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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
WARREN is NOW AT LIBERTY.
Nice Young Man Who Passed as
Preacher i'm Cuthbert.


Two weeks ago The News repro
duced from The Cuthbert Leader the
story of a nice young man from Flori-
da who posed as a preacher and a
single man in Cuthbert, and made
quite a number of friends among
the people there The last issue OF
our contemporary printed another
chapter of the affair as follows:
''Mr. Francis Warren passed
through Cuthbert Tuesday night.
'To some of our citizens he stated
that he was taken from the jail at
Apalachicola, Fla, on a writ OF ma
beas corpus, and at the trial was re-
leased. He was on his way to Ma,
con, he declared, to consult Hon. Joe
Hill Hall in regard to entering suit
for $4,000 damages for false i'm
prisonment against the state of Flor
ida.
"Our readers will remember thai
Warren was arrested in Cuthbert al
the instance of the Carrabelle banH
on a charge of having passed
worthless draft. We hear that the
bank has been reimbursed by War
ren's brother.
cat last reports Warren had failed
| to establish his claims to being
Presbyterian minister and an un
married man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
BRYAN WILL Be PRESIDENT
If COUNTRY CONTINUES REST
+ LESS, SAYS WATTERsoN'

National Political Situation Growing
Lively as Campaign Approaches.
Hughes or Taft Against Bryan.
Bryan is as good as nominated. .
Just so sure as the convention of
the democratic party meets in Den
yer next July Bryan will be named
as the standard bearer of the party "
IF the country remains in its pres
ent conditions of unrest Bryan will
be elected"
Governor Hughes is the only cam
didate the republican party can name
who could defeat Bryan under nor
NAL conditions"
These quotations express the lat
est opinions of Henry Watterson, the
famous editor of the Louisville Cour-
rier-Journal, and are part of an in
terview with him in Washington.
The fact that Col. Watterson has
been leading the fight against Bry-
on's nomination by the democratic
party makes his utterance signifi1
cant
Too Late to Defeat Bryan.
at is too late to defeat Bryan for
the nomination" said Col. Waiter
son. "Had l been given six months
ago the support of thoes democrats
who are now clamoring for another
nominee we might have accomplish
ed something. 81" '''-e'as"> =
when l suggested that If Bryan
were to withdraw from the contest
could name a man VINO measured
up to all the requirements good,
winning democratic candidate for
president should possess some of my
democratic friends made fun Of my
suggestion When | named him and
it was found that he possessed all the
qualifications | claimed for him some
democrats gave me credit for hav-
ing some perspicacity; but it's now
too late. Then followed the quota
tions made above.
Il am not personally unfriendly to
Mr.. Bryan" said Col. Watterson.
ION the contrary, like him, and |
am convinced that if the country re-
mains in it's present state of unrest
Bryan will be the victor in the next
election Governor Hughes is the
only man the republicans could name
who would have a chance to defeat
the candidate of the edmocrats, who
ever he may be, and with the coun-
try in a normal state he would prob
ably be elected. But ] repeat, If the
country remains in state of unrest
victory will perch on the banner of
the democrats in the national cleo
ton next November.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
GOVERNMENT HEAVY LOSER
PROHIBITION IN GEORGIA HAS
TAKEN ONE MILLION FROM III.
Some Light Thrown on Large Num-
Der of Revenue License in State.
The Consumption of Whisky.

Some Light Thrown on Large Num-
Der of Revenue License in State.
The Consumption of Whisky.
A Washington special to the Sa-
vannah Press says inquiry at the
Office of the United States commits
sioner of internal revenue develops
the existence of over two thousand
federal licenses for the sale of liquor
in Georgia, the stringent state pro
hibition law to the contrary notwith-
standing. The government does not
call them licenses" referring to
them as special liquor taxes" but
this is an insignificant detail. The
point is that the special tax" So
called, guarantees immunity against
federal prosecution for the sale or
manufacture of spirituous or malt
liquors in a prohibition state.
The existence of SO great num-
Der of federal liquor licenses in
Georgia is not as significant, how
ever, as it would appear on the sur
face. The condition is easily ex-
planned. Under the law the internal
revenue department will not sell a
special tax" for fewer than twelve
months, and the fiscal year of all gov
eminent departments runs out on
June Goth. This made it necessary
last year, as in previous years, for
all whisky dealers and manufacturers
in Georgia to purchase special
tax for a period of twelve months
from July list, so that none of them
have yet expired, though the traffic
has in the meantime been outlawed
and practically all of the places
closed up. The 2,OG0 special taxes
will, however, continue valid until
the first of next July,
A Million Dollar Loss.
1t is estimated by officials that the
internal revenue to the United States
from the sale and manufacture OF
whisky in Georgia alone will show
a decrease during the current year
of one million dollars, in round num-
bers. 1t is believed that the annual
consumption of malt and spirituous
liquors will be lessened by at least
100000 gallons during the next
twelve months, and the money loss
is based upon this belief.
1t is claimed by the officials that
heretofore the annual consumption
of liquor in Georgia alone has been
more than one million gallons, ana
taking this estimate as accurate they
figure that the prohibition law will
put down liquor drinking by about
so per cent, if the prohibition sentl-
ment is as strong in Georgia as they
have been made to believe 1t IS.
They estimate that probably 100000
gallons will be shipped into the state
from wet" territory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
COUNTRY FACING A DEFICIT
Chairman of Appropriation Commit
tee in Congress Says 1t Is Cer-A
tain to Be 100000, 900.

Chairman Tawney of the house APP
preparations committee on Thursday
called up in congress the urgest de-
ficiency bill for consideration by the
house. BY explanation he said that
on the face of the estimates submit
ted to congress for the next fiscal
year the country is confronted with
a certain deficit of one hundred mil
lion dollars.
These figures would have to be
materially reduced He said he felt
it his business to state these facts.
Senator Frye, from the commerce
committee, presented a favorable re-
port on the bill providing a revenue
cutter at Key West to cost two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
Mr.. Tawney made it plain there
would be no appropriations this SEES
sion for rivers and harbors or pub
lie buildings.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
WANTED A WARM COFFIN.
Miss Scofield of Greenwich, Conn,
Provided for 1t in Her viii.

One of the most peculiar wills ever
filed in the probate court at Green
witch, Conn, was that of Sarah E..
Schofield, a well-to-do spinster.
After the initial request that she
shall be buried from the church of
the TRANSPORTATION in New York,
with "a low celebration of the holy
communion, if the Rev. DR.. Hough-
ton, the pastor, shall see fit, and in
tered in Stamford, with the Rev Mr..
Brathwaite, rector of ST. Andrews
church, to say one of the beautiful
prayers" over her, she stipulated the
manner of coffin in which she should
be buried.
plain and inexpensive, she said
in her description, covered with
purple cloth and white canton fan
mel; the woody side out, that my rest
ing place may look warm and com
Portable, not shiny, cold and costly. :,
She stipulated that on no account
should her body be put on ice.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
ALDRICH'S MONEY BILL SLATED
TO PASS BOTH HOUSES
OF CONGRESS.
Standard Oil Senator Has Fixed Up a
Plan That Suits the Street. May
Have Some Hard Shedding.
1t Suits Boss Morgan.


1t Suits Boss Morgan.
There will be much noise for the
rest of the winter about the Aldrlch
currency bill. There is a hard and
fast bargain between Aldrich, boss
of the senate, Cannon boss of the
house, and Naturalization Nor
gan, boss of Wall street. The bar
gain stipulates the passage of this
bill
The Aldrich bill provides that ma
tional banks, upon the approval OF
the secretary of the treasury, may
issue bank notes (money) on United
States government bonds, state
bonds. municipal bonds and first
mortgage bonds of steam railways
Ebfore Aldrich wrote the bill ne
went over to New York and spent
days in conference with ''the street.
He found Wall street suffering
from an awful case of collyWobbles'
It's ''tummy' was full of green, I'M
digested securities. The printing
presses had run off tons of common
and preferred stock, first, second ana
third mortgage bonds, to say noth-
ing of a sporting edition of partlcl-
pating certificates now and then.
What you want is money" quoth
good old DR.. Aldrich.
What we want is the awful load
Off our stomachs. These undlgesteo
securities. The people have been I'M
loading and unloading and we nave
had to eat our promises to pay.
About all the ex-lambs will buy now
adays are first mortgage railway
bonds.
Now if we could pry all the first
mortgage railway bonds away from
the public it would have to buy
something else-second mortgage
bonds with a side dish of preferred
stock, and once coaxed into the mar
ket again the chrome business might
pick up.
Easy" said Doc you buy all
the first mortgage bonds yourselves
and then the common people VIII
nave to buy the chromos.
And SO Senator Aldrich of Rhode
island, father-in-law of John d.
Rockefeller, Jr., and co-grandfather
with John D., Sr, of the heir-appar-
eht Of Standard Oil. geared up new
currency BILL When thinking OF
the bill it is well to remember
That it provides for, $250.00O,OOO
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29

William yelling, stamp clerk at
the indianapolis postofice, has found
an honest man-and that without
the use of lantern or even match.
His information of the existence OF
this particular honest man came
through a letter from small town
in Iowa. The letter tells the story
as follows: when you and | were
bows / promised to pay you cents
for hunting some walnuts for me,
and did not get it paid at that
time and I became ashamed and new
er paid it.
ct must be about fifty-five years
ago. near as l can guess. The
connpC nd interest on 81 for ifty-tiye
years is $6S.45. The compound in
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
Nickel Is Paid After Fifty-Three Years

terest on cents would be one
twentieth of $6S.45, which would be
$3.45 due you, if / have made no
mistake in computing the interest.
There is a table in Rays arithme-
tic giving the compound interest on
81 from one year to twenty-five
years. worked by it. If not cor
rect please correct and l will for
ward the amount due you. | will
send this to indianapolis with a re-
turn on it, as / do not know your
address. You were in the postofffce
the last knew of you. Please an
swer Immediately.
Mr.. yelling remembers having
known the writer of the letter when
a boy, but he does not remember the
incident of the walnuts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
TART TALK THIS
ArNswoRTHs AND TIEDEMAN's
,EFT.HANDED COMPLIMENTS.
pnoacber Says Law Is Being Out
.ooed. and Mayor RetOrts That
Choroe Is "Outrageously False"

preacher says Law 40
.,oed. and Mayor Retorts That
Charge Is "Outrageously False"
Pow w. n. Ainsworth, who is we'll
,.rown in Dawson, having visited
1oro number of times and preached
:, tho Methodist church, and also as
listed in the prohibition campaign in
rorrall county last year, has recently
sarrod in a sensational episode with
Mavor Tiedeman Of Savannah, who
ros elected on the reform movement.
In a sermon at Wesley Monu-
,,,or+al church Mr.. Ainsworth deliv-
orad q scathing criticism of the may
~ and alderme nof Savannah for
licensing INTERNAL locker clubs, as
he designated them.
"Georgias law is being outraged
Of the hands Of it's own defenders, "
declared the preacher. Instead of
the hoodlum element it is the mayor
and council that seem determined 10
Ivnch the law. These clubs are
hams and their license is lawless-
moss of the worst form. 1t is Sa-
vannah's shame that these mushroom
climbs are being licensed by the doz-
en-.
81 appeal to Savannahs mayor,
bar aldermen and her judges and
her iuries, let's have no subterfuge'
And. lest we forget, Georgia's legis-
1o+,ra will meet again
Everyone of these so-called lock
err clubs is a sham saloon in plain
violation of the statutes. They are
being organized by the same old bar
keeners. and on just one condition
that is put your name on our isl
and pay for your wants
Tiedeman's Tart Talk.
Mayor Tiedeman, in an interview
r the next day, said in answer to Mr.
Ainsworth's charge:
THE language of the city tax or
dinance relative to locker clubs Il
Identical with that in the locker
club clause of the state prohibition
law, and if fault is to be found it i
with the prohibition law, not witt
the city ordinance.
"As to Mr.. Ainsworth'S statement
that Georgia law is being outraged
at the hands of it's sworn defenders
I will only say that this language, i
directed at this administration, is II
itself so outrageous and false as tt
neither require nor demand any re
ply on my part | do not belleY'
the judgment of this community vii
be warped or twisted by the indis
Greet and unfounded uterances OF
sensational minister"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
"WHY DIDN'T BRYAN SAY IN
1904 HE WANTED ANY 9TH
Err THAN ME?"
The Man of ''Safe and Sane" Fame
Energies From Obscurity Long
Enough to Take Shot
of tho NabpasIrau

at the Nebraskan.
Judge Alton B. Parker, who was
the democratic candidate in 1904 fol
president of the United States
when his attention was called to ar
extract from the speech Of William
]. Bryan before the democratic mem
bers of the Kentucky legislature, in
which Mr.. Bryan was quoted as say
ing that in 1904 he took his medi-
cine in Parker. Parker was the man
above all others l did not want,
said:
What pity" said Judge Parker
that Mr.. Bryan failed to be equally
frank in 1903 Had he done so the
situation of the party would be vastly
better than it is. There were but few
democrats in that year who thought
it wise to have a third term candi-
date. But every man of sense knows
that unless a man could be found
who would receive Mr.. Bryan's sup
port his warm personal following
would seek revenge for the defeats
of 1896 and 1900.
Statesmen, politicians and IN
terested citizens sought diligently to
find some one that he would support.
To some at least he said he would
holt ex-President Cleveland, Gov.
Hill. Senator German and Judge
GRAY. but that it would be hard to
oppose Parker, as Parker had sup
ported him.
This attitude induced the impress
sion among many that my nomlha-
tion would be as acceptable to Mr.,
Bryan as any except his own. That
impression led to pressure upon me
from many quarters to change my
mans for life. And it contributed
in no small measure to the movement
which led to the control OF the con-
vention.
Subsequent events showed that
Mr.. Bryan had not been entirely open
with those who had consulted him.
For when to his surprise delegates
began to be elected favorable to my
omination-when, indeed, the tide
had grown too strong to be breasted,
he started out on his famous tour
of denunciation. The dragons teeth
which he then sowed yielded an
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
HIS TRIP WAS CUT SHORT
ALBANY BOY WHO WENT AWAY
WITH EVANS FLEET.
Is at Home Through the Efforts of
Congressman Griggs, Who Sc
cured His Discharge.

cured His Discharge.
Terence Golf, one of the three AL
bany boys who recently enlisted in
the United States navy and started
with Admiral Evans battleship fleet
on its history-making voyage to the
Pacific ocean, has just returned
home.
A belatiye secured his discharge
through the efforts of Congressman
Griggs, on the ground that ne was
too young for the service, having
given his age at enlistment as IL
when he was only II. Young Con
was on the battleship Minnesota
when he was told to get ready in
five minutes to be transferred to
another ship at Syracuse, Cuba,
which would take him back to Nor
folk, where his discharge awaited
him.
The young man says he returned
with great reluctance, as he enjoyed
the life of the navy and was anxious
to accompany the fleet on its long
voyage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
WILLS HIS BONES
THIS MAN DOESN'T THINK ANY
THING SHOULD BE WASTED.
Also Provides That His Skin Be Used
for Pouches, and Suitable Parts
of His Body for Violin Strings.

of His Body for Violin Stfings.
Henry E. Sullivan, prominent
member of a New York club, is
strong unitarian and firmly believes
in wasting nothing that can be put
to good use. He has in all serious
ness made the following will:
81, Henry E. Sullivan, being OF
sound and disposing mind, do hereby
make, publish and declare this my
last will and testament.
~ do hereby direct the executors
of this, my last will, to have MADE
out of my bones collar buttons OF
the dimensions of one-half inch to
one inch in diameter.
II do hereby further direct my
said executors to have made out or
such parts of my body as may be
suitable strings for the violin, sucn
as are usually designated as cat gut
strings.
And | do hereby further direct
nv said executors to have said violin
strings adjusted to the body OF
| violin.
81 hereby give, devise and be-
oueath unto my beloved friend ana
clubmate. James Hayes, all and sim
lgular. the buttons, violin strings and
tanned skin made out of my BODY,
as aforesaid, the same to be by him
distributed according to his discre-
ton to my intimate friends.
Mr. Sullivan declared that he was
in earnest in the matter of his Will,
and added:
II am an utilitarian. Every task
we undertake, every thought should
have for it's object some useful pur~
pose. Every stick of wood, every
stone, every piece of sod can be util-
lied. Did each one but train ms
eyes to see the use to which each
object in the world can be put how
much happier the world would be,
Edison is today the greatest utlI-
itArian of them all. i made the Will,
such as it is, because | saw no rea-
|, son why there should be such waste
fitness. why so much good raw ma
terial should be allowed to go for
naught. -
! my will is perfectly sensible My
lawyer tells me that it cannot be
contested on the ground Of insan-
ity."
John Boyst and William Dolen,
friends of Sullivan, when asked at
the club answered that in all mat
tiers Sullivan was perfectly sane. a
| good fellow, and that his only Pc
culiarity was his firm belief that
everything on this earth should be
put to some useful purpose.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
FAVORS THE WALL STREET GAME

new currency to be based on govern
ment, state, city and railway bonds.
That there are eonugh government
bonds now to provide for that much
new circulation if the banks would
only take advantage of existing laws.
That there are 1850, 100000 OF
state, county and city bonds in the
United States, so that depreciating
them by half there would still be
left enough to furnish four times as
much new currency as the Aldrich
bill aims at.
That mighty little is being said
about the railroad bond end by the
friends of the bill.
That it continues in national banks
the monopoly of the special privilege
of making" money.
That the matter of passing on the
value of these railroad bonds is left
solely to the secretary of the treas
ury.
That secretaries of the treasury,
if they are good" graduate from
their $4,000 cabinet jobs to be
heads of trust companies and big ma
tiOnal banks, and that Wall street
is full of graduates of the treasury.
And last, but not least, that there
is no way by which the government
can limit or supervise the isuse of
railroad bonds upon which the gov
eminent is to be asked to issue real
cash-money as good as gold.
If the Aldrich currency bill passes
the senate it will be under the whip
and spur of party discipline, and in
defiance not only of public senti-
ment but of the opinion of independ-
ent members OF congress, regardless
of party lines.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
GEORGETOWN GRETNA GREEN
Alabama Lovers Flee From irate
. Parents to Georgia Village and
Have the Knot Tied.

Alabama Lovers Flee From Irate
D Parents to Georgia Village and
Have the Knot Tied.
The assertion has frequently been
made, and not without reason, that
more clipping couples are joined in
wedlock in Georgetown, the Quitman
county village in Georgia just across
the river from Alabama than in any
other town or city in the state of
Georgia or Alabama. Whenever
there are parental or any other OBJ
jections the couple flee to George
town, and soon after their arrival
are made man and wife by that kind
hearted and sympathetic gentleman,
Judge Dozier of the Court of Ordina-
ny. He furnishes them the license
and then performs the marriage GER
emony.
The last Alabama couple to take
refuge in the Georgia town from OBJ
jecting parents were from Montgom-
cry.
Thursday about the noon hour Mr.
w. II. Taylor, Jr., son of Chief of
Police Taylor of Montgomery, ar
IlN6u LHCIS accompanied Wy d IuOSl
beautiful young lady who was very
stylishly dressed. The lady was Miss
Irene Kennedy, a member of one of
the best families in the Alabama capt.
tai.
This couple had been engaged for
quite awhile, but owing to the young
lady's tender age her parents OBJ
jected to her marrying, so they de-
cided to elope to Georgetown and
have the ceremony performed, Judge
Dozier officiating.
The couple were accompanied on
the trip by two friends of the groom,
Messrs. j. H. Dixon and r. A.
Vaughn.
Immediately after the ceremony
the quartette departed for Alabama.
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
FROM THE TOMB A DOLEFUL SOUND

abundant harvest-aye, all that he
could wish.
"But it would have been very
much better for the party had he
said in 1903 before sentiment had
crystalized as he says now: Parker
is the man above all others that |
do not want. "
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