The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-15
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. G., December IL.

the warrant uOchct, dlu 40 OUc TIE
criminal calendar, of which 100 are
trial cases, namely moOnshiners, re-
~tailers, and a few counterfeiters, and a
few pOstoffice cases. District Attorney
Skinner says there is very little coun-
terfeiting done, but moonshining is in
creasing, and very naturally so.
Deputy Revenue Collectors Downing
and Stancill are here attending court,
and today they notified the sheriff of
Duplin county that they were here, the
grand jury here having returned Il bill
against them for murder in h first
degree for killing Watson Jernigan
about ten o'clock on the morning of
October 23rd last. They have notified
the sheriff and expect him to be here
tomorrow, with the capias. AS soon
as this is done they will apply to
Judge Purnell to transfer the case to
the federal court, and will then ask
for a write of habeaS corpus. Jernl-
gan WAS said to have been Il moon
sinner for a number of years. These
officers went to his still and found TWO
men there who ran, the officer shoot
ing upwards III all endeayOr to make
the men halt. Jernigan was at his
house and got his gun, a double-barrel
shot gun, and went down to the still.
He was trying to kill Stancill, but the
latter saw him, lodged in the bushes
and told Downing. AS Downing came
up into al open space near the still,
he saw JerniJgan in the act of raising
his gun to shoot him and firing first
with his revolver killed Jernigan
Only the one shOt was fired. A few
years ago a mob of mOOnshinerS and
their sympathiZers in that same spot,
Goshen Swamp. attempted to Kill a
deputy marshal, but the sheriff 0
him to Kinston and hid him in his w
house, the deputy having shot and kill
ed two of the mob. He was tried and
acquitted.
Deputy Revenue Commissioner Scott
has gone to High Point to Investigate
three ~incendiary fires, one Of which de-
Stroyed the Snow Memorial Church,
the two others doing some damage to a
couple of factories.
The Raleigh and TamlicO Sound
Railway is expected to be open to
Wendell, seventeen miles from Raleigh,
by the first of April.
A charter is granted the Citizens
Bank, of Wilson, Commercial and Say
ing, capital stock $4,000.
Insurance Commissioner Young re-
ports that the business rast year Of the
life insurance companies chartered by
North Carolina amounted to $4,664,6OO
and it will be vastly greater this year.
Governor Glenn will be here very
little during the mex two weeks. Aft
ter that ne will take Il vacation before
Christmas and some during the holi-
days and will enjoy some shooting,
near New Bern, and along the coast,
probably taking a trip through the
sounds perhaps starting from More
head City. He is finishing up now
what is really a hard years work. The
general public has perhaps little idea
of the numerous calls upon not only
the time, but the pocketbOOks of state
officers. since travel for them is a pref
~ costly thing. The act is that it is
impossible for a governor to live upon
his salary. No governor has done that
in the past fifteen years at least, that
is since the executive mansion was
completed and put in use. The fact is
thai NCrth Carolina is now well able
to pay her governor $1,000 annually
and it ought to be done at the earliest
moment possible.
Mention has been made of the fact
that two parties of field workers would
begin next month the holding of farm
ers Institutes. One of these parties
has been made up, and the dates ar
ranged, and it will be in charge of
State Horticulturist II. H. Hume. 1t
I'LL Oxo tho nnrt, XVoSfnrn mart of the
state, as follows: Warrenton, Satur-
day.. January 9th; Jackson, Sth: Hall
fax, 9th; Tarboro. 10th: Washington,
18th: Swan Quarter, 18th: Roper, 18th:
Williamson. 18th: Columbia, 18th;
CurritIck Court House, Goth; Camden
Court House, 22nd; Elizabeth City,
Gainesville. Goth; WintOn 27th,and
Windsor 10Th. The other party will
be made. up later and will i've u
ties in the southeastern section. During
the coming year every county in North
Carolina will be given a farmers in
stitute. and it is the plan to have these
on a more comprehensive scale than
ever before.
Active steps are being taken to make
the meeting here at Raleigh next Tues
u9V evening III tHS IIIltISo II iS ~
~palachian Forest Reserve Il marked
one. Judge ]. c. Prichard of Asheville
has been invited to attend and to in
troduce Mr.. Gaskill of the Forestry Di-
vision of the United States agricultural
department. Mr.. Gaskill has a wide
and very valuable fund of information
regarding the Importance of the con-
servation of this vast forest region.
Industrial Agents Richards of the
Southern Railway and White of the
Seaboard Air Line are expected to be
present at the meeting and to have
something to say. Governor Glenn
has also been invited to close the meet
ing with remarks. The governor is
very wide awake to the necessity to
preserving the forests in the mountain
region and knows how important these
are for the preservation of the
streams, which are the sources of such
important rivers and which also furn-
ish water powers of the highest value.
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