears to be deepening that
the action Of the white Republicans in
| dropping the negro is inspired by Presl-
| dent Roosevelt as being in his view the
| correct policy in the Southern States.
II is learned that D. II. Barger. superin-
| tendent of this division of the Seaboard
Airline, will retire October LIST, to look
| after his coal mining interests in West
! Virginia
Congressman E. w. Pou made nota-
| bly fine speech here last evening, in the
| course of which he 8 declared thai
some Democrats said they had Voteo
the Democratic ticket under curess. tha'
is. on account of the negro, and that he
wanted to say that the Democratic party
had emancipated such men, and thai
they must vote according to their prln-
ciples. that if he believed in the Repu.
lican party he would have the courage
| to stand by it, and that he wanted k1t
Democratic party to stand on its merits
This manly declaration was loudly ap
| plauded.
The fact that there are $500 new appli
cations for pensions does not surprise
Auditor Dixon. who in fact predicted a!
| much. He expects to see over 10000 pen
| sioners. A good many of the application:
| are being turned down, as some County
Boards of Examiners were so careless a.
simply to send forward any and all appli
cations to the State board.
A report has been made to Governor
Aycock by State Botanist Gerald Nc
Carthy, who examined the trees in tn
capitol square. The report says thu
noble oaks are rapidly losing their vital
ity. One is dead. This is probably due t.
the very dry year, and partly to the fac
that the excavations in the near-b:
streets are taking away the moistur
| which the trees require. The only posi-
BILE remedy is watering, and there is bu
little hope of success from this. He say
the trees will all die, snd suggests tina
others be planted at once.
The first Indian pensioner was to-da,
put on the State pension roll. He i
/ Deier- Cannos-kus-kit which in Englisl
is Armstrong Cornsilk. He enlisted il
April. 1862. in Company B, Sixty -nintl
l Regiment