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iSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 189*.‘ THE PAMLICO OYSTER CASES.”J B Jore«,H I JjBM.NlluUiO* Willi*• •«*) A Klt;j***Ii. Kogv*e Reli Tb .t u TbanM. T M 1 ho a.Staiurl Ibooit*How a Big Claim if Brought i^f,“yTJ°|!**p Againit Thf State Tb»f*.« t wui*i1 Elijah If Wlllit,■ l*tuh I *av itSOME VERY CURIOUS FACTS|o~ i- m»«.»•ay B It .Rob*rt •* Whitehurst.■K Billet c*e • I llrerj J Willis.**••** ■•*•! Virginia A barkleforJ.«• l|*n IB (be Srheese-Livies ree^le | William K Hancock mmj They War* M«m UaaMii. *1 •••“Cork.I»aiah l» Sroilb or more than a year past, certain Wiu I* Pakjp parties bare been trying to collect Anson G f*vi» from the Stale about GOU on a claim l.iarmn Pike, whicb tbe State Treasurer and other John Williams, present Stair- officer* do not thinkialJ 1. Mol ell baaed or fully legal. Tbia claim I Jainea Dknown a* The Pamlico nyster Thomai Robin caaee. though Carteret county figure? Thomas Willis, very largely in the matter. James Mason.The claim was created under the I Reuben Kulcl provisions of Section 4. of chapter 2*7, IT T Catkin, of the Law# of 1*513. The aenae of this I Rebecca Gatkill.to-be that any person I Morns J I.upton., bolding a grant or license for an oy- I James l.uptoi ,• tta bed may be summonsed before the I J Gaskill, coui t to prove that his grant or license I John J 1.upton. does not mclude any part of a 'natural W M Good wit oyster bed; and if he fails to show I1' Hamilton such proof he mu*t vacate the bed. Andrew I»ry, ctiug under this section, certain Joseph Abbott, parties olve issued summons galore,I Joseph W I.upton, creating with eacb summons a hill ol I C 1 Kulrber. costa which it is claimed must be paid I Augustin by tbe State. Something like oneM*eo W Willis, hundred summoiis were made out in I John l.upton. Jr.Carteret county, and about eight bun-1 John I. J{ dred made out in I’amlico county. The I ggregate number of summons approx-1 Total,■nates nine hundred, and the total!aggregate of the “bills of coat” exceeds Kill of costa in the follow*5,1100.00. It appears that ai l the bills state Kx Rel , Blount andot costa have been presented to the licitors vs. tbe following State for payment without regard to I yy -p q.bo whether all tbe summons were ser.ed I . ■ ■re than probable VerV,5“V._ all contingen' facts could be D k ’wn in connection with the claim I j y lt;OW(.|| * made, the claim would assume an ap-1 CowellSe5J‘°C'°!lu order that the public »nd pirtlea ^TCooDer* who m.J be intere.teil oi.j .re .ome- Jo,„, •thing of the process by which his claim I j u Turner was created,a list of names of individ-1 ^ y Turner uals on whom summons is alleged *° I wil.Sawyer have been served is given below. I ^ j.- yawyer'Caucasian is in possession of I w K lIo«ker' some facts with reference to some of |be' noted t h.t Die o.mr. of I S.nTi'tThmpe.i,W. II. Sawyer aod wife are in the list I- - - ~ with “bill of cost.Sawyer allirm that no summons was i M j.; Taylor served on them. I «•Mr.C. M. Babbitt and wife are on Grill n the list with a bill of costs. They say v v„ppif*r they never had any kind of notice of L- 1'iUnnett’ an, summons .. p Jesse Bennelt,N. B. Augustine is on the list with I -j. lt;;ab()0M the perennial bill of costs, though c w Miller he has been dead six years. IT j, 'The name of Fred Merritt is on the w s vjjInmnfW list, lie lived in I’amlico county a c ^ Babbit? short while, and is now a member of I ^ j. (jlbb. ’ the staff of the News and Observer. |M y Bobbitt The claimants charge |7.4lt;) for writing I j, j,' pearBon' his name on a “bill of coats,” though! pear80„ ' he has never heard of any summons 10 I k A Hough the case. IC HoughTba name of Noah West isjon the list. I .. |r«rpjp'He died in 1S92. The law under which M y ii-PP:. the ‘bill of costs is made out —- —*1 lacted till 1893.The names of Sheldon Sawyer, Car- I j j oline Sawyer, Ella Sawyer, and Sudy '.a, inton Sawyer are all on the list with a “bill £ M j,,er ’ of costa” for eacb, though no summons j{ uier u ever served no to j uno of them. K Ll0(o •The name or John lenderson is on ja„iah Ril-, the list. He has been dead ten years, jjIt is not known just how many I.....vilar cases of the kind *ould be discovered!uv. 10 v.low many »im- Wm jte|ln(ria.could be thoroughly investigated but |janejonea' enough is known and shown to leave A|ex | ee ’ the impression that his scheme aP* | Alice l.ee proximates the size of Mark Twain's I (-• Caho famous “Beef contract.” The Cacca- ,Sian has heard verbal opinions to the *E w \ an ton effect that not half of the summons U, v . 4 *i • were ever served. A letter from a well I e Lupton! known citizen of Pamlico county Uerbj:rt i „Dton states that he found, after oonsu'ta- “*rD,e:.'“p,on’ tion with the ex-sheriil (for l«9«) thatL, ' ’not over a third of the number was h RXr™ served. In fact concerniug some °M r Mltrhel ’ the summonses, the Sheriff and Depu- .,_t_p |g_p%_ ty Sheriff are reported as saying that I Frank CmMy they simply “threw them under the ta- • r1ble.” But the “bill of costs” for each I jj jj Dowdy ’and every summons is presented to the . j* . M ..f ’S-Jle for payment— nil .LI a bifcl i „ P„ scheme of Democrats to create and get uenry james ’ MP‘e” S D Priest,Amounts of bills of cost against the I John Toney, State of North Carolina, due by Richard Green, the several judgements rendered at 11J Green, the fall term 1890 of tbe Superior I. J Moore, Sr..Court of Carteret county in what are B T Moore,known as the oyster grant cases inlLP Moore, which tbe State of North Carolira on M B Moore, the relation of O. II. Allen and M. C. 11. J Moore, Jr . Richardson, Solicitors, were plaintiff R II Dickerson, and the persons whose names the 8 J Nelson, amount of costs are annexed were de-1 W H Millican, fendants as per itemized bills of costs I M E Ferroon,i are sTorth emo-Aud [uirer vbose a boil lis issent herewith to-tname or dkven’ts] amLockhart Gibbs,T R Gibbs,F. W Gibbs,W K Hatsel,Geo A Hatsel,H C Jones,8 B Mason,Charlie Hill,J W Robinson,Stephen MasoD,Wallace D Styron.Joseph I,upton,Walter Homan,Augustine Mason,Wallace Fulcher,J W Fulcher,Geo W Emery.Richard Styrou,J A Gaskill,E P Gaskill,W H Fulcher,John Day,Frances M Lupton,J A Lupton,Ambrose Fulcher,Silas Lupton,Chris. Lupton Z Emery, George Hill,James J l.upton,Sidney D Lupton,George Lupton,Sarah F. Lupton,Calidonia Lupton,C T Willis,Mollie Homan, * Lawrence Homan,W H Lupton,Dennis Mason,Melton Lee,Alonzo Fulcher,Eugence Fulcher.Francis Mason,John J Day Jr.George H Lupton,Julia A Lupton,Abisha N Styron,Stephen D Day,J S Gaskill,Britannia C Lupton, Edward H Smith,W O Lupton,George D Mason,Charles A Mason,S S Lupton,John S Smith,Elias Piver,Thomas Piver,John Holly,■ Isaac Askin,I N II Shepard,4 8» E H Butts,I 851 Fred Hines,J E Morris,4 85| Danis Table,4 851J W Uorriil,Wm Cokeman, i; 251 Geo. Broadstreet, ii 151 Thomas Slade, ft 151 Sam Scott, il 16 Jacob Gmois,U 151 Julia Grimes, li 151 Mary Foy,• 151 David Foy, Ed.Capebart.15Is Roberts,'! 151 F Roberts, ii 15 I c T Dickerson, u 16 CL Davis,7 25 E B Spencer,15 JoeSwert,151 Thomas Bov/der,15 E W Simpkins.7 25 David Simpkins,* 35 J S lieath,Ii 15 s H Sco»t,'• 151 S J Hudson,151 Ezra Gordon,15 John Hadder,151 Frank Tisdale,« 15 Maj. Dudley, 25 I R A Roe, i 161 U Gorden,15 J M Kilbern,151 F M Bowden, ti 151 Toney Simmons, ii 15 B Swert.« 16 J K Pate,6 15 J B Waters, li 15 L L Waters,7 251 Virgil Windlej,15 Eli Elliott,ti 15 S D Pamer, t 151 James Davis,7 25 FS Duffy,6 16 KL Duffy, o 15 Isaac Kelly,945 LG Noe,9 46 Norfolk Cutley,9 45 Alfred Moore,9 45 Thomas Blango,' AW Smith,9 45| A N Gibbs,9 451 Alfred Reed. l 151 E Liblistore,6 151 Henry Sous,4 751 ------(Continued on 97 40 i;:w 7 40U 55 tf 55 055
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