The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-07
SOUTH DAKOTA BOND MATTER
SEVERAL PROPOSITIONS ARE
BEING CONSIDERED.
Report of the State Beard of Internal
Inprovements-Home of r.. G..
Strong. Esq. Destroyed by Fire.
The Revisal OF 1905" Reported To
the Legislature-Other Raleigh
News Notes.
Messenger Bureau.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c., March /.
The State Board of Internal Improve
ments has made its report TO the Gov
ernor. The most interesting portion of
the report is upon the Wilkesboro-Jef-
ferson Turnpike. OF this . miles has
been constructed, embracing the worst
part Of the work, while Is miles re-
main to be built. The state took stock
tc the amount Of the work of 10 onvlcts
for three years. 1t appears thai the
company which is constructing the
road, which is yet at work on it, is on
the point Of collapsing. In view of this
fact, the Board of Internal Improve
u1ent recommends hat the state, #
ii De found necessary, take charge of
the turnpike and complete it to JEFF
ferson. 1t is a very important road and
there appears to be q probability hat
an electric line may be put there be-
fore long. With heavy cars it would
serve the purpos as well as a railway
and with far less cost. Mention has
been made of the fact that the govern
or has been talked to about his matter
of converting the turnpike into an
electric road.
Early this morning the home of Rob-
crt c. Strong, Esq, in the northeast
ern part of Raleigh vas destroyed Dy
fire. Mr.. Menry w. Miller of the
Southern Railway lives next door and
his wife vas awakened by the noise
OF the cracking flames and found the
house ablaZe. Mr.. Miller ran over and
took Mr.. Strongs three little children
from their beds and carried them to his
own home. But for the timely discov-
cry of the fire there would have prob
ably been some deaths. The house cost
5000 and the insurance upon it is $1,000.
The code commission, created by the
last Legislature, prepared the Ct 1e, of
course not including the acts of the
present Legislature. This Legislature
created q code committee n these
have been at work for about six weeks.
AS has been stated a few men did the
work and two or three dominated the
who'll outfit. Some very arbitrary
things appear to ave been done by the
Legislative committee in making all
sorts of changes in the law. For eX-
ample, at the instance of one or two
mel every public institution, including
the schools, such as the University, the
Agricultural and Mechanical college
etc. were placed under the control of
the Board of Public improvements.
This was a little too much and raised
a protest, so the matter came up to-
night. The code was reported to the
Legislature last night under the title
THE Revisal of 1905 It will be COM
monty spoken of as simply THE Revl-
sal" Though it was reported last
night, yet the committee was at work
today making some other changes.
The governor, council of state, legis-
lative committees, attorney general II
the representatives Of Schafer Brothers,
the New Workers who hold the bonds
known as the South Dakota bonds were
again in session today. AS has been
stated, q sort Of tentative proposition
was made to give par for the 242 bonds
in other words $4,000. There was a
session this morning and there was
another this afternoon. There was a
counter-proposition at the morning sc5-
sion to take the ponds on the basis Of
the agreement Of 1879, when the Geot
was settled, with interest from July /,
1867, to July /, 1897, this being the pc
riod when the bonds began life and
when they matured. This would
amount to about $169, coo. Another
suggestion was to pay the interest up
to the present time, which would be So
years in all, and which would bring the
amount to about $3.50, 900. Another
$500, 900. In other words the two sides
had by noon reached a. point only
about $42, 900 apart.
The LEGISLATURE is working now on
triple time, some of the members being
cent upon getting home next Saturday
il they can.
In the House last night when the
report on tie new O was made 1t
was stated that in many sections the
code commission had failed to cite the
authority. It was stated today by
members of the code commission that
there were not a dozen sections in the
entire code in which the authority was
not cited. The commission had in
! some cases changed the language, in
order to make it proper.
At Shaw University colored, here, the
smallpox situation is we'll in hand,
there being a close quarantine of fac
ulty and students, 500 in number, 6
! students having been taken to the
! pest house, and four suspects being
closely watched.
4 good deal OF interest has been felt
in the bill to reduce railway rates. 1t
appears that there will be no reduc-
ton. The Senate is opposed to any.
Combinations by the Senate.
Washington, March 1.-The Senate