The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15
ELECTION ON OPEN SALOONS
Both Sides in Raleigh Appear to be
Confident.
General Glenn Continues to Improve.
Ibe Evening Tires TO lniargc-New
Idea Is to Selection of Permanent
Camp Site-Yellow Fever Refugees
in the Mountain Section.
Messenger Bureau,

49, 49,
The number Of convicts now in the
penitentiary here is only 10T, of which
Il are women, seven of the latter be-
ing white. The total number OF state
convicts is only 700. The very rainy
weather which has prevailed every
day this week has given much trouble
TO the ~brickmaking plant, this being
the principal occupation of the con-
yicts within the prison.
There is relatively very little talk
about the proposed election here on the
haT-room question. Both sides continue
to talk as if they were confident. Mr..
n B. Broughton said today that there
were three points to be considered re-
sarding the petition for the holding of
an election on licensed saloons, this be-
Ing the only issue presented by the
petition. The first is that the petition
must be very carefully examined and
purged Of the names Of the persons
who were not in Raleigh at the time it
was carried around, it being stated
that the names of persons are on it
who have not been in Raleigh in many
months; second, that this petition con-
tainS h names of a number of per-
sons who cOnnOt read nor write, and
to whose signatures there is no wit
ness. Third, that b registration
books must be purged, in order TO as
certain he names of persons who
have died or removed, since the total
number of names on the petition must
be a required proportion of the num-
Der on the registration books, i'll order
TO insure a call for an election.
Next Monday the Evening Times
will begin the publication Of the AS
ISOLATED Press reports, and will appear
in eight-page form, having put in a
new press and other machinery.
The corporation commissioners and
their clerks left today for Richmond
and hence goes westward over the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway, and
from st. Louis to Deadwood, s. ID.
The assistant state veterinarian has
returned from Wilkes county, where he
made an inspection for cattle ticks. He
found a few points of infection-in
fact more than be expected.
On Monday your correspondent will
take a party of from % to 30 boys to
Beaufort to camp for a week and to
enjoy all the pleasures Of seaside life.
All the boys except three, are from
Raleigh.
An officer of the National Guard pre-
SCENTS a new idea for the selection of a
place for the permanent encampment
in this state. His idea is that a con-
hdential circular should be sen to ev-
ely captain of the country and to the
various field officers of the guard, ask
ing for their opinion as to the very
best place for Il site, this opinion to
represent that of all the officers II
enlisted men. 1t is thought that this
would be Il very practical way to get at
tie views of everybody and that it
would be a better plan than that OF
having a board of officers to pass upon
the matter and make recommendation
to the governor. There is a very great
deal of interest in this question, and OF
course 4 great deal depends upon il.
State Auditor Dixon was at ROxborO
today and delivered IN address. He
continues to be in very great demand
;is Il speaker
It is now thought that j. H. Camden,
the young EirGinian, who fell from the
roof of the agricultural building at the
A and NJ. college yesterday afternoon,
and who Is now in Il hospital here, will
recover His escape from death is
certainly remarkable. He fell about
i. feet, landing on a heap of brickbats.
Mr.. Ebbs, of Madison county, who
came here yesterday to see Governor
Glenn, stated that there never were
Eefo-c so many people in the North
Carolina mountains, the greater num-
LEI heing refugees from the yellow fe-
var district. He says the hotels every
there are we'll filed, as also the board
ing houses and the country houses,
even in the most retired locations, are
eagerly sought for. He thinks that
q" n.pve.ncilt WI he Of great value 10
that section.
News came today of the continued
Improvement of General James r.
Glenn, private secretary to Governor
Glenn, who had Il eve attack OF
acute indigestion day before yester-
day, to which he is subject. II was at
first stated that it was a third attack
of appoplexy, but members of the gen.
erals family felt reasonably sure that
il was merely indigestion.
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