The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-20
REVENUES WILL SHOW INCREASE
Better Machinery for the Collection Of
the Income Tax.
New Hu1ld1ng at the Hospital for
n Insane-Death of State Senator
EIHmgton-Raid by Revenue Off
ccr-Charters by the State.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., June : t

thdt tHe nOLdDle case OF GdttlS against
Kilgo, now on trial here for the fourth
time will be disposed OF finally, butt
n of the leading attorneys when ask-i
ed about the matter said: NO. in
deed; the case is not nearly as much
ended as it was five years ago. Att
this trial II has entered upon new andI
untried lines. Whichever way it goesI
there will be an appeal. | can see LoI
end in sight"
AdJutant General Robertson andl
Quartermaster General Macon have ar
ranged all the details of the encamp-
ments OF the national guard and theseI
are 10 be on a more complete planj
than any heretofore held.
Today the directors Of the HOSPITAL
for the insane here met and arranged
for the beginning Of work on the newI
female ward, which will be a wing ex-l
tending westward from the old south
wing and will be built on exactly theI
same plan as the main building, whi"hI
Superintendent Mckee says is enc oil
the best constructed buildings in North|
Carolina, only two excelling it, these|
being the state capitol and Georgel
Vanderbilts house. The cost of thel
plan a to be reduced, as labor hasl
greatly increased in cost as compared
with last November when the plans
We're made Superintendent Mckee Says
that while maSO1S then received ST Isl
per day they now get $500 and carpen-|
terS wages have advanced from 1.5Ol
to $3.50.
There are now 112 applications tori
admission to the hospital On file, 81 fcrI
females alone. The building now
crowded. The wing viii give quartersI
for 156 women Dy assigning two tot
a room. The health of the hospital
has been remarkable, only one DEATH
having occurred this year that Of al
man of consumption. !
State Auditor Dixon when asked i'll
he thought there would be an increased
Of the state revenue his year sa5dI
) that he believed there would be, as!
property Is increasing in value andl
the new law has placed in the hands,
of the corporation commission the coll
lection of the income tax with yervl
much better machinery for listing and|
collecting. The striking out of what
was known as the merchants purchase
tax will reduce the tax increase of
course, this purchase tax having yield,
ed last year $38, 200. DR. Dixon savsl
it was never a just tax and ought not
to have been imposed. There are rol
new subjects of taxation the list haV-I
ing been very closely looked after.I
Taxes in this staLc are lower than else7
where, as vas shown by a case inl
which a Vance county man found that
in settling an estate he had to pay al
thousand dollars worth Of property I'M
Mecklenburg, Va. $21 while in vance,
county, this state, the amount would
have been only $3.50.
Last night State Senator ] G. Elling-
ton died very suddenly of heart dis
ease, at his home here His health has
been poor for a year or more, but hls|
death was unexpected. He is a nativel
of Johnston and his father was a Rap7
fist minister at Clayton. He servedI
CALAMITY throughout the Civil war and
served several terms as state librarlan.I
He had a severe attack of pneumoniaI
during the last session of the legisla-I
ture. He was a devoted member OF
the Baptist church, at which the Iun1
GTd1 WAS uSlu IulS dIItI W 1lCF. Ii i
w. c.. Tyree and Rev. DR.. r. T. VannI
officiating. The remains were taken tol
Clayton for burial.
A couple of revenue officers troTh|
here returned today from a raid, inI
which they had quite a lively experl-I
ence. Last night, during the rain they
crept up to the vicinity Of an Illicit
distillery about three miles from Dur
hon, onI fOInH q man with a r1f1At
across his lap seated near the door oil
a house, a dim light making him 7isi-l
bic. They crept to a point only a feW|
yards from the distillery, so as to see
if they could not make a capture OF
someone and in Il moment a man With
a gun appeared en- the scene. The dep-i
uties were under a cedar three, the
limbs of which were near the groundi
with cooked rifle in hand, on the look
out for them, they sprang a surpriseI
on him, by jumping upon him and o1s7
arming him. He contrived to get away
but they destroyed the still and brought
the rife back here with them Its mag
aZine being full of cartridges.
Some regret was expressed by thlnk-
ing people, because there will he mo-
summer school for teachers this year,
1t is indeed to be regretted that So
successful an institution, if it may Del
so termed, could be nipped in the QUO,
the success last season hav1ng oeenI
striking, and there being promise OF
even greater success this year.
Charters are granted the Ashpoiel
Drug Company Of Robson county,
capital stock $4,000; the Courier Pub
fishing Company Knoxville, to pu2-I
lish newspapers and do printing; the
High Point Provision Company $4,000.
The capital stock of the Merchants
Grocery Company, of Greensboro, isl
reduced from $4,000 to $4,000. The
Asheboro W~heelbarrow Company isl
authorized to add the word "manufac-i
turing to it's name and to increase
tic canital stock TO 500. 900 It will