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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-04-03
MILLION DOLLARS IN
RAILROAD BAGGAGE CAR
Men Who Tossed Suit Case Around
Little Dreamed of Its Contents.

Nearly a million dollars in gold
certificates and certified checks felt
no different than any other baggage
to railroad employees who handled a
suitcase containing that amount
transported from Aiken, S. c., to
Chicago. The suitcase was the prop
erty of Mrs. j. K. Stewart, and was
carried to the Windy City on the
same train with her body. 1t had
been found in her death chamber.
On table in the Merchants Loan
and Trust Company, trustees of Mrs.
Stewards estate, the suitcase was
opened. 1t was thought to contain
toilet articles and a small amount of
jewelry, but gold notes in denomina-
lions of $4,000 and $4,000 to the
value of $500, 900, along with $780,
600 worth of certified checks, rolled
out on the table when the case was
unlocked.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-04-03
AR UP TOCONGRESS;
PREPARATION RUSHED
Hosiltes With Germany Await Action of Special
Session, Which Convened Monday
WORKING NIGHT AND DAY
II Must Come the United States Will Get Into the
fic With Both Fists and Wage an Aggressive Cam
agn Navy is Almost Ready for Action, but Army
Plans Await the Authorization of Congress-

% department of the United States working night
eversh haste preparation for President Wilson went
Congress- Immediately body convened Monday, gave
the that accomplished explained the status
on between the United States and Germany and asked for the
mobilize the entire and industrial resources of the
fora state of war.
ness will only this power the President but in less
lays weeks will announce according the belief of official
that actual state of war; exists between the United States
ANY, Once is actual fact everything else in the country
Nominated to it.
Will Wage an Aggressive "Two-Fisted" Warfare.
united States, the of with Germany, not to be
Japan the kasers enemies The administration planning
@ ar-reachng campaign. 1t is going to be "twofsted" fight
vile united States No halfway be
Berlin to be made to feel the punch of the foe and
are to come from angles than the kaisers officials
"ea States is virtually footing at the present
malt billion dollars worth of modern fighting machines
for and under construction and Congress is
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-04-03
BOMB OF FLOWERS THROWN
ON TEXAS AVIATOR'S GRAVE

WESTBURY, N. beneath a
coverlet Of shattered flower bombs"
the body of Peter Carl TEX Mill
man, daring aviator and instructor
at the army aviation school at Gar
den City, was laid to rest Wednes-
day morning in a grave at st. Brig
ads cemetery. Mr.. Millman for
merly resided at Cleburne, Tex.
His was perhaps the first airplane
funeral ever conducted in this coun-
try. 1t was made even more pic
turesque when, with nine other mil
itary biplanes soaring majestically
aloft, three of the aircraft swooped
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-04-03

suddenly downward to within a hun
dred feet of the opened grave and the
aviators loosed bombs of red and
white carnations. Two of the
aerial floral tributes dropped almost
true to the mark, falling among the
mourners grouped in a circle about
the grave. The third, caught in a
swirl Of air caused by the biplane, was
carried about twenty-five yards away.
Only % years old when he died, he
defeated, nevertheless, the predic-
tions of those who had watched his
almost reckless flights and succumbed
a victim Of pneumonia, and not of
accident.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-04-03

pIoNlde new funds for
Work, Not only is the
coast to be protected and
N, Wy sea lanes to be kept clear
I.neS' but the German COM
l|stIoyers are to be hunted
'"elf tavorite fields of ac-
Y Plans Await Action.
EoIar army is to be recruited
laS strength of $4,000 men.
I y !, Guard will again be
Vhe federal service-in
WIG units were ordered out
4 ana 1t also will be re-
no ,,S maximum strength of
"Gn' Then the War De-
4 "a plans for reserve
onI;l lii oOO,OO0, raised by
|,c tt"llSstments, to 100000,
H.. o. a universal military
@ rm Tor the country. But
MI, ruSt lay out the course the
\ " t, IS to follow.
oa a dollars will be spent, if
pr ys a fact, to crush Ger
H. SSIrlcted submarine war
Ill.,. OF the first things the
Ao,tiSr!g government will do in
AsIE 'lltles will be to aid the
'eS' especially France.
N da gums of from one to
as JSo;llars are freely talked
n, Ameriea's Participation.
money, but merchant
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-04-03
BLOODY REBELLION HAS
BROKEN OUT IN PERU
Censor Fails to Conceal the Fiercest
Sort of Fighting.

BUENOS AYRES, Argentine
Peru is afiame with rebellion of a
seriousness not realized. until infor-
nation struggled across the border to
evade the fiercest sort of fighting in
Lima, the capital; Cuzco, Callao, and
Arequipa, in which many persons had
been killed and wounded.
Admiral Graus of the Peruvian
navy and his son have been assassi-
mated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-04-03
SAVED FROM GALLONS;
is CLEARED LONG AFTER

COLUMBIA, Miss.-A death-bed
confession by Joseph Beard, farm
err, announced by the sheriff's office,
cleared of suspicion William Purvis,
who rs years ago escaped death by
hanging after conviction for muir
der only because the moose about his
neck slipped when the scaffold trap
was sprung.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-04-03
TRACTORS ARE BEING USED
EXTENSIVELY IN u. s

The increasing use of gasoline and
kerosene tractors in the United States
is shown by the report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, which states
that S4,371 are now in use in this
country.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23
|NOSWEETPOTATOES
Be BROUGHT into
.ESCAMb|A COUNTY

Owing to the infesting of the sweet
potato root weevil, the State Plant
Board of Florida has placed quaran-
tine upon the bringing of sweet pota-
toes into this county. This matter is
one of great Importance as wherever
| the sweet potato root weevil has in
vaded, it has almost prohibited the
farmer raising enough sweet potatoes
for his own domestic use.
It has also found camphor trees
have an enemy and the State Plant
Board of Florida is doing all within
its power to meet this invasion.
The sweet potato root weevil has
been known in parts of Louisiana for
as much as 20 years and in parts of
Southern Texas for from 10 to Is
years. In all localities within 10
miles of the Gulf coast wherever this
insect has become established it has
made the commercial production OF
sweet potatoes impossible.
The most that. the farmers can do
in the sections where it occurs is to
produce at great pains and with much
labor a few potatoes for their own
table use. The insect does not fly.
hence it cannot get into new localities
infested potatoes or in infested potato
vines. So long as the shipment into
clean territory OF potatoes and plants
from infested areas is permitted, just
SO long will the pest continue to
spread and create additional areas in
which sweet potatoes cannot be sue
cessfully grown. In one Florida
county where the pest has occurred
for 8 years the farmers last year lost.
from 80 to 60 per cent of their potato
crop when it was dug; and where po-
tatoes were stored in barn or bank,
destruction was completed by the
weevil before spring.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23
Severe Arraio1n1ent of
The Militant Suffrag;sts

picketing disorders. Within half an
hour after her. arrival here she was
arrested, much to her surprise and
chagrin, she said.
Il am willing to suffer for suffrage
but not for fanatacism," asserted Mrs.
Jackson. 81 see no harm in banner
carrying as principle, but when it at
tracts mobs and leads to violations Of
the law it should be discontinued"
After finding herself in the clutches
of the law and being too surprised to
understand fully what offense she had
committed, not being familiar with
previous events in the White House
picketing campaign, MRS. Jackson
with the other women arrested, and
accept whatever punishment was
meted out 1t was not until she had
reached Cocoquan and saw the dispo-
sitlon of the prisoners to resent every
kindness shown them by the officials
and indulge in fault finding generally
that she determined to leave them,
she declared.
"They will call me a traitor" she
said, "but I have spoken my true
feelings. I believe in law and order,
and / propose always to stand for
what is right. My associates at Co.
coquan went around constantly find
ing fault and looking for something to
criticise. AnNbne who asked them
to be considerate of the officials was
looked upon as being insane. They
seem to have lost the very ideals of
our cause. Their minds are so dis
torted with the idea of injustice that
they have fallen into their own nets
and become the victims Of the very
conditions they are trying to over
come"
Mrs. jackson said she had sympa-
thy for the officials of the institution,
who were doing All in their power to
be kind to the pickets, but were con-
stantly threatened with the possibility
of an outbreak or rebellion which
might seriously affect the discipline
of the entire institution.
THE pickets," she said, ego into CO.
coquan with a feeling of rebellion that
does not change, no matter what
treatment is accorded them. Such tao
tics are wrong. Those who live by
the sword must perish by it."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23

ceived the sums promised:
New York, April 10, 1916.
His Excellency Mr.. Won Igel:
Please pay the remainder of two
hundred and fifty dollars) to Wood
ford. He is to receive $500 according
to order (from Berlin).
Please have the inelosed receipt at
tested.
(Signed) PR.
All these, it must be remembered,
are but a small portion of one Ger
man agents records. They represent
but one chamber, as it were, in an
enormous and complicated maze of
underground plotting. Other entries
appear too vague to indicate anything
more definite than some connection
with or interest in enterprises already
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to the Welland
Canal conspiracy; correspondence
with DR.. Walter Scheele, accused of
being bomb manufacturer; refer
ences to the Maverick and the Annie
larsen, blockade runners; side lights
on japanese propaganda, Mexican
plots, and Canadian lines of secret
information; even hints that officers
high in the military service of the
United States We're being improperly
used for German military enterprises.
How far the plot goes will probably
never be known. The spider, Won
Igel, had scuttled away to his own
refuge in Germany. His next is de-
stroyed. But the strands of the web
that he wove may still stretch over
the city or town which you who read
this inhabit
1t has long been an open secret
that Holland is merely way station
for shipments of contraband into Ger
many. Here is official confirmation
from the Won Igel records, which
would seem to indicate a suspicious
and confidential relation between the
Holland commission" and the Ger
man diplomatic Officials accredited to
this country, or possibly a belief by
the Germans that tney could not sue
cessfully get the munitions to their
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23
Tallahassee Bureau,
The Pensacola Journal

Washington. D. c., Sept. 22.-The
military suffragettes who have been
picketing the White House with their
banners and serving time at the Co
coquan workhouse for repeated viola
tons of the law forbidding such
practices, were severely arraigned to-
day by one of their number, Mrs.
Bertha M. Jackson, of Baltimore the
second woman to desert of the group
of six who a week ago were sent to
the district workhouse to serve thirty
day sentences.
Mrs. Jackson, who Is a prominent
sociological worker in Baltimore, told
Superintendent Whitaker yesterday
that she wished to pay her fine of $25
and return home. She was brought
back to Washington and today ap-
peared before Judge Mullowney in po-
lice court, and upon promising never
to picket the White House again was
placed on probation.
In an interview following her re-
lease, Mrs. Jackson declared she was
misled into aiding in the picketing for
which she had no idea she would be
arrested. She asserts the suffra-
geStes at the workhouse resent the
kindly treatment of the officials there
and insist upon a continuous cam
paign of finding fault with avery-
thing, which, she says, is bad for the
discipline of the workhouse and may
result in rebellion and uprising.
The charges of the suffragettes
that the food at Cocoquan is bad and
that other conditions there are bad
are flatly denied by Mrs. Jackson.
who says the food is good and she
was treated very kindly.
Mrs. Abby Scott Baker obtained her
release from the workhouse last Sat-
urday after spending thyee days there
and losing twelve poun.s through
nervous collapse.
According to Mrs. Jackson she was
asked to come to Washington last
week and carry a banner before the
White House. but she dlf not know at
the time that this was forbidden by
police orders. She explained that
she had been visiting in the country
for several weeks and had not seen
any newspapers with accounts of the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23
THE EAR AND DEAFNESS
BY DIR. w. J. Benn.

The organ of hearing, the ear,
is divided into three parts: the ex-
ternal, middle and internal. The
external ear is the tube which,
when it "itches" is the receptacle
for fingers, tooth-picks, matches,
hair-pins and what not. This tube
is closed, at its inner end by a
thin membrane commonly called
the Gear drum" but which is, in
reality, only the drum head"
Beyond this drum head is a
more or less box-shaped chamber,
known as the middle ear, which
has two openings in the side OPP
posite the drum head, a round
opening and an oval opening. The
round opening is covered with a
membrane similar to the so called
drum head.
Beyond this box-shaped cham
Der is the third portion of the ear,
known as the internal ear or laby-
rinth. The labyrinth, which is all
that it's name implies, is a very
complicated structure and contains
the auditory nerve.
From the roof of the middle ear
are suspended three very small
bones called mallet, anvil and STIR
rup from their shape. The handle
of the mallet rests against the
inner surface of the drum head,
and the "foot plate" of the stir
rup closes the oval opening in the
opposite wall of the box. These
three small bones known, collect
lively, as the ossicles, articulate
with each other and thus form a
chain from one side of the box to
the other.
What might be called an Access
sorry portion of the ear is tube,
the Eustachian tube, which leads
out of the middle ear into the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23
Showing at the Isis Wednesday and Thursday

own country. The message in code,
with interlinear translation, is entered
as "a 2493" and headed German En-.
bassy, Washington, D. c., April g.
1916" 1t runs as follows:
Telegram from Berlin by secret,
roundabout way for Carl Heysen
Consent sale Holland three hundred
thousand chests (cartridges) and Two
hundred tons powder. Please get in
touch with Holland commission. Sen
der, War Minister, Foreign Office, in
representation.
"(Signed) Hatzfeldt."
While chiefly concerned with mill
tary affairs in Europe, the represen-
tatives of a supposedly friendly ma
ton were keeping an interested watch
on our own activities in that line. A
secret code message of April II. 1916,
signed 1922 1920 46919," adj
dressed Won Igel to this effect:
Herewith respectfully send an ex-
tract regarding the troops stationed
in California and tbs armament of the
coast Notifications"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23

nose, for the purpose of admitting
air to the ear and thu sequalizing
the pressure on both sides of the
drum head.
Briefly, the physiology Of hear
ing is as follows: Sound ,es
enter the external ear, set the
drum head into vibration, the vi
brations are transmitted to the
ossicles and from them, by means
of the foot plate of the stirrup,
to the filaments of the auditory
nerve which, in turn, conveys the
impressions to the nerve centers,
or cells, in the brain, where the
sensation of hearing is produced.
So that we have a sound-conduct-
ing apparatus having to do with
the transmission of sound-waves;
and sound-perception apparatus,
an organ specialized for the recep-
ton and analysis of sound-waves
and their appreciation as sound.
Also, there are two divisions of
deafness: that of the conducting
apparatus known as middle ear
deafness, and that of the percep-
ton apparatus called labyrinthine
deafness.
Any condition which produces a
closure of the Eustachian tube or
a thickening of the drum-head-
tympanic membrane-or a rigidity
of the ossicles will cause middle
ear deafness, the vast majority of
cases being due to hypertrophic
rhinitis as indicated in the article
of Sept. II.
Labyrinthine deafness, or loss
of function of the auditory nerve,
is comparatively rare, and has
many causes, pronounced anaemia.
leukaemia, rheumatism, nephritis,
intense heat, prolonged exposure
and injury being among the most
common.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23
NEW YORK COTTON

New York, Sept. 22.-There was
good deal Of realizing at the opening
Of the cotton market this morning
First prices were steady at an adj
vance of IA points to decline OF
6 points, but only the near months
were higher and the market eased
after the call. October declined from
$3.50 to 1886 and January from 1886
to 28.08, with the general list sell
ing about 10 to % points net lower.
Offerings were gradually absorbed,
however, with the market showing
pretty steady undertone at rallies
Of 10 to II points toward the middle
of the morning.
AS soon as the early offerings had
been absorbed the market turned
firmer. AS prices steadied the buy
ing became more active and excited
than it was yesterday and appeared
to come from all directions. Prices
shot up and 10 points between sales,
and before the excitement subsidized
active months sold 102 to 135 points
above last nights closing figures,
with October touching 24.80 and
January 24.45. A break of about
fifty points followed, with later fluc-
tuations extremely nervous and If
regular. The close was irregular at
a net advance of Sc to 105 points.
Cotton closed irregular.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23

to Teutonic interests, and suggesting
that one Borsodi might be the right
man to conduct such a publication.
Frequent hints of George Sylvester
Viereck's journalistic activities APP
pear, and there are few notations of
Pearson: Subject, Press" which may
refer to Pearson's Magazine, of which
the editor, Frank Harris, is strongly
pro-German, or may indicate a secret
agent named Pearson, who is the SUBJ
ject of other entries.
The lecture platform is represented
by Ray Beveridge, the California art
list, and sister of Kuehne Beveridge,
the prominent sculptor. In one entry
Privy Counsellor Albert acknowledges
receipt of $4,000 from the embassy to
finance Miss Beveridge's lecture tour
German war pictures We're also to
be furnished, Though the alleged scope
of the lectures was to be comprised
in topics allied to Red Cross work.
Other figures of more vague import
drift into light here and there in the
Won 1gel papers or the Bureau of In
ford, an old British hater, appears to
have received sundry sums of money
for services unspecified. The follow
ing letters found in the Won Igel
papers refer to Col. Woodford:
New York, April 4, 1916:
His Excellency Mr.. Won Igel,
New York, n Y:
According to letter received here
today the imperial embassy is of the
same opinion as myself-that money
should not be paid to Woodford.
Please act accordingly and inform
Woodford, if he sho,ld show up there
again, that Berlin has received the
letter regardinfi the sum to be paid
and has besides again been asked by
telegraph whether money should be
paid.
Until answer is received from Ber-
lin, nothing more can be paid.
(Signed) Pretzell
Col Woodford appears, however,
from the following letter to have re-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23
Disclosures of German
Propaganda and Intrigue
Continued From Page ~

cause to which he sold his pen and his
professional honor (the record indi-
Gates that he was paid $1,000 for
"trayeIing expenses'O is suggested by
the fact that he was expelled, or al
legged to have been expelled, from
Berlin for a violent attack upon Am
bassador Gerard. Emerson has had a
picturesque career in many parts of
the world, and once cabled to New
York newspaper a picturesque but
imaginative account of his own death
in the Far East under painful and in
tercsting conditions. He was born In
Dresden, of American parents, and is
now travelling under American pass
port obtained by false representa-
tions.
Pair Play" that misnamed organ
of Teutonic inspiration, appears to
have been subsidized quite dispropor-
tionately TO its value, since it received
in all $3.50 in the course of few
months in 1915. Marcus Braun, who
appears as its editor, is known as
political leader among the Hungari-
ans of lower Second Avenue, in New
York, and has been variously connect
ed with the fringes of the publication
world. He is supposed himself to be
a Hungarian. His associate in Fair
PLAY was one ]. T. Bryan.
Even with such liberal support
"Fair Play" did not fill the bill. for
in January, 1916, letter was written
by T. Schroeder, German newspaper
correspondent in Toxic, to the Ger
man diplomatic representatives Ia
menting the lack of a genuinely in
o',Antial weekly in New York devoted
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23
PANAMA CITY.

Panama City, Fla, Sept. 22.-Mr.
and Mrs. G.. III. Mckenzie are spend
ing this week at High Point.
Miss Corrie Lazarus after spend
ing the summer with home folks in
Atlanta, has returned to Panama City
to take up her work as kindergarten
teacher. Miss Lazarus has host of
friends here among the grown-ups as
we'll as. the "Kiddies"
Mrs. Eta Matthews returned home
Sunday from Tallahassee.
Mrs. J. E. Bledsoe, accompanied by
her daughters, Misses Ophelia and
Johnnie, left for Birmingham last
Monday where they will Join Mr..
Bledsoe who went some weeks ago,
and where they expect to make their
home. al 4SH
Oscar and Julia Mcdaniel are at7
tending school at DeFuniak Springs. ]
Mrs. Ruby Carswell returned homo
Sunday, after an extended visit In
Georgia and Alabama.
Miss Minnie Milton, after spending
the summer months with relatives
and friends in Alabama returned
home to the delight of her many
friends.
Mrs. Harrison who has been visit
ing Mrs. Frank Mosley, has returned
to her home in Dothan.
Mr.. Virgil Floyd of Midland City,
Ala, is spending a few days with
friends here.
The Steamer Mary came ia the
forepart of this week, and it is ru-
mored that this boat will now make
regular trips from river points to
Panama City.
Messrs. A. J. Gay and R. L. Nc
Kenzie made a business trip to Chip
ley on Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Steele and chill
dren are home again after three
months absence in North Georgia.
Mrs. F. L. Jeter and daughter, Miss
Mary, have returned home after an
extended visit among the mountains
of North Carolina.
Mrs. Randall of Lynn Haven is Wis
iting Mrs. r. L. Mckenzie.
Mr.. c.. P. Nortin left Sunday to
spend some time with relatives in
Georgia,
Miss Alma Veal has returned from
Moultrie, Ga, where she has spent the
last two weeks with her parents.
Mrs. P. K. Early and children has
returned to their home in Macon, Ca,
after spending a week with her sister,
Mrs. E. w. Scott.
Miss LESSEE Redmond is visiting
Miss Ora Summers this week.
Mrs. J. M. Hasten has been quite
sick for the past week.