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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
PUT BULLET IN HIS BRAIN.
Cashier Walters of EIIaviIIe Killed
Himself in AmeriCus.

With a bullet centrally through
his forehead and already cold in
death Alonzo Walters, cashier of the
Bank of EllavilIe at Ellaville, Ga,
was found Monday night in the lava
tory of the Windsor Hotel in Amert-
Gus.
Beside him was the automatic re-
volver which had ended his life
Persons in neighboring business
houses recalled having heard a pistol
shot about > o'clock. but paid little
attention thereto. Walters had evil
IDENTIFY been dead three or four hours
when discovered.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
For Sore Get.

II have found Bucklen's Arnica
Salye to be the proper thing to use
for sore feet, as well as for healine
burns, sores, cuts, and all manner of
abrasions, writes Mr.. w. Stone, of
East Poland, Maine. 1t is the proper
thing, too, for piles. Try it. Sold
under guarantee at Dawson Drug Co.
25c.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
INTO WASHOUT TRAIN RAN
ENGINEER GILSTRAP AND HIS
FIREMAN WERE KILLED.
Wreck Near RiChIand on the Sea-
board Air Line Early Sunday
Morning. Died Beneath
His Engine.
His Engine


A landslide on the SeabOard rail
way about l o'clock Sunday morning
resulted in the wrecking of a pass
enger train from Montgomery to Sa-
vannah six miles west of Richland
and the instant killing of Engineer
o. j. Gilstrap and his colored fire
man, Mckenzie.
There was tremendous downpour
of rain there Sunday night, and the
track was undermined at the side of
a steep hill and on a sharp curve.
Engine Turned Turtle.
The locomotive and two freight
cars of the mixed train turned over,
and Engineer Gilstrap and his fire.
man met death instantly. None of
the passenger coaches at the rear of
the train left the track, and no 9TH
ers Of the train crew were injured
Engineer Gilstrap's train was the
through freight and passenger from
Montgomery to Savannah. Owing to
the tOrrential rains a few hours pre-
ViOusly the engineer was feeling his
way carefully through the treach-
erOus hills of that region and ran
upon the death trap without receiv-
ing previous warning. The track
was entirely undermined by the tor
rent rushing down upon it. leaving
the rails and cross-ties apparently
intact and safe, as seen from the en-
CINE. He was afraid Of a soft track
and was not running more than fif-
teen miles an hour when the rails
gave way under the weight of the
engine. An electric headlight was
on the engine The track was Hn-
dermined for distance of 100 yards
but it could not be detected even by
the light of the strong electric head
light.
Engineer Gilstrap was thfrty-siX
years Of age, and grew up in the ser
vice Of the Seaboard beginning his
career in Americas as an emplOye in
the shops. His remains were taken
to Lyons Monday for burial He is
survived by his wife and five chill
dren.
Little Tots Knew Whistle.
When the box of the dead eng
neer, in which his clothes and val
uables were kept, was examined the
scene was pathetic, Along with d
gift for his wife, purchased in Mont
gomery, We're toys for his children
and pair of doll shoes for the
baby's doll.
Engineer Gilstrap was one Of the
youngest men in the roads service
His manner Of sounding his engine
whistle was peculiar, and everyone
on the line of road was familiar with
it, and would smile when they heard
"Gil" coming. His little children
knew it we'll.
'Papa's coming" they would gIee-
fully eXclaim. "There's his whistle. 81
Sunday morning they listened, but
'papa's" hand held a crown instead
and the whistle is stlled forever
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
Splendid Citizen.
MRS. FANNIE WATSON.
Friend Pays Loving Tribute to the
Memory of a Good Woman.

Friend Pays Loving Tribute to the
Memory of a Good Woman.
On the night of July 26th. the
death angel visited the home of Mr..
Tip Watson and claimed his loving
companion. Oh, it was so hard to
give her up. She was so gentle, so
kind, so loving and tender. In her
death the husband has lost a good
wife, the children a kind mother. and
our community has been deprived of
one of its fairest gems. She bore
her sickness with great patience. 1t
seemed that all was we'll with her,
and we feel that our loss is her sweet
gain.
A light from the household is gone,
A voice we loved is still;
A place is vacant in that home
Which never can be filled.
OF earthly friends she was the best,
A mother kind and true.
But it was God who gave her to them.
And Him who took her, too.
A mother dear has left them;
How desOlate their home,
There's not a spot wherere they 90
But speaks: She's gone. she's gone,
Sasser, Ga. A FRIEND.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26

Fat, juicy No. / Bloater Mackerel
only 20 cents at Wall Bros.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

ing publicity to his town and sur
rounding country and contributing
as largely as possible to the support
of the business men $ club, which is
one of the established forces neces-
sary in making cities out of towns.
First Industry Hard TO Secure.
Il find, as a rule. the first industry
for a town to get is the hardest one
to secure. A great deal of money is
spent in advertising and in other
ways in attracting capital before re-
suits are obtained. A town which is
fortunate enough to secure few
industries will find it an incentive
to bringing in other industries. This,
of course, applies to wholesale hous-
es If the citizens are able to solve
the labor and fuel problems and can
secure railroad facilities it is then
easier to obtain the factories.
1T will be found much easier
to secure smoke stacks and improve
in every way the commercial condi-
ton of your community.
81 would like to add that the rail-
roads stand ready, to assist and aid
in every way possible the improve
ment of towns and cities along their
lines. For this reason the industrial
departments have been established
with a view of cooperating in every
way with the business man, the far
mer and every one, in fact, interest
ed in the territory traversed by its
lines. This department proposes to
keep constantly in touch with the
conditions throughout his territory
SO that he may be better able to CO.
operate with the organizations who
have in view the advertisement of
his section, and all may be assured
of the hearty cooperation of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the line
which | represent"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22
WIDE-A-W WAKE ADVERTISERS use the DAILY LIGHT
and WEEKLY ENTERPRISE to OBTAIN RESULTS

ton. This machinery is manufactured
in sections so that it can be carried
over the mountains on the backs of
small mules. Great mills, and all
necessary machinery for operating
the largest mines is thus transport
ed over mountains so high, rugged
and dangerous that the uninitiated
hesitate to attempt it on foot. Some
idea of the enormity of the task of
transporting machinery thus can be
conceived when we understand that
these mules-often 100 of them
must be unloaded every night, and
that eight miles a day is all that can
be travelled on an average.
This is great mineralized coun-
try and when exploited and develop
ed will rival any country on earth.
S. W. WESLEY.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

many millions of tons of silver ore
in sight, the total value of which is
too vast for human computation.
A popularity of this country
seems to be that the minerals are
distributed by districts, that is: In
some districts silver predominates,
in others zinc, copper, and others
gold. The gold district in Durango
seems, until quite recently, to have
been completely overlooked. 1t is
now being exploited and proving to
be fabulously rich. Old Spanish, or
Aztec mines frequently found in this
district prove that these gold veins
We're known ages ago, but owing to
their crude and primitive mining
methods and the excessive hardness
of the quartz rock in which the gold
is found they could do but little
with it. They worked the surface and
the soft vein matter, but left the
rest for future generations who were
to come with their quartz splitting
dynamite and rock crushing machin-
cry and extract the precious treas
ures with ease and profit, which to
them was an utter imposSibility.
Placer mining, or the washing of
gold out with water and pans, is not
carried on to any extent in Mexico,
only by the Indians, owing to the
Mexican laws which make no provis-
ions for this kind of mining. But
some rivers, especially the Basiez, is
astonishingly rich in gold For one
hundred miles along the latter river
gold can be found in paying quanti-
| ties but the land owners exact one
half the proceeds for the privilege
of getting it out, and as this cannot
be denounced or filed on as min
eral rights, the Americans or white
| people do not NEEDLE with it. The
time is coming when the gold
| fleets or dredge boats will take
millions from the beds of these riv-
! ers as they are now doing In the riv-
ers of California
1t is not a difficult task to find
| gold in the gold district of Durango.
l saw several old abandoned works
where gold was visible in the quartz,
that were not denounced" or filed
upon, and many more can be found
of like kind but owing to it's rug
gedness of the country and the steep
ness and height of the mountains
and distance to the railroad they
cannot be worked at profit. Pan
ming gold out as at Nome, or the
Klondike, is quite a different propo-
sition from extracting 1t out of rock
so hard that it takes the hardest of
steel to make an impression on it,
and this is what we have to contend
with in Durango.
But this it not SO expensive as 1t,
at first,' appears. After the proper
machinery is secured this ore can
be mined and treated for $500 q
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22
MINERALS OF MEXICO.
The Rugged Mountains Are Teem-
ing with Precious Ores.

lLC lNuSSSu hit
ing with Precious Ores.
Quite a few of my friends have
asked me when / was going to fur
nish the promised article on the
mineral resources of Mexico. | can
only write from personal observa-
ton, and of the particular parts of
the republic | visited. therefore
must content myself with the state
of Durango. The said state is about
the size of Indiana or little less. 1t
has but one large city, which is the
capital of the state, and of the same
name, said to have 10000 inhabit-
ants The city is one of the ancient
ones of the republic. having once
doubtedly five hundred years old, or
perhaps twice that. 1t has old aqu-
aducts and bridges in fairly good
condition which are prehistoric and
Excite the curiousity and admiration
of those who love the antique. 1t
stands in a beautiful and fertile
valley which abounds in agricul
ture, fringed by rugged mountains
that seem to raise. their rocky pro-
files in defiance to the skies.
These mountains abound in gold,
silver, copper, lead, iron and other
minerals. The largest deposit of iron
ore in the world is only three miles
from the center of the city, and the
quality is of the very best. This city
is said to be the wealthiest in Mex
leo, or has more millionaires living
in 1t than any others. Maxine
Daunum, is many, many times a
millionaire, being the sole owner of
the famous Promotorio silver mine
situated 95 miles from the city
which has netted s1,500,000 annual
ly for the past fifteen years. His
hitching post, at his residence, has
700 pounds of silver in it. A native
of Durango built the state capitol
building and presented it to the
state, in front of which are
twenty pillars 10 feet high and IS
inches in diameter. The original
plan was to have these pillars of
solid silver but the government in
terfered and would not allow the
plans to be carried out, saying that
the mountain bandits, which until
| few years ago, raided the city Pc
riodically, would tear the house
away for the silver. At the marriage
of his daughter, this native laid a
walk of solid silver four feet wide
| from his residence to the church, a
distance of three blocks, over which
| she and her party walked to the
wedding, after which he took up the
silver walk and gave it to her for a
wedding present, the value of which
was considerably over a million dol
lars.RY
/ The state of Durango has not been
exploited as other states in the re-
public for its minerals, but enough
is known to justify the claim that it
equals, If 1t does not surpass, any in
mineral deposits. What is character
istic of Durango is the immensely
of it's deposits, or the enormous
large bodies of ore of all kinds
| found there. Mineralized veins from
| ten to fifty feet in width and from
| one-half mile in length are found
in both the silver and the gold bear
ing regions, the value OF which is
actually beyond computation. The
Santa Cruz silver mine, owned by
Mr.. Bert Roby. has over a million
tonS~of silver ore blocked out tina,
runs $4,000 to the ton. The SUI
Marie. owned by the same party, has
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS
The business hen. Eggs for Matching
$3.50 per fifteen. Orders given
prompt attention. Beatty Poultry
Plant, Waxahachie, Texas. New
Phone 221 258
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

DON'T you want some good coalI
We have Just received two cars OF
fancy lump McAlester coal. No
slack. We know this coal will please
any one that wants good coal Phone
us your orders before it is all gone
Waxahachie Grain Co. 253
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

FOR SALE-One bay mare five
years old gentle for ladies to drive
and one buggy used about seven
months, practically new. Will sell
horse and buggy for $685. See out
fit at Billiards. barn. 253p
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Buy your pumps from F. S. Cronk
Co. All kinds. Prices way" down. tt
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FARM FOR RENT-225 acres, fine
state of cultivation, sets improve
ments, IL acres in pasture. Plenty
OF water. Apply at Eatitorium.
d&wtf
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

AT ONCE-About % acres of good
land to rent to good farmer with
good team, 2 miles south of town. J.
B. Yarbrough. d53w52p
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ESTRAYED-One bay mare, aboul
8 years old, branded on one hip
with disfigured ''R." Notify Ed Cas-
tro at Boehle's bakery. II
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FOR SALE-Two heating stoves
one coal and one alright wood
heater with pipe and zinc. Cheap.
Herbert Herring. 420 Monroe street
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WANTED-Your clothes to clean
and press The best work guaran-
teed. Red Front Tailor Shop, on
College street If
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FOR RENT-My residence, 400
Kaufman street, five rooms, electric
lights, city water, extra good barn,
and walks. d. E. Kendall. tt
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WANTED-Your clothes to clean
and press. Thee Farley, 10 West
Main street. tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

FOR RENT-Feb. /, three large
rooms at the Baptist parsonage. 81
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reasonable, terms to suit buyer. 500
Kaufman street w. G. Johnson. tt
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WANTED-Every candidate in Ell
lis county to call and give us an or
der for cards. Enterprise Publishing
Co. tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

FOR SALE-Cheap, a gentle family
buggy and saddle horse Apply to j.
NJ Youngblood, 81 Williams street.
tt
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FOR RENT-Front Office room over
Cheeves Bros. & Co. See Ed Hudson.
If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

WAXAHACHIE Hot Mineral water
delivered daily. B. S. McCourt. Old
Phone 461. tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

FOR SALE--Nice, dry, pine kind
ling at McCaul's Wood Yard. 81
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

FOR RENT-First house east of
Main street Christian church, city
water and sewerage. j. C. Gibson. tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

FOR RENT-January l, building
formerly occupied by H. N. Nycum.
Bayless & Schuster. tt
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BOARDERS WANTED-Close in.
406 Rogers street 55pd
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FOR &SALE-One delivery wagon,
cheap for cash. In good repair. The
Oldham Hardware Co. tt
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cSTRAYED-Pair of bay mules
about 16 hands high with white
nose Pat Wilson, Waxahachie. 250p
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FOR SALE-Cord wood. So per
kcord. Three miles east of town on
load to Ray. S. H. Overstreet, 254p
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-22

dlC do lily 40 tilS lliol NIt
affords. And the price
is what to look at.
$1.OO per bushel
| Render \ 1[|Ol10S. |
Both Phones As
800 800 ~>~>> - 90
. WANT COLUMN.
>>>>>> >><>>~
Tonight and Thurs
day fair colder. Max. 75 Min. SIS.
BOARDERS WANTED-Close in.
406 Rogers street. 55pd
FOR SALE--Nice, dry, pine kind
ling at McCaul's Wood Yard. 81
FOR RENT-Feb. /, three large
rooms at the Baptist parsonage. 81
FOR RENT-Front Office room over
Cheeves Bros. & Co. See Ed Hudson.
If
WAXAHACHIE Hot Mineral water
delivered daily. B. S. McCourt. Old
Phone 461 tt
WANTED-Your clothes to clean
and press. Thee Farley, 10 West
Main street. tt
FOR RENT-January /, building
formerly occupied by H. N. Nycum.
Bayless & Schuster. tt
FOR aSALE-One delivery wagon,
cheap for cash. In good repair The
Oldham Hardware Co. If
FOR SALE-Cord wood. SO per
Rcord Three miles east of town on
road to Ray. S. H. Overstreet. 254p
tSTRAYED-Pair of bay mules
about 16 hands high with white
4 nose. Pat Wilson, Waxahachie. 250p
FOR RENT-First house east of
Main street Christian church, city
water and sewerage. J. C. Gibson. tt
FOR SALE-Fiye room house, price
reasonable, terms to suit buyer. 500
Kaufman street, w. G. Johnson. tt
FOR SALE-Cheap, a gentle family
buggy and saddle horse Apply to j.
M. Youngblood, ~ Williams street.
tt
WANTED-Every candidate in Ell
lis county to call and give us an or
der for cards. Enterprise Publishing
Co. tt
WANTED-Your clothes to clean
and press The best work guaran-
teed. Red Front Tailor Shop, on
College street. If
AT ONCE-About % acres of good
land to rent to good farmer with a
good team, miles south of town. j.
B. Yarbrough. d53w52p
ESTRAYED-One bay mare, aboul
years old, branded on one hip
with disfigured ''R." Notify Ed Cas-
tro at Boehle's bakery. II
FOR RENT-My residence, 400
Kaufman street five rooms, electric
lights, city water, extra good barn,
and walks d. E. Kendall. tt
FOR SALE-Two heating stoves
one coal and one alright wood
heater with pipe and zinc. Cheap.
Herbert Herring, 420 Monroe street
FARM FOR RENT-225 acres, fine
state of cultivation, 2 sets improve
ments, IL acres in pasture. Plenty
OF water. Apply at Eatitorium.
d&wtf
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS
The business hen. Eggs for Matching
$50 per fifteen. Orders given
prompt attention. Beatty Poultry
Plant, Waxahachie, Texas. New
Phone 221 258
FOR SALE-One bay mare five
years old gentle for ladies to drive
and one buggy used about seven
months, practically new. Will sell
horse and buggy for $685. See out
fit at Billiards. barn. 253p
DON'T you want some good coalI
We have just received two cars OF
fancy lump McAlester coal. NO
slack We know this coal will please
any one that wants good coal Phone
us your orders before it is all gone.
Waxahachie Grain Co. 25o
Chamberlain'S Cough Remedy
Cures Colds Group and Whooping Cough.
HAVE YOU VISITED
\ The New Store :? /
If not, call and see the Il
III l..,,&;l,,l J;1~lox, Nf Iovu III
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-12-10

and John T. Graham, who was the
sitting commissioner in thai suit
when { was being tried I'm this state
are entirely familiar with the May
brick claims, and have in their pos
session many interesting documents
showing the o.rcums ances upon
which the now successful woman
based her demands.
The lands question lie in Min
go, Wyoming and Mcdowell coun-
lies, in this state; in Pike county.
Kentucky a1d Russell county. Vlr-
gina. The boundaries are not en-
tirely contiguous, and some Of the
smali.r tracts lie beyond She coun-
ties here named.
In M ngo and Wyoming counties
much OF the land is occupied by the
farmers who have improved it, and
who have supposed themselves Sc
cure in their titles.
The virginia and Kentucky tracts
lie practically untouched. Almost
tho entire boundary Is fabulougy
Oh in coal. and much OF It IS Gov
cred with virgin forest.
II is not thought probable the
matter WIN be allowed to rest I'm ns
pres Mt status More likely the SUI
preme court of the United states
viii will pass upon the tiIe % the
vast fortune which N question.
For two years Mrs. Maybrck has
been lecturing in this country and
Canada on her experiences while
confined in an English prison, &C
cused OF poisoning her husband.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-12-10
VEAL TIL DEMOCRATIC
NOT AR|STOCRAT|C

LIT us remember thon that our eco
uomic law knows no color line.
White or back, he man whose eff
Jency is above par ds help; white
or black, the man who's inefhcieacy
below par is,a hindrance.
'Of all our errors our greatest
has been the failure to recognize
the fact that the prosperity of every
man depends upon the prosperity of
he average man-and in many cas-
es actual acceptance OF the doctrine
that the state is benefited by hav-
have see, on the contrary, that such
labor Is a curse.
And our second great error has
been like unto 1.-THE bel ef tia.
~ N IL the prosperity OF every man
dos depend upon the prosperity of
the average man, We are too poor to
train him. The truth is that we are
700 poor not TO do so. The fullest
and freest training of the average
man is the one and only positive
guarantee of Southern prosperity.
not only of our section and OF our
institute ons and OF society as a
whole, but the prosperity Of every
ndividual-every farmer, every la
borer, every merchant, every man
ufacturer, every professional man.
every inhabi-ant as have said
from the boy who lacks shoes to
the master mind that builds your
railroad systems or governs your
state And having once accepted
this doctrine concerning the aver
age man-and the average man in
the south being a farmer-we shall
not be slow to put into effect that
large and comprehensive program
OF rural developme mt VIII CHI ear
nest men and women, wording in
many different lines have gradually
brought into shape-a program
which looks 20 the ultimate doub-
ling or the output and the more
than quadrupling of the profits Of
that occupation which engages the
attention of more people in the
south than all other occupations
com bined "