The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-28
INSPECTING A SITES
National Guard Officers TO Choose
Between Morehead and WrightsyiIle.
State Officials on q Rabbit Hunt
Supreme Court Decisions.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh. y. c.. November ss.
Governor Glenn and all the state Of
tcers spent today aneld on a rabbit
hunt given annually especially for
them by Colonel r. A. Odds. the well
known newspaper correspondent here.
The party consists of Governor Glenn,
Secretary OF State J. Bryan Grimes.
Dixon. Attorney General r. D.. Gilmer.
Superintendent OF Public Instruction
J. y. Joyner. T. X. Bruner of the de-
partment OF agriculture. State Cura-
tor r.. H. Brimley. III. g. Brown of the
corporation commission. and Colonel
Olds. The day was spent on the Wild
er farm about o and a half miles
from the city. They had with them
a pack of thirty of the finest beagies
in the country. those owned by Mr..
Charles Crawford. They carried no
guns and d to run down all h
game they catch. There was general
regret at the absence from the CITY OF
Commissioner of Agriculture S. L. Pat
erson. who was last year the most sue
cessful of all the party in overtaking
the fieet-footed hares.
The special committee on q permit
nent site for the annual encampments
Of the North Carolina National Guard
left this morning for Morehead City to
inspect tho site offered there. From
Morehead CITY they will go to VIII
mington 10 look over the site offered
by the people of Wilmington on
clothed with power to make the selec-
ton. it being the purpose of the Gov
ernor to designate the site they chose
as the site for the camp
so that prope buildings and other per
manent equipment NAV be placed
thereon at once. The committee cor
sists of Genera J.. F. Armfield. chair
man. Adiutant General T. r. Rober-
son. General F. A. Macon. Colonel T.
J.. Gardner. DIR. Robert Young. Colonel
J.. w. Craig and Colonel H. c. Bra
gaw-
The unique case of state VS..
Johnston on appeal from Mecklenburg
county has Just been decided by the
Supreme court. the finding OF the lower
court-Judge Cooke. being reversed.
The trial Judge had held that John
ston was not guilty of retailing when
he had one from Charlotte. a pro-
hibition town. to Salisbury. procured
a jug of whiskey for one. Tom Brown.
of Charlotte and delivered it to him
in Charlotte. The question involved
was whether the sale was actually
made in Salisbury or in prohibition
Charlotte. The lower court held 1t
was Salisbury. and that Johnston was
not guilty and the Supreme court. re-
verses this and orders that judgment
be passed on Johnston for retailing in
Charlotte.
In the appeal of James Lyfes. adj
ministrator VS.. Brannon Manufacture
ing COMPANY from Mecklenburg. the
finding of the lower court is affirmed
in holding hat the defendant was not
guilty of contributOrv negligence in
the death of Charles Lvles bv the ex-
Dlosion of a soda fountain tank. There
is also an affirmation of the finding
below in favor Of the plaintiff in the
case of Dina Caldwell VS.. the Life
Insurance Company of Virginia in
which h % appeared to have
given the plaintiff a policy with the
understanding with the agent that she
could draw out her money after ten
wears.