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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
Indians Wealthy By Chance
From the Washington Post.

1T was chance that gave the Snake Indians the
valuable lands in the Cushing oil fields, said A
H. Davis, of Mouscogee, Okla. When the Indians
under the leadership of Chtto Harjo refused to
accept allotments as made by the federal govern
ment the government took the into its own
hands and gave the Indians what considered
at the time almost valueless lands. The Creeks
had the chance to select their tracts, and they
took what everybody thought were the choice
lands. The hills, hollows and sand dunes that
were left went to the Snake Indians.
These same hollows and hills, however, turn
ed out to be later the Cushing oil fields, the rich
est oil section the world has known. The
campaign of the Snakes against the allotment of
lands in 1900 became heated that military forces
were sent to put down the rebellion. The upris-
ing of the Harjo band continued until as late
as 1905 when there still 1900 Creek In
dian land patents uncalled for in the office of the
Dawes commission. In 1899, when the Muscogee
land office opened, there rush to file by those
citizens of the Creek nation possessing the least
Indian blood, and they secured what were the best
lands from agricultural point. Later the full
bloods began slowly to file, but many sought to
force the recalcitrant Creeks to accept what was
allotted them. But the Indians went farther into
the hills. Then came the rebellion, and the mill
tia drove the red into the hills and rounded
them up wherever possible.
Three years ago the oil developments began,
and these Indians who had been driven off the
choice lands and allotted what generally con-
sdered undesirable and vaueless lands found them
selves the of the most wonderful oil lands
in the world"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
Dumba's Dereliction.

We see no reason for any great hue and cry over
the Dumba incident. The facts are simple, and
Mr.. Wilson and the administration had only one
reasonable course of action to follow. They fol-
lowed it.
Ambassador Dumbas act in transmitting to the
Austrian government plan for calling out on strike
all Austrians employed in American ammunition
factories constituted not only grave breach OF
amoassadorial duties and diplomatic usage, but
it as well transgressed against the rudiments OF
simple good taste and courtesy.
There is no question of fact involved. The Aus
trian ambassador admits the charge. The United
States desires to remain friendly with all belg-
erent nations, Austria included but this country
will not permit such breaches this. Austria was
accordingly notified that Mr.. Dumba was persona
non grata on account of his improper conduct and
asked to recall him, which done. The entire
incident should and probably will end with the
arrival of his successor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
Playing Postum.

The festive opussum has a way of similating
sleep when he thinks he is in danger; therefore,
the colloquialism playing 'possum'
You have seen dog do that. He remains 81
lent and motionless, but with every faculty alert
and every nerve tensely rigid. Then, at the I'M
looked for moment, he buries his fangs in his as
sailant.
All of which is to say that the Russians appear
to have recently played 'possum with the Germans
on both land and
Well, you have read the stories, haven't you?
And you know what has happened to the Kaiser's
forces on land and water.
The ubiquitous 'possum is not slumbering just
because he appears to be.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
They Toe The Mark.

The railroads of the United States are the I'M
willing and not always gracefully receptive objects
Of much ''cussing" the part Of the general pub
lie, and perhaps at times they deserve at least
part Of it.
But on one score you are compelled to acknowl-
edge admiration for the great common rail
rlers if you are fair-minded. Whenever public
duty calls in time of STRESS whenever they are told
that herculean efforts are expected of them be-
cause Of unexpected disaster. they toe the mark
II manner edifying to US all The work of restor-
ing traffic into Galveston was completed in less
than two weeks after the storm had subsidized. In
nine days more than a mile of treste was built in
us entirety, a noteworthy feat under normal cir
eumstances and unusually so in this instance be-
cause Of the difficulty in securing pile drivers and
baTges
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
An Editors PRAYER.
From the MayevilIe (Mo.) Pilot.

An editor went to church the other day, and was
called on to lead in prayer, when he responded as
follows Almighty, the kind Father, who doth
from thy throne look down on the government of
delinquent subscribers We most humbly beseech
Thee to draw near unto them and whisper few
things into their that the statutes forbid us
to print. Thou knowest wants, but the sub
scrbers know them not, and seldom, if ever, stop
to inquire. Let it be known to them that there
are big patches the homestead of our pants,
and that there is aching void in the front of
back-that hunger and thirst and they
ask us not to come and sup with them. Thou
knowest, Lord, that ink and print paper cost
money, but the subscriber knoweth it not and
careth a great deal less. Thou knowest that We
are cold and the subscriber bringeth not the wood
he promised, and shivering and shaking
while he roasteth his shins before the red hot fires
of his mother. Tell him all these things, Lord
and if he faileth and bringeth succor Danish
him to the lower regions to dwell with the repub-
Hcans and calamity howlers, and Thine shall be
the praise throughout our newspaper career
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
It's Time to Stop.

The Savannah Press rightfully deplores the agl-
tation which has grown out Of the lynching OF
L. NJ Frank, and says it is tending toward great
err stirring up of strife through making the issue
in Georgia one between Tom Watson and eX-Gov-
Slaton.
There is no occasion to make the personalities
of these two so prominent Our most fate
full political errors lie right iere, declares the
Press The lesson learned from campaigns in the
not far distant past that prone to give too
much thought to political favorites and devote too
little thought to working out principles of govern
ment, should not be soon forgotten
The least that is said of the Frank case now
the better it will be for everybody. Further dis
cussion of it can do no good, and it should be
stopped.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
THE NEW BANKRUPTCY REFEREE.

From the Early County News
Col. A. H. Gray is receiving the congratulations
of his friends the fact that Judge VIM. T.
Newman has appointed him to succeed Col. w. w.
Wright resigned, as referee in bankruptcy for the
counties of Stewart, Webster, Terrell, Randolph,
Quitman Clay and Early in the Western division
of the Northern district of Georgia. Col. Gray's
Blakely friends feel doubly gratiied because the
appointment does not usually go to the same town
twice in succession but is generally rotated He
had spirited opposition for the honor, and knew
he had been in a He took the oath of office
Saturday, and Tuesday had call to Dawson to
first meeting of creditors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
A New Deal.

When the cards are shuffied and dealt again
On the other side of the day,
And the hand you held goes over the board
To the fellow that couldn't play,
Wen know whether you could take mis- hand
And play it we'll as he;
And whether the man with the thirteen trumps
Was the man he seemed to be.
Health and wealth and birth and worth
And wit are the cards you hold;
But all the cards that were dealt to him
Were hunger and rags and cold.
Oh, it's easy to win with winning hand
And to carry away the prize,
But hard to lose with winning grace
In the selfish victor's eyes.
But the Dealer that dealt us the good and i'll
viii shuttle the pack anew:
Then the trumps will go to the man that lost
And the losing cards to you.
And many a prize shall fall at last
To the fellow that couldn't play,
And the winner know how it feels to lose
On the other side of the day.
FRANKLIN K. CLIFFORD.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
Colored Cotton.
From the Utica Saturday Globe.

liant
1t isn't safe to be too skeptcal about any p;b 1
proposition after Burbank's wonders; we md
even accept the cross between the TnlIKWeea - Il
strawberry to produce strawberries ana cTe 4on 10
bore the Burbank name But if the propU9l' ,ita
raise colored cotton pans out well we snaL VIC w.
Independent of foreign dyes. thank you. II, prab.
This story from Georgia tells how A. w. cot.
ham of Olar S. c.. has succeeded in producn5 igs
ton which ranges in color from white to ceep tto
green The planter is positive that blacA . Uuss
sought for ages by spinners and manula'''
is about to become reality. ottou
to Savannah, where they have been placeu "
hibition in the cotton exchange. rz-ntiaa
The seeds used by Brabham were OF ntsosnrsiye
staple He has practiced seed selection eAtop nrde
ly ana in four years has secured in regular 9 1ig
from the Egyptian seed cream, tan green =
brown olive green and bronze - mani
Brabham believes that the sp1nners anu cot
faeturers eventually will be enabled to seeuT Nv 5.
ton in the raw or manufactured state III az
sired color.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
THE PEANUT INDUSTRY.


From the Andalusia (Ala) Star.
Some day the peanut will come into its own.
The Star has long worked for the peanut. By de-
vious of preparation many delightful and
nutritive dishes for the table can be made from
peanuts. Not only are these dishes pleasing to the
taste but they have a food value more than six
times greater than beefsteak and three times
greater than milk Peanut biscuit is of the
new discoveries Peanut oil is too well known
to require comment here. knowledge of the good
qualities of the peanut will aid materially in car
rying out the proposed diversifcation program in
Covington county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

Here is one thing that pliers our angora: These
Germans and Englishmen who ready to fight at
the drop of the hat if they imagine you have said
something sighting of Germany or England-why
the Sam Hill they not in Germany or England
or better still, in the trenches? Goodness knows
nobody will prevent them from hiking to where
the fighting is good.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
THIS is GOOD ADVICE.

From the Griffin News and Sun.
The Triton Gazette and the Griffin News and
Sun are debating which of those towns has re-
ceived the most bales of cotton. Not worth
while boys. Dawson has received more cot
ton than the combined receipts of Griffin and
Tifton-DaWson News.
Sure you have. The Terrell county agricultur
lists should practice Investigation
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
WHAT ONE ADVERTISEMENT DID.

From the Griffin News and Sun.
Merchants who have been saying that newspa~
per advertising doesn't pay should ponder over this
statement for while. certain automobile manu-
facturer on the Pacific coast inserted a two-page
advertisement in one of the papers out there for
one time. Within weeks time his sales as
result of this advertisement totaled 1900 cars,
or 81 200 900, and every sale directly trace
able to the ad. Do SUPPOSE it paid?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
A TERRELL COUNTY CORN RAISER

From the Cuthbert Liberal-Enterprise
Messrs. H. T. Bridges and w. K. Pace of near
Dawson, autoed over to Cuthbert Tuesday even
ing. Mr.. Bridges is the great corn raiser of this
section. Last year he raised 1241 bushels of corn
on ten acres-161 bushels one acre. His son
Walter raised 800 bushels two acres winning
the Roddenbery prize of trip to Washington
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

Have you got silver dollar? If so take good
look at it. 1t may be bad particularly if the date
is 1900 or 1902 Two Greeks suspected of being
expert counterfeiters, are held by the government
authorities in connection with the discovery. The
coins it stated, well executed, and casual
observation would easily fool anybody except an
exnert
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

One bright ray from the darkness of Europe is
the announcement that Russian mills are using
fifty per cent more cotton than ordinarily, and
will want hefty share of the United States crop
this season.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

The citizen who emits a low, husky growl every
time he sees an automobile going faster than four
miles an hour buys one and hits 'er up to beat the
band as sool as he learns to steer without wob-
bling.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

While Georgia girls may have the smallest and
prettiest feet in the world, according to physical
culture experts these authorities declare
that San Francisco girls have the shapeliest legs
and in this respect far ahead of their Southern
cousins We from Missouri, and they'll have
o show
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

We see from some of contemporaries that
Editor John Jones is printing daily at Fitz-
gerald but have not been favored with
copy we must take their word for it, Those Fitz-
geraldites have a live editor in Jones.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
, THAT'S WHAT HE Is.

From the Madison Madisonian
The Dawson News calls the editor of the Chicago
Tribune liar because he said this: "The North
with its more ordered ways and its faulty but
better civilization, thinks more and talks less of
the sanctity of its than the rhetorical
South
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
let NOAH SPEAK UP!

From the Madison Madisonian
Wonder why Noah didn't swat the two flies
he had on board?-Dawson News
les. and kill all the gnats skeeters and snakes
too?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

officials of the Friends of Peace" have held a
meeting in Chicago, and discussed plans for an or
ganization, national in scope, 'for political and
other action, but not for a political party. Rather
a mixed phrase is that; but, passing it over, we
note that this organization which desires neu-
trality among other things, has as leading mem
bers of its executive committee Messrs. Herman
Metz, Herman Rdder and Henry VOmer Some
how those names do not sound neutral to us.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
"A Credit to Georgia Journalism

Wesleyan Christian Advocate: The Dawson
News one of the best of the Georgia weeklies, has
passed its thirty-third year-twenty-six of these
under the present management The News is
credit to Georgia journalism, and especially to Ter
rell county, in which it is published.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

The Triton Daily Gazette has just celebrated its
first anniversary, and is as lusty and promising
youngster as one would to see. Editor Her
ring certainly knows the newspaper game.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
AN ECHO OF THE PAST.

From the Savannah News.
mOOnshine still has been found on Senator
Hoke Smiths farm. Was there a "Gal in the
Fountain"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

Mr. Marshall and his living predecessors will
learn with interest that China has had vice-pres-
dent since the beginning of its career as a repub-
lie though no one remembered it until lately.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

at is declared that boil weevil can go 600
DAYS without eating" the Macon News informs us.
B. WeeviI has missed his calling, then. He should
have been a country editor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

Photographers were not long in discovering that
Mary Pickford whose reputed salary is $4,000 a
week. has husband named Owen Moore.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

The world do move. Cotton seed, once drug on
the market and to be had for hauling them away.
now bring s32 ton
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

Triton Gazette: Althoug it looks as young and
fresh a three-year-old The Dawson News ups and
informs the public that it has just finished its
thirty-hird year, twenty-six of those years under
it's present management Rainey is still a young
man, so he must have learned the trade early and
under mighty good preceptor. Now he has
who is chip off the old block. The News is a
builder it has helped to make Terrell of the
best counties in the state, and Terrell has news
paper that fifty represents it.
Griffin News and Sun: The Dawson News is
thirtythree years old. For twenty-sx years it has
been under the management of Editor Rainey, one
of the ablest and most popular newspaper men in
Georgia, and it is of the leading and best week
ly newspapers in the state Long may it live, and
long may Editor Rainey continue as its editor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

If the story is true it is a good one-that for
mer enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Roosevelt who
voted for him three times has become weary of
that hot air artists belligerent attitude, and offers
him a check of $4,000 if he will enlist to fight
the Germans. This seems to be one time in the
Rough Riders existence where he has the Oppor-
tunty to put up or shut up.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

1t is chinquepin-hunting time in Georgia, and
these are great days for the youngsters. They take
US back a few years to happy boyhood in
little country home in Middle Georgia
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

Mr. Bryans recent announcement that his plans
for the future include the holding of political
position has doubtless occasoned surprise and pain
among his enemies Mr.. Bryan is obviously of no
mind to turn the other cheek He will shape his
course as best suits his purpose, and pursue the
even tenor of his way in the future as in the past
regardless of the delight the may deny the
Bryan batting press and his legion of critics.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28
THOSE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES SKIRTS

From the Griffin News and Sun.
Stop worrying about the girl with the d-
aphanous skirt. She knows it.-Dawson News.
We know it, too, and not among those who
worrying.
From the Walton Tribune.
The Dawson News says: stop worrying
about the girl with the diaphanous skirt"
Don't worry. May cause us to lose little time
but she brings wrinkles to our brow
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

Good luck is, perhaps, not entirely Pigment
of the imagnings but ounce of pluck inter
mixed is a most eficacious leavener
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

The government advertises for help, thereby
teaching a valuable lesson to its citizens in the
art of getting what is needed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

Russia probably doesn't fnd'itself lost in admira
ton of Germans taking ways.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

To the weather man: Now, while there is plenty
of time, we want to put in a good word for the
Terrell County Fair. 1t is deserving of your kind
est ministrations.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

How do you tell the time girls, by knee watch
except after you have returned home?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

Newspapers are not so negligible quantity after
all. Mr.. Munsey has sold one of his for a paltry
"a 600 600
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

Uncle Sam has come to be the champion none
lender of the age.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

THE boil weevil was discovered first in Thomas
county after it's invasion of Georgia, and now farm
ers there have found weevil. Isn't there
anything that farmers raise that isn't attacked by
pests?" asks the Savannah News What these city
editor don't know would fill large part of their
newspapers. The corn weevl is nothing new 1t
has been with us from time immemorial
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

The ethical and chronological aspirations of the
mule have just suffered a severe jolt from the
higher courts 1t has been ruled that mules
knship to the horse family does not make it
horse and in the meaning of the law is not even
part horse, it come under any statutes
dealing specifically with horses. The mule says
the court is just mule, and that's all there is to it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-28

One bright ray from the darkness OF europe Is
the announcement that Russian mills are using
fifty per cent more cotton than ordinarily, and
will want hefty share of the United States crop
this
Mr.. Marshall and his living predecessors will
learn with interest that China has had vice-pres-
ident since the beginning of its career as repub-
lic though no one remembered it until lately.
The Triton Daily Gazette has just celebrated its
first anniversary and is lusty and promising
youngster as would to see. Editor Her
ring certainly knows the newspaper game
1t is chinquepin-hunting time in Georgia, and
these are great days for the youngsters They take
us back few years to our happy boyhood in
little country home in Middle Georgia
To the weather man: Now, while there is plenty
of time, we want to put in good word for the
Terrell County Fair 1t is deserving of your kind
est minisrations.
Photographers were not long in discovering that
Mary Pickford, whose reputed salary is $4,000
week, has husband named Owen Moore.
Good luck is, perhaps not entirely a Pigment
of the magnings but ounce of pluck inter
mixed is most eficacious eavener.
The government advertises for help, thereby
teaching valuable lesson to its citizens in the
art of getting what is needed
Newspapers are not so negligible quantity after
all Mr. Munsey has sold one of his for a paltry
$4,OOO,O00.
How do you tell the time, girls, by a knee watch
except after you have returned home?
Ohahl ind. itCeIf lost in a6
ton of Germans taking ways.
Uncle Sam has come to be the champion money
lender of the age.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-03-19
ient nationalities, give it tone and col

ent nationalities. give it tone and col-
or as only an artist can. shows Mr..
Marcosson's range and ability. THE
Spanish SYMPHONY" the Venetian
Caprice, the Chinese Tam bourin''
and The Oriental" all breathed the
atmosphere OF their native lands.
DR.. Jackson sang his way into ia
Vor with the audience from the be-
ginning, aud the favor Continued and.
increased throughout the program.
The artist has a voice of tenor#qual1ty
and is Of wonderful range and flexi-
bility. DrJackson was twice vel
come, having sung, here before. and
his friends gave him most cordial
reception. He seems to sing because
he loves to sing-and the Sincerity,
OF Handel, the ..Appassfonate'' Of
Grieg and the Negro Love Song,
share equally in his interpretations.
Mrs. Marcosson proved herself en-
titled to recognition as true artist.
Each mum Der was made doubly eject
i've by her deeply expressive playing.
Some difficult passages came. smooth
ly from her fingers with clear musical
tones and a digital fuency Of sur
prising liquidness. Mrs. Marcosson
left nothing to be desired. Her ia
miliarity with her subject was evi-
denced in perfect phrasins and tech
lnique. .95