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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-02-01
Tax Ordinance, 1899.

SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Council of the City of Daw-
son, That from an after the passage of
this ordinance every person, firm or
corporation who exercises or may exer-
else within the city any profession,
trade, calling or business of any ma
ture, whatever, shall annually register
in books 80 be kept for that purpose by
the clerk of said city council their
names and professions, trades, calling
or business, and their place of business
in any within the city by the 15th
day of January, 1899.
SECTION 2. Be 1t further ordained =,
That all persons commencing any bus
mess of any kind after the 18th of Jan.
uarv, 1899, shall register their business
as soon as they shall commence the
same.
SECTION 3. Be it further ordained,
That whenever any person or persons
having no fixed place Of business with
in the city, nevertheless exercise
within the city any bushes of any
nature whatever, such person or per-
sons shall be required to register their
names and business and shall be subs
ject to the same or like taxation on
their business as is levied by the may
or and council upon persons following
a like business and having a fixed
place of business.
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These are dangerous times for the
health. Group, colds and throat troubles
lead rapidly 10 consumption. A boulr
OF One Minute Cough Cure used at the
right time will preserve life, health and
a large amount nf money. Pleasant IT,
take; children like it. Sale>Oavis Drug
c..
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patriotic song.

patriotic song
Then came gayly caparisoned pages
and heralds, women in flowing ermine
robes knights in red hose and slashed
trunks. and over all the wigged head Of
the chancellor Of the exchequer Then
appeared Lavinia l. serene of brow and
happy of countenance She took her
place in the great throne chair. sur
mounted with the carved crown. There
was binding flash, and the room was
filed with sudden smoke Confusion
watched the diadem Then more bril-
liant flash "All over. said the photog
rapher who had placed his camera
within ten feet of the throne.
Then came the Noah s arks, the mu-
sic boxes and picture books. The young
sters scrambled and the police formed a
wavering line Of frenzied hands La
vinia rose to go. Something caught in
the long train of turquoise blue and a
yellow slipper slipped out. Isaac Rosen-
baum picked up the dainty footgear
and departed in triumph "You may
have 1t, little boy. SAID Lavln1a, land
gold ring goes with it. =" There was
a rush for other slippers in sight, but
the detectives interposed And as the
east side Cinderella waited herself away
| noted that she still wore two slippers,
but of different hue from the one the
boy held in his hand. The queen re-
turned to the Holland House. where
supper was served, and in the evening
she and her retinue visited the salon of
Mrs Frank Leslie New York Herald
The smallest things may exert the
greatest influence. DeWitt's Little Ear
ly Rlsets are unequaled for overcoming
constipation and liver troubles Small
pill, best pill, safe pill. Sae-Davis
Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-02-01

Bill posters, per annum. .......
Banks, bankers or corporations
or any individual doing a
banking business, per ahnum
Billiard, pool or bagatelle table
or games of like nature, per.
table. per annum. ..........
Such table or games shall run
only between sun up and sun
down, and only IN a single
story house, or IN a house
having no inside communIca-
ton with second story, and
saId,hOuse and room shall have
no blinds, closets or other de-
vices behind which or in
which liquors may be con-
Cealed.
Each ter pin or bowling alley,
per annum. ............
And they shall occupy the
same character of house and
use same hours as used for
pool and billiard tables.
These licenses relating to pool
and billiard tables, ten pin al
leys, etc, shall be collected
whether the same run free or
for gain,
Barber shop, per annum $500.
Blacksmith shop, per annum.
Bakery or dealer IN bakers
products, except crackers, per
Boarding houses entertaining
transients. per annum ..
Bottling works, per anuum
Building and loan associations
Ice cream peddlers, per annum.
Insurance company, fire, per
or negotiations of loans upon
real or personal property,
per annum e. ...............
Broker, meaning a person VINO
acts as an intermediary be-
tween buyer and seller, for
the col sideration of a broker
age or commission from either
the sale Of merchandise stocks, q
bonds, etc, per annum .....
Wholesale dealer in merchan-
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Dancing master or mist

dhhuII .........,s.... $4,000. 80
Dealers and merchants dealing
in and selling goods, wares
and merchandise at retail in
quantities less than $1,000.
$500 per annnm; 81 200 and
+ not over $4,000, $3.50; $4,000
and not over So 900, $1,000;
$4,000 and not over So, 900.
$3.50; $1,000 and not over
$500, $500; 81 800 and not
over $4,000, $40 90; $4,000
ana over 25
Dealers in cigarettes or cigars
cite papers. per annum. 80. 10
Dealers in nOstrums, used for
medical purposes, or devices
or ike character, per annum. 10
Dealers in nostrums, If free ex-
hibitiOn is given In connec-
tiOn with same, per annum. %
Drumming-each person drum.
ming or soliciting trade ex
cept to the middle of the
street in front of his or her
place Of business, per annum. $50
To stand upon the sidewalk
so as to ObstruCt the free pass.
age OF pedestrians, to take
hold of or use other means TO
induce or force hesItating
persons to go to or enter any
place of business, except
polite invitation to walk in.
or any other act or acts tend.
ing to embarrass or annoy
persons in the free transact
ion of business, shall be con-
sidered street drummer, and
on conviction of violation of
this ordinance may be pun
ished as prescribed in section
l43 of the charter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-02-01

Wagon, carriage and buggy re-
posltory, or mandatory or
dealer IN same in the city,
per annum. ............ -. 1900
Wheels of fortune and other
sporting devices, per day 100 90
Warehouses, each per anDum. 1000
Parties selling 80 or taking or
ders from consumers and not
otherwise provided for in this
ordinance, from 81 to $50 per
day, in discretion of the
mayor.
Jewelry or merchandise wheel
or devices of like character,
chance devices, per day. 100 90
1t is hereby ordered that the above
licenses shall be issued for the year
only and not for any fractional part OF
the year, unless otherwise provided for.
Read and adopted at regular meeting
of city council of Dawson this January
End, 1899
w. B. CHEATHAM, Mayor.
L. C. HOYL, Clerk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-02-01
Agency or agent. real estate

agency or agent, real estate,
selling or renting, per annum 5 Is 90
Agent, bicycle, or dealers or
kept for hire, per annum. 80. 90
Agent, sewing machine, per an
mum ,..... ..........,........ 1000
AuctiOneer or vendue master,
per annum. 49,. $50 90
Auctioneert of live stock, per
day $85 90; per annum. 49,. 25O 90
Agent or agents not specially
mentioned from 81 50 to $40
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disc of any character, per

disc of any character, per
ahnum ................... 81 w
Canvassers soliciting orders
from house to house for them
selves or others for period
icals, pictures, patent arti-
cles, or any articles per day $50
Circus or menagerie, or both
combined. per day 5000 to-. IS 90
Circus parade, if exhibition is
given outside of city, per day so 90
Canyassers of books, except BIZ
BILE or other religious litera,
ture, per day 1.50; per week. 800
Lady canvassers are not sub
ject to said license tax.
Cotton gin, per gin, per annum 500
Cotton seed oil mill, per annum 35 90
Coal, lime or brick dealer, per
annum ................. 1000
Cotton compress. per annum so 90
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-02-01

L
Lightning rod agents or deaIavs
soliciting orders and PUTTING
up work in the city each ner
annum.
Lunch stand, $500 per day or
each, per annum.
Lecturer, charging for same av
cept in licensed opera bonsa
shall pay from $500 to $25 90
per day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-02-01

Nehicles-For each one horse
dray or wagon, per annum So;
for each RwO horse dray or
wagon, per annum $40 90; for
each 3 horse dray or wagon,
Sl5 90; for each four horse
dray or wagon, per annum.
Iransclent persons selling We
hicles, per annum. .........
Variety works, sash, blind and
door factory, per annum. -.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-02-01
TX

KNIFE board or stick board each
per day '0''
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-02-01

Tailor or agent of a tailor, mer>
chant tailor, clothing mer.
chant, per annum. ..........
Telephone exchange, each per
Telegraph company, each per
annum .
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25
STIR UP REBELLION.
Eight English omcers Arrested L. South
Africa.

Africa.
Pretoria, Transvaal, May 49, The
arrest at johannesburg of eight alleged
former British officers, on the charge
of high treason, has caused intense ex-
excitement there The prisoners were
brought to Pretoria by special train.
After they had been lodged in Jail they
were visited by the British diplomatic
agent here.
The arrests were effected by detec-
tive who joined the movement, which,
1t is asserted, was for the purpose of
enrolling men in order to cause an out
break of rebellion. discriminating
documents were found on the prisoners
and it Is expected further arrests will
be made.
The officers arrested are Captain
Patterson, formerly of the Lancers;
R. F. Nichols, Lieutenant. Trembott,
G. A. Ellis, lately private detective
at Johannesburg; Lieutenant John
Allen, formerly of the horse artillery;
Quartermaster Michael, Former Ser
geant j. Fries and R. p. Hooper. None
Of them have been in the employ of the
British South African Chart cred COM
pany.
1t is said til commissioner of police,
who had the affair in hand, had been
working up the case for months. Mr..
Beatty, the detective, who effected the
arrests, received his instru ctions last
week and secured the necessary war
rants yesterday.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25
REBELLION NEARING END.
Americans Now Have Complete Control OF
the SituatiOni

Americans Now Have Complete Control OF
the situatloni
Manila, May 21-The Americans
positively have entire control of the
situation If the rainy season does not
set in within ten days. and make fur
ther military operations impossible,
should the insurgents still prove in
tractable.
The purpose of the Filipino leaders
to give up the struggle against Ameri-
can authority was made known by two
delegates of the Filipino peace com
mission, who remained in San Isidro
when it was captured and surrendered
to Lawton's advance guard.
In conversation with American Off
GERS they state that the Filipino forces
have been for the last four days will
ing to secure peace on any terms that
General Otis might see fit to offer
They declare General Lawton, by his
rapid and energetic advance from
Balinag, has not allowed their forces
a moments cessation from fighting.
The delegates add, as their most i'm
portant information, that Aguinaldo
himself will sue for peace through the
peace commission within two days. II
he does not so act the Filipino gov
eminent will repudiate him, as four
fifths of the natives are weary of the
war and desire the early ending Of
hostilities
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25

creature shall not live upon the earth.
1t was painful duty, no doubt, for the
jury In this case to find you guilty, as
they have. 1t Is also an unpleasant
task for the court, at this time, to fix
the time and pronounce the death SEN
tence upon you; although it is mere
perfunctory matter as far as the court
Is concerned, unless willing to violate
the statutes Of the state and all legal
requirements, the court has no discre-
ton otherwise than to pronounce the
death penalty upon you. Mercy is d.
vine quality, but of course mercy can
not rob justice. Justice claims her
own, and under the statutes there Is no
way to permit mercy to prevent the
terms Of the statutes being enforced.
You have your right to make a choice
as to the manner of death-to be hung
by the neck until dead, or to be shot.
Which Is your preference"
"My preference is to be shot" was
the firm, clear and distinct announce
ment of Morgan, looking steadily at
the judge.
Judge Hart then continued: "The
judgment, sentence and decree Of the
court is that you, James Morgan, be
taken hence by the sheriff Of Box Elder
county and safely kept until the 18th
day of July, and on that day, within
the exterior walls Of the state prison OF
Utah, between the hours of o a. m and
1 o'clock p. m, that you, by the sheriff
of this county, be shot until dead, and
may God have mercy upon your soul.
The court room was crowded t.
suffocation with interested spectators
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25
i MORGAN TO BE SHOT.
THE DATE OF EXECUTION FIXED
FOR JULY 7, NEXT.
Young Bandit Who Killed Police Captain
Brown Receives His Sentence Calmly,
Apparently Being the Least Agi-
tated Man In the Court Room.

brigham City, Utah, May 17.-Abe
Majors, alias James Morgan, who was
convicted on the 10th inst. of murder
in the first degree for killing Police
Captain Brown of Ogden, on April 3oth
last, will pay the penalty of his crime
on July 7th next, when he will be exc
cuted at the state penitentiary.
Morgan was brought into court for
sentence at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing and on being asked whether he
had any legal cause to present why
sentence of death should not be pro-
nounced against him, Attorney Ricy
Fl. Jones, on behalf of defendant, arose
and made an argument in arrest of
judgement and motion for new trial.
An affidavit was fled reciting the de-
PENDANTS inability to pay for tran
scribing the reporters notes, and ask
ing the court for an order that this be
done at the expense of the state. No
objection to the state bearing such ex-
pense was made by the prosecution,
but the motion for a new trial was
strongly opposed.
The court overruled the motion for a
new trial, but ordered transcript of
the evidence to be made at the states
expense.
Defendants counsel have taken steps
to accelerate the appeal.
Morgan was then told to stand up,
and Judge Hart proceeded as follows:
at Is always a serious matter when
an individual assumes, or has to as
sumo the disposition of human life, and
fix the time beyond which fellow
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25
AVOID FUSION.
This is the War Cry of the MiddIe-of-tho-
Road Populists For 1900.


This is the War Cry of tho Middle-of-th
Road POPullsts For 1900.
Kansas City, Mo-, May 19.-An ad-
dress to the Populists of the country
has been issued by the national organ.
ization of the Peoples party with the
Endorsement of the National Reform
Press association. These two bodies,
whose common object is to keep the
Populist party in the middle-of-the-
road, avoiding fusion with other po-
litical parties everywhere, had been
In session here since Tuesday morning
and the adoption Of the address con-
cluded their labors.
All was not harmony among these
middle-of-the-road leaders, and only
after long and heated discussions was
an address agreed upon. A hard fight
was made to secure the Endorsement of
Wharton Barker and Ignatios Dom
nelly for president and vice-president
In 1900, but this the committee refused
to recommend. Instead thorough
organization of the middle-of-the-
readers In every section of the country
Is urged with the understanding that
they shall enter the next national cam.
paigr with the present Populist organ,
ization, but that whenever fusion shall
gain the day, whether in county, state
or nation, the middle-of-the-roaders
shall bolt and begin an active campaign
to carry out their principles.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25
STUDENTS ATTACK CIRCUS.
Wild West show Parades In Princeton n.
spite Difficulties.


Princeton, N. j., May 17.-Pawnee
Bills Wild West employees and Prince
ton students INDUCED in a pitched bat.
tie yesterday, and continuous and
serious rioting was prevented only BY
the presence of men with cool heads.
and the action of President Patton Of
Princeton university. later in the day.
in calling mass meeting of all the
students.
For fifty years it has been an un-
written law Of Princeton that no circua
parade must pass through the streets.
Every show proprietor in making his
dates has always left Princeton from
the list, for it had been q matter of
common knowledge that the students
would enforce the unwritten law. The
authorities attempted to persuade the
manager of the circus to abandon the
parade, but he would not listen.
The trouble commenced when the
students began throwing giant fire.
crackers under the feet of the horses
and rotten eggs at the circus people
The cowboys and Indians charged the
students, using their whips, and were
met with storm of stones. Revolvers
were drawn, but fortunately their
owners were wise enough to fire high
over the heads of their antagonists.
Edward Dimon, colored, was knocked
down and kicked in thehead by pony.
and his skull fractured. Astudent was
injured by pony trampling upon him,
another was injured by bola, while
still another was struck by an Indian
with one of the snake whips. Many
students were less severely hurt. The
cowboys and Indians were also badly
bruised and cut.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25
IGeneral Gomez's Manifesto.

Havana, May 1s. - The manifesto
which General Gomez is preparing to
issue will not only review his own po-
sition as to the payment of the Cuban
army, but probably will direct the
forces to disband. Following its publ
cation, Governor General Brook will
issue modified order eliminating the
necessity for the participation of any
Cuban commander in the distribution
of the $4,000 The governor.general
regards Gomez as having acted sincerity
throughout.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25

Havana, May 17.-Colonel Reide has
been making an inspection of the
forts around Havana, preparatory to a
report to General Brooke. He says
that enormous sums were spent by the
Spaniards upon defenses that are now
utterly worthless. Cabanas fortress
alone cost originally $4,000, 900, but
two or three well-directed shells al
most demolished it, and the same is
said to be the case of all the other for
tresses, including Moro Castle.
Colonel Reide says that one sharp
shooter stationed on the roof of the
Tacon theatre with an ordinary SER
vice rifle, could practically render any
Havana fort untenable. A single
artillery shot could, in many instances
make q whole wall crumble into dist.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25
MURDER IN PRISON.
Crimes Commit ted Behind Prison Walls In
California.


San Francisco, May 1s.-Jacob OPP
penheimer, prisoner serving life
term in the San Quentin penitentiary
for the murder Of fellow convict
named Ross, at the Folsom state pris-
on, attacked a guard named James
Mcdonald. stabbing him five times.
The guard will die.
John Showers, three-year man, and
one of the best behaved men in the
prison, was stabbed to death by George
Putnam, a lifelong friend OF the
Majors boys. Revenge was the cause
of the Folsom murder, Showers having
turned states evidence in the Lloyd
Majors murder case nearly twenty
years ago. Abe Majors is now under
a sentence of death in Utah for the
murder of Police Captain Brown.
Archie Majors was killed by Brown in
an attempt to capture the young des-
peradoes. Lloyd Majors and a man
named Jewell murdered two men in
this state twenty years ago, and were
hanged on the evidence of Showers.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25
AGUlNALDO FLEES.
Retreats from Balinag Into Nueva EcIja-
Nothing Heard of Him In Two Weeks.

Retreats from Balinag into Nueva EcIja-
Nothing Heard of Him In Two Weeks.
New York, May ia dispatch from
San Miguel via Manila says: 1t is said
that Aguinaldo has fed into the prov
ince of Nueva Ecija. On April 20, he
retreated by carriage from Balinag
through San Isidro and nothing has
been heard from him in two weeks.
The 5000 Spanish prisoners who are
reported to be held by the insurgents
have been carried into northern
province and scattered among small
garrisons. They are beyond American
succor this season unless Filipino
surrender takes place within three
weeks.
Five American prisoners were car
ried through this town last week.
Their names are unknown.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25
DAMAGES FOR LYNCHINo.


An Indiana Judge Decides That Action
May be Brought.
Indianapolis, May 19.-Judge Baker
of the United States District court has
rendered decision in which he holds
that the heirs Of Marion Taylor, who
was lynched at Scottsburg several
months ago, had right Of action for
damages against the sheriff of the
county and his bondsmen. The decis-
ion was rendered on q motion to over
rule demurrer to the complaint. The
sheriff, James f. Goblin, and his bonds
men were required to answer the COM
plant within ten days, The case,
which is for $4,000 damages, is ex-
pected to come to trial in about thirty
days.
In holding that the sheriff is re-
sponsible for the prisoners in his care,
the court said, in part: "If the law
imposes duty of care in respect to
animals and goods which he takes into
his possession by virtue of his office,
why should not the law impose the
duty of care upon him in respect to
human beings who are in his custody
by virtue OF his office? Is helpless
prisoner, in the custody of sheriff,
less entitled to his care than a bale OF
goods or dumb beast? The law is not
subject to any such reproach."
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25
NICARAGUAN CANAL.
Commission Reports the Great Waterway
Can be Built for SI25,OOO,OOO.

Can be Built for Sl25,OOO,OOO.
Washington, May 81. - The Near
aguan canal commission, Admiral
Walker, Colonel Haines and Mr.. Haupt,
are understood at last to have settled
the previous disagreement which has
so long delayed the report of the com
mission and which for short time
threatened to make necessary the ap-
pointment by the president of another
commission under the authority con
ferred by the last session of congress.
The compromise effected among
the commissioners results in their fix
ing the cost of the proposed waterway,
which Is pronounced entirely feasible,
at $l25, 900, 900. 1t is believed the re-
port will be signed and delivered to
the president Immediately on his re-
turn from Hot Springs to Washington.
"The members of the commission
had agreed after the elaborate and
thorough consideration they have given
to the subject, and believe that the
last objection to the beginning of the
interoceanic waterway had been swept
aside and that congress may be relied
upon to promptly authorize the canal s
construction.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25
HOME IN TWO MONTHS.
Arrangements Being Made to Return the
Philippine Volunteers.

Washington, May 2O.-War depart
nent officials expect that within two
months the Pacific transport feet will
be on its way home from Manila with
The last of the volunteers. The entire
Pacific feet is being overhauled and
proYisloned for the voyage to Manila
Ind return. There will be no delay in
The sailing of the ships. OF the feet
Of transports In the Pacific, the Sher-
nan, Grant and Sheridan are under or
iers for Manila, and will carry regular
troops to take the place of the volun-
teers.
Secretary Alger had a long confer
snce yesterday with the heads of the
Itah bureaus of the department re-
Tarding arrangements for the return
of the volunteers. Nearly every state
has requested that the regiments be
returned to the states whence they
same, as the people want to see them
IS organizations instead Of individuals.
II this be decided upon, while await
Ing muster out they will be held in
camp either at San Francisco or at
Itate camps, where they exist.