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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
Jim CROW" WON'T TOUCH HIM.
Negro Register of Treasury viii
Travel in His Own Private Car.

Negro Register of Treasury Will
Travel in His Own Private Car.
Oklahoma has "Jim Grow" rail
road law Register of the Treasury
Vernon, who is a negro, is going to
Oklahoma to make some speeches.
But the Jim Grow" law will not
touch him. He IS going to travel
in his own special, private car. For
the time being he will be the most
important and proudest negro in
Oklahoma. Meanwhile, the thought
occurs, why is it that the register
of the United States treasury is al
ways negro? If we remember
rightly it was President Grant who
first appointed a negro to the office,
and since that time the race seems
to have had a cinch on the place.
The Office itself doesn't amount to a
row Of pins. The most onerous duty
that the holder of it has to do is to
draw his salary and keep track of
his perquisites. The office could be
abolished without anybody save the
register himself knowing the differ
ence.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
MERRY WIDOW is DETHRONED
AND Lid Like Flower Pot Takes
Its Place by Decree of MILL
nerS' Association.

A dispatch from Chicago says that
the Merry Widow hat, beloved by
rhymesters and jokesmiths, has been
dethroned. The National Associa-
ton of Retail Milliners has said the
word that banishes the monarch of
millinery connections to the limbo
of last years hats. What the tests
and the sneers and the pleadings of
benighted mankind failed to do the
milliners have accomplished.
Nine. Maerle, head of the recep-
ton committee for the National AS
ISOLATION of Retail Milliners' in ses-
sion at the Palmer House, sounds
the death knell of the broad-brimmed
hat.
"It is not the mode correct" says
Madame.
And femininity, subservient ever
to the edict of the milliner, humbly
bows to the decree.
The newest models in Spring hats
look like inverted flower pots. They
are said to be copies of the fez-
shaped hats of Servian officers.
From Hungary to Servia is not so
long a jump as is that from the
eighteen-inch brims to the brimless
shapes that will be in favor.
These hats are of rough, highly
finished straw. A jaunty military
medallion of braid, from which two
gilt tassels droop below the edge of
the hat, is the sole ornament
There are protests, of course, from
the women who survey the new mod
els. The Merry Widow and it's sis
tiers of mammoth proportions COW
cred a multitude of sins-and puffs.
The new hats demand slick, ele-
giant coiffures. But the women will
wear them, just as they wore the
other extreme of millinery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
SECRECY URGED BY TEDDY R.
HE DOES NOT WANT EXPENDI-
TURES FROM WAR DEFICIEN-
CY BILL MADE PUBLIC.

Observation-Disclosures Roose-
velt's request that the reply of the
secretary of the treasury to the For
aker resolution, calling for an item
lied statement of expenditures made
from the war deficiency fund of
1899, be considered confidential
may be ignored by the senate. Since
the document has been repOsing in
the files of the committee on mill
tary affairs it has been examined
by number of senators. who say
they are not impressed with the i'm
portance f concealing from the pub
lie the information it contains.
The reason given by President
Roosevelt for the request that the
information should be kept as exec
utlve matter was that the war fund
had been used to send military
agents into foreign countries to gath
er material for the secret use of this
government. While it is said that
this is true in regard to some eX-
pCA4u4 CD CGl JClItl SChd OIS nave ue-
clared that the report so hides the
details connected with such expendi-
lures that the publication of the re-
port could not result in any diplo-
matte arrangements with other gov
ernments.
The resolution bringing the state
ment to the senate was introduced by
Mr.. Foraker after he learned that
the detectives used in working on
the Brownsville case had been paid
from the war deficiency fund. 1t is
declared by several senators who
have examined the treasury state
ment that the information sent in
shows that the fund has been used
as financial junk heap" 1t is
asserted that the statements show
that several 'junkets" were paid for
from this fund, and that in certain
instances the fund was used to pay
for the entertainment of military
visitors from other countries.
Although a number of senators
are disposed to make the document
public it is known that such action
would be opposed by others, and
therefore a motion to print the state
ment as a public document may be
accompanied by sharp and acrimoni-
Gus debate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
WEARS A SNAKE IN HIS HAT
Writing on Bald Pate Keeps "NTis-
cry Out of the Face. A Sure
Cure for Neuralgia.

James Barker, bachelor, 70 years
old, living at Window, in St. Louis
county, Missouri, has a snake in his
hat. Others have had snakes in their
hats, and also in their boots, but
Barker is temperate, although not a
healthy, man. He keeps this snake
in his hat. he says, because it is a
sure cure for the most violent form
of neuralgia.
Recently he visited the court house
at Clayton to get on the pauper list.
While waiting to have the blank
filled out he took off his hat. Re-
posing in the top of his headpiece
was a snake. County Clerk Rhul
was frightened when he saw it.
Knowing his own sobriety he want
ed to test it on the negro janitor,
and had him investigate.
Then they asked the bachelor for
an explanation. He said he suffered
untold agony from neuralgia, which
caused his face to swell to large pro-
portions. A friend told him to put
a snake in his hat.
Now the snake is writhing inside
his hat, and he is bothered no more.
Barker says he would rather have
the snake writhe on his head than
writhe with pain himself.
In any event, the snake slides
down the incline of his bald pate
inside the hat, and now he has no
more neuralgia than has the court
house tower
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
FIGHT ON BOIL WEEVH.
Congress Apprcpriates $4,000 to
Battle Against the Pest.

The action of the house in voting
$146,000 to fight the boil weevil in
the south means much for the cot
ton planters, who have already suf-
fered greatly from these pests, which
are no longer confined to Texas, but
are spreading all over the cotton belt.
According to reports the boil wee
vii has crossed the Mississippi, and
it's ravages will cover the Delta and
perhaps one-half of Mississippi this
year.
The fight that the government is
making, aided by the states, is one
of education. The farmers are
taught how to minimize the number
of the pests and how to grow a pretty
good crop despite their nestings in
the bOlls and their ravenous attacks
on the plant in general. The pro-
posed appropriation will no doubt be
accepted by the senate and become
"a law, and it will go a long way to-
wards arming the farmers for the
battle against the destructive insect.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17

A special dispatch from Washing
ton to the New York Evening POST
discussing the reappointment of Will
liam D. Crum, the negro collector OF
the port of Charleston, says: 1T IS
said that several republican senator's
have received letters from Mr.. Iaft
urging them to push the contirma-
ton of Dr. Crum before March 4th'
lie has told these senators, II IS uH-
derstOod, that he does not WISH W
have the first few weeks of his ad-
ministration marked by fight over
this case. The republicans desire 10
carry out Mr.. Taft's wishes IN tnls
respect, and it is believed that the
majority party will be united on De-
half of early action on the nominal
ton"
Mr.. Taft's feelings may be readily
understood. He wants this maCteL
disposed of before March Attn so thaC
he will not be called on to make pup
lie his approval of such appoint
ments. That would do much toward
removing the pleasant impression ne
left in this section, and he relies on
that pleasant impression to forWatH
his plans for breaking into the solio
south. He wants those plans TO
make all the Roadway possible pc
fore the exigencies of politics require
him upon his own account TO ap-
point negro or two to high once
in the southern states. lie may
think that he can escape that neces-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
SHIPS FUEL COSTS S5.545.OOO.
1t Costs Enormous Sums Yearly to
Keep Battleships in Commission.

III OoSUS enormous Sums Yearly to
Keep Battleships in Commission.
Responding to a resolution intro
duced by Senator Clay a report has
been sent to the senate by Secretary
of the Navy Newberry saying that it
costs $109,S56 to keep a first-class
battleship in repair and good condi-
ton for one year. This figure was
obtained by taking the average cost
of keeping seventeen battleships in
repair for the fiscal year 1908. 1t
does not include extraordinary re-
pairs incident to taking a ship out
OF commission, remodeling. or re-
constructing it.
The cost of coal used on battle
ships for the fiscal year 1908 was
$3, 1892, and this amount was in
creased by transportation and stor-
age charges to 5,544,945. The coal
was bought from sixteen companies
at prices varying from $3.50 to $6.75
per ton, the variation having been
due to the state of the market, the
number of tons per contract and the
distance of delivery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
WITH OLD SYSTEM
pensioners Say They Can Do More
With Their Money in Lump Sum.

~~SJ III
All but two or three of the sixtv-
three Terrell county pensioners have
called at the Office of Ordinary Cheat
ham and got their pension money
for 1909.
Pensioners were glad to get all
of their money in a lump sum this
year. Nearly all of them expressed
their appreciation of the return to
the old system of paying off, and
they hope it will remain the same in
the future.
Sixty dollars in a lump seems a
great deal MORE" said one of the
pensioners, than the same amount
does when it is divided into four
lnstallments. We are able to do so
much more with the money when
we get it this way"
And this appeared to be the way
most of the pensioners feel about
1T. Almost without an exception
they expressed themselves this way
when they called at the Ordinary's
once and received their checks for
1909.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
NOW WANTS TO CANCEL IT.
A Church Loaned Big Sum of Mon
ey to Equip a Fine Saloon.

A Church Loaned Big Sum of Mon
ey to Equip a Fine Saloon.
A Pittsburg dispatch says P. j..
Byrne, a saloon-keeper, borrowed
$4,000 from the Third United Pres
byterian church of that city. The
fact that the money was wanted to
build a new liquor emporium was
not known when the trustees voted
to accept the mortgage on the prop
erty, but now the facts have been
learned and there is general Skin
mishing among the trustees to cancel
the loan.
AS soon as the Pittsburg baseball
team leased it's new ground in
Oakland, Byrne foresaw chance for
business, and he forthwith bought
a building opposite the new ball
grounds. ..
For this property he paid $48,OOO.
He needed money to put the place IN
shape for a first-class saloon, and ap-
piled to a broker to place a mort
gage. He placed the mortgage with
the Third United Presbyterian
church; hence the row.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
What Did Silence of Cubans Mean
When Gov. Magoon Departed?
From the Sa vannah News.

There was no cheering by the Gu
bans when Gov. Magoon took his de-
parture from Havana. Crowds of
people gathered along the streets
when President Gomez, accompanied
by Gov: Magoon, went to the palace
to take the oath of office, and a big
percentage of the population gath
cred on the quays when the battle
ship Maine, carrying Gov. Magoon
and many Of the officers of the army
of occupation, sailed out of the har-
Dor of Havana on her way to this
country, but there were no cheers
anywhere. The people maintained a
dead silence. Was silence simply
characteristic of them, or were they
regretting the end of American oc-
cupation and apprehensive of trouble
in the near future?
Those who pretend to be acquaint-
ed with the actual situation in Cuba
think that in less than four years,
perhaps in less than a year, the
United States will have to again
intervene. Practically all of the
business men desire the annexa-
ton of the island to the United
States. They do not believe Cuba
will be able to maintain a govern
ment sufficiently strong to protect
life and property. The desire for
Office is so great that it subordinates
every other feeling. Therefore it is
predicted that the leaders will be
fighting among themselves for the
offices before the end of Gomez's
term, If not sooner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
The Sooner Taft Lets Worse Be
Known the Better 1t Will Be for All
From the Macon Telegraph.

sity for some time-perhaps even
until the elections two years hence,
when it will be considered impera-
tive in order to hold in line the black
voters in the doubtful northern
states. Hence his anxiety to push
the confirmation of Crum' with all
speed.
While we are not unmindful of the
difficulties of his position, we should
prefer to see Mr.. Taft declare him
self openly now rather than later.
1t might interfere to some degree
with his southern scheme referred
to, but it would be more straight
forward. 1t Will be just as we'll for
those who ate 'possum with him and
then wrote gush to shed tears now
as to utter lamentations hereafter.
The sooner the worst is known the
better.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17

There are factions in the domi-
nant party, and President Gomez
Will have hard task to so divide
out the offices as to satisfy them.
II he succeeds in doing so the partv
out Of power will likely be so strong
before the end of his term that he
will be in great danger of being de-
feated for reelection, unless he uses
the patronage in his gift to perpetu-
ate his power. If he does that there
is pretty certain to be a revolution.
and a revolution means the end of
the second experiment at self-gov-
eminent since Spanish domination
ended.
There is another element of dam
ger, and that is the great CORPORA
tlons that have obtained a foothold
IN the island since the SDanisb-
American war. They are not grasn-
ing, but want such legislation as will
protect their interests. If they are
thWarted they will likely stir up a
revolution. The natives are verv
credulous and excitable, and the cor
porations could use them pretty
much as they pleased by scattering
money freely among them.
1t is apparent therefore that China
has hard road to travel. There are
many rocks in it. If she succeeds IN
avoiding them and maintaining har
government and freedom she win
surprise the great majority ~
those of her people who are able
ton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
PRIDE KILLED OLD BEAU
Had Little to Eat But He Kept
Court Suit and Sword.
S. {. LANE WAS WIT AT FEAST

Member of First-Class New York
Clubs He Lived His Last DAYS i'm
Tenement, Hiding Poverty From
All But Two Friends. When Elk.
Mayor Ely's Secretary Knocks He
Rises Only to Die. Attended a
Levee of King Edward.
WASHINGTON, D. CA New
York dispatch to the Post saws:
Smith Edward Lane, who was once
one of the wits of the Century and
Union clubs, an after-dinner speaker
at the banquets of the Sons of the
American Revolution and the ST
Nicholas Society, and long ago COM
missioner of this city. died alone in
his room in the rear of tenement
in Sixty-eight street.
Though there was no fire in his
room and the shelves of his cupboard
held nothing but boxes and Jars that
mad once contained food the court
suit of silk with smalls and silk
stockings that Mr. Lane had worn
at a levee of King Edward in 1909
was hanging in his closet. with two
suits OF evening clothes and the state
SWORD that he had carried at his side
when presented to royalty.
One of the two friends that Mr..
Lane had left in the world, who came
to take charge of his effects after his
death had been reported to the coro-
ner, said that Lanes pride had been
with him to the end, and that few
knew that the one-time leader in
Tammany, lawyer and clubman had
been living the life of a recluse for
ten years past where none could see
his poverty
Mrs. Arnold. caretaker for the
house where Mr.. Lane had lived for
seven years past, knew that her soli-
tary tenant had been i'll for four
weeks past. He was in his eighty
first year, and. though he tried as
bravely as possible to conceal his in
trinity Mr.. Lane had been forced
to admit that during recent weeks
he had been around to see DR.. Rob
ert. H. Halsey.
Just a little trouble with the
throat-nothing serious" was the
way Mr. Lane had explained his WIS.,
It's to the physician. But four DAYS
ago he was unable to leave his bed.
and Mrs. Arnold sent word to ex-
Mayor Ely, one of the two friends
that Mr. Lane had that something
more than a slight trouble with the
| throat made the gentleman who
lived alone on the first floor rear
cough at nights.
Mrs. Arnold knocked at the door
OF the sick man this morning. He
answered, and she opened the door
and set his bottle of milk inside the
room. half hour later Charles d.
Bergen, secretary for Mr.. Ely,
knocked. He had come to remove
the sick man to the Presbyterian
Hospital. There was no response.
Mr.. Bergen opened the door. He
found the white-haired gentleman
who had been sick lying across the
foot of his bed in the little alcove
opening off his kitchen and living
room, clad in his bathrobe and Slip
pers. Evidently Mr.. Lane had at
tempted to rise and answer the
knock, but his strength had failed
him. He was dead.
Don't say that Mr. Lane died of
starvation" said Mr. Ely's secretary.
when he was found later going over
the mass of papers in one of the
dead mans trunks by the light of a
candle. THAT would not be right.
| think he died of pride; that was
all"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
FREIGHT AND CONGRESSMAN.

Will Be Carried by Rubber-Tired
Electric Cars in House and Senate.
One of the problems which have
arisen in connection with the con-
struction of the house and senate
office buildings in Washington has
been a method of transporting con-
gressmen from their offices to the
capital A subway has been built,
and it was first proposed to install
small electric railway in the tube.
But the plan was abandoned because
of the noise of such a system. 1t is
now proposed to provide small rub
ber-tired electric cars, furnished with
storage batteries, which are so con-
structed that they can be used for
carrying freight when not otherwise
needed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
WANTS GOD IN CONSTITUTION.
Congressman Richardson Comes For
ward With Old Resolution.

At about every session of congress
for the past twenty years there has
been introduced in one house or the
other a joint resolution demanding
the recognition of God in the federal
Mr.. Richardson of Del
aware introduced such a resolution
in the house a few days ago, and
it was referred to a committee. If
It takes the course of it's predecessors
II will never be heard Of again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
Cl'FE Superior Court
Thai BREELI InIDUNHL
Georqia Court of Appeals Hands
Down Interesting Decisions.
ONE IS A CASE FROM DAWSON

Negro Who Sold Cold Drinks at a
Church on Sunday Violated no Law
Because 1t Was Not i'm Pursuit of
His Regular AvOcatiOn. Tramps
Are Not Worth as Much as Other
People, and Third Cousins by Mar
rage Are Kin.
For one to work on Sunday or sell
goods on the Sabbath is not in viola
tion of the Sunday laws of Georgia,
unless the offense is done in pursuit
of custom or regular avocation. This
is a decision made by the court of
appeals in an interesting case ap-
nealed from the City Court of Daw-
son.
At the October term of the city
court a negro boy by the name of
Gene Ellis was convicted of violating
section 442 of the criminal code in
having sold lemonade and soda water
at a church gathering in Terrell
county on the Sabbath, and SEN
fenced to four months in the chain
gang or a fine of $50.
Ellis was not tried before a jury.
his case being submitted to the court.
Judge Edwards and the attorneys
were aware of the fact that there was
grave doubt of a conviction being
made to stand for the same reasons
hA Of in
reversing the verdict, but as there
had been considerable complaint
of parties conducting refreshment
stands at negro churches it was de-
cided to send it up to the higher
court as a test case.
Tramps and Other People.
Another interesting decision of the
court holds that tramps are not worth
as much as other people.
In the case of Moore, alias Straw
head, VS.. the Central railroad the
lower court was overruled because
the Judge told the jury in damage
suit case that the claim that the
complainant was a tramp should not,
if true, be permitted to mitigate
against his claim for damages.
Moore, or Strawhead, was making
a trip from Florida to Macon. He
stopped off at Albany, took few
drinks, walked out from town and
sat down on the crosstie of Central
railroad track and went to sleep.
He was struck by a passing train,
was hurt, sued and got damages.
He claimed that the locomotive failed
to blow the whistle and did not try
to stop the train.
The road advanced the claim that
the man was drinking, which he
didn't deny, and that he was tramp.
The Judge held that even if tramp
damages to him were the same as to
another person.
While not acting to abrogate the
mans claim, the higher tribunal
ruled that the fact of the mans be-
ing hobo was one that could have
been considered by the jury.
Third Cousins by Marriage Are Kin.
In the case of Hubbard VS.. the
State, which was appealed from Floyd
county, the court holds that third
cousins by marriage are relatives
within the meaning of the law,
1t developed after Hubbard had
been convicted that the wife of a
member of the jury and the prose-
cutor had had the same great grand
father, making them third cousins
by marriage. Neither knew it at the
time, but the court rules that the re-
lationship comes within the ninth de-
gree, and that Hubbard should have
new trial.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
TAFT's NEW ORLEANS FEED.

'It will cost S25 to banquet with
President-elect Taft in New Orleans.
The president-elect must be growing
in the graces of the southern people;
it cost only SO in Atlanta" says
the Columbus Enquirer-Sun. But
that was only for 'possum and taters.
The New Orleans people feed higher.
News.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-08-26

"A bunch of 'stags," with a sprinkling of grass-widowers gath cred at the Wrangell hotel Tues day evening to do honor to Fred Lynch's 75th birthday, and a mighty fine time they had, too,
 The keynote of the occasion was struck, when MT. Lynch, in re- sponse to the question of how old he was, made the. statement that the occasion was in honor of his seventy-ffth birthday, but that in- stead of being 5 years old, he was 5 years young, and it is indeed wonderful how lightly the years sit upon his shoulders.
 The. feast set before the diners
 was never excelled anywhere in the north, and Mumm's extra dry was there in force to prevent any dry ness among those present who in- cluded, besides MT, Lynch and 
 Mine Host Johnny Giant, Bruno Grief, Jeff Casson3 Will Downing, Peter Mccormack, George Smith, Richard Bushell, Jr:y V. Zung- marker, Charles Borsch, w. A. Oliver and Harry Wallace.
 Fred Lynch is one of the oldest
 timers in this region today, having
 left the sound country as early as 1858 going to the then unknown Fraser river country, and entering the Cassiar country in 1874: From
 that time on he has been identified
 with the varied industries of this
 country since that time with head
 quarters here in Wrangell,