The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-13
eRITlGIzEs STATE OFFICERS
Federal Officials Depended on to En-
force Watts Law.
Remarkable Evidence Brought Ont
President Winston Leaves for the
North-New Features of the Re-
port of the Department OF Labor
ard Printing.
Buseau.
Raleigh, n. c., June 10.

Raleigh, n. c., June 10.
The fact that ''neighborhood" block
ade distillery has been in operation
for four years past in M of the most
thickly settled sections Of the county
came to light yesterday in the federal
court and elected a sharp criticism
from Judge Purneil. who said in pass
ing Judgment on the offenders that the
case is proof that the state officers
will not enforce the Watts law. That
in this case there was a distillery
operated for three years in the town.
ship where the sheriff of the county
lived, the distillery being talked OF,
according to the evidence, at the Sun
day schools, at church and apparently
notorious, and yeL the state officers
left it to the federal officers to break
up what was a nuisance to any coniI1I-
nifty. There were eight farmers who
stand well in the community, and two
negroes involved, the sentences ranging
from four months in Jail and 800 fine
each, for four of them, to thirty lays
in Jail and 500 fine for the others. The
evidence showed the remarkable state
of affairs that the distilling outfit had
been bought in Durham county by Mar.
cellus Moring, brought into the Gear
Fork neighborhood, and operated by
him through the two negroes, Dan
Jones and Andrew Shaw. The testi-
mony was hat whiskey was not dis
titled for sale but only for consump-
ton by the parties having the distiiling
done. Anyone who desired and would
faIEo 90 nor1nh DC ono 6nl1orSC U0rth 0f
stock in the distillery, this being to
make him personally liable as a disti:-
Ter. could carry neal and have it dis.
titled into whiskey paying the two ne
2roes so cents a bushel for operating
the distillery. Each of the men impli-
Gated in the case made statements to
the court, acknowledging his connec-I
tion with the distil1ery and appealing
for mercy Several men testified that
the existence of the distillery was gen.
erlly known. and in answer to the
question by District Attorney Skinner
a. to whether the sheriff and Other
county officers knew of it sair it was
generally talked OF in the neighbOrhood
at Sunday school. church and other
public gatherings. Andrew Shaw, one
of the negro pei tives testified that
several Of the church members of the
neighborhood had stock in the distil-
lery IN order to have the Whiskey
made for their personal consumption.
Governor eileen left this afternoon
for Charlotte where he will deliver an
address Sunday before a young peoples
convention.
President Winston. of the North
Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical
College left this afternoon for Wash
ington city in the interest of the col
1ege. From there he will go to some
of the largest technical colleges in
New York and Pennsylvania. He Will
be present at the commencement excr-
cises of the Cornell University, where
he graduted in 1874, and will be at
West Point Tuesday for the gradual
ton of his son. Lieutenant Patrick
Henry Winston from the military acad-
.emy. He will remain north several
weeks.
The blanks of inquiry are being sent
out from the state department of ia5o:
and printing for statistics that will GO
to the making Of the 1905 report of the
department. Several new features are
to be added, notably a table showing
the number of miles OF macadam ROAD
built in the state during the past five
years, and the cost of construction per
mile. Also a chapter devoted to The
winter and summer resorts in the state,
the features and estimated patronage
and capacity of each.
The trial of J. E. Powell of Norfolk
for the fraudulent use Of the mails cy
buying goods on the credit OF Jones and
Powell of Raleigh, was again postpon-
ed in the federal court this morning
this time until next Tuesday.
H. F. Seawell, of Carthge, special
master in the noted case OF Atlantic
Seaboard and Guaranty, Trust and Safe
Deposit Company VS.. The Carolina
Northern Railroad Company, for the
foreclosure of mortgage, filed his report
today with Judge Purnell in the federal
court. 1t shows $49S,500 in bonds out
standing, S42,0 900 in receivers certifi-
Gates, 5 8 1000 in preferred claims and
SIC, 900 in unpreferred claims.
J. L. Casper, VINO conducts a mani
moth distillery at Winston-Salem was
here today with his counsel. Louis
Swing, for a special hearing III
chambers before Judge PurneI in the
federal court regarding the seizure
some weeks ago of 101 cases OF WINS
key the company had shipped To
the Wilson dispensary. The seizure
was because the bottled whiskey was
in cases and then packed in hogsheads.
as the manufacturers say to prevent be-
ing stolen out during shipment. They
now have ruling from Commissioners OF
Internal Revenue Yerkes at Washings5
ton to the effect that this was really
no violation Of the internal revenue
laws, all things else being regular
about the shipment. Since the Wnis-
kew was seized about thirty six cases
of the whiskey have disappeared, the
principal leakage having been while
the cases were being shipped from
Wilson to Raleigh for storage, pend
ing the settlement of the governments
claim.
Pain may go by the name OF rheuna-
tism, neuralgia, lumbago, pleurisy. NO