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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

was DIR. Henry Branham. The de-
ceased was known as the est. John"
OF the Georgia Methodist Conference.
He was, for many years, the delegate
from this conference to the general
conference. He filled pulpits in Au-
gusta, Athens, Milledgeville, Column
bus, Oxford, and other smaller towns,
and was presiding elder for the Allan
ia, Athens and Griffin districts.
The rosy prospect of bountiful crops
which has been shining before the far
mers of Georgia for six weeks past
continues to hold good, according to
Acting Observer Gorgas' weather bull
letin. There has been no dlmlnutlon
in the general favorable outlook, and
the farmers have little cause for COM
plant in the general condition of their
crops at present The past week, with
its decrease in rainy days, has, on the
whole, been favorable for the improve
ment of such crops as are approaching
maturity, while at the same time al
lowing for the harvesting of the win
ter supply of fodder. It is true that
cotton appears to be from ten to fifteen
days late, and rust, rotting and she'd
ding are evidently increasing; but
probably these conditions are no more
noticeable than at the same season IN
past years, and it is hoped that the
season will ultimately end with an
average crop of the staple. Corn still
continues to flourish, and the yield
will be larger than that of years past.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12
A.R.U. DIRECTORS ON TRIAL.
Before the Court to Answer to Con-
tempt Charges.

tempt Charges.
The contempt cases against Eugene
V. Debs, George W. Howard, Sylves-
ter Kelliher, L. w. Rogers, James
Hogan, w. E. Burns. Leroy NJ. Good
win, ". J. Elliott and J. T. McVean,
directors of the American Railway
Union, came up in the United States
circuit court at Chicago Wednesday
morning before Judge Woods. The
defendants are accused of violating the
Injunction issued by Judge Woods
and Grosscup during the
recent strike, which restrained the
American Railway Union and all others
from any interference with the mails
or with interstate commerce.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12
No Blame ON the superintendent.

The committee of three members OF
the international Typographical I'm
ion, appointed to investigate the
charge of mismanagement against the
superintendent of the Printers Home
at Colorado Springs, after thorough
investigation has completely exhonera-
ted the superintendent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

Railroad Cases, IA Railroad Cases, Is
Increase, IS per cent.
|. These are two kinds of cases which
generally are long and tedious, and
are samples of the greater labor re-
CURED of the court at the present. An
increase of the number of judges at
the same average per cent. would give
nearly six judges instead of three, as
now.
All the Northern and Western
States, except those small ones lately
admitted, have from five to nineJudges
on their Supreme Court bench. Sew
eral of them have also intermediate
courts, which largely decrease the Ia
bors of their Supreme Courts But
some might think it unfair to compare
Georgia with Weather and more pop
ulous States. SO in the following we
take only Southern States, and few
Northern States smaller in wealth and
population than Georgia.
States having each five Supreme
Court Judges-V Virginia, North Caro-
lima, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkan-
sas.
States having not less than six nor
more than nine Supreme Court Judges
each-Maryland, New Jersey, Della
ware, Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Connecticut.
States having four Supreme Court
Judges-West Virginia.
Every one of these States has less
wealth and less population than Geor-
gia-most of them a good deal less.
The only Southern States, besides
Georgia, having only three Supreme
Court Judges each are South Carolina,
Florida and Mississippi. But Geor-
gia's Supreme Court decides as many
cases per annum as the Supreme Courts
of these three other States combined.
Two successive legislatures have by
large maiorities voted in favor of in
creasing the Supreme Court from
three to five Judges. They did this
after full investigation of all the facts.
The last legislature voted almost unsn-
imously that way.
The increased expense is only six
thousand dollars year. This means
an increase of taxation amounting to
one cent in three years for each citi-
zen in the State. In other words, it
would cost man worth a thousand
dollars one postage stamp once in
three years
In the decrease in litigation conse-
quent on better considered and more
carefully prepared decisions, the tax
payers will save a hundred times as
much, probably, as the salaries of the
two additional Judges would cost.
Some fear an unworthy man might
get on the bench.
If this is good reason for refusing
to consent to more Judges, when they
are needed, it is equally as good
reason for abolishing all iudgships and
having no judges, for we might get
bad man on the bench as it is now. In
all offices we take the chances of get
ting competent men to fill them. II
the wrong man should chance to slip
in, he will soon show what he is and
the people will see that bs is left at
| home next time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
Do We Need More Judges ON our
Supreme COurts

At the October election the people
will vote on a proposed amendment
of the Constitution, increasing the
number of Supreme Court Judges from
three to five.
Is this good thing for the people
as whole?
What are the facts? By them let
this question be decided. The people
will vote right if they know the facts.
The more work there is to be done,
the more workmen there should be to
do it. The more cases there are to be
decided, the more Judges there should
be to decide them.
The two great causes of litigation
are population and property. The
following parallel columns will show a
comparison between the causes and
sources of litigation in the Supreme
Court at the time of it's creation, and
those existing now:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

PUT off until tomorrow what might
be done to-day if you contemplate
getting drink or swindling somebody.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

A comparison of the 1st and Goth
Volumes of Georgia Reports will show
a great increase in amount and variety
of work to be done by the same num-
her of Judges; for instance
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

Figures showing the assessed value
of property in 1916 are not at hand, but
the following comparison between 1856
and 1894 will aid in showing how much
larger are the property sources OF It'll
CATION now than then.
In 1856. In 1898.
Property returned Property returned
for taxation, exclud- for taxation, excud-
ing slaves. S?7I, $685. ing slaves, $452, ga
1922 9OE
Increase, 81 per cent
The increase in wealth and popula-
ton, in connection with the well
known increase in variety of indus
trial pursuits, means an increased va
riety in litigation and consequent in
crease of the number of difficult and
practically new legal questions. Take
railroad litigation-the kind of cases
whose record is nearly always long
and difficult of digestion. Railroad
mileage in 1916 is not known, but was
very small; but
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

Number of city
courts, none.
Total courts from
which cases went d.
rect to supreme court,
b.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

Everybody knows the Importance of
an opinion in each Supreme Court
case, giving the reasons on which the
case is decided. These opinions should
be written slowly and carefully, lest
they be imperfect and by their imper-
fections and uncertainties produce
more litigation. With so few Judges
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

Population, estima-
ted, 1900, 900 Gin 1890
it was 1887. O00.)
Georgia citizens who
could litigate. ......
All; both white and
black.
Increase in popula-
ton sources of litiga-
ton. 335 per cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

So, while the Goth Georgia has %
per cent more cases, yet the kind OF
cases, criminal and damage, which re-
quire most time and labor in reading
and digesting records, has increased
by vastly greater per cent.
The following shows the number OF
cases decided in the last seven years
by the Supreme Courts of the States
known as the Southeastern States-a
group selected because of their SINH
larity to Georgia in social and com
mercial conditions and in kinds of liti-
cation:
West Virginia. TO Georgia. $3.50
VIRGINIA. 1.OS3 Which is about $40
south Carolina S44 per cent more than
North Carolina 1919. the average of the
Average by each other four states.
court in these four
states, 1922.
But the vastly greater amount of
work thus imposed upon each Georgia
Judge is shown from the fact that
West Virginia Supreme Court com
prises four Judges; Virginia five
Judges; North Carolina, five Judges.
Therefore, the average number OF
cases decided by each Supreme Court
Judge in these States, emitting frac-
81
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

Population, exclud-
ing slaves (who could
not litig ate) 459, $50.
Georgia citizens who
could litigate--only
whites
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12
THE FLOODED DISTRICT.

A special from San Antonio says:
The scene of destruction and desola-
ton in the flooded district for dis
lance of 100 miles west from here and
extending south from the Southern
Pacific railway to the Rio Grande 200
miles away, is simply terrible. Thous-
ands of acres of pasture and farm land
is under water.
It is estimated that the damage to
crops in the valley of the Leona river
will reach $500, 900, while in the val
legs Of the Saco and Sabine rivers the
losses will be fully as much or more.
Many thousands of cattle, horses and
sheep were swept away. Up to Friday
night oil kilograms received by South
ern Pacific railway officials and for the
press came by the roundabout way of
Ell Paso, Pueblo and Kansas City, all
direct communication with Uvalde and
other flooded towns being cut off.
--latest reports received are more
alarming than the earlier ones. It is
still matter of uncertainty as to the
number of lives lost, but additions to
the list of drowned are constantly
coming.
About one-half the houses of Uvalde,
town of $500 people, were carried
away, and there is much suffering
there, but'no more fatalities are report
ed from that place. Nothing has yet
been heard from the settlement of
seventy-fve families several miles be-
low Uvalde, but there are still grave
fears that many if not oil of them were
swept down by the torrent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12
A Later Account.

Another and later account says that
the deluge did not come from the
clouds, as was at first supposed, but
that it came out of the ground and it's
bursting forth was caused by an earth
quake which rent the earth at several
places along the Leona river, near
Uvalde. The cracks in the earth with
the water pouring therefrom are still
visible. The Leona river, so-called, is
a dry stream ten months of the year,
but it is known that a subterranean
basin and stream of water exists under
meath the dry bed, as flowing artesian
wells are obtained by boring few
hundred feet. 1t is supposed that
this artesian basin of water is now
escaping through the cracks caused by
the earthquake. The shock of the
earthquake was distinctly felt at WAL
de and at points for many miles
around.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

Average for each Judge Average for each Geor-
in these four States, gla Judge, I.Ol6;
an Which is 322 per
cent. more than
average for each
Judge in the other
four States.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

Number of judicial
circuits, Ii.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

Number of i ty
couEts. II.
Total courts from
which cases go direct
to supreme court, 1874
Increase, &c per cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12
In 1894,

In 1878 IN 1871
Railroad corpora Railroad corpora
tons in Georgia, s. tons in Georgia,
about 60
Increase, 300 per
cen.
Number Of miles of Number of miles of
railroad in Georgia. railroad in Georgia,
6O5. 5,225.
wv Increase, 764 per
cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12
In 1894.

III 1CJHs
Number of counties
and superior courts,
1877.
Increase, AZ per cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

In 1916.
Number of counties
and superior courts, 49,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

Number of judicial
circuits, 3d.
Increase. ITO per
cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12

Rev. Walter R. Branham, probably
the oldest Methodist minister in Geor-
gia, died at his country home, near
Oxford, Ca, a few days ago. The
aged divine spent sixty years in the
pulpit, and after blameless life he
departed in peace to the mansions of
his Father. He was 81 years of age,
and in the early years of manhood be-
gan the life-work which he so nobly
carried out. Mr.. Branham preached
during his lifetime in nearly all the
towns and cities in Georgia. He was
born in Putnam county in 1918. He
began preaching in 1884. His father
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12
Georgia, $3.50

Georgia, $3.50
Which is about 240
per cent more than
the average of the
other four states.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-11-29
WORK PROMISED.
Democratic Members Are Mapping Out a
Program.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-Democratic
members of congress are arriving here,
not depressed, but mad clear through
and, while the prospect for their legis-
lation is not bright, they are laying
nj a program, and are going to make
u strong effort to push it through. Of
course what is known as the "pop-
gun" or free raw material bills will
cause the greatest battle. Senator
Harris is said to have announced that
he will begin to force them through rs
soon as the senate meets, and that he
will get them through if possible. They
provide for a reduction on sugar, free
coal, free iron and free barbed wire.
The financial scheme which Mr..
Cleveland says Secretary Carlisle will
evolve with his approval means n re-
organization of the national bank
system, and is sure to add to the live.
illness of the session. A free ship bill,
important amendments to the inter
state commerce law, and a bill allow
ing the United States government to
build and maintain the Nicaragua
canal are all or the carpet. They
will meet with lively opposition.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-11-29
PUBLISHED wEEKLY BY
JOHN N. VR00MAN, . Editor and Proprietor.
OUR SCHOOL.

The situation in our public school is
again such as to engage the earnest
solicitude of every taxpayer in the dis
trict. The lack of room in the school
building to accommodate scholars, the
shortage in school money making it
impossible to employ more teachers
and secure rooms elsewhere, are the
problems that confront our school
board, as we'll as parents, and we sin
cerely hope a satisfactory way out of
the dilemma will be speedily found.
When the present school building
was projected it a with 3 view to
giving superior educational advantages
not only to children Of this district blu,
to nonresident scholars as well. This
scheme was wiser in conception than
in execution, as u school population
has outgrown the capacity of the build
ing.
The plan adopted Of placing some
of the little folks on half time, thereby
absenting them from the school room
does not meet with the approval of al
parents, but perhaps it is the best thai
can be done at present. Ii anyone
can suggets something better no doubI
the school board would be willing te
act accordingly.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-11-29
Alias Summons.

In the Justice of the Peace Court of Big
Spring Township. County of Fergus. and
State of Montana, before William L. Nc
Farland. Justice of the Peace.
Rudolf Won Tobel and Edwin X. Cheadle,
AS copartners, Plaintiffs, vs.. George L.
Chambers, doing business as George T.
Chambers & Co., Defendant. The State oil
Montana to the above named defendant
sends greeting:
You are hereby summoned to be and
appear before me, William T. Mcfarland.
"a Justice of the peace in and for the County
OF Fergus. at my office in Lewistown.
State of Montana, within forty days of
the issuance OF this summons, to-wit, on
Monday the twenty-sixth day ofDeeenber,
on or before ten O'Clock, A. NJ, then and
there to make answer to the complaint OF
the plaintiffs herein, Won Tobel Il Cbeadle.
in a civil action to recover the sum OF
twenty dollars, for money had and re-
ceived by the said defendant from the Bank
Of Fergus County, a corporation, between
April Gath and September 18th 1894,
which said claim was, for q valuable con-
~sideration, sold and assigned by the said
Bank OF Fergus Comfy to the plaintiffs
herein on the 18th. day OF September, 1894,
which claim 10 now due and unpaid, and
in default thereof, judgement will be rem
dered against You, George T. Chambers,
doing business as George T. Chambers, &
| Co., the above named defendant, for the
sum of twenty dollars and costs OF suit in
plaintiffs behalf eA appended.
Given under my hand this 18th day OF
November, 1894. a
WV. T. MCFARLAND
Justics OF the Peace Big Spring Township.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-11-29
THE COMMISSIONER MIDDLE

The commIssionership in Fergus
county is decidedly muddled. Three
questions are involved, viz: Does Mr..
Perkins term as commissioner expire
January LIST by aso of his being
appointed by Judge DuBose?
Has Mr.. Goodell a right to sit as a
member of the board after January
1st?
Is E. T. Chandler still a commissioner
or did his term expire by reason of his
being elected state senator November
9th?
In answer to the first question as to
whether Mr.. Perkins term will ex-
pire on January LIST. must first be
cited the opinion of the attorney gen.
eral received prior to the election. In
this opinion Attorney General Haskell
states that an appointment by the
judge of the district holds only until
the nextgeneral election and cites as the
law bearing the upon case Sec. 4, Art.
l6, of the constitution which says: "a
vacancy in the board of county COM
missioners shall be filled by appoint
ment by the district judge of the dis
trict in which the vacancy occurs" and
also Sec. 1890 of the Fifth Division
General Laws. which says:
"And when a vacancy shall occur in
the Office of county commissioner the
probate judge shall appoint some suit
able person to proform the duties OF
such office; such ofiiceres so appointed,
shall hold their respective Office until
the general election mex following
such appointment"
Judge DuBose, however, during his
recent visit to Lewistown, commended
that his appointment OF MIR. Perkins
wonld hold for the term for which Mr..
Perkins wss originally elected, viz: foul
years from January 1898; In support
of which opinion he quotes from the
section Of the constitution Immediately
following the one comforting upon him
the duty.of appointment, which states:
Vacancies in all county, township and
precinct Offices, EXCEPT THAT OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS shall be filed by appoint
ment by the board Of county commits
sioners and the a~ppoin,es shall hold
his Office until the mex. general cleo
tion."
IL r. nnacubte6ly ttus that insofar A.
tss CONSTRUCTION conflicts with the terri
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-11-29

toral law the latter becomes inopera-
tive and the judge contends that the
territorial law quoted by the attorney
general does conflict with the constitu-
ton and therefore his appointment of
Mr.. Perkins holds until 1897.
Should this be the ease then there
was no vacancy in the board OF com
m~issioners at the last election and the
election of Mr.. Goodell amounted to
no more than if we had elected a
the second question therefore de
ponds on the answer to the first.
Judge DuBose says that Mr.. Perkins
term will not expire until 1897 unless
he resigns and when such resignation
shall be filed the Judge will then ap-
point a successor.
As regards Chandler the attorney
general has given an opinion to the
effect that Mr.. Chambers term as CON-
missioner expired immediatly upon his
| election as state senator, viz: November
9Th and that Mr.. Chandler has no
authority to act as commissioner sub
sequent to hat date. Section6 Article
) of the constitution says: 1.-THE term
of service of the members thereof (leg-
i~slative assembly shall begin the next
day after their election until otherwise
provided by law
Judge DuBose again differs with the
attorney general and says That in his
opinion and also in the opinion OF
many Of the best lawyers in the state
Mr.. Chandler has full power to act a.
commissioner until he shall have taken
the oath of Office AS a state senator or
the first Monday in January 1896.
The people of Fergus county do no
want the entire proceedings of the com
missioners invalidated by the partici
patton of Mr.. Chandler and it would
be well if the matter would be settled
at once.
Judge DuBose has given these ques
tons considerable thought and ha.
also consulted prominent attorneys o
the state. Should his view be correcr
he will have two vacancies to fill afteI
January 1st, for which there are already
several applicants, and no decision viii
be reached until late in December.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-11-29
MIR. E AMBITION.

There is q certain eminent gentle
man in the Republican ranks who
would like to be president of the United
States. This is a very laudsble ambi-
ton. But there seems to be one great
obstacle i'll his way at present which
must be removed to make his path
clear. Thomas b. Reed of Maine,
while a good protectionist, is smart
enough to see that he cannot sidetrack
William Mckinley on that issue, hence
hopes I O displace or belittle it hat he
may gain some advantage over the great
Ohioan. But this is too transparent.
1t will not work. The recent election
was an emphatic expression in favor
of Mckinley and protection. That
the Mckinley law was not a per-
feet one as a schedules. that many re-
auctions could have been made with
safety, its author has frankly admitted
during the recent campaign. AS a
whole, however, it was the best tariff
measure ever enacted and brought on
an era Of prosperity never before
equalled in this country. Even Mr..
Blaine, who at first criticised the bill,
afterwards gave it his hearty endorse
ment. In q letter to Hon. Joseph Man
ley in 1892, he said: 1.-TWO years ago
they passed a great enactment known
AS the Mckinley tariff law, which for q
time failed to meet with popular ap-
prevail, and was regarded with a certain
degree of distrust by those who had al
ways upheld the protective system.
But a powerful reaction has come in
consequence of the vindication of the
Mckinley tariff by experience. 1t is
found to have worked admirably and
within the last year has produced a
greater volume of business, internal
and external, import and export, than
the United States has ever transacted
before. Notwithstanding the character
and extent OF the opposition to it, agri
culture is remunerative, manufacturers
are prosperous and commerce more
fiourishing than at any previous time,
hui indicating the Mckinley tariff by
an i'm pressive and ~undepiable series OF
facts"
Mr.. Reed is q great statesman, a
splendid leader and parliamentarian,
but fortune and circumstances will
have to favor him to q wonderful de-
gree to enable him to supplant William
Mckinley in the hearts of the people
in the next two years. At present the
star of destiny hangs over Ohio's noble
son.