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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
MRS. EDWARDS AND CRIME
NEW GOVERNOR TO SAY WHETH-
Err SHE SHALL HANG.
Sensational Case With a History

Tener's Predecessors Have Passed 1t
Up, and Now 1t Remains to Be
Seen What He Will Do. Woman
and Negro Killed Husband.
HARRISBURG, Pa.-Among the
legacies Governor Stuart will leave
for John K. Tener, his successor,
when he Tetires from office next
month is the disposal of tho case of
Mrs. Kate Edwards, who is in the
Berks county jail under sentence of
death for the murC or of her husband
about nine years ago. Because of
the public sentiment stirred up at
the time of her conviction against
hanging a woman two governors
have passed up her case to their sue
cessors.
Mrs. Edwards and negro named
Gleason were arrested for the MUIR
der of her husband. The negro was
a paramour of the woman, and the
husband declared he would kill her.
Mrs. Edwards and the negro were
tried for the murder, and Gleason,
on retrial, was acquitted, though
once convicted, but the woman was
convicted and sentenced to be hang
ed.
Governor Pennypacker set date
for the execution, but before the
date arrived an application was
made to the board of pardons for the
communication Of the woman death
sentence to Imprisonment for life,
and on the night previous to me day
of execution Governor Penny acker
reprieved the woman in order that
the board might hear Ter case. The
messenger bearing the governors
respite arrived at the Reading jail
while Mrs. Edwards was still with
the minister who was administering
the last rites to her,
The board of pardons took up the
case and then declined to commute
the death sentence. This was seven
years ago. 1t then rested with Gov
ernor Pennynacker to again fix The
day for MIS-. Edwards execution.
but he never took action. Governor
Stuart has likewise not taken action
and now the case desceuds to Gov
ernor Tener
Meantime Mrs. Edwards has o Gu
pied a cell in the Berks county jail,
and is said to be most exemplary
prisoner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
mind conviction which no figure
could have evoked.
Believes Pole Reached.

AT a point which calculated as
~ miles from the pole, as we paused
to rest, not possessing the strength
to build snow houses, we used the
silk tent. While the Eskimos slept
l took observations. There we brew
ed an extra cup Of tea, prepared a
feast OF pemmican broth, thus using
an extra quantity of our precious
fuel, and ate as much as we dared,
still remaining insanely hungry. My
heart thumped, and pursuing our
march through the icy vastness my
imagination peopled the region with
glorious things.
For a little while I forgot the
anguish of my body OF course 1
vas hungry, thirsty, weak, dizzy
lth faintness, and l made the last
ward marches in delirium. Just
vt l felt then, just what happen
I do not know. There are in
ny note book brief calculations.
Here a snow house was built and
a round of observations taken.
"Unquestionably l believed that
on April 81, 1908, we had reached
the pole"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
PROMOTED TO THE u. S. PEN
South Georgia Negro When Taken
to Federal Prison Didn't Know
Whore He Was .At.,,

VALDOSTA.-Deputy Marshal SUIT
ton went to Atlanta with a negro,
who was convicted in Judge Speer's
court Of robbing two postoffices. The
negro had probably been on the
county changing, and he did not
know what ten years in the federal
prison meant. When Marshal SUIT
ton reached Atlanta and carried the
negro out to the federal prison, with
Its marble halls and white washed
walls. everything looking clean and
Spotless, the negro evidently did not
know where he was eat"
Turning to the deputy marshal he
said; Cap, where is the stockade?'
When informed that he would serve
out his term where he was the negro
was entirely speechless. "I may get
used to it, but this thing don't suit
me much, was his only comment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
BREAKS UP MANY FAMILIES
UNCLE SAM DOES THAT UNDER
HIS IMMIGRATION LAWS.
Secretary Nagel Gives immigration
Statistics For the Past Year. A
Million Foreigners Came.

Million Foreigners Came.
WASHINGTON Secretary NagePs
annual report, sent to the president
today, contains many important rec
concentrations for changes and. i'm
provements in the various bureaus
and branches of the department of
commerce and labor.
Great popular interest attaches to
the immigration and naturalization
OF aliens, and much of the secretary's
report is devoted to the subject.
One of the hardships of the pres
ent immigration laws, Secretary Ma
gel believes, is the separation of fam
lies. In many instances a father is
admitted and his wife and children
are barred out after the pioneer has
made home. The secretary be-
heves that more equitable system
could be found, and says he assumes
1t to be the purpose of the law to
Keep families together and not to
separate them. The secretary sug-
gests that some system by which
inquiry should be made about the
families Of immigrants before faith
ers an sens are admitted should
be put into practice.
While the fiscal year of 1910
brought total of 1,198,O87 immf-
grants to the United States, the pre-
dlctlon is made that the coming year
viii approach the banner year Of
1907, when more than 1,285,OO0 al
lens came in. OF all those who came
this year more than 274,0OO admit
ted they had been assisted by friends
All the immigrants brought a total
OF $28,l97,745 with them, a per cap
tia Of SGT. The bulk of the immi-
grafton continues to be drawn from
southern and eastern Europe. Two
per cent of all who applied for ad-
mission were turned back; PATIO
against 10,411 in 1909. Though no
increase in attempts to import CON
tract labor is apparent 100 aliens
were deported as such. Stricter leg
islation to govern that class of i'm
migration is recommended
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
USED BUNCH 0, FIvEs' ON HER
Husband Doesn't Approve Of Wife's
Holy Roller Religion.

James Spearman Of Ridgedale,
Tenn, created a sensa ton by invad-
ing a Holy Roller meeting and
forcing his wife, a devotee. to go
home. Marching the woman there
he demanded that she prepare din
ner for himself and their six chill
dren. This she refused to do. and
lapsed into trance. The HUSBAND
drew his pistol and fired two shotg
close to the woman S head.
She Immediately came out of the
trance, but discovering that she had
not been shot she again assumed
her dreamy attitude, beginning a
Holy Roller lecture in an unknown
tongue. The husbands patience was
exhausted, and he planted a straight
blow of his fist in the face of the
wife.
She soon recovered, and calling an
officer had her husband arrested
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
DR. COOKS PATHETIC STORY OF HIS TRAVELS

sleep. I envied them. Any one who
mas suffered from insomnia may be
able in small degree to gauge NV
condition when sleep became impos-
slble. TO reach the end of nv Jour
ney became the haunting, ever-pres-
ent goading thought of my wakeful
existence.
How He Figured. %
From the end of the poIa e ght
late in February up to the 81 g, of
April l estimated by variou. 4. b
TENS of reckoning that we had 3
eFed distance which placed P
somewhere over 200 miles from
goal. The sun, because of cloud,
night skies, had not been visible bt
fore, but now it was seen for the
1lrst time at midnight, and it assum-
ed strange shape. I have described
1t as a haze of blue fire, from which
rose luminous foaters. have spok-
en- of the distorted faces which Ieered
at US over the horizon. Sometimes
IN our northward progress these
races laughed, again they scowled.
what the actual configurations were
l do not know
Despite physical lassitude and
suffering which made it painful to
move took observations in a regu-
lar mechanical way. The much-ado
since made about such proofs never
at that time occurred to me or seem
ed possible. Although I had gone
on other expeditions and had per-
formed scientific work such a feat
as this always meant to me the sat
lsfaction of spiritual hunger rather
than a trophy to be laid before geog-
raphers who never stepped out of
the protected circle Of their home en-
VirOnments.
4 never expected that my accom-
plishment of the pole, if I did it.
would be regarded as a thing of
great importance to science, which it
is not.
Il want to be honest in this, and
right here l say that any observa-
lions l took were taken first of all
for my own satisfaction, to check
our line of march. The constant
travelling over miles of ice and the
enduring pain engendered in my
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04

NEW YORK-On the Bowery
Christmas day State Senator big
Tim Sullivan fed 5000 derelicts and
unfortunates in the rooms of the
Timothy D. Sullivan Association,
marking the fifteenth annual limo
thy d. Sullivan Christmas feast.
Big Tim" threw open the doors
himself at II o'clock. There were
three long tables extending the full
length Of the room with capacity to
Iced exactly 80 at a time. There
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
CATS ARE USEFUL.
1000 Wanted by State of Washing
ton to EXterminate Conbers

1000 Wanted by State of Washing
ton to EXterminate Gophers.
Squire S. S. Gilbert of Sharon,
Pa, has received a request from the
state Of Washington for 1000 cats.
The request is made in a letter from
Albert j. RandelI, formerly Of Sha-
ron, but now resident Of Okanagan
county, in the western state. He
writes that he will visit Pennsyl-
yania within month to pick all the
stray cats that can be delivered to
him, for which he is willing to pay
fair price.
Mr.. Randall has associated with
him a number of property owners
determined to rid the country of
gophers that destroy gardens and
farm lands in that section of the
state. Five thousand cats are to be
shipped to Washington by April /.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04

seed was imported from Georgia
The production was one bale to the
acre, and sometimes more. No troub-
lie was experienced with the boII
weevil, but some damage was done
by the army worm.
Plans are being made for planting
a much larger acreage next veal
and more seed will be imported from
the United States. Experienced cot
ton planters from Oklahoma ond
other states express great faitb ~
the prospects for successful cuItiva-
tion of cotton in this district.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
NURSE MARR1Es A LUNATrC. {
Young Woman Ties Up With One
of Her Insane Patients.


A Staunton, Va, dispatch says:
Staunton is used to 1unatics and
their ways, there being more than
1000 of them in the Western State
Hospital here, those who are harm
less and able to take care of them
selves being allowed to come into
town and go about at certain hours
OF the day just as other people, so
that strangers have to ask who is
crazy and who is not, the crazy ones
at large being apparently as sane
as any one.
But Staunton has had new ex-
perience with lunatic. He fell in
love with a handsome woman at
tendant and she with him. AS a
result when he was permitted to
come down town a few days ago
Me attendant came over and met
nm and the two hied themselves
70 the, city clerks office. AS the
clerk does not know a lunatic from
any one else. and as the answers tC
the queries were all made in dine
and ancient form, he issued the ii.
cense. The couple hunted UP. pr
.. F. Gregory, who is Just as inn Z.
cent when he sees a lunatic, and the
knot was tied The pair went away
rejoicing, but, as the sequel shows
to short-lived happiness. Soon af
ter the wedding the bridegroom wa!
taken in charge and hurried bach
to the hospital and the attendant
was discharged
The man in the case was A. III
McGehee, committed from Shenan.
doah county, and gave his age al
"a. The young woman was Miss
Alice Lille of Winchester, aged So
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
DERELICTs ENJOY CHG TINS" BOUNTY
TANDIANY ANNUAL DINNER AND GAVE TO
EACH TICKET FOR PAIR SHOES AND TWO PAIRS SOCKS

we're no chairs, for it was a stand-up
dinner, although there was food a
plenty and stringed orchestra play
ing. 1t took exactly Is minutes for
the first round of Boweryites to get
in, drink, eat and get out. AS they
passed out each man received a pipe
and a paper of tpbacco and a neat
little printed card instructing him
to be present ona Monday, February
6. 1911. Presentation of cards will
entitle the bearer to a pair of shoes
and two pair of heavy socks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
GEORGIA COTTON SEED SUIT MEXICO
MEXICAN PLANTERS PLAN TO NEXT SEASON
EXPERIENCED COTTON GROWERS PREDICT SUCCESS

WASHINGTON, D. Expert
ments in cotton growing in the state
Of Tamaulipas, Mexico, have result
ed so satisfactorily that planters
there are very enthusiastic over the
prospects Of cotton becoming one of
the most profitable crops of the
state, according to United States
Consul Clarence A. Miller at Tam
pico
In the vicinity of Columbus, Ia
maulipas, cotton was grown this
season for the first time Special
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
THOUSANDS OF ACRES IN FIGS
A New and Promising Industry in
Southern Texas.

Fig growing is becoming an i'm
portant industry in south Texas. The
Houston Press Bulletin tells of the
planting of some thousands of acres
n hg orchards during the past year
pr two. There is a ready market
FOR the fruit, it is stated. Some of
the orchardists propose going into
the dried fig business, believing that
they can make money in competition
with the Turkish supply.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
DISTRIBUTOR Of PESTLENcF
DIR. WOODS HUTCHINSON ON THE
COMMON HOUSE FLY.
is a Hustler From Way Back


ness Enterprise, and Is No Longer
to Be Dismissed With a Contempt
nous Shoe. His SpeciaIties.
WAsHINGToN.-At the acom-
munity Comfort" session yesterday
of the American Civic Association
Dr.. Woods Hutchinson delivered a
half humorous, half serious address,
on the question, why Is a Bly?''
mo longer to be dismissed with a
eontemptuous Shoe" but all sinful,
ence to be reckoned with, the fly
Lis hustler from way back, y said
the speaker, land he distributes
samples, Of pestilence, marked b. o.
D.'--Death on Delivery'-withF 8
I lavish hand
We may admire him for his in
I dustfy, pertinacity and business en-
terpri$e; we may even love him
lukswarmly -as one OF Gods Great
ures; but we had better wipe him
+. gently bat firmly out OF. existence
Ejust the same. He fs the best trav-
telling salesman known, carries grip
ION each of his six legs, and a tSunk
an his head. His line Of samples is
extensive. and will last from time to
eternity. He is more of nursery.
man and tree agent than anything
else, the only one whose seeds and
cuttings bear blossoms and fruit
equal to the pictures in the cata-
logue. In fact, they bloom. never
| fading-on the other side of the Jor-
! dan, or rather translate you to bloow
! there"
Among the specialties Of the fly
Dr.. Hutchinson mentioned:
Bacillus Typhosus (Eberth) :,
hardly perennial, seldom known to
winter, kills even in Alaska, heavy
crop, produces $4,000 deaths annu-
ally in the United States; value of
lives destroyed 500, 900, 900. One
fifth of all who grow blossom rose
colored, all over abdomen and chest
Fruit, cherry red, deepening to black
all through the intestines. No DIFF
/ ficulty in disposing of the surplus
to your neighbors A splendid vari-
ETY. for both city and country trade.
Strong, well rooted specimens, care
fully selected from sewer mouths.
now ready for delivery, F@O. F.
Free on Food"
He continued in the style Of a seed
catalogue, describing Cytroyctes Va
riolae, otherwise smallpox, as a half
hardy annual, now very rare. though
! formerly a great favorite; Bacillus
tuberculosis is a half hardy peren-
! NAL and old favorite, but delicate.
easily sun blistered and will not
grow in strong, rich soils; Bacillus
Shigae, Aorcynes Capsulatus, Ameba
Coli, etc, commonly known as sum-
mer complaint, cholera morbus. choI-
era lnfantum, etc.-a very attract
i've group of quick Towering. tender
ANNALS, specially adapted for kim
dergartens. Colors black and white.
resembling crepe and satin-with
plumes on the hearse. Wonderfully
free boomers, children cry for them.
but seldom after them; crop for 1907
10000 dead babies, value $40 .O00.-
0OO, as guaranteed by the census bu-
reau. No trouble at all to grow. all
mat is needed is a baby a little
dirt, plenty of carelessness, and fies
will do the rest" And so on through
the grim and chastity travesty of a
seedman's catalogue DIR. Hutchinson
proceeded, concluding with this
warning:
A fly in the house is as danger.
Gus as rattlesnake, as filthy as "a
louise, as disgraceful as bedbug.'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
.cLARK'SS7,OOO,OOO HOME.
FORMER SENATOR'S MANSION is
FINEST IN THE WORLD.
Has One Hundred and Twenty-Five
Rooms, and Millions of Dollars
Have Teen Spent in Securing Fur
nishines and Decorations.

Rooms, and Millions of Dollars
Have Teen Spent in Securing Fur
nishines and Decorations.
NEW York William A. Clark's
big mansion at the corner of Fifth
avenue and Seventy-seventh street
has been completed at cost of ST.
100000, and the former senator
from Montana and his fa~A''ly will
move in within the newt few weeks.
= Mrs. Clark I'D their two children,
Andree, Z, and huguette, A, are in
Paris, but will sail for New York
in the next few days.
Senator Clark's residence has
been under construction for eight
years. and is said to be the costliest
pribAate home ever built. The man
sion this year is placed on the tax
books at taxable value of $4,000
900 'Ehe annual taxes on the house
will be 100000. The furnishings
and decorations of the building have
been .ecured at the cost of millions
of dollars, and practically all are
install ga.
Has 121 Rooms.
In he house are 121 rooms and
accord ng 10 experts, no building in
the wcFId carries so much bronze as
has be carried into this mansion.
The gr ind stair case is bronze, and
the mn nerous entrance doors are all
bronze cast solid There are 377,-
600 po,lnds of metal in the conserv-
atory. which projects to the Seventy
seventh street side of the house.
Adjoining Senator Clark's bed
room 5 a library taken from a
French chateau. The ceiling and
woodw )rk are of carved mahogany,
and tn e carver's signature bears the
date "a 1888. Mrs. Clark's suite is
one of the most beautiful in the
house 1t overloOks Central Park.
and WIS designed by Senator Clark
himself her parlor is in panels,
satinwood, from Ceylon, yellowish
white with lustre, exquisitely carved,
with fCWers in the style made popu-
lar by Louis XIV. The boudoir is in
birdseye maple with satinwood cary
ed par:els; the breakfast room and
recepti.on room of the suite are in
plain Mahogany paneling, while the
bedroom is IN Circassian walnut,
carved.
from Pekin to Palace.
For he Chinese room, which will
be use for lounging and for dinners
to Oriental guests, Senator Clark has
reprodiuced a room of the imperial
palace IN Pekin. The decorations
of the interior are of five styles.
Louis AlV, Louis XIV and Louis XVI
predofninate, giving a buoyant piq-
uancy of effect. The billiard room
is Gothic. The most elaborate room
is tbe dining room
In the mansion there will be thir-
ty-onG baths; one of the largest pipe
organs in the world, which was in
stalled at a cost 100000; $4,000
600 worth Of pictures; 100000
worth. of rugs, 500 tons of copper
and bronze and four picture gal
leries5.
Among the sculptors who did the
bronze decorations were st. Gaudens.
Paul Bartlett, D. C. French, George
GRAY Barnard, J. @. A. Ward, r.
Hinton Perry and Alice Cooper.
Hundreds of artists and skilled
workmen have tOiled for eight years
in arranging this modern palace lust
as senator Clark desired it should
be arranged.
The Clarks expect to be installed
in The mansion before the end of
JaEluary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-04
How He Figured.

From the end of the poIa 9,
late in February up to the sl g,
April Z estimated by variou. <
TENS of reckoning that we had 3
cred a distance which placed z
somewhere over 200 miles from
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-21
lspecial TO The Times pispa tch. ]

Lincoln, Ncb.. April 2O-in tho
forthcoming issue of his Commoner,
w. j. Bryan makes rabid attack on
Senator Martin, of Virginia. and says
his selection TO the minority leader
ship OF the Senate is amazing Mr.
Bryan declares Senator Martins record
is Just about as bad as II could be-
and his selection not only stiles the
party. but brings odum upon thoss
who arc responsible for his elevation
lilo charges that Senator Martin is
lacking in ability as speaker, and
says he Will have 10 rely upon some
one else TO present arguments. Spccu-
lating. then, upon tho cause OF MIR.
Martins selection to the leadership,
MIR. Bryan says:
''IIe is a master of manipulation.
He is a machine politicians: Ills phwcr
Is the Same that Aldrich possesses.
lacking Aldrich's ability. 1t Is to
be hoped Virginia, the homo OF so
many illustrious Statesmen. will re-
tire him and send some one TO Wash
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-21
Special 10 Thc T,imca.Disnatch. 4

tSPeclal 10 Inc mcS-DiSpatch1
Charlottesville. Vn., April oo.-Two
Southern intercollegiate records. The
mile and half-milc. were broken at
the dual track meet here to-day be-
tween Penn and Virginia. which
the Quakers won easily by
scoring IS points to IS for the South
orners.
Billy PAUL. intercollegiate record
holder for the mile covered the distance
In i:23 Is. splendid SHOW for so early
III the season, while In the haIf-mile.
Bodley. Il favorItc along with PAUL,
surprised Mike Murphy with mark
Of l:5Si-5. The Olympic trainer said
lie would he satisfied with 2:03, con-
sidcring the track. which was soft
from heavy rain.
brigham. of Virginia.. ran good
race IN the mile. lie hung on close to
Paull until the beginning OF the last
quarter when he jumped in the lead
On the back stretch. PAUL passed
Brigham. and By n ll-ti,ncd sprint.
broke the tape twenty yards ahead of
the Brooklyn lad.
W ole. intercollegiate point winner
Of last year in the two mile, received
an ovation when he fairly raced home
IN this event. full half loop ahead
OF Rumbough and Carr. Though Viz
ginia was unable to capture a first
| place in the track event Todd. tic
| football star. almost ran dead heat
with Brown III the 220-yard dash In
heat OF the 100 dash, the opening
event. he received n bad fall. soaring
his hand and legs
Bordick. high jump intercollegiate
champion. cleared only six feet. In
practice Tuesday he did four inches
better III
Berkeley ana Cook. Of virginia,
maze good showing in the quarter
,niic' although neither secured a point.
Ihcy set tho pace and kept in the lear
until within thirty yards of the tame
ward, OF Virginia. who captured FIRST
place in tho broad jump at tho Penn
meet last spring. was bested to-day
py Mercer. Although the score WAS
resided. tho events were we'll con-
tested Though the track was wet and
heavy, excellent times were made IN
almost every event. an
The meet was over in an hour and ,
half Summary: :,
ioo-yard dash-tfrst. Minds. Penn
syiva MA second. Todd. Virginia. third,
brown. Pennsylvania. Time. l0i-5.
10 yards. hurdlcs-First. c;rant,b
Penna: second, Holladav virg,nia
'hlrd' Ward. Virginia. Time. ZIG az
One mile run-First, PAUL. penn.
sylvania second. Brigham, Virginia
third. Alleyn. Pennsylvania. Time
Ara is
Four hundred and forty-yard dash
FIRST. Smith. Pennsylvania: second,
Wharton, PENNSYLVANIA; third. La
llamme' pennsylvania. Time. 81 As
High iump-First, Burdick. Penn
sylvania; Lane and Ferrior, of Penn