The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-27
TRUCE DECLARED
Tobacco Company VIII Purchase
Crops of 1906 and 1907 ut an Out
lay OF Nearly $4,000, OOO-No
Crop to be Planted in iSoS-NeSs
Received WIKI Surprise in Louis
vile.

Cincinnati, March 4s-An eAQ %
the night riding in the ken:ucAy
white hurley district has been
brought about Through a fosmsi
agreement reached between the AM
er!can Tobacco Company and tEc
executive committee CT the Society o.
Equity in a conference II Winches-
ter, KY, yesterday. according 10 ap-
parently authoritative statements
made here today by members Of the
American Society of Equity. Nearly
s14, 0O0, 0G0O for the purchase OF the
entire crops Of 1906 and 1907 on the
che side and no planting CT cTCo Tor
the year OF 1908 on the other are
points in the agreement
Word is SAID 10 have beer received
b. the executive committee OF the
Society of Equity on Monday after
noon from headquarters Of the Am
erican Tobacco Company in New
York that the company would buy
the 1906 and 1907 crops at sixteen
and eighteen cents per pound re-
spectively. The committee was sworn
to secrecy and the report has been
officially denied, but is nevertheless
declared to be authentic. The two
year ClOp d%SICSdtCo OOu oSsOOSs'SS
pounds OF leaf now in store in var
iOls warehouses and private bars
throughout the white hurley district
According to the reported terms OF
the agreement the company will
chase Immediately and buyers in
Kentucky will probably. receive no
tice by tomorrow.
! The reason for secrecy by the So
ciety lay in it's determination not TO
raise any crop this year. Before ad-
journing the executive committee ad-
opted resolutions condenming the
night riders and disavowing any re-
! sponsibility for them.
A prominent member of the society,
confirming the agreement today,
today.
1T is all settled. The cruel war is
! over and we have won. There will
be no more night riding or violence,
but there will be no 1908 crop Of to-
bacco. The American Tobacco Com
pany has agreed to buy all the pool
! ed leaf of the 1906 and 1907 crops
and will pay nearly s14, 200, 900 for it.
| We have prevailed in the just fight
! and are now confident that the farm
er and renter can raise tobacco and
have some money at the end Of the
season after paying the grocery
, bills"
Winchester, KY, March 2A-In the
county court here today an order
made yesterday by Judge Evans de-
Gliding that the $4,000, 900 back tax
suit brought by Revenue Agent Re
horn should be tried against the Bur
ley Tobacco Society, as a whole, was
sent aside and order that the suit be
tried against the Clark county board
of control. The suit against the Bur-
ley Tobacco Society, as a whole, will
! be dismissed. The hearing of the suit
against the Clark county board will
be held next Monday. This is taken
to mean hat the action against the
tobacco people will have to be tried
in each ofthe forty-two counties in
which the suit was brought.
Louisville, KY, March 24.-News
that an agreement had been reached
between the American Tobacco Com
pany n the Society of Equity was
received on the tobacco breaks here
today with surprise and %increduility
The purpOrted settlement price was
all the NOSE surprising because all
the hurley growers expected to re-
ceive was Is cents for the two crops,
which the American Tobacco Com
pany refused some time & to
pay.
The weed is used in the manufac-
ture Of finer grades of both chewing
and smoking tobacco.
The dark tobacco district embraces
fourteen counties in western Ken
lucky and several in Tennessee. The
product of this district is nearly all
taken for exnOrt