The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-14
.M'NE|LL MAKES
TRIP OVER ROAD.
Chairman Of Carolina Corporation
Commission Seeks to Hasten
Restoration Of Service.
@coNvlcTs' W. q. BRIGGS
Mock Trial Held at Raleigh Pre-
sided Over by Associate
Justice Hoke.
Chairman Of Carolina Corporation
"CoNvlCTs' W. q. BRIGGS
Mock Trial Held at Raleigh Pre-

RALDlSifi, ~. Cv April l3.-Chair-
man Mcneil OF the Corporation Com
mission, returned this morning from a
trip over the Atlantic and Yadkin
Railroad from Sanford to Mt. Airy,
looking into a variety or complaints
and with view to Fastening the
change of train service that will re-
store the through trains from Whining
ton to Mt. Airy
The members ofthe commission have
not decided what course will BIO pur-
sued in the matter OF the $500 per
year salaries that the machinery act
provides the members OF the commits
sion shall have for services as State
Tax Commission, IN addition to the
5000 increased salaries as Corpora
ton Commissioners. The ruling Of
the Attorney General that II Is not a
case in which he should pass on the
contradictory provisions of the two
acts leaves 1t uDto the commissioners to
either let the extra $500 allowance 70
by default or make up test case 10
go from the Superior to the Supreme
Court, where "the legislative mind
could be passed upon. the question be-
Ing Did the Legislature intend that
the commissioners should have only
the increased Corporation Commissions
ers salary OF $4,000, and Is the reten-
tlon of tho $500 Tax Commission clause
In the machinery act an unintcnded
accident?
office of the AdjutantG General to E. S.
Darden as captain OF Company X, Sec
ond Infantry, Wilson. He succeeds
Captain r. s. wilkins. resigned.
Tho Maxton Oil and Fertilizer Com
pany, OF Maxton, was chartered to-
day with 100000 capital, by w. H.
Hescox. Atlanta; ]. w. Carter, j. a.
McKinnon and others. OF Maxton. Other
charters are to the American Mica
Mining Company, Charlotte, capital
100000. by ]. L Reilly, z. Fl. Reilly
and others: and to the Wadcsboro Elec-
trical Manufacturing Company. OF
Wadesboro. capital 100000. by L. j.
Huntley and others; also the Corpora
alive Supply Company, Of Rocky
Mount, capital $4,000. by G. II. Smith
and others.
Over Mock Court"
Associate Justice w. A. Hoke, of tho
North Carolina Supreme Court, pre-
sided last night over the mock court"
in which Postmaster Willis G. Briggs
was convicted of breach Of promise,
Miss Flora Creech, a well-known and
popular young 1duS3 OlElAIS CllSt Oc!u 3
the plaintiff. EX-Judge T. B. Wo-
mack was to have presided as Judge,
but was too unwell to attend. and JUS
tice Hoke was pressed into service ut
the last minute. The affair was sue
cessful in every way, and very large
audience manifested the highest APP
probation. On the jury were such
men as Mayor james I. Johnson. VIII
liam Boylan. Major J. B. Hill, State
Auditor B. T. Dixon. DR.. D. Z. Everitt,
w. T. Faison, r. b. Moseley, Henry
Litchford w. H Bng!ey A. Ought, N.
SG. Marlborough. T. B. Heart. Colonel
]. c. L. Harris appeared as attorney
for the defendant, and Colonel A. Y.
Newton, of Massachusetts, was counsel
for the prosecution.
a case on appeal from the Corpora
ton Commission to Wake County Su-
perior Court is Just filed, in which the
Southern appeals from n ruling Of .the
commission allowing the Hart-Wnrd
Hardware Company 50 penalty for the
failure OF the Southern to place car
load shipment to the Hart-Ward Com
pany on siding to be unlouded within
the time prescribed by statute. The
penalty is 81 per day for each days de-
lay after forty-eight hours. The South
ern proposes to make this a test case
involving the right or the comrnl8-
sion to tnforce such q rule.
Ex-Judge A. w. Graham, OF Oxford
who was here to-day, says there Il
general movement in his county fol
the reopening OF the copper mines, lonG
idle. One of the largest. tho Blue Wing
Mine, is to start UP very soon now
and others are sure to follow suit
conditions being such now that tho
mines can be operated ct gooe
profit.
a suit has been instituted in Wake
Superior Court against the Raleigi
Electric Company for $4,000 for the
killing Of Judson Chavis. q well known
negro, who was run over by q stree
car on Hillsboro Street during las
State Fair week. The published &C
counts Of the accident at the time
We're to the effect that the negro jump,
cd off the car at point where there
was double-traclS and ran around thu
end of the car and right into another
that was moving in the opposite direc
| ton on u parallel track.
THREE GET LICENSES.