The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-02-26
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, \. c., February &c.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., February &c.
The salary bill, regulating the salary
Of all the state officers and department.
al employees has been printed. 1t abol-
ishes all taking of fees by officers, all
such fees going entirely to the state.
The bill gives the governor S., 1000, his
private secretary 81, 1000, executive clerk
5000. The secretary of state, $4,000;
his grant clerk and corporation clerk.
$4,000 each; ste~nographer, $500; addi-
tionai clerk hire, $1,000; treasurer,
$4,000; chief clerk. 5 2 1000; teller, ST.
soc; institutional clerk, 1920; stenog-
rapher, 5000; attorney general, s., $500;
clerk. $500; auditor, $500; chief clerk,
$4,000; additional clerks, two at 81 1900,
and $500; superintendent OF public in
struction, $500 and actual travelling
expenses; chief clerk, $4,000; loan fund
clerk, $500; stenographer, $500: Cor
poratiOn commission, $3.50: CHEZ
clerk, $4,000 stenographer, 81, 200; state
bank examiner, $1,000; assist
ants, $4,000; insurance commits
sioner, SO, 500; chief clerk. $500:
Of agriculture, $4,000. to be paid out OF
state agricultural funds; labor commits
sioner, $500; assistant, $1,000; clerk,
stenographer, $500; additional clerk
hire, $1,000; adjutant general,
$500; assistant, 5000; commissioner
$500; state librarian, $500; assistant,
5000; chief justice, $4,000, and associ-
ates the same, each being allowed $500
for clerk hire; marshal and librarian.
$1,000; reporter, $3.50; superior court
judges, $500 and actual expenses in
attending and holding special terms; |
keeper of the capitol 81, 200; the as.
sistants, servants, laborers and messen- |
gers in all the departments to get an
increase of 33 1-3 per cent over what
they now receive.
Your correspondent this morning
asked Senator Aycock what would be
the railway fare as fixed by the senate, |
and he made this reply: 20 IA cents |
fiat" 1t seems to be the understand |
ing that the senate will alter and |
amend the rate bill as it passed the |
house. |
Deputy revenue collectors came in
today from a raid in Durham county |
in which they captured a IS gallon IL !
ncit distillery which was in the open
woods. The moonshiners saw them a
couple of hundred yards away and ran /,
like turkeys.
In one Of the cases decided yesterday
by the supreme court it was held that
the bloOdhounds' testimony was all
IN other words, that the identif-
cation Of a criminal by such a witness
was good evidence. This is the second
time a court has made such a decision.
District Attorney Harry Skinner has
gone to Fort Caswell, to look into a
claim of DIR. Thompson as to the own
Of much Of the land on which
fort stands. Mr.. Thompson is one
Of the Oldest residents Of Southport,
which is ear the fort, and during the
var was a notable pilot on blockade
'unners between Wilmington and Mas
say.
The executive committee of The
North Carolina Press Association fail
I'd to decide upon the place for the
lext annual convention. J. B. Sler.
i'll, Josephus Daniels and II. 3. Var
ler were appointed a committee 10
elect the place. It is understood tina;
he entire association will visit the
JAMESTOWN exposition in a body. The :
xecutive committee of the association
cry heartily endorsed the present law
egarding newspaper libel and asks the
legislature not to repeal the law, which .
5 known as the London law. !