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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-11
Carney to Ship.
(Mullan Miner.

We are informed that a man is
at. present engaged in sorting ore
at the Carney Copper and that as
soon as the work Is finished a car
or two will be loaded and shipped
to the smelter. The ore to be ship
ped is of a high grade and will un-
doubtedly show great returns.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-11
Butte and Occur d'Alene Compan

Butte and Occur d'Alene Company
F. G. Robertson and John CondrOn
of Spokane and James B. Short,
James e. Quinlan and Charles Her
rick of Mullan will be the first board
of directors of the newly incorpora-
ted Butte and Occur d'Alene Mining
Company. The company's capital is
$1,000, 900 in dollar shares and it's
head Office will be in Spokane.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
WORTH MILLIONS.
Wears Twenty-Five Cents Overcoat
and CastOff Cap.


TAX Title" Seaman, the Omaha,
Neb., man who lives on 10 cents a
day and has a fortune of hundreds
of thousands of dollars, bought an
overcoat a few days ago for % cents,
and fishing a cap out of a rubbish
heap, donned both and went about
town attending to his business.
Seaman is unlike most misers, in
that he boasts of his own niggard-
illness and laughs at his own eccen-
tricities. He says he has not spent
more than 10 cents a day to live
on since he began to accumulate his
large fortune, and never intends or
expects to spend more.
The overcoat he bought cost him
10 cents less than the one he has
worn for five or six winters.
He is more than 20 years old and
lives alone in a dilapidated little hut
on the outskirts of the city. For
years he has been buying tax titles,
and they have proved a profitable in
vestment for him. Much of his for
tune has been made in this way. He
is regarded as one of the wealthy
men of Omaha.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

dent finds his whilst foes among
republicans and his most strenuous
champions in the democratic ranks.
Feeling has been engendered that
never will be obliterated, and the APP
peals to race prejudice will have an
effect that no man can measure.
A Deplorable Situation.
Wise and conservative statesmen,
men who are broad enough to wish
we'll for all sections of the country
and its peoples, regard the matter
as the most deplOrable and unfort-
innate that has been up in congress
in a generation. 1t has added, they
believe, to the discomfort of the ne
gro and the unrest of the white peo-
pie who are forced into contact with
him; it brings nearer, they fear, that
social crisis all men dread and all
men pray may be averted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
HOW STATES MONEY GOES
Some Figures Which Show How
Time Has Moved Apace in the
Money Spending Way.

The report of the state treasurer
of Georgia for the year 1906, the
last annual fiscal statement we have,
contains some interesting figures.
The receipts outside of 100000
borrowed were $4,162,595.42; and
the disbursements (outside of $780,
476.76 repaid on prior loans) were
S4.1SO,376.60. We therefore fell be-
hind $17,781.18.
Coming now to the $4,162,-
595.42 expended, let us see what the
money went for. The sum of ST.
733,353.63 went for educational
purposes and the sum of 1901, 259, 40
went for pensions. These two items
aggregate $685., 613.O3, or little
over sixty-three (63) per cent. OF
the total disbursements.
In other words, it took $1,445,-
1887 to carry on the state govern
ment proper-that is, to support the
executive, legislative and judicial
departments, to pay the public debt
to keep up the state military to
care for the blind, the lunatic, the
deaf mute and the public health 10
attend to expert agricultural, hortl-
cultural and geological investigation
and research, to keep up the penl-
Tertiary, and maintain the railroad
commission.
But it took $2,685,618.OS to pay
school functionaries and pensioners
For the fiscal year 1887 the entire
disbursement from the state treas
urv were $1,538,818.47, whereof
S174,707.1O went to the extraordlna-
ry expense of a new capitol.
Truly time has moved apace IN
the money-spending way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
GETTING READY AT S35A DAY
TO COUNT NEW YORK LIFE IN
SURANCE COMPANY'S VOTES.
The 'Simple" Method PolicyhoIders
Are Paying for. Ballots Geog-
raphized and AIphabetized.


raphized and Alphabetical.
State Superintendent of Insurance
Otto Kelsey dropped in at the New
York Life building, says The Sun,
to take look at the five $35 a day
inspectors who have undertaken to
canvass the 100000 ballots cast in
the recent election in that company.
The inspectors, who have been
drawing their pay from the policy
holders for about four weeks now,
told the superintendent that they
were getting along splendidly with
the preliminaries To be sure they
haven't counted a vote yet, but they
are just about ready to begin, and
when they once get under way there
will be no stopping them.
Almost all the ballots and proxies
have passed over the "ge-go" tables,
where they have been geographical,
and the alphabetizing and adiudicat-
ing processes are moving along
smoothly, but within the speed limit.
The state superintendent had moth
ing to say for publication.
There has been good deal of mis-
understanding in regard to the sys-
tenn which the $35 a day inspectors
in the New York Life have been fol-
lowing in canvassing the votes. The
inspectors have maintained that the
most notable feature about 1t was its
simplicity. They are very proud of
the system. 1t was one which they
devised themselves, and is in their
opinion for practical purposes very
much superior to the colored card
system which the Mutual Life in
spectors-same pay, $35 day
have adopted.
The Mutual system was devised
by expert accountants and, working
under it the inspectors have succeed
ed in counting $1,000 of the 100000
ballots that were cast in that COM
pany. The New York Life inspect
ors believe that the simplicity of
their system will bring them out on
top in the long run. They a.s figur-
ing on making hot finish as soon
as they get the preliminalias ar
ranged
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
BATTLESHIP DOOMED.
HoodOo Texas to BE Destroyed in an
Experiment.

HoodoO Texas to BE Destroyed in an
Experiment.
The congressional committee on
naval affairs plans pleasant finish
for the old battleship Texas.
1t is proposed to haul her tat
tered ensign down." if any be up,
and haul the steel armored craft
around to Indian Head, where United
States navy jackies can amuse them
selves peppering the broad expanse
Of metal with twelve-inch dynamite
shells. incidentally the committee
will have an opportunity to observe
the effect Of high explosives upon
ships armor.
The test is asked by Willard Is
ham, inventor of the Isham shell,
and Representative Mudd of the ma
val affairs committee introduced a
measure in congress authorizing the
use of the Texas for the experiment.
Mr.. Isham has been working many
years in the development of his the
DRY that the greatest destructive
power is secured by outside explosion
rather than by shell penetration.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
The Routes by Districts.


The division of the routes by con-
gressional districts is as follows: In
the First district, 105; Second dis
trict 1854; Third district, 1870; Fourth
district, 1877; Fifth district, 50;
Sixth district, 1902; Seventh district
.174; Eighth district, 1874; Ninth dis
trict, 1872; Tenth district, SO, and
in the Eleventh district, 145.
The postoffice department esti-
mates that ninety families are served
by each of these 1,424 routes and
that the average length of the routes
is 23.7 miles.
Counting four and one-half per-
sons to the family this would make
576,720 people who are dependent
upon this source for the delivery OF
mail matter.
The average number of members
allowed to each family, it will be
observed, has been cut down from
five to four and one-half. The de-
partment statisticians have figured
out that the old ratio no longer ex-
ists-not even in Georgia. Race
suicide seems to have extended out
the rural free delivery routes as well
as along the fashionable avenues of
the cities
From $40, 900 to $25,OOO,OOO
From the initial appropriation OF
$4,000 made ten years ago to. in
augurate the rural free delivery SER
vice as an experiment, the populari-
tv of the service and the demands
of the people to be served have APP
pealed so strongly that in 1906 the
annual appropriation for the service
was increased to $25, 828,300.
If the increase of pay to rural car
riers is granted and Representative
Griggs of Georgia, who is mem
Der of the postoffice and post roads
committee of the house, feels conf
dent that a substantial increase will
be granted and is pushing bill
making an increase of thirty-three
and two-thirds per cent. on the old
salaries, the appropriation for the
rural free delivery service next year
will amount to almost $35, 1000.
The total appropriation for postal
service for the next fiscal year will
be about S2O6,O0O,O00.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
SNOW SMOTHERS THE WEST
HEAVY FALL OF WHITE FLAKES
TEN FEET DEEP IN PLACES.
Cattle Being Killed to Save Them
from Starving, and Hay Stacks
Are Burned for Fuel.

are DIEIItu IOE uCIs
A terrific snowstorm has prevailed
in western Minnesota and North Da-
kota during the past week. Trains
from the west are from twenty-four
to forty-eight hours delayed and in
many cases the railroads do not
know where the trains are stalled.
The snow is from four to ten feet
deep
Trains from the Pacific coast are
bedded in the snow and there seems
to be no hope. that they will be
brought out under another week.
Railroad men are discouraged be-
cause the shipments of coal made
this week to the fuel famine districts
are stalled. J. J. Hill has taken per-
sonal management of these ship
nfefrts. but advices received the
Great Northern headquarters said
no coal could be sent west from
Grand Forks owing to the blockade.
Thirty-one trains of coal are west
of st. Paul on this line, while on
the Northern Pacific and 500 there
are an equal number All are
stalled in snow drifts.
Settlers cannot get to towns and
are burning everything available,
even to the hay stacks. Cattle are
being killed to save them from starry
ing. The lights of more than hun
bred towns in North Dakota were
extinguished a week ago, and the tai
low candle supply is about exhaust
ed. A railroad traffic official said:
eve are up against the hardest
proposition ever presented to us
We are spending thousands OF dol
lars day in an attempt TO open
nm branch lines, but the weather IS
against us. We have east OF the
Montana lines 1872 freight and live
stock trains.
cat several stations we have I'M
loaded the cattle and have given the
stock all the feed that could be OBJ
tanned. amounting to twice the
freight traffic, and yet we fear the
live stock will die before enough
food can be obtained or the roads
cleared of the blockade"
The Great Northern, Northern Pa
cifc and 500 lines report seven
trains of passengers stalled in North
nakota with no immediate prospect
If getting out, and with the posi-
bility that engines have gone deau
for want of fuel.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
REPUBS. REBUKE ROOSEVELT
All Resolutions That Upheld Presi-
dent Were Killed, and One Pro-
viding for Inquiry Adopted.

The nti-administration senators
on the republican side are jubilant
over the result of their rebuke adj
ministered to the president, says a
Washington special. They have
passed the Foraker resolution pro-
viding for an inquiry at Brownsville
and are hugging themselves in de-
light. BY turning down the resolu-
tions of Mallory, of Florida, and Gull
berson, of Texas, which both sought
to indorse the presidents action in
the Brownsville affair, the republi-
cans have practically stated that they
do not indorse that action, and that
the discharge was without constitu-
tional authority.
The democrats, with the exception
of Tillman and Blackburn, sustained
the president throughout. Blackburn,
the floor leader of the democrats, had
previously expressed himself satisfied
with the Foraker resolution, and to
be consistent he held to that posi-
ton throughout the balloting.
Every substitute offered for the
resolution that was passed was voted
down. The republican senators de-
fed the big stick, and refused to
vote their approval of the president.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
HOLINESS PREACHER IN JAIL.
Stole Brasses from Machinery of
Stuart Lumber Co.

R. L. Mann has been arrested at
Donalsonville, in the western por-
ton of Decatur county, charged with
stealing brass from the Stuart Lum-
Der Company. A search warrant was
served and the officers found 500
pounds of brass in Mann's possession,
which he had ready for shipment
Part of this was stolen from the To-
comotives of the Stuart Lumber
Company
A short while ago the water
works plant at Donalsonville was
shut down on account of a number
of the brasses having been stolen
from the machinery. 1t is believed
that it was Mann who stole it. Mann
is in Jail at cambridge awaiting
trial. He is Holiness preacher,
and also claims to be a conjurer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
p1sCH READY WITH HIS $1,000
For a Special Train, But the Georgia
Would Not Clear the Track.

For opCtldi AA'S'
Would Not Clear the Track.
Adolphus Busch, the ST. Louis
millionaire brewer, who arrived IN
Atlanta in his special car on his way
70 Aiken. S. c., where he has been
sent bv his physicians for his health
reached the Georgia capitol an hour
and Ten minutes late, as a result OF
which he rallied to make connections
with the Georgia railroad train run
ming ont on the morning schedule.
Mr. Busch wanted no delays and
no offered the Georgia railroad ST.
ooo for a special engine to pull his
car TO Augusta. The engine was got
- readiness here all right, but the
road,s chief operator at Augusta re-
fused to clear the track for the
sracia1 on account Of the fact that
If would have tied up large amount
81 bpsiness. and Mr. Busch was put
~ the necessity of waiting for the
afternoon train.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

Carroll Daniel, negro from Pu-
laski county, has been serving ten
months in the Georgia penitentiary
without having been sentenced by
any court, or without having the ben
eft of a new trial which had been
granted him by the supreme court.
AS a result the prison commission
has orered his return to Pulaski
county. and if he is cleared when he
stands a new tria, the legislature will
be asked to reimburse him for the
time he served in the penitentiary.
1t seems that he had been sent
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
SAD LIFE or WEALTHIESI
INSANE WOMAN NEARS END

family was one of the most proml-
nent in society and politics in New
YORK state. Today her only relative
and heir is her brother, George Win
+bron Folsom. He collects an IN
come of $4,000 a year from the
28 properties which she owns ana
from the bonds, stocks and mort
cages. amounting to $25O,Oe9' in
Guided in her estate. For his ser
vices as committee of her person ana
estate he is allowed $4,000 by the
supreme court each year.
Miss Folsom is Ga years Old
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
A PECULIAR SITUATION,
Farmers Saved Meat by Refusal Of
Negroes to Work Christmas

NeSrOeS 10 work Christmas
1t has developed that the failure
to persuade the negro laborers 70
kill hogs during the Christmas boIi-
days saved Houston county farmers
several thousand dollars.
Probably 500 hogs throughout the
county were killed at that time. and
we are told all the joints of the
heavy hogs have been spoiled by the
subsequent warm weather.
Had the laborers been plentiful
and willing to work practically all
the fat hogs in the county would
have been killed between the Dist
and the 28th of December. Then
practically all the hams and should
ers would have spoiled, and the ag-
gregate loss would have been more
than $4,000. AS it is, less than half
the hogs were killed and in that
ratio the loss is less.
There is another loss, however
All the corn fed to hogs since the
first week in January is practically
a loss, as the hogs already fat have
gained very little in weight. The
farmers didn't have much corn to
spare, and having fed it to hogs
when they hoped to keep it for other
purposes will force many farmers
to buy corn before the next corn
harvest comes.
The situation is unusual. Those
who killed hogs lost meat and those
who didn't kill hogs lost corn
Perry Home Journal
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
NOT ENOUGH AGRICULTURE.
Barrett Says Main Idea of Schools Is
Being Lost Sight of.

Being Lost Sight of.
President c. S. Barrett of the
Farmers Union has given out an in
terview in which he says the
new district agricultural schools will
prove failures if the high school idea
and academic studies are not elimi-
mated from them. He said in part:
THE counties which have made
such munificent offers for these
schools have done so on the faith
that they were to be agricultural
schools. The half million dollars so
enthusiastically subscribed by the
counties which have secured the
schools should serve the purpose for
which they have been given If the
patronage of the farmer is worth
consideration he and his interest
should be considered in the perpara-
ton of the course of study. If this
is not done it does not take even the
son of a prophet to fOresee the doom
of these schools. 1t will be as easy
to abolish them as to create them
if they fail of their purpose"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
Nancy IN GRASSHOPPERS.
AWE MAN EXPECTS TO MAKE
MONEY! CATCHING INSECTS.
g. In Crib as a Prison and Hires
children of the NeighbOrhOOd
TO Capture Them.

what he believes to be new road
riches has been discovered by
tonnes Ludgate, a Maine farmer. If
= doesn't pan out Mr.. Ludgate will
no extremely disappointed, particu-
,orlv as the experiment has already
cost him $14.
Last spring a city boarder, who
nod gone there trout fishing, de-
dared that if he could only get
come grasshoppers he would be will
mo to pay literally for them, as he
believed they would prove great bait
olorg the trout streams. He pointed
ont the fact that trout could always
attain plenty of worms and flies
when the season opened, but that
thew had to wait until August for
orasshoppers. He would be willing
n nav two cents each for some, and
bo knew scores of other fishermen
who would give as much, he said.
This set Mr. Ludgate to thinking,
and when grasshopper time came he
hired all the boys in the neighbor-
hood to catch the insects at the rate
Of cent for fifty. He sent his own
children out in the fields, and when
the crop had been gathered he
possessed about $4,000 hoppers of
all kinds, ages and sizes AS fast
as the insects were taken they were
pIaced in a corn crib, which had
been made air tight by pasting paper
over the cracks. The crib was then
filed with hay and banked with
leaves to keep it warm within.
Thus far during the winter the
grasshoppers have stood the cold,
and Mr.. Ludgate sees no reason why
he should lose more than 10 per
cent by spring Having little else
to do he is now making boxes in
which to ship the insects when the
fishermen want them If he can get
two cents each for the hoppers he
will make about $1,000 for his
pains
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

Margaret Winthrop Folsom, known
% The wealthiest insane woman IN
.ne world, is reported to be dying
~ sanitarium at Waverly Mass
mere she has spent most of the 80
Years since she was declared incom-
p7'ent to conduct an estate which
S"e inherited in 1872. The estate
was extremely large for those days
""u IS now enormous. 1t consists
almost entirely of realty in New
: Tx IN city, and is probably close TO
F'igOU'OOO in actual value.
ilalI century ago th2 Folsom
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
RAID MADE ON LOTTERY PLANT.
Twenty Employees of Honduras Lot
terry Co.'S. Printing Plant Were
Arrested at Mobile.

Secret service men from Washing
ton, aided by the local customs Off
cials, made raid on the printing
Office of the Honduras Lottery Com
pany at Mobile, Ala, Thursday night,
confscating everything in the estab-
lishment and arresting E. L. Pinac
and Lewis Graham, of New Orleans,
and eighteen employees. The prison
ers We're allowed their freedom I'M
der bond.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
BAKERS FIRST RAIL SHIPMENT
OF Cotton Was Made Last Week from
Elmodel to Albany.

The first carload Of cotton ever
shipped out of Baker county came to
Albany last week. 1t was shipped
by Mr.. M. A. McRainey from Ell
model, being hauled over the Red
Cypress Lumber Companys road
from Elmodel to Walker Station and
from the latter place to Albany over
the Central. Many thousands OF
bales of cotton have in times past
been sent out of Newton by boat and
wagon, but this is the first consign-
ment of the staple to begin its jour
ney to the manufacturing world in
a box car.-Albany Herald.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
REDUCE ACREAGE 10 PER CENT.
Resolution Adopted by the Southern
Cotton Association.

Cotton Association.
The Birmingham meeting of the
Southern Cotton Association, adopt
ed the following report of the COM
mittee on acreage:
"In view of the fact that great
many farmers have adopted the in
tensive system of farming, increas-
ing the yield per acre, and new ter
ritory is being planted in cotton that
heretofore has not grown cotton,
thereby increasing the production;
therefore, in order to maintain salts
factory renumerative prices, we urge
and recommend a full reduction of
ten per cent. of cotton acreage for
the year 1907"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
NEGRO SERVED TEN MONTHS
WITHOUT BEING SENTENCED

, to the penitentiary under the orig
inal sentence and no attention had
been paid to the decision of the SUI
preme court until the attorney en-
ployed by the negro brought the
matter to the attention of the prison
commission.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
RURAL DELIvERYS GROWTH
THERE ARE /, 424 ROUTES IN OPP
ERATION IN GEORGIA.
One Hundred and SiXty-four in the
Second District. Half a Million
DnonIn Rely ON the SerVicn

One Gunufeu anu oIAiy-lOuF III lIlc
Second District. Half a Million
People Rely on the Service.
The rural free delivery service in
Georgia is steadily expanding to
meet the demand of continued pros
perity. Jan. of this year there
were 1,424 routes in operation in
the state and 100 petitions pending.
On all of these routes, with the eX-
ception of thirty-two, the mail was
delivered six times a week; on these
thirty-two it was delivered three
times a week. The expenditures for
this service in Georgia now amounts
to 100000 in round numbers. 1t
is a little under that, but so close to
the figures indicated that the differ
ence is immaterial. Most of this
large annual appropriation goes to
the payment of the salaries of car
,gf,S,.e. ---. ~
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
DEVOURED BY WOLVES.

Two Men Eaten and FIocks Attacked
in Northern Spain.
.Advices from Madrid say: Heavy
SHOWS have driven ferocious wolves
into the plains, where they are caus-
ing havoc in the northern Spanish
provinces. They are attacking fiocks,
and have devOured two persons.
The peasants have organized for
their destruction.