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made and found it was void, as the
property belonged to the boys
mother. Barksdale threatened to
make trouble, but finally offered to
compromise and settle the whole af-
fair for $500 cash. Mrs. Leary told
Barksdale to remain here few days
and she would raise the money.
This she did and paid the $500 to
Barksdale.
Last Friday a week ago the boy
and Barksdale came to Albany and
rented a shotgun, saying they were
going 'possum hunting. They re-
tuned that n ght to Hudgin's bache-
lor quarters in Baker county.
Whether Barkesdale was killed
'pOssum hunting or Wheeler he was
killed while asleep in bed is not
known The last seen of him was in
company with young Hudgins Jos
Leary the boys step-father, went to
the plantation also about that time.
Negro Reported the Find.
A negro named Lloyd Lewis yes
terday appeared at the home of NJ.
A. McRainey, prominent planter of
Elmodel, and said a body had been
found in a we'll McRainey sent
some men to get the body out. The
dead mans hands and feet were
tied. His body was nude from the
waist up, but was wrapped in an old
bed comfort Hudgins' tracks led
across the cotton patch to the old
we'll trail of blood was followed
from the house in which Hudgins
lived. three quarters of a mile dis
tant from the we'll. Blood was found
on Hudgin's clothes and on the bug
gy belonging to Joseph Leary.
The dead man had ben shot in
the head with a shotgun and his skull
crushed with some blunt instrument.
Barkesdale's people in Tampa
were communicated with and his ia
Their is on the way here. An Albany
undertaken carried a metallic casket
to the scene, prepared the body for
burial and brought it to Albany to-
night. 1t will be shipped TO Tampa
Coroners' Inquest.
The coroners jury named Hud-
gins as the murderer of BarkCsdale
duu JUG IGdlN y, MIS- joe ICd'y iIIlu
Lloyd Lewis, the negro who claimed
to have found tne D1ly, as acces-
series to the crime. A young son
of Lewis is held as a witness,
as is also 12-year-old son of the
Learys. Amy Bell, a negro woman,
is also held
Efforts are being made to find
Robert Hudgins, a cousin of Jesse
Hudgins, who has disappeared
Leary and his wife formerly lived
in the town of Leary not far from
the scene of the crime. The town
was founded by his father, now dead.
He formerly owned mucn valuable
farm property in that section.
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Dawson Council Amends City Ordi-
nance So 1t Will Not Conflict
With New State Law.

At the recent regular meeting Of
the city council of Dawson a new
ordinance regulating the driving of
automobiles was adopted. 1t is as
follows:
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For Leave to Sell Land

State of Georgia, Terrell County
Notice is hereby given to all con
cerned that the undersigned has ap-
Piled to the Ordinary of Terrell coun-
ty, Georgia, for leave to sell the
lands of Mrs. S. A. Lamar, deceased.
and that same will be heard at the
November, 1910, term of the Court
of Ordinary Of Terrell county. Geor-
gia, to be held Nov. 7, 1910. This
Oct. 3, 1910. LUCIUS LAMAR.
Admir-. Sarah A. Lamar deceased
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Tor More Than Three Decndns

Foley's Honey and Tar has been q
household favorite for coughs, colds.
ana ailments Of the throat, chest and
lungs Contains no opiates. Dawson
Drug Co. and Peoples Drug Store.
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A Generous and Charitable wish,

Il wish all might know of the BEN
eht | received from your Foley's
Kidney Remedy" says I. N. Regan,
Farmer, Mo. His kidneys and bIad-
der gave him so much pain. misery
and annoyance he could not work
nor sleep. He says Foley's Kidney
Remedy completely cured him. Daw-
son Drug Co. and Peoples Drug
Store. US
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The Victims Alleged knowledge OF
Crime Committed in Tampa Is Be
Heved by Police to Have Been the
Motive for Commission of Murder.
Prominent People Involved.
ALBANY, Ca, Oct, ia grue-
some murder, motive for which, it
is said, lay in the victims knowledge
of a crime was brought to light here
late yesteday afternoon when the
decomposed body of Ernest Barke-
dale, aged %, a commission mer-
chant of Tampa, Fla, was found at
the bottom OF an abandoned we'll
in the middle of a cotton patch
near Elmodel, Baker county, and
upon the farm owned by Mrs. Joseph
Leary. Joseph Leary, his step-son,
Jesse Hudgins, aged 10; Mrs. Joseph
Leary, mother of Hudgins, and ne
gro, named Lewis, are under arrest
charged with completely in the muir
der, while the police are making a
systematic search for Robert Hud-
gins, a cousin of Jesse Hudgins, who
has suddenly disappeared.
The Chain of Evidence.
A trial of dried blood from the
Leary home to the well, a blood be-
spattered vehicle owned by Leary,
stains upon the clothing of Hudgins,
the suspicious actions of the negro
who brought news of the fact that
the dead man had threatened to
Ind Crir,
forgery of his name while the latter
was in his emplay in Tampa, it
is said, are some of the circum-
stances which led the officers to
take summary action when Banks
dale's body, showing that a load
from a shotgun had penetrated his
head and a blunt instrument had
been used to batter in the skull, was
first discovered.
HUdgins and Leary Arrested.
Hudgins was arrested near the
scene of the crime and Leary was
arrested at his home in the suburbs
of Albany last night. Both are now
in the Baker county jail at New
ton, Hudgins charged with the muir
der of Barksdale and Leary with be-
accessory The scne of the crime
is about thirty miles from Albany
and many miles from the nearest
railroad. 1t is alleged that Hudgins
formerly worked for Bardsdale in
Tampa and got into trouble about
some forged checks. 1t is said he
obtained something like $500 from
Barksdale and when brought to ac-
count settled the matter by giving
a mortgage on his mothers planta-
ton in Baker count. Afterwards
Hudgins and the Learys, who were
living in Tampa. returned to this
part of the country and young Hud-
gins kept bachelor quarters on the
plantation, while Leary and his wife
mother of Hudgins, lived near Al
bany
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For groceries go to Fulton $.
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GRUESOME MURDER IN BAKER
BODY DISCOVERED IN OLD WELL
IN MIDDLE OF a FIELD.
Four Are Arrested For the Crime

The Victims Alleged knowledge of
Crime Committed in Tampa Is Be
Heved by Police to Have Been the
Motive for Commission of Murder.
Prominent People Involved.
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Waste of Death Is Greatly Lessened

is like stopping the waste of life in a
great war. 1t Is equivalent to ward
ing off death $3.50 times every month,
1857 every week, 241 times a day.
1t averts ten deaths every hour, ono
every six minutes day, and night,
from one years end to the next.
If the economic value of the lives
saved by lowering the death rate T.,
the United States-the results of bet
ter and more careful iving-is placed
at no more than an average Of 81 900
apiece, the effect of cutting down the
mortality $1,000 in a year is much
the same as preventing the waste of
$S1, 100000 dealing with this great
economy in human life on the hardest
and narrowest Industrial and com.
mercial basis.
The gradual change for the better
in respect to saving life and warding
off death is not confined to the United
States. 1t is going on in other coun.
tries, also Throughout the civilized
world, there is a general change for
the better in the conditions of liy.
ing and in the chances for life itself
The conservation Of human life is one
Of the great interests and one of the
best signs OF the times.
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Soldier Serves His Country 56 Years

Atlantic. On Governors Island he
married and raised his family. and.
looking northward from his island
home, Robertson has seen the skies
over Manhattan red with the fires Of
the draft riots and watched the trans.
ports which in later days sailed out
laden with troops for distant posses.
sions of the United States. He has
seen the island upon which he lived
grow from the small, unwalled spot
which it was when he enlisted to the
great military depot which it now is.
On Governors Island there still ex.
lists a little graveyard where those
who died in the great cholera epidemic
of 1854 are buried. Robertson was a
young man then and stuck, quietly and
faithfully. to his post.
Two years after the cholera epi.
demic at Governors Island came the
yellow fever epidemic of 1856, which
threw New York into a semi-panic.
Naturally the disease spread to Gov.
ernor's Island. In 1870 there was an.
ether outbreak of yellow jack" among
the troops. One of the surgeons, Doc.
tor Abbott. died of it and Robertson
tended him In his last momenta. an he
had the other victims.
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FitHTiNG THE WHITE PLAGUE
Number of State institutions 10
Double During the Past
Two Years.

Sixteen state sanatoria, 20 county
hospitals and 81 municipal hospitals
for tuberculosis have been erected
and provided for since January 1,
1909, says recent bulletin of the Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis.
Within the last two years the num-
Der of state institutions for tubercu-
losis has doubled, and the number of
county and municipal institutions has
increased from about 80 to 80. The
expenditures of public money for the
treatment of tuberculosis also has
more than doubled Not less than
100000 of state money was apprO
priated for tuberculosis institutions in
1909, when 43 legislatures met, and
over 100000 in 1910, when only II
legislatures were in session. The ap-
preparations of counties and cities for
tuberculosis hospitals and sanatoria
in the last two years will aggregate
fully $2,500,GO0, bringing the total
of official appropriations for tubercu-
losis hospitals up to over 100000
IN the past two years.
In spite, however, of this good show
ing, the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
states that not one-tenth of the pub
lie provision for tuberculosis that is
needed has been made. More than
100000 tuberculosis patients are con.
stantly without proper institutional
treatment.
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when missiles are hurled at the eyrie
and the tree is struck violently. Once
she has taken wing, however, she
flies straight off, and usually takes up
her position on the summit Of a neigh.
boring hill, whence she watches and
waits until the intruders have left the
vicinity of the nest.
The young, when first Matched out,
are white, downy little fellows, and
are very comical to look at For the
best part of fortnight the mother
bird broods them, but after that time
only remains at the eyrie during the
night hours, and for the last few
weeks before the young take wing.
she comes to the eyrie only for the
purpose of bringing food.
During the summer the young
eaglets are taught to capture grouse
for themselves, and, after they are
able to hold their own, are driven off
by their parents, many crossing the
sea and rearing their young amidst
the rocky Businesses of the continent
SETON GORDON.
London, England.
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THAT the United States army is in
ferior in military organization to
the armies of every other large nation
of the world is the sentiment of H. Lee
Clotworthy, military expert, associate
editor of the United States Infantry
Journal, and formerly captain in the
army. He asserts that Uncle Sans
military department is inefficient as a
fighting machine, and that any one Of
the big powers-notably Japan-could
whip the daylights out of US without
half trying
There are 80 regiments of infantry
in the army" he says, "but hardly any
one of them has been modified to-
gether in order to give the men the
proper training. They are scattered
all over the country at various need
less military posts. Consequently, both
officers and men suffer for lack Of ade-
Quate drill. and would be absolutely
unprepared to fight an army of real
soldiers.
There are a great many needless
military posts. OF course, it is neces-
sary to keep men in the Philippines
and Alaska, but not in small towns
The latter type-known to military
men as 'hitching posts'-were estab-
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Expert Offers Criticism of the Armv

Hshed years ago and small towns have
grown up around them.
These posts also are one of the
principal causes Of desertion. A re.
cru1t enlists because of visions about
how grand 1t is to be a soldier. On
arriving at some post, however. he
finds he must be carpenter, a garden.
er, or a telephone operator. At some
stations half Of the men are EMPLOYED
in this way rather than occupying
their time in learning to be soldiers.
Instead of useless military posts,
the army should be divided into large
divisions, located at large central
points. There are only 5000 infantry.
men along the Pacific coast, where the
present situation demands that q
strong force be concentrated.
"At the Golden Gate there are
enough coast defense guns to blow all
the warships of the world out of the
water. Yet, Japan, il she wanted to.
could capture every town along the
coast, without shot being fired, from
Seattle to San Diego. All she would
have to do would be to land her
troops at some unprotected point and
march.
IF the trouble in Mexico, on our
own frontier, had necessitated our
men getting into action, we could not
mobilize full division there within
a month. Even Mexico could teach us
severe lesson.
The war department, however-has
recognized the ineficiency of the army,
and Is taking steps to make it the in
stitution our navy is getting to be-"
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cars of the largest size. That means
about % long trains.
The physical bigness of Uncle Sam
is impressive if viewed from any di-
rection or calculated upon any ba-
sis. If the average consumption of
solid food-bread, meat, potatoes and
other vegetables, cake, pie, fruits,
etc.-is only pound and half day
that means 1876, 100000 pounds. or e.
500 tons, every "a hours.
On the strength gained by such in
roads upon the food stores of the
world the people of the United States
can easily lift 100000 tons at the
same instant. If they walk only
mile apiece in day, which is GER
tainly too low an estimate, the total
is equal to walking three times
around the earth at the equator. and
more than half way around the
fourth time.
There are about 100000 hogs in
the country, but they do not more
than balance the human inhabitants
Of the United States in weight. The
men, women and children outweigh
the sheep, and they weigh fully half
as much as the 100000 horses, more
or less. The people of this country
weigh about as much as the apple
crop, in an average year.
If the clothing worn by the people
of this country averages five pounds
weight. shoes and hats included, of
course, 1t follows that when every.
body is ready to go outdoors the ma.
ton is about 225,OOO tons heavier
than it is when ready for bed. When
Uncle Sam puts on his collar he uses
more than 5000 miles of cloth bands,
without taking Mrs. Sam into &C.
count at ALL
Truly we are big nation. We bulk
tremendously on the scales and I'M
der the tape measure. American
quantity will evidently care for it.
self. Quality requires more attention
in all countries.
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bamboo stick, amongst other things.
at various eyries we have visited.
When the eagles nest on ledge of
rock, it sometimes happens that the
young lose their balance at the edge
Of the eyrie and are precipitated to
the ground below. We had such a
case under observation a few seasons
ago, and were interested to find that
the parent birds constructed a new
nest around the chick at the foot of
the rock. This was in all probability
to warn foxes or other marauders that
the eaglet was still under parental
protection.
The eyrie of the Golden Eagle is a
most substantial structure, and when
one Is built IN q tree it may remain
intact, though untenanted, for great
number of years. 1t is usually the
case that a pair of eagles have two or
three eyries within a comparatively
short distance of each other, and re-
pair them all more or less each sea-
son, though, of course, only using one
to nest in. We have seen, in one Of
these secondary eyries, the remains
of mountain hares, so that they may
possibly be used as larders during the
nesting season. The eagle, when
brooding, is often exceedingly tame,
and refuses to leave the nest even
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7 Asst year the death rate in the
Il United States was probably the
lowest ever known. 1t certainly was
less than the mortality of any other
year since vital statistics have been
collected in a sufficiently large part of
the country to indicate clearly the
general state of the public health.
In 1909 the death rate in states and
cities which contain more than half of
the population of the United States
was almost exactly Is to every thou
sand persons living. 1t was not quite
one in the thousand below the aver
age mortality rate of the preceding
five years. The fraction was nine
tenths. That means nine lives in
every 10000 of the population. 1t is
900 In every million inhabitants, or
81, 900 in 90.500,000.
The cutting down Of the death rate
enough to save $1,000 lives in year
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GOVERNORS ISLAND is to lose its
VI oldest soldier. He 10 Sergt. David
Robertson of the Hospital corps of the
army, who has spent Sc years in the
service and now, at the mature age Of
seventy-eight, has been recommended
for retirement upon full pay and al
lowances. 1t will take special bill,
of course, to thus recognize the serv-
ices of Robertson and major generals
and brigadier generals have recon-
mended to the secretary of war that
he present to congress such bill.
An interesting thing about the long
and faithful service of Sergeant Rob.
ertson is that it has been almost con-
tinually spent on Governors Island.
He has seen generals and colonies
come and go. He was veteran when
'Hancock's Superb" came to take
command of the department OF the
sast and the military division Of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23
Kent Umbrella Thirty Years.

A faithful old umbrella which has
shielded the family Of DR.. James A.
Mullican of Greenwood avenue from
the storms of 80 years, was stolen on
Sunday. During the rain on that day
the physician lent the umbrella to E..
A. Seek, and while the latter was in q
store some one stole 1t.
"The umbrella belonged to my faith
er and has been In the family for
more than thirty years." said Doctor
Mullican the other night. 1T has been
covered several times.
"To persons who are unable to keep
the same umbrella for more than thir-
ty days this may seem incredible, but
it is true" concluded Doctor Mullican
with a smile.-Chicago Tribune.
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WASHINGTON.-How many Amer
w leans realize the huge bulk Of
the population Of their country, in the
same sense that coal is heavy or the
hay crop is immense in cubic feet?
Just as matter of physical bigness,
this Is a great nation, not in posses
sions but in people.
IL all OF the inhabitants of the
United States. grownups and children,
were to lie down in a long line, one
PERSONS head touching the feet of the
one in front, there would be about
$4,000 miles of such human chain.
Ii every American stood up to be
counted, In a long row of men.
women and children, even if they
stood SO close together that they &C.
cupied only foot and a half apiece,
the file would be more than $4,000
miles long. 1t would girdle the earth
at the equator.
Averaging the 100000 people in
the United States. young and old,
adults and babies, at 100 pounds
apiece, the American nation weighs
100000 tons. That is enough to load
l,OOO good-sized steamships with hui
man freight, if it were piled in like
coal or grain, with no regard what
ever for space or air.
II the 100000 Americans. babies
included, drink, on the average, pint
OF some liquid every day, which is an
extremely modest estimate. the peo-
pie OF the United States consume
about $4,000 tons Of water, beer, milk,
coffee, tea, etc.. daily. The quantity
may be twice as great, or even more.
But $4,000 tons would load 900 freight
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Tho Way of Life.

1t Is being said of an elderly man in
business in Atchison: HE can't stand
punishment as he formerly could"
And there is punishment to be en-
dured in making living; don't forget
1t. Look over your own experience,
and you will detect punishment every
hour of the day. If it isn't at home, it
is on the street car or on the road.
How many ways there are to punish
and behave himself. And after man
gets old 1t Is more evident every year
that the poor fellow can't stand pun
ishment as he could when he was
younger.-Atchison Globe.
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RENT FREE.

A young man who is close in money
matters had the good fortune to marry
girl whose parents were quite
wealthy. and he is at present living
with his wife in one of his father-in
laws houses. Not long since, whilst
he was discussing affairs with friend
the latter asked:
did the old gentleman give you
that house?"
"Well--er-no, not exactly" was the
answer. HE offered 1t to me. but
wouldn't accept it."
'How's that?" asked the friend.
WELL" answered the other, you
see. the house really belongs to me.
I'm living in it rent free. and I'll get
it when the old man dies. If alcept-
ed it now I'd have to pay the taxes"
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A TRIBE Famine.

A Triple Famine.
II want to get two pounds Of tripe,"
said the lady, entering the shop.
Sorry, ma'am," replied the keeper.
"but we haven't any tripe today"
mo tripe? Why, it's in season"
"No, ma'am, there's no tripe being
shot just now"
mo tripe being shot! Why, what
are you talking about?"
Il should say, ma'am, that the
fisheries commission won't allow tripe
to be caught now"
"Are you crazy, man? I don't want
fish! l want tripe."
well, what in thunder is tripe,
ma'am?"
"Why-why, I don't know just what
it is, but if you haven't got any I'll try
some other place."
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A BOOK FOR sPoRTsMEN.

Every one interested in hunting
should write for copy of 1910 Game
Laws which contains 100 pages telling
where the various kinds of game
abound, when the seasons open and
close, and what laws govern the hunt
ing and game in each state. This book
can be had free by writing to M. H.
Hartley Co., 299 Broadway, New York,
merely by mentioning the name of this
paper.
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He Knew.

A certain jurist was an enthusiastic
golfer. Once he had occasion to in
terrogate, in a criminal suit, boy
witness from Bala
''Now, my lad" he said, ARE you
acquainted with the nature and sig
nif1cance of an oath?"
The boy, raising his brows in sur
prise, answered:
"Of course l am, sir. Don't caddy
for you at the Country club?"-Suc-
cess.
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His Choice.

Eyes," said the specialist, as hs
stood at the bedside of the miser mil
lionaire, 81 can cure you"
"But what will it cost?" came fee
bly, from the lips of the sick man.
The specialist made a swift men,
tai calculation. "Ninety-five dollars"
was his answer.
Cant you shade your figure lit
tle?" walled the other. "The under
takers bid is much less."-Lppin.
oott's.
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The Happ'

The Happy Man.
ct hear she is to be married. Who
is the happy MANI"
"Her father. "-Lippincott's.
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OF Course She Must.

OF Course She Must.
What time does the dance begin?"
mine o'clock"
"Then we must be there at $780,"
What for?"
81 must have at least an hour in
the dressing room to rearrange my
hair"
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More reforms have been prevented
by friends who demanded them imme-
date and complete, than by foes who
did not want them at all.