The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-25
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c., August q.

Telephone Company or the Postal Tel
egraph Company for taxation, as the
local assessments taken up all the prop
erty of these, so h a the state tax will
be paid through the sheriffs and not
directly by the state treasurer.
The assessment of the Postal is at $751;
cOC, and Of the Bell at SLY 600.
4 telegram this morning to the gov
eInor stated that the band of the Third
regiment North Carolina National
guard had won the first prize in a band
contest at Danville
some persons have an idea that ex-
cashier Dewey, of New Bern, has taken
refuge in Mexico. He wrote to Gov
ernor Aycock from New York, rendering
his resignation as a director Of Atlantic
and North Carolina railway. Some per-
sons asked the question whether that
letter was really mailed from New
York. A story has been going the
rounds to the effect that Dewey, when
h fed. took with him his bond to the
bank for $780, 900. 1t is learned that this
is untrue; hat President Cutler, of the
bank, had Dewey's bond and turned it
over to receiver Thomas Daniels and
mas the latter's receipt for it.
Superintendent Goodwin, of the school
fo1 deaf-mutes at M~organton is here
and says that the applications are so
numerous as to be more than can be
accommodated. The number of appli-
Cants for admission to the state school
for the blind at Raleigh is also much
larger than ever before.
The number of APPLICATIONS for state
~ccrvicts for private work is very large.
The Southern railway, for instance,
wants 500 to grade it's double track
through this state. The penitentiary
authorities say that not a convict can
be spared, the services of every one
available being needed.
DR.. TAFT Butler, state veterinarian,
has returned from holding some of the
county institutes for farmers and is
very much gratified at the large atten-
dance II the greatly increased inter-
ests. He says the attendance is twice
as large as heretofore.
About the first of September. State
Labor Commissioner Warner will begin
q two monthS' tour of the state for the
purpose of securing information as to
cotton mills and other kinds of fac
tories. He say that the only way to
gather complete and accurate informa>
ton is from personal observation. Some
OF the mill owners are very prompt and
careful in making report and giving
information asked for. He has to de-
pend upon their courtesy for this, there
being no law so far to compel the CIV
ms of information. The new labor law.
regulating child labor, hours of labor,
ETC.. does not go into effect until Janu-
airy 1st. The legislature he'd off the
r-rn &c 1nno ac ~ nn,,1I The IJnD1--
which Commissioner Warner is sending
out this veal are six in number, the in
Quiry is being made to farmers, persons
having trade. cotton and wooden mills.
knitting mills, micelaneous factories.
furniture factories. The blanks sent to
farmers ask about the usual questions,
anG SO do the blanks for cotton mills.
WCOlen mills, and knitting mills. The
blanks sent to the trades ask whether
TIE person belongs to a labor union,
are the highest wages paid his
trade the hours in a days work, etc.
One. of the questions ske in several
blanks is as to whether children under
II years of age should work in factor
les. Another question asked is whether
a compulsory school law is favored.
II { view as to the child labor law en-
acted by the last legislature is also re-
QueSted, together with any suggestion
relative to the need of wage earners
anu what would benefit them. A spe-
cIal inquiry is made as to the view on
compulsory education since the adoption
Of the constitutional amendment requir-
ing all voters coming of age after 1908
to be able to read and write any ques-
tloE of the constitution. This question
IS also asked the newspaper men Of the
state and it is a very important and in
teTesting one, as is shown by the fact
that it is on every one of the blanks.
The supreme court will again hear
the case of the newspaper mar who
sued for damages incurred while riding
on a pass. The court decided against
him His counsel will say that this is
strange in view of the fact that the
courts have allowed damages to a man
who Was injured while stealing a ride
on a locomotive; at the time the loco
motive being in the limits of a town
and such stealing of ride violation
OF the towns ordinances.
Sc far there have been only two
lynchings in North Carolina this year,
the last one being in Halifax county.
The state a made a pretty good re-
cord within the past few years as COM
pared with many others IN Its small
number Of l~ynchings. In only one year
in the last thirty has there been no
~lynchings at all.
The board of county commissioners is
getting as a board of tax equalization
here, there being a great many COM
plants of excessive valuation of city
property. 1t is not thought that there
WI! be much reduction of the assess
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p~laiEants.
Pictures OF the old state capitol,
which was burned in 1881, are very are
The state has one, which is in the
library, and today another was Sc
cured. having been presented to the
Hall of History by Rev. DR.. NJ. NJ. Mar
shall, rector of Christ Church here,
who obtained il in New York. 1t is a
very fine engraving. The picture in the
ibraray IS a painting, which was made
about 1921.
Very great interest was manifested
by the tobacco growers here today in
the n~r0oaa6inp of the convention Of