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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09

visiting at Felix Lakes home when
the shooting took place, testified that
Mosell Lake, son of Felix Lake,
shot three times with revolver di-
rectly at the sheriff and that he fell
Immediately. Mosell Lake made his
escape and has not been apprehended.
Jim Keith admitted that he fired
the first shot When Sheriff More
land arrived at the Lake place he
called to Felix Lake and asked if Jim
Keith was there. Lake was told at
the same time to bring all his boys
out in front and line them up so they
could be searched before the officers
party entered the house. As the boys
were being lined up according to
the sheriff's order a shot was fired
from the house. Almost Immediately
several other shots were fired from
the corner of the house Keith claim
ed that he fired the first shot, with a
shot gun, then ran to the home of
Mr.. Tom Fowler, who lived near, and
where he stayed until he was turned
over to the Worth county authorities.
He contended that Mosell Lake fired
the shots from the corner of the
house, and that they were the ones
which killed the seriff.
Solicitor R. C. Bell conducted the
case ably for the prosecution, and a
feature of the trial was the impas-
stoned and eloquent appeal on be-
half of the negro by Judge j. B. Will
hanson of Sylvester.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09
NO MORE PARIS
GREEN CAN Be HAD
DEADLY ENEMY TO THE POTATO
BUG NO LONGER OBTAINED
IN THIS COUNTRY.
ADVANCED TO25 CENTSPOUND

No Manufacturing Operations of Amy
Kind Now Undertaken, the Supply
Being Less Than 500 Pounds. VIII
Mean Loss to Farmers.
Paris green, deadliest enemy of the
potato bug, is no longer obtainable
in this country. The extinction was
effected gradually. Today there IS
less than 500 pounds of Paris green
in the country, and the holders of the
goods demand all the way from Fl
to so cents per pound, according to
the quantity desired.
Prior to this year all the Paris
green sold in this country was pro-
duced early in January and FEBRUARY.
No manufacturing operations of any
kind have been undertaken since, as
manufacturers have been unable to
secure sufficient quantities of blue
vitriol, or sulphate of copper, as well
as white arsenic, for it's manufact-
ure. Where a manufacturer was &C
customed to buy upward Of 100000
pounds of blue vitriol few months
ago as 10 was and cents a pound
he is now paying 16 and II cents a
pound, and is unable to secure as
much as 10000 or $4,000 pounds
with any degree of certainty.
Insecticide manufacturers, being
unable to prognosticate how high the
price for blue vitriol will go, have
therefore decided to discontinue the
manufacture of Paris green this sea-
son. This will not only make for ad-
ditional worries on the part of plant
ers all over the country, but will be
felt in the paint trade, where it is
occasionally sold to the ultra-fash-
ionables, who have particular lean
ing for its light emerald green color
when applied TO blinds, window
screens and other parts Of the domi-
cile.
Besides the potato bug, the only
ones who will benefit by cessation OF
production of Paris green are the fac
tory operators. AS an insecticide
Paris green is particularly disagree
able to handle, as the chemical plants
get completely covered with fine dust,
and operatives are forced to breathe
in the deadly acid fumes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09
.SLATON TO ADDRESS
ROCKEFELLER CLASS
Former Governor VIII he Guest at
Annual Banquet to BE Held i'm
New York This Week.

Former Governor John NJ. Slaton
has accepted an invitation to speak
at the annual banquet in New York
next week of John D. Rockefeller,
Jr's.. Bible Glass, at which the only
other speakers will be former Presi-
dent VIM. H. Taft and Police Com
missioner Woods of New York city.
In speaking to his class Sunday Mr..
Rockefeller made the announcement.
He is quoted as saying;
I'VE are fortunate in having with
US next week Ex-Governor Slaton OF
Georgia. He needs no Introduction to
anv of us. Recently I had the priv
lege of an hours confidential and in
innate talk with him, and my impress
sion of him is that he is a man OF
the highest character and one actual
ed throughout his career by the most
disinterested motives. He is a splen-
did type of American citizen, and ne
has my unqualified endorsement. .
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09
JUDGE PENDLETON
DENIES MANDAMUS
COnstitutionality of the Statute For
bidding Paralleling of the State
Road Is Upheld.

Upon the conclusion OF the argu-
ment of the petition for mar damus
filed in Fulton superior court by w.
J. Morrison and others to require
Philip Cook, secretary of state, to
grant a charter to the North Georgia
Mineral Railway Judge John L. Pen
dleton handed down his decision &C.
nying the petition.
Judge Pendleton, after compli-
menting counsel on both sides for the
ability with which they had presented
their views, held that in doubtful
cases it was the duty of nisi prius
court to sustain the cOnstitutionality
of statutes, and that in his opinion
the act of 1915 should be held con-
stftutional.
In so holding Judge Pendleton de-
clared that his judgment was con-
fined exclusively to the constitution
atty and binding effect of the act of
the Georgia legislature prohibiting
parallel lines of railway to be con-
structed in competition with the line
of the Western and Atlantic rail
road. the property of the state.
Alex G. King, of counsel for the
plaintiff, gave notice that the ruling
of the court would be appealed to the
supreme court of Georgia, and it ap-
pears conclusive that in any event the
loser in that court will invoke final
decision by the supreme court of the
United States.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09

weevil will feed on tender cotton
buds until the squares develop. Black
leaf or bud indicates the weevils
presence; watch for this and pick
the weevils off. Squares that are at
tackled turn yellow and fall to the
ground. Yellow squares and those
on the ground should be picked and
burned regularly until about July 10.
Finally, and as insuring agricult-
ural salvation against the weevil, the
practice of Investigation is all i'm
portant. Farmers should grow more
food crops, more live stock, and yet
be careful not to undertake any
wholly new proposition on a large
scale until sure of a market. The
important thing is to make the farm
self-sustaining.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09
STEPS Will Be TAKEN
TOSTOP LAWLESSNESS
THE PENDULUM SEEMS TO BE
SWINGING VERY STRONGLY i
THE OTHER WAY. a
MASS MEETINGS BEING HELD

Candidates For State Offices VIII Be
Asked to Declare Themselves. Laws
Must BE Respected and Lynch
ings Stopped.
Mob violence in Georgia has run
wild as long as it can. Steps are GO
ing to be taken to command in the
state a greater respect for constitut-
ed law; to punish those people who,
on provocation of their own imagin-
ing, justifies them in overthrowing
law.
No official statistical record is
available of the vengeance wreaked
on human beings in Georgia in the
past "A months by or through the
aboriginal passions of people. That
it is greater than it has been since
the war between the states is taken
for granted by those who discuss it
men who claim a respect and love FOR
the law.
The pendulum is swinging the 9TH
er way.
Mass Meeting Held.
Mass meetings are beginning to
take the place of mob gatherings and
condemnation is coming in the place
of connivance. Murder through nu-
merical power is going to be driven
from Georgia as relentlessly as pun
ishment is applied to the individual
assassin caught red-handed.
Habersham county was the first to
hold a mass meeting. In electing, at
Clarksville on Tuesday, the demo-
cratic executive committee mob law
was condemned, and the declaration
sent out to the world by resolutions
that "the true citizenry of our state
does not countenance or condone such
wantOn and unciviiized methods"
and that these real citizens earnestly
condemn all parties who have taken
part in the various lynchings of the
state"
And now the law is going to be
made to condemn them, too.
Candidates for office are going to
be asked to declare themselves on the
question of lynching. A preacher,
Rev Rem bert G. Smith, Of Marietta,
has addressed an open c0mmunica-
tion to Governor Harris and to DR.. l..
G. Hardman, both candidates for the
states chief executive now, calling
upon them to declare themselves, and
both have responded.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09
aHANCES ARE PEST WILL BE
VERY SERIOUS THIS YEAR IN
30 GEORGIA COUNTIES.
iUSI PLANT EARLY VARIETIES

tate Board of Entomology Tells of
the Ravages of the Pest, and Urges
certain Methods of Prevention.
hind of Seed to Plant.
IN view Of the presence of the Mex
ian cotton boil weeviI in some forty
georgia counties widespread interest
already manifested in the question
SEED varieties for planting pur-
uses tAlS spring, particularly in the
rested section. Numerous inquiries
VVA the line are reaching the Of
Vt Oh the state board of entomology
ally.
lie department. has been conduct
Is constant and careful tests, says
''S'e hltomolOgist E. L. Worsham,
'no While it cannot yet specify the
lOSt adaptable seed for each partic-
4l'l locality it is able to speak as
'Aose varieties which it has tested,
auu 10 state in what particular sec
'l0a they will thrive best.
aready there are 13,4OO square
'.es Of cotton growing area 4
''0sa infested by the weevil. This
approximately one-fourth of the
'"oa growing area of the state. 1t
impossible for any one to predict
Wis time what the weeviI is going
\, No. Or how far it is going to spread
,~ year. The difficulty grows out
~e Iateness of the last cotton sea-
W and the unusual abundance of
''IS IN most of the infested area.
"eev1 Will Be Serious.
Inc chances are that the weevil
~ De very serious this year in at
al 80 TO 50 counties.
.hder these circumstances it is
SDy Important that every farmer
county where tho boil weevil
! oeen found should proceed upon
y luea that it will be a very seri-
:, problem in 1916, and arrange
% Iarming operations accordingly.
lie most advisable plans to fol-
y include the reduction in cotton
@ease to from eight to twelve acres
Ie plow; the land should be pre-
.'ed early and put in good condi-
), LOT planting; it should be fer
,-1ed lust as if the boil weevil were
y present, remembering that the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09
MANY WOULD BE SPEAKER
OF NEXT GEORGIA HOUSE
Hon. Nj. j. YeOmans of Terrell Is
Among the Probable Candidates.

Among the Probable Candidates.
The following is an interesting
item from a column of political Cos
sip in the Atlanta Journal;
There are four prospective candl-
dates for speaker of the 1911-lS
house of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
M. Jones of Newman, representative
from Coweta county; w. C. Neill of
Columbus, representative from Mus
cogee county; NJ. ]. YeOmans of Daw-
son, representative from Terrell, and
N. F. Culpepper of Greenville, repre-
sentative from Meriwether county.
at is taken for granted that all OF
these gentlemen will run for re-elec-
ton to the house and that they will
all be reelected. Each is an able
and popular representative and each
has a large following in the present
house"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09
FOURTH OF COTTON AREA IN
STATE HIT BY BOIL WEEVIL
use of acid phosphate has a tenden-
cy to make cotton fruit early.
Seed Selection First.

use of acid phosphate has a tenden-
cy to make cotton fruit early.
Seed Selection First.
Most important of all, says the
department of entomology, is selec-
ton of the very best seed that can
be found adapted to the particular
section where it is to be planted.
Fancy varieties should be generally
avoided. and planters should as near
Iy as possible use the seed grown
close to home. Once a good variety
is found improve it by careful selec-
Ition.
One thing to be remembered is
that there is no such thing as a boil
weevil proof" cotton. Here are the
main points as to selection:
You must have variety that
will fruit early. 1t should put on
large number of bolls very quickly.
EFF your land is subject to wilt
or black root you should by all means
get a variety resistant to this dis
ease.
3-The variety chosen should be
prolific and yield high percentage
of good lint. 1t should have few I'M
productive branches and should be-
gin to put out fruit branches close
to the ground.
It has been found that such varle-
ties as Kings, Simpkin's, Triumph
and some others often have ten
dency to discontinue growth early in
the season; and for this reason viii
not be as valuable in the infested
territory as varieties that fruit early
and continue their growth. Tests
made by the Georgia department or
entomology show that some of the
hest varieties for South Georgia are
such types as Lewis 60. a variety
propagated by this department. 1t is
wilt resistant. early fruitlng, promo
and fairly resistant to drought lne
same qualities, including a superior
staple, are found in Dix-Ahh, a ny
brid between the Dixie and egyptian
Mit-Afifi. This is worth several cents
a pound more than ordinary snort
cotton. ington-Toole, which has
been selected so as to make IL VIII
resistant. is another good variety.
The department has found that such
varieties as Improved Cleveland Big
Boil. Cooks Improved, Toole ana
Express will be we'll adapted to most
sections of North Georgia.
Early Planting.
Planting should take place just
early enough so as to miss the late
frosts and cold nights. Shallow, but
frequent, cultivation is important
once a week if possible -until the
cotton is ready to pick.
Emerging early in the spring the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09
jim KEITH IS FOUND
GUILTY; MERCY SHOWN
GIVEN LIFE TERM IN PENITEN
TIARY FOR KILLING SHERIFF.
MORELAND OF LEE.
ADMITS THAT HE SHOT ONCE
But Claims That His Shot Struck the
Sheriff's Brother, and That After
Firing This He Ran to the Woods.
One Negro Not Captured.


One Negro Not Captured.
At Sylvester the jury sitting at the
trial of Jim Keith, the negro charged
with the murder of Sheriff Moreland
of Lee county at the home of Felix
Lake, a negro, near Doles, in Worth
county, in January, returned a Uer-
dict of guilty, with a recommends
ton to mercy, at 2:30 o'clock Friday
afternoon after being out since II
o'clock Thursday night.
Keith was sentenced to life impris-
onment by Judge Cox, and secretly
carried away under heavy guard.
The jury was feared to be dead
locked, but shortly before noon they
asked for a recharge on the conspira-
cy feature of the case, and it was
then thought that they were near a
verdict.
Tried Under Heavy Guard.
When court convened for the trial
Keith was taken into the court room
under heavy guard, and he was sta
toned in the midst of the guards in
such a manner that it would have
been impossible to injure him with
out hurting a white man. Sixty men
were on duty on the outside of the
court house during the day. Every
door to the court house except one
was closed and a guard was placed
there. Officers stationed at the one
door left open searched every man
who entered the court room.
The same precaution was taken at
night, and a heavily armed guard was
thrown around the block in which
the Jail and court house are located.
A rope was stretched across the
streets on the four sides and no one
was allowed to pass. The telephone
office and city electric light plant
were also under heavy guard. 1t was
believed that if an attempt was made
to lynch the negro these places would
likely be taken to put the telephone
and lighting system out of commits
sion.
Denies That He Killed Sheriff.
1t was contended by the state that
Sheriff Moreland was killed by shots
or slugs from a shotgun, but a young
negro named Walter Bryan, who was
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09
Early Planting.

Planting should take place Just
early enough so as to miss the late
frosts and cold nights. Shallow, but
frequent, cultivation is important
once a week if possible-until the
cotton is ready to pick.
Emerging early in the spring the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-09
THE CASE STATED.

There isn't a scrap of evidence
about this fight
why, man, it was all scrap!"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-09-01

reached. With allied offensives in full
swing on all fronts and the Central
Powers taxed to the utmost to provide
men to fill the gaps, the entrance of
one OF the finest armies in all Europe
into the firing line is expected to pro-
duce quick and decisive results. It
Is said in some quarters that Bulgaria
and Turkey will sue for peace within
thirty days. Both these countries will
soon be cut off from the German states
If the offensive in Bulkowina contin-
ues. Bulgaria is now caught between
the great allied army at Saloniki and
the superb army Of the Roumanians,
The latter Joined with the hordes Of
Russians which will soon pour through
Roumania, will act as the hammer
upon the anvil of the allied army. In
the opinion of military experts, the
sick man of Turkey, is now dead.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-09-01
Special to The Herald.

LONDON, Aug. 2S.-Roumania to-
day declared war on Austro-H Hungary,
moving one million men against the
dual monarchy. There is as yet no
war between Roumaina and the other
members of the Central Powers, but
Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey are ex-
pected hourly to declare war on the
Roumanians.
Roumania will Immediately move
her army, said to be the best trained
and equipped in Europe, against Aus
tro-Hungary. For two years it has
been modified to its full war strength
and has attained an efficiency and
morale second to none. The entrance
of Roumania into the entente will open
to the Russians way to CONSTANT
nople, and an outlet for her millions
of soldiers to join the allies on the
Saloniki front.
Ever since the war began, the de-
cision of Roumania to enter the war
has been published from time to time;
but only recently have reports from
Berlin indicated that hope of keeping
the little kingdom neutral had been
abandoned, The Russian offensive in
Bulkowina was expected to aid Rou-
mania in making a decision, and the
resumption of the allied offensive from
Saloniki is supposed to have been the
signal for her troops to march Wen,
ma has anticipated the move and
troop in great numbers have been
rushed to repel the horde of new in
vaders.
1t is freely predicted here that the
beginning of the end has now been
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-09-01

1881, was trained and driven through
out his turf career, from the time he
first appeared in public to the climax,
by one reinsman only-that being w.
W. Marvin. All the others had sue
cession of trainers. Napoleon Direct
was brought out green by Mr.. Geers
two seasons ago, and no other man
has ever driven him in any public ap
pearance. In his first campaign he
raced fourteen times and won ten
races, taking a record of 2:0215. Last
season he won all his starts, five In
number, and paced in 2:00A Thus
far this season he has started three
times and won twice. His winnings
to date, totalize at $20,175. What adds
to the human interest" of his per
Torrance, however, and makes it most
unusual, is the fact that not only die
Mr.. Geers drive him, but that he bred
in partnership, both his sire, Walter
Direct 2:O5s4, and his grandsire, Nrec
Hal 2:O4A, drove both of them to theil
records, and won with both of then
that most famous of pacing classics
the Chamber of Commerce stake al
Detroit. With Direct Hal, whom hi
brought out green horse that season
he won thirteen consecutive races
without defeat, and the sum Of $25,55O
which remained for ten years world
record for winnings by PAGER in
; single season, until in 1912 Joe Patch
en- II. 2:O3A, won fourteen out OF fiji
teen starts and $27,1O0. Direct Hal, a
the close of that campaign, was retired
! forever from the turf. He was at tina
time, in the opinion of Mr.. Geers, abb
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-09-01
DEBT OF GRATITUDE PAID.
Entrance OF Roumania Into Titanic
Strunrle VIII c-%i-Fv
Russia.

When in 1877 the Balkan states rose
against Turkish oppression they would
have had little chance of success If
tn earmies of Russia had not come to
their aid. The participation of these
states, with the exception of Bulgaria,
on the side of the allies is partly due
to the gratitude which each renders
Russia for the great service rendered
at that time The Roumanians, also,
are closely related to the French and
Italians.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-09-01

to pace mile in even time" and
had he remained in training there are
few competent critics who doubt that
he would have been his trainers first
two-minute performer.
Walter Direct, in turn, Mr.. Geers
brought out three years later, also a
green horse, and with him won all his
starts until he broke down in a race
at Readville, in which he had won two
heats and had the field at his mercy.
Mr.. Geers stated at this time that Wal
ter Direct was faster horse than
either Direct Hal or even Star Pointer
We may, therefore, say that Napoleon
Direct is the most logical two-minute
PAGER that has ever appeared, for both
his sire and his grandsire we're horses
of two-minute capacity. But, going
back a step farther, we find that his
paternal great-grandsire, in the direct
male line, was no less a horse than
Direct 2:051S, in his day the worlds
light harness champion, a horse that
paced in 2:06 to high wheels, and
whose speed is still considered, by
many who knew him well, to have
equaled or exceeded that of any PAGER
subsequently produced, and who, had
he fourished in this era and fallen
into competent hands. would also have
been a two-minute horse. Hence we
really have four undisputed genera
tons of such speed in succession
Direct Direct Hal, Walter Direct and
Napoleon Direct.
The first PAGER that Mr.. Geers ever
drove to the worlds championship
was Hal Pointer 2:041a. That geld.
ing's greatest rival was Direct, who,
| in the fall of 1891, defeated him in a
series of sensational races. 1t was in
Tennessee, in the very bailiwick of the
'P'niter hoss," at Nashville and Colum
bia, that Direct won his victories and
with whole-hearted admiration, the
Tennesseans clamored, after his re
tirement from the turf, for an oppor
tunity to breed to him. In consequence
he was sent to the Middle Basin
which "Trotwood" has celebrated in
the Review in song and story-for the
season of 1895, and it was then that
Mr.. Geers, one of his greatest admir-
ers, bred to him a mare that he haC
previously campaigned on the Grand
Circuit-Bessie Hal, Oy Tom Hal (Gib
son's), the sire OF Hal Pointer, thus
aiming to combine the blood Of the
two greatest PAGERS ever up to that
time known. The result was Direct
Hal. Again, before that horse had as
yet appeared upon the turf, but al
ready persuaded of his greatness, Mr.
Geers Tin conjunction with the Chaffr
Bros, of Columbia, Tenn, his partner:
in his breeding ventures), had bred Il
him another Tennessee pacing mar