Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-02
IN THE OLD DOMINION
BARKSDALE ELECTION LAW
CAUSES POLITICIANS TROUBLE.
Different Bibles for Whites and Blacks
in North Carolina-Big Seizure
of Whisky.
Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.

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| Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
| NORFOLK, Va, October 1. 1903.
| The Barksdae pure election law in Nir
| ginia, which prevents the use of money In
any form in any election, general pri
mary. is causing the politicians. of the state
| no little trouble at the present time. In one
| county several candidates, who, it was
| shown. had used cigars and small amounts
| of money in influencing votes, have been
| refused certificates of election by the demo-
| cratic committee. and the candidates are to
| be reported to the grand jury for indict-
| ment and a court trial. After every cleo
| ton all candidates. whether successful or
| not, must under the Barksdale law, report
| their expenses, and if 1t is shown that they
have even spent money in the purchase
| of cigars or cigarettes for their friends
| they are prosecuted in the courts. w. w.
Old Norfolk candidate for the legislature,
tells how he came very near bringing him.
| self within violation of the law the other
| day. Old was on a street car with a friend,
| and as a courtesy started to pay the
friends fare, but recalling his attitude as
| a candidate, and wishing to avoid any pos
| sible collision with the Barksdale law. let
| the nickel drop back into his pocket and eX-
planned to his friend that under the cir
| cumstances each would have to pay his
| own way. On another occasion during the
campaign Old was about to treat several
| friends to cigars. in a casual way before
| he thought of his candidacyS relation to
| the situation but recalling it. lie had to re-
| frain from tie treat. embarrassing as the
| situation was. In Norfolk county where
| money has always heretofore been known
to flow like water during election times
| County Sheriff A. c. Cromwell and all run
! ming mates with the exception of one re-
port that not one cent was spent by them
during the campaign which they have just
| passed through. The one candidate who
reported an expenditure was Common,
wealth's Attorney r. c. Marshall, who said
| that he gave SO to the county committee
| for the purchase of stationery for use in
! the primary
| The superior court of New Hanover coun-
| ty, N. c.. will, in the future, have separate
Bibles for the swearing OF witnesses one
will be for whites and the other for col
ored witnesses. Judge Walter n. Neal de-
cided that the same Bible should no longer
| be used by the whites and blacks, and, in
| signing the order for the use of separate
books in the future, also signed an order
i for the purchase of six new Bibles SO that
| all which had formerly been in use by both
! whites and blacks could be destroyed.
Red Cloud" a four-year Cd gelding
| has Just been sold by w Wilbur Osborne
| of Gordonsvlle to A. V. Huyler OF New
York for $1,000 This splendid horse was
raised by Osborne the Springfield stock
farm. He won during the season the blue
ribbon in the horse shows at Wilmington,
Del. Orange and CharlOtteSV1lle.
While new barn filled with leaf to-
| bacco was burning near Germantown, N.
c. Mike Caffee. uncle of the owner died
from excitement
The tobacco year at Winston-Salem. N
| c. has just closed, with aggregate sales
amounting to 19,Sl9.08 pounds of leaf to-
bacco at an average of 9.S4 per pound
The amount paid to farmers during the
| year was 1851 ,046GG.
Attorney General Anderson of Virginia
! has completed and forwarded to the
| supreme court of appeals of the United
| States his brief in the case of the Peoples
| National Bank of Lynchburg, appellant
against the auditor OF public accounts OF
Virginia. The case is a test one, involving
| the validity of the Virginia statute imposing
| a tax the stool. of national banks.
| Good lawyers. after reading a copy of
| Attorney General Anderson's brief in the
case, express the opinion that the court
| of appeals will affirm the decision Of the
| lower court and thus save to the state con-
| siderable income from the national banks in
| it's borders.
| Revenue agents at Milton Caswell
| county. have made the largest seizure of
! Illicit LIQUOR known in the history of the
revenue department in North Carolina. Six
thousand gallons of fine whisky, valued
at 50, coo, were seized by Collector Starbucl
| just the barrels We're being loaded upon
a train for shipment. The liquor was from
a distllery at Milton. and there We're in all
1l5 barrels of it. The largest former seizure
of whisky in North Carolina that of
5000 gallons belonging to j. L. Whiting
ton, in Wilkes county. in 1893. when forty
two wagons drove to the distillery.
| manned by armed deputies, seized the
whisky and drove off with it.
There are more tomatoes packed annual
ly in Botetourt and Roanoke counties Va,
than in any other two counties in the
States BOtetOllrt
more tomatoes than any other one county
on the American continent. There are
between 125 and 100 clnneries large and
small. in the western half of Botetourt
alone. The tomato pack this year. it is
estimated, will reach 100000 cases in the
enc county. The industry gives employ
n1ent to many hundreds men, women
and children, besides bringing much money
to the county every year in the form of
profits on the canned goods.
Gov. Montague has named the following
| delegates from Virginia to the National
Prison Association. which meets in Louis
| lines Norfolk; N. II. Dyer. Roanoke: r. +.
Ragland, Petersburg; Robert Gillian,
| Petersburg: James Akers, Danville; j. ID.
| Pendleton. Lynchburg T. A. Johnson, New
port News; John H. Robinson Fredericks-
| burg, and Charles Hultzer, James Caskie.
Robert Stiles. D. c. Richardson and 3. f.
| Howard, all of Richmond.
At Rye Cove Va James Taylor in a
| quarrel, struck William barton over the
head with an ak, laying open his skull and
iEf!icting fatal injuries. Taylor is reported
| to have escaped into the mining regions of
Wise county, Va.
The owners of large river planta tons in
eastern Virginia going into the stock
raising business on a large scale. TIE
great scarcity of farm labor and the low
prices of grain have had much to do with
the change from the regular routine of
cropping carried on for many years On
these plantations, some of which as
| much $50 years old. In the last few
weeks many cattle and sheep have been
purchased by plantation owners the city
markets. and the Virginia planters will
now try their luck on ranching a sub
stitute for cropping
Women are to be admitted as students to
the University College of Medicine at Rich
r,,nnd This will be quite q new denarture