The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-29
OF CROPS IS PO0R|
Worse Than Ever Before at This
Season Of the Year
Caused by Drought and Gold Weather.
Governor Glenn Acts ON Several APP
plications for Pardon-The Peniten-
tiary a Noney-yfaker-Two Success
full Raids by Revenue Officers.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c.. May "A. 1906.

Raleigh, N. c., May "a, 1906.
Secretary T. B. Parker, of the Nortnl
Carolina Cotton Growers Association,
says hat reports from all the ooun-I
ties have now been received, and to-I
day he prepared the summaries which,
he says show the condition Of .he'
crops 10 be worse than ever at llisI
date, owing to drought and cold wealth.
er. The cool nights now prevailing
are hard on the cotton which continues
TO die. A great deal is being replap--I
ed. Those who have not had 10 re-
plant hare as d Iule only a partial
stand. Labor is, without al exception,
unusually scarce. There is u little less
acreage than that planted last year 7!
Your correspondent tody returned fromi
Charlotte and found the crops in tnatI
section in better condition than thoseI
around Raleigh, the drought not nav
ing been 50 severe there, il seems asI
it is here.
Today the Southern Life insurance.
Company, of Fayetteville, deposited
$1,000 In bonds and securities with
the insurance commissioner. 1t bel
gan business in November. 1t hasI
done a very fine business, its O~ficialsl
state. The insurance commissioned
announces that the Buffalo Life Insur-I
ance Company, Of Buffalo, and thel
New Jersey Fire Insurance Company,
of Camden, have been admitted to dol
business in North Carolina. The char-l
ter of the Eastern Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company, of Wilmine-|
ton, has been approved by the commis-l
sioner.
Charters are granted the Lee Vel
neer Company, of Lexington, capital
stock $4,000. z. V. Walser and otAersI
stockholders, and the Novelty COM
pany of Washington, capital S1O0, 900
Brick making is now cry active att
the penitentiary. A vast amount oil
wood, cut from the woods owned BY
the penitentiary, in Johnson county,
has teen piled near the brick yards
the total amount being over 5000
Mr.. Coke, who is in charge Of the
grading force Of AZ convicts, now o.
the WilkesborO and Jefferson TURNPIKE,
is here, and a it will require about
ten months to complete that Important
highway to Jefferson. Ashe county has
| put up $4,000 to pay for certain parts
of the cost for the nine miles between
the top of the Blue Ridge and the town
of Jefferson. The total cost of the.
road will be about s65, 900.
The penitentiary continues to be a
money-maker and has now about 1900
900 to it's credit. Only a few years
ago it was a bugbear to the state,
where as now it is a remarkable pro-
Queer Of revenue.
Governor Glenn today pardOned Eu-
gene Scales, from Wayne county, who
was serving a twenty veal sentence
for burglary in the second degree, md
who has served seven years, OF that
term. The pardon is based on the
fact that doubt exists as to b man
crime, and his plea was endorsed by
the prosecutor, the trial judge n the
| solicitor and a number of good clti-
zens.
R. H. Boyd, of Wilkes county, who
was serving a term of eight months,
and who has already spent seven
months on the roads, was also par
doned, owing to the fact that he isl
very ill with typhoid fever, and tnel
recommendation for pardon is made
by the county physician. The man'sI
crime was assault with a deadly we'd
pom, though no damage was done.
The pleas for pardon by Earl Clod-I
felter, assault and battery with al
deadly weapon and sentenced to six
months, from Rockingham county,
was refused, as the governor statesl
the criminal boosted of his prowessl
and seemingly was entitled to a long-I
er sentence. Judge and solicitor alSOI
refuse to recommend pardon. !
A. P. Wilkins, from Johnston coun-
ty, serving eight months for assault
and battery with deadly weapon, Wasl
also refused, as no error seems to navel
existed in the trial and no recommend
dation is offered by judge and s~ollci-l
tor.
Revenue officers have just reported
two successful raids, this time the!
first being in Durham county and only
four miles north of Durham, resulting
in the capture Of a still and a whitel
operator by the name of Glenn, whOI
was bound Eel to court. HarnettI
county furnished the second al a point
four miles south Of Ellington. TheI
establishment was broken up but mol
capture of an operator was effected
United States Marshal ClaudiusI
Dockery today appointed Edwin A.
Gibbs deputy collector at Washington
The secretary Of state chartered the
Eastern Carolina Mutual Life Insur-
ance Co., of Wilmington, n. c., forI
the conduct of a regular business fl
that class. There is no capital stock.
The ~incorporators are J. A. Bonner, J.
A. Holt, E. NJ. Green, F. c. Sadwor,
Jr, J. W. Sasser, T. r. Mask, Ishan
Thompson, J. H. Shaw, ]. E. Taylor,
A. W. Covington.
His friends throughout the state will
be glad TO learn that c. T. Bailey, post
master at Raleigh, is able to be out
after an indisposition, occasioned by
a severe cold. which 1t was feared
would result in pneumonia.
Ignited StateS court will he c~Onyanejl