The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
RAILWAY RAIt INVESTIGATION
RumOIs OF q Compromise Between
State and Road
Colonel Benehan Elected President
OF Farmers National Congress.
Peace Observation-Disclosures to Ma
ional Drainage Association-Oth-
er News Notes.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, October %, is

Raleigh, October %, 1897.
Mention has been made Of the fact
that next Monday the Southern railway
rate investigation will be resumed az
Washington before Standing Master
Montgomery. The air of yesterday ana
today was full of hints of a compro-
mise between the state and the road,
and yet no one in authority would say
anything about it. 1t is one OF those
curious rumOrs which Tiger in the air
and remains persistent. 1t is therefore
all guess work as to what will be done
next week. Something has been said
that another rate might be fixed than
the IA cent rate, but there is moth
ing in this. That rate will in all prob
ability stand just as it is.
Colonel Benehan Cameron has been
elected president for the next two years
Of Farmers National Congress which is
in session at Oklahoma City. He mas
been vice-president for two years.
Insurance Commissioner Young is at
Hendersonvlle attending a session Of
the Presbyterian synod in the interest
of Peace institute, now under control
Of tn Presbyterians, he being chair
man Of the executive committee.
EX-Judge Robert w. Winston is pre-
pairing q life Of Edwin Fuller Of North
Carolina, a poet Of repute. Three hull
dred sketches Of southern writer's are
thus to be prepared for publication.
Governor Glenn appoints the f.! oW-
ing deegates to the National Drainage
Association, which meets in Baltimore,
November 25-27: Congressman John il.
Small, Congressman Charles r. III N
as, CONGRESSMAN Il. L. Goodwin; ,tato
GeOlogist J. II. Pratt, Secretary OF
State j. Bryan Grimes, Frank WOOD
Thomas w. Blount, Mark Majette, h. c.
Carter, James A. Bryan, j. Allen Tay-
lor and w. G. Rodman.
Charters are granted the D. Dawson
Company of beaufort, to manufacture
fish scrap and oil, capital stock $4,000;
The Pet-POlO Company, Of NeWDern,
500, ,000; Robert L. Duffy and others,
the Selma Iron Works, $4,000; Ashe-
vile Printing and Engraving Company
$25, 900, Frank B. Hewlett and others,
the GOrrell Company OF China Grove,
e Concord and others stockholders
Corporation COmmi issioner Rogers
left today for Wadesboro to hear
petition for a union station there to
be built jointly by the Seaboard and
Atlantic Coast Line railways.
Corporation Commissioner Bedding
field goes to Greensboro to hear COM
plant as to the assessment of stand
ing timber lands. He hears this as a
member of the state tax commission,
it being an appeal from the assess
ment made by the county board or tax
equalization. The complainants set out
that the assessment is excessive. There
have been relatively few complaints OF
assessment this year.
The state labor commissioner has re-
Aeived reports from over 318 cotton and
Painting mills and about 26 yet remain
to be heard from.
At New York last night Mr.. William
Royal, Of Raleigh, and Miss Nina AL
mirall We're married. Mr.. Royall is d
native Of Wake Forest College, and is
a member of one of the most honored
families there long connected with the
college.
Vice President NJ. K. King, Of the
Norfolk and Southern railway, was i
visitor to Raleigh today and spent the
afternoon here. He and your CORE
spondent NcOnferred with Gov. Glenn
regarding the celebration in honor OF
the completion of the road from Wash
ington to Raleigh.
The supreme court is hearing this
week the second argument in the case
of Blackwell Durham Tobacco Com
pany against the American Tobacco
Company and others, in which the
Durham company claims +hat the to-
bacco trust has no title the name
which it is using