The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-03-22

lmonton and Purnell sets forth that
Jail parties have agreed that Purnell's
lorders. made the oath OF February at
Norfolk, and the Goth at Raleigh. be
set aside and upon application of
fcounsel for the complainant Finch
lbe vacated and the bill of complaint
dismissed; thai forthwith upon this
order, Receiver McBee turn over to
1.-THE President and other officers of the
Atlantic & North Carolina Railway all
tits property; hat McBee file an &C
count of his dealings concerning the
lroad with this court and that he and
his sureties be, upon approval of this
account by the court, discharged from
! liabilities That Finch recover no
from the State or the railway:
THAT McBee receive no fees as receiver
and that no counsel fees be allowed
lcomplainants-in other words-that
1.-THE State and railway be put to no
lexpense whatever.
There a been a current report
THAT McBee represented in some sort
lof way the Norfolk & Southern Rail-
way, but General Superintendent s. l.
IDill, Of the Atlantic e. North Carolina
lroad (whom McBee discharged), went
Ito Norfolk and saw the officers Of the
Norfolk e Southern, who declared
they had nothing whatever to do with
1.-THE matter.
, Yesterday morning attorneys for
McBee approached the representatives
of the State with a proposition to see
liz criminal proceedings against him
for conspiracy could not be with
drawn. They told him no; that the
matter was in the hands of the Wake
superior Court; that papers were with
IClerk Kenan, of the Supreme Court.
who would certify them down to the
court below, in order hat a trial might
lbe had at the next term. Attorneys
went off, but returned later with the
draft of an order, vacating the receiv-
Iership and dismissing Finch's bill of
complaint. But the order they then
presented did not eliminate the com
lDensation Of McBee and his ounse
and they had to further modify it sc
as to absolutely eliminate any COM
pensation whatever of this character.
las to the conspiracy matter, the or
der of Judge Clark, holding McBee
flor trial here. stands.
1t is learned that T. D. Meares and
ian accountant named CowDer have
lbeen at New Bern some days, employ
ed by McBee to prepare an entirely
new set of books, and had begun the
lgreat labor of transferring the ac-
Icounts from old books to these new
ones. OF curse they I'VE their labor
flor their pains. The officials of the
railway. President Bryan, General Su-
DCl lllClluC1l LII VI NouISC' Z
Isumes his office) and Treasurer Man
Ily, were here at the hearing today, and
superintendent Dill and President
bryan began to get kilograms about
the business of the road a few min
lutes after the judges had signed the
decree vacating the receiverShip, SO
Everything is going on as before. The
board Of internal improvements was
in session yesterday, the matter Of
carefully inspecting the road being
talked of. This afternoon the board,
Governor Aycock presiding, met again.
Tt was arranged that the Governor
land MeSsrs. Ballard and Beckwith, of
1.-THE board, together with three ex-
Irerts, will go over the road, examine it
with great care, look into the matter
lOf the best possible extensions, n
ltions, etc. Then the Governor win be
lin a position to know hat to do as
records the lease, for it can be pre-
tdicted with certainty that the road
will be leased, now it is free from all
acknowledgements. 1t is the desire Of
the Governor to get into the merits OF
1.-THE road. OF curse. as the Governor
so strongly said directly after the
news OF the receivership, no lease of
jroad would ever be effected through
the Federal Court, but now he is foot
loose. It is very clear that leading
men say that the best interests OF the
State and private stockholders, as we'll
as the section through which the road
runs. demand a cas- This has real
|ly been clear since last September
possibly before that time. Good terms
are offered for a lease, h Governor
having two excellent propositions be-
fore him.
V. f. McBee said tonight that he
will leave for New Bern tomorrow
morning. He will make uD his re-
port and file it with the clerk of the
Federal Court here. He is ID a
fifty thousand dollar honesty hond.