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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
UNDER BAD MEAT CHARGES
Prosecution of Swift & Co. Is Or
dered by the Georgia Depart
ment OF Agriculture.

Following a hearing of charges
against Swift & Co.'S meat packing
plant in Savannah held before Com
missioner of Agriculture Price and
Attorney General Fielder a prosecu-
ton was ordered on the charge OF
keeping for sale meat that was unfit
for food.
When in Savannah recently Pure
Food Inspector Methvin found 223
pounds of bad meat in Swift & Co.'S
place and sent some of it to Atlanta
for analysis by the state chemist.
The report of the chemist showed
that it was unfit for food and the
matter will be presented to the So
licitor general of the Eastern circuit
to bring to the attention of the grand
jury Swift & Co. was represented
at the hearing by Manager Carlisle
of the Savannah plant.
Hearing of similar charges against
the plant of Morris & Co. was de-
ferred for several days at the request
of that company's attorney
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
MAN IS STILL ENTOMB{D
is HOPED HE WILL BE REACHED
AND RESCUED TODAY.
Hade a Talk With His Wife. Physi-
clans Fear That He Will
Take Pneumonia.

CENTRALIA, Pa, Oct. be
cause of a severe rain storm which
has prevailed all day, causing falls
of top rock into the mine where
Thomas Toshesky has been entombed
since last Friday morning by a taIl
of coal at the Continental colllery,
extraordinary efforts were put forth
tonight by the rescuers to liberate
the imprisoned miner.
Mine Superintendent Heffner has
started a number of men digging
through a 5O-foot pillar of coal at
the bottom of mine breach two and
a half miles up the mountain from
the breaker structure, and late to-
night twenty feet had been dug away.
Owing to the smallness of the open
ing only one man at a time could
dig at the foot of the heading.
Tries to Dig Out.
Toshesky, from his prison 100 feet
below the surface. informed Hetfner
tonight through the 50-foot tubing
penetrating the coal breast from an
adjoining chamber, that he had his
mining tools with him and that since
his Imprisonment he had dug away
about three feet of the surrounding
wall. A physician who accompanied
the mine superintendent conversed
with Toshesky and cautioned him not
to take much exercise because of his
weakened condition The doctor fear
ed that the entombed man might
contract a cold and develop pneu-
monia
Toshesky conversed with his would
be rescuers several times during the
night and complained of being cold.
A bottle of eggnog was sent down
the tube. After drinking the impris-
oned miner said he felt more com
Portable and requested an opportuni-
ty to talk with his wife, who was
waiting at the edge of the mine
breach. Despite the danger Mrs
Toshesky, with the assistance of sew
eraI miners, descended to the bottom
of the mine and listened to the voice
of her husband for the first time in
nearly a week.
Talks With His Wife.
Glow are the children, especially
the baby?" was the first question
Toshesky asked. He told his wife
not to worry, that the mine officials
had assured him it would not be a
great while until he could be with
her again.
Supt. Heffner and other officials
expressed doubt tonight if the en-
tombed miner could be reached be-
fore Friday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
81 HORSES ARE CREMATED
Palace Stables Are Burned at Column
bus, and the Loss Exceeds
S5O.OOO.OO.

COLUMBUS, Oct. 2.-Ninety-one
horses and mules were burned to
death in a fire early this morning
which destroyed the Palace stables
and damaged two adjoining buildings
at a total loss of between $40, 900
and 100000.
A large number of horses on the
first floor of the stable were rescued,
but they made a frantic effort after
ward to get back into the burning
building. Nearly all of the live stock
on the second floor persisted, and over
fifty carriages, buggies and VehlcIes
were destroyed. The cries OF the dy-
ing animals we're frightful. One
horse jumped from second story
window and escaped.
The Walls Collapse.
Several persons had narrow es-
capes when one of the walls of the
building collapsed The Palace sta
Bile company, of which Newell r.
Bowden is president, estimates its
loss at $4,000, with $4,000 insur-
ance. Most of the live stock burned
were owned by outside people, and
the loss is distributed among GOOD
many persons.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
FOUGHT TAX ON futures
crORGIANS DECLARE GROWERS
ARE MUCH OPPOSED TO 1T.
We're Unanimous Against One Pro-
posaI, But on Final Vote Three
Split to Underwood.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-ln response
70 hundreds of protests from the
state the Georgia delegation in the
house tonight put up strenuous
fght against the passage of either
the Clarke amendment or the Smith
Lever substitute through that body
They contended on the floor that
neither measure is acceptable TO inc
cotton growers, but on the final vote
representative Hardwick, Crisp and
Loo voted for the Smith-LeVer
amendment, preferring that to the
clarke amendment. Representatives
BARTLETT, Bell, Hughes, Tribble, How
ard and Walker voted against it, de-
c1aring that they wanted no compro-
mise on the matter.
Fight Underwood Motion.
When Leader Underwood moved
that the conferees recede from their
action of rejecting the Clarke amend
ment and substitute for the Clarke
amendment the Smith-Lever measure
Representative Hardwick, in behalf
of the delegation, led the hght
against the motion. Mr.. HardWick
declared protests from the state ask
ed that the question be let alone,
that he and others in Georgia favor
ed abolishing gambling on the eX-
change, not licensing it as each OF
these measures proposed to do. tie
urged that there be no compromise
hos nl9PA
in tariff bill.
Hughes Opposes Gambling.
Representative Hughes said he was
opposed to gambling in cotton and
wanted it abolished, but was oppos-
ed to both amendments as being UNI
fit for the purpose he wished accom-
plished.
Regarding the statement that the
abolition of the exchanges would put
the growers at the mercy of the man
ufacturers he said he had rather
deal with the cotton spinners than
with the cotton gambler.
Delegation Votes SOlidly.
All the delegation present voted
solidly against the Underwood mo-
ton. which carried. On the next
motion, however, which was the
adoption of the Smith-Lever substi-
tute of the Clarke amendment, three
split to the Underwood side, believ-
ing that if the Underwood motion
lost the Clarke amendment would be
carried. This, they considered, would
bo roucb UorSe than the Smith-LeVeT
bill. Representatives Edwards and
Adamson were absent.
1t is not believed at all probable
that the senate will adopt the Smith
Lever substitute or that there Will De
any cotton futures legislation in this
or the regular session of the present
congress. This is in spite OF the tact
that the substitute is straight ad-
ministration measure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
KIDNAPPED MARRIED WOMAN?
j. j. Crosby, Who Left in Company
With Mrs. Hill, Released After
Raing Carried tO Americas

AMERICUS, Ga.-The arrest here
of j. ]. Crosby upon the charge OF
having kidnapped a young married
woman today was followed by his
release this afternoon when the case
was heard before Judge William
Harper.
Crosby and a Mrs. Hill are alleged
to have left Americas aboard the
same train Sunday afternoon. At
Fort Valley Crosby was arrested up
on a statutory charge, but was re-
leased on bond, it is said, and return
ed here. When Crosby returned to
Americas this morning he was arrest
ed and jailed upon the kidnapping
charge.
The young woman recently had
been employed in Americas as man
Tourist. 1t is said she has gone to
her relatives in Atlanta. Her hus-
band lives here. Crosby, who it is
said has been married, represents an
installment establishment with head
quarters in Americas and Albany.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
BLIND" SEES X-RAY SKIRT
Ohio Mayor viii Test Eyes of Beg
gar Who ''Rubbered" Woman
in DiaphanOus Gown.

A Lima, Ohio, dispatch says that
scientific inquiry into the normal
condition of the eyes Off Thomas
Kern, a begging blind man, has
been ordered by Mayor Shook, fo;-
lowig the alleged development in mu-
ricipal court that Kern found little
optical impairment in discerning the
form of a woman in a diaphanous
gown on the street.
With a please help the blind"
sign pinned across the front of his
coat, darkened glasses over his eyes
and a tin cup resting in his hands
Kern sat at the depot, ar object of
pity, until as the woman passed he
dropped his cup, snatched away his
glasses, took a long rubber" and
then started to resume his pose,
when a policeman arrested him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
SCHOOL TO TRAIN BANDITS
IN DEPLORABLE CONDITION SCH(
LATEST THING IN EDUCATIONAL
LINE is AT LUDLOW, Ky.
Head Professor in the College Is a
Former Robber, Who Has Made
Money Enough to Retire.

money enough 10 ReIlfe.
JACKSON, Miss.--Teaching young
men the art of robbing trains is the
latest wrinkle in the educational line,
according to a railroad detective who
was here today en- route to Alabama
to join in the chase after the bandits
who held up a train on the Alabama
Great Southern railroad Thursday
night.
The school for train robbers, the
railroad sleuth said, is located at
Ludlow, KY. The head professor in
the college of bandits is a former
train robber who made enough mon
ey to retire from the business. Wish
ing to keep the industry going he es-
tablished a place for the education of
young men who wish to emulate the
James boys and other noted bandits,
Practically all of the loot secured
in train robberies, the detective said,
is carried to Ludlow, where it is di-
vided. The men who actually par
ticipate in the hold-ups receive the
greater part of the 'swag," but GER
tain others who help plan the rob-
berries get varying percentages.
The robberies are carefully mapped
out and planned in the school at Lud-
low by the head professor and his
associates, the detective alleged. Men
are picked for the jobs, each being
drilled in the part he is to perform.
The detective said he has been
watching the Ludlow bandit school
for some time, having spent nearly
month at that place. The work of
teaching the youthful highwaymen is
done at night in a carefully guarded
room.
There is no doubt, the detective
said, that the Alabama Great South
ern robbery and the recent attempt
ed hold-up on the Mobile & Ohio rail
road, near Sorinth, Miss, were the
performances of men from the Lud
low school for highwaymen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
CONDITION OF COTTON GAL
As Compared With 69.6 in 1912.
Georgia Shows Z Per Cent
Better Condition.

WASHINGTON, Oct 2.-The con-
dition of the cotton crop of the Unit
ed States on Thursday, September
25, was GAL per cent of a normal
compared with $50 per cent on Au-
gust 25, 1913, 69.6 per cent on Sep
TENDER %, 1912, Ill per cent on
September %, 1911, 69.5 per cent
on September %, 1910, and 68.6 per
cent, the average of the past ten
wears on September % This an
nouncement was made at noon today
by the Crop Reporting Board, Blu
reau of Statistics, United States De-
partment of Agriculture, in its final
condition report of the season, the
condition being estimated from re-
ports of it's correspondents and
agents throughout the cotton belt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
Remarkable jury Summoned to
LnQu1e Into Anna Aun1uller'S Death

i, of the slain girl should come up. He
believes, it is said, that future juries
would be guided by the decision OF
this jury. Perhaps he counts too
much upon the influence upon the
ordinary men of list of men whose
names are well known the country
over. Why should such jury be
any more competent than a jury of
men less well known to decide wheth-
err the few human relics that are
exhibits in the case are really pieces
of the body of Anna Aumuller? It
isn't clear why finding of a jury
of rich men should be of more value
as a precedent than that of jury of
men in moderate circumstances.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
FLOOD CONDITIONS WORSE
SKIFFS ARE PLYING STREETS OF
SOME LOUISIANA TOWNS.
Many Low Lying Sections of Lake
Charles District Are Inundated.
The River Is Rising.


LAKE CHARLES, With the
Calcasieu river rising an inch an
hour flood conditions in Lake Charles
and vicinity today continued to grow
worse. Unconfirmed reports of life
loss have been received here, but YER
ification is impossible owing to lack
of communication. Many of the low
lying sections of the city have been
inundated, forcing inhabitants to
take to the upper stories of their
homes. The flood invaded the bust
ness district today Ryan, the prin-
cipal business street, is flooded at
many places and stocks of business
houses are being removed from the
lower floors.
City in Darkness.
The city was in darkness last night,
the electric plant having closed down
when its engine room was flooded
1t will probably be week before it
can resume operation. Street car SER
vice is suspended, and the water
Only the Iron Mountain and Lam
cassine branch of the Southern Pa
cific railroads are operating trains.
The main line of the latter road is
flooded for a distance of three miles.
Passengers are being transferred by
boats.
Skiffs and motor boats are being
used in different parts of the city.
All the saw mills along the river
were under water this morning.
Thousands of logs have been lost by
the bursting of log booms. Many
farm buildings have been washed
away and much live stock drowned.
Reports from the surrounding
country tell of flooded conditions ev-
erywhere and serious damage to the
rice crop.
The crest of the flood is expected
to reach here within forty-eight
hours.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03

Perhaps the most remarkable jury
ever summoned by a coroner to in
vestigate a crime is that which will
probe the death of Anna Aumuller
with whose murder in New York
Hans Schmidt is charged. Coroner
Feinberg called upon thirty-eight of
the best known business men in the
city, among whom Theodore P.
Shonts, Harry Payne Whitney,
George F. Baker, j. P. Morgan, Vim
cent Astor, George Gould John Rock
efeller. Jr., and others, to serve. He
said that he had decided to call such
an unusual jury because he wished
to provide a precedent il case an"
Question of the identity of the body
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
SMALLPOX PATIENT HAS
WHOLE CAR TO HIMSELF
Other Passengers Beat Hasty RETREAT
When They Found Him Aboard.

Other Passengers Beat Hasty RETREAT
When They Found Him Aboard.
VaIdosta, Ga.-Passengers ana
train crew on a Georgia and Florida
railroad train had a few uncomtorta-
BILE hours yesterday, when it was dis
covered that a man recovering from
smallpox was on the train. he had
just been released from the pest
house at Moultrie.
1t was a passenger who first no
ticed the man. His face was covered
with sores. -,
What's the matter with you
queried the sympathetic passenger.
Smallpox, mumbled the SICK
man.
Instantly there was hurried exc
dus from the car. The sick man hao
it to himself until he left the train
at Douglas.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
RAMBLING IN THE WOODS
DELIRIOUS AND ALMOST NAKED
YOUNG LADY FOUND.
While Suffering From Delirium OF
Fever She Left Home. Belongs
to Prominent Family.

ATLANTA-A beautiful young
woman with bare and bleeding feet,
her clothes half torn from her body
and a vacant stare in her eyes, was
seen by an amazed county policeman
on McDonough road late yesterday
afternoon walking along a narrow
ledge at the Entrenchment dam.
She was walking with her. eyes
lifted toward the sky; single mis-
step would have sent her to death a
hundred feet below. Not daring to
call to her the policeman waited until
she had completed the perilous jour
ney and then accosted her. He soon
saw that the young woman was de
Iirious and apparently suffering with
fever. He took her to a neigh5or-
ing farm house and telephoned for
the police.
At police headquarters it was
found that the young woman was
Miss Alice Palmer, daughter OF a
prominent and wealthy Georgia fam
lily, who had disappeared from the
residence she was visiting, 100 South
Moreland avenue, two days before.
While suffering from the delirium
of a sudden fever, it appears, she
wandered away from the house and
afterwards walked six or eight miles,
barefooted, in complete trance.
When she came to herself at po-
lice headquarters her greatest con-
Germ was a Shepherd dog, a pet,
which she remembers accompanied
her when she set out on the strange
walk, and which was not with her
when she was found Miss Palmer's
relatives have been notified and are
on their way to Atlanta.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
WHY a5O-MlLE EXTRA RIDE7
Congress May Make Inquiry as to
why Delegation to Funeral Was
Carried Around BY Atlanta.

WASHINGTON.-Talk among the
attaches of various Georgia congress
men indicates that there will be some
inquiry when the delegation returns
from Townsville as to why the spe-
eial train was routed by Atlanta, $50
miles out of the way.
The local passenger agent of the
Atlantic Coast Line has been asked
by his chief why the trip was not
made by the direct line. Two nights
on the way were required by Allan
ia, whereas one night would have
been sufficient the other way. Sew
eral members of the committee are
said to have wondered before they
left at the long journey.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
DISCOVERED -or Husband Is Woman
After Ben. Married Six MOnEhS

housekeeping on a ranch near
Meeker.
Not until three days ago did the
bride know that she had not married
man, and then she refused to be-
lieve she had been deceived until Or.
Samuel Prince, the county physician,
solemnly assured her that JACK
was quite a normal girl.
But Anna really loved Jack as
much as Jack loved Anna, and she
was content to let well enough alone.
But Annals big brother, Victor Slit
ka, shoe merchat of Meeker, who
heard of the deception, thought 9th
erwise, and Jack" was arrested and
charged with impersonation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
TARIFF BILL UP TO SENATE
WILSON'S SUPPORT GETS TAX ON
COTTON FUTURES THROUGH.
Measure Passed by Vote of 2O4 to
1O3 With Several Progressive Re-
pubIicans Voting For 1t.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The demo-
cratic tariff revision bill left the
house tonight on what the party lead
ers hoped would be it's last journey to
the senate. After many hours of de-
bate the house adopted the main con-
ference agreement on the bill, 254 to
1913, almost a strict party vote, and
by this action gave its endorsement
to everything in the measure except
the cotton futures tax.
Cotton Futures Tax Passed.
At the end of a short but bitter
fight that followed the adoption of
the report Representative Under
wood, the democratic leader, succeed
ed in carrying through the SMITH
Lever cotton futures tax amendment
by a vote Of III to 161. Democrats
and republicans alike voted on this
without regard to party and a large
portion of the democratic member
ship from Southern states Joined in
the vigorous demand that the whole
subject be carried owed to another
session of congress.
The cotton futures tax question
now rests entirely with the senate.
The house concurred in the Clarke
amendment, put into the tariff bill by
the senate, but added the Smith
Lever-Underwood plan as another
amendment.
Endorsed by President.
Unless the senate will accept this
change, which has the endorsement
of the president, the whole cotton
futures plan again will have to be
considered in the Joint conference
committee and again reported to both
houses for action.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03

DENVER, Col.-An astonish4
story of how a girl lived as a wife
for six months and never knew her
husband was a woman was told
here before Justice Sanderson.
The outcome of the hearing was
the holding of the husband in $500
bail for court on the charge of i'm
personation.
Six months ago Anna Slifka, the
22-year-old daughter of prosper
Gus Rio Blanco county ranchman,
met Jack HILL" who made love to
her, proposed and was accepted
The wedding bells rang soon af-
terward, and the newlyweds went to
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
is, 900 GREEK REFUGEES FACING
WINTER AND STARVATION.
Find shelter in Stables, Sheds and
Out Houses. Are In a Pitiable
State of Misery.

SOFIA.-The agents sent out by
the Balkan committee from London
to relieve restitution prevailing in
Macedonia have found the refugees
from the fringe of the late Greek
conquests in a pitiable state of mis-
cry The worst state of things is
found just south of this city, which
is crowded with refugees, who are
still pouring in from the new Greek
territory in Macedonia.
Efforts are being made to repatri-
ate them, but without much success,
as they are in state of panic. In
Samokav and Nubrutza the refugees
are finding shelter in school houses,
stables and other outhouses. All of
them are destitute, without clothes
and many are in a Wretched condl-
ton of health. The people of these
places naturally are anxious to see
their unsought guests repatriated,
as the best the Bulgarian govern
ment can do for them is to provide
bread. However, an agent sent to
their former villages reports a de-
plorable condition of affairs there.
Practically all of the villages have
been burned and the rehousing of the
refugees before winter sets in is i'm
possible.
The Greeks in the vicinity of
Drama, where all of the villages have
been burned, are doing admirable
work in feeding the people, many of
whom are lodged in converts Fiji
teen thousand refugees are said to
be in the vicinity Of Drama. When
the cold weather sets in shortly there
is certain to be terrible suffering.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
FUTURE TAX KILLED IN CAUCUS
Senate and House Will Drop the Mat
ter for the Present.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. II
Discussion among democratic sena-
tors which today prevented final ac-
ton on the tariff bill, was dissipated
under the influence of heated eau
Gus discussion and this evening the
caucus APP roved the bill as reported
by the conference committee of the
house an6 senate But six demo-
Gratis votei against approving the re-
port.
The caucus decided to abandon its
position on the proposition in the bill
to tax dealings in cotton futures and
leave the entire subject for later leg
islative action Both the amendment
of Senator Clarke, of Arkansas, writ
ten into the bill into the senate, and
less drastic administration substitute
presented by Leader Underwood and
adopted by the house, will be thrown
out by the senate democrats
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
SUPPOSED INSECT AND
SNAKE ANCESTOR CAUGHT
DIR. Ruthven of Michigan University
Brings Pair From Venezuela.

Brings Pair From Venezuela.
DR.. Alexander K Ruthven, cura-
tor of the University of Michigan
museum, his assistant, Frederick K.
Gaige, and DIR. A. S. Pearse of the
University of Wisconsin have just re-
turned from two months spent in the
mountains between Venezuela and
Colombia.
Much of the region had never been
studied by scientists, it is claimed.
TIE professors returned with many
valuable specimens of reptile7 in
sects and crustacea, some of them
regarded as extremely rare.
Among other specimens found was
an insect sort Of creature known as
the peripitus, supposed to be the an
cestor of all snakes and insects. The
expedition also brought back pair
of large boa constructors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
GEORGIA SECOND IN BALES
ONLY Texas Has Marketed More Cot
ton This Year. Census Bureau
Figures Announced.

WASHINGTON D. c., Oct. p
Cotton of the growth of 1913 ginned
prior to September 25 amounted to
3,237S5t bales, the census bureau
announced today.
Round bales included 27324. Bales
of sea island cotton 1875
Ginning by states:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-03
GR1sT STONE kills TWO.

James Sullivan and Henry Strong
were killed at Hazelhurst, Miss, yes
terday when the grist stone of a mill
burst. Both men were struck by
fragments of the rock. Sullivan was
decapitated.