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The Dickinson press., 1909-10-09
YOUNG MAN INSTANTLY
KILLED IN ACCIDENT

Ole 0verlee, q young homesteader in
section 34-145-93, was Instantly killed
last Tuesday evening while on his way
home from Taylor with a load of .lum-
Der.
Just how the accident occurred in
which the young man met his death
will never be known as there were no
eye witnesses.
August Huseby was driving a team
ahead of Mr.. Overlee and when coming
down a steep grade north of liver Eng
bretson' 8 place. Mr.. Huseby noticed that
Overlee's team had gotten away from
him and the load of lumber was scatter
ed along the hillside. Huseby hitched
his team to run and render assistance
to Overlee, who was lying in the road.
When Huseby reached him he was dead
and from the wounds in the head it ap-
peared that death was instantaneous.
The coroner was summoned but did
not arrive on the scene until the fol-
lowing morning. when the body was
removed to Taylor.
The lumber was not tied or staked on
the wagon and it is supposed that in
going down the hill some of the boards
slipped and in trying to put them in
place again he either fell from the
wagon and was kicked by one of the
horses or the wagon ran over him.
Deceased was aged about Is years
and had been in Dunn county about !
years. He was born in Norway, but
had relatives in Minnesota, who were
notified of his death.
The Dickinson press., 1909-10-09
STRENUOUS TIMES OUT
AT "cALAMITY FARM

Misses Currie and Alcott arc thinking
seriously of remaining their happy home
Calamity Farm"
On Monday, the day before the one
set for the grand opening dance in their
new granary, their man-of-all-work,
MI. Simmons, had the misfortune to fall
from a load of lumber and break his
collar bone. He was brought to the city
for repairs : and the afternoon of the
same day, the pig fell into the well.
A neighbor was summoned who had
to 60 down in the we'll and tie a rope
around the pigs body and haul him out,
and then all the water in the well had
to be drawn out by the bucket route. as
it is the only source of water supply OH
the place.
These untoward events. however. did
not in the least affect the success of
the dance on Tuesday evening.
The granary was prettily decorated
with Japanese lanterns. draperies. etc.
The music was furnished by a neiehbor
who played the ACCORDION, with organ
accompaniment by everyone who could
''play chords" About sixty were pres
ent, including the neiehboring farmers
and people from this city. A. T. Crowl
and E. A. Currie went u in a single
rig !; and the merry party who enjoyed
a straw ride out to the farm were
Misses Stewart, van der Las. Mckinley.
VAIL, Boulger. Rowell and Deffebach
and Messrs. Huesgen. Paeenkoff, Jessen,
Richard and John Boulger and DR.. E. j.
Hauser.
Delicious refreshments were served
during the evening and everyone who
was present reports a most enjoyable
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time.
AS most of our readers are Doubt ess
aware, Miss Eva Alcott, who was a well
known and successful teacher of vocal
music in the Twin cities two years ago.
and Miss Margaret Currie. who was con
nected with a Twin CITY publishing
house in the capacity of b%ookeeper, are
farming on quite an extensive scale this
year. They own a half-secti on of land
six miles southeast Of the city, part Of
which was put into crops last spring,
from which they will have a bumper
yield. 1t was for the storing of this
crop that the new eranary was built
which was so happily dedicated on Tues
day night.
The Dickinson press., 1909-10-09

A Chicago dispatch of October 7 from
Paris & Co. states that the firm has
sold two cars of Montana grass fed
beef steers at $3.50 per hundred live
weight, beating their worlds record oil
81. 40 for the George Harkins steers in
1902.
The message did not give weights
but if those steers we've anything like
the 1,424 weight Harkins steers they
The Dickinson press., 1909-10-09

Melted their owner over 500 per head,
or about 81. 200 per car load.
This places Paris & Co. at the head
for big market prices thus far this year.
The highest 1909 received up to this
time was 81. is per cwt. 1t also takes
the palm away from North Dakota fol
high priced beef steers as the Worlds
record of 81. 40 belonged to the Cedar
river country, a former rich grazing
cattle section south of Dickinson.
The Dickinson press., 1909-10-09
GRASS FED BEEF $3.50
WORLDS RECORD RAISED

Highest Price Ever Paid for Grass-fed Beef Steers. Cedar Creek
Country Held Record of $40 Per Cwt. for Seven Years. Makes
a Carload of This Kind of Cattle Worth $780,. Cattlemen
Smiling These Days. 1t was Geo. Harkins Who Tool: the
Record Price in 1902. Paris & Co. Made Both Sales.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
THOUSANDS JUST FOR FAVORS
New York Society Women Spend
Small Fortunes ON Guests az
SINGLE Entertainment.

The increasing cost and beauty of
the cotilliOns given in New York in
the last dozen years or so are due
not to the many but to a few men
and women of large means and
larger lberality and originality who
set a pace for others to follow.
In the last few weeks hostesses
with debutante daughters or debu-
tante relatives have Wed with one
another in setting the standard Of
cOtillion giving higher than ever, as
the makers of the once popular style
of favor figures find to their perpleX-
ity sometimes. If in one or two fig
ures fayOrs made of inexpensive ma
terials are used this does not mean
necessarily that the fayOTs shall be
trashy and more ornate than artistic.
The effect of a field of waving
pOppies produced in one ball room
was not done without the services of
an expert who could turn out large
artificial peoples. Provide $50 or
200 women each with a cluster of
peoples costing only ST. say, and Off
set these with as many bOutonnieres
of the same flower at half the cost,
and it is easily seen that the price
in the aggregate of an apparently
inexpensive set of favOrs mounts up.
A woman who has a trained eye
where favor figures are concerned
said the other day that she was GER
tain the favOrs at a particular very
fashionable dance given a few nights
previous cost not a cent less than
$1,000, and that several OF the cotil-
lions she had attended of late repre-
scented anywhere from $4,000 to &c.
600 in the cost of the favors alone.
Another frequenter of cOtilliOns
when this remark was repeated to
her said that to double the highest
sum named would come nearer the
amount recently spent in favOrs by at
least three cOtillion givers Of her ac-
quaintance in introducing novelties
into the dance. ITO give poetic sur
prises," she said, like butterflies on
the wing or enough S canaries in
IS cages to go around among 800 or
400 guests means dipping deep into
ones pocket"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
THE DAWSON NEWS TRADE At HOME"
CAMPAIGN ATTRACTS ATTENTION ELSEWHERE
Anti-Mai Order Journal Writes to Commend Our Worl
For Home People. Comments on Some of
the Advertisements in The News

NEW YORK, Feb. 20h Rainey Editor Of The
Dawson NewsNy
ruary 17th has noticed the clipping from
the Montezuma Record which
deyotes certain
home The merchant who printing however
has
This is the right sentiment further that the mer
chant who paonizes though sells only
to merchants, has right
You publishing
press work is good and be supported adversing
but your merchants should do better
Mail Order Octopus they
patronage and advertising
for like Dawson going to fight the mail
order houses they should publish prices
mail order
We do how nancy can expect to win
with small advertisement of
groceries and shoes give you satisac4
ton If he would the prices leaders, in his
advertisement make his
ton he could readily make the other up and take
The Adams Jewelry very advertisement
We are going this next issue as
specimen for other merchants
uene of the mail datory noncarng
in which merchants
that they not honest their mail order
business They would like they to make nv
the object Journal to stir p and awaken
these people from the other We realize we
do this
to the patriotism and always wide
awake in town the mail order overcome
This letter long, there Dawson News on
the subject that it inspires
Keep the good work. Yours very truly,
ANTI-AIAIL ORDER JOURNAL CO.
Per L. L.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
WHY WEE NEVADA IS A STATE
Abe Lincoln Gave the Rotten Little Borough Only
People Statehood for Political Purposes Interesting History

Some days since, discussing the
''ill-timed outbreak of the authori-
ties of Nevada in connection with the
japanese question, the Louisville
Courier-Journal asked by what right
that 'rotton borough" state had to
exist, or words to that effect, and OBJ
served:
THE total vote of Nevada in 1908
was 24,267 its total population has
shown a steady decrease since 1870
and does not today much exceed $780,
600 according to the estimate of it's
governor, while the census returns
do not give it within 10000 of that
figure. Nevertheless it's fastastic
proceedings might seriously compli-
cate international relations, in view
of the fact that outside nations can
not be expected to discriminate be-
tween hotheaded and ill-regulated
Nevadans and the generality of the
population of the United States" &
Why is Nevada?
The Courier-Journal's figures are
not quite correct. The official CEN
sus of Nevadas population is given
as follows.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
BELL HAS BEEN RELEASED
Court Holds His Commitment to the
Asylum Was Not Regular.

George H. Bell has been released
from the state sanitarium at Mil
ledgeville and has gone on to his
home with his father, Dr. Green Bell,
and family to Swainsboro, Emanuel
county-EmanueI meaning God
With Us"
Freedom for Bell came after Judge
II. c. Lewis Of the superior court
had issued an order to the effect
that Bells commitment to the sani-
tarium on May 81, 1906, had been
Illegal, and that for the safety of
all concerned he be held for thirty
days, and in the event no regular
commitment took place in the next
thirty days he be Internationally re-
leased. While en- route to the state
sanitarium the asylum officials, in
whose charge Bell had been remand
ed freely turned Bell over to his
father, and the reunited family con-
tinued their happy homeward jour
ney.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
SLOW MAILS IN LOWNDES,
Took Five Years for Package to
Travel Thirty-Six Miles.

The record in delayed mail matter
has been broken in Valdosta. Last
week small package that was mail
ed there more than five and a half
years ago turned up and was deliv-
cred to the consignee thirty-six miles
away.
In 1908 lady at bonneville or
dered a shuttle for her sewing ma
chine from Valdosta The shuttle
was forwarded by mail in a small
package, securely tied and properly
stamped. The lady never received
it, and after some correspondence
the matter was dropped. One day
last week it turned up at Homer
Vile as bright and fresh as the day
it was mailed. Where it had been
spending the five and half years
is not known.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
VERDICT OF $1zOOO.OO STANDS
Joe Thrilling Was Not Sufficient Ground for Re
versing the Jury a Big Railroad Damage Suit

ATLANTA.-The convincing and
thrilling eloquence of Joe Hill Hall,
the veteran legislator of Macon, is
not sufficient ground for granting q
new trial in damage suit case, &C
eording to a decision handed down
by the state supreme court,
The case is that of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad Company versus
Jones, from the Albany circuit. MT
Jones was a Coast Line engineer
He was killed in a collision. 1t was
claimed that the accident was due
TO the carelessness of train dis
hatcher in ordering him from sta
uon four minutes off the schedule
While running at full speed the loco
motive cOllided with a string of cars
pulled by a switch engine. The
tlremen and the conductor, both OF
whom were on the engine, jumped
and escaped injury. The engineer
chung to his post and tried to avert
The catastrophe. This act of heroism
supplied a clue for an eloquent flight
OF oratory on the part of Mr.. Hail
When a suit for damages brought by
the engineers widow came up for
trial. Mr.. Hall was her attorney,
and handled the case SO well that a
verdict for $4,000 was returned in
her favor.
An appeal was made by the road,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03

we give these particulars because
the population of Nevada as a terri
tory in 1850 is of great interest in
connection with the Courier Jour-
nal's question.
Why us Nevada?" Because in
1864 Abraham Lincoln found if nee
eessary to convert mining camn,,
INTO republican state in order 10
secure the passage of the Thirteenth
amendment to the Constitution aboI-
lsnlng slavery. 1T is easier to adj
NIT Nevada than to raise another
million soldiers" said he, and ac-
cording to his latest biograpber he
ala not scruple to buy three votes in
order to pass the measure granting
statehood to the said mining camn ,
IN reference to the purchased STATES
men and their brides he is Tins
quoted: 1T makes no difference
what they want. 1t is a uestion ~
three votes or new armies"
Nevada has no real right to ba q
state even now, either in population
or Importance, and in 1864 the GRANT
or statehood-although it Forwarded
the purposes of Lincoln and tba -
publican party, and no doubt baeten
ed the end of the war-was in eve~,,
sense a revolutionary act as well u
a trayesty on precedent and princi-
ple,-Macon Telegraph.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03

and among numerous other grounds
a claim was advanced that part Of
Mr.. Halls address to the jury was
indammatory and not justified by the
facts, and that it had an undue eff
feet on the jurors.
Specific complaint was made to the
following Oratorical flight:
Gentlemen of the jury: Let me
remind you of the fact that when the
noble soul of happy Jones, plaintiffs
husband, left his body and took its
fight to the God who gave it, it left
him at his post of duty, where he
sacrificed his life in an effort not to
save the lives of others, but in sue
cessful effort to save this defendant
railroad company thousands of dol
lars from loss in the destruction of
it's cars and other property. Yet
they say he was guilty of negligence
in so doing"
This, as we'll as the other grounds
of complaint, are held by the higher
court to be insufficient to Justify
new trial of the case, and the verdict
stands.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
1T TAKES A LOT OF MONEY
Will Need a Big Roll If You Run for
Office i'm Wisconsin.

There were six candidates for Unit
ed States senator in the Wisconsin
primary election. The revised de-
clarations of the candidate show that
their campaign expenses were as fol
lows: Stephenson, $1O8,518.05;
Cook, $42,286.29; Hatton, $780,
.008.07; McGovern, $11,063.88;
Brown, $1,075.87; Hoyt, $2O4-totaI
1892, 963.16. From this is would
seem that it takes a lot Of money to
hold an Office in the gift Of the state
of Wisconsin; that a poor man has
no chance to hold such office, and
that the man with the biggest bari
stands the best show of getting the
job. Another view of the case, as
presented by these figures, is that
the electors in Wisconsin are pecul-
iarly susceptible to the influence Of
money and that view is not at all
complimentary to the Wisconsin. cleo
torate
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
PARENTAL SACRIFICE.
Fortune Spent in Hiding Disease of
Two Leper Children.

| Two Leper Children.
A pitiful case Of parental devotion
and self-sacrifice has been brought to
light by the discovery of two cases
of leprosy in Galveston, Tex. The
victims are brothers, one 81 years of
age and the other IS, and they are
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. James Young
er, who for nearly 2 years have kept
| the secret of their sons afliction
from the public and have practically
kept them prisoners in their home.
; Twelve years ago the family was
comfortably well to do, when the
eldest son contracted the loathsome
J disease and became a prisoner in the
home. The parents cared for him
! and sacredly guarded their secret.
Five years ago the other son was
stricken. Both are declared to be
beyond cure.
| The expense for caring for the two
| lepers was a constant drain upon
| the resources of the family, and their
last piece of property, the home
stead, is about to be sold for taxes.
| With the discovery of the lepers by
the authorities the aged parents, re-
alizing their hopeless fight, are will
ing to have them sent to an institu-
ton for treatment But the city
authorities are confronted with a
serious dilemma, because Texas
makes no provision for lepers, al
though it is conceded there are at
least SEQ known lepers in Texas.
There is a federal law prohibiting
the transportation of lepers from one
state to another, even though the
Louisiana leper colony offers to care
for the unfortunates if sent there.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
1T is NEAR WHISKEY NOW
New Drink With the Odor of a Good
TaS7g is Causing Merchants
of Leesburg Trouble.


Over in Lee county some of the
merchants are in a worry over a mat
ter in which they are entirely inno-
cent of wrongful intentions Some
time since there came a nice look
ing, fair talking young drummer rep
resenting a wholesale grocery house
in Albany and among others of his
wares displayed a sample of an ap-
petizer with the sparkle of ruby wine
and the odOr Of a good thing to sell.
This he gave his word did not con-
tain single atom of alcohol, vowing
by all the gods that the United States
revenues had passed it over as to-
tally without intOxicants in it, but
being a new discovery was stimulat-
ing and a good seller, etc. The result
was some bought the mixture, the
name Of which was something that
sounded like egg nog, and was
spelled ''SunOg." One of them took
the precaution to send a sample of
his shipment to a chemist in Atlanta
and have a private examination made.
The result is that the report on the
beverage shows that it has over 10
per cent. alcohol in it, and has near
beer beat three or four to one. And
now the merchants who bought it
have Immediately taken steps to re-
turn the stuff and are hot in the col
lar at the deception practiced on
them to get the stuff in their houses,
while the council of Leesburg has
taken steps to have its sale cut out
entirely
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
EsKIM0s BACK TO THE COLD.
Only Seven of the Fur Weavers i'm
the United States Now,

only Seven of the Fur WeaVers in
the United States Now.
In the United States there are only
seven Eskimos. One, a boy IA years
old, is in New York city, and the
other six are in Kansas City. For
several weeks they have been giving
an exhibition in a small theater in
Kansas City.
Hundreds have been in this coun-
try, of course" said Ester Enukseat,
one of those in Kansas City, "but
they have either died or gone back
home. Last year all of the Eskimos
gathered in Seattle and went to
Labrador If there are any left, and
II am sure there are not, l don't
know where they are. Many will re-
turn for the Worlds Fair in Seattle
this summer. Eskimos come here
only for the fairs and then spend
some time in travelling from one city
TO another.
Ester Enukseat talks the English
language fuently. When nine years
old she began studying in a mission
airy school in Labrador.
Ester Rnukseat has attended every
worlds fair since the one given in
Chicago in 1893. A daughter born
in Chicago is named Columbia Her
picture is in the biographies, her
mother says.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03

over a billion, and instead of hav-
ing billion-dollar congress we are
now having billion-dollar sessions
right along. But in spite of the hue
and cry about the deficit, about re-
trenchment, economy and that sort
OF thing we are now going to have
appropriations amounting to some
thing like $1,040,00O.0O0, or over
S3O,OOO,0O0 more than was appro-
priated last year.
The army bill this year will be
about 100000 larger than last
year. The navy bill carries more
than $14,000,0OO more than it did
last year. The postoffice bill is $12,-
100000 larger, the sundry civil bill
SIS 100000 larger, the District of
Columbia bill 100000 heavier.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
THE LAND COST s7,OOO,ooo.
Tract of 100000 Acres i'm Washing
ton State for a Swiss Colony.

Tract of 100000 Acres i'm Washing
ton State for a Swiss Colony.
SEATTLE, Wash.-A great his
torical drama is being porduced in
the western part of this state, the
actors and actresses coming from
.faraway Switzerland The first ship
load of a colony of $4,000 people
has just arrived in Mason county.
Land is being assigned from an i'm
mense tract purchased by a Berne
capitalist. 1t is said that by April
several shiploads will have arrived.
The cOlOnists bring Is shiploads of
blooded cattle and other live stock
The purchase of tract of 100000
acres ofland in Mason, Callam and
Jefferson counties was completed
here a few weeks ago by the final
payment of over 100000.
George NJ Obradovich has been for
seven years cruising the land and
working secretly. His report to the
Berne syndicate covered 345 type
written pages, and was accompanied
by scores of bottles of water and soil,
together with numerous specimens
of rock and wood His report was
so satisfactory that he was ordered
to buy all the land for sale at any
price.
Land will be given to each mar
ried man and enough cattle to stock
it, He will be furnished implements,
seeds and other supplies. Eeach
year he will pay to the syndicate a
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
q WE NEVER EXPLAIN
Is the Policy of the Great Rail-
road Commission of Georgia.
THE MINUTES SHOW NOTHIN6

Is One of Few Semi-Judicial BODIES
That Merely Says Eyes" or 'sNo.w
Its Regal Brevity Is Meeting With
Strong Opposition. A recent Case
in Point Which Illustrates the Odd
Policy Now in Vogue.
ATLANFA.-''We never exnIain ),
This is virtually the policy pursued
by the Georgia railroad commission
in the matters of decisions. It il
one of the few judicial or semi
judicial bodies of the country which
merely says yes" or mo" when an
peals are made to them. strong
sentiment against such legal breyity
is developing.
1t is not meant that the railroad
commission, or any of it's members
or attaches, ever declined to furnish
TO the public any information within
us power which is asked for, except-
ing reasons for passing important
orders.
Big Case No Exceptions.
Applications are often made in
VOlving thousands of dollars ana
perhaps the well-being of millions of
dollars worth of property. They are
declined, when declined, with formal
orders, which states no more than
that it is the commissions pleasure
that whatever asked for shall not be
granted. Favorable orders of SINH
lar nature are often passed.
The highest courts of the land fur-
nlsh reasons, often in long, argument
tatlVe opinions, for their decisions Of
cases brought before them. These
opinions give to the plaintiff or the
defendent the benefit of the courts
reasoning. They act as precedents
or the government of future cases
of like kind.
The interstate commerce commits
sion hands down opinions on each
case decided by it. 1t gives its rea-
sons for declining or granting each
petition or application made to II.
unless 1t be a case governed wholly
by some one previously decided.
Most of the state commissions pursue
similar policy. They pattern, in
TINS respect, after the courts.
Reasons Never Given.
But the Georgia railroad commits
sion never gives reasons-that is.
.oflicially. The public is left to guess
.at the process of reasoning followed
by its members in deciding impor-
tant matters affecting the railroads.
One or more members of the com
mission are known to be opposed tn
such policy They believe the COM
mission should never do anything
without good reason, and should
never be ashamed to give those rea-
sons to the public.
The odd policy was illustrated re-
Gently when several rate and sched-
ule applications, involving as a whole
many thousands Of dollars. were
turned down in orders of less than
dozen lines each. The orders tell
nothing except that they were de-
clined. And the application had
been before the commission practi-
cally for year. They were the sub
ject of repeated hearings. Much doc
umentary matter was filed with re-
gard to them. Yet no man living
can tell by means of any official doc
ument why they were declined