The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-09

Raleigh, y. c., January ).

durham. with j. >. carr, j. IL. South
gate, E. }. Parish and others as incor-
| porators. Twenty thousand dollars Is
paid in, with a total capitalization Of
100000. The company Will conduct
real estate, improvement and insurance
business in addition TO its named
privileges.
Mr.. j. S. Gates, 4 former Alamance
county boy, graduate of the i. & NJ.
college, and assistant III The North
Carolina department of agriculture,
and at present holding a position as an
assistant at Washington in the Office
of farm management, Will spend a few
days i'll Raleigh in the interest of the
two departments with respect 70 CO.
operative. experiments which The IA
tiOnal government IS conducting at
MANY agricultural stations. He will
be associated with the state officers in
these lines in Il number of most inter
esting and important experiments IL
cultivation. Mr.. Gates will spend
about three months in Texas where his
experimentation will be Johnson grass.
a letter from Secretary Gilbert Pear
son of the state Audubon society to
your correspondent says that he has
returned from MS recent trip to the
sounds in the eastern part of the state,
4, where he found duckS, geese and brant
in enormous numbers about HarbOr Is
land, OcracOke and Cape HatteraS.
All the inner with whom he talked
:. agreed in the statement that there was
apparently no diminutiOn IN the num-
ter of wild geese during the past two or
three years, and he thinks this is large
~ II to the protective work Of the
Audubon society in the far north.
The National Association Of Audubon
Societies has interested President
Roosevelt in setting aside six or seven
large reservations as perpetual breed
Ing places of wild birds, with the I'M
d~erstanding that the Audubon society
will pay for wardens to guard them.
One of the largest Of these reservations
is in Great Stump Lake, North Dako-
ia, in which there are q number of is
lands where countless numbers of red
head, canvass backs, and other ducks
and wild fowls breed: another reserva-
ton being some island in Lake Huron.
Formerly these birds were robbed ter
ribly every summer of their eggs inc
their feathers which lined the nests.
Secretary Pearson says he spent Our
nights in and about Core Sound, and
: five nights on Pamlico Sound, and was
unable to find a single fre-lighter,
though in this territory four years ago
he frequently saw lights at night He
says there is no doubt that some fire.
lighting goes ON, but that persons who
I did not know that h0 yUaC NJ oil infar~
| ested said they believed that conditions
were better than before the Audubon
law went into effect: in fact this was
the opinion Of all with whom he talk
ed. One of the most gratifying signs
Of increase of sentiment for bird pro-
lection in North Carolina is the in
| creasing number of letters received by
| Secretary Pearson and by the various
| game wardens from people who are
| willing to give evidence against per-
IONS who are violating the laws. War
| den Weatherly Of GuilfOrd county re-
Gently made two more seizures of part
ridges which were being illegally ship
per out of the state. Game Warden
York of Mt. Airy had a most exciting
| chase over the mountains, after a
wagon which vas reported to be full
Of partridges, gathered from many
! points to be taken to Virginia. The
last few miles of the chase developed
into a regular race, the teamster beat
ing the warden over the Virginia line a
little distance. 1t has been a habit Of
some of the %violators of the law to get
the game over the Virginia line and
then send it tt Richmond, Washing
u! ton, etc.
A revenue officer makes the very re-
markable statement that ninety per
cent Of the men in this state take
stimulants in some form or another,
whiskey, peruna, etc. He says the
moonshiners have far more friends and
supporters than is generally believed
among cultivated people and newspa~
per readers, and that the sheriffs in
very few cases will even attempt to
carry out the Ward law. He says that
even the division deputies are not able
to enforce the revenue law. and this is
why raiders are sent II from the cen
tiers to capture the mO0nShine outfits.
The revenue people are naturally much
interested in seeing what will be done
in enforcing the Ward law, which they
a will result in a great increase in
the number Of Illicit distilleries. 1t is
said that distilleries are being captur-
ed in this revenue district at the rate OF
enc every other day. say three per
week. There are saidSo be some quite
close to Raleigh, and captures have
been made near this city.
The next meeting Of the North Car
olina Cotton Growers Association will
be held in June or July. The president
of the association, C. c. Moore, is also
the president of the Farmers State
Convention, which meets here each
summer at the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college. 1t is hoped TO have
100 farmers here at the summer con-
vention, and to have the gathering
made really notable, time being divided
between the general work and the
special work and the cotton W
Mr.. Moore is full of enthusiasm at the