The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-21
A. & N. C. Stock Offered
For Sale Yesterday.
THE CLANS GATHER
The Dismissal Suit of the Notorious A.
&N. C. Receivership to be Heard
This Morning in
the Federal
Court.

Today there is to be a redivius OF
A. and n. c. Railroad matters the
proposed motion for the dismissal OF
the receivership being the affair on
hand.
The clans interested began gather
ing on Sunday and more of these APP
peared Yesterday This time they
came not with much talk but still
ness of the funeral kind reigned. Even
Col. Argo closed down on the vocabu-
larry and the RIP Rager" chief ragged
not.
Capt X. S. Finch the buyer at par,
on time, of 81 shares of A. and n. c.
is here. So is Capt. v. e. McBee,.
known to the State as Bunch McBee,
the two times ex-receiver of the Null
let" WoodWlle w. Fleming, is on
hand, he who dallied in the second
receivership inning with the Cuyley
stock. Also there is here eX-Judge
Frank /. Osborne, of Charlotte, who
is the legal adviser of Finch in the
A and n. G.. affairs w. w. Clark of
New Bern, was reported to be here
also, but he was not in evidence. The
local counsel, -Messrs. Argo and SHAFT
er, and Capt. w. III. Day are all in the
city.
There are the parties who are UNI
derstood to be here to offer some kind
of a. dissent to the motion to be made
by eX-Judge T. b. Womack this morn-
ing in the Federal court before Judge
Purnell for the dismissal of the receiv
ership suit In this Judge Womack
represents Mrs. Florence p. Tucker,
who was made one of the parties de-
PENDANT when the Cuyler application
for q receiver was granted by Judge
Purnell.
Judge Womack will this morning
move to dismiss the suit under the
provisions of the nunc pro tune order
of Judge Purnell which stated that
a lease being made this could be Of
fered to the court as a motion to dis
miss AS no one was specified who
was to make this motion Judge Wo-
mack feels that his client can do so,
as she is one of the parties at inter-
est.
The motion being made what will
the Cuyler Coterie say? When asked
this, yesterday the various membera
concerned would say naught but we
have nothing to say. Wait and see. y
on the outside it is whispered and
pretty loudly, that all the red fire
that the RIP RACER" has lighted, and
all the gathering of the clans is to
get as much money out of the settle
ment by lease as is possible. 1t is un-
derstoed that they hope for a large
slice in the way of fees to the attor-
neys and receivers in the Finch and
the Cuyler suits. Perhaps they may
fight q dismissal if they see this, per-
haps they may not. At any rate they
are here and will be heard along some
line this morning.
The A. and N. c. company is resting
easy and is waiting to see what hap
pens in the matter. MeSsrS. Pou and
mr.
are saying nothing. If the court dis
misses the case thew are expected to
continue to say nothing, but if there
is to be a pile of costs and fees here
and there it would not be surprising
to see activity in opposition to any
such proceedings. Some actual court
expenses is supposed to be the limit
to which they will go, as there is an
appeal that the A. and n. G. Railroad
has made that is to be heard in Rich
mond unless the case goes off tho
docket to the satisfaction of the Staso
and the A. and N. c. company.
And with the arrival of the Finch
Cuyler Clan there arose a mystery
yesterday. Once on q time one K. S.
Finch bought-on time-thirty- seven
shares of stock at par. Later, when
the State had made fur to fly these
shares were paid for. Yesterday thir-
ty-seven shares of stock were offered
for sale in Raleigh by a broker and
for $65 a share. That's the number,
exactly, that Finch bought-on time
and that's the number offered for sale
yesterday. Are these the Finch
shares? Who can say. They may be
and they may not be, but they are ex-
actly thirty-seven shares.
Some lawyers are to be paid, and
thirty-seven times $65 is $2,405. Take
off some for the broker and about ST.
200 will remain to be divided up. Who
knows but that these are the 81 shares
that created so much discord.
Today sees the old game started up
again. Is it to be the final play with
a grab for all the cash that can be
touched, or is it the final draw off
of the free lunchers? The day must
tell it's own story. even if it possibly
means an effort to hold up the lease
with another nunc pro tune pronun-