The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-12
Habeas Corpus Application to be Heard
by Judge Walker
Important Witness for the State Who
Will Appear at the Trial in January.
Governor Glenn Confirms Action of
Board of Officers i'm Selection of
Morebead as Permanent Camp
Ground-SharD Watch for Hoboes.
Work of the Supreme Court.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., December 7.

Raleigh, n. c., December :.
Governor Glenn today approved and
confirmed the action of board of Off
GERS appointed unIrI special order, in
selecting q permanent camp site tor
the National Guari ON Bogue SoIad,
e Morehead City.
Revenue officers returned here todAg
from u raid in Moore county. VIII ere
they seized ar Illici. distilIery i've
mics from Carthage. and scored
e"ough evidence 20 convict two ne
Tomorrow the will be a hearing
EcfCre Associate Justice Walker of ne
haDcas corpus application of Ben Lii
Iistcp. fakir, for bail. In a converse
ton with the attorney for Harry Nor
ris the other faKir, it is learned that
the application of Lilliston is being
watched, III order to see the results.
There is no ore to give bail for Morris
alias Clark, so far as known. He is
from New York city. 1t is not known
~.eItei LillistJ1 vi; be admitted -
bail ur nOt. The most serious witness
against him Is a New Yorker, a fakir
named A!ncll. who has already test;-
fed. Another witness may be here
t3m~1.Cw to ne evidence against
him. This witness has not yet been
ON the stand and it is said his evi-
dence will be adverse. He will GER
taihly be here at the January term of
our when the men are to be regu-
larly tried. This witness is a North
Oerolinian of some prominence.
Another rural free delivery mail
route is established from Furches,
Ashe county, with J. w. Jones as car
lie~.
Tie railway detectives here are now
very sharp as to the men who are
stealing rides on trains, and who are
known as hoboes. Last night three
were captured on one Seaboard Ali
Lire train and all are in jail. They
viii be sent to the roads.
The governor orders a special term
of Mcdowell superior court, to clear
the heavy civil docket, to begin jan
uary 18th. Judge W. r. Allen to
preside.
A charter is granted the Norwood
Lumber Company, of Stanly county,
capitai stock $25, 600. More than a
hundred lumber companies have been
chartered this year.
Sheriff Joyner IF Northampton coun-
ty brought one convict to the peni-
tertiary and the sheriff of Wayne
brought two. Very few convicts have
arrived this year.
The county of HALIFAX is the ON
one in the state which has failed to
report it's taxes, and is the only nj
which will be left out of the report
of the auditor and treasurer this
year. This will excite much unfavOr-
able comment regarding that county.
Surgeon General Robert S. Young
of the North Carolina National Guard
was unable to go with the board of
officers which inspected the two sites
offered for a permanent camping
ground and which accepted the site
near Morehead City, but he has writ
ten a letter in which he informs the
governor that he approves the work
done by me other members of the
board, and that the site is in every
way admirable.
IKE supreme court will tomorrow
take up appeals from the 18th dis
trict. having today finished those
from the 18th. There are two state
cases from eastern counties which ere
set for hearing at the end of the 18th
district. One of these is the case OF
the state against two men named
Worley, from Lenoir county, who kill
ed a man named Warters, one having
been convicted of murder in the sec
~ degree and sentenced to Is Yeas
Imprisonment and the other of man
slaughter and sentenced to two years.
The other case is a singular n and
comes from Hartford county, where a
man named Holloman was tried for
unlawful use OF the public roads. I'm
der a special act Of the legislature The
county of Hertford imposes a tax of
SIS for the privilege of using heavy
log carts on the public roads. Holo-
mar hauled logs on such carts and
refused to pay the license tax. He
contended that he was Disseminated
against and claimed that other per-
sons who hauled heavy loads did not
have to pay. The lower court held
him guilty.