The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-29
COTTON CROP WILL Be SHORT
Growers Should Hold Out for Eleven
Cents.
Advice From Senator Simmons to
Planters-Case of the Liquor Men
Against Raleigh Board of Aldermen
Given a Hearing by Judge Justice.
Arranging for Visit of President
Roosevelt.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., September 26.

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., September 26.
Governor Glenn was speaking today
about h pressure of business upon
him and says he was surprised during
his visit TO new England to iind hat
some of the governors only go TO their
office once Il week, while some only go
once Il month. Their work is done by
some other persons. In some of the
states there he found that only ten
applications for pardon are received i'll
a year, and in Massachusetts, so great
Il state, the number is only %. Here
the,e are 300 lnd the governor finds
fhe hardest sort of work every day.
The number Of rural free delivery
routes in Wake county today reach
ed 50. The county is extremely well
covered.
AS yet it is not known when Police
aI, Rogers will be tried for shooting
John &. Dockery. Rogers remarked
today that no bill had as yet been sent
in in his case. He said he had been in
formed that there was Il desire to
have the case go off upon his paying
costs etc, but he said he would never
do this. He evidently thinks that he
will win IL Il legal fight.
Among the arrivals here are Adult
ant General Thomas l.. Robertson,
II. l.. Stevens Of Monroe, Il. X. Bryan
of Wilmington, J. Crawford Biggs of
Durham.
This afternoon there was Il meeting
OF various chairmen of committees at
the governors office to orange for the
visit of President Roosevelt at the state
fair. This was followed by another
visit at the Mayors office. Prepara-
tons on a most extensive scale are be-
ing made for the comfort of visitors
here land the city is being canvasSed
in order to find out what private
houses will be open and how many can
be cared for at each.
Today Judge Justice heard an in
teresting case of the liquor men against
the board of aldermen OIL Raleigh, in
which the former seek to force the city
to call an election on open bar-rOOms,
the contention of the liquor men being
that any mar whose name is on the
registration books, whether he has
paul pOlI JdA VI HOt, HuSI De cOuIILCu
rs IL petitioner for such an election in
case he has signed his name to the
petition. The city contends that a poll
tax is a prerequisite for u voted.
Senator Simmons, who is himself a
considerable cotton planter, who al
ways keeps well informed about agri-
cultural matters, was specially inter-
viewed today regarding the cotton out
Io01- IL .a;I ho folf .n,stnin thnt if
the North Carolina growers held out
for II cents, the figure agreed upon by
the cotton association, they would not
only get it, but more. He said the
crop was shorter than the last esti-
mate having been based upon condi-
lions up to August %, while the de-
teriOratiOn since that date has been
very great. In the years in which
cotton has Il rank weed, that Is vet
years. like the present one. the grow
CrS always expect a bigger crop tnan
they get. Senator Simmons has excel
lent advice to give farmers in regard
to having their money and making
themselves Il great force along all
lines of development, by putting their
money in banks, since by this means
they are able to exercise a m"sc pow
L Al
ment of private enterprises.
Secretary I. B. Parker of tn. Farm
ers State Alliance, and also of the
North Carolina Cotton Growers and
Business Mems Association, was also
interviewed regarding the cotton out
lool: and said the reports which he was
now rapidly receiving slcw a very
short crop. He bad thought q per-
centage figure Of seventy Il pretty close
one, but many of the reports state that
the figure is lower than this. Cotton
has been greatly injured by h dry
weather, which has caused small bolls,
premature opening, and shedding, ard
has also prevented the maturing Of a
great many of the bolls.
The rail known as girder rail, for use
by the street railways on the principal
streets for its extension, arrived to-
day and work is going forward. Some
of the streets make q New Yorker feel
very much at home. so torn up are
they, but the road will be a very great
convenience and comfort, and will save
the travelling public, and home folks
too, many a dollar.
Governor Glenn certainly had a busy
day, trying to catch up with a mass of
correspondence. He found time this
afternoon to say something about the
New England people, saying they were
a most hospitable and generous folk;
that his trip through that section was
an ovation all the way: that he never
lost a chance to say good things about
North Carolina and the south, and that
he accepted the courtesies shown him
in such unnumbered variety as paid to
North Carolina. His signed letter, to
the newspapers of the state, which he
will give out in 4 day OR two, will e.
press his appreciation of his visit.