The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-22
THE NORTH CAROLINA OIL CO.
Enterprise Chartered to Produce and
Manufacture Petroleum
Officers Acfiye-Large Per-
centage OF Fires in State Caused by
Defective F1ues-Morganton Hos
pital in Fine COnditiOn-Christmas
Rush at Postoffice Necessitates
Extra Carriers-New Fire Insurance
Company for Rocky Mount.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh n. c., December IS.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh n. C.. December Is.
The revenue officers were extraordi
narily active last Saturday night Ne
less than four parties. two in aacn
going cut from Raleigh, accompanied
by several deputy marshals. Only one
of The party had any luck, this one
Selling a large Illicit distillery in
Franklin county, not far from the Wake
line. There were no very exciting
adventures, but the weather was rough
and cold enough to make up for this.
A charter is granted the North Car
DINA Oil Company with headquarters
at High Point, to produce and mani
facture petroleum and it's products, w
M. Egeiston o. Baltimore being the
principal stakeholder. This company
has power to dill for oil anywhere in
the state where it may acquire prop
erty. .Erom time to time there has been
talk IF boring for oil here and there.
but nothing has been done, though ii
is claimed there is oil in Chatham and
Moore counties and points not faI
from Greensboro.
A charter is also granted the Pacllo-
let Mills Farm, Company, of Lynn
Polk county, Henry Hellman, Of New
York. being the principal stockholder
Today the committee appointed by
the Legislature to examine the books.
vouchers, etc., in the Offices of The
state treasurer q auditor began its
work, the members being Messrs. Ell.
Ter, Laughinghouse, Robinson and
Murphy.
Insurance Commissioner Young re-
ports that returns to him from one
town in the state shows that ther
We're fourteen fires, of which four
were caused by defective fues, two by
badly arranged s~tovepipes, three from
hot ashs, and two from stoves too
close to woodwOrks, thus making alev-
en- ont of the fourteen fires preventa-
BILE by the enforcement of the fire-wast
law Or building law. Insurance Com
missioner Young calls the attention
of the people of the state to this strtk-
ing illustration of carelessness. He
say that 26 per cent. Of all the fires in
North Carolina are caused by defective
fues.
The insurance commissioner will sc
! to Chicago February LIST to attend the
meeting OF the commissioners Of the
various states, Yho are to confer in
regard to the development during the
now famous investigation Of in
a companies and theiI
methods of doing business which is in
progress in New York. The commits,
1;o~o,o will onnc1,1t DC RI uyh9t Sh3f,
be done about these disclosures Aid
will also endeavor to secure the enact
ment by their respective states OF uni
form laws upon insurance, designed
! to stop the sort of business and which
has been done in New York. Th2
! meeting is felt to be of very great I'm
, portance.
The insurance commissioner is N
| formed that in Rocky Mount a new fir
insurance cOmlt!n will be Launched
| early in January. IS re- he has no
| received any del Nils concerning it, AM
the name it seems has not yet been
chosen.
B. C. Beckw14n of the state board OF
internal improvements has returned
from Morganton, where he took par
in the inspection of the hospital for the
insane. He says that physically speak
ing the institution is in magnificent
/ condition. The financial condition has
not ye- been Investigated and this will
be done leisurely and thoroughly at
the request of the steward. The mat
ter of provision for the INDECENT IN
! sane IS left open for thorough investi
! cation and determination, January %
on which date Governor Glenn. tie
| chairman of the board of internal I'M
~proven1ents and Mr.. Beckwith will
| again so there. l. seems that Their
| has hnen a good deal of misconception
of the board and its enlarged powers
and an apprehension on the parts OIL
the heads of sc nj. institutions that At
least. its attitude AS or might be hos
tile hut this IDEA is rapidly being re
moved. The board has no attitude o
this kind. There it. no determination on
it's part to interfere with details OF the
business of the institution and the
opinion which has prevailed in soiae
quarters is due 30 a misconceptfon, nus
taking the idea that there might be
soma interference with rights, etc.
The Christmas rush has begun in the
postofice here and is so great already
that three ttmnorary carriers have
been allowed for the x ten days. A
prmarert additional clerk has been al
lowei!.
Warrants were sent out today by the
state superintendent of public instrTc-
ton for twenty-five libraries for rural
public schools Many of these 1ibrarie
have been established this year and
the aood work goes steadily on.
The state superintendent is advised
that the school districts known as
jerks, in Wake county, has vo-ed
special taxes f.I public schools. beng
the first in Wake to do so outside OF
Raleigh township.