The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-16
LEASE Of TIE A. AND NC
ANOTHER PROPOSITION MADE
TO THE GOVERNOR
National Guard Encampment-Bond
Theft Investigation Postponed
More Illicit DistiIIing Going On
Messenger Bureau.

messenger BUREAU
Raleigh, ~. c., February L.
AS yet it is not decided where the
encampment Of the National Guard
of this state will be held. but it is
generally understood that il will be
for the entire brigade. Last year
the encampment vas by regiments
There are plenty of funds, he United
States, Of course, meeting all the ex-
penses. The government allowance
for North Carolina is now about $685.
900 a year. Out of this. of course,
needed stores are purchased and the
encampment and other expenses are
/ met. The only stores needed are
tents which will be bought in the
spring or early summer There are
not enough tents now for the whole
brigade.
1t appears to be the opinion that
the United States may select a place
in the state where encampnents will
be permanently held.
A gentlemen who has arrived here
from Washington says he is much
| pleased at the progress which is being
made by the movement for the APP
L pdldSlAloh EOiOo%
lsiders that the prospects are excel
Ilent for success.
The hearing of the matter of the
theft of the bonds from ]. L. Godfrey.
of Jonesboro. which was to nave
been heard here on the 18th, is post
poned until the 18th. The officials
iare very reticent about the matter
Three men are wanted in regard 10
l this matter, one of them being G. c.
Tones. lately of Goldsboro, who left
there very suddenly. The authorities
e will secure Jones If they can. 1t is
3. understood that his whereabouts are
known
Today j. D. Honeycutt, formerly a
n clerk at yhe peniaentiary went 10
: Lynchburg to identify the man How
n ard, alias Hoolihan. who cracked the
3 nostofice safe at Lancaster, Va. and
= who was recently ~re-captured at Chi
II caeo. being now in Jail at Lynchburg.
Honeycutt says Towards escape was
= q puzzle. He gave Howard an order
for some shoes and in ten minutes
l. Howard had disappeared and no
ct search could find him. He thinks
y Howard got in a n thus
lie passed out of the gates.
y One of the United States deputy
marshals here says that from the n
g formation he gathers there IS q con-
siderable increase in Illicit distilling In
every section in this revenue district
es More information comes in egard
Id ing J.. B. Powell. the Norfolk man III
~ iail here on the charge of q
Goods come in for him daily, to
ey day a carload of furniture haV1ns
of arrived.
At the dispensary here it is stated
that last weeks ness was I'M
e. largest since it opened. This weel
IS. was lighter. The farmers are getnns
ne 10 work now. OF course the sales t
a country people are large, as this dis
er' ~pensary serves at least $4,000 people
~ The sales are really not half a cen
70 a head for this lumber
or Today the executive committee o
fha Methodist O~rphanage met her
and ordered 400 opera chairs for tn
uI chanel. Work begins on the 1nter1o
lid finishing Of the new building as 500
as the weather. opens, funds being
hand.
les There were tntimations yesterda
Wn that a new proposition had bee
made to Governor Aycock for a leas
of the Atlantic and North Carol1n
will railway. but he declined to say
cen word about it. Today he said tn
as he always kept a secret when aske
70 do so, as in his case He has r
q, ceived a proposition, signed by M
,r NcBee, formerly with the Seaboa
Air Line. Mr.. McBee signs this in b
mas half of himself and associates
McRee's proposition is to lease u
Atlantic and North Carolina railw'
flor 90 years. His attorney says TN
lses his offer, if accepted, viii put [
stock nearly at par. Governor A
he- cock saws it is much better offer tn
.or any before made. This is all he W
say.
Charters are granted the Southe
Veneer Company, of W1lllamsre
ace ~capital stock $4,000; the Haywo
ans County Stock Improving Company,
mi waynesville, capital stock Slo,ot
The Smith Phillips Lumber Co
- many. of Winston, capital stock ST
loco: the Concord Wholesale Groct
ICompany, capital took 100000.
Chairman J. W. Bailey, of the st
anti-saloon league, was interview
today. He said he was preparing
y great personal campaign in
- snrine. He will circulate what
terms old time temperance pied
from one end of the state to the o
or. He has given printers a v
large order for these pledges.
commissioner of Agriculture p
terson is much pleased with the s
cess Of the Farmers institutes NJ
and says he does not know whet
there will be n more this year
not