The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-06
EAST CAROLINA FISHERIES
Good Progress Made By the State
Geological Survey

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. c.. February -.

| messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. G.. February -.
The United Firemen's Insurance
Co.. of Philadelphia. Penn. has enter
ed the state the agencies OF which vii.
be managed by W. A. Chaplin. OF At.
Ianta, Ga.
Norman Jones. a z from Vance
county. was brought to the penitenti-
airy by Sheriff E a. Powell. to serve
a three year sentence, having been
convicted OF secret assault. .Iones
seemed to have been envious d the
standing OF the some OF the neighbors,
n to add TO other expressions of an
unwarranted nature he fired eight
shots into the house occupied by A
man and his wife by the name OF
Batch. Letters OF a rejecting kind
Were also written by Jones.
Charters were granted today To he
AlcCall-Poal Co. at Salisbury, for the
manufacture and ale OF whisksy.
wholesale and retail; the capital stock
is $4,000. which is paid In by s. Y.
Mccall. ". w. Pool and r l.. Finger,
all of Salisbury. The Marion Light T.
Power Co, at Marion. for the develop
ment OF water powers on the Cataw-
ba river, in Mcdowell county, and the
generation Of electricity, both for light
n power, ~incorporators are J. l.
Morgan, W. W. Lotspeich and r. IL.
Bennett. The authorizes capital stock
is $4,000, OF which amount $1,000 is
paid In.
A commission that will in a few days
be issued, and will be pleasurabIy ap-
preciated, is that OF Mr.. Charles ri.
Gatts, travelling passenger agent OF the
SeabOard Air Line, by which he will
become Major Gattis on the stan of
Adjutant General T. X. Robertson OF
Charlotte. The official document will
utter on return OF Governor Glenn aud
General Robertson to the city. Genial
iikableness, efficiency, business ability,
energy, and all that stands for high
qualifications belongs to the new ma
jor. and his friends in the department
Of state, In railroad circles and In
commercial lines al love rthe country
will congratulate him on this.
The supreme court Of North Carolina
has taken up the appeal cases from the
Fourth district of the state.
Colonel w. ID. Rodman, OF the Char
Iotte bar. and division counsel of the
Southern Railway Company. is spend
ing a while In Raleigh on personal
business.
George c. Upchurch, Of Raleigh. a
SOL of the late William G. Upchurch.
who died about two weeks ago, Is dead
at his home in this city. This makes
the third in Jour months within the
family of that name.
NJ, George r. Leach, of Raleigh.
who was injured by a street car jan
uary /, is able to be out on the street
for the first time since his accident.
which forced him to confinement In
Rex hospital.
The entire state and section will
.sympathize with the family Of DR..
Peter E. Hines, who lies az deaths
door, after an attack of paralysis
which he sustained Sunday, while at
the table In his home DIR. Hines Is the
city physician of Raleigh, and is the
Oldest practitioner her. During the
war between the states this fearless
man and physician was in service at
Petersburg, Va. He was married
many years ago to Miss Fannie john
son, a sister Of Hon. james /. John
son, the present mayor Of Raleigh.
He has attained his 18th year.
Wake county superior court has been
re-convened after a recess which was
taken by Judge G.. w. Ward. because
of the condition of the calendar for the
trial of civil cases. The cases up for
this term are not Of state interest, and
the supposition is hat court will have
been adjourned ere the close Of the
present week.
Burton Hoyle Smith, the son OF
Colonel A. L. Smith, Of Charlotte, was
a visitor to Raleigh enroute TO Sche-
nectady, n. Y, where he has accepted
a position with the General Electric
Co., in their shops TO spend about two
years to fit himself for the electrical
engineering. Mr.. Smith stopped over
t visit relatives at Scotland Neck.
DR.. Joseph Hyde Pratt of the North
Carolina board OF geological survey
with the East Carolina fisheries. DIR.
Pratt is greatly pleased at the progress
so far made by the board With him
were Messrs. Hill and Webb Of the na-
tional department, the latter being
shell-fish commissioner. Dr.. Pratt
states that the nets are already being
cLh LUZ @AC Sud1 III ~ ho1 1Ih fObA0A
to that they are already within the
prescribed boundaries. An informal
meeting was held with the fishermen
at Roanoke Island TO whom the details
and workings OF the new arrangements
were made plain, many OF these hsh-
ermsn having felt in a measure ag-
grieved because Of inconvenience Dy
distance in the laying Of their nets
a uniform observance of the law re-
They realize that the same time that
garding the running of the fish TO
their spawning grounds will mean ma
terial benefit TO their interests. When
asked about the wish OF the people
along the Cape Fear river in regard 70
the fish question In that section. DIR.
Pratt stated that the board would try
to arrange an investigation and later
to bring about such action as would