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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
BOY GETS
CARNEGIE MEDAL AND CASH
Joe Blackshear Saved the Lives of
Three Young Ladies.

THOMASVILLE.-Joe Blackshear
of this city is very proud of the hand
some bronze medal just received by
him and which bears in the center the
inscription: Awarded to j. Joseph
Blackshear, who saved Caroline Fid-
dler, Ruby MeMath and Lila Brinson
from drowning, Thomasville, Ca,
May IS, 1912"
The educational fund which goes
with the medal will be taken advant-
age of by young Blackshear in finish
ing his education, and he has already
made application for entrance to the
Riverside Military Academy for the
fall term.
1t was at a school picnic at Rod
denbery Park that the three young
girls were rescued, the springboard
on which they were jumping break
ing and precipitating them into wa
ter above their heads Young Black
shear, who was only IA years of age,
jumped in, without thinking of his
own safety, and succeeded in rescu-
ing the three girls.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
A BIG FORTUNE
AWAITS THE HEIRS
500, 900 for Descendants of DIR. Jo-
siah Boswell and Wife. Their
Whereabouts Are Unknown.

MACON, Ga.-An effort is being
made to locate heirs of DR.. Josiah
Boswell and Mrs. Harriet Gregory
Boswell, who were prominent resi-
dents of Macon when this city was
mere village, 100 years ago. There is
fortune of 100000 awaiting the
heirs at Wichita Falls, Texas. A re-
ward of $500 has been offered to
anyone who knows anything of the
whereabouts of any of the heirs.
One hundred years ago DIR. Bos-
well, who was educated in medical
college in Philadelphia, came South
and married Miss Harriet Gregory,
then living in Virginia. They came
TO Macon to live and during their res
idence here became the parents of
four children, Levi Gregory Boswell,
Peter John Boswell and Sarah and
Marie Boswell If any of the chill
dren are now living they would be
100 years old at least. 1t is thought
some of their children may be livine,
but their whereabouts are unknown.
Mayor Smith remembers when the
Boswells were prominent residents OF
this city, but he has no idea VIII t
became of them. They are said to
have gone from here to Wetumpka,
Ala, where DR.. and Mrs. Boswell
separated, the latter marrying. a man
named Smith, going with him to
Texas
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
THE 'WELLS-FARGO
HAS LOST $2Oo,O0O.00
Three Men Held Accused of System
attic Thefts by Smooth Scheme.
A System of Thievery.

CHICAGO.-With three men un-
der arrest here today, one of whom
is said to have confessed detectives
claim to have uncovered a system of
thefts through which the company
has been robbed of merchandise to-
taling nearly 100000 within the
last - years.
The men under arrest are Frank
Wilson, who is alleged to have dis
posed of the stolen goods; Benjamin
Watkins, an employe of the express
company, and a man known to the
police only as the mysterious man,
who is said to have travelled under
as many as twenty aliases.
Watkins was employed by the
United States Express Company,
which was absorbed by the Wells
Fargo more than a year ago. For
eleven years previous to that time.
detectives said, the United States
company had been losing an average
of $4,000 worth of goods month.
Watkins remained in the service
when the United States company was
absorbed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
SLATON SAYS HE
DID NOT SAY 1T
The Former Governor Declares That
Many Good People DisapprOved of
His Action in Frank Case.

ATLANTA.-'I have never said
anywhere that all the good people in
Georgia approved my action in the
Frank case, says former Governor
John NJ. Slaton in letter to an At
lanta friend. Il have always said
that many good people disagreed
with me. Many, l know, feel that l
interfered unduly with a court judg-
ment, but I think that when they find
their mistake and know the facts
they will see that I did not. / did
only what the trial judge asked NE
to do and what under oath I felt it
my duty to do; that is, I supplanted
one penalty provided by the statute
for the crime in question for another
penalty"
The former governor dismisses as
ridiculous the assertions that ne has
designated those disagreeing with
him as an irresponsible element.
81 have stated that those persons
who, following my decision, threat
ened unlawful violence did not repre-
sent even the body of those who dis
agreed with me- says the former
governor. II thought this explana-
ton due my state and particularly
those good citizens whose views on
the case in question differ from my
own -
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
MERCHANTS CANNOT
USE PRIZE DRAWINGS
TO DO so IS A VIOLATION OF "A
STATE LAW, AND SUBJECTS
ONE TO PROSECUTION.
THE LAW HAS BEtN TESTED
The Supreme Court in Passing On
Cases Before 1t Upheld Verdicts of
Lower Courts, Saying the Scheme
Is Common Gambling.

Is Common Gambling.
Merchants or others cannot have
drawings for prizes given to custom
ers, for it is violation of the state
law. Neither can any merchant or
individual give away anything to in
duce trade if in the giving of which
the element of chance enters and adj
yertises the same through the mails,
same being a violation of the postal
regulations.
This Mr.. f. E. Hall of Triton found
out. He arranged to distribute
number of sets of crockery to his GUS
toners, giving away one set every
Saturday afternoon. He knew moth
ing about any law to the contrary,
and acted in perfect good faith. He
had begun advertising the gift when
his attention was called to the fact
that it was against the law. He con-
suited a lawyer and following the re-
ceipt of his opinion Immediately CALI
ed in the advertising and will either
sell the crockery or send it back to
the parties from whom it was pur-
chased.
In order that others may not be
put to the trouble and expense that
Mr.. Hall had to undergo, while in
nocent of any intention to violate the
law, we print below a copy Of the
opinion furnished him.
Section 397 of the Code of 1910
says: IF any person, either by him
self or his agents, shall sell or offer
for sale, or procure for or furnish to
any person any ticket, number, COM
bination or chance, or anything rep
resenting a chance, in any lottery, gift
enterprise or other similar scheme or
device, whether such lottery, gift en-
terprise, or scheme shall be operated
in this state or not, he shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor."
The supreme court in passing upon
this section in the case Of Russell
VS.. Equitable Loan and Security Co.
said:
"A gift enterprise is a sporting
artifce by which, for example, mer-
chant or tradesman sells his wares
for their market value, but by way
of inducement gives to each purchas-
er a ticket which entities him to a
chance to win certain prizes, to be
determined after the manner Of lot
terry"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17

war. Between March 81, 1914, and
March 81. 1915, according to the
budget, England's debt expanded by
$2,294, 100000 to the beWilderlng
total of $3.50, 100000. 1t is very
much larger now and upon the pres
ent scale of expenditure and borrow
ing unless the revenue is increased
by additional taxation, if the war con-
tinues another year the debt by
March 81, 1915, will have grown to
$40. 1884, 100000.
War expenditures are increasing,
and a conservative estimate places
the outlay now at about $55, 100000
a day. The cost has been enormously
expanded by Italy's entrance into the
struggle, by the operations of the al
lies at the Dardanelles and by the
urgency of the demand for arms and
ammunition.
Silver Bullets viii Win.
Everything points to much greater
increases There is no sign or pros
pect of peace. The nations are now
beginning to emphasize the sound
ness of their financial standing. They
foresee the terrific demands OF the
future and are discounting the re-
ports of financial exhaustion that are
bound to arise. Above all they show
that they have given heed to Lloyd
Georges famous dictum that the war
will be won by the nation that will
be able to throw the last hundred
millions on the table, the nation with
most silver bullets.
70 OF Ob Wi
alone. but with money" says the
French minister of finance.
Germany points with pride to the
fact that her gold reserve is double
what it was before the outbreak OF
the war.
The money viewpoint is beginning
to trouble all of them. England, for
example, has made enormous loans
to her allies, particularly to the
smaller nations, the amounts OF
which are strict government secrets.
Expense Rate Growing.
In every part of the world the eX-
pense is growing. 1t cost the Union
of South Africa, for example, $751;
100000 to conquer of German South
west Africa. The war forced the
United States to raise 500, 100000
emergency revenue. Such suns as
these. aggregated oTer the whole eX-
tent of the earth, swell enormously
the terrific cost to humanity.
But it is Europe that must pay the
most dreadful price OF all, hopelessly
burdened for generations of bitter
toll with an incubus of debt sappins
at her vitals, embiItering her efforts
and crushing the energies of her peo-
pies.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
PRIEST REFUSES
$15,0O0,0OO LEFT HIM
Believed Advanced age Would Pre-
cIude Judicious Handling OF 1t.
4 Very Unusual Case.

PTTTSBURG.-Bel his ad-
vanced age and an occasional attack
of rheumatism would preclude judi
cious handling of great wealth Re,
William Graham, pastor of st. Pat
rick's Roman Catholic church, has
declined to accept fortune Of from
s12,OOO.O0O to $4,000 600 left him
recently through the death Of rela-
tives in Sidney, Australia, and 30
livia South America.
Il have no desire to add to my
burdens a lot of wealth that would
bring me no satisfaction, said Rev
Graham.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
HOSELESS GIRL FATHERS
HOLD MEN CENTRALIZED
Beaches Had Masculine Gallery That
Merely Stood and Watched.

CHICAGO.-The city fathers pub
lished bathing rules for city daugh-
tiers recently and among the provis-
ions was one informing daughters
they could eliminate stockings if they
desired.
This was the first really warm day
of the season. Three municipal
beaches and five pay beaches were
crowded with 5000 women and girls.
Half of the women went stockfngless
into the waves.
All the beaches had a masculine
gallery that merely stood and didn't
go near the water. Many aldermen
on hand to see how the rules worked
went home satisfied.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
100000 IN GOLD
FROM ENGLAND
Morgan and Company Receive Certifi-
Gates Under Heavy Guard.
The Largest Shipment.

NEW York; special train car
rying fifty-two million dollars in gold
securities arrived this morning from
Halifax. The shipment was made
by the Bank of England from Lon
don. 1t was guarded by forty armed
men. 1t was brought to Halifax on
a battleship guarded by cruiser
and several torpedo boat destroyers.
1t is said to be the largest ship
ment of gold that ever crossed the
ocean on one vessel. The battleship
is also said to have brought gold for
the Canadian treasusy.
The fifty-two millions were con-
signed to J. P. Morgan & Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
WANT A MILLION HEAD
OF AMERICAN CATTLE
Liverpool Firm Asks For Estimates
of Chicago Packers.

HELENA. Monte. o. Robinson
representative of a large p@cAlns
company of Chicago, made puOh0
here today a copy Of a cablegram
from Liverpool sent to the Chicaso
ofca asking that an estimate be fur
nisbed of the cost of one million neao
Of American beef cattle delivered at
Liverpool. ...
The order, if filed, said ROBINSON
wo,,Id require payment OF ABOUT
500 100000 and would MAKE F%S'
tnroads on the available cattle in the
United States.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
+" 100000 BUSHELS
OF EPICUREAN JOY"
Palates of thousands VIII Respond
Unwearyingly to Their Delicacy.
Means Trouble for 'Possums.

While unlimited publicity is going
just now to the government crop re-
port and its prodigious figures on
wheat and corn little attention and
scant space have been devoted to the
joyful news regarding the lowly ipo-
moea batatas, or sweet potato of or
binary commerce, comments the New
York Press.
Six hundred and sixty thousand
acres were planted this year, as COM
pared with sos, 900 last year, and the
probable yield will be 64,000,00O
bushels, or an increase of nearly
100000 bushels over 1914.
Sixty-four million bushels of cpl
curean joy; and if we could multiply
the bushels by the number of sweets
in each measure, as Col. Sellers was
wont to figure the possible demand
for his celebrated eye wash by count
ing two eyes to each customer, we
should reach somewhere near the
number of separate pleasures which
this years crop is going to provide.
Boiled or baked, grilled or buried
in hot ashes, dripping with butter, or
shining with a coating of sugar, the
palates of a thousand thousand will
respond unwearyingly to their deli
cacy. But it will be a mighty bad
year for 'possums way down South,
where the sweet potato and the
'possum are coordinate and con-
iunctiye
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
UNFOUNDED REPORTS
ALPHABETICALLY DENIED
COMMISSIONERS RAINEY TELLS
OF THE CONDITIONS AT THE
STATE PRISON FARM.
SUGGESTS TWO AMENDMENTS

One Is to Allow Sending Some State
Farm Inmates TO Roads. and Other
Is to Consign Insane Inmates TO
tho State Asylum.
The following news story was car
ried in the columns of the Macon
Evening News of recent date:
Charges of mismanagement of the
state farm and alleged brutal meth
DDS of Warden J. F. Smith, as out
lined in articles recently in the Tele-
graph. are branded as being without
foundation by Prison Commissioner
E. L. Rainey Commissioner Rainey
and Chairman R. E. Dawson, of the
prison commission, were in Macon
Tuesday on their way back to Atlanta
after a short inspection trip of the
state farm.
II believe that Warden Smith is a
man fully imbued with a thorough
idea of prison management" said Mr.
Rainey.
LAS far as the charge that Leo NJ.
Frank was working at a roller top
desk, there seems to be nothing in
the world to justify that statement.
Frank was doing mental work in
the prison from the time he entered
it, wearing stripes, until the time he
was wounded. When he gets well he
will again resume the stripes and the
mental work. 1t was believed advisa-
BILE, and justly, too, to keep him with
in the prison enclosure, at work, in
stead of in the fields, because of the
liability of danger, both of escape and
personal injury. This is sane and
a very sensible reason.
There are in the prison about 500
inmates, most of them people who
are i'll, feeble and, in some instances,
insane. There are some able-bodied
men on the farm, this is necessary
to carry on successfully the opera
tions of this large institution.
Mr.. Rainey suggests two amend
ments to the state law which would
materially improve conditions. One
is to allow the sending of some who
are sent to the state farm to the road
gangs and the other is to allow the
prison commission to consign the in
sane inmates to the state asylum.
Both of these privileges are not in
cluded in the powers of the commits
sion at the present time, and there
can be little if any objection to the
adoption of both suggestions.
THE sanitary conditions are not as
desirable as the commission would
like, but this is due entirely to the
lack of an appropriation, and not to
the failure to appreciate its import
ance or realize it's necessity Oh the
part of the commission. The place is
neat and clean, as some who have
been there quite recently will attest.
The prisoners are treated with the
same amount of careful attention that
is deemed wise and judicious, but
they are not allowed to enjoy para
disc of comfort and ease, nor to be
free from usual methods of discip-
line. A prison made a palace is, in
reality, not a prison, and does not
meet the needs of one, as the law
would establish its usages.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
COLLEAGUES THANK
SENATOR PICKETT
Georgia Legislators Are Treated to
a Supply of Chero Cola by EleV-
artb District Representative.

The following resolutions were
unanimously adopted by the state
senate before adjournment;
Resolved by the senate, that the
thanks of this body are hereby e1-
tended to the Hon. Dewitt c. Pick
EFT. senator from the Eleventh dis
trict for his kindness in furnishing
this body with a supply. OF CheTo-
Cola. It's invigorating effect mas
thrown a ray of sunshine through the
cloud of our arduous duties, and we
hereby declare there is none 50
good.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
NOT THAT MANY.

''25, 900 gals in and out every
hour read the sign Of swimming
pool of which the Argonaut tells.
That's all nonsense. said the sim
p1e-minded son, there amt that
many women in the whole country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
The Greater Losses.

It does not include, for example,
the far greater amount lost through
the destruction Of towns and villages,
the ravaging of the countryside, the
wrecking of bridges and railroads
and the wholesale sinking of ships,
and the economic loss through the
diminution in productive industry
the killing of the strongest men IN
the community and the creation or
class of cripples and madmen.
But it is the staggering debts, the
intolerable burdens laid upon the
present and future generations, that
will prove critical factors in the tu-
ture of these nations, that Will eat
like a cancer at the vitals OF industry
a permanent obstacle to prosperity
even to moderate comfort, crushing
burden that will drive some of these
countries into national bankruptcy or
perhaps to the alternative OF repudl-
alton, feared by creditor nations VINO
are now neutral.
Take the case of England for exam
pIe. Her national debt in the pres
emit form dates from the revolution
of 1859 and Marlborough wars
against Louis XIV of France. The
outstanding loans of bankers and
merchants and goldsmiths were gath
cred together and funded into an IS
sue which by 1897 totaled S1O7,ofo,-
600. The necessities OF subsequent
wars. the American revolution and
the Napoleonic struggle among them
and the requirements for internal i'm
provement increased this original
debt: years of peace and the appllca-
ton of the sinking fund reduced H.
II has been a changing and shifting
amount for more than 200 years. At
the end of the Transvaal war IN
19O3-which cost s1.100.000,000-
the British debt stood at $3.50, COO
600. It had shrunk TO $3.50, OV0'-
600 by March 81, 1914.
The whole of this latest debt re
ductiop of s445, 100000 accomplish
ed in II years was swept away IN
brief first two months Of the present
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
MUST RESIDE IN THE SOUTH
TO INHERIT MILLION DOLLARS

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-The will of
J. w. Huger, millionaire fertilizer
manufacturer. filed for probate here,
leaves property valued at $1,000
600 to his wife and three children
provided they continue to live in the
South. Change of residence forfeits
their right to the money. Mr.. Huger
died at Skyville, N. c., several days
ago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
NEW COUNTY HEARING Is
POSTPONED TILL 1916 SESSION

Movement at Arlington to Create La
mar County Temporarily Halted.
The movement to create the new
county of Lamar with Arlington as
the capital was not given hearing
before the legislative committee, be-
ing postponed by the advocates of the
proposition until the 1916 session of
the legislature.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
How They Voted.
SAFETY FIRST.

h. ald the accident happen?''
, rea7s o' run over when he stopped
safety first sign"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
Made BY Sheppard

Il The fact that Immediately follow
ling the reading of the governors mes
sage motion to adjourn sine die was
u made by Representative Sheppard of
Sumter, one of the prohibition lead
eB in the house, was regarded as
8highly significant of the certainty
peryading the ranks of the prohibit
tlonlsts regarding the governors in
n tentions.
& Going back to the likelihood of a
prolonged session in the event the
governor does include prohibition in
8hlS call those familiar with the line
4 qp declare the anti-prohibition forces
nave sufficient strength in the house
q 10 sustain the call for ayes and nays,
U "nlcn means. as every one knows who
Is familiar with parliamentary pro-
Ceaure, that the ants can sustain a
munster almost indefinitely.
y mat the opponents of prohibition
#%fe determined to defeat prohibition
cessation at we'll nigh any cost was
demonstrated more or less conclu-
As'eiy when the prohibition forces in
.le mousse attempted to pass a resOlu-
non lhStructing the temperance com
uiI'ee 10 report within twenty~fOur
nouIS on the prohibition bills. The
h S e,I blocked this resolution with a
Il nHouster extending over two days
4 Gnu a MALT just at a time when the
& R,' passage of the appropriation
IL" was OF vital Importance, thereby
fsnO"lhs that they were willing to
, ro an extra session. if necessary.
. @rneI than let the prohibition bills
SVome to a vote.
To Defeat Bills.
q han N Tact, the leaders of the anti-pro-
~ t'!slon forces have made no secret
bil tIelF intention to defeat the pro-
81 ei lJ.yloA bills as long as they can pos
4 a ,0,s slaI off action upon them. With
tbo a votes to sustain the call for
MA ny ~ eS and nays they can filibuster
jsst s'''alIy as long as the session
ter nue. prohibitionists are Just as de-
81 3ea r,.hea to block legislation of any
Z co9Sdered. '''0-' Gus
gon t'.ee 1t is regarded as a fore
csr H. cQlnciusion that an extra session
81 Dion rou ny the governor to pass an ap-
81 hiSMtia.a Iion bill and pass on the pro-
q loct I'M ~ ollls will bring on a dead
"a berir .iat Is liable to last until the
Il sian 1D'-ng Of the next regular ses-
~ How They Voted.
"a atiT VIZ vote in the house of represent
taka1 70 force an extra session was
anotb.I our times, in one form and
nays vs. VI Each time the ayes and
8 Note We ~eLe called and each time the
ing fro os practically the same, rang
lot to ,V aa y to II on the first bal
Mr. " " TO "A on the fourth ballot.
hosa ~, romans of Terrell is among
made =, gao voted for the motion that
npers ne calling of an extra session
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
S11,880,000,O00


Grand total, all loans$17, sci $50, 600
These are just loans made by the
various peoples to their governments
to defray the daily cost of great mill
tary operations. This huge sum does
not measure the enormous total loss.