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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-13
DODGING PROCESS SERVERS
Secret Passage Foils Hunters of Rookie.
Teller.

According to a statement made yes
terday in the office of Lawyer Henry
Wollman, who represents Missouri in
its suit to take away the charter of
the Standard Oil Company, the pro-
cess servers who are hunting for John
d. Rockefeller have just made what
is to them a most disagreeable discov-
cry. They have learned, to their as
constituent and chagrin. that there is
a private Or secret passageway be-
tween the home Of the oil king at No.
4 West Fifty-fourth street and the res
idence of his ~sOn-in-laW, E. Parmalee
Prentice, at No. 5 West Fifty-third
street
For weeks and weeks the leuths
have been wondering why they could
not catch the elder Rockefeller. They
have had him, as they believed, neatly
spotted" on several occasions at his
big town house.
Then they seated themselves patient
ly in front Of the brownstone man.
sion and peeked calmly n triumph
antly through the iron ratings.
We've got him this time" they
said.
After they had waited for several
hours they would get word that Mr..
Rockefeller had left his house and
was on his way to his gabled retreat
DIT TOCdlliCO Hills, up III "eoIClleStel
county.
Henry Wollman. counse for the
state of Missouri in it's suit against
h Standard Oil Company, said yes
terday: eff We had $40, 900 we could
hire fifty process servers, and then, I
suppose, we could get our hands on
Mr.. Rockefeller somehow, some time.
But our present force has been baffed
by the paSsageWay between his home
and thai of his son-in-Iaw, and by the
multitudinOus passageWays in the
Standard Oil building. No. 26 Broad
way"
Mr.. Woflman said he had received
several tips to the effect hat the oil
king was not in Europe, or in the
south. but was in reality vibrating be-
tween his home in this city and his
estate at Pocantico Hill.
The process servers have also been
baffed in their search for other big
Standard Oil men, notably Charles M.
Pratt. Walter jennings, Henry M. TIL
ford, Wesley Fl. Tilford, Charles T.
White, Robert H. McNall, James r.
Taylor and Michael M. Van Beuren.
Pratt is a red-headed man, and the
sleuths thought he would be al easy
mark. But they soon found to their
dismay that the Standard Oil head
quarters at No. 26 Broadway was full
Of red headed men many of whom
looked more or less like Pratt. Pratt
lives in Brooklyn, in a row Of man.
sions all inhabited by Pratts, all Of
whom are red headed.-New York
World
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CONDITION IN CHINA
Many Contradictory Statements-Nec-
essarily Subject Of Conjecture

Many statements are current about
conditions in China, and some of them
are contradictory. Likely no one
knows just the truth; the conditions
in so great and dark an empire must
be the subject Of conjecture rather
than certainty. But there are some
undisputed facts.
First, the conditions in China are
such as to alarm those of us HI have.
friends in far inland China but those
In such cities as Canton. Second, that
the Chinese Government is evidently
anxious to give protection to foreign
ers: We are more certain of this than
we could have been five years. ago:
China has learned many lessons, and
among them the lesson that she must
reckon with the civilized power
Third, that the immediate danger in
China lies in the revolutionary. discon-
tented element-a very considerable
elemen in a land in which law and
order have by no means the meaning
that they have in u country. Fourth,
that our country is alert, and that
every effort will be made to forewarn
and protect Americans in China.
~ China has doubtless taken great
heart from h rise Of Japan. If little
Japan could do so much, what could
she not do with similar methods? The
question is to the purpose. It is the
beginning of the Yellow Peril-so
much talked of China is raising. an
army. China is studying modern meth
DDS. having a commission in this coun-
try now. China proposes to make a
great nation of herself. She has the
population. Whether she has the NOR
al fibre remains to be seen. Remem-
Boring Japan, we venture no opinion:
h point of present interest is that
China is aroused to her rights n her
power She has laid a boycott ON
American goods that has made Ameri-
ca bawl. Not content with this a
large element of her people are bent
upon retaliating upon American citizen
in a sauce for the goose is sauce for
the gander'' spirit. with a view to
teaching us that we cannot maltreat
Chinese citizens. We did SOW a fateful
crop in California. n we may reap
a fearful harvest.
Of course, whatever comes we can
not admit the Chinese coolies-lower
class people-to America. That would
mean wreck for America. But we do
lot understand that China will de-
nand so much. Our impression is that
she requires that We shall permit her
scholars to visit and study here and
aiSo oiAO IAC UeteCA eto0S NieiNchS ~
travel here, and, moreover. that we
shall behave more humanely to the
thousands of citizens already here.
These demands, we take it. are rea-
sonable: and. it occur to US. China is
! rapidly developing the power to obtain
! them.
AS for u missionaries, we believe
! that" the Chinese government. Secre-
tary Root. the British foreign office
, and our missionary secretaries fore
warned and or the alert. there is no
, very serious danger. There may &C.
/ cur local acts of violence. but nothing
+, short of a sudden and complete revo-
luton would be required to effect the
+; general massacre hat some fear-and
; we see no danger whatever of a revo-
luton. China is awakening. but she
is farther from that stage than was
Russia.-Biblical Recorder.
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From present indications it looks
be extended out Market street to the
property recently purchased by the
American Suburban Corporation Of
Norfolk. Mr.. Hugh MacRae was seen
last night by a representative Of The
Messenger in regard to the matter and
he said no definite proposition had
been made but that he had been ap-
preached in regard to extending the
lines.
The Development company has ex-
pressed a willingness to pay their pro-
portion of the expense in building the
line provided parties owning property
in the neighborhood of Seventeenth
stree will join in and pay a portion
of the cost. 1t was reported hat en-
offer of 5000 had been made to get the
Line extended but Mr.. MacRae denied
having been made any such offer. From
what Mr.. MacRae says the CONSOLIDATE
ed company would not think Of max
ing an extension al their own cost, and
would even have to take under con-
.sSderation the operating of cars to
SOFOuICcilth SClCC even Ill uuS tLdGA
was put down free of cost. Mr.. MacRae
was asked If there would be any doubr
whatever of them agreeing to run ars
to the property of the Improvement
company if they had lone of the ex-
pense in building the track. He would
not give any definite answer to this.
but stated that nothing could be done
without referring the matter to the
board of directors.
1t is understood that the idea would
be to extend the line out Market street
from Tenth and to let it run On the
north side of Market. To do this, OF
course, would first require the per"
mission from the board of aldermen,
but it IS Vol believed that any trouble
would be experienced from this
source. The improvement company
desir s mat the line be run through
the property that is to be improved.
ut is known Is the Wright track Of
land.
If the American Suburban Corpora
tion makes all the improvements tina.
it Is said they are going to- make it
will mean an expenditure of something
like $4,000. When it comes to ma
cadamizing roadways and putting
down granOlithic pavements it costs
heavily. Something definite will prop
ably be done about extending the al
line in the near future.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-13

Cash quotations were as follows.
Flour dull and weak; winter patents
$3.50 to $3.50: straights $3.50 to s3.70:
spring patents $3.50 to $3.50: straight
$40 to $3.50; bakers $2.20 to $500:
No. 2 spring wheat 75k to 1871: No. 3
70 to rs; No. 2 red 7SA to 1855; No. .
corn 40A; No. 2 yellow Al: No. 2. oats
29h; No. 2 white 81; No. 3 white. %
to BIN; No. 2 rye SO; good feeding
barley 81 to 37A; fair to choice malt
ing Al to so: No. l fax seed s1.O7L;
No. 1 northwestern $1.12k; mess pork,
per barrel s15.55 to 1850: lard, per
100 pounds $7.67k: short ribs sides
Coose) ss.05 to $S.15: short clear
sides (boxed) $40 to $S.45: whiskey,
basis of high wines s1.2S; clover, corr
tract grade 1915.
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CABMAN q $1,000
It Had Been Left i'm Cab by a Trav-
cling Salesman

FORK, Pa, March S.-A travelling
salesman who visited York last night
dropped a wallet, it said, cotaining
$1,000 in money, notes and valuable
papers.
The stranger did not know of his
loss until he reached his room in the
Colonial Hotel, Center Square, where
he remained during the night. AS soon
as he discovered his loss he went to
the Office of the York Cab Company
and notified them. AS soon as he made
know his identity the driver, Charles
Lands, handed him the pocketbook,
the v%aluables being undisturbed.
Lands had picked it VI from the
door of the cab in which the stranger
had observation-disclosures Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-13
WILMINGTON MARKETS

Saturday. March 10.
COTTON-Steady 10k.
Receipts of cotton today-11 bales
ReceiDts this season to date -
2s2,360 bales
Receipts same day last year-so2
bales.
Receipts last eason to same date
2S1,932 bales.
laval STORES
SPIRITS SF Tr?PFSTINE-
Nothing doing.
ROSIN-Nothing doing.
TAR-Firm $50.
crude TURFENTINE-Frm: tt!d
s3.e5: dip. $500: virgin. $500.
RECEIPTS TO-DAY.
I casks spirits ~turpentine.
1,10s barrels rosin-
112 barrels tar.
4 barrels crude ~turpentine.
sECEIPTs SAME lay LAST YEAR
2 casks spirits ~turpentine.
$40 barrels rosin-
SO barrels tar.
IS barrels crude tUrpentine.
Pr. -E[1E
- ~ ~.
IDFFEE-.A 10 &c
FLOER-Straizi.s $500: secon-
sasents s5.e3: full patents $500.
SALT-PPi.es car o Iots-100 lbs
=. F. sec: 200 Ios c. I. 7sc: 30 lbs
:. z. sc. Less shan :ar lord lots-100
IS c. F.. AT: 200 lbs c. F. In cotton
,scks sec: 200 LIS F. F. 31.05.
MOI.ASSES-S. House IA: New Or
.ans B-iRhts % 20 IS: Porto Rico 20
cuba %.
SUGAR-Granulated $50: W. c. K
No. ) $3.50: No. I ss.7c: No. 9 $3.50:
No. II, $40.
LARD-(Tierce Basis) Pure 81 cents:
H1oound 81 cents
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
TURKEYS-Oive) Is: dressed Is to
,Oc.
FIELD PEAS-80c.
BLACK EYES-s1.50.
PEANTTIS-North Carolina prime
so: extra prime IS. fancy 80 to 95
Vagina, -rime As to so; fancy so to SIS
HEESWAX-25 to 27n.
EGGS-Dull at Ice.
CHICKENS-Hens 80 to 35: spring
lUil Is to %.
SWEET PCTATOES-45 to so.
n. c. BACON-Hams (old) 16 tc
IT: shoulders 20 to IL: sides 10 to lie
SHiNGLES-Per 1000: s-insA .ap'
800; 5-inch hearts $500: S-!nch saps
800: 6-inch heats N.0e
TIMBER
Per II Extra milling eS.sc
Mill prime -. a.ot
9lIi faIr .....'........." So'0.vys'vo
mill .
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CHARGES AGAINST CAPT. RICE
Investigation Being Made by the
Supervising Inspector
IntOxication is Charged and Also Dis
elimination and Having Been Dis
respectful. TO Certain Steamboat
Men-Majority of Steamboat Cap
tains ron This Port Said to Give
Captain Rice a Fine Endorsement.

Captain Fred B. Rice, one of the
United States steamboat inspectors in
this district, has had charges preferred
against him by the Wilmington, South
port and Little River company and
the Cape Fear and Inland Waterways
Transportation company. 1t is charged
that on two occasions during the past
IL months that he has been intoxicat-
ed at times when boats were to be
inspected. He is also charged with
using profanity towards a member of
the company of the Wilmington.
Southport and Little River COM
pany, and discriminating agains.
the steamer Sanders by requiring her
to carry two boats, and the steamer
Wilmington, a much larger boat, only
one.
The investigation is before Supervis-
ing Inspector CAST and is being held
at the custom house. but the public
anc members of the press are exclud-
ed. Inspector Rice wanted a public
investigation. stating that he had
nothing whatever to conceal and de-
sired the public to know just what was
brought out. It was decided by the
supervising inspector that it would be
best not to. make any of the affair
public until done so by the depart
ment in Washington.
The witnesses examined yesterday
We're Messrs. R. R. Stone. ". ]. Cor
beIt and Captain w. A. Sanders, of
the Wilmington, Southport and Little
River company; Engineer Watts of the
tug Blanche; Ex-Sheriff Ruark of
Brunswick county,: Captain Melvin
T. Craig, of the Seagate and Mr.. T.
D. Love. of the Cape Fear and Inland
Waterways Transportation company,
The hearing vas no concluded yes
terday and will be resumed Monday.
Mr.. Herbert McClammy is attorney for
Captain Rice and Ex-Judge E. K. Bry-
an, for the parties %preferring the
charges.
Captain Rice is regarded as an expert
steamboat man and it is said hat a
large majority of the steamship men
in and around Wilmington have sign
ed, unsolicited an endorsement as to his
ability and conduct in Office 1t also
sets forth the fact of the confidence
of the captains in Captain Rice's abil-
ity and the stand he has always taken
in the enforcement of the river laws.
This together with an endorsement
given by the Marine Engineers Bene-
fetal association may be offered in
evidence, by Captain Rice's counsel.
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Liverpool. March 16.-Cotton, spot
in fair demand, prices s points lower.
American middling fair 6.36; good
middIing 500; midd1ing 5.S4: low mid
ding SOS; good ordinary $50: ordi-
nary 5.34. The sales of the day were
10000 bales. of which 1000 were for
speculation and export and included
500 American. Receipts 5000 bales,
no American. Futures opened easier
and closed easy. American middling:
G.. q B. March 5.s6; March ard April
5.e6; April and May 5.6s; May and
June $40; June and July STE; July
and August 5.74: August and Septem-
Der ST.; September and October 5.6T;
October and November $50: Novem-
Der and December Ssh.
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RECEIPTS AND EXPORTS.

New York, March 10.-Total today,
at all ports, Net receipts 1879 bales;
export to Great Britain 1882 bales;
exports to france 100 bales; exports
to the Continent S.65S bales: exports
to- japan SAB bales: stocks 762,16s
bales.
Consolidated, at all ports, Net re-
ceipts 1879 bales: exports to Great
Britain 1882 bales; exports to France
100 bales; exports to the Continent g.
SIS bales; exports to Japan 3.473 bales
Total since September 1st, at al
ports, Net receipts ~6,3S2.09O bales; ex-
ports to Great Britain ~2,238.536 bales;
exports to France 5S2.472 bales; ex-
ports to the Continent 1,S45,224 bales;
exports to Japan 1891 bales; exports
to Mexico 2,414 bales.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-13

The Robesonian Publishing company
has bought the Lumberton Argus and
the WI papers will be consolidated.
On Tuesday hte last issue Of The Ar
gus viii appear.
Lumberton can boast OF one OF the
best semi-weekly papers in the state
aad in Mr.. Charles W. Hines The
RCbesonfan has q wide awake and
progressive editor. He Is a young
man, but has had considerable expe-
rience In newspaper work.
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CLOSING OF COTTON.

New York, March 10.-Coeton spot
closed quiet, middling uplands lilo;
middling gulf 11.35; sales $500 bales
Futures opened easy; March 10.47 Of
fered: April 1885 offered; May 1858;
July 1869; August 1865 bid: Septem-
Der 1890 bid: October 1918; Decem-
Der 1923: January 1927 bid Futures
closed barely steady: March 1899;
April 10.44: May 1887, June 1852;
July 1859: August 1862: September
1927: October 1917; November TO-
IS; December 1922; January 1925.
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Interior Movement.

Houston dull at 10 1916; net re-
ceipts 1858 bales.
Augusta steady at 10 1916; net re-
ceipts 154 bales.
Memphis steady at II; net receipts
1902 bales.
st. Louis dull at IL.
CINCINNATI; net receipts 469 bales
Louisville firm at liz.
Total today; net receipts 4,41S bales;
gross receipts 6,S79 bales: shipments
9,097 bales; sales 14,429 bales; stocks
9 .216 bales.
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.AkAi ,,,ttES s.ARhk,T>

New York, March 10.-Turpentine-
steady 70 to 73h; rosin. dull s4.15.-
Savannah, Ga. March 1O.-Turpen-
tine, firm TO; sales Al: receipts lis:
shipments $500. Rosin, firm; sales
SIS; receipts 674: shipments SIG.
stocks 2S,440. Quote. A. B. c. D. z,
F. and G. $4.1O; H, $4.25: I. Sass: K,
$500; NJ, s5.45; n, $500: VIC, S6.1D;
WV, $500.
Charleston. S. c.. March 1O.-Tur-
pentine and rosin nothing doing. :.
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cent Prime mercantile paper S to 5M
per cen Sterling exchange steady
with actual business in bankers bills
at s4.s5.20 to s4.S5.30 for demand and
at S4-s2.15 to S4.s2e5 for sixty day
bills. Posted rates S4.s3 to s4.S3a and
s4.s6. to s4.sT. Commercial bills s4.-
s1R to s4.s2. Bar silver seS. Mexican
dollars AS&.
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RECEIPTS CT COTTON.

New York, March 10.-Receipts OF
cotton at the ports today 1888 bales.
against 1902 last week and 2o.434
last year. For the week (est1mated)
80, 900 bales, against 105,231 last week
and 150,175 last year. Today's re-
ceipts at New Orleans 6,519 bales,
against 9.722 last year and at Hous-
ton 1888 bales, against 4,535 last year.
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MAY Be Extended Out Market
Street
Co. MAKES PROPOSITION
Probable That Track Will be Laid
by improvement Company

Line Would be Operated at a Loss
and Therefore They Could Not AT
ford to Build Lne-RumOr OF CAST
Offer Being Made is Though Denied
by Mr.. MacRae-It Very Probable
That Line vii be Extended.
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The clearances of the Wilmington
National banks for the past week were
$3.50, 1928. This amount looks large
but still 1t often exceeds this and the
preceding week was an instance, the
amount being Y half million for the
week.
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MONEY NAnKET.

New York, March 10.-Money oni
call nominal, no loans Time loans.
steady. sixty days and ninety days 5hi
per cent; six months 81 to 5k per
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Mr.. R. F. devaney, of Red Springs,
was in the city yesterday.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-14
CQrral Dry Goods to To-morrou House.
 keepers
 Day.

Every Friday we devote to the need of housekeepers in the way of offering special values.
 Hot weather requirements. such as Refrigerators, Water Coolers, Porch Screens, Hammocks, Screeo Doors and Windows, are repre- sented in this list at prices which show considerable saving from those usually charged for these goods.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-14
''HELLO, SECKELS"
The Mery Greeting of Every Happy
 German Next Week.

Almost everybody has heard the Slks' familiar salute of Hello, Bill" They have all heard, too, the Yea, Yea" of the Eagles, but it has been left to the Germans to adopt new one, which originated from John Drescher, the barber, and which will be displayed among the decorations on his building on Grand street. Be- ginning to-day then if you should hear the German residents or the German visitors salute each other as they pass by or as they see each other across the street, with the words Hello, Seckels," you will know that they are all pretty good fellows. Of course you can translate this phrase just as you like, literally or freely, but it is best to give 1t a free trans lation and let 1t go at that. Next Monday and Tuesday then that fa- miliar salute of Hello, Seckels" will be heard on every corner, in every cafe, in the theater, along the line of march and will echo and re-echo around the hills up at Lakewood.
 Happy, we'll everybody will be happy, even Alfred Drescher and Henry Doerr will get back to their normal condition after their months of tedious and tiresome work. The rest of the committee of arrange ments will smile in unison as they realize their work has not been in vain. Hans Saro will wear smile that will not come off, for he will realize all his cherished hopes to sec the biggest Sangerfest that was ever arranged carried through successful ly in Waterbury. Every member of every German society will carry an abundance of smiles, for themselves and everybody else, for they know that Monday and Tuesday are their dtys. Finally all the people of the city and state, irrespective of nation ality, will catch up the refrain and smile with the others. It will be Hello, Seckels,' here and Hello, Seckels" everywhere.
 Have you noticed the prizes that will be awarded to the victorious singing societies, who participate in the prize contests on Monday after noon in Polls theater? They are on exhibition in the windows of the Lake & Strobel company. Everyone of them is an importation from Eu- rope and all costly and beautiful. A secret was told the writer about that picnic which is to conclude the fes- tivities on Tuesday and 1t was told by brewer, but the secret will keep until that day when everybody will know 1t and enjoy 1t. Let the old well kin ring out then and let every citi- zen of whatever nationality join in making those two days, Monday and Tuesday of next week, days of mirth, happiness and genuine good fellow ship.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-14
READ ESSAY WITH BLACK EYES.
Sophomores Choke Graduate into h.
 sensibilitv in Fierce Fight.

Winsted, June 14.-A fight in which many of the pupils received black eyes and other minor injuries marked the close of the second an- nual contest between the seniors and sophomores of the Gilbert school on the school grounds yesterday morn ing. The sophomores were assisted by the members of the other classes and so greatly outnumbered the graduat- ing class that the outcome of the struggle was never in doubt.
 The contest was really begun Mon- day night when the male members of the graduating class raised two large banners of their class colors that had been made for them by the girls of the class. One was put on the school building and the other across Main street, near the park. Another was put on the residence of the principal, Dr J. E. Clarke. at midnight Tuesday night, but before morning they had been torn down by the undergradu- ates.
 This morning when Robert Gay lord and Henry Wilcox of the grad uating class arrived at the school number of the sophomores were in the yard wearing shoestrings and neckties made out of strips of the banners. They immediately attacked the sophomores to wrest the colors from them and a desperate fight fol- lowed.
 As the students arrived both sides were strengthened and the fight con- tinued for fully an hour. It was final- ly stopped when one of the graduates, Robert Gaylord, was choked into in- sensibility. A number of the pupils sustained minor injuries. among them being Edward Moore who took part in the commencement exercises last evening with a black eye that was easily discernible from any part of the hall. A policeman was station ed at the school building all night Tuesday night to prevent the pupils from interfering with the banner on the building as it was feared that they would injure the slate roof. The wind blew 1t out of sight. however, and 1t was declared out of the con- test.
 These contests were inaugurated by the graduating class last year, who succeeded in defending their eolors. The fight, however. was not on the program.