The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30
While Still Serious, Seine Improve
ment is Noted.
This Sensation is Still All the Talk i'm
Raleielf-Nothinc Known As to
Whereabouts Of Bcrnard-Three
Roads Making a Race for South
Dort-Early Decision Expected i'm
the GrIIu Brick Case
NJ ssenegr Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c., June 70

AL 8 y CLOCK tonight JOln DOckCfE )
physician said MS condition was i'm
proved. Paralysis of left leg has
ceased.
Preliminary hearing of Policeman
Rogers, which had been set for ton,or-
row is continued Indefinitely until
physician can make a positive tate
ment as to his condition.
After a hearing this afternoon of the
negro hackmen who have for years
been in the habit of taking people to
the tenderloin district it was decided to
forbid any license TO vehicles to opeT-
ate after ten O'Clock at night, except
in transporting passengers to and from
railway station.
It is reported that Jennie May:
who kept an designation house in the
tenderloin district has fed. He rarrest
was expected.
Interest yesterday and today was al
sorbad by the Rogers-Dockery shooting
affair, and the Claude Bernard side
sensation. No news was heard from
Bernard beyond the fact hat a couple
Of Raleigh men said they saw him at
Hamlet Saturday night. John Dockery
had a good night Saturday night and
another last night. Saturday he was CT
the opinion that he would die, but yes
terday and today his spirits revlred
and about noon yesterday he said be
expected to recover. A very good &C
count of him was given from the nos
pital today. His left leg is paralyzed.
Of course evidence in the case is being
gathered as rapidly as possible, by he
state and by the defense for Rogers.
The most important witness is Elm er
Durfrey, the elevator boy in the Tucker
building and who saw the whole affair
and who says Rogers fired the first snCt
from about the top of the stairs, a
DOckery who was coming up, and t1at
there were only three shots. The young
man who took the pistol from Dockery
says it was a 80 calibre weapon Il
that only one bullet had been fired
from it.
The warrants for Claude Bernard, in
the civil suit for damages for betrayal
of Bertha Howell, were not made out
| until six o'clock, and the ones sent to
| MEanington, leaving here at seven
| DnENN8at Saturday evening did not reach
there until yesterday morning by which
time Bernard was far away.
The governor will before long dis
| pose of the gold brick case, which was
| referred to as having been argued at
| length On Saturday. No one believes
| that he will pardon the gold brick men
who are believed to be professionals
and little or no attention is paid to Ats
| chul, the man from Arkansas who has
worked so hard for them.
1t is learned from Fred D. Warren OF
Jones county, who is here, that the
Goldsboro Lumber Company will re-
move it's plant from Dover to New
Bern, and will Guild a railway forty
miles long from New Bern through
Trenton to Richards, through a very
fertile truck and agricultural country
and through the best timbered country
in the state. The company has four
hundred million feet of standing tin
Der. enough to last twenty years &1d
has a quantity Of young timber gro"
ing. 1t goes to New Bern to get waiel
rates and will save a dollar a Thousand
feet in freight, it is said. 1t already
owns twenty miles OF railway part o.
which it will take up in changing ,he
lines. The principal owner is a MAI
named Winsapp, Of Washington, D. {
Senator Simmons is deeply INTERESTED
in the road, being a large holder O
timber in that section.
Your correspondent recently reported
after an extended tour through TenncS
see, the fact hat the Frisco system D
railways, beyond the Mississippi, Ia:
bought the Tennessee Central road
some three hundred and sixty miles II
length and would build entlrel,
through Tennessee and Asheville an
thence to Rutherfordton, where it Wi!
connect with the Seaboard Air Line an
have an outlet 10 Southport. Mentio'
was further made of the fact that n
less than three railways were makia;
a lead heat to get into Southport. Oh1
|. the Southern, which may be said to D
: another name for the Raleigh an
! Southport, which John A. Mills i
: building from Ellington to Fayettevi,1
and which will be pushed to Southport
another, the Seaboard Air Line. an
= the third the New Yorker name
I Doueherty, though some think Dough
erty represents the Norfolk and West
ern Railway, which has bought a yer
great water front at Southport L
now learned upon unquestioned author
ity that the Seaboard Air Line Q
, rather the people behind it, have secii
ed large holdings of coal plants In Gas
Tennessee, exactly On the line whic
: the Frisco system, it is stated, wi
n traverse. This begins to look like bus
t ness. A combination of the Frisco an
S Seaboard is one of the biggest thirs
y on the map, and will introduce a ii;
e tinctly new feature of railroading j
[ the east, providing.
2 Railroads to be Prosecuted for Giyin
J.. Rebates.
Washington, June 26.-The attorae