“John, you be easy! If you try to get me you will get your
next meal in hell!” This was a note left for John E. Daugherty, Craven County
commissioner, by a party who Thursday night dynamited a dipping vat on his far
a few miles west of New Bern. This is the fifth vat to be destroyed within the
past week, and reports have it that others have been destroyed in the lower
part of the county.
The Federal government, in connection with the State
Department of Agriculture, has been conducting a campaign for the extermination
of the cattle tick and vats were provided where cattle were dipped in a
solution to destroy the ticks, which are destructive to cattle. Some of the
Craven County citizens objected to the law and the lawless element have been
destroying the dipping vats, just as lawless element in some sections of east
Carolina have resisted the enforcement of the stock law.
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