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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
THIRTY CENTS FOR HILLS.
Tennessee Citizens Reward His
Booker Washington Remarks.

The utterances of Rev. DR.. Dwight
Hills of New York about making up
the he'd of Booker Washington should
he be a visitor at his home met with
condemnation throughout the south,
and several of his admiring friends at
Mckenzie, Tenn, have sent him a
purse of 30 cents with the following
note:
"Dear DIR. Hillis-We are all poor,
Int we want to share our substance
with YOU in admiration for your won"
derful sacrifice of yourself on the altar
of duty for mere opinions sake. Your
courage in assuming the affirmative on
the question, Shall Booker Washing
ton have me spread his quits" is one
ftbe finest examples of manly inde-
nepdence that the twentieth century
has yet produced.
"We rather think the Indianapolis
cbambermaid has bested you at this
stage of the game, and her position Is
nrobablv more renumerative than
YOURS, but we glory in your spunk' ana
we are not willing for your efforts to
90 unrewarded. Yours affectionately,
'ADMIRING FRIENDS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
NO CHARM IN THIS MUSIC FOR THE COURT.
Negro the Court House Loudly footing
and Aggregation Was Arrested and Taken Before
the Judge Released After Satisfactory Explanation.

there appeared to be no music in his
soul. The trombone player filed in
next looking as If he would like TO
slide his instrument and himself out OF
his present predicament. The tifer
and the baritone bass, the cornetist
and the big basso blower and the ma
nipulstors of the other instruments FL
ed into the judicial presence in solemn
array. Bringing up the rear there
came the clown, on whose face there
beamed no merriment.
In half circle they arranged them
selves around the Judges desk and
waited for that dignitarY to speak.
Judge Sheffield told them of the
seriousness of disturbing the codrt's
session and asked them for an ex'
PLANTATION of their conduct The COM
pany was loud in it's representations
of innocence, declaring that they had
been in perfect ignorance of the courts
session and had not wilfullY trans
gressed. Upon this plea they were re-
leased, but with the final injunction
from Judge Sheffield that if they want
ed to play they must do SO at a long
range from the court house.
The aggregation of music makers,
led by the clown, wasted no time in
descending the stairs, and marched
through the streets a band without
music. When they decided they had
gone a discreet distance they struck
up an air, softly at first, whose notes
they had made certain would never
break upon the harmony of the court.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
EIGHT KILLED IN WRECK.
Most Disastrous Collision on the
Southern Railroad.

The following special from Birming-
ham tells of terrible wreck on tie
Southern railroad Wednesday:
A double header east bound freight
and a west bound freight on the Son
them railway collided this morning at
Bryan, twenty-five miles west ofdhere,
with the result that both trains were
were wrecked and eight men killed.
Immediately after the collision the
wreck took fire and burned.
The officials of the road have not vet
explained the cause of the accident,
but it is alleged that an operator went
to sleep on duty and failed to deliver
an order. The burning wreckage de-
stroyed the wires and Gu: communica-
ton for some time.
All of the eight victims were killed
outright exception Engineers Acton
and johnson; they were brought 70
Birmingham, where they died. The
dead bodies of the other six were
burned to crisp.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
PRISONER HAS A HISTORY
WHITE MAN GIVEN A TERM OF FIVE
YEARS AT AMERICUS.
Refused to Reveal His Identity, and Said
His Father Was a Well Known
Citizen of Macon.

J. E. LeFrye, the white man sen.
fenced last Thursday in Sumter supe.
rior court TO q term of FIVE years for
burglary by Judge T4ittleiohn, is "a
man with history" and although ac-
cording to his OWE statement he was
born in Sumter county LeFrye will
keep his secret deep in his heart, says
the Americas Times-Recorder
Shamed at his disgrace and unwill~
ing to bring humiliation upon his fam>
lily this prisoner will conceal his iden,
tity.
LeFrye is an assumed name, so the
prisoner has stated.
FeLrye has told the officers that he
has long been resident of Macon,
where his family is one of prominence,
his father being a well known profes,
sional man there. They do not know
of his plight, and in his disgrace he
will not inform them.
In pleading guilty to the burglary
the fellow asked the court to deal leni,
emily.
Judge Littleiohn told LeFrye that as
an intelligent white man he WIS more
deserving of punishment than mere
ignorant criminals, but as there was
no malice connected with this offense,
as in some cases, be would consider
his plea.
LeFrye is about 40 years of age,
stout built, and has been in the cage
here since March for stealing shoes
from Sheffield's store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
THOUSANDS WANT PENSIONS
ALMOST ONE FOURTH OF TOTAL EN-
LIsTMENT IN SPANISH WAR.
Philippine Veterans More Modest Than
Those Who Went to Cuba and Porto
Rico. Many Claims Turned Down.


Those Who Went to Cuba and Porto
Rico. Many Claims Turned Down.
A Washington dispatch says that
more than twenty-five per cent OF the
men who enlisted in the army tor the
war with Spaiu have thus early ap-
piled for pensions. This is shown In a
brief special statement just prepared
by Commissioner Ware. The state
ment shows in detail that the mum Der
Of applicants under the head OF "lnva-
lids" is 57,O46, and those under the
head of widows and dependents Is
$3.50. There have been allowed 1881
invalid pensions and 3, 160 OF the Wild
ows and dependents class. A total OF
1875 claims have been rejected, leaV'
ing 32,4lO claims pending on May l,
the date to which Commissioner ware
brought down his figures. New appl1-
cations are coming in daily by the
hundreds, and the indications are that
the end of the year nearly 80 per cent
of the men who enrolled on the army
lists during the brief little war with
Spain will have applied to the govern
ment to have their names enrolled on
the pension lists.
Greater precautions were taken In
the mastering out process OF the VOL
unteer army in 1898 than ever before
ITO guard against just the condition
that is now threatening the pension
bureau. Wherever it was practicable
surgeons of the regular army were de-
tailed to make the examinations OF the
men mustered out, and those surgeons
were extremely careful to state the ex-
act physical condition of the men ex-
amined with the view of preventing a
too ready and indiscriminate resort DS
discharged soldiers to the usual meOn-
DDS of pension seekers.
But it appears from the number OF
claims already made that greater
proportion of the men who wore the
Uniform of the army between the
spring OF 1898 and the summer OF I9O1
has determined to ask the government
for life pension for the service rem
dered than any other army cverraised
oy the United States.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
MACHEN ARRESTED.
Superintendent of Free Deliver
Routes in Trouble.

A. W. Machen, superintendent OF
the free delivery of the postoffice de-
parUment at Washington, who was re-
lieved from duty some time ago, has
arrested been at the instigation of the
uossafice department, charged with
receiying brides from contractors.
The brides are said to aggregate
twenty thousand dollars. Ii is under
stood that other arrests will follow.
Machen will be summarily dismissed
by the postmaster general.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
REFUSED TO SHAVE NEGRO.
Vino Sued and Got Three Minutes
TO Jury's Time.

Baumgarten, the white barber who
refused to shave Rev. Thompson, g
negro preacher, of Belleville, Ohio,
won his case before jury in court.
The suit for damages was brought
under the equal rights act passed by
the state legislature in 1879. The
jurors agreed on verdict of no cause
for action in less than three minutes
after the case was given to them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
MOTHER AND SON KILLED.
A White Man and Negro Charged
With Aw full Crime.

Mrs. ]. u. Arlington, aged fifty, and
her son Robert, aged twentY-one, were
murdered at Solomon's Mills, near
Eufaula, Ala, Wednesday night. Be-
fore she died Mrs. Arlington named a
white man and negro woman as the
murderers. Robbery was the motive
for the murder.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03

Billiards. Obelisk -four, fresh from
the mill, at Fulton's.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-02
LONAL DkEVIiiES.
(From Wednesday's Daily)

Judge Estee sustained the demurrer
in the Matsumoku bankruptcy mat
ter.
Director Jared G.. Smith Of the Fed
eral Experiment Station has gone to
Hawaii.
building has been moved to its new To-
9JuJo puB lodsp 6BMuBa nuBO euL
cation closer to Iwilei road.
The Japanese NJ. e. church will, I'M
der the direction of Mrs. Bagwell. hold
a, fair at Haalelea Lawn on October
20 and 30.
Miyamura, the polished japanese ar
rested lately, was bound over to the
Federal grand jury on the charge of
peonage by Commissioner Douthitt yes
terday. The regular bail of $4,000 was
fixed.
1t is noted by dealers that the price
of Kona "nightingales' has risen re-
Gently, and the price of jerked beef has
gone down-just why nobody seems to
know. An average of 50 a head Is now
asked for the donkeys.
The company that has been rehears-
ing Hawaiian drama with tableauS
during the summer, for presentation
during the autumn and winter months,
will stage its first play, "kaala." in
the Hawaiian Opera House on Satur-
day evening, October 10.
Possibly Chief Justice Frear will call
to the Supreme Court bench temperate
~, for emergent business such as the
registration case, Circuit Judges De
Bolt and Gear in the practically fore
gone event of the continued absence of
Associate Justices Galbraith and Perry
next week.
The Board of Agriculture has adopt
ed the Federal rule that REQUIRES per-
sons obtaining seeds to report on the
results of their planting. Failure to
comply with the condition will ensue
in having the recipient placed on a
black list where he cannot get anv
| more seeds.
One Korean and three japanese wom-
en- are detained at the immigration
station to be called for by their hus-
bands whom they purport to have come
here in expectation of meeting. If the
men are not forthcoming, the women
will involuntarily be outgoing passen-
gers by an early steamer for the ORR
ent. In the prevention of the business
of importing women for unlawful pur-
| poses, the immigration officers have to
! be thus strict.
Attorney-General Andrews yesterday
| by letter directed Registrar auckland
| to return to George II. Fairchild his
nomination papers for a supervisorship
! of Kauai county, on the ground that
they omit to show affirmatively that
Mr.. Fairchild possesses all the aualifi-
cations necessary for nomination. Ref
| erence is to his not being regiSt cred a
| defect the nominee is trying in the
courts to compel the Kauai board of
registration to remedy.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-02
SNOW NOT AN ASSET.

In The Outlook, copies of which were
recently received here, appears a DIG
advertisement on Hawaii which was
inserted by order of the promotion
Committee of Hawaii. sunny shores
and Snowy slopes" appears In the al
and the morning paper makes ob1ec-
ton to Snowy Slopes" stating that
the word should have been sunny
the mistake probably having been
made by the lew York engravers.
"Snowy slopes" is copy and is per-
city correct. The tourist needs but to
take a tourney to Hawaii to see all
manner of Snowy slopes.
SNOWY slopes is not copy according
to Allan Dunn. who drew the picture
and text. In the smaller blocks one
of which appears in the Saturday Eve
ming Post. copy was followed. Ihere
the phrase appears as quoted in the
Sunday Advertiser, sunny Shores and
Sunny slopes"
1t is true that there is snow at times
on mountain peaks 200 miles from Ho-
nolulu but it Is not accessible to tour
lists and the winter visitors We are
seeking would not go to it If 1t was
They are people who are flying from
the frost and snow, not seeking them,
and who come here to find summer in
the winter season. Snow repels them
and as snow is not amongst our trop-
ical attractions, it is absurd to lay
claim to it, By doing so we merely
scare people away.
June in January" is our best hold
in magazine advertising, not January
in June
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-02
THE GOVERNMENT NURSERY.

The Government Nursery is a good
thing. 1t has done more than anyone
can realize to turn the arid, dusty
plains of the past, into what is now
the most inviting part of the residen-
tial district of Honolulu. But being a
good thing does not stand In the way
of its becoming a better one and we
hope to see its operations, now that
they are conducted by the Board of
Agriculture, materially improved.
Under the Wray Taylor regime the
Nursery not only sent out healthy and
well-grown trees and shrubs but 1t be-
came also a dissemination of scale.
Growths that carried scale were not
cleaned before being delivered to the
public with the result that all the ISL
ends became infected with dangerous
pest. Somebody suggested when the
entomologist of the u. S. Experiment
Station was appointed, that If he want
ed to study bugs and blight he should
pitch his tent in the Territorial nur-
sery. Mr.. Austin, who was directly in
charge, did his best to make the MUIR
sery presentable but he had little help
and could not fight the scale to adva1-
tage. Now there is more money and
better official oversight and the pub
lie expects the nursery to be kept
clean.
1t used to be that the variety of
trees and shrubs kept there was too
small. One could not find breadfruit
trees, for instance, nor especially fine
varieties of mangoes nor cocoanut
palms. There was an abundance of
eucalypti, monkey pod. algaroba. etc,
but none of the finer tropical growths,
especially those bearing fruit. In future
such trees should not be wanting when
called for.
We hope to see the Board of Agricul-
ture use some of it's means to import
tropical trees and shrubs new to these
Islands, especially the plants that kill
the mosquito. These may be got from
India and Florida and perhaps from
other places. The mosquito killing
plant, if it took hold here, would be
second only to the algaroba in its pow
er of comforting benefits on the public
Cork oak, rubber, vanilla plants, Mon
terey cypress for windbreaks, red
Cuban bananas and Bluefields plan
tains, all these should be within reach
of those to whom the Nursery is a con-
venience.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-02
A SMALL BUILDING PROPOSED.

Nobody will object particularly to a
$4,000 building at the Worlds Fair along
the lines chosen by the Promotion
Committee True, some of the obJec-
tions to a lar-e structure apply to II,
hut they need not decide the question
adversely. 1t is the opinion of the
Committee that a handsomely furnish
ed cottage of broad lanais, showing the
half-out of door life that Is led mere
and where a cup of good kona coffee
could be had, tourist literature distrlD-
uted and spC linen products or the
islands displayed, would be n good IN
yestment and one within our means
Tie Advertiser believes that display
I'm the main buildings where the crowns
go would be better and cost less, put
II is not disposed to urge that we"
against the general opinion OF the FRO
motion Committee that $4,000 building
should be had.
In the event of a building no time
should be lost in starting 1t. ST. LOUIS
will see cold weather soon and the
nrice of carpenter work Will go up
There may be strikes; there certainly
will he n strong competitive demand
for skilled labor. If Hawaii Is gong
TO be ready when the Fair opens II
must lose no time now.
In this connection we suggest 10 the
Promotion Committee that seVerai
thousand people are expected to WISH
St. Louis next summer VINO VIII pass
through here en- route from ASA anu
Australia. Would 1t not be good pol
lev before the winter Is over, to adver-
tise the charms of Hawaii In those
countries as n midway stopping place!
In this way some benefit may be had
from the Worlds Fair crowds before
St I,p0is gets any.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-02
JApAN'S LATEST MOVE.

The announcement from Paris that
Japan Will send two regiments into
Korea to protect her interests and
stand off the Russians, may be con-
tradicted tomorrow, but If it is true it
will bring the relations of Russia and
Japan to a new phase. The dispatch of
such a force would naturally impel
Russia to send a larger one ostensibly
to protect interests which the Japa-
nese might threaten: and such a step
could easily bring on the long expected
war. The public will remember that it
was a transfer of Japanese troops to
Korea in 1894 which ushered the war
that opened China as a theater of for
eign conquest and intrigue.
If the idea of the japanese govern
ment is to force matters now, their
state of war preparation must be very
far advanced. According to a recent
cableSram Russia has 100000 men on
the Manchurian lttoral and along the
railroad leading to it and so ships of
war at Port Arthur. Even Japan
would have the right to hesitate before
such multitude of foes. Possibly
and this accords with the views of
many foreigners on the ground-JaDan
VIII merely buster for compromise,
giving Russia all Manchuria and tax
ing Korea for herself. If this is the
game perhaps the proposed move With
troops Will be the beginning of it.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-02
TO DEVELOP FRUIT INDUSTRY.

Some time ago a traveller, passing
through here, said that Hawaii "ouiu
derive great benefit from three or four
small, fast fruit steamers, running
between Honolulu, Hilo and SeattIe'
He had in mind the banana steamers
which Boston sends to Jamaica. Inc
stranger preferred Seattle to san FRAN
cisco because while Hawaii has to COM
pete at the California port with the
fruit of other tropical countries ut
Sehttle II would meet no dangerous
rival and could soon control the banana
and pineapple trade OF the NorthWest,
Ana that region would be all 1t couid
supply.
But the matter is not quite so simple
as might appear as transportation
company must be certain, when us
steamers call, to find the cargo on the
dock. on that account great companies
have been formed which combine me
agricultural with the commercial tea-
lures. Under this head the New YORK
Sun says:
The fact is that a great deal or the
tropical fruit imported into TINS cuuh-
try is raised on the plantations OF the
transportation companies which prlhs
the fruit here. This peculiar feature
of the import of our tropical ffuHs
perhaps attaches to no other prahch
of commerce.
IF we were to travel South we
should find that in Jamaica ana the
other leading fruit producing lslahdS,
and also in the coast regions OF Cehtral
America and northern South America,
the business of carrying tropical fruits
to United States ports is in the hahus
of those who own many fruit pianth-
lions or contract for the total product
of other owners. Thus they know eN-
actly the sources from which they de-
rive most Of the fruit they carry. They
are not only carriers, but also producers
OF fruit, and make a good profit in both
businesses.
perhaps this combination OF two
distinct kinds of work originated from
the fact that there is very close rela-
ton between the sufficient maturing OF
the fruit crop and it's transportation to
market. Either the producer or the
common carrier loses money If the
goods are not ready for it's cargo, or If
transportation is not forthcoming when
1t Is needed at once to prevent the
deterioration of the fruit"
If there could be company formed
in Hawaii to plant so many thousand
acres to bananas and pineapples, ana
to run fruit steamers to the Northwest,
thriving trade would undoubtedly
grow up. Such a company would be
able of course, to take the banana and
pineapple crops of small farmers. AS
for the steamers they would have no
trouble in bringing return cargoes, con-
sidering the local demand for MANY
products which Seattle could supply
more cheaply than San Francisco.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-02
THE PHILIPPINE STATUS QUO.

The article from the Manila Times,
"Hawaii and the Philippines" printed
elsewhere In these columns, undoubt-
edlv shows why the newly-acquired
arCbipeIago has not. as vet, been a
good investment for the United states.
The cost of government is 500. 900. 600 a
vear. the value of American products
imported by the PHILIPPINES is only
"a 200 600. the vast resources of the
country remain practically untouched.
Our Manila contemporarv saws truly
that until the archipelago becomes
mart of the United states and is en-
braced within it's tariff system, it can
not hone To be PROSPEROUS. At
present the local tariff makes Ameri-
can wares too costly for the Fuipinos,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-02
THE SHANGHAI EDITORS.

Some local interest has been aroused
by the case of the Shanghai Chinese edi-
tors owing to the Incidental appearance
of n former townsman in the affair, a
man who got more martyrdom out of 1t
than the Cinnamon did. How the yell
low journalists managed to invoke the
wrath of the Empress Dowager an
pears In the Literary Digest as follows:
Native newspapers have attained
throughout China circulation and an
influence that fill the dynasty at PEEK
ing with alarm. The more outspoken
organs attribute much of the empires
misfortune to the fact that the EN-
press Dowager has fallen under the
control of Russia Russia, according to
these authorities, pursuing her tradi-
tional policy of coming down to warm
water through Asia, absorbed China
north of the great wall, thanks to a
compact agreed to by the late Ii Hung
Chang, who in his simplicity imagined
that the Carbon would be content to
leave the Picking dynasty in peaceable
possession of the immense region south
of the wall But Ii Hung Chang has
passed away and Russia is daily secur-
ing a tirmer hold on the forbidden side
of the wonderful wall. Such are the
fruits of the Empress Dowager's policy,
the immense wealth of that aged royal
ty figuring conspicuously in the cate
cory. our ability to infer all this from
the native press is the result of the
enterprise of The Celestial Empire,
British paper published at Shanghai.
which regularly publishes translations
from the leading vernacular organs.
Editorial comment of the sort thus
outlined inspired the elderly object OF
il with decided views on the subject
Of yellow journals. one of these, the
Su-Pao Shanghai, long conspicuous
for its antI-dynastic tendencies, was
singled out by the Empress-Dowage
for treatment on the principle which
makes 1t legal in China to pour hot
oil over obnoxious native editors. Six
writer's We're arrested on "A charge of
high treason, the exhibits in the case
including widely circulated pamphlets
that called attention TO an ancient law
prescribing death for the head of the
dynasty in case he alienated the ma
tional territory"
Happily the Intervention of the pow
ers has saved the gentlemen of the
queue and inkpot from losing their
heads physically as well as mentally.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-02
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