The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-19
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Aanaaf Report tn h Gevexser-
Fine speech D. Consre..nan Pew.
Many View Pension AppIica uts-
Tree. I'm Capital square Dyi.x.
Messenger Bureau.


Raleigh. ~. C. Sept l..
The annual report on the condition
CT the Atlantic and North Carolina
railrsad made TO Governor Aycock last
| evening by Messrx- Beckwith and Bal
lard. the state beard Of Internal i'm
provements. viii be gratifying TO Pres
iden Janes a. Brya. OF that road The
board heartily coml.nds his admins
tration as a whole nd says there are
improvements all along the line and
! tina there Is :. handsome increase in
business.
The suprer court heard yesterday
| all the arguments TN appeals from the
Fourth district There were only half
a dozen cases.
State Superirt saddnt OF Educatioa
| Jeyner was at Is censboro today. 10 be
! present at the opening O. the term Of
| the State Normal and Industrial col
lege for women
A charter VS. granted by the state
| today to the southern Manufacturing
| Publishing Conn any. OF Ashevtlle,
which will publish a trade Journal.
magazine or paper devoted to southern
manufacturing. George L Hackney
and others are the ckholder
Secretary Bruner OF the agricultural
department. and Curator Brimley. OF
the state museum, left today for Win
ston. y. G., 10 be absent at least a
fortnight. Secretary Bruner viii col
lect apples from a DOZEN counties aid
Curator Brimley will 20 TO Macon.
| Mitchell and two or three other coun-
| ties after 200 geological specimens.
timber and natural history specimens
BY q misunderstanding the name OF
the man interested in the oyster bus
mess in the upper sounds, whose case
was before the governor and council
Of state, was given as Hadley- II -
Makeley. There are two sides TO the
question. which Is yet left undecided.
One Is that the oyster claims" were
taken in good faith, and are roper
the other that the claim Is on a natural
bee. where the oyster can be plainly
seen n the shallow water.
The belief appears to be deepening
that he action OF the white republi-
caI.s in dropping the negro" Is In
Spired by President Roosevelt as being
in his view the correct policy in the
southern states.
Il Is learned that u. Ii. Darger. SUI
perintendent of this division OF the
SeGboard Air Line. will retire October
lst TO look after his coal mining inter
rsts in West Virginia.
Congressman L. w. Pou made a
notably fine speech here last evening
in the course or which he made the
plain declaration that some democrats
said they had voted the democratic
ticket under duress, that is on account
of the negro, anc hat he wanted to
say that. the democratic party had
emancipated such meE and that they
must votr according to their princi-
pies; thai If he believed in the repub-
lican party he would have the courage
TO stand by il, and that he wanted the
d.emocratic party to stand or its
merits. his manly declaration was
loudly apr.@uded.
The fac ,nat there are 2,5O0 new APP
plicationS FOR pension does not surprise
auditor Dixon. who in fact predicted
as much. re expects to see over 10, 900.
pensioners. y good many Of the ap-
~plications ire being turned down, as
some COUNT boards of examiners were
SO careles - simply to sent forward
any and al applications to the state
board. with Iut passing on their merits
or demerits.
A report has been made Governor
Aycock .5 state Botanist Gerald NJ.
McCarthy, who examined the trees in
the capl;al square. The report says.
the nohL oaks are rapidly losing their
vitality. One is dead This is PARTLY
due to the very dry year and partly to
the fact that the excavation In the
nearly stteels are taxing away the
moisture which the trees require. h
only possible remedy is watering. and,
he has but little hope of success from
this. He says the trees will all die and
suggests tea; others be planted at once
so as to be ready to take their places.
-FOUR Of The trees In the square are not
suited He avs further that the vi
tailty OF me- y OF the oaks in Raleigh
Is aft':ted b. the same causes.
Tn first indian pensioner was today
put On the state pension roll. He is
Devir Cannos Kus Kit. which. In En-
Rnsh . Armstrong Cornsilk. He en-
listed In April, 1862, in Company 3.
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