The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-09-01

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md quarter in length. a..is forth
IAN id.a of one Of tn. NJ est men.
tai analysts" predicting what =
likely l., tapTanp.n in the near
fnturs il there -Iicuid he All at'ersip.
10 lease the Ati.nGsc i " rib Caro-
ina Railroad.
~ his iheori-i," as he t. i.rtesi
TO without name in The article
meni lionel, j. not Dir city quoted,
nut the News aud o server 80 M
u have gathered lion him Tie
p ogno,tication that. "tIrssI al
McB e and Finch, d.sg III with
he litigation. ani hop - of SUE
esEling. the III sly \ K y. {
>chclners have determine 10 ap
pear Ia give up the itlca Of taking
way The properly Of the rad. Or
II preventing lease
Yet the minute the read Is leased
or attempted to be leased, there
will I've an injunction. fresh
parti Ia the fore, with the ammuni-
unr-pr"sented."
The article z ,Ps on - say TIN
the key TO the whole thing il &
mysterious block Of y. x. \. G..
stock, which amid all the Juror over
the road, "has lain throughout it
al, quiet, inar iculate and uudis-
covered" "where are these
shares" is asked. "Long ago they
have been transferred from the
original boz k-holder, transferred
a ,ain and again, until tbs record of
| Them is los"
'Of the Others" the articel saps,
sail are committed. S.,
that, of all the holders of the stock
Of the road, none save he who po.-
~essts The 100 missing shares can
ID up at this st ge of the game and
object with even the semblance Of
traight face. 1t would make an
interesting story could 1t but be
known-the tale of the hundred |
shares, their wa: d 4riDgs ard their |
&C min tn their obscure rest"
Now, all this is is extremely in
terasting. 1t even has the subtle
Charm Of the romatic woven in It's
web. And the thing that gives il its
palpitating thr ID of'interest is, above
eve ything else, its authenticity. A
strange story is ever SO much more
interesting when one knows its
true. AMI Of course the News and
Observer, q every one knows,
the auth nifty par excellence, Wnen
1t comes to the inside workings Of
the A. 4 n. G. Railroad Company.
SO here is bit Of news, "straight,"
A vesitsble, SCOOP" beat Of the
most crushing variety.
Think of il, hundred shares of =
he a. &. n. c. stock missing! MOI
is, no one of the ordinary .
lerd-no one of the "pooIop OIL
North Carolina, ever knew that '
,efure. -
The only information the ordi- 7
larry stakeholder poss essed on the e
inject was contained in the annual
eport ,of the last stockholders z
meeting held at New Bern, Sep. II
amber oath, 1903. That report n
on'ains list Of sll the stock issued "
y the company, with all the shares -
counted for by the name Of the
wners, in black and white. This n,
st shows that 4 total Of 1902 ",
lares have been issued, 3,3I1 to a;
'ivate stockholders, 1866 to the II
ate, 500 to Lenoir county, 1893 to ~
raven and 2O2 to pamlicO.
The total number Of shares author an
Ell was $4,000, 80 that % shares f.
Yer were issued.
Ihat Is all that was hithertoI
Town, but now comes the alarm co.
g statement, with its hallmark of ms
nuineness, its uncontrovertibIe nit
thorty. that whole hundred of sui
1se shares are lying out some Chi
'ere, ready to be grsbbed Up by wi
ne unknown, enemy and brough', Fac
mann wood fashions. to overthrow
Castle Of Lease. VIII
Who stole them? Through Whit Is t
e in the records did they drope 6
IS is serious matter. 1t ought ced
tie investigated. These 81 ares Ho'
hit to be advertised in the one ers,
ia word column. 1t might pay tore
10 it. at
wen the autbor;tu whit. dog
poured out the startling tale of r: -
missing shares and their posi-. z IN ~
ties has evidently only learned ia IL.
heir "missingness" some time
the latter part Of last February, 1ar'
1t that time the same authority ana
AIRED that one Finch was not nef
lily stakeholder of the A. & rap
). Railroad for the reason that 'ey'
did not appear on the re- are Q
of the company. OF ccurae if ana
authority had known then that, ing
ndred shares were missing from aeel
records, anaccOunted for, if 20 .!
not have satisfy yeptured the BEL
cry of that decision.
en-, then, these shares mustt
oeen. "fcund missing, since
investigation of the special -
nlttee appointed bv tbs enver-