The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-17
FUNERAL OF R. N. FURMAH.
GREAT OUT-POURING OF PEOPLE
TO PAY LAST TRIBUTE.
The Capitol Was Closed and Work In
All Departments Suspended-Poli-
tics I'm the 10th District-Work For
the Federal Court
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., May IA, 1904.

Robert N. Furman was held from
Edenton Street Methodist Episcopal
church, Rev. F. NJ. Bumpass officiating.
assisted by Rev. DR.. Marshall, rector
Of Christ Episcopal church. The
church was entirely full. all the state
officials here being present. as well as
newspaper men, Confederate veterans
and business men, Every tribute Of
love and respect was paid the memory
OF the dead editor. who was SD great
ly beloved here. and indeed all over
n state. The interment was in Oak
wood cemetery. where the ConfeF.
ate veterans paid their last tribute =,
a member of their organization. Dur
ing the funeral services the capitol
was closed and the flags at half staff.
and business was suspended in All the
departments.
A charter is granted the Salisbury
Hosiery Company. capital stock $780,
600. S. H. Wiley and r. H. Konklin
being the principal stockholders
j. Frank Ray. who during the flu
sion days of common -95 and common
80 won such a reputation in the Leg
isiature. is here tending the Supreme
court. When asked about politics in
the 10th district. he said the Demo
Gratis would renominate Gudger, but
that the result was doubtful. as the
DSalOCTdlS were HOl lSlllHs Ju0SC
Ewart, the Republican nominee. OF
course, they will not vote for Ewart,
Mr.. Ray says, but he adds hat they
do not fight him. because he stood up
for the people in the fight against the
force bill in Congress. Mr.. Ray ex-
presses the opinion that this matter
had something to do with the failure
of the Senate to confirm Ewart's nomi-
nation. He says the Democrats will
work hard n try to carry the dis
trict If they can. He says the noun
tain country is for Parker as a nomi-
nee for h Presidency, and that he
hears very strong expressions to that
effect. When asked about the Watts
liquor regulation law and the opinion
UP in his section. he said h law did
not affect hat territory, as all the
counties west of Asheville hav prohi-
bition except Haywood, which has a
diSpenSary. AS vet there is very lit
tie talk about the Legislature, but
considerable about h Atlantic and
North Carolina railway, strange to say,
in a section so remote from that road.
He says the apple crop is the greatest
ever known in that region, the peach
crop not SO good. A quarter OF a
million apple trees have been AXE
into Macon county this spring, from
Wisconsin,, and a man from Georgia,
named Smith. has set out $4,000 OF
LlSSG, various SIO"SIS ldhilS TX
others. Mr.. Ray says Lieutenant Gov
ernor Turner is the second choice Of
the people in his section for Governor.
Davidson Will get the solid vote OF the
west. franc D. Winston has many
friends who want him nominated for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Mr.. Ray says
all the present state officers will be
renominated.
Before the Supreme court next
week, a very important case, that of
Westfeldt against Adams, from Swain
county, comes up for the fourth time,
involving some 200 acres Of copper
mining property, for which $1,000 has
been offered.
Commissioner Of Agriculture Peter
son says the holding Of farmers in
stitutes will begin the last Of July.
They were very successful last year
and so were those he'd in the winter.
During the summer they will take
in the middle section and the west.
State Superintendent J. Z. Joyner
is preparing his address 1t the I'M
yelling of the monument to Superin-
tendent Calvin H. Wiley at Winston
May ESD.
superintendent Joyner is sending
out an address TO the people OF the
south in behalf Of public education,
this going to the state superintendent
to be signed by them and then put
before the people of the south, it be-
| Inga strong plea FOR the public school.
United States District Attorney
| Harry Skinne says there is quite a
full docket at the term OF the federal
court, which will begin here on the
23d, and that the two most interest
| ing cases are those against Charles &.
Jones and J. B. Powell, the Jones case
| involving charges OF entering post
| offices and taking stamps and money
receiving stolen stamps, knowing then
to have been stolen. and dfspos1ng OF
them. Colonel Skinner says there is
a strong line of evidence as to these
charges. but strongest as to the re-
ceiving and buying stamps, knowing
them to nave been stolen. There are
only three cases against Powell, fol
fraudulent use of the United States
mails I'm extensive swindling opera
tons. There are really, he says, sew
eral hundred separate offenses, bu'
the statute provides for only three
cases in the same six months. Pow
ell ordered everything from manufac-
turers all over the country, from c
tooth-pick to an automobile, u luck
ily he was caught very early i'll nj:
game, and so his victims got back tnea1
property. There are three case o
counterfeitine to be tried, the opera
tors making imitation silver an'
nickel pieces. Colonel Skinner say;
there is very little counterfeiting IL
this district, and that there ha.
been a great deal. He states that a
Wilmington court an important cas-
on the charge of crimping is to b
tried. In this case a Wilmington maj
turned over to a German ship a maj
as a sailor, and when the ship got Oh
the other side, the captain did no
a the man his full wages. but re
served part, with the statement tina
he had paid this sum to the Whining
ton man for furnishing the sailor
This is called crimping, n Is in vic
lation OF law. The United States Il
order to get a case against the viii
mington man had to bring back tn
sailor in question, from Bremen I
London. thence TO New Orleans, an
so on to Wilmington. Another ques
ton that comes up Is whether tn
captain of the ship cannot also D
prosecuted, if the government get
hold of him..
Louis James and wife on a certai