The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-12-29
SOUTH DAKOTA BOND SUIT
WILL COME BEFORE SUPREME
COURT IN JANUARY.
lion ScriouS-EXoduS of y. c. PeO-
pie to the Pacific Coast-EditoriaI
Duel Attracts Attention.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. G., December %

Raleigh, n. G, December %.
The number of books and pamphlets
in the State Library has reached 35,-
coo. The gain this yea- is not yet ex
actly known. During the years 1901 anu
1902 the increase was 2,2I2 books and
$50 pamphlets. The number of books
about North Carolina or written by
North Carolinians, which occupy a spe-
eial section in the library, is now 4S1,
this being q considerable increase.
The South Dakota sEit comes up be-
fore the United States Supreme court
an January, and Attorney General Gill
mer and his associate counsel for the
State Will then go there. They have
given this case a remarkable degree Of
study and attention, and nave very
fully mastered all its details, it being
n of the most important cases in
which North Carolina has ever been
interested. 1t is also IA case which
interests other States. The attempt of
certain persons to force the State TO
pay the a value Of bonds which
were scaled by the acts providing for
the funding of the debt. have gone on
for many years. No less La y years
g A. w. Tourgee, then a noted Re-
publican politician, said this matter
would be pushed TO the limit. The
State officials do not SEEM to have any
fear as to the result
At the ariou departments of the
capital veTy little is going on, nothing
in fact of public interest, the influence
Of the holiday season being very pain
ly felt, and it is evident that news will
be scarce until the new e a begins.
The payment OF pension warrants IS
the only feature at the State treasury,
where $13,G 600 worth were paid today.
1t is learned from leading physicians
here that the completion of the operat-
ing room at St. Agnes hospital. which
is at the St. Augustine Normal c.l-
Iege, colored. gives Raleigh the e
the best equipped operating rooms il.
the state. Shaw University hospit :.
colored. has an entirely new operating
room. The fact is not generally known
that Raleigh has the largest d~ispensarT
and hospital service in the State.
The inquiry for the swamp lands by
the State Board of Education in a
dozen or more eastern counties con
tinueS. There are applications Cor
very large areas OF these lands. the
lands in Carteret county beng n par
t:cular request. One person deS I Lg
these as a hunting reserve. There IS
60. 600 acres Of SUCH i,nd in Cartcr"
The ~moonshiners il various srctions
are understood to have taken advanr-
age Of the excellent . crop this
year to make much Thiskey for hat
might be termed the holiday trade ard
this liquor will be- very largely III"
source of any disturbances or crimes
due 10 drunkenness. For a number az
years MANY more q these have Occur
in the ruraa dis riots than il The
and WI
The North Carolina Agricultural So
ciety at its very interesting meeting
here during the State Fair in October
discussed the need Of immigration into
State, and gave its president. Mr..
J. a. Long, power TO name q commit
10 ook into the matter. He has
appointed Commissioner Of Agriculture
who is. ex-officio, State La
Dor Commissioner; James A. Bryan.
Julian 8. Carr. Waiter Clark. Ashley
Horne. J. Bryan Grimes, 7. =. Parher
L. Daughtridge and Richard
Rattle, this being a very strong corr
OF course the labor cue fi5o
s one Of the grear iSsueS of the day,
in Eastern North Caro- pa
and nowhere more so than along1 ae
NE Of the Atlantic and North ~
Nway. the president Of Whio 3