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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
PlCKETT'S BILL WILL PASS
Measure to Rotate Superior Court
Judges Is Said to Have Some
Strong Supporters.
mentioned

The Atlanta Journal, in reporting
legislative gossip, says of one of the
measures that has been introduced
by Mr.. Pickett of Terrell and Mr..
Shepard of Sumter:
There appears to be strong
probability that the bill to be intro
duced by Representative Pickett of
Terrell and providing for the rota-
ton of superior court judges from
one circuit to another will become a
law at this session of the legisla-
ture
"Mr. Pickett stated Friday that he
was at present studying the laws Of
New York, South Carolina and other
states which provide for the rotation
of judges, and that as soon as he
could prepare a bill which would
meet the peculiar needs of Georgia
as well as typify the latest progress
in judicial reform he would intro
duce it in the house.
"A number of the leading men,
bers Of the house have signified their
Intention to support the measure"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
THE BLUE AND GRAY MEET ON
THE FIELD WHERE THEY FOUGHT

even the halls, lodge rooms and 9th
er public places will have to be used
as sleeping quarters. Food will be
hard to obtain, for while ample pro-
vision is made for the veterans visit
ors must depend upon private re-
sources.
That among the veterans, whose
ages range from 70 to sc years, there
will be sickness and even deaths is
very certain. To care for the cases
of sickness the United States govern
ment has erected a mammoth field
hospital, fully equipped, and in addi-
ton to this Pennsylvania will con-
duct several hospitals there. Even
provision is made in case of death.
Hundreds of collins have been shipp-
ed to Gettysburg, and it is estimated
that of 10000 or $4,000 confederate
and union veterans who will be pres
ent many hundreds will never re-
turn home alive. This is the grew
some thought in connection with the
peaceful living celebration of a past
conflict.
The principal events of the cele-
bration will be held July 1, 2, 8 and
4, but in order to avoid congestion
of traffic on the railroads and con-
fusion at Gettysburg the camp was
opened Sunday, June 20.
Today will be veterans day, and
appropriate exercises will be held un-
der the joint direction of the Penn
sylvania commission and the COM
manders-in-chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic and the United Con-
federate Veterans.
July will be military day, when
the exercises will be under the direc-
ton of the chief of staff of the United
States army.
July will be civic day. The gov
ernor of Pennsylvania will direct the
various exercises and governors OF
many states will participate.
July 4 will be one of the greatest
days of the encampment and will be
patriotic throughout. President Will
son will be the orator and the day
will wind up with a display of fire
works.
After the principal exercises July
the veterans win have the time to
themselves and will hold reunions
and make excursions to various
points on the battlefield. The last
meal will be served at breakfast on
Sunday morning, and the camp will
come to an end.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
TREPIDATlON IN AMERICUS
Grand Jury Convened Monday to In
vestigate Lynching of Redding.
Chief Barrow Dies.

AMERICUS, July THAT a feel
ing of apprehension prevails among
those parties who took part in the
lynching of the negro Redding here
on the night of June Dist is very evil
dent in view of the fact that Judge
z. A. Littlejohn called the grand
jury of Sumter in special session to
investigate the atrocious affair. This
grand jury, which met yesterday, is
one of the most vigorous that has
ever done duty here, and that several
of the participants in the lynching
will be indicted for the crime there is
little doubt.
Chief of Police Barrow, who was
shot by the negro Redding, the lat
ter being later lynched for the kill
ing. died at IL O'Clock Friday night
of his wounds.
No hope hade been held out for
Chief Barrow from the first. He was
shot down by his own gun, which the
negro wrenched from him while un-
der arrest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
WOMAN LOBBYIST REGISTERS
Mrs. Smith Names Measures Before
the Georgia Legislature in Which
She Is Interested.

ATLANTA.-The first woman lob
byist to register under Georgia,s far
famed anti-lobby law called at the
office of the secretary of state today
and furnished him with list of the
measures in which she is interested.
Neither did she hesitate to use the
term lobbyist. Her application for
registration reads as follows:
81, Mrs. E. B. Smith, do hereby
apply for registration as lobbyist
at this session of the legislature, be-
ing interested in the following bills"
Then follows a statement of the
measures in which she is interested
and which include those for the crea-
ton of the new county of HanseH,
the compulsory education bill, the
kindergarten bill and bills regulating
child labor and providing for vital
statistics. Mrs. Smith is well known
advocate of organized labor in At
lanta, and has long been one of their
best workers. There is no question
but that she will put in some good
work for the measures which she has
mentioned
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
INTERESTING LEGAL QUESTION
Where in Ceremony Does Man and
Woman Become Married?

Just where in the marriage cerc-
mony do man and woman become
husband and wife? An Ohio judge
decided the question and then sus-
tanned motion for a rehearing of
the case in which it arose. 1t was
shown in the hearing that both the
man and woman had answered Il
do" The man fell dead while hold
ing the woman's hand just as the
ceremony was being completed. She
claims she is his widow. Other heirs
of the man claim she isn't. The ques-
ton is interesting. If the knot is
safely tied after each has said 81
do" then the woman's opportunity
to back out is gone when the fatal
two words are twice said.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
BOIL WEEVIL HAS APPEARED
Cotton in Southwest Texas Is Suffer-
ing From the Familiar Pest. The
Crop Is Late, Too.

The News finds the following in
the current issue of the Waco (Tex.)
Tribune:
1.-THE boil weevil has again made
it's appearance in certain counties in
Southwest Texas, declares ]. L.
Quicksail, assistant state agent of the
federal department of agriculture,
who has just returned from a tour
of that section of the state.
$50 far the pest has confined its
operations to the timbered sections,
Mr. Quicksail says, but the destruc-
ton has been such as to prevent the
making of any cotton at all where it
has gotten in its work. From what
Mr.. Quicksail saw, however, he does
not believe the depredations of the
weevil will be very widespread this
year.
Cotton is much later this yearthan
usual Last year the first bale of
cotton was ginned June "a, but Mr.
Quicksail did not see a single open
boil of cotton on his visit to a num-
Der of the counties there, and the in
dications are that the years cotton
crop will be several weeks behind
that of last yaer."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
HIS LIFE FOR LEPERS.
St Louis Minister Follows the Careers of Father Mother
Sisters and Brothers Caring for the Oucast of India

More sublime than that heroism
which animated the immortal Six
Hundred at Balaklava is the devo-
ton of a single family of missionar-
les among the leper outcasts of In
dia. In the heroic mold of a Father
Damien is their spirit cast, as they
deliberately dedicate their lives to
the uplifting of the hopelssly dis
eased members of an alien race.
No less than eleven members of
the Hahn family have worked in the
cause. Attention was called to this
fact by the departure the other day
from St. Louis of Rev Gottfried
Hahn. recently ordained in the Ger
man Evangelical Ministry. to make
his final preparations in New York
city for what he intends shall be
his life work, continuing the task
among the lepers, which his father
laid down with his death in 1910,
and which his mother is expected to
relinuuish in few years, her health
work in the colony. To the young
st. Louis minister thus it becomes a
having become undermined by her
part of the days work.
1t was in 1869 that the father,
Rev. Ferdinand Hahn, then an evan
gelical minister in Berlin, Germany,
offered his services to a missionary
society for work among the lepers
He hardly knew what it meant, but
the truth was soon borne in on him.
and although he realized the awful
fate of becoming an outcast and ulti-
mately dying of the, loathsome dis
ease he never turned back.
Lacking the enthusiasm, the blare
of trumpets, the plaudits of an OBJ
serving world, all of which the Light
Brigade had at its last charge, this
devoted missionary went 10 a death
none the less sure because long de-
layed. Nor was he alone His young
wife shared the devotion of her hus-
band. Together for ten years they
devoted their time to acquiring the
dialects of Indians in order that they
might converse with the different
tribesmen who gathered at the leper
colony at Pursulia. When they fall
tered or fell other devoted hands
picked up the colors and carried
them on.
Three sons of the original mis-
sionary came to this country. Besides
the young man now preparing to go
back to the lepers they are; Rev.
Theodore Hahn. pastor of the Sec
ond Presbyterian church of New Or
leans, and Rev Albert Hahn, pastor
Of the Reform Church of New York
city. The fourth son left India sew
eraI years ago TO be an editor in Ger
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
SMITH IS FOR A BIG STICK
WOULD GIVE PRESIDENT POWER
TO ENFORCE COUNTER RATES.
GeOrgian's Tariff Amendment Meets
With Strong Opposition, and Re-
suits in a Warm Debate.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Urgent
desire to arm the president with a
tariff big stick" of stronger and
greater proportions than provided in
the amendment suggested by the fl
nance committee majority developed
today in the democratic caucus of the
senate on the tariff bill.
Discussion of the proposed coun-
tervailing duty on wheat and -four,
which the committee recommended,
led to a general debate on retaliatOry
and countervailing tariff rates and
Senator Smith of Georgia urgently
proposed the adoption of an amend
ment that would give the president
power to enforce countervailing tariff
rates on all commodities of COM
merce against any nation refusing to
deal with the United States on a re-
ciprocal tariff basis.
Broad Provision Advocated.
The amendment proposed would in
many respects take the place of the
maximum and minimum clause of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff law, but Senator
Smith advocated a provision that
would be broader than that, one that
would give the president the authori-
! ty at any time to interpose against
any nation which might discriminate
against the products of the United
States the same tariff rates eXacted
on American goods. Such a clause
in the tariff bill it was argued, would
place the United States in a position
to defend the country against any
unreciprocal action or attempt to
shut off it's foreign trade.
Discussion of the proposal was
spirited, strong opposition developing
at once. Among the senators who
attacked the idea were O'Gorman,
Reed and MARITIME. Debate was wax
ing warm when the caucus was forced
to recess for the afternoon session of
the senate,
The amendment recommended by
the committee is not a countervail-
ing proposition in the strict sense,
providing only that the president
should proclaim certain fixed rates
against foreign nations on a limited
number of specified commodities in
cases of discrimination against this
country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
HOPE FOR BALD HEADS.
A Hungarian Doctor Proposes to Sew
Live Hairs on Them.

A Hungarian Doctor Proposes to Sew
Live Hairs on Them.
A Hungarian doctor, holding out
hope for the baldheads, proposes to
sew live hairs on the bald places and
let them take root there and grow.
Leading medical journals in Hun
gary are gravely discussing his plan,
one paper saying it is a great dis
covery.
The inventor simply gets live hairs
and threads them into the scalp by
means of minute gold hooks of the
type used in crochet work. But first
he applies to the scalp some anaes-
thetic, like cocaine, to deaden the
pain of the needle pricks. Between
900 and 400 hairs can thus be sewn
in at a sitting and enough for bare
crown can be sewn in from 20 to 40
sittings. The sewn hairs that take
root grow, so that in a few months
the whole head is luxuriantly cover
ed, the doctor asserts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
SHOT MAN FROM AMBUSH
YOUNG ODONNELL HAD ACCOM-
PANIED PREACHER TO TRAIN.
j. Z. DeasOn, His Rival in Love and
Business, Is Arrested for Crime.
A Stewart County Tragedy,


A Stewart County Tragedy.
The Lumpkin Independent prints
in its last issue the following account
/ of a tragedy that has caused much
excitement in Stewart county:
"At a late hour last Sunday night
Mr.. w. w. O'Donnell was murdered
from ambush at Louyale, and Deputy
Sheriff Goode and Bailiff Welch went
to the scene of the tragedy early
Monday morning.
'Mr. O'Donnell had been to church
and accompanied the pastor, who
lives at Cordele, to the railroad sta
ton after services to leave on the
night train. While he was returning
home he was waylaid and horribly
murdered from the roadside.
cat the coroners inquest the jury
made a verdict that 'O'Donnell was
slain by the hands of unknown par
ties but the evidence was of such a
character that a warrant was taken
for the arrest of Mr.. ]. B. Deason,
and he is now detained awaiting fur
Their developments in the case.
"As soon as this warrant was serv-
ed the relatives of Deason swore out
a warrant against him for lunacy,
claiming that he has not had his
right mind for four or five years.
at is said that Deason and O'Don-
nell had some trouble the night be-
fore the shooting and that there was
rivalry in business and love affairs
between the two young men. Wit
.nesses have been found who are said
to be willing to swear that they saw
man jump on bay horse just fol-
lowing two shots and ride away.
"Mr. O'Donnell, the father of the
dead man, who lives at Hannah, Ala,
came over Monday and carried the
remains of his son home for burial.
"Mr. Deason is prominently con-
nected, and his arrest caused a SEN
sation in the community"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01

his train. The two got in hack
suspicious character had arrived on
and when they were passing the st.
Nichalos hotel Moore said, There is
the man"
Policeman Harris got out of the
hack and put the man under arrest.
After gonig short distance the
stranger began to resist the officer.
Harris tried to nit the man with his
club, but the man grabbed the club
and pulled out pistol, sending
bullet into the officers body near the
heart.
1t is said that Land was sent up
for life for the killing of his father,
and escaped about three years ago
from the changing at Jakin, in
Early county Since then he had not
been heard from until this double
tragedy He was passing through
Albany from Sycamore, where he
had been to visit his mother.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01

many. In addition to the four sons,
who all served their time in the leper
colony before leaving to continue
their education, there are five daugh-
tiers, who remain at the work, three
of them having married missionar-
les connected with the work and the
other two remaining with their aged
mother to hold up her hands and
continue the good work in her de-
clining years.
Rev. Theodore Hahn says he per-
sonally bathed the sores of scores of
the lepers and never contracted
any sign of the disease. 1t is all
matter of cleanliness, he states. He
carefully bathed himself antisepti-
cally after treating the lepers. His
father and mother observed the same
rule during their ministry among the
forsaken people. But one person, so
they state, of all those connected
with the station has been afflicted
with the disease. She was an eight
year-old daughter of one of the mis-
sionaries.
What it means to carry religious
consolation to the 500 outcasts can
never be told. Besides being mem
bers of heather race the lepers are
without the pale of even such re-
ligion as their own people offer. AL
though members of different castles,
when in their native society, they
are all outcasts together once the
white finger of the dread disease is
laid on them. To them the christian
religion brings the message of hope
in the hereafter, in which there is no
caste, when each shall be as good as
his neighbor, where neither leprosy
nor social distinction exists 1t is
the inspiration of bringing such a
message to the hopeless recruits of
the Pursulia community that the
consecrated Hahn family find their
reward, and it is this inspiration that
leads the young st. Louis minister
to offer his life for humanity in the
leper colony of India.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
HARRIS CLUBBED land
ALBANY POLICEMAN WAS KILL
ED BY ESCAPED CONVICT HE
HAD UNDER ARREST.
WAS ALLEGED JAIL ESCAPE
Fugitive Was Caught in Lee County,
and Killed by Albany Posse, 1t Is
Claimed, While Trying IL Escape.
Returning From Visit TO Mother.

Returning From Visit TO Mother.
LEESBURG, Ga.-While he was
attempting to escape from the Off
GERS who had him in charge John
Land, alias George Daniels, the white
man who shot and killed Policeman
E. H. Harris in Albany Thursday
Iiaht. was shot and killed by an AL
bany policeman Friday morning at
Waters Crossing, in theaeastern part
Of Lee county.
Land, it seems, after having killed
Policeman Harris Immediately made
his way out of Albany en- foot, in
order to escape more readily, as he
knew he would be watched if he left
on train. He had gotten as far as
Waters Crossing on the line of the
Albany Northern railway, when Jno.
L. Reynolds and ]. L. Akin, two Lee
county citizens of that section, dis
covered his presence and captured
him after a short struggle.
The man was placed in a buggy
and the trio set out at once for AL
bany, but soon met an automobile
with a number of Albany policemen
and other officers chasing the pris-
oner In the car were Assistant
Chief of Police Cunningham of AL
bany and Captain Tyson of the coun-
ty chaingang, together with ]. w.
Vinson, r. L. Farmer and Roy Bar
bre. The prisoner was taken in
charge by the officers, who started on
their way to Albany. Land, it is
said, attempted to escape, and was
shot down and killed by member Of
the party. He was hit in the back.
Land, it will be recalled, was a
stranger, having just arrived in AL
bany short time before he shot
Policeman Harris. He boarded the
Atlantic Coast Line train at Sylves-
ter. Conductor Moore noticed the
man on the train and regarded him
with suspicion because of his pecul-
lar actions. The conductor thought
possibly he was one of the bandits
who held up a Coast Line freight
train at kirkland few nights ago.
After the train reached Albany Con-
ductor Moore went out and got Po-
liceman Harris, telling him that a
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
KNIFE TOSTOP BOYS GROWTH
SURGEONS WILL OPERATE ON
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIANT.
Little" John Michael Is Six Feet
Seven Inches Tall, and Doesn't
Want to Grow Higher.


Observation-Disclosures at
the Medico-CEirurgical hospital are
anticipating the successful outcome
of an operation on a ffteen-year-old
boy named John Michael, who is six
feet seven inches tall, for physical
overgrowth by removing a portion Of
the pituary gland from the base of
his brain.
This operation has never been per-
formed for such a reason. The
pituitary gland or pineal body is be-
lieved to control human growth, and
to stop the boy fl ON outgrowing his
constitutional strength they have de-
cided to perform all experiment
shown to be successful on the dog.
Michael outgrew all OF his com
r2des and would not 90 to school
because his fellow pupils joked him
about his size, and the smaller emil
dren feared him.
At home his father had to have
an extra bed made for him, and at
the hospital where he was undergo
ing the rest treatment new cot was
necessary to accommodate him.
Mentally and in other respects the
boy is normal He is simply growing
beyond his strength and years, and
the surgeons say that if the opera
ton is not performed he will become
afflicted with a mental disease, for
the overgrowth of his body will af-
feet his mind.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01
LIQUOR BATTLE TAKESCENTEROFS STAGE
IN SPITE OF FACT ALL AGREE
ON NECESSITY OF CHANGING
FINANCIAL SYSTEM.
PROHIBITIONSTS CONFIDENT

All OtneF Legislation VIII have
Secondary Position Until the
''Drys" and "Antis' Finish Their
Annual Scrap.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the
fact that both the outgoing and the
incoming administrations have en-
phasized the need of revision of the
states financial and tax systems as
the most important legislation con-
fronting the general assembly and
despite the further fact that the adj
ADMINISTRATION leaders in both houses
will endeavor to keep the principal
attention of the legislators directed
upon both these propositions the pro-
hibitionists are determined to pass
the Hixon anti-liquor shipment bill,
which was introduced in the senate
Thursday morning.
The prohibitionists realize that
their measure will encounter stiff OPP
position and precipitate a long
drawn out fight, but they express
confidence in their ability to get it
enacted into a law, claiming that
they have 140 votes in the house and
80 votes in the senate.
Those legislators who are in SYM
pathy with the program of the new
administration view the activity of
the prohibitionists with considerable
apprehension, for they fear that they
may be able to bring about fight
that will consume large portion of
the session and divert attention from
the financial and tax reforms.
1t is safe to say that these ques-
tions will occupy the center Of the
stage until they are disposed of in
one way or another, but the admins
tration leaders are inclined to the
opinion that a prohibition agitation
will serve to prejudice the chances
of proper revision of the financial
system.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-01

ion Veterans Are Fraternizing This
Week, Elaborate Preparations for
Their Reception Cost 81 900, 900.
The hills of Gettysburg, where the
armies or Meade and Hill pitched
their tents so years ago, are white
todav with canvass, for the great
-nunion of the Blue and the Gray,
which will be held there this week.
Every state in the union has repre-
sentatives among the 10000 or So
600 veterans who fought on one side
or the other in the civil war. The
Ceterans are guests of the national
government and of their respective
States. which jointly are spending
more than 100000 for their en-
tertainment and comfort.
The big camp in which the union
exercises will be held and which has
2 capacity of $4,000 persons lies
southwest of Gettysburg and contig-
nous to it and scattered over an area
of 500 acres are 1000 tents in
which the veterans will be housed.
Nothing has ben neglected to make
the encampment a success and to pro-
vide for the health of the veterans.
The tents are laid out in streets and
the water supply and drainage are
ample. Each veteran will have a sep
arate cot, blankets and a mess kit,
which will contain plate, cup, knife,
fork and spoon and which will be-
come his personal property when
camp is broken. The commission in
charge of the encampment has engag-
ed 1000 cooks and an aggregate of
100000 meals are to be served. Po-
lice duty will be done by United States
veterans, while a small army of Boy
Scouts will act as guides.
For more than four years prep
arations for the encampment have
been going on in Pennsylvania,
which has appropriated $415,OO0 as
its share of the expenses. And now
on the eve of the great event every
detail Of preparation is attended to.
But this concerns only the veterans
and the correspondents Visitors
will have to make their own arrange
ments, and owing to the congestion
which will prevail during the week S
encampment Gettysburg is good
place to keep away from. II is prob
able that $4,000 visitors will pour
into Gettysburg during the week, or
camp as near to the village as posi-
Bile. Every private house with a room
to spare has been engaged; distant
farm houses have been rented, and