The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-04-03
Raleigh, n c.. March 80

Raleigh, N g., March 80
Chief OF Police Mullins made up to
day for your correspondent a comPor
ative statement Of the cases befGr
the police justice the first Quartet 6.
this year and that during the corI .
spending period Of last year. In JAZZ
uary OF last wear there War3 9H eases,
in February so. and in March l0L This
years there were e3 cases in Janu ~,
IS in February and GO in MarcA. The
total sor the first quarter OF Last yeGr
was 271 and for khe fist arttr tn S
year sac. a falling off Ct 95. These fact
speak Tor themselves. Last year tn
dispensary WAS in operation, while
now Raleigh is officially dry The
falling of of cases is mainly il thos
ir which drunkenness was tie ofensc
charged.
LAST night another comrade at the
sold iers home passed away, his name
being Chenarlt. He came from Sur
~ county.
AGiutant General Robertson repo";s
that two other companies of the Ma
tiOpal Guard have volunteered for ser
r;ce at the rlanoevers at Fort cas-
we'll, these being company B, first reg
I ip4ent of Charlotte and company l.. 3rd
regiment. at Greensboro. This makes
four companies which have thus ten
dered themselves outside Of the sec
On5 regiment, the two other DelnS "a
Salisbury and Raleigh.
A Mitchell county man was mere TO
day and declared that county would
| this year go democratic and Tor pro
hibjtfOn. He Was very positive IN TINS
statement. Mitchell has always been
one of the chief republican strong
holds in North Carolina.
A charter is granted the Siler City
TeleDhCne Company, capital stock
$4,000. The development of the tele-
nhone service in the state has been
very remarkable There are over 2OO
companies and there are thousands OF
private telephones.
The supreme court will devote this
week to the hearing OF appeals tor the
9th district.
President Hayne Davis Of the North
Carolina Peace Society has appointed
a number of North Carolinians mem
hers of the delegation to call upon the
president at the white house April 2nd
to invite him to assist at the first North
carolina arbitration and peace con-
gress which is to be held at time ana
Dlace hereafter to be fixed 1t seems
most probable that this meeting Will
he held at Wilmington. The mead
quarters Of the North Carolina dele
cation at Washington will be at the
Raleigh hotel
Governor Glenn went down to Selma
Yesterday afternoon and made a tenn
perance talk there last night, return
ire here this morning The governor
dates are now practically all filled for
April and May and he will certainly ne
one of the busiest men in North Car
elina.
Farmers who came in from the coun-
try today declare that so far as tney
can discover all the early peaches are
killed: certainly on lOwlands. Ihey
say that on high lands some may have
escaped.
There was quite a little stir among
the baseball enthusiasts here To-Day
over a report that two negroes are
members of the visiting club Wnlcn
was To- play. 1t was at first said that
the shortstop and the third baseman
were colored. Later it was said there
he would not play.
On the other hand it was declared
| that there were no negro players at all
on the team. The latter came from
Hamilton. N Y
There has been very great demand
l for North Carolina cotton seel in the
boll-weevil territory and Elder w. A
Simpkins of Raleigh has already sold
| II 800 bushels of seed in that secton,
| 7 600 going to Louisiana and 2,OOo TO
Texas. most of it mainly going to Mis-
| sissippi. Handsome prices were receiv-
| ed for these seed. Seed from the north
ern part of the cotton belt mature
| quicker than those from the south
4 and the plan is to head OF the boil
weevil.