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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
TOSSED HIS MONEY INTO SEA
Fastidious Man Casts Shirt and Five
Hundred Francs Overheard. The
Liser Is Repaid.

NEW YORK; shirt caused a
commotion in mid-Atlantic on the
voyage of the steamer Taormina,
which locked from Italy. Emilio
Lombard, a steerage passenger, found
the air of the Atlantic SO hot in
mid-ocean that he took eff his shirt
and flung it on deck.
A fastidious fellow passenger, sup
posing that the shirt had been dis
carded, threw it into the sea. When
Lombard discovered his loss he was
frantic and shouting the Italian of
man overheard" he pleaded for a
life-saving crew to recover his gar
ment He explained that all the
money he had, 500 francs, was sewed
in the shirt. But by that time the
shirt was far out of sight.
lombard was taken before the
captain, who believed his story, and
to prevent him from being deported
when he arrived here the steamship
line repaid him 500 in United States
treasury notes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19

tories and bakeries. 1t cleans his
house by helping in the manufacture
of brooms. 1t assuages his thirst by
its activities in bottling works and
breweries. 1t enables him to smoke,
since it is used in the manufacture
of briar pipes, tobacco and cigarettes.
1t heats him in winter. 1t cools him
in summer 1t fills his tooth in den
tai parlors 1t even runs new type
writing devices. 1t washes his
clothes, makes music for him sews
for him, washes his dishes, sorts his
seed, makes his matches-in fact, it
is part and parcel of ninety-nine-hun-
dredths of all the material activity
on which modern civilization rests.
Georgia, so richly endowed with
water power, will now be rich in ser
vice, since the water power has been
transformed into this agent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19

and Poles and who have been led to
our shores under assurances that
here they would ind the ideal of
their aspirations-the land flowing
with milk and honey, of which they
had been told so much in their far-off
homes, Instead of milk and honey
they found an industrialism, which
made them veritable serfs, and when
they struck for better conditions they
were turned out into the streets, with
their children, to shift for themselves
like the dogs of Stamboul. And some
of us wonder at the spread of the
doctrines of the I. w. w. and at the
growth of socialism. We should
cease to wonder. When we SOW seed
We expect a harvest, the fruit of
which will be according to the seed
sown
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
INJUNCTION CASE POSTPONED
FATE OF MUNICIPAL OWNER
SHIP MAY HINGE ON RESULT.
Americas City Council Would Pre-
vent Consolidation of Power Plant
Companies of That City.

AMERICUS.-The postpOnement
by Judge z. A. LittlejOhn in the SUI
perior court of the hearing of the
injunction brought by the City of
Americas against the Americas Pow
er Company, the rival company to
the old Americas Gas and Electric
Company, to keep the new company
from consolidating with the old and
advancing rates, is another link in
the history of one of the most sensa-
tional municipal fights in Georgia.
Judge Littlejohn postponed the
hearing until September q on the
ground that certain important par
ties to the various transactions were
not in Americas.
City Attorney Hollis Fort and w.
P. Wallis, for the city, and Shipp &
Sheppard, for the Americas Power
Company, are prepared for Cruel
ing and continued fight.
1t is thought that it VIII either kill
forever the hopes of municipal own
ership here or revive them anew. As
this has been a holly contested mu-
nicipal issue the interest in the hear
ing is wide and keen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
ATTACK AMERICAN INTERESTS
Have Taken Too Active Part il
Assisting the Revolutionists
in Mexico.

WASHINGTON, D. Certain
American interests alleged to be con-
cerned in revolutionary activities in
Mexico will be attacked in the re-
port of the special senate committee
which Investigated conditions along
the border.
Senator Smith of Michigan, chair
man, laid an outline today before the
foreign relations committee, indi-
eating the report would deal partic-
ularly with activities of American
representatives of the revolutionists
and aid they are reported to have
received from the American side of
the border in the Madero uprising
and succeeding revolutions.
A conference between President
Wilson and the house committee on
foreign affairs will be held soon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
HAD DOLLAR IN HIS WALLET
"Nitrate King Arrives in America.
Richer Than John d., and Gives
a Ten Cent Tip.

Senior E. Ossie, the nitrate king OF
Chile, sailed for home, via the 18TH
mus of Panama, Saturday, says the
New York World. He. had been in
this country some time.
When he arrived in New York
somebody on the steamship pier men.
toned John D. Rockefellers wealth
to him.
"Oh, that's nothing" Senior ossie
was quoted as saying. Il am richer
than John D. Rockefeller"
Senior Ossie accidentally dropped
fat wallet from the landing dock
down the companionway to the land
ing outside the rurser's Office.
A steward nan Cd Green picked up
the wallet and carried it up the com
panion way, returning it to the own
err. The nitrate king opened the
wallet to make sure its contents were
safe. There was a s. bill within.
The nitrate king put his hand in
his pocket and extracted dime,
which he gave to the steward, who
said very politely, Thank you, sir. "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
BOUGHT FARM WITH BERRIES
Mrs. Seth Davis of ShOwhegan, Me-,
Has Been Picking and Peddling
the FrIIit for Twenty Years.


Paying for home by picking wild
berries is TIE feat performed by Mrs.
Seth Davis of Showhegan, Me-, who
for the last twenty-three years has
been engaged in this industry very
Her major berry is the
and she averages about fif-
teen bushels of these a year.
She picks about eight bushels of
the field strawberries in the year and
many bushels of wild blackberries.
Besides picking these she peddles
them out in Showhegan.
She now owns fine farm on the
Canaan road, and she remarked that
she had paid for by picking berries.
She not only picks berries, but she
assists her husband in many ways
about the farm. In the winter time
she will take load of wood with a
pair of horses, come to Showhegan
and find a market for it. unloading it
herself.
Mrs. Davis is one Of the most fire.
ouent patrons of the public library.
But she believes that life is worth
more to her by outdoor air and work
than it could be otherwise.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
VERY REMARKABLE FAMILY
Consisted of Eleven Sets of Twins
and One of TripIets, Twelve of
Whom Were Boys.

Probably the most remarkable
family record in the archives of the
United States government was
brought to light by the pension bu-
reau in the case of William Warren,
of st. Joseph, Mo-, who served in
Company I, Fifteenth Kansas Cav
airy, in the civil war.
Warren's father married in turn
three sisters, the first two being
twins and the third being one of an
other set of twins. To the first wife
we're born triplets, all boys, of whom
William Warren was one.
Between them the other two wives
gave birth to II sets of twins, max
ing a total of % children, of whom
- were boys, who all served in the
union army.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Important Acts
Of the Legislature

More than 500 laws were en-
acted during the session of the
legislature that has just adjourn
ed. Here are the most impor-
tant bills that were passed, and
which become laws upon receiv-
ing the signature of the gov
ernor:
To provide for a state tax com
missioner and county boards of
tax assessors.
A blue sky" measure to regu-
late the sale of stocks and bonds.
To allow freight trains to run
on Sunday.
To increase the occupation tax
on corporations.
To place a special tax on bot
Ting works.
The general appropriation bill.
To provide an inheritance tax.
To regulate the practice of
medicine and raise the standard
of physicians.
To create municipal courts in
Atlanta and abolish the justice
courts.
To provide for the permanent
registration of voters.
To establish and maintain a
home for wayward girls.
To enable judges to grant
charters in vacation
To create a Western & Allan
tic commission to investigate the
of the state road.
To give the mother equal
rights with the father in the Gus
tody of minor children.
To provide tax OF s. on auto
mobiles.
To create a commission to in
vestigate the advisability of the
state publishing its own school
books.
To allow trial judges to place
persons convicted of misdemean-
ors on probation. and to provide
county probation officers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
CHARLT TON SAILS FOR TRIAL
RICH YOUNG AMERICAN FACES
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.
Confessed Wife Murderer Is Taken
Back to Italy After Fighting En-
tradition Three Years.

JERSEY CITY, N. Porter
Charlton, confessed wife murderer,
left home shores behind him today
to be tried in Italy for killing Mary
Scott Castle-Charlton and throwing
her body in Lake Como. The steam
ship Re d'ItaHa, on which the pris-
oner travels third class in charge of
Italian officers, left her pier about
10 o'clock.
Italy has no death penalty, but
Charlton faces the possibility of soil
tary confinement for life. His father,
Judge Paul Charlton, a Yale Gloss
mate of former President Taft, will
attend the trial. Before being re-
moved to the steamship he shook
hands with all the jail officers and
his fellow prisoners.
Charlton was a young bank clerk,
and was on his honeymoon with Mrs.
Neville H. Castle, daughter of Henry
H. Scott, a San Francisco coal mer-
chant, when the tragedy occurred at
Lake Como, Italy, near which the
couple had been living in a villa.
Mrs. Charlton's body was found June
10, 1910, in a trunk at the bottom
of the lake Charlton was traced to
America, where he later confessed
to killing his wife. He has bitterly
fought extradition for the past three
years, but on July s, last, he lost
his last appeal when the United
States supreme court held that he
must be given up to the Italian au-
thorities.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
BIFFS CURRENCY BILL
SEVERAL GEORGIA MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS LAND HARD ON
PENDING MEASURE.
A LIVELY ROW IN CAUCUS
Hardwick Says 1t Creates Monopoly
in Money. Tribble Declares 1t
''Damnably Discriminatory, and
Crisp and Hughes Concur.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-After three
hours of lively discussion between
the administration forces and the
currency Insurgents the house
democratic caucus late today adj
journed until Monday.
Representative Tribble of Georgia
described the bill, as interpreted by
most of its advocates, as "the most
damnable piece of discriminatory leg
islation ever proposed against the
farmer.
Want Cotton Warehouse Receipts.
Representatives Hughes and Crisp
have been no less outspoken both in
and out of the caucus, and they be-
lieve they will have the solid support
of the Georgia delegation in their eff
forts to make notes based on cotton
warehouse receipts a negotiable pa
per under the new bill.
Representative Hardwick of Geor-
gia attacked the bill as creating a
great monopoly in money, establish
ing a gigantic political and financial
machine, comforting greater power
than any man or set of men should
have"
Representative Henry of Texas, adj
vocating amendments against inter
locking directorates and for what he
called corn tassel and cotton bale
cash, asserted that the refunding of
the two per cent circulation bonds by
the three per cent non-circulating
bonds would permit big grab and
steal by big banks"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
ARE FREE TO STARVE
r,NITLIEs OF STRIKERS TURNED
INTO STREETS AND LIVE UN-
DER CANOPY OF HEAVEN.
hundreds of Hosiery Workers at Ips-
wich, Mass, Are Being Evicted
From Homes by Factory Owners.
Bitter Fight is Being Waged.

Ont under the blue canopy of the
heavens families of striking hosiery
workers are living in the streets OF
7nswich. Mass. Several weeks ago a
strike in the hosiery mills was begun
and for a time the Industrial Work
ars of the World conducted it. The
ampIoves struck for a 20 per cent in
crease in wages and for a betterment
of working conditions, and they are
rasianedly undergoing many hard
sbips that the bitter fight they are
waging may end satisfactorily for
them. But the employers have had
the upper hand from the start. They
have abundant capital at their dis
DosaI. and although their business
NAV suffer and is suffering they es-
cane the pinch of want which is now
hearing heavily upon the strikers.
Many of the homes occupied by the
strikers. who are chiefly Greeks and
Poles. are owned by the company
and eviction notices were served
some time ago on the occupants. Sew
ral families were evicted and tenn
porarily took up quarters in the
streets Then a vacant lot was found
and to it the household goods were
transferred. But in day or two
the mill company discovered that it
owned the vacant lot and again the
homeless people had to move. Deli
cate women and puny, lifted chill
dreu are sleeping out at night in the
cold. without a roof over them, and
the question of what to do with them
is becoming a serious one. And the
situation threatens to become worse.
The mill company is importing Port
uguese from New Bedford, Fall Riv-
er and other Massachusetts cities to
take the places of the strikers and
further evictions are expected in or
der to make housing room for the
strike breakers.
Ipswich is dominated by the mill
company and presumably will not
take any measures for the protection
of the evicted lest it incurs the enmi-
ty of the company. The chairman Of
the board of selectmen is in the en-
pIoy of toe company; so is his son,
while a brother is chief of police.
And so while the company will net
discuss conditions with its striking
employees and is bent on the policy OF
further evictions the town itself is
either unwilling or helpless to act for
the protection of the struggling
Greeks and Poles, who are fighting
for better conditions A Legislative
committee has visited the place, has
investigated conditions, has found
these conditions a disgrace to the
state and to civilization and probably
some time will make a report.
Surely this is a strange introduc-
ton to American life of those Greeks
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
WHAT WILL BECOME OF IT?
The ELECTRICITY THAT WILL BE
GENERATED AT TALLULAH.
The Answer Is Found in the Many
Uses to Which Electricity Is
Now Put in Georgia.

Il
What will become of
all the electricity that will be gen
Grated in Georgia by the development
at Tallulah?" is a question that has
been asked in Atlanta recently, and
answered in most startling and in
teresti1s fashion
who buys electricity" is anoth
err form in which the question was
put, and in response to this question
a systematic classification at the state
capitol reveals the fact that practi-
cally every industry in Georgia now
uses electricity in one form or an
other. Over two hundred industries
of widely diverse characters operate
their machinery by electricity. 1t is
the universal servant 1t is used in
textile mills, and thus serves to
clothe men. 1t is used in printing
offices, and thus serves to educate
him. It is used for lighting, and
thus enables him to read his books.
1t is used for transportation, and
even if man prefers to walk it again
volunteers its assistance, since it is
used in the manufacture of boots
and shoes. 1t cooks for him, and Of
fers him additional dainties, since
it drives the machinery in candy fac.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19

would be best to disarm the negro
Monday night while the party was
en- route home in an automobile they
stopped at the home of Mathis for
the purpose, it is caid, of taking the
rifle away from him In the party
were G. A. Wallace, R. l.. Jossey, A.
F. Pope, John Mcdonald, Frank Ha-
zelip and Jesse Pickron.
Negro Opens Fire.
When the machine drew up in front
of Mathis house he was called out,
but when he saw the crowd in the
he turned and went back
to the house. In a minute several
shots were fired at the automobile
from the house, and two men re-
turned the fire. Jossey was killed.
Mathis escaped and it was not known
until his capture at Williamsburg
hat he had been wounded.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
UNITED STATES FARMS
THEY NUMBER MORE THAN SIN
MILLION, AND ARE VALUED
AT OVER $40, 900 900, 600.
Facts just Compiled by Census Bu-
reau Show immensely of Farming
Interests of Country. Increase in
Demand for Farm Products.

The census bureau has just com
piled a summary of the agriculture
statistics collected in the thirteenth
census of the United States. The al
most incomprehensible sum of $40,-
! 600, 100000 is given as the total val
ne of the farm property of this coun-
try. About two-thirds of that sum
represents the value of the land,
about one-sixth the value of the
buildings, and about another sixth
the combined value of the live stock,
farm implements and machinery.
The total number of farms in the
United States is 6,361,502. They
contain a total of 78,79s,OOO acres,
of which 47S,452, 900 acres are i'm
proved. A fraction more than as
per cent of the total land area of the
country is embraced in the farms,
and more than half of the farm land
-54.4 per CENTS improved In
other words, almost exactly one
fourth of the total land area of the
United States is improved farm land.
The average size of a farm is 1873
acres, with an average of rs acres
improved. The average value of all
farm property is $6,444, or $46.64
per acre. The average value of the
farm land itself per acre is $92,40.
In the decade from 1900 to 1910
the population of the whole country
increased 81 per cent as whole.
During that period the increase in
urban population was nearly 30 per
cent, but the rural population in
creased only II per cent. In other
words, population in the towns and
cities increased relatively more than
three times as fast as in rural dis
tricts. This seems to demonstrate
that the city lures the boy from the
farm to a much greater degree than
the cry of back to the land" appeals
to the men-young and old-of the
city.
A relative decrease in the number
of men engaged in providing the ag-
ricultural necessities of our people
is largely responsible for the con-
tinually increasing cost of living.
Those working on the farms are not
increasing the output of agricultural
commodities at as great a rate as our
population as a whole is increasing.
The total number of farms increas-
ed in the past decade by II per cent,
yet the actual increase in farm acre
age was less than per cent. How
ever, the increase in acreage of i'm
proved farm lands was over Is per
cent-but that still falls behind our
increase in total population.
Striking proof of the increase in
the demand for farm products and
comparative decrease in the supply
of them is found in the fact that the
total value of farm property more
than doubled in the ten years from
1900 to 1910. 1t represents mainly
the increased earning power of the
farm, although partly due to the in
creased acreage of improved land,
more farm buildings, equipment and
live stock.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
PEDESTRIANS HAVE RIGHTS.

Must Be Recognized by Drivers of
Automobiles Says Appellate Court.
A person operating an automobile
does not possess rights superior to
those possessed by a pedestrian on
street or highway, according to a
ruling by the court of appeals in the
case of J. L. Odowd versus Mrs. Clara
C. Newman of Augusta. The court
of appeals also lays down the propo-
sition that the operator Of an auto
mobile must recognize the equal
rights of a pedestrian and be gov
erned accordingly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
1t Cost People of Georgia More Than
S3,OOO,OOO to Talk Last Year.

1t cost Georgians SO, 4,212.74 to
talk in 1912 That is the total sum
paid by subscribers to all telephone
companies in the state Out of this
the telephone companies paid ST..
1917, 466.94 for operating expenses,
so their net earnings during the year
were $1,369,816.22 This is an in
crease in gross earnings over 1911 of
$326,147.14. and in net earnings Of
$46,964.51. The Southern Bell nat
urally shows the largest earnings. Its
gross earnings for 1912 were ST.
925, O45.66, and the net earnings ST.
.219, 706.62. the difference being rep
resented by operating expenses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Underground Irrigation.

Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Whitchard have
installed a system of irrigation with
underground pipes on their truck
farm at the edge of Fitzgerald. Mr..
Whitchard is a brother of Prof. ]. H.
Whitchard of Dawson, and is a for
mer Terrell eountian.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
DOC MATHIS BADLY WOUNDED
SLAYER OF JOSSEY Is HURRIED
TO BIBB JAIL TO ESCAPE MOB.
Lee County Fugitive Captured in Cal
houn County by Sheriff Barbre
of Dougherty County.

The rumor reported in Fridays
News that Dock Mathis, the negro
who shot and killed r. L. JOSEF in
Lee county, had been captured On
Thur ~ proved to be trus.
The negro was captured at Will
liamsburg. in Calhoun county, by
Sheriff Barbre of Dougherty county
and Policeman r. NJ. benson of AL
bany, being located in a negro house
and suffering from a dangerous rife
shot wound which he received during
the battle raging at the time Jossey
was killed
The prisoner was placed in an au-
tomobile and hurried to Macon,
where he was locked in the Bibb
county jail for safe keeping, a mob
being feared when his capture be-
came known.
Mathis identified.
Saturday Sheriff D. r. Moreland
of Lee county and G. A Wallace, a
DfOLHST-lH-id" OF JosSSS' VIM was
with him at the time he was killed,
went to Macon and identified the ne
gro as Dock Mathis.
The killing of Jossey occurred on
Monday night of last week while he
and a party of friends were en- route
to their home near Philema after at
tending court at Leesburg.
A few days previous G. A. Wallace
had whipped one of Mathis sons for
his cruel treatment of mule and
this is said to have so angered the
boys father that he purchased rife
and swore that he would get even
The negro's threats reached the ears
of Wallace and he decided that il
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19

Germany has a fund of S75, 600 for
prizes for aviators during September
Germany is progressing aviation in
every possible way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Five Confederates in Car.
Gate Keener Arrested.

A reward of $500 for Thaw's APP
prehension has been offered by Or.
R. F. c. Keib, superintendent of the
asylum. Howard H. Barnum, the
attendant at the gate past whom
Thaw flashed in his break for free
dom, is under arrest and other ar
rests are expected to follow in the
rigid investigation begun by Dr. Keib.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
THAW DARTS TO FREEDOM
IN WILD RIDE FROM ASYLUM HE
REACHES CONNECTICUT LINE.
When Milk Man Enters He Dashes to
Confederates. Gatekeeper Is Ar
rested and Reward Offered.

MATTEAWAN, n. Y.-Harry K.
Thaw, the slayer of Stanford White,
escaped from the hospital for the
criminal insane here at 7:45 o'clock
this morning. A dart for liberty
through an open gatee, leap into an
open door of a powerful automobile
and a flight like a rocket for the
Connecticut state line thirty miles
away accomplished his escape
Tonight he was still at large and
the autorities felt certain he was out
side the state Once beyond its
boundaries Thaw is free. Only
months, perhaps years, Of litigation
can bring him back to Matteawan
and then only in one event-that he
be adjudged insane in the state to
which he has fed.
Five Confederates in Car.
Five confederates manned the car
in which Thaw escaped and a big
black limousine which trailed it past
the asylum gates. The police have
the descriptions of Thaw's confeder-
ates and the names under which they
registered at a local hotel Friday
night and are seeking for them.
The hospital authorities believe
that Thaw fled to the shore of Long
Island Sound and boarded a yacht
waiting with steam up to rush to Eu
roma