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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
THE KINGS .CHArIPION."
A Foolish Thing on the Program
for Edward Coronation.

A cable from London says: One of
the most interesting features of King
Edwards coronation will be the proba-
BILE appearance OF the kings champion,
who, In the presence OF the assemblage,
rides forth, throws down his gauntlet
and challenges all to dispute with him
by personal conflict the right of King
Edward to rei2n. The present kings
champion is hard working young far
mer who glories in the name of Dymo-
kee. He lives in Lincolnshire, is of a
modest and retiring nature and is much
exercised at the prospect of the great
ness which is likely to be thrust upon
him. Neither in his figure, which is
small, nor in his appearance, which is
thatIof the typical Liconshire farmer,
is he cut out for such martial duty.
Since the times of the Norman kings
the Dymokees haYe been champions.
Several rulers, notably Queen Victoria,
held their coronation without the APP
pearance of the inevitable Dymokee,
but it is thought King Edward is likely
to revive the duty thatso long devolv-
ed onthe ancient family.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
SUGAR FROM CORN STALKS.
Captain Pures of Savannah Has a
New Scheme.

Captain Dan G. Purse of Savannah.
says he has scheme on foot to estab-
fish number of big sugar mills in the
south, and that by a scientific process
Of cultivation corn stalks will be used
six months in the year for the manu-
facture of the sugar.
He says that the stalks, when grown
according to his process, will yield >
per cent more of sucrose or crystaliz-
able sweet juice than the Louisiana
sugar cane, and that this will be the
means of overcoming the draw back
that has heretofore prevented the
coming of sugar mills to Georgia
that is, cane furnishes work for the
mills only three months in the year.
The corn will furnish them with work
for six more months.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
KLINE A SMOOTH ARTICLE.
Handles His Own Case and Shows FamI-
iarity With Law.

Albert Kline, the erstwhile drum
mer who cashed worthless drafts upon
the Baltimore Mandatory at an Am
CIRCUS bank has been given prelimi-
nary examination and bound over to the
city court of ,Americus. Kline failed
to make bond and was again incarcer
ated. He astonished the audience in
the court room by appearing as his
own lawyer, and his familiarity with
law land ability in questioning
states witnesses stamped 'himas any
thing but a novice in the business.
The Americas bank will make de-
tenmined effort to secure his convic-
ton on final trial. It is desired to make
an example of Kline, who, in other in
stances, has escaped.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
NO THANKS FOR SCHLEY.
Admiral Who Won Victory at
Santiago Will Not Be Praised.

A dispatch from Washington says
that Rear Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley will never be thanked by con-
press for his great work in destroying
the Spanish fleet off Santiago
The iointresolution to extend thanks
to him cannot be passed at this session
on account of the old Sampsou-Schley
feud. and the rear admiral will be re-
tired from the navy by the age limit
on October 9, next, before congress
will meet again in regular session.
Schley will have to be content with
the unofficial thanks of the American
people which have been rendered to
him in such generous spirit.
This fact has enraged the friends OF
the admiral and they declare Sampson
snail never be thanked, and that they
viii oppose bitterly any effort to pro
mote or advance the man who was abb
sent from the great naval battle, but
who the republicans are trying to hon
or for Schleys victory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
Brakeman Orders a Private Car.

Oil strikes in California are making
poor men millionaires as in the old
days in Pennsylvania. One of the
strangest of these freaks of fortune
came to John A. Bunting, former
freight brakeman on the Southern Pa
cifc road, who has just ordered $780,,
600 private car.
Ten years ago Bunting was keeper
of railroad water tank on the desert
near Tucson, Ariz. Then he was adj
vanced and finally became freight
brakeman. He loaned friend $40
and took as collateral a watch and a
mortgage on forty acres of land in
Kern county. The friend did not pay,
so Bunting sold the watch and fore
closed the mortgage on the land. He
tried to sell the land, but could not get
ANYTHING for it. Recently oil was
struck near his place. He resigned
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27

and began to developshis property. He
struck oil and now is rated as mill
lionaire.
Bunting went into the Office of Cen
eral Manager Fillmore at San Fran
cisco one day last week and sent in his
card. Fillmore sent back reply that
he was sorry, but he had no job. Bunt-
ing sent back word that he was not
looking for jobs, but that he wanted to
buy private car.
Fillmore congratulated him and adj
vised him to buy car with all the
latest improvements, which would
cost him $4,000, and meanwhile to
rent a car from the Southern Pacific.
This he did. Bunting has no expen-
sive tastes except a strong desire to
travel in his own car and to have that
car as luxurious as it is possible to
make it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27

His uncle, close-fsted old Scotch
man who had made his money in the
western states, died and left him $780,
100000. At once he became man
importance in the eyes of those who
have the reputation of leading societ
He was overwhelmed with invita-
tions to this and that function and so
ciety was unwilling to be satisfied un-
til it had this quiet bachelor in its
grasp. Now he is in the swim for GER
tain-not probably with his entire con-
sent-but because he could not help
himself. His money made him so at
tractive that nearer view of him was
insisted upon. If his old uncle had not
made him his heir it is probable that
he would still be unknown.
Now he has his picture in the public
prints and columns are written about
him and his dinner and dance. Money
makes the mare go.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
GARDEN OF EDEN, u. S. A.
Dr. Becker of the United Geological Survey Claims Have
an Interesting Discovery

the location of the den of the serpent
been definitely determined; but these
are details which may be overlooked
If positive assurance can be had that
we have the real and Original" gar
den. What demand there would be
from various corporations for eligible
sites if the discovery were authenticas-
ed beyond the peradventure of a
doubt! There would Immediately be q
proposition to convert the garden into
national park admission free every
day in the week except Tues lays and
Fridays; twenty-five cents charged on
those days; ten per cent. of the admis-
sions to go for a monument to Adam
and Eve. Then there would come a
trolley line, passing by the gate of the
Flaming Sword and leading to a first
class tourist hotel in the apple orchard.
Among the attractions of the hotel
grounds would be the Lovers lane
down which Adam and Eve walked,
hand and hand, anon whispering airy
nothings while they inspected the
beasts and gave them their names.
And then there would be the lawn
upon which little Cain and Abel gam
boiled with the Megatherium, rode
upon the back of the Scelidotherium
and tickled the Paleoblattina with a
straw to see it run. The possibilities
of the garden as place of tourist re-
sort would be almost unlimited.
1t is to be hoped DR.. Becker will be
able to furnish positive proofs that he
has found the Garden of Eden, and
that it is now within the mixed iuris-
diction of General Macarthur and the
Taft commission. If he can do so the
American people will never permit the
scene of the early joys and sorrows of
the progenitors of the race to again
suffer neglect or fall into disrepair.
They will make it brilliant with many
electric lights and vibrant with the
clangor of trolley cars.-Savannah
News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
SNOWMAN HARRIS DEAD.
flad Exhibited in Dawson. Made
Fortune Merchandising.

w. Il. Harris, for the last nineteen
Years owner and manager of the Harris
Nickel Plate Show and widely known
among .circus and theatrical people
throughout the country, died suddenly
at his home, 223 Robey street, Chicago,
several days ago from heart failure.
Mr. Harris had lived in Chicago since
1903 and previous to entering the show
business accumulated small fortune
III mercantile enterprises. He was a
'nlrty-Second degree Mason, and a
member OF the Mystic Shrine, as well
as q lie member of the Garfield lodge.
W. Harris had frequently visited
lawson and other cities and towns
throughout this section with his show,
@u0 MS death will be regretted by the
m enF VINO have enjoyed his entertain
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27

Haye we annexed the Garden of Eden
among our Philippine possessions? DR..
Becker of the United States geological
survey, who went with our army to the
islands, is rather inclined to that opin+
ion Indeed lie advances many argu-
ments calculated to show that the first
abode of mankind upon the earth was
spot in what is now the island of Luz
zOn, over which floats the glorious
stars and stripes as a consequence of
our war with Spain. 1t would be dull
and interesting, if not incomprehensi-
BILE to the average reader, to follow the
course of DR.. Becker's argument
through its whole course. 1t covers
the ground to say that he has found
from his Investigations and explora-
tions that at some time in the Tertiary
period of the earth's existence what is
now the Philippine Islands was part
of the mainland of Asia. Then came
certain convulsions of nature which
broke up the great continent and left
the Philippines group of dots of land
surrounded by water. Previous to this
momentous change in topography,
however, had occurred the creation of
mankind and the beasts of the field,
which permitted of the scattering of
the progeny of the first-created over
the continent before the cataclysm.
DR.. Becker has discovered in Luzon
many fossils and other evidences in the
strata of earth which make him almost
certain that the veritable Garden of
Eden was situated on that island. SO
impressed is he with what he has
found that he writes eloquently to the
effect that sin bringing under our flag
the original Garden of Eden we shall
secure treasure beyond financial or
political valuation"
1t has not been possible yet to locate
the identical spot upon which the Tree
of the Forbidden Fruit grew and bore
its burden of evil for the race, nor has
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
EDWIN GOULD ARRESTED
BY A NEGRO MARSHAL
BROKE INTO MILLIONAIRE's BEDROOM
AND READ THE PROCESS.
Texas People Wish TO Know if the Title
to Land Owned by the Gould
Railroad Are Valid.

Edwin Gouldswill long have occasion
to remember the Mardi Gras ia New
Orleans in 1901. One morning last
week he was placed under arrest in
his rooms in the ST. Charles hotel of
that city by negro deputy United
States marshal, Tom Galbreath.
Mr.. Gould had not yet risen'from his
bed when Galbreath, who has been in
the United States marshal's Office for
the district of Louisiana for the past
ten years, knocked at Mr.:Gould's
door without first having .sent up his
card.
Mr.. Gould's valet came to 1.-THE door
and then without further ado the dep
uty stepped inside the door and asked
for Mr.. Edwin Gould The valet was
so takenfback in amazement that to
put it mildly in the slang of the day he
nearly fell dead.
He stammered and then stammered
again, and before he had quit STAN
mering Galbreath explained that he
was deputy United States marshal,
and that he had come to serve pro-
cess upon Mr.. Gould.
whats that, shouted Mr.. Gould,
who was in an adjoining bedroom, and
had over heard the conversation be-
tween his servant and the officer.
Mr.. Gould rushed into the parlor in
his night robe and Galbreath, taking
advantage Of the situation, immedi-
ately began to read the process YER
bal, which was summons in chan
Gerry.
A number of railroad land grant set
tiers throughout the state had taken
advantage of Mr.. Gould's presence in
the city to file suit against the rail-
roads owned by the Goulds to deter
mine whether or not they had valid
and legal titles to their lands. The
United States district attorney, VIM.
Writ Howe, filed the suit for them.
Edwin Gould will now have to appear
in court in New Orleans before he
leaves the city,and date for the hear
ing of the trial will have to be set,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
MRS. NATION.
Merely "Abated a Nuisance" in
Destroying Saloon, and Has
Been Acquitted.

Judge McCabe of Topeka, Kan, has
handed down decision in the case of
Mrs. Nation for smashing the "Sen-
ate' saloon in that city, discharging
her.
The case was submitted in an agreed
statement of facts.
Judge McCabe held that since Mrs.
Nation had no malice toward the pro-
priptor's place and destroyed the place
in abating nuisance she was not gull
ty of malicious destruction of property.
This does not affect the cases pend
ing against Mrs. Nation for the Sunday
raid for which she is now in Jail.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
NO SHARE IN PROSPERITY.
Consolidation of Railroads Throws
Thousands Out of Work.

According to the New York Mail and
Express the great railway systems
which have recently consolidated have
agreed upon an elaborate scheme for
reducing expenses. Thousands of en-
ployes are to be discharged because
there will be no need for their serv-
ices. AS there will be no competition
there will be nc need of solicitors, and
at most points there will be but one
agent for all of the roads. The scheme
also includes the taking off all useless
trains and the operating nof the roads
according to the "per ton" method.
This will make it possible to do with
out the services of thousands of men
who are now absolutely necessary.
The saving that is to be effected by
the economical methods which have
been agreed upon will, it is claimed,
amount to many millions of dollars an
nually. But what is to become of the
men who will be dismissed ? 1t is ex-
pected of course that they will find
places elsewhere. But if the new
methods are generally adopted there
will be no places for them. 1t looks
therefore as if there would soon be
thousands of men without employment
scattered throughout the country,
through no fault of their own. Natur-
ally they will begin to wonder why it
is, if the country is so prosperous, the
opportunities for earning bread are
less than when the cry of hard times
was heard on every hand.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
EltISMoney That Makes the Mare Go

p,r'l and breeding count for little
',o ssg oays' Money is what the world
.o OisulpS' The man who has it is
H. ~ ~ and coorted. although his merit
iI0ay New York papers contain
accounts Of a dinner and dance
~, ,su oy James Henry Smith, a resi-
~ Vi mat city, 1t was given at Sher-
. We'll known and fashionable res
@.ailt' The guests were the best
,an JMn people of the metropolis-the
3 'i'nllllonaires and the members of
s smart set. 1t is said that the en-
:, 'alnment cost SIS, 1000 and the num-
=, VI guests was not large.
,e 1ala who is James Henry Smith? A
yortb good fellow no doubt. and
rom my y, man in every respect. But
ion ~ oil accounts, he was not a social
o. year or SO ago. He was a we'll
W oachelor and lived very quietly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
RAW MEAT CRUSADE is ON,
A Chicago Enthusiast Opens e
Restaurant for Perfect Food.

Professor Byron Tyler, who discov
cred that raw food is the only perfect
food, has put over his room at the
Grand Central Hotel in Chicago a
sign bearing the legend "Chicago
Raw Food Society, Restaurant No. l.
Meals at all hours. Service a spec
ialty."
Prof. Tyler says he intends to estab-
lish similar restaurants in different
sections of Chicago and in other cities.
81 hope the novelty of the meals, he
said, twill attract people, who after
they have learned the virtue of food as
it is prepared by nature will eat none
but raw food"
The menu the first day was as fol-
lows: Oysters on the nshell, celery,
radishes, olives, clam juice, raw steak,
cold slaw, waldorf salad, cheese, nuts
and raisins, pressed wheat, crackers,
figs and oranges. Nothing is cooked
The steak is chopped and mixed with
celery and onions.
Prof. Tyler discovered the benefits
of raw food while he was working as a
telegraph operator. He was physical
wreck at the time and claims that his
present good health is due to the fact
that none of the life germs of his food
are killed by being cooked.
His novel crusade for reform in eat
ing will be watched with much inter-
est everywhere.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
DAUGHTERS BURN SON is SAVED.
Mother Thinks Only Of Her Blind Son and
Fails to Wake Her Two Daughters.

A Montgomery dispatch says; Bessie
and Alice Wilkes, aged l6and IS, were
cremated in fire at the home of their
widowed mother, Mrs. Wilkes, at
Prattville early this morning.
The charred remains of one of the
young girls was found in the hall. The
other was found with spring mattress
over her head, which she placed there
in endeaYoring to protect herself from
the flames.
A blind boy was also in the house,
and it was owing to this that the young
girls were not awakened, as the mother
thought only of her boy, and in saving
him forgot her daughters until toe
late
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
Mr.. Carnegie's Matrimonial Advice.

Mr. Andrew Carnegie has lately
been giving some advice to young men
on the subject of marriage. He thinks
that more men should marry women
who are older than themselves that if
a woman is 20 or 30 years older than
her husband the union is more likely
to be good for them both. "a man of
% should marry woman Of so, if we
properly seize Mr. Carnegie's idea, "
says the Nashville American. Does
Mr.. Carnegie recommend chloroform
or the sandbag in effecting such happy
unions -
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
',GPrBLICANS RUE
PHILIPPINE BARGAIN.
..oe0s BEGINNING TO REALIZE DAN
GER OF IMPERIALISM.
-, That President Mckinley May Let
.be Islands Go. Sentiment Of the
Country Causes the Change.

MI Washington correspondent OF
,.,orta Constitution writes:
'nT e, .s ane are strong indications that the
hiicaps are getting sick OF their
lVp roin in the philippines. A feeling
1', there is danger in their hold the
lna .,;nnine policy has taken particu-
n I frm hold on some of the leading
+' .,nr.esentatives of the administration
Sp congress since the enormous appro.
;otions pilllng up at this session OF
'" ,oss have been exposed to the
' ,onntrv by Senators Hales, Lodge and
.hors The expose has served to en-
O "osi1e in the public mind the great
P"'' ,,o1 COST involved in the retention
w. Ia large army in the Philippine is
,aad. and there is no longer any at
. .a to conceal the fact that the con-
,,.;ons in the islands are such as to in
~ are the presence there OF a heavy
hillary force so long as the United
States attempts to exercise sovereign
HEARING FROM THE COUNTRY.
mbo ronublicans in congress are be-
rionipg to hear from the country on
This Philippine question, and there IS
an anparent weakness OF the jingo hold
ovarvthing-in sight sentiment IN
.onsoonence. During the past few days
5onocratic leaders have been surpris-
ID NV statements from republicans
showing this weakness. On three diff
io,aot occasions recently a prominent
democratic senator has been told by
Leading republicans that there is a
strong probability of the administra-
ton letting 90 of the islands.
81 have been greatly surprised, "
said this senator to me tonight, sat
having prominent republicans say to
mo that in their opinion the Philip
nine question would be solved by Civ
Il inc No the islands. These are men who
Il have always voted with their party,
and who have shown no inclination to
break away from the party on this
question of imperialism at any time,
They are almost the last men you
would expect to take this position in
view of their record in the past.
H SIGNIFICANT UTTERANCEs.
ITO my mind their utterances are
significant They talk as it it is their
i conviction that there is to be a change
4 10 the republican policy, and that the
islands ought to be given up. Wheth-
er this is based on the idea that the
supreme court will decide againt the
gOYernmentin the question involving
the territorial problem | do not know,
but do believe from what they say,
and from their way in saying it, that
they expect the Philippines islands
will, in the not very far future, be
given pto the people of those islands
IN some way or other"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
IMPALED ON IRON FENCE.
Fearful and Perhaps Fatal Acct
dent to a Macon Tailor.

John Ward, a tailor employed at Nc
Kav's in. Macon fell from the front
stoop of his boarding house on Plum
street and was impaled on an iron spike
fence. where he hung for five minutes
before he could be rescued. 1t re-
onired the strength of three men to
lift him from the prong. which entered
the left side for six inches or more,
entirely severing one OF the entrails-
He is at the hospital, where an opera
tion has been performed and the
broken bowel sewed up. Chances are
atrainst his recovery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
FIVE TO HANG.
Were Members of knights of
Archer" and Had Sworn Ven
geance Against the Whites.

Arnold Augustus, Andrew Davis,
Richard Sanders, William Hudson ind
Sam Baldwin, five negroes have been
found guilty of murder in Screven
county and sentenced to be hung
March 90.
Tie men were members of an organ
ization known as the Knights of the
Archer. The charter of this order,
which was found by the posse arrest
ing the negroes, is said to contain an
oath of vengeance against the whites,
and the members were obligated to de.
fend themselves against the whites I'M
to death.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
HUNTING IN LEE.
Representative Duncan Carries a
Lot of Game to Atlanta

Representative A. B. Duncan of Lee
county was in Atlanta last week on
visit to Secretary of State Cook. DIR.
Duncan carried with him for some of
his friends there saddles of venison, a
couple of wild turkeys and corn sack
filed with birds, the proceeds of days
hunt in Lee county. DIR. Duncan says
hat few days ago a party of hunters
killed $500 doves on baited lands in
Lee county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
Severe Punishment for the Girls.

Ten young women of Binghamton,
N. Y, have imposed upon themselves
the hardest Lenten penance that they
could think of. They have signed an
agreement pledging themselves not to
utter word dlring the entire forty
days. A code of signals has been ar
ranged, and the use of tablets and PEN
ellis will be permitted, but no word or
sound is to escape their lips during
Lent. The girls must have broken a
mirror or done something else equally
as bad,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
No Accounting for a Woman'S Taste.

A love-sick Young man presented
himself before New Jersey court the
other day and asked for 2relief' lie
said his name was John Jorgenson, and
ba wished to get married, but the girl
did,,t like his name and wouldn't mar
~ him unless he changed it. The
name she had picked out was "Nogel-
bofer', Jorgenson therefore prayed
that he might become Vogelhofer,
md the court granted his prayer.
T tn no accounting for woman s
taste
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-27
GERMANY CARES FOR LABOR.
Uncle Sam Bends His Energies to
Promoting Commerce"

In Germany there is a government
bureau which publishes monthly sta
tistics of the labor market. Official
figures for December showed l24 men
after every 100 jobs, and the figures
for January show heavy increase in
the number of unemployed, there be-
ing now 1865 applicants for every 100
chances TO work.
If our own government would pay
half as much attention to labor as it
does to commerce" the condition of
the masses in this country would be
greatly improved.