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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
Editor StoDaH Lifelong Friend, Calls
on Smith to Go to Senate Znzn7ediQteE

feat even to the last drop.
Now that Hon. Hoke Smith has
been elected United States senator
there can be no further criticism, but
the Savannah Press desires to say
that he must be senator in fact as
we'll as in name. He must resign his
office in Atlanta and go to Washing
ton Immediately. The high commits
sion borne by Troup and Forsyth
and Toombs and Hill and Norwood
must not be worn lightly or waved
aside as a convenience. Right now
there are vital democratic measures
coming up for action in Washington.
Governor Smith cannot sit in
Washington and play politics with
Atlanta and play politics with the
legislature while this state of affairs
exists, He cannot excuse his absence
from the senate by contending that
Senator Terrell's term will last until
he himself qualities.
There is no need for Senator Ter
rell's resigning, but if resignation is
necessary he will resign. Senator
Terrell's position seems to be the
right one.
The responsibility cannot be post
pOned one hour.
Governor Smith will be conspicu-
Gus by his absence. We must say
that the responsibility for Georgia S
lack of representation is upon him.
1t may be that he is anxious to have
his appointments confirmed by the
state senate of Georgia. 1t may be
that he is anxious to enforce his poll
cies which he announced so boldly
in the state campaign.
He cannot be governor and sena-
tor both.
He cannot play with the people OF
Georgia in this way forever. When
one of his defeated opponents, his
lifelong political friend, cengratu-
lated him after his election ne con-
graduated him as United tSates SEN
atOr, and now insists that Hon. Hoke
Smith bear the commission ito Wash.
iugtOn Immediately, else the people
OF Georgia viii say, You have trifled
with our confidence and ignored your
plain duty; never more be officer OF
ours. "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19

and four years later was aboard a
sailing vessel as an able seaman.
During storm he was pitched from
high mast, landing on the deck on
his head.
There was no doctor on board, so
the boy stayed in his bunk until the
ship reached New York five weeks
later. Every bone in his neck was
crushed, but by the time he reached
New York they had started to grow
together. He went to a seaman's re-
treat, but for some strange reason
his case received but little attention.
His arms were paralyzed, but he
gained the use Of them after two
years. Then Malone started cut to
look for a job.
The broken neck gives him no dis
comfort, except that it is stiff, and he
can't turn his head without moving
his body. There is a large lump on
the back of his neck where the bones
have been thrown out of place.
Several years ago Malone went 20
an eye and ear dispensary. A doctor
accidentally twisted his head while
treating sore ear, and Malone ex-
claimed: Look out for that neck;
it's broken!"
The doctors gathered around and
proclaimed it the worst fracture Of
the neck they had ever seen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
CITYWARD MOVEMENT OF WHITES AND BLACKS
WILL NEXT MEET IN DAWSON
MasOns of Second District Will Hold
Their Convention Here a Year
Hence. New Officers.

Triton, Ga.-The eighth annual
convention of the Masons of the Sec
.ond congressional district adjourned
Thursday afternoon after a two days
session. Dawson was selected as the
place for holding the next meeting
on the second Wednesday in July,
1912.
The following list of officers were
elected: G. L. Blalock, Triton, wor-
shipful master; D. NJ. Rodgers, Pei
ham, deputy master; R. L. Wyley,
Thomasville, senior warden; T. F.
Cordray, Blakely, junior warden; B.
F. Brimberry, Albany, secretary and
treasurer; J. E. Hall, Albany, senior
deacon; j, l.. Robinson, Funston,
junior deacon; w. J. Warren, tyler;
R. j. Nettles, Gay, ]. S.
The attendance was the largest at
any district meeting yet held, over
200 delegates being present. T. F.
COrdray, acting master, presided
The address of welcome was made by
Rev. j. Reamy, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Triton, and the re-
spouse by j. W. Peddy of Dawson.
Dinner was served both days and
supper last night in the large ware
rooms of the Farmers Supply Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
IDENTIFIES HER ASSAILANr
She Says a Negro Who Is Now in Jail
at Fort Gaines Is the One Who
Attacked Her.

1t is thought that the negro who.
attacked Mrs. Marion Shellhouse last.
week has been captured.
A strange negro claiming to be an.
inspector of rural mail routes was 1r-.
rested last week in Clay county or.
tampering with mail boxes and jailed
lat Fort Gaines. .
On suspicion that he might be the
man they were so eager to eapture
Mr.. and Mrs. Shellhouse went to n
Gaines yesterday. Among half a doz-
en- prisoners Mrs. Shellhouse prompt
~ pointed out the suspected negro as
the man who had laid violent hands
on her.
AS Uncle Sam may want him also
1t is not known now what disposition
will be made of the negro who is i'm
Fort Gaines Jail
1t is thought that it would hardly
be safe for him to be brought to
this county.-Cuthbert Leader.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
SAFETY IN THUNDER STORMS
Simply Avoid Becoming Most Con-
spicuous Object in Landscape.
Things Not to Do.

That a draught serves always as
one of the surest conductors of light
ming was proved most conclusively
the other day when a PENNSYLVANIA
miner working $500 feet under
ground and unaware that storm
was raging was struck by a bolt
which followed the intake of the air
current The slightest of influences
attracts or defects lightning from an
object, something which few people
really seem to comprehend.
The incident of the miner. com
ments a New York newspaper edito-
rally, makes timely statement of
the conclusions reached by a British
investigator of conditions of safety
in tbunderstorms. The main thing
when out in the fields is to avoid be-
coming the most prominent object in
the landscape. Farmers are fire.
quentiy struck, and caution is indi-
Gated for golfers on the links and for
persons in boats or canoes on lake or
river. There is relative safety in
clump of trees, but danger under an
isolated tree. The same conditions
apply to isolated huts or outhouses.
AS secure refuge as can be found
is house in row Of uniform hight.
These conclusions only repeat the
old Roman poets observation tha9
the tallest pines are first struck"
One precaution not always observed
is to avoid sitting by an open win
dow or fireplace or near a gas or
electric fixture during a storm. Swiss
guides on mountain tops remove
their hobnailed shoes and discard
their alpen-stocks at the approach of
thunderstorm.
A more intelligent use of dssa4non
sense precautions of the kind would
reduce the very slight individual risk
of being struck and increase the con-
fidence of those to whom the fear of
lightning amounts to an obsession.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
MAIL CARRIER is IN TROUBLE
Mr.. Jacob G. Newkirk of One of
Shellman Routes Is Held in Jail
Under Serious Charge.

The following from the Columbus
Enquirer-Sun will be read with in
terest here, Mr.. Newkirk being well
known throughout this section:
Jacob G. Newkirk, a rural mail
carrier in Randolph county, was ar
raigned before United States Com
missioner n. A. Brown yesterday
He was charged with having receiv-
ed money from a citizen along his
route for the purpose of purchasing
a money order. He failed to deliver
the order as requested. An investi-
cation of the case was instituted,
which resulted in his arrest upon the
charge of having applied the money
to his own use. AS a consequence
a warrant was sworn out for him and
he was arrested by Deputy Marshal
Blue. At the preliminary hearing
yesterday before the commissioner he
was bound over to the next term of
the United States court under bond
of $500, in default of which he was
committed to jail"
Mr.. Newkirk, who is a former res
ident of Dawson, has many friends
who will regret to learn of his troub-
lie, and hope that he will be able to
make satisfactory showing for him
self.
He was the carrier on one of the
Shellman routes, had held the posi-
ton for several years, and gave eff
cient and satisfactory service.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19

Savannah Man Says in Editorial That
the Governor Cannot ''PIay With
People of Georgia Always. Cannot
Be Governor and Senator Both"
SAVANNAH, Ga,-What is believ-
ed to be Pleasant A. Stovalls "dec-
laration of independence" of Hoke
Smith has appeared under the cap
ton, ''Hoke Smiths Plain Duty as
an editorial in Mr.. StovaIl's paper,
the Press:
He declares in effect that Smith
should have declined the senatorship,
but now that he has it should get
on the job at once. He says:
'The Savannah Press feels that a
word is due to it's readers about the
recent contest for the United States
senate in Atlanta. At least thirty
aof his friends in the general assembly
who had supported him in his two
races for governor voted against
him in the legislature because they
felt that he ought to remain in the
gubernatorial chair. They consider
Gu IudI Ills acceptance aOl the ONCE OIL
governor of Georgia was an implied
contract with the people, and that
when he took the inaugural oath on
the first OF July he was bound to re-
main in the governors chair for the
full two years. They felt that his
presence was necessary to enforce his
progressive policies and that he
should not break faith with the peo-
pie who had nominated him for the
high position.
''They realized, furthermore, that
his resignation at this time would
bring OF great confusion in political
affairs.
THE candidacy of Mr. Pleasant A.
StovaH Of Savannah was a protest
along this line The Savannah Press
had always been a supporter of Gov
ernor Smith. Mr.. Stovall believed
that his candidacy would be point
ed protest against this condition, and
in spite Of pressure to the contrary
he followed up his candidacy to the
end, and foreseeing the inevitable
was content to drink the dregs of de-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
TALIEST WOMAN TO WED.
Miss Powers Is Seven Feet Tall and
the Man Is Over Six.

Mary Ellen Powers, for years Bar
NUNS tallest woman, is to be mar
ried to Maurice T. Stapleton of Lock
port, n Y, one of the tallest men in
the vicinity.
Miss Powers is owner of local real
estate. She is seven feet in height.
Stapleton is over six feet. About
three years ago Miss Powers and Mr..
Stapleton were to be married, but the
event was called off on the morning
set for the ceremony. No reason was
given.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
PROHIBITION IN 8 STATES
EFFORTS BEING MADE TO RE-
PEAL LAW IN TWO OF THEM,
Trials of 1t Being Made in Other Six.
States That Have Made Expert
ments and Tired of 1T.

GNAlO vi 1As
WASHINGTON.-There are now
eight states in the union in which
state wide prohibition exists. With
the exception of Maine all of them
are trying the experiment for the
first time. They are Maine, North
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Ten
nessee, Oklahoma, Kansas and North
Dakota. Oklahoma is demanding a
special election to repeal constitu-
tional prohibition some time before
the next general election. At the
last election in Maine Governor
Plaisted and a wet" legislature
were elected on resubmission is
sue.
Maine adopted prohibition in
1876; repealed it in 1856; readopted
lit in 1858, and again is demanding
the repeal.
Vermont went dry in 1852, and
maintained most drastic prohibition
laws for fifty years. The laws were
repealed in 1902, with the repre-
sentative men of the state support
ing the repeal
New Hampshire adopted statutory
prohibition 1855, and on March IS,
1908, passed a license bill by a vote
of PA to 107.
Massachusetts tried prohibition
from 1855 to 1870.
In 1853 Rhode Island adopted
prohibition, and repealed the law in
1868. In 1886 she adopted prohibit
ton again, and at the polls in June,
1889, the people rejected it by ma
jority of 1887 out of a total vote
of less than $4,000.
Connecticut placed prohibition in
the organic law of the state as early
as 1854, but gave up the experiment
in 1872.
New York also passed prohibitory
laws in 1854, and after two years
trial repealed them as hopeless of
enforcement
In 1855 Maryland adopted prohi-
bition, but repealed the law four
months later.
The same year Delaware tried pro-
hibition, but gave UP the attempt to
enforce the laws in less than two
years.
Michigan for twenty-five years, by
most extraordinary police laws, tried
to enforce prohibition and failed.
The state went dry in 1853 and wet
again in 1875.
Nebraska adopted prohibition in
1855, but repealed it the same year.
! The legislature of Illinois enacted
a prohibitory law in 1855, but the
law was so unpopular that the peo-
pie repudiated it and it's champions
at the polls in the fall of the same
year.
Iowa saw the inception of state
wide prohibition in 1884 after a trial
of partial prohibition since 1855. In
1893 the Iowa legislature enacted
the mulct law, which has the effect
of local option in communities where
prohibition is not desired by the ma.
jOrity.
Kansas adopted prohibitory laws
in 1882, and is still in the dry col
umn.
Tennessee is dry by statute.
North Dakota adopted prohibition
in 1883 by scant majority of 1,15s
South Dakota went dry in 1889
but the state returned to license il
1886.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
HOUSE COMMITTEE NAMED FOR
CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTTONNEN

as the result of the 1910 census.
Mr.. Hall of Bibb is chairman Of
the committee, and the state at large
is represented by Messrs. Hall, Bur-
we'll, Baker and Bower.
The Second district is represented
by Mcintyre of Thomas and Payton
of Worth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19

sale Intoxicating liquors in commune
ties where state or local laws forbid
the sale Of such liquors."
The other bill would make it I'M
lawful TO collect receipt for a spe-
cial tax for carrying on wholesale or
retail liquor business in states where
the laws forbid the sale Of intoxi-
cants.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
MR. RODDENBERRY INTRODUCES
TWO BILLS TO KEEP OUT LIQUOR

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Two bills
aimed at the traffic of intoxicants
into dry" states from other states
were introduced today b. Represent
alive Roddenbery Of Georgia.
One Of them would prohibit the
use of the mails for the purpose of
advertising, soliciting or Offering for
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
LIVES WITH NECK BROKEN
WAS TERRIBLY INJURED ON a
SHIP 48 YEARS AGO.
Edmund Malone, Now 81, Says He
Owes Life to Fact That No Sur
gicaI Aid Was Near.

Having lived forty-eight years
with a broken neck Edmund Malone,
67 years old, of Brooklyn, claims a
record. He says he owes his life to
the fact that there was no surgical
aid near when he sustained the terri
BILE injury.
For two years after the accident
the upper part of his body was par
alyzed, but after recovering from
that he enjoyed fine health every day
up to a few months ago.
AT the age of Is Malone ran away
to sea from his home in Ireland. In
physique he was almost man then,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19

ATLANTA, Ga.-Speaker Holder
quay appointed the house committee
VI 5n superintendent, to which will
w. referred all reapportionment bills
TTqlrlng the tenure of the legislature.
Iue committee will have to deal both
W. WIN the legislative and congression-
a reapportionment of the state
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST.

Terrific Floods Are Raging Through
Europe With Heavy Losses.
q A Vienna dispatch says: Terrific
mods are raging in Moldavia. Three
owns are inundated, and hundreds
VI lives are believed to be lost.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-19
80 DEATHS FROM HEAT.
Hot Weather Is Claiming Many Vic
tins in New York City.

Notwithstanding a drop in the
mercury marking the recession of the
heat wave there were thirty-six
deaths Wednesday r'buted to the
heat in the metropolitan district of
New York.
The Falls City tribune., 1911-05-26
MAKES HIGH DIVE
FROM BRIDGE
Omaha Man Takes Eighty Foot
Plunge Into Missouri.

Omaha, Neb., May 24.-0scar
Holmes walked part way out on
the Douglass street bridge, calm.
" lighted a cigarette and jump
ed over the rail into the Missouri
river yesterday afternoon. Rela'
tiyes said it was an attempt to
take Lis life. Holmes was pulled
from the river. He disclaimed
suicidal intent.
No sooner had the spray caus-
ed by hte eighty-foot plunge set
tied than persons on the bank
saw the man struggling to save
himself. He swan a few feet
toward the shore, then, turning
over on his hack, he floated with
the stream.
Men on the shore, who were
following The man down the
river, heard him shout for help.
Fred Kim, an employee at the
city garbage plant, put out at
II Holmes in a skiff, rescuing
him after Holmes had sunk for
the first time from exhaustion,
Il mile from the place where he
had made his spectacular leap.
Relatives who appeared at po-
lice headquarters declared that
he ad BEEN respondent because
Of domestic troubles.
Holmes htd been living with
his mother, Mrs. c. Blackson
1878 Grace street, for the last
week. An effort had been made
to effect a reconciliation with
his wife. It failed, the relatives
said, and she returned to their
home in David City, Neb.
The Falls City tribune., 1911-05-26
USES UMBRELLA ON NEGRO
ASSAILANT.
Sixteen ear-Old Omaha Girl
Successfully Defends Herself.

Omaha, May "a Using her
umbrella as a weapon Of defense
Miss Vesta Shirley, aged 16, last
evening put up a desperate fight
against a negro who tried to as
sault her at Twenty-fifth and
Evans street. F'rightenen by the
girls screams the negro finally
ran east on Evans street and dis
appeared. =
AS soon as the police were no.
titled a general alarm was sent
cut from police headquarters.
Miss Shirley is employed by
the Nebraska Telephone Co. She
was on her way home when the
attack was made. She boarded
a car and left it at Twenty-fourth
and Evans street. The negro,
who was riding on the rear plat
form, also left the car and fol
lowed her. At Twenty-fifth and
Evans street he hurried forward
and asked the young woman if
she could direct him to Bristol
street. She gave the negro the
information and he sprang for
ward, grabbing Miss Shirley by
the throat.
The Falls City tribune., 1911-05-26
TRIES GUN AND DYNAMITE
Nine-Year-Old Boy of Broken
Bow Shoots at Teacher.

Broken Bow, Neb., May "a. =
The nine-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Sloggett a few weeks
ago took a revolver to school,
shot at the teacher, and later
was found with a stick of dyna-
mite near school. 1t is believed
his intention was to try to blow
up the building. He hid in a
warehouse of a local grocery firm
recently and threatened to knife
the clerk who ordered him out.
Sunday morning he broke into a
local store, took some tobacco
and candy. Clerks, who were in
the store at the time hidden.
took him to his father, who
promises to send the boy to the
reform school,
The Falls City tribune., 1911-05-26
FOOD PACKAGES MUST BEAR
WEIGHT MARK

Lincoln, Neb., May 23.-In the
supreme court the state today
won four out of five pure food
cases brought to test the net
weight clause Of the food and
drugs act passed by the legisla-
ture of 1909
The suits to compel branding
the net weight on biscuit and
lard package were won and the
Judge reversed the decision in
regard to cottolene owing to &
defect in the statute. x cura.
tive act was passed by the last
legislature.
Deputy Attorney General Ay
res and Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Edgerton conducted the
cases for the state.
The Falls City tribune., 1911-05-26
SLAYER OF JUDGE LYNCHED
Tennessee Negro Taken From Of.
ficers by q Mob.

Nashville, Tenn, May %. =
After he killed Judge David f.
Barry Of the Summer county
bench, and the Barry cook, to-
day, James Sweat, a negro, was
taken from officers by a mob and
lynched. Judge Barry interfered
in a quarrel between his cook
and Sweat at the Barry home,
near Gallatin early today. Sweat
killed the cook, then turned the
gun on Judge Barry and instant
ly killed him A posse rounded
up Sweat in a barn. He shot
from a window, hitting Constable
James Barnes. The mob then
closed in on the negro and cap
tured him.
The Falls City tribune., 1911-05-26
HUNTERS MAKE A MISTAKE
Shot at a Can of Nitro Glycerine
Which They Thought Was
Muddy Water.

Mukogee Okl., May 22.lGlar-
enee Henderson, bookkeeper in a
bank at Beggs, Ok, is dead and
Edward Bright, son of a promin-
ent real estate man of the same
place will die as the result of
mistaking a quart can of nitro
glycerine for muddy water.
The young men were hunting
today when they discovered the
can Of explosive under a boulder.
They placed it on top Of the
rock and one of them fired into
it with a % calibre rifle. Hen
derson was so badly mangled by
the resulting explosion that he
died within an hour. Bright's
body was cut in more than a
hundred places by particles of
the can and of the rock on which
it stood.
He crawled to a farm house a
mile away and told of the acct
dent. A physician picked thirty
five pieces of tin from his body
and located sixty-five more which
we're too deeply embedded to be
reached. There is no hope for
his recovery
The accident occurred in the oil
fields and the nitro-glycerine had
been hidden by well shooters
when they quit work last night.
The Falls City tribune., 1911-05-26
JUDGE ORDERS MAN TO KISS
WIFE ONCE EACH DAY

Atlanta Ga, May % Be
cause her husband refused to
see her upturned lips ready for a
kiss Mrs. T. K. White had him
arrested aid brought before
judge Orr Tor settlement of the
domestic differences, Mrs. White
pr ,ferring tie charge of mistreat-
ment and abuse.
He instructed the husband to
give her at least one kiss a day,
while a few thrown in for good
measure would not be out of the
way. Then he dismissed the
ease.
The Falls City tribune., 1911-05-26
STARvES MARKET
TO HOLD PRICES
NORRIS CHARGES PAPER MA
KERS WITH RESTRICTING
PRODUCTION

Washington, May Exchanges
that the American newspaper
publishers association are COM
PEELED to pay higher prices for
their news print paper, because
the International Paper company
is in practical control of the in
dustry in this country, were made
today at tie Canadian recipro-
city bill hearings before the sen
ate fianee committee by John
Norris, representing the Ameri-
can newspaper publishers asso-
citation. The paper-makers, Mr..
Norris said, have made obvious
efforts to restrict production and
to starye the print paper market
in order to maintain high prices
at an agreed figure, have sold
paper abroad cheaper than in
this country and have arrayed
themselves against open prices
and against public quotations.
In an effort to prevent such
secret fixing Of prices, Mr.. Nor
ris said he had made offers to
buy paper and to pay cash for it,
but that only two mills out Of
fifty in this country had sold to
The reason for this refusal,
he claimed, was hat the paper
makers did not want q public
quotation of their prices as he
would have sold the paper at
auction, thus making the prices
public.
The Falls City tribune., 1911-05-26
LA TOILETTE WANTS
LORImER BUSTED
Martin Introduces Resolution Of
Inquiry In Senate.

Washington, May %. = The
"Lorimer case again was to the
fore in the senate today. A re-
solution Of inquiry offered by
Senator Martin, the democratic
leader, intended rs a substitute
for the La Toilette and Dillinghal
resolutions, and a continuation of
3 speech by Senator La Toilette
furnished the features. Mr.. La
Toilette was still speaking when
the senate adjourned. lie gave
notice that he would continue his
remarks tomorrow, when he
hoped to conclude his plea for a
reinyestigation of the bribery
charges.
Mr.. La Toilette reviewed the
recent proceedings of the Illinois
legislature. He said he was con-
WINGED there was still more testi-
mony to be adduced.
"The people of the country, ;"
said he, rejected our former
verdict as if by one voice. Moth
ing ever is settled until it is
settled right. 1t is Gods eternal
justice, pulling to make things
plumb