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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
FOREST FIRE LOSSES WOULD PAY FOR NAVY
COUNTIES IN NORTH LAID WASTE
MANY TOWNS DESTROYED BY FLAMES.

y WASHINGTON.-The forest fires
which have just laid waste whole
counties in Minnesota, Michigan and
extended into Wisconsin, destroying
many towns and making thousands
of persons homeless, have focused
the attention of both government and
state forest officers on the enormous
losses of forest wealth which will be
checked up to the year 1908.
In the whole northern half of the
United States throughout the vast
territory extending from coast to
coast the reported destruction by
forest fires has been terrific, and it
is likely that the year will go down
as one of the worst in the last quar-
ter century. 1t seems that no part
of the country has escaped the work
of the devastating flames.
The latest disasters in Minnesota,
Michigan and Wisconsin are the
worst of the many that have visited
the Lake states this year. Other
sections have also suffered from for
est fires during the spring and sum
mer months, and the people of the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
SOUTH GEORGIA'S FLY PEST
THE PEST is SAME AS THAT
WHICH ATTACKED ORANGE
TREES IN FLORIDA.

BROWNSVILLE, Ga.-The white
fly, or gnat, which has invaded south
Georgia and Florida and gets into
ones eyes, nose and mouth, is the
same little fly which ruined the cape
jessamine, orange and other trees in
this section some years ago and in
jured the orange trees in Florida to
such an extent that the financial loss
to the state ran up into the millions
of dollars.
The flies settle on the under side
of the leaves, where they deposit
their eggs. The upper part of the
LEAF soon becomes covered with a
black coating and shrivels up. 1t
seems to affect the vitality of the
trees to such an extent that they
haven't strength to bloom and soon
die. A grower just from Florida
says that they are all over the orange
belt, and the growers are very blue
over the prospect.
The growers have gone to work
to try and rid the trees of the pests,
but it is a very troublesome process
Kerosene emulsion is said to be the
only thing that has been found that
will destroy them. This is made by
boiling sulphur with water and mix
ing kerosene with it. 1t is then
sprayed on the leaves. AS the eggs
are on the under part of the leaves,
however, it is often hard to reach
them and the spraying has to be re-
peated several times.
The cold of '99 killed the flies to
a great extent, though there has been
a few every year, but this year they
are everywhere, and people on the
streets in the afternoon who wear
dark clothes look as if they had lit
tie snowdakes all over them.
One thing that is surprising about
the pests this year is that they have
attacked the chinaberry trees. 1t
has always been thought that these
trees were exempt from insects of all
kinds. In fact, their leaves are often
put under carpets and in wooden
goods to protect them from moths
and such things, and tea from the
berries is said to be a sure cure for
insects and bugs on cabbages, but
in spite of all this the flies have at
tackled them in swarms this year, and
seem to be enjoying themselves. and
they certainly are thriving.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
TO TOUR STATE IN OCTOBER.
Dr' Tom Cheatham VIII Begin Work
as State Drug Tnspector.

Commissioner Hudson has apnoint-
ed DR.. T. A. Cheatham, formerly Of
Dawson and brother of Ordinary w.
b. Cheatham, state inspector of
drugs. DR.. Cheatham was recon-
mended to the department of agri-
culture for this work by the Geor-
gia state pharmaceutical board. This
position was created by an amend
ment to the pure food and drug law,
which calls for state inspector of
drugs. The duties of the pure drug
inspector will be to the drug stores
what the states pure food inspectors
duties have been to the food and feed
stores of the state. The pharmacists
of the state registered a complaint
to the effect that many druggists are
selling inferior drugs, and for the
protection of the life and health of
the citizens of Georgia, they said
such an inspector was needed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
POKING FUN AT EDITOR GRAY
Posing as Leader of Democracy He
Can't Vote i'm State Election.

Posing as Leader of Democracy He
Can't Vote in State Election.
Considerable fun is being poked at
Editor Gray of the Atlanta Journal,
who had a number of caustic things
to say about Nominee Joseph M.
Brown because the latter was not
prompt enough to suit him in an
nouncing his support of the national
democratic ticket. Now the allega-
ton is made that Editor Gray did
not register this year and was, there
fore, unable to vote for his friend
Hoke Smith for governor, and
even since then has not quail
fed to vote for the nominee or
for the Acknowledgement amend
ment to the state constitution
about which he had so much to say
during the two last campaigns. Ed
itor Gray, under fire of some of his
contemporaries, has admitted the
charge, and in view of the Journals
daily advice to democrats Mr.. Gray
is being somewhat tainted upon his
failure to qualify himself to partici-
pate in the elections of this year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
JOHN TEMPLES BROTHER.
Republicans Have Given Him Hand.
some Raise in Salary.

Republicans Have Given Him Hand
some Raise in Salary.
David H. Graves, file clerk in the
United States government pension
Office at Washington, has had his
pay raised $500 a year. He will
get $1,4O0 a year from this time
forward. That is remarkable sal
airy for a file clerk. 1t is as much
as the chief of the section in which
David is employed is paid.
Why this sudden generosity on
the part of the government toward
David H. Graves? Some say it is be-
cause his brother, John Temple
Graves, of Georgia-or New York
is candidate for vice-president on
the ticket Of the Independence party.
The Hearst ticket is supposed to be
of help to Taft and Sherman, and to
that position Mr.. Graves attributes
his good fortune. He is telling his
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
new ENGLAND HAS DROUTH
ONE OF THE SEVEREST IN MANY
YEARS, AND is CAUSING
MUCH ANXIETY.

BOSTON, Mass.-Anxiety is filling
the heart OF the New England farm
err, for drouth, which is pronounced
to be one of the severest in many
years, has spread itself over the New
England states, causing suffering to
people, cattle and crops throughout
the country districts.
1t was on August 26th. that the
last general rainfall came to New
England. In many places the wells
are running dry and a serious state
of affairs confronts the farmers.
Water in the lakes has been receding
at the rate of one inch a day. Num-
erous forest fires have started.
Many mills have been crippled by the
lack of water supply, and others
have been compelled to shut down.
Potatoes have been dug earlier than
usual, and are much smaller than
in previous years. Cattle have been
suffering and the milk supply is be-
coming limited.
In New Hampshire the drouth is
especially pronounced. Since the
August rains there has been but one
or two local showers, and they were
of short duration.
Although Massachusetts has not
suffered as much as the other New
England states, the country districts
are in need of water.
The situation in Maine appears
more serious than any other New
England state. Land Agent Edgar
Ring has issued proclamation on
the seriousness of the situation in the
Maine woods.
In Vermont mills have been seri-
ously crippled or shut down, throw
ing hundreds out of employment
Quarries about Montpelier were
closed during the past week for an
indefinite period.
For several days past the water
has been the lowest since 1881 in
Lake Champlain, and steamers have
discontinued touching at st. Albany's
Bay
Smoke from the burning forests
of Maine, Canada and northern New
York has hung over New England
for the past week, obscuring the rays
of the sun and threatening to rival
the famous yellow days of 1881"
AS the result of the extraordinary
conditions shipping all along the
New England coast has been serious
ly hampered.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30

Pacific coast, the Rocky mountain
and the New England states and
Canada have had, in some cases, a
continuous experience in fire fight
ing.
officers in the United States forest
service here say that this years ac-
tual losses from forest fires in all
parts of the country will run up so
high in the millions that were all the
timber burned up this year in all
parts of the country converted into
cash it could provide for a good
sized navy of first-class battleships
The fires have started a wide
spread movement in many states to
check them by adopting rational sys-
TENS of fire protection, and awakened
an intense interest in throwing a
better protection around the forests,
which grow more important as nat
ural resource as the timber supply
dwindles.
The government has had to do a
lot of work in fire fighting in the ma
tional forests, but careful patrol and
organization have held the losses
down.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
CHEMIST SHOULD GET POSTED
In This Section Cotton Seed Meal Has
Been Used for Sometime as Feed
for Horses and Mules.

State Chemist R. E. Stallings, in a
recent bulletin, writes; I'm bulletin
SO, page 81, season 1899-1900, after
comparing cotton seed meal with
corn, as to their feeding value, and
showing the great superiority of cot
ton seed meal, will be found In
the light of these important facts it
strikes me as being astonishing that
no experiments appear to have been
made to see whether horses and
mules will eat cotton seed meal hulls,
one or both, and if not voluntarily
whether they could be gradually
trained to do so by mixing them
gradually and by slowly increasing
degrees with corn and oats and
hay"
Il ask the Georgia farmers to try
some cotton seed meal rations, be-
ing careful to use only good quality
of cotton see meal, avoiding the use
of any dark-colored, damaged or
musty meal. Mkt thoroughly with
the corn and cob meal, and if not
thoroughly relished try mixing in a
little fine salt. | would be glad to
have reports from any who may try
the cotton seed meal ration as to
their success"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
SECOND DISTRICT SCHOOL.
Begins Its Second Term Under Bright
Auspices. Governor Brown
Made "a Speech.

The second term of the Second
congressional district agricultural
school, located at Triton, opened last
Tuesday morning with largely in
creased attendance. The exercises
were opened with prayer by Rev. w.
L. Wright of Sylvester. Addresses
were made by Judge Frank Park of
Worth county, chairman Of the board
Of trustees; ]. L. Pickard, trustee for
Tiff county; H. H. Tiff, President
w. E. Johns of the Tiff County Farm
ers Educational and Cooperative
Union; Hon. Joseph M. Brown, Presi-
dent Driskell, Agriculturist Moore,
Editor ]. L. Herring of The Triton
Gazette, closing.
Mr.. Brown thought the education
of the farmer in scientific agricuI-
ture had been sadly neglected, and
was glad to see the movement OF
which the agricultural schools were
the result. He told of some of the
benefits to be derived from science
as applied to agriculture as he had
demonstrated on his farm at Mari
eta and hoped the state would foster
and increase the scope of usefulness
for the schools.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
TEDDY IN ANANIAS CLUB.
Mack Gives the President a High
Place in the Order.

race III the Or0er.
National Chairman Mack has ad-
dressed telegram to President
Roosevelt, in which he denied fatty
statements contained in reported
interview between Timothy L. Wood
ruff, chairman of the republican
state committee, and President Roos-
evelt, in which the latter is said to
have remarked that he considered it
significant that 100000 had been
found in the treasury of the demo-
cratic party after Judge Parker had
declared throughout the last national
campaign that the party's treasury
was receiving nothing from corpora
tons; and further because it was an
nounced that at the time of the cleo
ton the treasury was empty.
Il have not received one cent
from Chairman Taggart or any one
else connected with the last cam
Ipaign," asserted Mr.. Mack. Neither
has any one connected with the dem
ocratic national committee"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
FOUNDERS TOMB IN A COLLEGE
Will So Directs in Giving 81 ,OOO,.
600 for Institution.

600 for Institution.
More than $1,00O,000 has been
left by John Burnham Brown, pio-
neer business man of Chicago, who
died Thursday of last week, for the
founding of one of the most unique
schools in the country. The institu-
ton will fit young men and women
to enter business careers. One of
the peculiar provisions imposed is
that the bodies of Mr.. Brown and
his wife, who died suddenly Jan.
3D., be buried under the rotunda of
the main building. Only $4,000 of
the estate goes to relatives.
According to the will the school is
to Relocated at Ipswich, Mass, the
former home of the philanthropist.
The board of trustees, who will have
charge of the institution, are forbid
den by the will to draw the color
line.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
BISHOPS SON UNDER ARREST
II. C. Duncan Charged With Obtain
ing Money Under False Pretense.

T. c. Duncan Charged With Obtain
ing Money Under False Pretense.
Thomas c. Duncan has been ar
rested at Union, S. c., charged with
fraud and obtaining money by mis-
representation to the amount of
about eight thousand dollars.
The charge was made by the re-
ceivers of the Peoples Bank of that
city, which several months ago went
into voluntary liquidation, and re-
lates to certain checks and drafsts on
the bank of Spring City, Tenn, paid
by the Peoples Bank. but turned
down by the Spring City bank, as
Duncan had no funds on deposit.
He was released on bond
Duncan is the son Of the late
Bishop Duncan.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
A LITTLE WARM IN TEXAS.

A Strawn, Tex, dispatch says the
thermometer registered 112 degrees
there the other day, with a hot wind
blowing from the south. All bust
ness was suspended during great
er part of the day. Waco reported
a temperature of 101 for three days.
The irritating cuss who asked rs it
hot enough for you?' was shot on
the spot.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
KILLING IN RANDOLPH.
Another Tragedy Occurred Near
Edwards Store.

AhoCheF Tragedy occurred Near
Edwards Store.
The Cuthbert Leader tells of the
killing on the Coxwell place, near
Edwards store, of Sid Daniel by Har-
rison Key.
1t seems the two negroes had a
fuss on Sunday, and Daniel armed
himself and went to Keys house and
opened fire upon the latter, shooting
several times without effect. Key
got his gun and succeeded in bag
ging Daniel at the first shot.
Coroner Blackshear held an in
quest, but the jury did not agree on
verdict, and Mr.. Blackshear issued
warrant for the arrest of Key and
Sheriff Bynum placed him in Jail.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
PRAY TO QUENCH FIRES
Many Towns Have Been Burned
|, and Others Are in Danger.
MANY MILES SWEPT BY FLAMES

property Loss Already Amounts tn
$15,0OO,OOO, and 10000 People
Are Homeless. No Rain of ANY
Account Since Early in July, antS
Woods Are as Dry as finder.
Smoke Has Shut Out Sun.
DULUTH, Minn.-With Grand
Marais, town of 1900 on the north
shore partially destroyed, Beaver
Bay, eighty miles away, also at
tackled by the flames and dozen
smaller towns in great peril, it is
apparent that unless rain sooa comes
the forest fire district is doomed to
destruction.
Among the larger places in peril
are Colerain, Bovey, Nashawauk.
Marble Hibbing, Bull, Big Bay, Chi
cago Bay, Crofton, Aurora, Mountain
Iron Rearionshall; Fort William, On
tario; Hymers, Ontario; Port Arthur,
Ontario; Cascade and Nutson.
The Gopher, the Minnesota train
ing ship succeeded in removing
many refugees from Grand Marafs.
The steamer has gone to Beaver Bay
to bring away the people there.
There is little hope of saving these
towns.
The entire north shore is alive
with wild animals of all kinds driven
out of the woods by the flames. The
residents of small settlements have
deserted their homes and fled to the
lake.
For more than hundred miles
the flames appear to be almost con
tinuous. The roar of the fire can be
heard for miles.
In response to Governor john
sons appeal $4,000 has been raised
by the Duluth committee for refu-
gees. The supply of provisions and
clothing now seems to be ample.
No rain has fallen in THIS region
since July 10th, and everything in
the woods is as dry as parchment,
and the walls of fire with land
wind behind them are eating their
way toward the settlements along the
north shore of Lake Superior.
The inhabitants of the region are
gathered along the shore, praying for
rain, but prepared to take to the lake
in small craft should the worst come.
The fires are devastating hundreds
of square miles in Michigan, Wis
consin, Minnesota and Canada. The
smoke from these fires, blown south
by the winds cover Wisconsin, Mich
igan, Illinois and Indiana, is like a
dense fog. For nearly week Chica-
go has struggled and gasped through
dense layers of irritating smoky fog
piled upon her own volumes of the
product.
The loss is estimated at nearly
SIS, 100000, and 10000 people are
homeless.
The smoke shut out the sun. At
some times in the day downtown
buildings few blocks from Public
square could barely be seen through
the haze.
1t was blue haze and not unlike
fog. 1t had blown across the lake
from hundreds of miles away, but
some could still notice in it the smell
of burning wood.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
A MONSTER PAIN PRODUCER.

We saw cucumber at the home
of T. J. Fox short time ago which
weighed six and one-half pounds af-
ter having been pulled from the vine
more than three days. 1t was six
teen inches long and seventeen inches
in circumference, says the editor of
Arkansaw Traveller of Grandfeld,
Ark.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30

friends in Washington that after he
failed to get promotion based upon
his record his brother, Temple, went
to see the president, and that soon
thereafter the increase was ordered
by direction of the president. -Sa-
vannah Press.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30

counting is asked for. If results are
OBTAINED, we'll and good. If not
well, there is then a mild suspicion
that the trusted agent managed to
put good wad of it in his pocket
and forget all about it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
800 COTTON MILLS ARE IDLE IN ENGLAND

and One Hundred and Forty
Are Without Work.
than 100000 in wages a week.
In view of the present glutted con-
dition of the market it is not be-
lieved that this cessation of work
will entail heavy damage to employ
ers. 1t is not felt here that the
strike will last long, for the card
room workers are expected soon to
take a second ballot, and agree to a
five per cent. reduction in wages.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30

SAN ANTONIO, Tex.-Cotton
picking is now in full swing through
out the length and breadth of Texas.
Black Sambo and his compadre, Ped
70 from Mexico, find themselves just
now very important personages, able
to command the attention and,
what's more, the money of the cot
ton planters of Texas. The crop this
year is estimated to run over 3,00O,-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
Spindles Are Stopped
Thousand Operatives

4oo a ,.',O-ilESTER, Eng.-More than
i5Ia s''Oon mills in Lancashire are
oDaro ~ " result of a dispute between
nean r,',es and employees. This
Who'll mat four million spindles are
more of partially stopped; that
is no4 '4an $25O,OOO,OOO Of capital
that 49,, bringing in any returns and
Work V'VOO operatives are without
ana losing something more
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30
THREE MILLION BALES ESTIMATED IN TEXAS

ant Personages, and Are Command
hat State just Now.
600 bales and to bring to Texas over
$l5O,OOO,000, or per capita Of s4s
10 every man, woman and child in
the state. Last year, according to
government statistics, Texas pro-
duced 2,30O.179 bales, and the year
before over 100000. This year
over 100000 acres are in cotton.
Texas produces twice as much cotton
as any other state.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-11-07
ElELV RISING 70 CONDEMNED.
4 Habit Which May Severely Tax the
Vital Powers

There is no adequate support for
the impression that the early morning
nonrs are In any way more wholesome
or healthy than later periods of the
day. Except in summer time they
are apt to be damp. foggy, chilly and
among the least desirable hours of
daylight. 1t is quite true that during
Lhe surnmer there is q sense of exhil
aratfon about being abroad in these
early morning hours, but this evapo-
rates with the dew and Isl apt to be
succeeded by q corresponding depres-
>slen and loss OF working power later
In tffs Day. I have been observing nv
friends and patients for the past 20
years In this respect, and am inclined
70 the opinion that not a little of the
repression and nervousness which
commonly develop in hot weather ia
oue to excessive exposure to light,
from habits Of early rising. inherited
from agricultural ancestors, not coun.
teracted by three to four hours rest
In darkened rooms in the middle of
the day.
Secondly, that the exhiIaratiou ex.
perienced during the early morning
hours is an expensive luxury which
mas to be paid for later in the day.
In fact, have found that as a general
rule, to put it very roughly the bust.
oess or professional man who rises
an hour before 1880 or 8, goes to
bed, or loses his working power.
an hour and half earlier in the
evening. Each individual has in
the beginning of his day about 30
much working power stored up IN his
brain and muscle cells. II he uses
this up with great rapidity in the
early morning hours he naturally ex.
hausts his stock the sooner In the
afternoon.
1t is largely matter of when a
man wishes to be at his best. If his
occupation Is or sucn q character thar
he can clear of the brunt of his
work In the early morning hours, then
let him rise early. II on the other
nand he requires full Yigor and readi.
ness OF mind and body in the latter
part Of the day, or at night, then
he must rise later to get it. Even
in pure muscle work 1t is false econ
omy to work too long bours.-Am mer.
lean Magazine.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-11-07
ELKO, NEVADA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Z 1905
ONE OF MoNARcH's TROUBLES.
Much Tact Necessary When Titles
Are Conferred.

The bestowal of knighthoods in the
arts In England is notoriously q dim.
cult process, straining even the tact
or King Edward. Every player who
does more than walk on" the stage.
believes In his heart that he should
be 80 honored, and the very accom-.
panists at concerts hardly think them.
selves quite out of the running This
time the king had seemingly taken ref
uge III age and approaching or actual
retirement. John Hare has passed &C.
He is now making a farewell tour
preparatory to retirement, and his po-
sition as one OF the nghtest, dryest
and most adroit comedians of the Eng.
Hsh-speaking stage would be a tradi
ton were he not still living evidence,
so to say, of his own skill. The other
new knight Of the arts, Mr.. Santley,
the barytone singer, has been so long
In retirement that he seems to belong
rather to the generation Of the six
ties and the seventies than to our
own, though he visited America as
recently as 1890. He was eminent
In oratorio; he could sing the senti.
mental ballads in which the average
English audience delights and still
seem a man; he had his day In op
era. There could hardly be q safer
knighthood.