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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-31
STATE HOUSE.
Legislators Received Pay at
Adjourned Session.
Philadelphia Woman Takes Out Hunt
er's License.
Executive Council Will Meet, This At
ternoon.


" men lhe Legislature reconVenes OF
! uesday morning it will be the thira
thie mat mat body has met after 50
i'iS an adjournment, since the state
| Ha9 aulli4lted 10 the Unlon. BeSideS
| the Two previous adjourned sessions OF
the Legislature there have been three
extra sessions. At each of the extra
sessions the members of both houses
nave voted pay to themselves for at
| tendance and mileage while at one of
| the adjourned sessions they Gld the
same thing. At one Of the adjourned
sessions new business, so the report OF
the session indicates, was transacted.
The FIRST adjourned session OF TIE
Legislature was in lS{0and was held Tor
the purpose Of accepting the report OF
the committee to revise the Statutes.
At this session large number Of acts
and resolves were passed and approved
| by the Governor. Tht session lasted sc
| days and the members received mileage
and pay for attendance.
TEo years later, in 1872, an extra
session Of the Legislature was held to
hear the report Of the committee on the
matter OF the northern boundary ques-
lioa. which was then asitating this
part o: the country. The report Of the
committee is a lengthy document and
Was accepted. At this session, which
lasted - days. an act was passed fixing
the bases of representation in the Leg
islat1re for the various towns in the
State. At this time the members of
both houses voted to pay themselves
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-31
TO THE NATIONAL HoMI
AIDES

iGnIrn Our monthly regulator IS the
hfttrN best remedy known to medical
science for the immediate re-
lief of all Negotiations. Success guaran-
teed- No pain, no danger or Interference
with work. The most difficult cases sue
cessfully treated by mail. Write for fur
Their particulars and free confidential adj
vice. Remember this remedy is absolute
ly safe. All letters truthfully answered.
Sent by mail securely sealed for ST. Reg
lister letters containing money. Mrs. Dr..
J. j.. Bishop Office IFS fremont St, Room
s, Boston, Mass. aprild&w1yr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-31


Mrs Catherine y. WhilIdin Of Phil
aGp,rhia. IS the Grst woman to take out
Il Epn.o;'s license in Maine. The Ii
rense WAS issued to her on Saturday.
Her hus' and, John Nhilldin, Is prom
incnt wool merchant in the Quaker
lily. AMI already has purchased 4 Ii
CcnEo to hunt in Maine the cominS
season. Alung with the Zee for Mrs.
Whil'Hin's license, came thse r. four
other Philadelrhians. who viii accom-
pany hef ana her htSpahu |" MAINE
making , party of six, which VIII come
from that city.
Saturday night when the state
Houat employees quit work ana went
to thei" homes the Capitol was shining
from basement TO dC5l". fof th' past
week SGT, stevens has mad the ehtie
force with some extra help at work
putting the building IN iirSt-ciaSS con-
dition #" the coming OF the he&lSIitufe
week. everything mas peeh h-3de S'S
clean ard bright as soap ana water
could make II.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-31

to come before the Council at this meet
ing. The usual number OF appoint-
ments have been made by the Governor
and will come up for confirmation, and
there are about the usual number of
bills to be audited.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-31

Miss Eva L. Shorey, stenographer TO
the Governor. has returned from her
annual vacation, and is once more at
tending to her duties in the executive
department
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-31
RAILROADS q STEAMBOATS,.
J q " I !, sIslIf|yF
In Effect June is, 1903.
Trains leave Augusta, as follows:
THROUGH TRAINS

| Iralns leaVe Augusta, as follows:
| THROUGH TRAINS.
GOING WEsT-6.S7 A. n, for Lewiston,
Pennington, Rangeley, Rockland, Port
iand; Boston, Quebec and Montreal; 9.4i
A. M; Q0.40 A. NJ. Sundays. for main line
points only, express for Brunswick, Lew
RocIiland, Portland and Boston. connect
ing for White Mountain points and
Lancaster; e 08 daily for Portland and
Boston, and S.52 7. NJ, for Brunswick,
ton. Montreal and Chicago connects at
portland with through sleeper for New
YORK, leaving Portland. $40 p. M, Except
saturday,; arriving New York 7.G5 A. NJ;
300 7. NJ. Sundays only, for Portland and
3oston and connecting at Portland with
through sleeper for New York as above;
loT lewiston, Batn. Rockland, Portland
ana Boston; '2.35 A. NJ, Portland and Bow
n, GOING EAsT-1245 A. M. might cx-
press, for Skowhegan. Bangor, Moose
mead n, Lake Caribou and Aroostook coun-
y, wa 3 q 4. r. R.; Vance5oro. st. Ste
p p5aata st. Andrew. St. John. viz Canadian
M, Bangor Calais and Bar HARDER; eos
A. H., Tor Waterville. Skowhegan, Bel
last Bangor, Ellsworth, Ba- Iarbor;
way stations to Lewiston; els A M, for
WaterviHe, Newport Foxcroft. GreenviHe
ara a. bangor; i 70. nooT,. ior Bangor, Bar
4tIaroor 20. ". Harbor, Aroostook county,
~ ~
ton and way stations, via Waterviiia and
winthrop; .2.35 P. NJ. express for Bucks
port and daily 70 Bangor and Bar Hareor;
$40 2. NJ, for Waterville Oakland. North
Anson, Bingham. Sk0wilessn, Belfast.
Dexter Dover and Foxcrcft, GreenyilIe
Bangor, OLD Town and Mattawamkeag.
726 T. M, for Waterville; S.l5 A. NJ, Sun,
DAYS only, for Waterville, Bangor and
Bar Harbor
The night Pullman train going East az
Il 40 A. M, runs every night, SUNDAYS In
Guided, but not to Skowhegan on Monday
mornings nor on Sunday mornings -
Belfast, Dexter orr beyond Bangor, ex.
G9epting to Bar Harbor, and Wash. Co. r.
DAILY for main line points
ACCOMMODATION TRAINS
SOUTH GARDINER TO AUGUSTA.
Sundays
: AN Jpn PM.P.M AIN.
20. Gard, w., go loo 40 6.41 as
643 log 4IS eo0 1ooS
Augusta. ar, $50 $50 40 G.05 10.I5
AUGUSTA TO SOUTH GARDINER.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-31

Through tickets to California and All
points South and West may be had of 10.
h Walker, ticket agent, Augusta, the
only office in Augusta selling via ali
penSe.
GEO. F. EVANS, e. BooTHBY.
V. Pres. & Gen. Mag'r., @. p. & T. A.
Portland. Me.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
TAX COTTON FOR STATISTICS
Committee Authorizes Favorable
Report on the BurlesOn Bill.

The committee on WAYS and
means of the lower house of con-
gress has authorized a favoroble re-
port on the bill introduced by Mr..
Burleson of Texas, providing for the
collection of cotton statistics, but
amended IL so as to haYe the collection
made by the census bureau instead of
the agricultural department, and
further by striking out the provision
for gathering wheat statistics.
A tax of l mill on each bale of cotton
is provided to defraY the expense OF
gathering the information. The bill
requires all persons or concerns own
ing or operating cotton gins to report
to the director of the census at such
times as he may direct the number of
bales ginned during prescribed pc
riod.
IT is contemplated by the bill that
information will be furnished with
such frequency as to show the amount
of cotton that is being produced.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
GIFT WAS RETURNED.
Dallas Ladies Refused Charity
Donated from MRS. Roosevelt.

A Dallas, Tex, special says there is
much excitement aEong the ladies' in
That city who are working TO raise
funds for the local kindergarten work,
as Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, wife OF
We chief executive of the United
bates, or her private secretary, sent a
landkechief to be sold.
Alta mass meeting muck indignation
Was expressed at the gift, and remarks
we're made in regard TO Mrs. Roose-
Vets handkerchief taste which were
UFclaedly Uncomplimen tary.
resolution was adopted that the
uandkerchief should be returned to
4fS Roosevelt after being exhibited at
"nuch look and the receipts be
held.
handkerchief received from Mrs.
emerson Davis for the same purpose
'% gratefully accepted by the ladies
ssSllng up the reception ia futherance
Y kindergarten work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
THEORIES PUT IN DOUBT.
interesting Disclosures as to the
Life-History of IS Old People

An investigation int the life-his'
tory of seventy-fve persens over nine
ty years of age, conducted recently at
Dresden, discusses some interesting
facts. Seventy of the old people are
Jolly, only five being of a serious turn
of mind. All of them sleep from eight
to zine ke2rs out of the twentY-four.
Nearly all of them hate warter; few
of them use it occasionally fer wash
ing their hands, bat never take q
bath. Very few of the number are
abstainers, aad one old woman says
she could not live unless she got
drunk three times q week. The old
est man ia the lot, aged 100, gets drunk
on every recurrence of his birthday.
The living rooms of most of the old
people are seldom if ever aired. Most
of them are heavy eaters. Nearly all
of the men are smokers, as are some
of the women. These details are of
C character to put in doubt some favor
lite theories of how TO live a hundred
years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
TILLMAN WILL AID NEPHEW
Senator Visits J. II. TiIIman and
Discusses Latter's Case.

A Colum bia, S. c., dispatch says
there has been considerable specula-
tion as to what part Senator Tillman
would take in the case of his nephew,
j. Fl. Tillman, now in the Columbia
jail under charge of murder.
1t has been known that for years the
senator and his nephew have been on
bad terms. Only few days ago Sena-
tor Tillman wrote a letter, which has
been published, in which he said there
were two kinds of Tillmans, and that
his nephew had opposed him politically
for the last ten years.
In the last few days J. H. Tillman
has appealed to his uncle, and as a re-
suit the senator stopped over in Co
lumbia on his way to Edgefeld one
day last week.
His movements were known to but
few people. He drove directly to the
jail and spent several hours with his
nephew, going over the line of de-
Tense with him and making sugges-
tions.
1t is given out by ATTORNEYS for J.
81. Tillman that the senator promised
to give him any assistance in his pow
err
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
SECRETARY ROOT
ON NEGRO PROBLEM
UNDERTAKES TO DEFEND ROOSEVELT
BY MAKING COMPARISONS.
Admission Is Made That Plan TO Give
the Negro Equal Rights and Git
zenship' Is a Failure.

At the celebration of the fortieth
anniversary OF the Union League Club,
in New York, Secretary of War Root
made an address in which he said:
"After the civil war the great oues-
tion was, What shall we do with the
black man. and the answer was, Give
him citizenship, equal rights and the
franchise, and he will rise. Three
amendments were added to the consti-
tuition, and fear that we will have to
face the conclusion that the expert
ment has failed.
"The suffrage has been taken away
from the negro, and in many of the
southern states the black man no long
er has the right of suffrage.
ga curious development has been
seen within the past year. President
Roosevelt has appointed fewer black
men than President Mckinley did, and
there are today fewer negroes holding
Office than when Mckinley died. Yet
loud cries are to be heard in the south
about President Roosevelt's policy in
appointing black men to Office in the
south. Under Presidents Mckinley,
Cleveland, Harrison and back to
Hayes time more negroes were APP
pointed to Office and nothing was said.
"a black man attended an official
reception in Washington at the white
house short time ago. The black
man, as an official of the government,
had always attended these receptions.
Yet the invitation of the president to
these men was the signal for an out
cry of thousand papers in the south
that the whites were being insulted.
81 don't want to argue this question.
/ am certainly showing that we have
to face new change of feeling in the
south, that the black man is denied
the right to aspire to the highest dig
nifty which was formerly unquestioned
but is now questioned. In a short time
the white man will succeed in exclud-
| ing the black man from all Offices in
the southern states.
1--WE can never throw off the respon-
sibilitY that rests on our people for the
welfare of these black people that we.
held in slavery for so many genera
lions. Nov that the first attempt has
| failed, the question is what to do, and
it should take the greatest thought of
| the greatest minds of the country
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
ORDERED THE TRAIN BACK.
The Limited Flyer Held Up by
Mrs. Vanderbilt.

For tourist flyer racing southwark
from New York to ST. Augustine at a
speed of a mile a minute to stop, ex-
cept at scheduled stations, is rare; for
it to run back nearly twenty-five miles
to pick up passenger or two is almost
unheard of, yet that is what the South
ern's Palm Limited did Thursday, says
Savannah dispatch,
The train is due to arrive in Savau-
nah at 1920, railroad time. 1t was an
hour or so late, and running at it's best
speed when it passed Pineland, the
station of the club by that name, some
twenty-five miles above Vaudeville,
and one of the favorite resorts OF
wealthy New Workers by whom it was
organized. AS the train drew near
the station three or four people we're
seen on the platform evidently await
ing the train with view of boarding
it.
The engineer smiled as he thought
how badly disappointed they'd be, and
without touching the throttle let the
train continue her rapid way SaYan-
MAYNARD. In the party on the plat
form at Pineland, however, was Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who had decided
to run down and spend the night at the
country home of her brother, f. I.
Wilson, Jr., BlufftOn. She intended
to make the trip via Savannah.
The fact that the Limited had gone
by without stopping for her didn't
worry her in the least. She got Mr..
Vanderbilt to telegraph to Hardee'
vile, the next regular stop for the
train, and have it ordered back. 1t is
not known what arguments were con-
tanned in the message, but they were
potent, for when the Limited reac he'd
Hardeeville, twenty-five miles beyond
Piueland, the train was ordered back
for Mrs. Vanderbilt and her party, and
not until they had been taken aboard
was the trip resumed to Savannah.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
PREYING ON EX.SLAVES.
Get Dollar for Informal
ton How to Get Pensions.

An Americas special says: The
effect of Hanna's proposed pensioning
of ex-slaves is resulting here in the
eeecing of aged negroes by unscrupu-
lous sharpers.
Some of these old negroes applied at
the Office of the county ordinary today
for pensions, having been directed
there by negro sharpers claiming to be
government agents. These self-con-
stituted agents are going through the
country here telling ignorant negroes
how 10 spply for pensions aud demand
ing a dollar for such information.
Several dupes have shown up already
aud Others are expected.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
WHAT A FALL is THIS,
SIDE BOARD GIVEN ITO MRS. HAYES
is USED IN A BEER GARDEN.
Was Presented to wife of the President
in Approval of Her Action in Barr
ina Wine from the White House.

A unique discovery has just been
made that in Washington beer gar
den stands the magnificent sideboard
which the young ladies of Ciacinnati
made and presented to Mrs. Hayes
when she was mistress of the white
house, as token of their approval OF
her action in barring wine from the
menu of the presidential dinners. The
sidehoard which remained wineless
during the Bayes administration is
now filled with siphons, bitters, ocean
tiers and liquor bottles. On the top
shelf there is ranged row of fine old
German beer stems.
The sideboard was put up at al auc-
ton of discarded white house furni-
ture some B.me ago and was knocked
down to :the proprietor of beer gar
den for $50, which is much less than the
material cost. The Young ladies OF
Cincinnati who did the lay work, Mrs.
Bellamy Storer, wife of the present
ambassador to Austria, and Mrs. VIM.
Taft, wifeIof the present civil govern
or of the Philippines, both OF whom
we're then unmarried, were among
those who contrib uted to the decorat-
ed work OF the sideboard. After the
gift was rendered to Mrs. Eaves it was
decided that it would be best for the
president to accept on her behalf, and
this was done. During several admln-
istrationsSthe sideboard was consPic'
uous article of furniture in the white
house, although it was by no means
ALWAYS free from wines as it was for
four wears after it's installation.
Soon after it was auctioned of JOHN
r. Mclean, OF the Cincinnati EnQuir-
er. who resides in Washington, learE-
ed of it's resting place in the beer
Garden. He offered $3.50 for the side
board. 1t was refused. Colonel Webb
HAYES, son of President Hayes, has
been in Washington several days. he,
too. went to the beer garden, but he
came away without the sideboard
when the proprietor informed him
that If any one desired to preserve the
traditions of this piece of furniture
from violation he could have it for
s., 900.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
EUFAULATALKS DISPENSARY
Petitions Being Signed and a Hot
Fight May Result.

A Eufaula, Ala. special says the
matter of dispensary for that city is
being agitated.
Four petitions praying the signatures
of citizens throughout the city and the
entire beat are being circulated and
freely signed.
Although it is stated the measure is
meeting every reasonable encourage
ment and it is believed that majority
has SO far favored it, if left to a popu-
lar vote it will be most vigorously
fought.
Four tar rooms are now doing suc-
cessful business in the city and four
are being operated just beyond the
suburbs.
Citizens at the present time, howev-
er, seem to think the dispensary is
sure thing for the near future.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
A WIFE'S HORRIBLE CRIME.
Murdered Her Husband asad Fed
His Charred Bones to Chickens

Mrs. Lafayette Taylor is in the Sui
liYan county, New York, Jail, having
confessed to numbering her husband
and burning his body.
Her A4-year old daughter witnessed
the killing, and helPed her to cut up
the body in small pieces with an axe
and burn it in the kitchen stove, to-
gether with the clothing of the victim
The burned bones were ground fine
and fed to the hens. The blood spots
we're secured up with paint.
The TaylOrs lived on farm a mile
from the main road and the chances of
discovery were few. Mrs. Taylor is
about forty years of age. She says she
confessed because the crime haunted
her
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18

According to a washington special
TO the philadelphia Record, after the
of congress there will be
a pilgrimage of southern democrats to
the home of Judge Alton B. Parher
iu New York. Sentiment ia favor of
Judge Parker for the presidential
domination has crystalized and the
representatives from the southern
states want to be assured that he will
take the domination before they go TO
their homes. According TO this same
authority, the southern democrats
want to make the next campaign on
the question OF tariff and the trusts,
and are Goa WINGED that it will be sue
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
AFTER THE BOIL WEEVIL
Unusual Activity in Efforts Obtain Government Aid in Annhi
ating This Enemy Cotton Rewards for Some Genius
Who Will Rise Up and Smie the Pest.

come to the aid of cotton raisers in
this hour of peril, Perhaps this is due
to the fact that the pest first appeared
in Texas, and at the present time has
become so numerous that there is no
living in the same country with him.
At the last session of congress the
Texas members began to show an un-
wonted degree of concern and appre-
hension, but their fellow-members
paid very little heed to their pleas for
help. But during the recess of con-
gress, while another crop of cotton
was rearing its white head in the sun
lit southern fields, the report came
swirling out of the Lone Star state
like a cyclone that the boil weevil had
grown tired of being cooped up in
narrow field like the state of Texas,
and was lifting its eye eastward to-
ward the Father of Waters and the
land beyond. Then congressman from
states adjoining Texas on the east sud-
denly became deeply interested in the
subject of the boil weeYil, and so
eventually joined hands with the Tex
ans and gave them both moral and
material support.
Now it begins to look as if the whole
government is getting interested in
the determination of the pest. Never
theless no feasible plan has been pro-
posed as yet for the desired end. The
boil weevil goes merrily on, feasting
upon the cotton of the southern farm
err aud increasing his progeny by
hordes and by millions upon millions.
The farmer grows daily more exasper-
ated at the inroads of the little var
mint, and the farmers representative,
the con gTessman, grows more active in
his efforts to have the government
Isquelch the pest.
But he will not be squelched with
out a great battle. He has his fangs
in the snowy product upon which the
south depends for it's living, and he
will not let GO voluntarily. AS a men-
ace he is enlarging and fatteniug,
spreading his cohorts in every direc-
ton where cotton INVITES his invasion.
The terror he is creating down in the
regions where the blue waves of the
gulf swing back and forth upon the
golden sands could be'no 81 eater would
l-some Conveyed monster of the deep
swarm up from the gulf and sweep
over the fair land of sugar cane and
cotton.
In all the black cloud of dismav oyer
the plague cast ON the land by the an
thOnOnous grandis, or boil weevil, if
| you please. there is but single rift.
One leue Texas cotton planter sees a
blessing in disguise in the pest. He
wrote these words to his congressman
last week:
"God bless the boil weeviGi He is
eating up the farmers cotton, and
thereby forcing the farmer 60 diversi-
fly. God bless the boil weevil for
MAXI ng the farmer diverslfy!''
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-18
'OURT'S PECULIAR RULING.
"'an Sentenced on Three Charges
Will Serve ONLY One.

'ne supreme court of Georgia has
.'O'Oed an interesting point ia the
''S OF Robert Fortson against Ell
Vr' county. FOrtson was convicted
'nfee similar misdemeanor charges
~ given three similar sentences, the
'le term in each case.
Hl'er serving one sentence Fortson
n Sp'Iea for his discharge on the ground
o oao ne had served all of his sentences
currently The Ebert court ruled
Es ssius' him. but the supreme court re-
n5 Ecu That ruling, holding that as the
a. Ialled TO specify, the several sim
sentence are to be served concur
'4'iy and not separately.