The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-09-20


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NORTH POLE STILL A MYSTERY.
Once more the attempt to reach the
north pole has failed Anthony Fiala,
who led the Ziegler expedition in 1903
and was rescued last month, after
reaching a north latitude of eighty
two degrees and thirteen minutes, ar
rived in New York one day last week.
His ship was crushed in the ice in the
winter of 1904, and he lost large
quantities of coal and food. The re-
lief expedition sent out last summer
could not get through the ice about
Franz Josef Land, and the explorers
had to spend last winter dependent on
the supplies left by the Duke OF
Abruzzi and by the Andree relief eX-
petition. One can well believe that
Mr.. Fiala and his companions were
hoping and praying this year that
their own relief party might find them.
Commander Peary is now on the way
to the pole by the Greenland route.
Let us hope that his ship, built espe-
cially to resist the ice-pack, may not
be crushed.
IT was at one time thought that
Judge Dick Russell of the Western
circuit would be designated to preside
over the courts of the Pataula circuit
this fall on account of the illness of
Judge Sheffield, but owing to pressing
duties in his own courts Judge Russell
has had the governor to relieve him
of the extra work. 1t is the cause of
disappointment and sincere regret on
the part of his friends that this emf
nent iurist and golden-hearted chris
tian gentleman cannot preside in the
Pataula circuit.
GROVER CLEVELAND has bought
him a couple of farms, and a cOntem-
porary thinks she probably did it at
this time that the people might not
have an opportunity of saying that he
got rich out of the life insurance busi-
ness" If he paid anything like the
price Terrell county dirt brings he
had to get rich before he bought them.
EDITOR STOVALL of the Savannah
Press says ''the policy pursued by the
Journal and Mr.. Hoke Smith would
not only reduce the earrings of every
railroad in Georgia to very low fig
ure, but would reduce the commerce of
the interior towns and port cities to
the point of mere vassalage of At
lanta,"
THE NEWS is opposed to capital
punishment except in aggravated
cases, but we are constrained to be-
lieve that some neck stretchings in
Terrell county might have salutary
effect. There hasn't been a hanging
in the county in twelve years.
EVERY man, woman and child that
can leave home will be in Macon on
Smith day at the coming Georgia
Farmers Fair. The 18th of October
Is the date. Every Smith in the Unit
ed States is invited, including the two
candidates for governor.
BARON KoNlURA, one of the peace
ENJOYS, is sick with typhoid fever in
New York and unable to return home.
The japanese statesman has the sym
pathy of the nation, and an earnest
wish for his speedy restoration to
health.
f. NJ. COKER has died in Atlanta
leaving an estate valued at five mil
lion dollars, the largest ever accumu-
lated in Georgia by one man. MIR.
Coker was a south Georgia product,
and learned how before he left Sumter
county.
ANYONE who complains because he
doesn't own a farm still has a chance
to get one without much trouble and
with little expense. One-third of the
area of the American union at the
present time consists of public lands.
RANDOLPH county will decide on
October 18th how she will get her
morning dram, whether legally
through dispensary or through jugs
and sightless tigers. Either way is |
bad enough. !