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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
BOOZE RUNS IN SEWERS
COnfiSCated Wet Goods Were De-
StrOyed in Birmingham.
BEER, WHISKEY, CHAMP ACNE

Flow Through the Cutters of the
Alabama City. Valued at $500,
and Represented the Accumulation
of COnfiscated Liquor Since Advent
of Prohibition.
Wine, whiskey and beer flowed
through the sewers of Birmingham
Tuesday, when the police emptied
into the cutters the accumulation of
all the booze" confiscated since
Birmingham came under the prohibi-
ton law. The stuff consisted of wet
goods, from champagne to too-near-
beer, and is valued at about $1,000.
1t represents the accumulation of
confiscated liquor since last Novem-
Der, and has been stored as it was
seized in the cellars OF the city hall.
Tuesday Judge Feagin ordered its de-
struction and two policemen rolled
the barrels and bottles into the city
hall alley where, under a special
guard, the stuff was allowed to run
| into the gutter and thence into the
sanitary sewer at the corner of the
alley. A special detail of police kept
back the curious crowds and saw
that none of the contraband got down
the Threats of interested spectators.
AS Birmingham was the largest
city in the United States to come first
under the prohibition law the effect
of legislation in that city has been
| closely watched. The members of
the police force have been faithful
to gather in as many of the offend
ers as possible, and more than a
score of soft drink" places have
been closed by order of the mayor.
Owners of these places have been
prosecuted by attorneys engaged by
the Law and Order League, and
offenders have been getting more and
more wary. nti-prohibitionists have
been anxious to prove that the law
was not effective, but SO far they
have been unsuccessful.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
SOME NEW LAWS AND NEAR LAWS
What Was Done Undone by the Legislature
In the Term of One Hundred lore
Bills and Resolutions

What the legislature didn't do
stands out more prominently this
year than what was done by that
body in fifty days, and was left over,
some of it, for the extra session, -
which will be called, it is stated, for
Tuesday, August Is
During the term of 100 days just
closed there were introduced in the
house just 1,138 bills; of this num-
Der TAO were introduced last year
and the remaining 1913 this year.
OF resolutions there were 361 in all :;
1913 last year and 1913 this year
The number of bills passed, local
and general, cannot be ascertained
until after the engrossing corps turns
them over to the governor, and the
number which will become laws de-
ponds upon the number he approves
or vetOes.
According to the calendar of the
Legislature that body did not pass a
convict bill; a constitutional amend
ment to prohibit the leasing of con-
victs; a bill to extend the state road
to the sea; a measure to parole pris-
Oners; an amendment to the child
labor law, shortening the hours and
raising the limit; measure to make
February 18th Georgia Day." bills
to amend the garnishment laws,
which have driven capital from
Georgia; a bill to bond secret So
cieties, aimed at negro societies; a
measure to put solicitors-g general on
a salary; a bill to regulate the tot
ing of pistols bill to tax dogs or
to muZzle dogs; to provide public
comforts for female employees; a bill
to register BARRIERS and provide a
state board of examiners; bills to in
crease the salaries of the supreme,
appellate and superior court judges;
the mosquito bar bill the clean
sheet bill; the bill to have a state
registration of births; a bill to eX-
empt farm produce from taxation;
an anti-pass bill administration
measured; a bill to regulate the
hours of working telegraph opera
tors by railroads; a bill to grant
eminent domain for water powers;
a bill to punish common carriers
for confiscating coal in transit; the
bill to create fifty-nine senatorial dis
tricts, instead of fOrty-four; bill
to change the state board of eduCa
ton; a bill to create a state bank
bureau; a bill to repeal the act de-
termining the running of county
lines; the bill to create juvenile
courts in Georgia; the bill to allow
two or more municipalities to Or
ganize a road gang; a bill to amend
the drug law; a bill to issue $780,
900 in bonds for caring for the con-
victs of Georgia on convict farms;
a bill to change the age for road
duty; bill to tax near beer places
$500 per annum.
Most of the time consumed in the
first session was taken up with the
prohibition question, the bill to en-
large the powers of the railroad COM
mission and other minor measures.
The majority Of the time of the
session just closed was taken up in
discussing the convict question, and
it adjourned without concurrent ac-
ton.
The legislature will go on record,
however, as having passed the fol-
lowing measures of general import
ance, which await the signature OF
the governor before becoming laws
The bill to elect the pension COM
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
FIGHTING FOR WORK.
Men Maddened by Want Fight for
Chance to labor.

wen Maddened Dy want Fight for a
Chance to labor.
A riot in hich one man was bad
ly stabbed and dozen beaten with
clubs and stones occurred in Cam
! den, N. j., Monday morning outside
the works of the Joseph Campbell
Preserving Company, when $500
unemployed laborers gathered liz an
swer to an advertisement which the
company inserted in Saturdays pa
pers.
The Campbell company laid off
great number of it's unskilled en-
ployes last winter. AS the men could
not find unemployment there has
been much suffering and poverty
among them. Saturday the firm ad-
vertised that it had room for $50
men if they would apply at the works
at z o'clock Monday morning Long
before that hour an anxious, work
crazy mob composed not only of the
cOmpany's former employees, but of
all the unemployed foreigners in that
section of the state, collected outside
the gates.
The trouble started when the old
American employees saw that some of
the foreigners were being admitted
and they tried to push them out of
line. Immediately so fierce a fight
started that the company's manager
telephoned for the police. When the
latter arrived they found one Ameri-
can lying on the ground with his face
slashed open by an Italian stiletto,
and fully 1000 Americans and Ital-
ians fighting over his body with
knives, stones and clubs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
!. BROWN WAS VINDICATED
THAT is RESULT OF FAILURE
OF LEGISLATURE TO ACT.
GOyernOr-Elect, Who Was Fired by
Governor, Will Now Draw His
SAIaI.N aS Commissioners

GoVernOr-Elect, Who Was Fired by
Governor, viii Now Draw His
Salary as Commissioner.
In the confusion incident to the
close of the legislative session the
fact was entirely overlooked that the
general assembly had failed to take
any action whatever regarding the
suspension by Gov. Smith of Rail-
road Commissioner Joseph NJ. Brown,
recently nominated as Gov. Smith S
successor.
This omission seemed to have been
intentional on the part of the general
assembly. Though there was at all
times a possibility that it might be
brought up and lead to a lively dis
cussion in the main, however, the
members favored dropping the mat
ter.
The friends of Mr.. Brown hold
that this is a complete vindication
for him, because the law provides
that there shall be dismissal from
office only after the governors &C
ton has been approved by a ma
jority of both houses. The next step
will be that Mr.. Brown will go to
the state treasury and demand his
salary for the six weeks of his term
| during which the governar's sus-
pension was effective. If 1T is re-
fused he will, of course, apply to
the courts for mandamus, and that
will result in construction of the
law, both as to the legislative duty
and the governors right to suspend
state official because he disagrees
with him as to matters Of state pol
| icy.
Mr.. Brown seems to have the
strong side of it. In view of the
verdict of the people in naming Mr..
Brown for governor it is not sur
prising that the legislature was 10th
to take hold of the matter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26

The little attacks of stomach
trouble and stomach disorders will
undoubtedly lead to chronic dyspep-
STA unless you take something for a
sufficient time to strengthen the
stomach and give it chance to get
well. If you take Kodol in the be-
ginning the bad attacks of Dyspep-
STA will be avoided, but if you allow
these little attacks TO go unheeded
it will take Kodol a longer time to
put your stomach in good condition
again. Get bottle of Kodol today.
Sold by Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
No Fake Story.

-, Mr. Wisenbaker is convinced that
. .re man IN prison is his near rela-
I. e, and that he is telling the truth
81 "nat he writes. He expects to
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
BEER WAS EVERYWHERE.

German Just Returned From the
Fatherland Reports Grand Time.
The Charlotte Observer welcomes
back, after a visit to his native Ger
many, Mr.. John Weber. The OBJ
server says he had gained twenty
pounds in two months, and when
asked if he had good time he de-
clared joyfully: Yes, mine got,
dere is beer everywhere-on the
streets, on the dewalks-every-
where, I tell you, everywhere. Ger
tainly, man, I had one goot time al
ready yit." there are some Geor.
grams also whose memories sizzle
this hot weather when they remem-
Der the days of ice cold beer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
WHAT'S AN INCH OF RAIN?
Here Is Something That Will BE In
formation to Nearly Every One.

here - ooIIleCIllHg InaU VIII he IN
formation to Nearly Every One.
The rain fell in buckets, the
thunder racketed terribly, and the
lightning drew zigzag lines of bright
gold upon the violet sky.
80 you, too, don't know what an
inch of rain is exactly" said the
weather clerk as he locked at his
rain measuring instrument. Every
few people do, it seems. III explain
it to you.
"An acre is 6,272,64O square
inches. An inch of water on an acre
is, therefore, 6,272,640 cubic inches.
That amount, at 227 cubic inches to
the gallon, equals $4,000 gallons, or
100000 pounds, or 100 tons.
IAN inch of rain is, in other
words, rain falling at the rate Of
100 tons to the acre. Philadelphia
Bulletin
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26

do all in his power to relieve him
and he may ask the federal authori-
ties to assist him in the matter. The
leoter IS written in beautiful hand.
though the language and characters
are broken English with the Spanish
touch throughout.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
FROM A SPANISH PRISON
Former 6eorgian Writes to Rela-
tiyes in LOwndeS County.
COMMITTED POLITICAL OFFENSF

riobtoen Years of Sentence Still
Hangs Over Him. Was Taken
Prisoner in Cuba While Serving
Under General CampOs. May Ask
Aid of Government.
The little town of Lake Park, in
Towndes county, is very much inter
ested over a letter which Mr.. Law
renee Wisenbaker, a leading citizen
there, has just received from Carte
gena, Spain, supposed to have been
written from a prison cell by Peter
Kershaw formerly of Lowndes coun-
". and who married Mr.. Wisenba-
ker's sister about 40 years ago, or
his son.
After their marriage they moved
to Iexas Mr. Kershaw was a Bap-
list preacher and resided most of
his life in Hamilton county, Fla.
The wife died after many years and
nothing more was heard of Kershaw.
Committed Political 0ffense.
The letter which Mr. Wfsenbaker
has just received states that he is
a political prisoner in Spain under
sentence, 10 years of which is
hanging over him. He says he has
a daughter 1 5 years of age in a
school in Spain, and he wants Mr..
Wisenbaker to come and get her and
look after her for him
In his letter he states that he has
something like $4,000 pounds ster-
ling, in property and in bank, and
ne also wants Mr. Wisenbaker to ad-
minister this estate for him The
letter indicates that he was taken a
prisoner in Cuba; that he was a sec
rotary and treasurer under Gen.
yampos, but just what crime he COM
mitted is not stated He says that
the rigid prison rules have prevented
MN from writing sooner, and this
letter was mailed through the courte-
sly Of a priest who visited the prison
May BE Kershaw's Son.
Mr., Wisenbaker is both surprised
and mystified by the letter He is
inclined to believe that the writer is
d son Of his sister, as her husband
would have been too old to be mixing
III the Cuban Revolution, and it is
likely that their daughter would have
oeen more than Is years of age. The
ieJter was not as definitely ad-
dressed, too, as the older Kershaw
would have addressed, being ad-
dressed only to Mr.. Wisenbaker,
me Grist Mill Man, Long-Pond, Ga,
II. ), A., Long Pond being the name
u the DostOfice before the Georgia
southern road was built through
mere and Lake Park became a town,
%uen there were several families by
Dat name in that section.
No Fake Story.
mr. Wisenbaker is convinced that
.ae man in prison is his near rela-
1--WE, and that he is telling the truth
I'll what he writes. He expects to
La Junta tribune., 1908-06-06
ksss-hodgss.

On Wednesday morning. June Sd,
ut 5l2 Ration avenue. the residence
Of the brides mother. Mrs. S. c.
Music, occurred one Of the first. for
this year. of those happy unions for
which this month has become IA
nous. On that date at 7:30 in the
morning one Of La Junta'; most
highly esteemed daughters. Miss
Helena NJ. Hodges. was united in
the bonds Of holy matrimony to Mr..
Charles l. Kerr, who himself was
formerly resident Of our city and
in the employ Of the Santa Fe rail-
way as chief c ERIK to Superintendent
Cain. Mr.. Kerr is new trainmayter
for the Rock Island railway with
headquarters at Topeka. Kan. That
be has made such rapid progress in
his chosen line of work shows him
to be worthy Of the bride whom he
has won.
The marriage ceremony was pro-
nounced by the Rev. S. c. Davis. Of
the Baptist churth Of this city. the
brides pastor. The immediate reia-
tives Of the bride. with = couple Of
close friends were the sole witnesses
Of the ceremony The simplicity Of
Of it all added to the dignity Of the
ceremony. The brides cake was
then cut and each one present was
Interested in seeing who would get
the ring. the dime. the darning
|needle. ETC.. the symbol Of the ~
|eipisnt's future. After photograph-
iilG The party. and the home. Mr.
Tsnd Mrs. Kerr departed on de- 8:l0
Y. n. train for Denver thence -
Chicago and points east. With H.
|cnng afulatioss md tlAe benedietiols
10 : host u Trends.
La Junta tribune., 1908-06-06
olsGoAl. soes.

The La JuntA Boosters have won
twelve games this season. lost three
and played one tie game.
Last Friday Ii Junta defeated the
All Stars of Pueblo by q score Of 5
to o. Barngroyer struck out eigh-
teen men and only allowed one hit.
Grover Matney. the Las Animas
pitcher. will turn his attention 70
mining during the remainder Of the
baseball season. and mas located in
Bowerman
The capacity of the grandstand
has been doubled and there is pl, nty
of room 10 comfortably take care OF
big crowd Of RIOTERS. Come out
to the game today.
The colored baseball club is max
ing good. having won t.o games
this season, the first by = score Of =
to 3. and the second. with the Mex
leans. BY l3 to 5. They are eager
for u game with the high school
team.
Next Tuesday the Rocky Ford ag-
gregation will cosns, to La Jpnts %
trim the local ball tossers or be trim
med by them. The game will BE for
blood. ~ the teams have won Two
and lost two games with each other
during the present season.
The d. 4 r. G. team of Pueblo
will play the La Junta team today
and tomorrow. Games called at
three O'Clock. The visiting team is
one of the best amateur orRanixa-
tions in the state. and the games
will be well worth seeing.
Sugar City was La Junta' $ victim
last Tuesday BY score Of 3 to 2.
All of La Junta's scores were made
in the first inning. and not man
made the circuit afterwards. Sugar
City scored one in the fifth and one
in the third inning. Pratt struck
out ten men and Thompson eight.
Pitcher Barnxrover has gone
from us. Since accomplishing the
feat Of striking out eighteen men IN
the game with the All Stars of Fu-
eblo, recently. he has been IN great
demand. and the first of the week
was signed BY Trinidad at a salary
of $50 per. Barrie will be in
high class company before many
moons
Fowler went down to defeat be-
fore the In Junta aggregation last
Saturday by score Of 10. to o. Pratt
and Lehr oiliciated in the battery
points for La Junta and Hed1ecock
and McBroom for Fowler. The
feature Of the game was the base
stealing on the part of La Junta.
every base runner who failed in
swiping at least two bags in making |
the circuit Of the bases being fined
years salary. and not single |
member Of the home team was fin
ed. Another feature was the fact
that only twenty-niDe Fowle-ites
faced Pratt during the nine innings. |
and in only two innings were there
more than three men up. The Sun /!
day game between the two teams
WAS frost. La Junta winning by q i
score of 10 to 5. BarnRrover struck
out nine men and Rosson eight. Fow-
ler making ten errors and La Junta
seven.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-17
QUEEN OPPOSES
AbRUzzI WEDDING
Italian Court Is Divided Over
Dukes Plan to Marry Kath=
erin Elkins
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

ROME, Sept. 16.-That Margha-
rita, the queen mother, is on worse
terms every succeeding day with the
other members of the Italian royal
family, over the approaching Abruzzi-
Elkins wedding, was related today by
one of the attaches of the court.
King Victor Emmanuel himself is
sorry that the duke is going to marry
an American girl, but when he found
he could not break off the match he
began to look pleasant, and intimated
that he wanted all his relatives to do
likewise.
They all complied except Queen
Margharita. The discovery of the fact
that the queen will not only oppose the
marriage to the last but will not at
tend the ceremony has provoked the
king greatly.
A meeting between the duke of
AbruZzi and Mrs. and Miss Elkins will
take place soon in the south Of France,
where the duke hopes to pass a quiet
month. Considerable precautions are
being taken to keep the place of meet
ing and the date secret Hence it is
thought likely that Miss Elkins will
leave America and travel in Europe
under an assumed name.
High officers of the italian navy al
ready have given a commission to a
goldsmith to prepare the present which
the navy will offer to Miss Elkins on
the occasion of her marriage with the
duke.
Elkins will not oppose the marriage Of
his daughter Katherine to the duke Of
Abruzzi, after all. The wedding prob
ably will be solemnized in November.
The senator is said to have given the
matter careful thought, and decided
that on account of the. dukes high po-
sition the young woman would soon
force merited recognition.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-17
EIGHT FOOT SHARK is
CAUGHT WITH LIGHT ROD
William E. Lynn of SausaIito
Lands Monster in Launch
off Lime Point

Landing a shark measuring 8 feet
and / inch and weighing II pounds
with. light bamboo rod and reel was
the feat performed by William E. Lynn
of Sausalfto yesterday afternoon. The
catch was made a short distance from
Lime point and is the biggest ever
made with light rod along the coast.
Lynn, accompanied by John Berend-
sen. David Miner and l. Bendel,
went out to Lime point in launch
Yesterday morning on a rock cod fish
ing expedition. After having expert
enced fairly good luck the party was
about to weigh anchor and sail for home
when Lynn, who was using an eight
ounce split bamboo rod and reel, was
almost jerked into the water from the
launcn.
With the unseen fish on one end and
LYNN. an expert angler, on the other.
a battle royal took place. The struggle
lasted for three quarters of an hour
and then the skill of the nimrod tri-
umphed. The line was gradually hauled
in and a shark brought to view at the
side of the launch. Even then the i'm
mense fish fought, but could not escape
and was landed in the boat.
The catch was weighed and measured
on the return to Sausalito.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-17
By George Van Smith

At the blast of the whistle the
Southern Pacific machine majority in
the republican local convention COM
oleted its labors last night by boo
ing" and kissing the name OF Su-
perior Judge Frank Dunno, whom 1t
turned down for Carroll Cook, and by
declining TO consider an altogether
innocuous resolution calling the at
tention of republican nominees to the
necessity of enacting something in
the way OF restrictive legislation
touching race track pool selling and
book making.
Never was the absolute domination
Of the Southern Pacific machine more
disgustingly exhibited than at the
concluding session of the local re-
publican convention at Walton's pa
vlion last night.
/. Driven into a corner by the Lincoln
Roosevelt league minority and stung
by the cries OF the big audience cheer
ing the name Of an honest, fearless
Judge. the machine men fully exhibited
their shameless subserviency and utter
disregard OF popular viii by Kissing
and ''boOing' the name of judge who
has dared attempt to administer the
law in the interest Of the whole people,
instead Of against the people and in
the interest Of Iooters of the public
purse.
The presentation of the name of Car
roll Cook precipitated the break. The
Lincoln Roosevelt league minority in
terposed no objections TO Judges Hunt
and Sturtevant nor to justices of the
Peace Van Nostrand and Golden, nomi-
mated for the fun and short terms. re-
spectively, but refused 10 be a party TO
the denomination of a judge who had
used the ermine OF his Office as a cloak
10 protect and foster vice. More than
10 600 republicans voted the Lincoln
Roosevelt league delegate tickets in
August A change of $50 votes would
have given them control of the local
convention. Those republicans be-
ljeved that they We're voting for dele
gates who, If elected, would recognize
Judge Dunno as judge rather than as
a partisan-that the republican conven-
ton would place the stamp of its ap-
provaI upon the services of Judge
Dunno by giving him the nomination
10 which a majority Of the republicans
Of San Francisco, with a majority of
the right thinking men of all parties,
thought him justly entitled.
The machine was bound to protect
itself by protecting Cook, the most SER
viceable Judge il has had in many
vears-the judge it failed to elevate to
The district court of appeals bench The
whistle sounded Not machine dele
gate dared cast his vote for Dunno. The
solid vote Of the Lincoln-Roosevelt
leaguers was cast for the Embossed
Judge. and from the five districts car
ried by the Lincoln Roosevelt league
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-17
ARTISTS STUDIOS WERE
TRUSTING PLACES
Unlawful Loves of Society Girl
and Painter Lead to ~Di-
yorce Court
r. vODV Capf

NEW YORK, Sept 16.-Florian
Peixotto. the mural decorator and his
torical painter, has been made defend
ant In suit for absolute divorce in
which Miss Ethel Dorothy Patton, a
wealthy young woman of social prom
inence, and Gertrude H. Bergen, an
actress, are mentioned.
According to the complaint of Mrs
Peixotto, who is the daughter of a
wealthy Cincinnati architect, there are
other women involved whose names
she does not know. but on Miss Patton
she places the principal blame AL
legged visits made by Miss Patton to
the studios of the artist are mentioned.
The discovery of score of ardent
love letters. 1t is admitted. was the
49, ~~--~--S
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-17
puNHAm FIGHTS RETURN

SHERMAN, Tex, Sept. 16.-Deputy
United States Marshal McAfee today
from the superior court of Santa Clara
county, California, demanding that
James C. Dunham be Immediately
brought before that court Dunham is
charged with the murder of six per-
sons in that county IL years ago. A
man answering his description Is held
here on the charge. His attorneys
haye dIsa aabeas corpus proceedings,
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-17
The Nominees

For Judges of the Superior Court.
Full term
John Hunt
George a. SturteVant
John j. Van NOstraBd
Carroll Cook
short term
IsfdOre Golden
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-17
MURPHY DELAYS JURY
Ruef's Lawyer Disappears When
InQuisitors Seek Testimony

The grand jury took up the case OF
jury fixing in the Abe Ruef trial at q
special secret session hurriedly called
yesterday afternoon, but owing 70 the