The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-09
SUIT FOR 100000 DAMAGES
kilgo Case TO Come IT For Trial
White Man From Garner shoots q
;PoIicrman-Work OF the Audubon
Society-Afairs at the Poultry Farm
Messenger Bureau.


Raleigh. y. c., June .
The kiigo case. so widely known.
will. Is Is said. come up certainly on
the 18th inst. in the Superior court
here. This VIII be the fourth trial
The case is moved here from Gran
Vile county. The lawyers say that ev-
erybody appears 10 be trying to get
the case up for trial aid dispose OF IL
finally. The suit Is brought by Rev.
Mr.. Gattis, who. liz Rev Dr. kilgo,
is a Methodist minister. against the
latter for $4,000 damages.
Six more orphans arrived at the
Methodist orphanage here. bringing the
total number up To 81.
h afternoon Governor Glenn and
Senator Simmons addressed the state
board of agriculture on the question OF
immigration 10 North Carolina. Mem-
bers OF the board say the necessity for
immigrants here is very great, but
that they are in favor of effecting what
they call the old stock. which North
Carolinians were bred from. namely,
English, Scotch. Irish and German.
Sam Dupree, "A white man from Gar
aer. was jailed here today without
privilege Of bail. He had Violated some
ordinance OF tho town and when To-
liceman Everett Jones attempted To ar
rest him shot Jones dangerously
through the thigh. with n pistol bullet
of large callibre. Near the Falls OF
\euse cotton mill Sam Dollar. white,
al empioye there. u Turner Murphy,
another employee. very dangerously in
| lie throat. Murphy is In the hospital
here and Dollar has lied.
Gilbert Pearson. the secretary of the
State Audubon Society. is here. He
mas done Il great deal of valuable
work. He spoke not long ago in Ten
nessee and that state enacted an .Au-
dobon law. He also addressed the
South Carolina Legislature. which
recently enacted Il similar law and
now he is invited To address the Geor-
gia legislature, which meets this
month. He says the work in this
state Is going on eXcellentiy and that
the coast birds are multiplying rapid
~ and that more are now 10 he e
thar in Il number of years past. He
reports several convictions for yiolat-
hiS ShN -hutotoh Ia" III vi Nb'ethis
turkies in Warren county, another for
shooting herons in Dare county. in or
der to obtain the feathers which are
known as egret feathers. Warrants
have been iSsud for II policeman i'm
Greensboro for shooting blue birds.
\ term of the Federal court here be-
gan today with Il very heavy docket,
Judge Purnell presiding.
The state geological board met to-
DAY in the executive office, President
II. E. Fries. Frank Wood. +. II. Heu-
, lit, State Geologist Homes, md Pro-
fessor Skies.
State Treasurer Lacy says that he
has paid out all except $500 of the
S265,4 which the S2J0.0O0 of four
per cent. bonds brought n the market.
which were issued to settle the South
Dakota bono suit and the claim of
Schaefer Bros. of New York city. n
few bonds are perhaps outstanding,
though the treasurer thinks some have
been destroyed and the $4,000 is held
&c take up any others which may be
offered.
Governor Glenn remarked today
that ne bad been taking degrees right
along and that he had expected to
take the Shriner's degree at Asheville
this week, but before he knew OF the
meeting he had agreed TO deliver an
address at Clayton high schoo and
thought it his duty to stand by the
latter appointment and SO will become
Il Shriner later on.
State Poultryman Jeffreys has things
in very fine shape at the poultry farm
which adjOins the fair grounds. There
are LOO young chickens there OF the
best breeds. A PLEASANT hen is now
setting on her eggs. He says he never
knew one of these birds to set while
IL captivity before. The eggs are us
naI1y nlaca1 nn1ar hons