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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

ledgeville, before which he was ac-
cused of drunkenness, made frank
confession of his fault and was for
mally tried after his credentials.
which he wished to surrender, had
been refused.
At the time of his detection Mr..
Bigham was pastor of the Elberton
church. His answer to the charge,
made in open conference in Novem-
Der, 1906, was a full confession of
his error and touching appeal that
almost turned the conference to
lenience.
IF must leave you," he said, II
want to leave just as pleasantly as
can. But l don't want to leave
you.
I'm my suspension from labors
which are dearer to me than any
thing else l am left in a position in
this world that / had not previously
dreamed existed. When my
credentials were rendered my heart
seemed to have stopped beating, but
since | had offended the church and
the conference body l could see moth
ing else to do. But / want your for
giveness, and I do not want to go"
Such a favorable impression was
created by Mr.. Bigham's frank ad-
mission and appealing plea for for
giveness that it was thought no trial
would be ordered But the creden-
tails We're finally refused by vote of
1914 to 81, and the trial and suspen-
sion followed.
Since his reinstatement Mr.. Big
ham has been pastor of the First
church of Newman, and was on Mon
day appointed from that charge to
the Augusta church.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
PROTEST AGAINST PREACHER
AUGUSTA CHURCH OBJECTS TO
MINISTER ASSIGNED TO 1T.
Stewards of st. John Wired Bishop
Hendrix That Rev. r.. J. Big
ham Was Not Wanted.

AUGUSTA, Ga.-Nineteen of the
board of stewards of st. Johns
church, to which Rev. r. J. Bigham
has been assigned by the North Geor-
gia conference, met and unanimously
protested against the appointment.
The reasons for this action are not
given out, but an influential member
of the board said this morning that
they were we'll known to all the con-
ference before which charges had
been preferred years ago against Mr..
Bigham.
The resolutions recite that the ap-
pointment was highly displeasing to
the stewards, and, they believed, also
to the congregation, and the bishop
was asked to annul the assignment
In the event that the bishop insists
upon Mr.. Bigham coming here the
stewards declared they would refuse
to serve as such during the coming
year. Nearly all the board were
present, and of those absent two were
out of the city. The others con-
Cured in the action taken.
The resolutions were wired to
Bishop Hendrix, but he had already
left Atlanta. They overlook him at
Memphis this morning, but he has
not yet replied. If he insists upon
Mr.. Bigham coming to Augusta there
| is no doubt that a strained situation
will exist at st. Johns.
Mr.. Bigham was once at st. James
here, and is well known Last year
he was stationed at Newman.
Was Once Suspended.
Rev. r. j. Bigham, appointed by
the North Georgia Methodist Confer
ence at its recent session in Atlanta
to occupy the pulpit of St. Johns
church in Augusta, was reinstated in
the conference a year ago in Mil
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

NEW YORK.-The big floating
Castle Garden Pannonia of the Gu
nard line, teeming with humanity
and ringing with a babel of strange
tongues, teetered into port yesterday
morning with big typographical err
ror on her bow.
In some way she had lost her cap
ital 'P,' initial letter of her name,
SO that the sign she bore was mis-
homer. Maybe it was knocked off by
a hawser, or maybe the rivets fell
out and the eighteen-inch letter,
twelve pounds of solid brass, Joined
a lot of other junk at the bottom OF
the sea.
The trip from Trieste, occupying
twenty-five days and embracing sun
dry other ports, was the opposite OF
dull. On the first night out from
Fiume a woman in the steerage
lighted a little alcohol lamp to heat
water for her child. A gentle roll,
the lamp upset and exploded, the
fame caught the sheet of her bunk,
a cry of fire" arose and a steward
rushed in. He wrapped the lamp IN
the sheet, ran up the companion way
and tossed sheet and the lamp into
the Adriatic.
Girl Overheard" the Cry.
It's overheard now" said the
steward. Girl overheard, Girl
overheard" resounded through the
Storage, frightened passengers VINO
had seen the sheet fluttering down
ward taking up the alarm awrong'
In the third-class quarters were
L,441 Russians, Austrians, Hunga-
rians, Poles and Germans. At the
cry, Girl overheard, scared moth
ers collected their offsprings, the
alarm reached the bridge and cap
tain Irvine stopped the ship over
board went calcium carbide buoys'
flung from the bridge by sailors
Quarters were sounded, engines re-
yersed, and an investigation MADE
No girl was missing, but Captain r.
vine wasn't going to lose his lie
buoys. He ordered away the boat
with two junior officers and six men
in it, and they rowed back ana
around until they had picked up the
Illuminated buoys. The ship was de-
layed twenty minutes.
Around the ship meanwhile nao
been lowering the stork, the hurry
ing and scurrying Of the emigrants
accelerating the speed of the BIRDS
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
100000 KILLED BY TSETSE FLY.
Scientist Gives the Result of Study
of the African Pest.


The habits of tsetse fly, whose bite
causes the sleeping sickness from
which more than 100000 persons
have died in East Africa in the last
ten years, were explained by Dr.
Louis l.. Seaman at the anniversary
meeting of the academy of medicine
in New York.
The flies are never found more
than $50 feet from the edge of a
lake or river. They bite like horse
fly, with a sharp prick.
A person inoculated with the poi
son first suffers from intermittent
fever. This stage may last from two
or three months to as many years.
Then the poison attacks the cerebro
spinal fluid and the patient becomes
anemiC and drowsy.
The sufferer refuses food or falls
asleep while eating it, and is excep-
tionally susceptible to colds. Some
cases have been known to survive
for eight years from infection, but
generally death occurs sooner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
HIS TWENTY-FOURTH APPEAL.
Patrick Is Still Trying to Get Out
of Sing Sing.


of Sing Sing.
One cannot help admiring the in
genuity of Albert T. Patrick, the
New York lawyer serving a life SEN
tence in Sing Sing for the murder of
William M. Rice. Patrick has just
filed his twenty-fourth appeal for his
freedom on technical grounds. This
time he claims that he is legally
dead, and therefore ought to be
turned loose. He says Judge O'Brien
had no right to stay the sentence of
death that had been passed upon
him, and that the sentence was not
carried out because of the malfeas-
ance of the jailer, which puts him in
the position of being legally if not
dead. If Patrick ever gets
out of the penitentiary he will be
one of the best equipped criminal
lawyers in the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
BOY BABY BORN ON OCEAN STEAMSHIP
Child Born on the Atlantic Is Baptized by a Lord
Strange Scenes on Immigrant Ship.

approach. DR.. J. F. McDermott was
sent for in a rush.
Mrs. Julianna KOvacs, a Hunga-
rian on her way to America to meet
her husband, was the favored one.
Soon DR.. McDermott announced the
arrival of the 1920 passenger on
the ship, baby boy.
Now there CHANGED to be in the
steerage a nobleman, distinguished
churchman and philanthropist, a
young man who is devoting his life
to doing good. He was Count Way
de Vaya and Luskod. Lord Abbot of
st. Martin, Apostolic Prothonotary,
member of the Pope's household,
rich in his own right and author of a
book, THE Inner Life of the United
States"
Baptized by a Prelate.
Although he is a distinguished
prelate with a very long title 1.-The
Right Honorable and Right Reverend
Monsigor the Count, etc, son of the
Lord Chamberlain to the Archduke
Joseph, in Hungary, and descended
from a family which has held es-
tates for more than one thousand
years, the Lord Abbot, in the pres
ence of the mother and little circle
of devout peasants, baptized the new
baby the next day, christening it Ivan
Pannonia Kovacs, taking pains to
spell the name as it should be spelled
and not like the name on the bow
Then the delighted passengers
made up purse of 200 gulden for
little Ivan and his mother.
There was another author on
board, Mrs. Mary Stuart Cutting of
East Orange, N. j., who wrote Lit
tie Stories of Married Life" and
"The Wayfarers. y
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
ANOTHER BIG AMERICUS FIRE
Farmers Cotton Oil COmpany's Sheds
Are Burned.

AAfCAS &ObtOAA VII company - lOAISuS
Are Burned.
At Americas Wednesday morning
a loss estimated at $4,000 was sus-
tanned in the destruction of the seed
house connected with the Farmers
Cotton Oil Company. The large
building, with it's contents of meal.
cotton hulls and machinery, was de-
stroyed, while several loaded freight
cars were damaged.
The flames were confined to the
building where they originated, and a
conaagration was thus avert
ed, as several guanO plants and a
large planning mill and lumber yards
are in the immediate vicinity.
The loss was partially covered by
and will not interfere with
the operation of the plant.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
pEACHLEss BRANDY AND coTTON-oLIvE OIL
Guilt United Court Another Proof
That Things Not Always hat They Seem.

manufacture A second count
charged the company with having
shipped peachless peach brandy"
Another firm admitted having
shipped "olive OIL which contained
As per cent. cotton seed oil. The
third concern shipped impure syrup.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

At San Francisco three wholesale
concerns have pleaded guilty in the
United States district court to VIOLA
tons of the pure food law One
company confessed to having shipped
LIQUOR labeled apricot brandy" but
no apricots had been used in its
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

Doan's Regulets cure constipation.
tone the stomach, stimulate the liy-
err. promote digestion and appetite
and easy passages of the bowels.
ASK your druggist for them. %
cents a box.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
HIS ONLY ASSET A DOG.
New York Heating Contractor Goes
a Chopper for $4,000.

William d. Adams, a former heat
ing contractor of New York, who
has filed a petition in bankruptcy
with liabilities of $4,000, declares
his only asset is one dog, value not
given. Under the law this dog will
be held and disposed of for the bene-
fit of the creditors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

We will sell you lumber, brick,
etc, cheaper than you can buy else
where. The Variety Works Co.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
FREIGHT RATES DECLARED
INHERENTLY UNREASONABLE
Commerce Commission Renders Decision Case of Spo
kane Versus the Northern Pacific and Other Railroads,
Ordering Sweeping Reductions in Commodity Rates

March in o o
ash, the y
rates o
The
by thee of
a
Second he
the defendants maintained that compelled
TO oSpokan although than ito nn
rates frome easter IA to SpOkan | elias
Clca o o
II o
am in view itisone o he mos
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
TESTIMONY IS TAKEN
IN OIL TRUST CASE

Chicago, March Testimony in the
retrial of the case against the Stand
ard Oil company of Indiana began
late this afternoon before Judge An
derson. Frederick S. Hollands, for
merly chief rate clerk of the Chicago
& Alton railroad, testified in regard
to the methods used in the company's S
office in making rates and in mailing
copies of the tariffs to shippers.
The government contends that the
published lawful rate on oil between
certain points over the Chicago &
Alton was IS cents. while the oil COM
pany paid only cents. Assistant
District Attorney Wilkerson at
tempted to introduce in evidence the
tariff sheet showing an 1S-cent rate
between Chicago and East st. Louis.
Judge Anderson ruled that the
tariff could not be presented until the
government had shown that it was
the rate published and filed with the
interstate commerce commission.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
FURTHER EVIDENCE DEVELOPS
IN STRANGE PLOT TO Sc
CURE MINERS WEALTH.
VICTIM NOW RECOVERING
Nevada Mining Man Is Slowly Throw
ing OFF Effects Of Liquor Supposed
to Have Been "Doped" and Pris-
oners Are Charged With Conspiring
to Cause His Death.

San Francisco, March with the
arrest of. Sidney l. Dandy and Jay
O'Loane and the removal of James
Goodwin, the Nevada mining man, who
is said to have been the victim of a
plot the details of which are of a hor
rifying nature, to a hospital, where he
is slowly recovering from the pro-
longed debauch into which he alleges
Dandy and O'Loane led him, the prose-
cution of the conspiracy charges
against the arrested men is suspended
until Goodwin is able to give the police
further information. Dandy and
O'Loane were booked today on charges
of conspiring to cause the death of
Goodwin, while Edith O'Loane, said to
be the wife of O'Loane, has been
placed on the detinue book pending
investigation. The detectives have
carefully run down every clue as to
the past lives of the two men impli-
Gated in the plot by the story of DR..
James Howard, who informed the po-
lice Monday that Dandy and O'Loane
had offered him third of the $4,000
estate of Goodwin if he would sign
death certificate showing that the
Nevadan expired from alcoholism
when his death occurred as the result
of the whisky which they were supply
ing him by the tumblerful 1t has been
discovered that OLoane formerly con-
Quoted a saloon in Reno and later
tended bar in Rawhide and Winnie
| mucca The police declare that they
have also discovered that Dandy was
| arrested about 10 years ago on an en-
| bezzlement charge, which was after
ward dismissed.
Goodwin told the police that he was
kept in an intoxicated condition for
many days. He believed that several
of his checks signed during this time
had been raised in value and collected
| and that he had been enticed into
| signing numerous papers, the contents
! of which he was ignorant In proof of
J this the police have secured a person
| ally addressed power of attorney
| whereby Goodwin appoints O'Loane his
| attorney in fact, empowering him to
| sell any or all property: and also a
| paper empowering O'Loane to nego-
| tiate loans on Goodwin's mining prop
| erty. Goodwin said that these were
| signed while he was drunk.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
BODIES
WILL PARTICIPATE

New York, March 2.-Various po-
litical organizations will go to Wash
ington tomorrow to participate in the
inauguration The New York repub-
lican committee made known their
plans today. After the exercises Mr..
Roosevelt will take a carriage at the
foot of the capitol steps and be
driven to the head of Delaware
avenue, where the New York or
ganization will be drawn up. AS soon
as Mr.. Roosevelt's carriage reaches
the head of the avenue the New York
men will form hollow square around
it, and accompanied by band of so
pieces march to the railroad station.
In the ranks will be Senator ELECT
Root, Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew,
Timothy Woodruff, chairman of the
New York state republican commit
tee, and others. 1t is expected that
Mr.. Roosevelt will briefly address the
New York men at the station.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
ORDERED TO DISPOSE
OF TROLLEY HOLDINGS

Boston, March BY a decision of
the state supreme court today the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad company is ordered to dis
pose of it's trolley holdings in Mas
sachusetts by July /, 1909.
The decision is the bill in equity
brought by the attorney general in
May, 1908, and the courts decision ap-
plies to the Worcester e. South
Bridge, the Worcester & Blackstone
Valley, the Worcester & Webster,
the Webster & Dudley, the Springfield
and the Berkshire railways.
The decision upholds the ruling of a
single justice of the supreme court
from which the New Haven company
appealed On the ground that these
trolley companies were held by the
consolidated companies of Connecti-
cut.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
A BARE POSSIBILITY
THAT BILL MAY PASS
Special to The Daily Missoulian.

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Helena, March 2.-There is a bare
possibility that a measure somewhat
resembling a direct primary bill may
be passed at this session. This even
ing the house committee on privileges
and elections recommended for con-
currence S. B. No. 122, by the senate
committee on elections, being IAN act
to provide for ascertaining the choice
of the electors of the state of Mon
tana, of a candidate for senator in
congress for Montana for each politi-
cal party in said state"
The committee on state lands fav-
orably reported S. 3. No, 80 to vail
date the sale of all state lands which
are illegal. This bill was introduced
and passed in the senate this morn
ing.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
ENGROSSED MEASURE
FOUND WITHOUT
AMENDMENTS
Special to The Daily Missoulian.

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Helena, March 2.-This morning
the opponents of Senate Bill IS
called for a copy of the bill as en-
crossed. The measure had not been
called up for the action of the house
but there was a possibility that it
might be reached late in the day
and the desire was to make certain
that all the amendments had been
engrossed so that the bill should
be in proper form when it came up
for final consideration. The en-
crossed copy was furnished, as re-
quested. The opponents of the bill
discovered that "a of their amend
ments, which had been adopted by
the house in committee of the whole
had not been incorporated in the
engrossed copy. There was a bit
IF storm for awhile, but the bill
was engrossed a second time and
put into correct form for action. The
incident stirred up new feeling over
this bill, which has caused so much
dissension, but the matter was ad-
justed.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03

what its fair earnings should be by
the amount of that stock which was
originally issued without consideration.
Properly Consider.
I'm determining what will be reas-
enable for the future the commission
may properly consider that under the
rates in effect a large surplus has been
accumulated in the past, but it should
not make rates for the purpose of dis
tributing that surplus to the public.
S.-The Importance of the question
whether railway shall be allowed to
earn return upon the unearned in
crement represented in the value of it's
right of way, is illustrated by the facts
in this case, but is not discussed or
decided.
9.-Upon an examination of the his
tory of these properties, the cost of
reproducing them at the present time,
the original cost OF construction, the
present capitalization, and the manner
in which that capitalization has been
made; held that the earnings of both
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific in recent years has been exces-
sive.
lU.-Ine only Quty OF tHe cOIlllllS-
sion in this case is to establish reas-
enable rates from eastern points Of
origin to Spokane, and in so doing it
can only act upon those rates speci
fically called to it's attention, although
it must have in mind the effect upon
the revenues of these companies of
resulting reductions upon other COM
modities and at other points than Spo-
kane.
Class Rates.
1.-THE rates attacked are class
rates from st. Paul and Chicago to
Spokane, and commodity rates upon
81 enumerated articles. Glass rates
are established from. st. Paul to Spo-
| kane which are 16 2-3 per cent less
| than those now in effect, and class
rates from Chicago to Spokane are
made higher than those from st. Paul
| by certain named arbitraries.
12.-In case Of all commodities ex-
cept five, the present rate from Chi
cago to Seattle is established as a
reasonable local rate from ST. Paul to
| Spokane. Upon five articles some
what higher rates are fixed. Rates on
these commodities from Chicago to
Spokane are made 16 2-3 per cent
above those from st. Paul. Neither
class nor commodity rates are named
| from points east of Chicago.
The order will be made effective
May 1.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
GUNS BEING BUILT
TO FIGHT A|RSH|PS

Berlin, March 2.-Lieutenant Gus
tav Won Bohlen Und Halbach, who
married a. daughter of Herr Krupp,
the gunmaker, has contributed $2,500
to the aeronautic professorship re-
Gently founded at Goettingen, and he
has pledged an equal sum each year.
The Krupp concern has taken up the
subject of air engineering with
fenergy, having organized section
for the construction of guns to be
used against air craft. The concern
already has two model guns, one for
discharging explosive shells and the
other for throwing burning projec-
tile
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
MOTHER KILLS SON
AND THEN HERSELF

Regina, Sask., March Mrs. Will
liam Finlayson killed her three
year-old son, Warren, today and
then committed suicide. She was
suffering from insanity brought on
by Illness
Mr.. Finlayson left the house this
morning to open his store, and when
he returned an hour later for break
fast he found the place locked. He
broke into the house and found the
body of his wife and son in a tank
of water. The tank was in the base
ment and reached nearly to the CELL
ing.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
PAYS ITS FINE.

Topeka, Kan, March 2.-The Inter,
national Harvester company today paid
to R. L. Thomas. clerk Of the Shawnee
county district court, $13,72O, the fine
and costs assessed against the COM
pany by Judge A. Dana for violating
the Kansas antitrust laws. The case
was appealed and affirmed by the su-
nreme court a month ago.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
TO HONOR MR.. TAFT.

Cincinnati, March 2.-Acting Mayor
Calvin today issued a proclamation re-
questing the people to honor their fell
low citizen, William Howard Taft, by
suspending business for short time
Thursday, the time of Mr.. Tafts in
duction into the presidency.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
PERISH IN TENEMENT FIRE.

New York March -Four persins,
a man and woman and two children,
perished in fire which swept through
a four-story tenement in Seventh ave-
nue., near Thirty second street.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
PRODUCES MUCH GOLD.

Butte. March Montana produced
during February gold bullion to the
value of s141,120.30, exceeding the
output for the corresponding period in
1908 by s32,S21.21.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-03
MAKES NEW RECORD.

Queenstown, March 2.-The steam
ship Maueretania passed Dauntsmoueh
at s:22 a. m. today, establishing a
new high record. 20 hours and min
utes.