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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09

It's name-"Golden Medical Discovery
was suggested by one of its most import
ant and valuable ingredients - Golden
Seal root.
Nearly forty years ago, DR.. Pierce dis
covered that he could, by the use of pure.
triple-refined glycerine, aided by GER
tain degree Of constantly maintained
heat and with the aid of apparatus and
appliances designed for that purpose. ex-
tract from our most valuable native me-
dicinal roots their curative properties
much better than by the use of alcohol.
SO generally employed. So the now world
famed Golden Medical Discovery" for
the cure of weak stomach, indigestion. or
dyspepsia, torpid liver, or biliousness and
kindred arrangements was first made. as
it ever since has been, without O. particle
of alcohol in it's makeup.
A glance at the full list of it's ingredi-
ents, printed on every bottle-wrapper.
will show that it is made from the most
valuable medicinal roots found growing
in our American forests. All these in
gradients have received the strongest en-
dOrSement from the leading medical ex-
pertS, teachers and writers on Mdteri0
MedicG who recommend them as the very
best remedies for the diseases for which
vGolden Medical Discovery" is advised.
A little book of these endorsements has
UC6n EQUIPPED Dy LII. IL. V. Glerco, OF
Buffalo, N. T., and will be mailed free to
any one asking same by postal card, or
letter addressed to the Doctor as above.
From these endorsements, copied from
standard medical books of all the differ
ent schools of practice, it will be found
that the ingredients composing the Gold
en- Medical Discovery" are advised not
only for the cure of the above mentioned
diseases, but also for the cure of all ca
tarrhal, bronchial and throat affections,
accompanied with catarrhal discharges,
hoarseness, sore throat, lingering, or
hang-on- coughs, and all those wasting
affections which, If not promptly and
properly treated are liable to terminate
in consumption. Take DR.. Pierce's Dis
covery in time and persevere in it's use
until you give it fair trial and it is not
likely to disappoint Too much must not
be expected of it. 1t will not perform
miracles. 1t will not cure consumption
in its advanced stages. No medicine will.
1t 1OtlL cure the affections that lead up to
consumption, If taken i9l time.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09
PRISON CRIB DUNGEON
How Insubordinate Convicts Are
Punished In Kansas.
THE REFINEMENT OF CRUELTY

Men Put Into Coffin like 5ox of Oaken
Stats and Left There to "Think 1t
Over"-The Most Solitary of SoIi-
tary Confinement.
When a prisoner in the penitentiary
On Lansing, Kan, becomes so unruly
that no ordinary punishment will i'm
prove his temper and make him obey
orders he is put in the crib, says the
Kansas City Star.
'"The Kansas Inferno" written in
Lansing by life prisoner, it is said,
and published in Wichita, tells about
TIE crib in this way:
"It is a box, with holes in it for air,
into which a prisoner is put face down
ward, with a bar across his back, his
hands bound to his sides or breast.
His head and neck and his feet are
then 'triced up so that he is in the
form of a bow, and there he stays
sometimes for forty-eight hours. Men
have become raving maniacs in the
crib
The cribs in the "crank house" IN
Lansing do not quite come up to this
description. They are cases made of
oak Stats, about seven or eight feet
long, four feet wide and probably four
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09
UNDER 200 TONS OF COAL.
BrookIynite Buried Alive In Bin, but
Rescued In Nick of Time.

Rescued In NICK OF Time.
Buried in great mass of pea coal,
which shifted like quicksand while men
were trying to dig him out, William
Nungasser, a Brooklyn coal dealer, had
a narrow escape from being smothered
to death In, his yard, at Third street
and the Gowanus canal. He is in the
Seney hospital, and the physicians be-
lieve he will recover.
Mr.. Nungasser had climbed to the top
of a coal pocket to inspect about 200
tons of pea COAL which had just been
unloaded from barges. AS he stood at
the edge of the pocket he slipped and
fell into the big bin.
When Nungasser struck the coal he
sank to his knees His long expert
ence in the coal business taught him
the danger of his position, and as he
struggled he cried for assistance. He
thought Of lying out fiat to save him
self, but so quickly did he sink that
he could not do So
He had sunk to his waist in the
shifting mass when his cries were
heard by Alexander McAllister, chief
engineer of the yard. McAllister call
ed to a dozen of the workmen and
rushed to the top of the pocket Boards
were let down on which the workmen
could stand to use their shovels. BY
this time Mr. Nungasser had disappear
ed under the coal The men shoveled
with frantic haste, but as often as
they would uncover the head of their
employer he would sink out of sight
again.
After the men had worked for about
ten minutes McAllister saw that no
Roadway was being made He then
opened a chute to let the coal run from
the bin on to loading platform be-
low.
When about half the coal had run
out the form Of Mr.. Nungasser was
seen to be wedged against the mouth
Of the chute. Two men Jumped down
with ropes, which they wound about
his body, ana he was then drawn up
to the top of the pocket Ambulance
Surgeon Hand of the Seney hospital
who had been called, found that Mr.
Nungasser was in bad way because
Of fine coal dust which had lodged in
his lungs and nasal passages. If he
had remained under the coal a minute
or two more, the surgeons said, he
would probably have been suffocated
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09

side. She greeted her supposed hus-
band and handed over the infant pre-
paratory to climbing the fence, but to
her establishment the figure disappear
ed without word, taking the baby
with it.
Frantic with fear, she ran, calling
her husband, and met him coming to-
ward the fence. An alarm was raised,
lights were procured and a thorough
search made, but nothing could be seen
of the child Next morning the tracks
of an immense bear were found lead
ing from the spot where she had part
ed with the child through the woods
and up toward the mountains 1t is
supposed that the bear took the child
and devoured it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09
Yawn Breaks Girls Neck.

1t would be just as we'll If the young
woman who seeks the beauty sleep Of
early morn paid some attention to the
way she yawns and stretches The
experience of Miss Alys G. Gushing,
popular society girl of Denver, is not
calculated to make those two opera
tons the rage. By yawning and
stretching her arms one morning re-
Gently Miss Cushing broke her neck.
81 awoke half dazed," she says. FT
yawned and stretched my arms to
throw off the drowsiness. Something
snapped in my neck at the base Of my
skull. I screamed for help and almost
tainted" Miss Gushing has improved
through the ministrations of an oste-
4opathic physician.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09

feet deep-large enough to hold very
big man. There is no bar and no place
for one to be fastened, and the prison
er is not tied to it in any way His
hands are put in a leathern muff, rest
ing on his breast He lies on his back.
The crib is closed and he is left there
alone to think it over There is anoth-
er crib a few feet away, and perhaps
it contains a gibbering malefactor who
finds delight in yelling and humping
his head against the Stats. This is
enough to drive the other man crazy if
he isn't in as bad a condition himself,
and III any circumstances it certainly
does nothing toward quieting the most
ObStreperOus prisoner. If he is just
mean and lazy and vicious it makes
him worse-if it doesn't drive him mad
to stay there in that crib, the most
solitary of all solitary confinement,
the perfection of cruel ingenuity; not
so degrading perhaps as the whipping
post, used in some of the state prisons
today, but infinitely more harmful to
the few remaining shreds of morality,
a hundred times more destructive Of
manhood a relic Of barbarous times
Just how far prison officials should
go in Furnishing convicts is a question
that has received much attention. 1t
needs much more. 1t Is important to
record in this connection that Of the
1888 inmates of Lansing prison Jan. p
only four were in dark cells In Ordi-
nary circumstances this sort of re-
straint serves every purpose The cells
are large and clean and well venti-'
lated. Bread and water forms the
entire menu for the occupant until he
feels that he can obey the rules. There
are several large, airy light cells in
new brick house in which men are put
when they refuse to work. Obviously
a man will work in time if he knows
he will get nothing to eat until he has
completed a task. When a man is put
in one of these cells q wheelbarrow load
of stone is put in with him-and a ham
mer. When he has made little ones
out of all the big ones he gets his din
ner or supper and not sooner. It sell
dom fails. When man has been put
in the crib q few times he is fit for
nothing else except in the crank house.
There are several in that house now
who never will be anywhere else-until
they die
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09
HELP IS OFFERED

TO WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLE
We earnestly request all young persons, no matter
how limited their means education, who wish to
obtain thorough business training and good posi-
ton, to write by first mail for great half-rate
effer. Success, independence and probable fortune
are guaranteed. Don't delay. Write today.
The Ga.-AIa. Business College. Macon, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09
GAVE BABY TO BEAR.
Woman In Dusk Mistook Animal For
Her Husband.

During the intense cold of the last
few days of January wild animals
from the Virginia mountains were fore
ed down to the settlements for food.
AS a result Mrs. James Ingram lost her
baby in a fearful manner.
Early in the afternoon her husband
had occasion to go out on business, but
arranged to go with her later to the
home Of a neighbor, not far distant,
where there was to be dance. 1t
was agreed that he should meet her at
fence near small wood and take
their child and go with her the rest of
the way The woman started later
than she intended, and it was dark and
cold when she reached the fence, where
she saw dimly figure on the other
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09

Close connection at Cordele for all points
north and south. At Columbus for all
points west. and at Montgomery for
New Orleans, Mobile, aH Texas points and the
southwest and northwest.
Night trains have through Pullman buffet
sleepers and coaches between Savannah and
Montgomery.
For further information applyto
HI EVERETT, Agt., Americas, Ga.
w 2. SCRUGGs, IT. P. A., Savannah.
CdAsF. STEWART A.G.P. A Savannah
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09

From Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta,
Macon. .....:.. $40 40 pm
Troy 3 Montgomery. 80 30 p IA
Lockhart, Dothan Albany.
Troy and Montgomery. ....... 81 Sc p m
" AtIanta and Macon ............ %2 On p ID
Augusta, Savannah, Atlanta
and Macon .;...:...;.......... "5 81 a m
intermediate points. t6 IS 2 IA
From Columbus Newman and In
termediate points. :......... usOpm
=, Fort Valley. ..............:...... IS 80 m
From Birmingham. Columbus, via
Fort valley. ....:...:.:........ - lO 4Op m
From Albany and intermediate
points. ................... a 40 a m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09

Lessons in Piano, Pipe Or
gan, Orchestral Instru-
ments, Voice Culture, har-
mOny and composition.
Thorough course in ear
training and sight reading.
For rates and particulars,
apply to Prof E. III. MCNiel,
or Miss Lula Matthews,
2A, Jackson street.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09
stranaIes Himself With Shawl Strap.

Charles w. Schultz, a Memphis
Oenn) banker committed suicide at
the Battle Greek (Mich) sanitarium by
strangulation. Accompanied by his
wife, he went to the sanitarium two
months ago, suffering with extreme
nervousness and subject to hallucina-
tons When Mrs. Schultz awoke one
morning she found her husband dead
in the bathtub, with a shawl strap
buckled tight around his neck. Schultz
was quite wealthy sand had a mania
that his money was going to be taken
away from him. He was sixty-three
years old. No inquest will be held.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09

'orMacon, Atlanta, Augusta and
savannah "a

ForMacon, Atlanta, Augusta and
savannah. ................. *440am
TOT AlDany, Dothan and Lockhart IS 80 m
Albany. DOthan and Lockhart F2 O. 2 N
" macon and Atlanta. ............S2 Oh p N
Macon Atlanta, Savannah and
n Augusta ..:.................'I 40 p IN
For Columbus Roanoke and
= R1rmip CHAM ..,,...................4o 80 a N,
For Column bus, Newman and in
termediate points. ....-....... 1900 m
FOR Columbus, Birmingham, via
Fort Valley .......... $40 30 p m
For Albany and intermediate pts s16 40 . m
Eufaul2, Montgomery and
Troy. ........... ~5 80 a II
For Eufauta. MONTGOMERY Troy, 20 o. . N
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09

Excep Sunday
between Americas
w Pssenge
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

and by the term future. as here
used, we mean, within the ordi.
nary active life of our present
average citizen.
The News would answer YES.
And so, it thinks, will reply a
large majority of our citizens. To
negative this question is to say
that we as a people have little if
any faith in the future of Randall
county.
Consider the cost say some.
Well, suppose we do.
The taxable values of the coun-
ty, according to the rolls of 1907,
is So, 304, 756. The law permits
bonds to be issued to the extent
of , per cent of this, less out
standing indebtedness on the
same line. Thus we have. in the
proposition to be voted upon
December 14th., $4,000 in per
cent forty year bonds set aside
for this new court house. Now,
the question is, if this carries,
how much will it add to the taxes
on each 500 worth of tax values?
The answer is, less than seven
cents.
Just seven cents additional tax
on each one hundred dollars
worth of property to get a new
court house!
This seven cents additional tax
on each 500 is based on present
tax values. Next year it will be
even less than that for under the
new State laws market values"
go on the tax rolls. But, take it
on the present basis, which is
fair enough, this seven cent tax
will, provided the sinking fund
be properly used, reduce the
debt wear by year and finally
wipe it out altogether ere the
maturity of the bonds.
The tax matter disposed of
there is another important fea-
ture-we can get the new court
house now. If we wait" as
some suggest, It's not so sure.
The News says this because those
residing in the northern portion
of the county are all or nearly all
against it and so, also, are those
who dwell near the Swisher line.
Let US vote the new courthouse
while we can obtain it.
Potter county has confidence
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22
Why Colds Are Dangerous.

Because you have contracted
ordinary colds and recovered
from them without treatment of
any kind. do not for moment
imagine that colds are not dan
gerous. Everyone knows that
pneumonia and chronic catarrh
have their origin in a common
cold. Consumption is not caus.
ed by a cold but the cold pre-
pares the system for the receipt
ion and development of the
germs that would not otherwise
have found Judgment. 1t is the
same with all infectious diseases
Diptheria, scarlet fever, measles
and whoOping cough are much
more likely tobe contracted when
the child has a cold. You will
see from this that more real dan
ger turks in a cold than in any
other of the common ailments.
The easiest and quickest way to
cure cold is to take Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy. The
many remarkable cures affected
by this preparation have made it
a staple article of trade over
large part of the world. For
sale by S. V. Writ, Druggist.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

Amarillo is to vote on local OPP
ton Dec. 3rd. Wichita Falls
tries it on Nov. G0th. 1t is said
that old nick has the Queen
City" for keeps but that his grip
on the Falls" has been loosened.
AT any rate, no matter what hap
pens, the oldtime admonition,
Come out of her My people,"
will find little Judgment in Anna
rillo minds. Amarillo to ANA
rillo people is not near so bad as
others see her and this condition
finds explanation in the following
lines from Pope:
Vice is a monster of so frightful
mien.
AS to be hated needs but to be
seen.
Yet, seen too oft, familiar with
her face,
We first endure, then pity, then
embrace.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

Attorney General Davidson
has brought suits against the
Texas Millers Association, which
includes l20 of the leading flour
mills of the State. The penalties
asked for is over fifty thousand
each. 1t is claimed they have
formed a trust III restraint of
trade. Now look ont for the flour
makers to join the howl against
Davidson. The lumbertruSt will
no doubt be the next one to re-
ceive attention, and Joe Bailey
wrote the charter. - Mem
phiS Herald.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

in her future-see her magnifi-
cent new courthouse and Jail. So
we may say of Hereford with her
present fine brick jail and pros
pective new 5000 courthouse
And why should Randall, twice
as good as Potter and fully the
equal of Deaf Smith, lag so far
behind in all that goes to make
progress?
The News is hopeful of the sit
uation. Its editor, always a con
sentative man, really accused
frequently of being too much SO,
is for this new courthouse be-
cause he thinks it good invest
ment for both town and county.
Why, rating money at 10 per
cent, its value in West Texas, it 5
like getting something worth
$3.50 at about half price. And
then it S something we need now
and will need more and more as
the years roll by.
Vote for the new courthouse
and by this act show your inter
est and pride in your county seat
and your faith in Randall coun-
tvs future.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

long and 20 inches in circumfer-
ence and table beets weighing as
much as 8 pounds and all with
very little attention. He has also
cabbages weighing II pounds
each, solid as you please and Gel
cry just as good as you will find
on any market.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

If those boarding money in
safety deposit boxes, under rocks
and in other places of hiding
would put it in the banks for Cir
culation use the panic would
come to an abrupt end. Such is
the opinion of Lyman Gage, of
President Roosevelt and others
who are in a fair position to know
and The News thinks they are
about right.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

About the first of this month
The News called attention to the
coming of a second paper to
Hereford and in connection there
with said that if any town in the
Panhandle had sufficient nourish-
ment for two print shops that
town was Hereford. This second
paper, the Hereford Democrat,
with r. H. Glenn as editor. is
now before us. 1t is a J-column,
SPACE, well printed and one-half
display advertising, or more adj
vertising to begin with on its mi
tial number than could be found
in any issue of the Canyon City
News for five years back. 1t has
been said that The News could
get more advertising if it was so
licited. Well, look ont. It's man
agement is going to test this.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

Referring to Prof. McGehee's
turnips and sugar beets raised
in Armstrong county and REFER
ed to in another place, The News
begs to say that it's office fore
man, John Hibdon, has raised
this year on the j. Il. Har-
ter block, radishes 20 inches
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

'T'is reported from Chicago
that vast numbers of foreigners.
Italians, Hungarians and Slavs,
are in a rush to return" to their
natal lands. Panic conditions
and Industrial depression" are
alleged as the chief causes. Bon
voyage to all of them and may
the Atlantic ocean never again
be required to float them this
way.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22
Thanksgiving Services.

The several pastors have
agreed on union services at the
Baptist church next Thursday
at II a. III.
Rev. j. S. Groves will preach
the sermon.
Business men are requested
to close their stores and come
with their clerks and helpers to
this Thanksgiving service.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22
BETTER PASS THEM BY.

That the Panhandle offers an
unusually inviting field for all
sorts of money making schemes
to the promoters evidenced
by the fact that the woods is
full of them" Most of them as
sumo to be friends of the mud
sillS,' the overworked many,
the mechanic, the farmer and the
laborer. Their bait is alluring,
at first sight, and their gall is
amazing. Like the devil, they go
about as a roaring hon,' but
their tones are sweet and their
other outward appearances, to
the unsophisticated, is that of in
n0ccnce and Christian self denial.
Most Of them are, if you believe
them, working in the interest of
humanity in general and the vic
tim, "bein' as it's him." in par
ticular. To enumerate them all.
with a parting shot at each,
would require several volumes
for the present The News will
contne itself to a few
There is the grocery hawker
His house. to hear him tell the
story, sells only to the consumer
and at less than wholesale pri-
ces. If not natural liar he at
least is a very skillful prevarica-
tor. Pass him by.
There is the plausible repre-
sentative of the home making
association. He usually has
oceans of > per cent money to
offer his patrons 'on very, very
easy terms''-just little con-
tract to sign and some small fees
to pay and Presto the thing is
done. Slick is no name for these
gentry-they could easily obtain
ten per cent for their money, but
bless you, no, they are out for
the homeless and the poor and
not after. sordid cash" Do you
believe them: Scat, Go and ask
your local banker what he thinks
Of the man who is out begging
for a market for five per cent
money payable at any old time
and then you will pass him by.
Then there is the only living
representative lin your territory
of the only house in the world
that handles a certain book or
books. These, if a set, are very
kindly offered you because 1t is
you at low price and on the in
stallment plan. Bite at this hook,
and many do, and you pay at
least two prices if not more, or
say S65 for $50 set of books.
Then we have the horse and
jack man who sells to a company,
getting off in many instances an
animal worth $500 or less for
something like $1,000 He may
deal in pedigreed stock, usually
does, but as a general thing it
takes something more than a
number on the stud books to
make a good horse.
Now, The News does not want
to be taken as saying that every
person engaging in ali Of the
above lines Of trade are neccssa-
rily humbugs per Sc, for such is
not the case, but merely to call
attention to the fact that it is
very unsafe to put your trust in
the oily statements Of people
who, so far as character for truth
and yeracity is concerned, you
wouldn't know from the devil )
off OK.
Better pass them by, or at
least look thoroly into the parlor
before you 20 in.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22
The New Court House.

The question is not so much
do we need new court house
now, altho that cuts a considera-
bic figure when the safety of the
county records is concerned, as
il is, will we needit in the future?
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

Lumber consumption has drop
ped off and many mills have shut
down hoping thereby to main
tain present prices.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

G.. H. Landever, from near
Chicago, Illinois, has bought
land for actual use provided he
can get his money from up
North"
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-11-22

The Louisville Courier Journal
is of the opinion that Bryan can
and will be our next President.