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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15
DESOLATE DEATH VALLEY.
Most Arid Spot Earth, Where Men, With Plenty
of Water, Have Died of Torturng Thirst

| The towering Funeral mountains and
the lofty Panamints that enclose 1t
rise at places to hight of two miles
and intensity the sombre aspect OF
this dreaded depression. Masses OF
rounded pebbles, once the shingle
that rolled with the waves on an old
time beach, strew the bases of the
gashed and SCARED encircling
heights. An unvarying stream OF
salt and alkali water flows into the
bed of the valley from spring in
the Panamints, and continues either
as stream or marsh down the CEN
ter for 100 miles until it reaches the
bottom of the depression. For the
most part the marsh is an impassa-
BILE ara of acrid salt slush, but at
places a crust of salt and sand has
formed, throwing up the sharpest of
cones and pinnacles, divided by the
narrowest of crevices. The points
vary from an inch to yard or more
in hight and make walking impossi-
BILE. During one of the many unsuc-
cessful attempts at utilizing the
great borax deposits of the valley
the borax makers constructed an
eight-mile bridge across the marsh
by leveling the crust with sledge-
hammers. Beneath this bridge is an
unfathomed abyss of salt slime, where
many of the early pioneers found
their graves after insanity and death
had put a merciful end to their ago
nizing torturing thirst.
This sinister region received it's
name in 1857, when a party of 30
gold seekers with their families
made a one-day camp in the valley
and less than half of them survived,
the remainder being overcome by the
heat and aridness. A few escaped
over the Panamints to the bountiful
Californian plains; the others re-
turned to the east. Ten years later
a party of prospectors came across
the camp with its wagons, chains,
yokes, camp equipments and chill
dren's toys; even the tracks made in
the sand by the little ones could still
be traced. The valley is undoubted-
" rich in salts and minerals. It's
MAGNIFICENT geological formations
point to the presence of precious met
als-chunks of silver have been
brought out by daring prospectors,
and 'Scotty's" tale of gold mine
of fabulous richness is not altogether
incredible. But the dangers of the
valley though never adequately de-
scribed are understood to be real by
the most venturesome, and notwith-
standing its possible treasures man
kind is content. to shun it's vicinity
and leave the experience Of it's dread
terrors to the reptile and the spider,
the sneaking coyote and the fierce
untamable wild cat.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15

We get fancy candy at FuIton's.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15
WAS A COURAGEOUS WOMAN
She Was Miner, Elevator boy"
and Machine Hand.

ERIE, Pa.-After masquerading
as a man for two years, performing
arduous tasks in coal mines, machine
shops and paper mills, Alexander
Kozolowska revealed her sex by the
simple process Of fainting.
Alexandra is 20 years old, weighs
1876 pounds and is about 5 feet 6
inches tall. She has earned from 81
to $3.50 d day as a coal miner in the
Ohio fields. She has heated rivets
for $3.50 a day in Philadelphia
boiler shop, and went out on strike
with the union boilermakers. She
was paid $3.50 day for doing a
mans work in an Erie paper mill,
and made as much as $500 per week
working overtime at running drill
press in a manufacturing plant here.
She was paid $3.50 per day for driv-
ing mules in a Pennsylvania coal
mine, a vocation she followed for
three months.
After the death of their baby her
husband began to act queerly and
eventually disappeared. The cour-
ageous woman. believing that his
mind was affected, determined to
find him. She adopted the garb OF
man and worked in New York,
Philadelphia, the anthracite coal
fields. the bituminous fields, and IL
nalIy in the shops at Erie, but so far
has been unsuccessful.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15
A NEGRO LEAPS FROM AN
ENGINE AND SAVES CHILD.
Medal Will BE Asked for Fireman
LoCkett of Gainesville Midland.


ATHENS Soap" Lockett, ne
gro fireman on the Gainesville Mid
land railroad today saved the life
of two-and-a-half year old white
child, daughter of Mr.. John Potter,
two miles south of Jefferson, in 8
heroic manner, the equal of which
is seldom recorded.
On a curve in cut Engineer Tom
Adair, running 80 miles an hour,
saw the tot in the middle of the
track ahead and put on the reverse,
sand and emergency brakes, but as
he saw no hope cried, Lord, have
mercy"
The negro fireman shot out the
window, along the running board
and leaped from the pilot beam. He
grabbed the baby as he dived and
rolled off the track. The rear driv-
ers stopped on the spot where the
baby stood.
A Carnegie medal will be asked
for as a reward to the negro.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15
BEES ON LONG TRAIN RIDE
Wintered in California, They Return
to Utah for the Summer.

SAN DIEGO, Cal.-Hundreds OF
swarms of bees making 20 carloads
in all. are being shipped from south
ern California to Utah on fast ex-
press cars. Like many humans they
have spent the winter in this soft
climate and now are going to the
mountains for the summer, to pc
returned here when the cold weather
comes again.
Enterprising bee keepers in Utah
hit upon the idea that they could get
more results from the busy insects If
they could keep them at work the
season round. A few swarms were
sent to this section for several sea-
sons and were permitted to feed on
orange blossoms and other flowers
which were to be found in profus-
ion. They kept right at work and
showed good condition and large in
crease when the time came to send
them back. In Utah they feed on
alfalfa and white sage and produce
honey at really faster rate than
before.
The industry since then has grown
considerably, and now special ar
rangements have been made between
large honey concerns to ship the bees
back and forth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15

The news that the much exploited
Death Valley "Scotty'' has sold a
share in his mysterious mine for half
million dollars and will at last
disclose the secret source Of his Pc
riodicaT supplies of wealth, has
drawn renewed attention to that re-
gion of desolation. Except for YER
dant little oasis of 80 acres Death
Valley is a veritable type of the IA
bled sheol, the abode of wretched-
ness and despair Everything has
a funereaI aspect of total abandon
ment; in its deserted wildneSs, In
the suffocation and oppression of its
atmosphere, in the wailings of it's
detestable animals and the terror of
it's reptiles, it is picture of the en-
vironment of that last man who, it
is said, will witness in fear and de-
spair the crumbling of his earthly
foothold and the cataclysm of dis
migrating world.
The mountains which rise to a
hight of nearly two miles and shut it
off from the world are rugged and
devoid of verdure; the lOWland is a
salty waste, where only the mesquite,
thorny and gnarled, and the dismal
sagebrush thrive. The scOurging
sand storms, which scar the earth and
keep it a desert, would stif1e growth
of ordinary vegetation even II the
unexampled aridity of this blackened
and SCARED wilderness did not pre-
clude absolutely the existence OF
trees and plants that require moist
ure. For Death Valley is the hottest
and most arid spot on earth. The
California mining bureau has record
ed that men, with plenty of water at
their command, have died there of
thirst, the arid air sapping the moist
ure from their bodies faster than
they could supply it. The only ami
mails that can live in it's parched and
bare vicinity are the horned lizard
and the rattlesnake, the gauntest OF
coyotes and the leanest Of wildcats,
the centipede and the tarantula. In
summer the air is kiln-arid until 1t
contains but one per cent OF humid
ity; well shaded thermometers soar
to 1876 degrees Fahrenheit. Sand
storms choke and stifle every living
and growing thing in their path. A
dusty fog fills the air clear to the
mountain tops and spreads a pail of
of darkness over the valley. Plumes
of dust wave above the cloud masses
and slender, sinuous sandspouts a
mile high go careening down the
valley in the arms of the gale.
Death Valley was formerly the
bed of a salt lake, and it's lowest
point is 200 feet below sea level.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15
YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY
FOR LIQUOR SHIPPED YOU.
Georgia Court of Appeals So Decides
in Case From Jones County.

Georgia Court of Appeals So Decides
in Case From Jones County.
Atlanta, Calf you get con-
signment of liquor you did not order
you may or may not regard it as a
gift, but one thing is certain-you do
not have to pay for it unless you
care to regard it as a moral obliga-
ton.
The Georgia court of appeals has
decided that you can do as you
please in the matter. In deciding
the suit of the Small Grain Distilling
Company of Louisville against Mack
Davis of Wayside, Jones county, the
court has said:
Zone cannot recover for liquor
sold in violation of the law. An act
done in disobedience of the law Gre
ates no right of action at court"
Davis, so the record of the case
shows, received twelve quarts OF
whiskey from the express company
and regarded 1t as gift. When the
liquor company insisted that Davis
owed them $1450 he demurred and
suit was brought in the Jones county
superior court Davis lost and the
case was appealed. The court of APP
peals reversed the judgment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15
M|LKS HIS COWS TO MUSIC
HOW WISCONSIN FARMER HAS
INCREASED YIELD OF HERD.
Plays Sentimental Tunes, Under the
Soothing Influence of Which Milk
Comes Down Abundantly.

SCOUTING influence Oh w ulCh NAlA
Comes Down Abundantly.
1t has been been said that fish
sometimes will be lured into the net
by the soft piping of the fisherman
when all other bats have failed, but
Mr.. Josiah Grant of Wisconsin has
come over to show how the cow can
be prevailed upon to yield more milk
by the playing of music that sympa-
thizes with her poetic soul, says a
London cablegram to the New York
Herald.
Mr.. Josiah Grant is no dreamer.
He believes that most of the unfort-
can be cured" with just the neces-
sary sentimental music to calm their
nerves and restore their placid tenn
permanent.
at is no sentiment" said Mr.. Jo-
siah Grant to a correspondent to
whom he was anxious to explain the
object of his mission to England. "It
is downright business. If | get the
British farmers to listen to me
mean to convince them"
He says he has already convinced
come experts in the United States
and he wishes to carry his benefac-
tons to the old country.
At milking time, according to Mr..
Josiah Grant, the best music to play
is slow, soft tune which will soothe
the troubled nerves of the cows.
Young COWS prefer light compost
lions All COWS like to hear waltz.
They revel in a waltz, but care must
be taken that they do not dance. And
the milk turns sour if they are treat
ed to vulgar music hall air
The wedding march from Lohen-
grin has been found to have a good
effect on many animals and to yield
milk of very superior rich quality
Harmonious are, as a rule, safe to
excite a yield of extra-special, as
they say of the "limmonade" they
make at Ballyhooly. But, mind you,
no orchestras. A full brass band has
been known to send cows speeding
across the meadows, with swirling
tails and voices raised in loud pro-
test, and all the milk scared out of
them.
The great point Mr.. Josiah Grant
insists upon is that the COW is a very
gentle, peace-loving animal Act &C
cordingly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15

There never was a time when peo-
pie appreciated the real merits of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy more
than now. This is shown by the
increase in it's sales and voluntary
testimonials from persons who nave
been cured by it. If you or your
children are troubled with a cough
or cold give it a trial and become &C
quainted with its good qualities. For
sale by D; wson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15
BEEF is GOING UP.
Reached Highest Point in History of
Connections Town.

A Norwich, Conn, dispatch says:
Beef on the hoof has been higher
here than ever before in the history
of the town. A fine Holstein COW
bolted into a large dry goods store
and assembled two flights of stairs
into the cloak department, where her
unexpected appearance and plaintive
believing threw the women clerks
into Mysteries. Recognizing the fact
that she was in the wrong stall she
made for the next flight and it was
with difficulty that the venturesome
animal could be induced to return
to the street.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15

Poor appetite is sure sign of
impaired digestion. A few doses of
Chamberlain Stomach and Liver
Tablets will strengthen your diges-
ton and improve your appetite
Thousands have been benefited by
taking these Tablets. Sold by Daw-
son Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15

1t would surprise you to know of
the great good that is being done by
Chamber1ain's Tablets. Darius
Towney of Newberg Junction, n. B.,
writes: "My wife has been using
Chamberlain's Tablets and finds
them very effectual and doing her
lots of good. If you have any
trouble with your stomach or bow
els give them trial. For sale by
Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-15
Nv AM CARE FREE DESPITE FLOOD
/ play THE BANJO AND
gof9 ruE BONES ABOARD
|, raI, RELIEF TRAINS

r r,Is RELIEF TRAINS
ao,ns. LAZY tearing
y ,o SV feet Of the south end na+o or
.4oo c rev. a wall Of water se,f
orras [[' feet deep and /" hal1
to IN is today bearing down ",
p "i ',ready overfowed area oi
the I alis St. Landry and sew ss
COUP fishes to complete It's
ptne an;p begun a week ago.
Of n [nIn heretofore considered
II N0' sofe from the TorroS
c'Il -.n,5Iv becoming inundated
!, roD quarter of the town o, al, al,
pss. been invaded. All n'e
n' his neighborhood is being
ID .+' or driven down the leVee
r. ~ Ration Rouge. Boats are
I. o sntlt and other preparations
Du. 4So +ownspeople for a hur-
o 3. in the event of the flood
H. s1.' a dangerous depth
r. Much Rescue Work
.oo+ior of the parish being
n, nonulated much rescue WORK
y reouired if the flood reaches
nronortions. Motor boats
. lifts are being concentrated
, nr the government representa-
~ onticipation of urgent neeo
|,am In some instances the Of
uT Eara confscated boats and are
T., n"t hem in readiness. Lieut..
T. ns Who has about cleared the
|tTy around Bachelor and Let's
h IT, NJ refugees, will establish
Quarters here and direct the re-
work. .4b Eoroon.
'ss been severed, a washout on
Tevas and Pacific tracks having
rrod two miles south OF that
| Trims are being operated as
birth as Schwab, a mile this side
iY wasbout. and those OF the
at Morganza who wish
ave are taken aboard the train
,a little flag station. Out or a
,lation of 600 there are twenty
residents who have re-
! TO leave their submerged
* The headquarters of the st.
.inviIle military company was
ID today from here to New
Is.
Driving Stock Ahead.
rmers driving their live stock
vance of the flood arrived here
today from the country around
oche and report there are hun
! of persons marooned in their
IS in that vicinityin urgent need
lief. Motor boats were unable
each that district yesterday oW-
o a series of accidents. Looters
zifs and flatboats are reported
2 reaping a rich harvest in the
lated country. Many houses
which sheir occupants were
ly driven have been broken open
robbed and in some instances
" and vaIuables to considera-
mount taken.
dying from the large families
have passed through the New
S relay station during the past
there is no race suicide in
e COupee parish. One robust
an, with an amazonian build,
iXteen little children strung out
her when she climbed down the
Of a relief train. Mothers with
and nine children are numer-
-mong the refugees.
Negroes Are Happy.
g majority of the negro refugees
pass through here are as happy
'rowd bound for a picnic. When
VI the relief trains pulled into
tati0n here today a negro was
on a pile of household
er loaded on a fiat car picking
10; another rafting a pair of
, and a group Of others dancing
end Of the car.
re than one thousand refugees
passed through New Roads dur
he last "A hours. All tell the
story Of hardship. Most of
nave been rendered penniless,
'Slng nothing now but the
ng they wear.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-11-28
SSNSGSSsSsSASSSSS&SSS GSkSe'SSCSSGSSSSSSSSS
FLASHES
OFF THE WIRE

Ottumwa, Ia, Nov. 21.-The Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railways South
west Limited, between Kansas City
and Chicago, was held up Tuesday by
two bandits between Ottumwa and
Mystic. The men boarded the train
at Mystic and, after robbing the pas
sengers, held them prisoners until the
train entered Ottumwa. The loot
amounted to about $3.50.
Kingston, jamaica, Nov. 22.-It is
believed that more than 100 persons
lost their lives at Montego bay dur
ing the recent hurricane and tidal
wave that devastated parts of the is
land. Forty-two bodies were recov-
cred from the bay Wednesday and
the search continues. The town is
practically swept away.
The towns of LUcea and Green Is
land were devasted, only five out of
300 houses remaining standing in
Lucea.
Gibraltar, Nov. 22.-The United
States cruisers Montana and Tennes-
see arrived here. After coaling they
will proceed to Turkish waters.
Washington, Nov 22.--Charles D.
Hilles again is private secretary to
the president. The chairman of the
Republican national committee has
resumed his position at the White
House, taking the place of Carmi
Thompson, appointed treasurer of the
United States.
Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 21.-Three
persons were killed and twenty in
jured in a fire at the st. George hotel
East Third street, near Main, which
started at midnight Tuesday.
The known dead are: Mrs. Char
lotte Harrington, actress; Joseph
Martin, jewelry clerk; Mrs. Ella Mo
ran.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-11-28
GRAND JURY IND|CTS.
FEDERAL BODY SAYS THREE
RAILROADS PAID 100000
IN REBATES.
O'GARA COAL COMPANY HIT
Government Declares That Steam
Line Officials Own and Control
Stock of Fuel Concern--Sericus
Criminal Charges Involved.

Chicago, Nov 25.-The federal
grand jury here Friday returned in
dictments against the Lake Shore e
Michigan Southern, Big Four and the
Chicago & Indiana Southern railroads,
charging violation of the Elkins act
in the payment of rebates aggregating
over $4,000.
A separate bill charging the receiv-
ing of rebates was returned against
the O'Gara Coal company.
An indictment also was voted
against Thomas O'Gara, president of
the O'Gara Coal company, but not
presented in court with the others.
The three railroads against which
true bills were found are subsidiary
and vital connecting links in the New
York Central system. The inquiry
into rebating charges is aimed at vio-
lators of the Elkins act in their in
dividual as we'll as corporate capac-
ity, and it was stated will involve
many high officials of the New York
Central lines in serious criminal
charges.
The allegations of the indictments
returned are that the O'Gara Coal
company knowingly and unlawfully
accepted rebates from the three rail
roads named on invoices of shipments
of coal from the company's mines at
Harrisburg, ILL.,, to Danville, Ill.
Charge is also made by the govern
ment that the officials of the railroads
own and control stock in the O'Gara
coal company, held and voted in
names other than their own.
Specific charge is made that the
railroads paid over $4,000 to the coal
company in November, 1900, on GER
tain interstate shipments of coal, this
sum representing rebates from the es-
tablished freight tariffs on file in the
office of the interstate railroad and
warehouse commission. At the same
time the Lake Shore road is charged
with paying the coal company $4,000,
the Big Four $500 and the Chicago
e Indiana Southern $S85.83
The criminal charges against the
three railroads and the O'Gara Coal
company grew out of an investigation
Dy the Interstate commerce. COuHlS-
sion, through James S. Harlan, re-
garding a payment of $4,000 to the
coal company, which was not satisfac-
torily explained by officials Of the
roads involved in the payment.
District Attorney James H. Wilker-
son was instructed to assemble evil
dence bearing on this transaction and
lay the matter before the United
States grand jury.
The indictments followed the testi-
mony before the grand jury of r. M.
Huddleston, general auditor of the
New York Central lines; George M.
Glazier auditor of the Lake Short
line at Cleveland, and Secretary w.
A. Beaverton of the O'Gara Coal Co.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-11-28
FOR WAR.
AUSTRIAN CALLS SIX ARMY
CORPS TO coLoRs AS SER
WAN CRISIS ARRIVES.
PEACE CONDITIONS DRASTIC
France Warns Turks Against Doing
Violence to Observation-Disclosures
Acts of Butchery Laid to Servians
Slaughter Women and Children.

London, England, Nov. 25.-Three
classes of the Austrian reserves have
been called out, says the Chronicles
Vienna correspondent. About 100000
men, he says, have been massed
around the Servian frontier and steady
preparations are going forward IN
Galicia. 'It is reported that the Don
Cossacks have been modified and that
the Russian authorities are holding all
available rolling stock on the lines
running to the Austrian frontier" says
a dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Vienna.
London, Nov 23.-Nazim Pasha,
holding by desperate effort the de-
tense lines of Tachatalja and fighting
within his rapidly dwindling ranks
frightful epidemic of cholera, was no
titled Thursday by the government at
Constantinople that the Bulgarian pro-
posals for an amistice had been re-
jected and ordered to resume opera
tons at once Thus the Turkish army
must fight on to decisive end.
This note was made public by the
porte:
THE porte, finding the Bulgarian
conditions for an armistice unaccept-
able, has ordered Nazim Pasha to re-
sumo military operations"
There is still strong possibility OF
the Bulgarians making an entry into
Constantinople and the powers are
again considering action to prevent
such an eventuality. France took the
initiative by notifying the Turkish
government that she would hold Tur-
key responsible for any violence,
against Christians.
Vienna, Nov 23.-Lieutenant Wag-
ner, the war correspondent Of the
Reichspost, telegraphed Thursday that
while at Nish he heard well-nigh in
credible details of the barbarities COM
mitted by the Servian troops on the
Albanians. A Red Cross doctor with
the SerVian army told him:
THE Servians gave no quarter. All
the Albanians, armed or unarIned, as
we'll as the women and children, who
fell into their hands, were mercilessly
killed General Stepanovitch, the Ser
Wan commander, had the Albanians
captured at Kratova formed into two
rows and shot dead with machine
guns, the general saying:
eve must extirpate those Austro-
Hungarian favorites.'
General Zivkovitch also had $50
Albanians and Turkish notables cut
down near SienitZa.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-11-28

They pay the waiter for the priv
ilege OF being served at all, after
paying the head waiter to get table
II the restaurant is full They pay to
have their hat and coat kept for them
during the meal, pay for getting a
taxicab and after it is over and pay
the chauffeur for the privilege of rid
ing home with him in a cab for which
the company has had to pay the hotel
license fee for the right to use the
public streets, says the New York
World. From the time they enter
restaurant until after they have left
1t they are subjected to numerous di-
rect taxes, in addition to the indirect
taxes imposed for music and marble
corridors, which are but ill-disguised
in the exorbitant prices charged for
the food. Why should not the Hotel
association round out the system of
petty extortion by charging for admis-
sion?