Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04
North
Carolina.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH, N. c., June 3.-The Shafer
bonds have at last come back to the state
for once and forever. These are the bonds
the settlement Of which was authorized by
the last legislature, and the final arrange
ment was left to the governor to make the
settlement with the Skaters, who held them.
The bonds surrendered amounted to $242, 900
face value, and the sum paid by the state
was $215,S64. Mr.. Joseph e. Brown, presi-
dent of the Citizens National Bank, accom-
panied State Treasurer r. B. Lacy to New
York to settle the Sliafer bonds with the
holders in accordance with the settlement
arrived at during. the last session of the leg
islature. The final settlement was arranged
and the bonds delivered and Cancelled at the
National Park Bank in New York For fear
of complications and to guard against funds
or checks in Treasurer Lacys possession
that might be attached for other repudiated
bonds he carried none with him and the
arrangement was made for the bonds to be
purchased for the account of the Citizens
Bank of Raleigh by the Park Bank and will
be sent here. Mr.. Lacy merely acted in the
matter as an expert in the inspection of the
bonds. These bonds are the last of that
class of bonds, with the exception OF about
five or six amounting to about 5000, which
by whom held is not known. Those held by
South Dakota, for which suit was brought
in the United States Supreme Court, had
been previo sly settled by the state
The marriage of Gen. w. r. Cox Of Penelo,
Halifax county. to Mrs. Herbert Claiborne
OF Richmond, Va, to take place on June u
in that city, will be an event of unusual in
terest to both North Carolinians and Vir-
gnians. Mrs. Claiborne is member of one
OF the best and oldest Virginia families,
highly educated and refined, and possesses
great talent and accomplishments. Gen.
William Ruffin Cox served with distinction
In the civil war, being promoted from major
OF regiment to brigadier general, and his
brigade made the last charge at Appomat
toX and fired the last shot, and the general
now bears the marks of eleven wounds re-
ceived in battle Since the war he has been
judge, member of Congress and secretary
OF the United States Senate, but now is one
OF the most successful farmers in the state.
To Be Operated by Negroes.
mill to be operated exclusively by ne
groes will be erected at Nadesboro by Mr..
George Singleton, New Jersey promoter,
who is owner of the silk mill now in opera
ton at that place A close study has been
made of the silk mill in Fayetteville In
which colored labor is used SUCCESSFULLY
Ih; mill when completed will give employ
mrnt to about 200 opera tives
professional safe crackers visited Mount
Pleasant, near Charlotte, Wednesday night
ailu pleW open two safes, one in c. G.
Hellle store and one in Cook & Falls
store, securing from the two about 5000
Mrs. Rosenfelt a visitor to Asheville
from Nashville Tenn, committed suicide by
hrst taking two ounces of carbolic acid and
then jumping through an open window to
the ground, a distance of about twenty feet
NO cause can be assigned for the ash deed
The Buck Shoals Company of Arden.
Henderson county, with $4,000 authorized
and $1,000 paid in capital stock, has been
chartered; the objects of the COMPANY are
to farm ginseng, to breed and raise horses.
swine, cattle and poultry; to mine and
quarry for minerals, metal ores and stones;
to manufacture lumber, to construct hotels,
and to operate electric power and light
plants.
Decoration day was fttingly observed at
the Federal cemetery here Tuesday after
noon with appropriate ceremonies The
exercises We're attended by large gather
decorated by comrades and friends and in
attendance were many ycOnfederate vet
Grams of the soldiers home.
In a meeting of the directors of the Ra-
leigh Street Railway Company, held a few
days ago, three new directors We're
elected, and now for the first time in its
history the controlling interest of the
company is in the hands of Raleigh peo-
pie majority of the stock being held by
them.
culture in it's report of the consumption Of
milk in the city of Raleigh is grossly in
correct In both It's data and statements,
for instead of only one dairy, as stated in
the report, there are more than a dozen in
and around the city, and some of them
equipped with fine stock and good facili-
ties. There is no danger that lack of COM
petition will lead to insanitaTy methods
and bad milk.
Death of q Priest
Rev. Father Francis Meyer o. B. S.,
at Charlotte. The reverend father had not
been In good health for several months, yet
death was not expected. In Raleigh Father
Francis is remembered as having been ten
years ago actively engaged in the work of
the Catholic Church of this city, and was
highly esteemed The body will lie in state
in Charlotte, and then will be taken to Bel
mont and inferred In the Abby cemetery
there, with the honors Of a prelate.
Gov. r. B. Glenn, who presided over the
of the industrial parliament,
In session in Washington city last week, and
who has the naming of the executive COM
mittee of the parliament has been called
on here by Mr.. ]. R. Buie of Washington
city, the press agent of the parliament, in
regard to the appointment of the commit
tee, and urges the governor to name the
committee next week, that it could be
held. The committee, after 1t is appointed.
is to decide the time and place, and Gov.
Glenn, with four other members, will COM
pose the committee
The forestry division of the North Caro-
lima State Museum, the most complete, val
liable and handsomest in any collection out
side the National Museum, has been re-
arranged after it's return from ST. Louis,
and is one of the costiest and most indis-
pensable departments of the museum. The
exhibit Is large and every family of trees
in the state is represented The pick Of
the North Carolina exhibit represented
mainly the United States commercial for
estry display at the worlds fair at Paris
and 1t surpassed beyond comparison all
state exhibits at the St. Louis exposition.
Official information given out by the
North Carolina department of agriculture
as to the acreage of the different crops
puts cotton acreage at 20 per cent decrease.
Mr.. T. B. Parker, the state secretary of
the Southern Cotton Association, says tina.
in North Carolina the cotton crop will be
decreased 2S per cent in acreage. Only
10000 bales of cotton were made last year,
and the decrease means much smaller
crop for this year. The weather conditions
mean yet smaller crop, and these hav@
aided In putting price up.
Capture Of Illicit Whisky. If
Illicit distillers and blockaders in the Sec
ton below Rockingham have been for some
months using the Pee Dee river as chan
mel or highway for transporting and carry