The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-21
Dunn HAS: !. |!
new BANK n I. !
Takes Place of@TWo Closed il a.
- Week BY the Corporation
Commission.
.THE, STATE |: NEARLY i. y AL I: DRY y
s!Fifty-fve Counties Have Prohi--
bition and Thirteen Have
Dispensaries.
THE. STATE NEARLY ALL DRY
Dispe$nrsaries.
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! RALEIGH, N. c., Feb. D.-The North
ylCarolina Corporation Commission has re-
4 ceIyed petitions from the tobacco ware
Lousemen Of the various tobacco towns
( of the State. asking that the trelsht
classification OF empty hogsheads pc
lowered They are now shipped at dou-
+ bid first-class charges Warehousemen
viii fight for mt least a reduction 20
first-class freight. Tho commission has
10 med next Tuesday, February S3d, as
] tho date for tho hearing.
- w. B. Clifford was appointed TINS
morning as receiver for the Bank or
Il Dunn. which was closed BY the Corpora
ton Commission a few days ago. The
( appointment was made by Judge at Win
! ston- Salem on petition OF the commits
\ sion. Clifford will take charge at once.
The receiver OF the Merchants and Far
mers' Bank at Dunn Is w. A. stewart
/, Chairman T.. w. Bailey, OF the North
Carolina Anti-snloon League, says Higor-5
4 Gus campaigns against saloons arc worry
! soon to be opened In Wilmington, Char
\ ]otte. Rockingham, Newbern and Greens
!. VILE, and that he has every assurance
/ OF success in all these places,
STATE NEARLY DRY
4 "A There are now fifty-five counties IN the
\ State that have prohibition, according
i to statement made by Chairman BAILEY
Only twenty-nine counties allow saloons saloons
& and he claims that there are not more
/ than forty places In the State that have
1 saloons, Thirteen counties have dlspen-
J earies.
l a new bank for Dunn. In Fatlett coun-
sty. This Is tho town whose two state
4 banks have passed into the hands OF re-
celvers within the past two weeks, haV-
Ing boen closed by the Corporation Com
mission at tho instance OF the State bank
examiner. The new bank Is the Dunn
Banking Company, and tho capital stock
Is 100000 authorized, and $9,O sub
gcribed by business men of Dunn and
GUMBERRY RECEIVER.
Judge Thomas r. Purnell has named
8. G. Ryan, Of this city, as special COM,
missioner to sell tho Gumberry Railroad
and extensive snw-mill and timber land
property in Northampton county, involved
III tho we'll known equity suit OF 'rrench-
ara va, Kohl. The sale Is to pc naao
in the event the defendant IN the snlt
declines to accept the conditions OF az
y order OF the court, that the detenda ny
IL only entitled to q balance OF w, 400,
balance OF purchase money, Instead OF
S4O044, claimed. w. II. Trenchard -
plaintiff and r, Kell defendant IN the
i suit. U
Captain r. w. Mason, OF Northampton
county, has served as receiver OF me
property since the suit was Instituted,
+ The value Of the property is about s6O,o oo'
Fraudulent representations as to the en-
tent and value Of the timber interests
al the time of the sale to Trenchard
was the basis Of the suit.
There was a conference this morning
between DR.. MURPHY, Of the State Hos
rital for the Insane, at Morganton, and
Dr. Mckee, Of the State Hospital for
the Insane at Raleigh. regarding the af-
fairs of the two hospitals, the number OF
patients In the respective districts out
side the institutions, with avlew to an
equalization Of admlsslons % ths u nos,
Tho boards OF directors Tor any action
a they may see proper. '3tf