The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-17
sAPE FEAR RICE COMPANY.
charter to Il Wilmington Concern.
Registration Will be Fairly Heavy
Politics Appear Mixed.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, n. c., October IA.
! charter was granted by the state
to the Cape Fea Rice Company, which
viii operate a rice mill at Whining
ton The capital stock is $500, 900. and.
the stockholders are II. Burgis An
derson, John u. Gore, and Jas. H.
Sneeden.
The supreme coura today took up
the Eighth district appeal docket.
Among he attorneys here are J.. G..
Shaw. G. NJ. Rose. II. l.. Cook. Fay
etteV1lie: j. A LocSart, H. H McLen-
don W~adesboro; = w. Keerans:
charlotte; n. a. Mclean, Lumberton:
l. D. Robinson. John T. Bennett,
Wadesboro; w ]. Adams. Carthage;
John D. Shaw, Jr.. Laurinburg.
Politics appears 10 be mixed. In
most sections Their IS apathy, but IN
some there is inte- r.. For xample
John A. Lockhart. said today: There
peDle are attending to business"
while w. J.. Adams aid There is
nothing but politics an my county.
The prediction is made by some dem
ocrats that the parry will carry ali
the counties save te',. and will make
gains in these.
The murderer INK VIM, of
Wayne county, who was trailed and
captured by his nes..-w was taken UP
at Fayetteville. I -T. IS $3.50 reward
n part of this tn amateur detective
claims. The dete i've had another
motive also. for tn man murdered
was his brother. y sJwyer was here
yesterday to see ab- the claim for
part OF the reward.
It is not denied 10 s. that the crops
in this state are much better tnan
was expected 80 days ago. The farm
ers are in good spiri $ and have re-
covered from the worries due 10 the
crop failure last yeaI-
Among today's arrivals were George
g Royal, GOldsboro, f. g. Bonner.
Morehead City; F.. s. Askew. Windsor:
). l. Patterson, Roanoke Rapids.
While it is the viey of such demo-
cratic leaders as Chairman Simmons
that the negro vote mis- year will be
perhaps $1,000 or 20, ., some persons
express a very post &c belief that II
VIII not exceed 10,CI. In some sec
lions of the state 5 ne registrars are
following HI may e termed a policy
OF exclusion of neg voters. This is
T~eprehended by Chairman Simmons,
who says it is really very rare. He
says more negroes VIII register under
the grandfather clause than was eX-
pected. Those who can then register
are those descendei..s of free negroes
who could vote prio. TO 1885, those who
hoSV "iblt IIOliIeiS anu lHOSe VINO are
descended from negroes who voted
prior to 1876 in which they were quail
fed to vote. Chairman Simmons says
registration will be fairly heavy. 1t
viii be of course larger than the vote.
He urges democrats to get as full =
registration as possible and after that
IS done get as large q vote as possible.
There are persons who say tina the
smartest thing hat negroes could do
wOuld be not to register or vote at all;
that this wOuld allay practically all the
feeling against them. which arises out
of politics and their use of the fran
chise.
1t is said by some cotton growers
that the crop in mis- section will be as
IBIch as 80 per cen John S. Cum
bingham says tie tobacco crop will
reach that figure.
\ charter is gTented by the state to
the Atlas Table Company. of LeXing-
JOn. capital $10,J q.
The supreme court will his week
hear arguments in appeals from the
Eighth district.
Commercial travellers say that bust
ness is very good, particularly in
Eastern North Carolina. in the tobac""
region, where more money is in ciTCu-
latior than ever before and where
along all lines there is prosperity.
4 great many peCDle and public in
situations TOO are ought in the grip
of the coal famine. The government
building here has n" o There is a
contract to furnish l.. but the cOntrac-
tor cannot get the coal. There was
neglect 10 put this in early in the
ummer
The State TUbacp Growers Asso-
citation will no 1 it annual meeting
here on Thursd&v of he state fair and
its president says h expects a great
attendance.
The last arrivals I the peniJentiarE
are Joe Cole. Jr., ID Charles Fergu-
son. alias Watson. accessories u tho
murder of Road Nj ster Stev-rs on d
: y. I. train. They get so years.