The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-02-21
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Raleigh. n. c.. February a-The
Dunn Banking Company was today
authorized to consolidate with the First
National Bank at Dunn. formal appii-
cation for this having been made by
persons from Dunn.
One of the questions this Legislature
Is wrestling with il that of how much
ammonia there shall be in cotton seed
meal. the mill men claiming that there
was an agreement that Z IL per cent
shall be the figure while some contend
that there was no formal agreement
and that high class meal should Con-
tain 8 per cent of ammonia. his
matter was given a hearing before the
committee in the Senate today. State
Chemist Kilgore being present.
In the rotunda of the capitol there
are now plans by two architects for the
Enlargement of the capitol and also
plans by two Others for a new building
as a Hall of Records, one Of these
having been put on view today. Both
buildings are designed to stand on the
state lot across Salisbury street from
the arsenal but one contemplates the
purchase of an additional lot beside
the one the state owns. There is quite
q battle of the buildings, so TO speak,
with no sign of an agreement in view.
A very interesting little statement
was made today about the Norfolk and
Western Railway and the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railway. The Norfolk
and Western has a line to Durham and
il is said win build to Apex. 1t is add
ed that it controls or will control the
road from Apex to Dunn which the
Dukes built and that it will build from
Dunn to Goldsboro, there connecting
with the Atlantic and North Carolina
road of which it has secured traffic ar
engagements of some kind. Such was
the story as told by a very prominent
North Carolinian and it was given for
what it was worth.
The oyster Gamers along the coas..
who came here in such number regard
ing the bill to increase the tax upon
oysters which it was desired by state
Oyster Commissioner Webb, say they
have him beaten by several votes.
Some of the jokers around the CAPT.
toll were laughing today and saying
that h Governor, or some other Off
cial, had passed the word that it was
not desired to have the heads Of 1nsti-
tutions hanging around the legislature
after they had had their say before
committees and that hence they are
not 50 much in evidence as two years
ago and previously.
There is a great deal of talk about
the game law among sportsmen aid
some of them favor a bill to protect
cartridges for a long time. Between
the bad weather and pot hunters and
trappers and other vfolators of the
game law, the oor birds do need aid
The Audubon Society is working hari
to save the birds. It is also trying to
save the ducks from violaterS of the
law. The gentleman said today thai
at Marshalburg in Carteret county the
fire lighters are openly violating the
law and that the game warden appears
to be afraid of them. It seems that
the game wardens in Currituck county
were either afraid of the fire-lighters
or else winked at what they were do
ing, for it is said that the wardens
we're found to be permitting this Of
fence to be committed on an
scale. Not in many years has there
been 50 little hunting done by sports
men as there has been this severe win
ter.
There is a very great falling Oft in
the sales of fertilizer tax tags, the
commissioner of agriculture says, there
icing already a falling Off of $4,000
this season as compared with a year
ago. This is a very plain indication
that the farmers are curtailing to a
great degree the use of commercial fer
tilizers as they promised, in fact pledg-
ed themselves to do. 1t is a very valu-
able proof of how they are carrying out
the great plans made.