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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-11-11
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willing to let by cones be by cones
there has been pressure to decide
the authorship of some anonymous
circulars which were mailed before
the election and that the inquiry
may bring outside talent here to
testify. If so and the grand jury
are investigating county affairs we
may have very sensational report
further on. And again it may hap
pen that the mess will be stirred
with no results but more rumor and
scandal.
If the grand jury are at the mat
ter it is to be hoped there will be no
turning back once they haye taken
hold of the pillow handles. The Ga
zette has beeu of the opinion that
inasmuch as the county had appar-
emily lost nothing and the election
was over the thing might rest and it
has not been in favor of keeping the
thing stirred up. But if the stir has
been made it should go to the bot
tom regardless of who is affected or
how. It being a grand jury matter,
The Gazette has no knowledge or in
formation in the matter further than
what is to be learned from the class
Of witnesses who are being escorted
to the temple of justice by our smil-
ing and accomplished sheriff. Half
the sting is taken from the unwilling
task by his graceful company while
giving out the party invitations
from the grand jury. The writer
has felt hurt that he has been passed
by and has thus lost the cheerful
smile and winning look with which
so many of his friends have been
boosted up the court house steps by
bat"
The grand jury now in session is
evidently going after everything in
sight. Up to date of going to press
fourteen indictments have been re-
turned. There was but one case on
criminal calender to start with, but
it appears that there were two old
indictments against Albert Minis in
chattel mortgage matter, where
Sheriff Schueller got busy and had
the defendant in court, having
brought him from Sturgis, S. D.
In the case against Simmons, AL /.
len, Swanson. NEEDLE, Moore, Lyon
and Newton the defendants plead
ed Guilty of the offence charged in
the indictment"
In the cases of the State VS.. Braun,
Schroeck and Wild the defendants
pleaded mot guilty. and they were
allowed to enter into recognizance
and their cases continued until the
next general term OF court.
In the case of the state VS.. John
NEEDLE, the court passed sentence
upon the defendant of fine of S1OO
and 1870 costs.
The grand jury is still in session
at this writing and how much thew
have to return no one knows. The
attorneys and all who have followed
court matters agree that this term
of court is one of the most peculiar
in the history of Redwood county.
The petit jury was discharged
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
WOMAN HAS SNAKES FOR PETS.
Uses Large Nine-Foot Reptile for
Customary Fur Piece.

Dogs, cats and other quadrupeds
are entirely too conventional as pets
for Mrs, Maude Coleman of Milwau-
kee, Wis. She likes snakes. She
has liked them ever since she was a
little girl. Residents in the vicinity
of her home who did not know Mrs.
Coleman and her strange fancy were
surprised to see her calmly strolling
down the street with a snake nearly
nine feet long draped around her
neck instead of the usual fur boa
worn at this time of the year. Mrs.
Coleman has had pet snakes in her
home for years, but she has only
one now. She is as fond of it as
any one could be of pet dog or cat.
In her lifelong study with associa-
ton with the reptiles Mrs. Coleman
has discovered that they are affec-
Tomato and nave a good memory for
people, places and things.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
SOUR ON D1ATRLMONY JOHN L" SAYS
IT'S WHAT SHERMAN SAID WAR IS

A Chicago dispatch to the New
York World says: John L. Sullivan,
once the champion of all heavy
weights, told Judge Barnes Wednes-
day the story OF an unhappy marriage
and obtained a divorce. John L. tes-
tiaed that he was married May 1,
1888, and his wife now lives in Cen
terville, r. I. They separated Sept
8, 1884. He charged desertion and
improper conduct.
II don't want that woman to have
my bones,' said John l.. "She may
outlive me, but if l die first I want
a decent Catholic burial by blood rel
atives. I've always fought shy of di-
vorce couts on account OF my relig-
ion, but there is a time when tor
ture cannot be endured. / was young
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
PREACHERS ON A new LINE is TAKING OUT THE KINKS
a LARGE NUMBER IN NEW YORK
TURN TO THE NEW
THOUGHT IDEA.

NEW 4ORK.-Two hundred prom
lnent ministers in this city met this
week and discussed the Emmanuel
movement. When the Rev. DR..
Leighton Williams of Amity Baptist
church said that Professionalism. as
Professionalism, is a dying thing they
applauded him. When the Rev. DR..
Robert Mcdonald of the Washington
avenue (Brooklyn) Baptist church
said The new Psychologist religious
movement is leading the Christian
church to get hold of the imminent,
nearby God, and to discover the real
SOUL they applauded again.
1t was the regular monthly meet
ing of the Congregational ministers
of this city and vicinity The Rev
DR.. Mcdonald said at the outset
that his preaching and practice of
the new psychology doctrines was
bringing back former parishioners of
the Washington avenue church, who
had long been Indifferent.
Christian Science and the New
Psychology do not contain full chris
tianity and are intensely irrational, &"
he said, but they are answering the
most vital personal spiritual issue.
They are filling their believers with
consciousness of the uod of which
early christian mystics were so vital
Iy conscious. The New Thought
movement has taken 100000 per-
sons away from the orthodox chris
tian church. These people have felt
strongly the need of getting divine
help in weak moments. They saw
that they were not getting it in
christianity, so they deserted it. If
we intend to attract them back this
work of healing sick personalities
and bringing our Pensioners into
vital relations with the immediate
Deity must be made a regularly rec
ognized department Of our church
work"
A clergyman asked DR.. Mcdonald
what could be done for a certain
heart brOken mother, whose boy had
ruined her life by his dissipation.
I'D like to spend two weeks with
that boy" said DR.. Mcdonald i'm
petuously.
He's dead" answered the inter
rogator, and all the 200 clergymen
laughed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
UNCLE SANS SWEET TOOTH
Million Dollars a Day for Sugar Is
the Bill Americans Have
Been Paying.

Cold figures gathered by the bu
reau of statistics show that the aver
age American citizen consumes half
his own weight in sugar every year,
and Uncle Sans sugar bill averages
million dollars day.
A statement issued by the bureau
reads more like popular fiction than
like a government report. The total
consumption of sugar in the United
States in 1907 reached 1853, 667,975
pounds.
Calculating this enormous total
at the average retail price of five and
one-half cents per pound" the report
states, I'VE get total of $372,OOO,-
600 as it's cost to the consumer, or
more than a million dollars for each
of the 365 days of the year.
The statement shows that 2l.3 per
cent. of the sugar consumption Of the
country was of home production;
|17.7 per cent. was brought from our
insular possessions and the remain
ing 81 per cent. came from foreign
countries. Forty-three million pounds
was the aggregate of the expectation
of sugar from this country.
An interesting feature of this rec
ord year, 1907, was the fact that the
production of beet sugar for the first
time exceeded the production OF cane
sugar. The product of the year be-
ing cane sugar 544,000,OOO pounds
while the production of beet sugar
amounted to 967,OOO,OO0 pounds.
The worlds production has practl-
cally doubled in the past twenty
wears. Beets now supply one-hait
of the grand total produced, while
twenty wears ago they supplied about
one-third of the total product
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
ATrAUne UNITARIANISM
Rector Smithers Declares It Denies
That Christ Is God

U OhIlSG is OOu,
The Rev. F. Smithers. Jr rector
OF Grace Episcopal church. formor,v
OF Holy Trinity church, New York
IN discourse the other night, said:
"Of all heresies the most deceitfnl
is the Unitarian. Holding a false
view of the unity of God it denies
that Christ is God. 1t is not the
most dangerous for it never satisfies
any man very long, but it is the most
subtle and deceitful. 1t cannot bniId
up, but it can destroy. 1t gets into
a mans mind and slowly saps his
religious faith until at last he is left
with nothing to live by. Avoid it as
you would poison.
1T is found springing I'D in MANY
quarters. Much Of our literature is
touched with it. I find that a faint
OF Unitarianism runs through as
Well-known magazine as the Out
look, which has come into such prom
lnence recently. We cannot afford
TO have such lierature about. All
these heresies are attempts to rob
God OF His sovereignty and are
founded on unbelief in His love-"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
FROM THE POSTMASTER

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NEWS mas INDUCED subscribers while atino i
would roStoInce Department promise that thew
eu our hand and it has showdown with tho @ h+
Oe compelled to from the names Of all rh
VINO are IN arrears postage papers at the rate Of
more than $lOO year each. " ~ e ol
our DOCKS VIII be revised Year and If Won do
receive Inc News after that you know the reason bv
Is no longer with us bnt ono &c uh
we nope to keep all of we must comfy with
the new postal regulations p-' WIN
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
FLAGLER'S SEA-GOING ROAD
The Greatest Known Engineering
Feat Ever Accomplished by
Brains and Millions.

Henry M. Flagler has his railroad
line completed and trains running
"a miles south of Miami, Fla, to
Knights Key. Forty miles is be-
ing pushed from Key West to meet
the workmen, completion of 1874
miles out of the 1876 miles. 1t is
eleven miles from knights Key to
Bahai Honda, where the line is being
carried over open ocean on concrete
arches. Steamers now ply from Ha-
vana to meet the trains at Knights
Key.
When the line is completed to Key
West huge railroad car floats will
take entire trains across the Florida
Straits to Havana a distance of nine
ty miles, without compelling passen-
gers to leave their car seats or Sleep
ing car berths, and without the ne
cessity of breaking bulk on a single
consignment of freight. This will
mean that the Cuban sugar planter
will be enabled to load his product
on freight car side-tracked at his
pun be1LiOilJ nav iuG CdI HdulGu UY
rail to HAVANA, foated to Key West,
and then rail-hauled right to New
York, or any other point, without
any of the expense, trouble or dam
age dangers Of a second handling.
The great project which is being
financed from beginning to end by
Mr.. Flagler personally, generally is
regarded by engineers as the most
expensive stretch Of railroad ever
built, the average cost of construc-
ton, from end to end, exceeding
100000 mile, while the additional
capital requirements TOR docks, chan
neling, car floats and equipment will
bring the total cost approximately to
$50, 100000. Already Mr.. Flagler
has expended upward of SIS, 100000
on the work
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
RAPID FIRE MERCY THIS
lhirty-tight COnviCtS Have Been
PardORed During December.
GOVERNOR BREAKS RECORD

Since the Time of Alexander IF.
Stevens. Cases of Many of Those
Who Have Been Given Freedom
Are Interesting. After Serving
Thirty Years Doors Open to Let
Out Tom Childs. His Crime.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS persons
have been released from the peni-
Tertiary by pardon or communication
of sentence since Dec. /, and more
than hundred during the last three
months All records for rapid fire
mercy since the days of Governor
Alex II. Stephens have been broken.
Tom Childs, a negro, who has been
in the penitentiary serving a life SEN
tence for murder for the past thirty
years, was released Saturday over the
protest of many persons in the county
of his conviction.
Childs, negro of 81, was tried in
Pike county for assisting in the muir
der of a white man who was killed
and robbed by two. The evidence
was practically conclusive, and the
negroes were sentenced to be hanged.
Repeated new trials resulted in them
receiving life sentences.
1t was pleaded in Childs favor that
he had not taken part in the actual
killing. The plan was for him to
commit the murder, but at the last
moment his nerve failed and his COM
panion did the work.
Since his confinement in the peni-
Tertiary his conduct has been exem-
plary. He has welded an influence
for good among other prisoners and
made friends with all his keepers.
1t was largely due to the indefatiga-
bic work in his behalf by a good
white woman, Mrs. T. d. McKown,
wife OF the surgeon at the Durham
coal mines, that he was finally re-
leased. She has been pleading for
him during the past two years.
Many of the older citizens of Pike,
persons who recalled the details of
the crime, protested against the par
don to the last, saying the negro
should have been hanged at the time,
and that to pardon one guilty of such
an offense would be fixing a danger
Gus precedent
Judge John |. Hall of Macon, who
presided at one Of the trials, filed a
strong protest against the pardon.
He said the crime was too serious and
the evidence too conclusive for
Childs release to be ever justified,
Among others who have been re-
leased is Frank Coins, convicted in
Richmond for killing a new born
child and sentenced to serve a life
sentence
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
THE CENTRAL RAILROAD HAS
FIVE CORPS OF ENGINEERS
MAKING SURVEYS.

Five corps of engineers, employed
on different sections of the road,
have just completed a survey of the
Central railroad line between Allan
ia and Macon for E. H. Hartman,
the controlling spirit of the road,
with a view to having the line made
straight, or as nearly so as possible
IN order to take in the stations.
Between Americas and Macon this
survey has been made already, and
many heavy grades and sharp curves
cut out.
Work on the Atlanta-Macon divis-
ion, about as crooked bit of track
as can be found in the state, will be
started early in the new year.
The roads generally are looking
forward to improvements during the
coming year, and it is believed that
Mr.. Hartman will see to the
Strengthening of the Central roadbed
at once The fact that the new sur
vey has been carried on during the
panic" is taken to mean that the
work is to be begun at an early date.
Such construction work, which
would give employment to many,
both as road builders and bridge
constructionists, at the same time it
is figured out that the saving would
repay for the expenditures.
The curves in this road have long
been vexatious problem to the
transportation officials of the road,
especially in view of the fact that the
competing line is much straighter,
and therefore much shorter
While competition keeps the
freight and passenger rates the same,
and the length cuts no figure with
the passenger or shipper, it does
have deal to do with expense of
the road, by reason of the additional
travelling that is done both by freight
and passenger trains.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
FOUGHT ABOUT THEOLOGY.
Preachers Used Fistic Arguments to
indicate Their Contentious.

In Albany, which is in New York,
the other day two clergymen dis
agreed on a matter of theology. One
brother preached a sermon in the 9TH
er brothers church, and the second
brother told the congregation that
it would have been better if they
had not heard what the first brother
said. In order to decide which was
right the two brothers met outside
the church and went at each other
with their fists, but before the truth
could be indicated by pugilistic ar
gument mutual friends separated
them. That, of course, is a circum-
stance to be regretted. Had the Rev.
Mr.. A. been permitted to hammer the
Rev. Mr.. b. into state of uncon-
seriousness, manifestly it would have
been conclusive evidence that A. was
right and vice versa.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
IN NEEDY CIRCUMSTANCES.

Mrs. Cheshire and Seven Children
Must Have Help.
The Shellman Sun says Mrs. James
Cheshire, whose husband was killed
by Central railroad passenger
train two weeks ago, and her chill
dren have moved to the farm of Mr..
Cheshire's brother. They are in
needy circumstances the children
of whom there are seven-are small,
and added to these facts their house
and furniture were burned some time
last summer. Mrs Cheshire will en-
ter suit against the railroad for her
husbands death, but until this mat
ter is settled the neighbors will have
to help the family.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30

0nades Of Carrie Nation! Won't
81 lady be angered to the point Of
'plexy when she hears the news?
Il President Roosevelt received,
H. mug his Christmas presents, a gal
IN VI me old South Carolina corn
Eio se, md since it went from a close
esa nu OF the chief executive there is
H. 9V I. TO believe that he tasted a
Il bio as President Roosevelt smack
No, ups over the Christmas toddy
FEM $llu doubtless reverted to the
H. s4uous times Of San Juan Hill,
|p6RtUnl, whose heroes, Major Micah
h aus ms was the sender of the liquor,
|ear 1"lue Major Jenkins of courtly
bina 5 + ana distinguished South Car
knted 'uesge whom Roosevelt pre-
Win sword in Charleston,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
EDDY ROOSEVELT HAD CAROLINA
CORN WHISKEY FOR HIS CHRISTMAS

and who now enjoys the honors ana
emoluments of the Columbia post
office on the appointment of the pres
ident. ,4.. tor
But there was much agitation for
a time over the express company >
hesitancy to accept the stun Tor snip,
ment. That agent at first decllneu
to accept the shipment. 9th
The Carey-Cothran law o. 1ouen
Carolina forbids shipments OF lquor
from a wet to a dry county, and the
AGENT feared this law might also ap-
t pbe encouragement 1T was asked about Q,
the matter he said he was not the
legal Leg adviser Of the express company I3E. ny
II company's attorney finally ad-
vised shipping the Whiskey u9gi% W.
ing that such a shipment woulu De
in violation OF no law.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
THAT BAKER COUNTY REBUKE.
Comment of the Savannah News on
Recent Court Incident.

hcCtHG SOuFb AlClue0J.
The Savannah News comments
editorially as follows on the recent
rebuke of a jury by Judge Spence:
THAT was a singing rebuke which
Judge Spence administered to a Ba-
ker county jury in his court last
week. The defendants, it seems,
were charged with cruelty treating a
negro preacher, his wife and his
daughter-in-law on suspicion that
they knew something about an es-
old negro preacher and his family,
according to accounts, was cruel in
the extreme. We infer from the re-
Duke administered to the jury that
the evidence against the accused par
ties was so strong that there was
only one thing to do, and that was
to find them guilty. The verdict,
however, was not guilty
THAT the members of that jury
may expect other and even greater
exhibitions of lawlessness in their
county than the one which they saw
fit to excuse is a natural conclusion
Where lawlessness is not condemned
is certain to flourish.
eve haven't seen the testimony in
the case in which Judge Spence re-
buked the jury, but we assume that
it showed a condition of affairs de-
plored by all good citizens. Recently
there has been so mach lawlessness
in this state that it is a question
if there isn't a weakening of public
sentiment against it, Laws cannot
be enforced unless they are backed
by public sentiment. Judges and
officials may strive to do their duty,
but they will accomplish but little
unless they are upheld by public SEN
timent The people must stand back
of the law if they would have peace,
happiness and prosperity in their re-
spective communities. Public senti-
ment in behalf OF unfolding the law
must be at a low ebb in Baker county
to call from the bench rebuke like
that which TIE Baker county jury re-
ceived from Judge Spence"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30

and foolish and didn't exercise judg-
ment in my choice"
The gladiator was a picture of
health. I've been on the water cart
for four years now, and I've won back
money and self-respect. I'm a new
man and l will never take another
drink. I've killed the desire by auto
suggestion and faith in myself.
'Matrimony is the ideal state for
man, if he gets in right. But if he
gets in like l did it is h"
Sullivan is now educating a half
dozen nieces and nepheWs.
Judge Barnes shook hands with
Sullivan when he was introduced by
Attorney p. w. Sullivan, and after
hearing his testimony and that of
Frank Hall granted the decree.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-30
I[N ENGLAND DECADENT
Natives Are Leaving in Large
Numbers for the West.
0RfICNERS TAKE THEIR PLACE

,,o Conducting Many of the
Rest Lines of Trade Business Is
n.oroasing, and the Cost of Living
leasing. Many Changes Have
taken Place in the Past Ten Years.
,,,crsTA. GA Chronicle re-
has had a personal talk with
L T. Willet, a well-known citizen
+bis Mace, who has returned from
three months trip of recuperation
Nav England, which is very in
aeresting
n, WiIlet said in part: 81 have
- Going to New England almost
4 wv snmmer for some fifteen years.
~ man going there will always find
4 rost amount of things that are of
+orso interest and Importance. 1t
o.v to see that great changes in
l. mast few years have taken place.
b.nbone 7 can more definitely and
-itb more authority make statement
4 these changes by quoting what the
sasbior of a Boston bank with CAPT
n Stock of 100000 told me this
simmer He said: New England
dpcadent. She is losing out on
.mnorts and on exports. Her manu-
sactOries are not so prosperous as
one time, nor is it nearly so easy
or man to make money in New
ENGLAND as it was ten years ago, in
I'M line. With it all the price of liv-
he is steadily advancing; and more
In this the native is being driven
Int in a number of lines of work by
he foreigner. While the volume OF
Kew England's business in total is
ecreasing, yet her population is act
slv increasing-from this large in
Ink Of foreigners. New England's
bal is daily decreasing in size, while
hose gathered around the dinner
able are increasing in number
Tens and tens of thousands of
lew England people have moved in
the west. l do not see why an
Emigration movement of New Eng
Rnders might not also be started
OutlWard, "
Mr. Willett said that these above
emarks from the cashier bore out
is own conclusion in the matter,
ind continuing he said:
The Italian is today employed in
lew England on all TIE roadways,
J md all works of excavations. He
uns the barber business, the shoe
baker business, and himself and the
Teek run the barroom and restau-
Want business.
For several years | have watched
be parade on labor day in Boston,
#nd | would not see / per cent. of
american faces in the line.
'Ottentimes manufacturers in
hops in various lines can talk to no
Pc in the shop except possibly their
bremen. All the others speak a for
lgn language.
These New England people to my
ina are the smartest people on
arth' For one hundred years this
llle bit of country has dominated
DIS country in matters political,
economical moral, and in literature.
they are thoroughly wide awake,
ld 90 not sit down supinely, and
Ike everything that comes to them.
ley nave way of getting what they
anu whether it be lower freight
s'eS lower insurance, lower tele-
lOle and cables, or lower gas, and
eclrlc lighting. These New Eng
lo people are the people that we
ant in the south"