The news & observer., 1905-06-08
To Smoke Peace Pipe in
Greensboro Wigwam.
TRIBES" WANT PEACE
Stockholders Will Attempt a Merger
Stated That Senator Pearson, OF
Morganton, Will Be Editor.
Blackburn May Win Western
CoIIectorship For Wagner.
CoIIectorship For Wagner.
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Greensboro, N c., June by au-
thority Of the president of the Indus
trial Publication Company, Thomas s.
Rollins telegraphed from Asheville last
night that notices have been sent out
to all stockholders to meet mere
Thursday at two o'clock to take such
steps towards arranging for the pub
lication of a daily Republican news
paper at Greensboro as they may see
tit There are over 80 stockholders
in the industrial News" enterprise,
and there will be q large gathering
of the tribes here.
This is more especially true when
it is realized that the stockholders or
the Tar Heel Daily publication are also
expected to be present. The idea now
is for Blackburn and Rollins to bury
the hatchet, and all get together III
one paper 1t is also said that one OF
the first things done, after the merger
is affected, Will be to give the ,consoll-
dated paper a more appropriate name
than either the Industrial News or the
Daily Tar Heel. The new name VIII
probably be the North State"
One of the belligerents said this
morning that d Republican party pa
per with the name of the industrial
News was not only misnomer. but
it would inevitably inspire sugges-
tions of ex-senator Buffers political
paper 1.-THE Caucasian = Wnicn
rounded up the negroes against the
white people in 1S96-1S9S, and would
greatly prejudice the movement. be-
sides indellbly linking him with 1T. A
report is current here that the split
all along has been over the claim
Blackburn made, that in his dlstrIbu-
tion of offices, he was at least entitled
ha Western
District. and he should be from mis-
district. He was granted the privilege
of naming the marshall but did not
wish to handle this, insisting that he
was entitled to collector, a position OF
much greater political power 1t IS
said here now that in spite of the ap-
Darently authorized published state
~ment that Harkins was safely beyond
disturbance in his position as collector.
the conference between Blackburn and
Rollins at Asheville yesterday resulted
i'm Blackburn carrying his point, and
that his candidate Wagner, at States
Vile, will be given the place, and on
this understanding there will be love
feast among the warning elements
over the newspaper matter tomorrow.
and everything will be harmonious. 1t
is also said that in the new read
justment or alignment, State Senator
w S. Pearson. of Morganton, Will be
nominated editor-in- n-chief of the new
paper and if so. it will have one or
the most forceful and accomplished
of Republican writer's in the State at
its head. Both Messrs. Wagner and
Blackburn arrived here today on
belated northbound train from Ashe-
Vile and Salisbury, but neither would
say a word about the rumored settle
ment of difficulties, promising to have
something to say later. After the
lplyi inc .
Asheville, the chance for Rollins as
district attorney is better.
Teachers Assembly.
Prof w ID. Carmichael, secretary
of the North Carolina Teachers As
sociation arrived this morning from
Durham, and will spend here the time
intervening between now and the
meeting of the Teachers Assembly
next week.
the hotel rates will be all the way
from $3.50 to $1.75. and the private
homes which charge at all, will be
$1.00 per day. Twenty-Five hundred
teachers and visitors are now expected.
State Normal Commencement.
Many visitors are here from all
parts Of the State to attend the com
mencement exercises of the State Nor
NAL and Industrial College, which be-
gan tonight with the annual business
meeting of the Arumnae Associations,
followed by the annual banquet, which
was held for the first time in the
Cornelia Phillips Spence building.
There was the largest attendance of
visiting alumni ever known, and both
the business meeting and the social
function were fruitful of benefit and
pleasure. Last night the graduating
class of the college We're given a COM
plimentary car excursion over the city,
and it was said to have been the pret-
test and the finest car, inside and out.
ever trollied over the tracks.
Bond Issue Election.
There is to be an election held here
Friday on a bond issue for extension
OF water works and for the erection
and equipment of new high school
building on lot purchased by the
school board last year. The regstra-
ton books show that little interest is
being taken as only twelve new names
had been entered up to noon today
The general opinion seems to be that
the water works bonds will be voted,
but that the fifty thousand dollar bond
issue for the additional school facili-
ties will be defeated. The board is
sued a statement this week promising
if the bonds were voted not to use but
fifteen thousand dollars of them at
present and that only for additional
Facilities for the overcrowded graded
school building. 1t is unfortunately
true. that there is an impression here
among patrons of the graded schools