The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-05
Praises Work Of the American Growers
Association.
Investigation Begins Into the Death
OF SalI-Staie Troops tn be Insiscd
to Attend the Eair-Rcoui,ftfon by
Governor OF Georgia Held In For
Observation-Disclosures OF Street
Railway Work.
Messenger Bureau,

acAiSau 1ottOH JFOWcFS ASSOCIATION
Is here as the special guest of the
State Farmers Convention which he
addressed at the Agricultural and Me-
nanlca college today. He was es-
pecialiy interviewed by your correspon-
dent who complimented him upon the
wonderful work done in reducing the
acreage of cotton and in holding the
crops, II in the securing of good
prices. Mr.. Jordan said: I'VE have
done very we'll for boys so far, but we
VIII show the world later what men
We are. We do not desire or intend
10 sit down on u larels. To give you
an idea OF our power as an association.
the correspondence yesterday between
theodore Price and myself tore the
market to pieces. The Southern Cot
ton Association today has a more DOW
erful influence Oh the cotton situation
J than anything else in the world. L
! want to say that this is the first time
that the world has paid any attention
TO farmers. 1t is true that the elements
this year have aided us, but our eff
fortS nave Ounte for a great deal.
The elements have always been giving
us aid, but this happens to be the first
time i'll the minds of some people that
they have helped Us. The cotton crop
will not be a large one this year, yet
it will be larger than it has been in
som years.
sentiment is crystallizing in the di-
rectiOn Of a more complete organiza-
uOn. We are not going. to- take any
thing for granted, but we are going
to do things ourselves, not wait for
them to happen, but 20. out and get
what we want. The figures on this
season crops run all the way from
nine million to ten and a half million
| bales. The best opinion is that the
I crop is One-third off. That | am told
is about the figure in North Carolina
also, as it is elsewhere. When our
association meets at Asheville ON the
9th inst. we will prepare an estimate
Which will show exactly what the crop
is and we will give this to the world
: at Dol on the 9Th. 1t will be a full
anu fair report. Our organization is
| becoming vey firmly welded, together.
| North Carolina has done well and has
| certainly done her part in reducing he
| acreage. The farmers in this state are
| very loyal and very enthusiastic"
| Many more farmers arrived. today to
| attend their state convention. Among
| them vas A. G.. Coward of Grifton,
/ I-enoir county, who had not been to
| Raleigh before since the Inauguration
| OF Governor Vance, January 1, 1877.
| The attention Of the farmers to the
| speeches was very marked. A number
| OF them today, under the direction of
| Professor Burkett of the college made
| an early morning trip through the big
| farm and there were short running
| talks as they went from crop to crop.
! Very good progress is now being
| made in the construction of the RAJ
| leigh and Pamlico Railway, a dozen
| miles having been finished from here
| Eortheastward. Crabtree Greek would
| have been crossed by bridges three
/ times within q distance of a couple OF
| miles had not superintendent Turner
though of the plan of changing the
I course of the creek so that only one
| bridge has been made necessary
This morning Coroner Jordan began
| the hearing in the case Of Nall, the pa
| tient at the Central Hospital here who
I died last week under suspicious cir
| cumstances, charges OF cruelty having
| been made. Superintendent Mckee OF
| the hospital wrote a letter to Solicitor
| Jones asking that he take the matter up
Immediately and make the necessary
| investigations to eXOnerate the hospital
| Of any blame which could possibly be
| attached to it, saying that il affidavit
| had been made the coroner could nave
examined the body before it left for
| Chatham county to be buried, ana
| further that he would be glad if the
| solicitor would order the body to be
| brought back to Raleigh and order an
! autopsy to determine direct cause OF
| death. He also wrote a letter to Cor
| cner Jordan, stating that he had writ
| ten the solicitor and that he desired a
| searching investigation. The state
| ment has been made that there was a
large knot over the eye of Nail. d
undertaken who embalmed him says
| this knot was there when he entered
| the hospital as a patient
Coroner Jordan empaneiled a jury
| and devoted two hours to the inyesti-
CATION, examining ten witnesses, some
of whom wore violence was shown
towards Nall after his capture by the
three hospital attendants: that when
they brought him back he appeared TO
| be stupefi6d. j.. 2. Massey was the
| principal witness, he having been near
est to the scene of the capture. He
said one attendant declared he had a
! great mind to shoot Nall. Superinten-
dent Mckee, of the hospital said Nall
was in good physical health; the pur-
suit lasted an hour; that on Nails re-
turn to the hospital he examined him,
found him blue. blood not circulating.
eyes dilated, head tossing, scalp wound
on side of head, but not seeming suffi-
cient to cause death: that Nall died
half hour after reaching the hospital:
the death certificate giving heart fail
ure as the cause, due to undue muscu-
lar exertion and possibly bursting of a
blood vessel.
The coroner will continue the inyes-