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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
SHAW CHALLENGES OPPONENTS
FOR SENATE TO JOINT DEBATE
Offers to Give Them All Underholt
By Alluring Them to Make Their
Own Terms.

FORT GAINES, Ga.-Emmett R.
Shaw, candidate for United States
senator, when H. H. Dean, of Gaines
vile, retired from the race for SEN
ator to succeed Thomas W. Hard
wick. said:
well, | am very sorry indeed that
Mr.. Dean is i'll. AS to who will win
the Dean support, l submit that Mr.
Deans support will hardly go to eth
er Hardwick, Harris or Howard. To
remember his article about Harris
early in the game, and to remember
he went to Carrollton and spoke to
that great crowd after Hardwick de-
clined to debate and to remember
his and Towards tilt will convince
any reasonable man that there is lit
tie for either of the three to expect
from Deans friends.
Mr.. Dean has said no hard words
of me anywhere. | expect to carry
more counties north of Atlanta than
any two of the other candidates.
will name a speaking date at Gaines
vile as soon as possible and here
and now challenge Hardwick, Har-
ris and Howard to meet me there,
each to have forty-fve minutes.
will speak first, middle or last. / will
speak first, thereby giving them all
under holt. Not a one of them can
batter down my first argument if
given a week to work on it. All
have to say to my friends is to stand
fast. We are winning this fight
against political pomp, power and
pull"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
FORMER PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S
YOUNGEST SON KILLED In FRANCE
Was in the Aviation Service and
Was Shot Down by German
Air Squadron.

Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt,
youngest son of former President
Theodore Roosevelt, was shot down
and killed on the Chateau Thierry
sector of the Marine front.
According to the dispatch Philip
Roosevelt, his cousin, from his station
in the trenches, saw the young Amer
lean aviator fall victim to a German
air squadron. He fell in the German
lines.
Colonel Roosevelt issued the fol-
lowing statement: "Quentin's mother
and l are very glad that he got to
the front and had the chance to rem
der some service to his country and
to show the stuff there was in him
before his fate befell him."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
For Congress-.

To the Voters of the Third Con-
gressional District of Georgia:
hereby respectfully announce my
candidacy for reelection as your
representative in the sixty-sixth con-
gress, subject to the democratic pri-
mary of September IL, 1918.
| shall support the president, as
commander in chief of the army and
navy, IN all legislation necessary to
the successful conduct of the war.
| am grateful to my friends for all
support given me in the past, and will
appreciate a reelection. If thus
honored l shall serve you to the very
best of my ability. Very respectful
ly, c. r. CRISP.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23

and was picked up by the police in
a Chicago cafe. Jim was convicted
and sentenced to 20 years in the pen
itentiary. He served four years when
he was pardoned. Jim then Joined up
with some railroad gamblers and
went to Denver, Col, where he shot
Cliff Sparks, an innocent bystander
to fight in gambling house They
didn't hang a man in those days for
mistakes and Jordan came clear"
Sports" of Border Days.
In the early border days Jordan's
name was known throughout the
West. With his partner, Canada
Bill" headquarters were established
at the famous Marble hall, the rem
devious of sports" They posed as
farmers and didn't need any make
up. During the Leadville excitement
Jordan and several of his confreres
organized a gang that worked the
cattle ranch game near Denver, Col
They secured a small ranch of about
40 acres that had a wide range ex-
tending into the foothills. In those
days there were many Englishmen
going to the West looking for ranch
investments and some of these WISH
tors knew very little about Western
ways.
Jordan would get in touch with one
of these tenderfoots and take him out
to his ranch where he would round
up number of cowboys who would
reach headquarters" just for the
fun of trimming their guest. They
would have a fake ranch superintend-
ent and fake set of books, showing
how many calves they had branded
that season. They would point to the
wide expanse around their miniature
ranch and call it their range. Jordan
and his gang probably sold the ranch
dozen times for big figures.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
AMERICAN LOSSES NOW TOTAL
NEARLY THIRTEEN THOUSAND
OF This Number 1901 Have Been
Killed in Action, According to
War Department Report.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July I'll
Casualties in the army and marine
corps overseas increased 982 during
the week compared with CAT the pre-
vious week, and aggregated 1916.
In this number total deaths, includ-
ing POI men lost at sea, men killed
IN action, dead of wounds, disease,
accident and other causes, numbered
5,1O0-army men, 4,421; marines,
679. The wounded aggregate 6,941-
army men 5,817; marines, 1,124.
Those missing, including prisoners,
total 675-army men, 593; marines
80.
Of the weeks increase 781 were
army men and 202 marines. Killed
in action and other deaths numbered
425, compared with 259 the previous
week.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
BIG GERMAN U-BOAT
RAIDS MASSACHUSETTS COAST
Shells Were Dropped on the Main
land, and Some Barges Sent to
the Bottom. Crews Escaped.


ORLEANS, Mass, July 21.-An
enemy submarine attacked tow off
the eastern-most point of Cape Cod
today, sank three barges, set fourth
and their tug on fire and dropped
four shells on the mainland. The ac-
ton lasted an hour and was unchal-
lenged except for two hydroplanes
from the Chatham aviation station,
which circled over the U-boat, caus-
ing her to submerge for only NOM
ent, to reappear and resume firing.
The crews of the tow, numbering Al
and including three women and five
children, escaped amid the shell fire
in lifeboats. Several were wounded,
but only one seriously.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
The luInIne Thae Does MOI Atfect fhe Hand

Because of its tonic and laxative effect, I.AXA.
TIVE BROMO QUININEis better than ordinary
Qulnine ana does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head. Remember the full name and
look TOR the signature of Il, w. GROVE. SOC,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
For Indigestion, Constipation or
BiIiOuSneSS =.

Just try one 50-cent bottle of LAX-FOS
WITH PEPSTN. A Liquid Digestive
Laxative pleasant to take. Made and
recommended to the public by Paris Medi-
cine Co, manufacturers of laxative Bromo
Quinine and Groves Tasteless chill Tonic,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
POULTRY PARASITES.

You keep the chicken house clean
to keep the parasites off the chickens
Thomas Poultry Powder occasionally.
If it doesn't make your hens happy
during the winter. How can you ex-
pect them to lay Free them of all
Internal parasites by feeding B. A.
You spray to kill germs-but what
do you do to get the germs and para
sites inside the chickens? Hens espe-
cially show it at moulting time and
we will return your money. WALL
BROTHERS. Dawson, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
DR.. LAMAR ORDERED TO
A NORTHERN ARMY CAMP

Mrs. L. Lamar and children left
Monday to meet DR.. Lamar in Allan
ia, he having been ordered to north
ern camp for duty. Since leaving
Dawson some weeks ago he had been
at Fort. Oglethorpe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
A NOTED SWINDLER
OF BORDER DAYS DIES
jim JORDAN SPENT HALF CEN
TURY AS CONFIDENCE MAN IN
THE WEST. TRIMMED MANY
INNOCENT TENDERFOOTS.

The death of Jim Jordan at the
ripe age of rs years in the Johns
Hopkins hospital Baltimore, Md, has
brought to an end the career of one
of the greatest and most picturesque
swindlers that America has ever pro-
duced. Jordan was not veg or
'gunman" or a "holdup man." He
played the confidence game in the
early border days, when three-card
monte was the center of attraction
in the numerous gambling shacks in
the West, and later sold "gold bricks"
to the innocent tenderfoots. Toward
the end of his career as a confidence
man Jordan became poker shark.
He crossed the Atlantic on the lux
uriously-equipped liners and never
was averse to play a "quiet little
game He made a fortune estimated
at million during the half century
ne operated as a confidence man,
but when he died he ran true to
form and was broke.
His methods of accommodating such
a large sum were purely intellectual.
There were several gunplays regis
tered against Jordan, but they were
merely incidental to his regular line
of business, which is technically
known among confidence men as
"skinning suckers" While he was not
gunman, Jordan achieved consider
able success along that line.
Began Career as "Steerer."
Jordan served his apprenticeship
under Canada Bill" the most sue
cessful confidence man who roamed
the West during the early days. He
first was employed as a "steerer,"
but showed such early proficiency
that he was rapidly promoted part :
no. to Canada Bill" Jordan soon
abandoned the monte game and went /
into the broader and more lucrative /
field afforded by the gold brick" in !
dustry, and rose step by step to be !
one of the most successful poker |
sharks that operated on trans-Atlan- /
tic liners plying between New York /
city and European ports.
Billy Pinkerton, the famous de-
tectlve, who was a delegate to the
police chiefs convention held at Kan
sas City, Kan, this month, was well
acquainted with Jordan. He said that
the swindler operated under a string
of names, and his confidence games
extended from European capitals to
Portland, Ore, and other Pacific
coast cities. Jordan, who had grown
a sweeping Kentucky colonel's mus
tache, always posed as an uncle to
John Hays Hammond, the mining en-
gineer, and he could talk intellect
ually on mines, lodes, fumes and
levels.
Had Close Call on Titanic.
Jordan had a close call on the i'll
fated Titanic, which was destroyed at
sea several years ago The swindler
had been booked for passage, and
would have sailed had not the stew
ard discovered his identity. His part
ner, Doc" Owens, got by and was
on the Titanic when it went down,
but he had the proverbial luck of
the crook and was rescued.
Jim killed two and perhaps three
men in the early days of the West"
Pinkerton said. Zone of his victims
was 'Bill'' Mathews, killed in Chica-
go. Jordan made a run for it and
reached California, but came hack
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05
ENGLAND SAVING
TN FROM DUMPS

WASHINGTON-Trash heaps in
England, which have given up thous-
ands of dollars worth of waste fats
for use in making munitions. now
are being robbed of their pictur-
eSque adornment of tin cans, which
likewise will do their bit toward
putting the German army back where
it belongs.
Necessity for conserving a metal
absolutely indispensable to the con-
duct of war virtually has eliminated
the use of new tin from civilian pur-
suits. Its place is being taken by
salvaged tin, gathered in the dumps
and alleys of the cities. and by
various substitutes, such as paper
and cloth containers.
Figures supplied by the British
Foreign office to official sources
here attest the great saving effected
in the use of tin plate. In 1918, the
biscuit trade used 10000 tons of
tin. This year that trade has had
SIS tops and will get no more.
Old tins will be utilized or the trade
will do without. Boot polish man
ufactures have received no new tin
whatever, as compared with 5000
tons annually before the war. Scrap
sent back from the front in France
is being worked up.
Domestic tinware. the HOUSEWIFE
pride, is receiving $50 tons quar-
ter where 5000 tons were used in
1918. Printing ink has received 81
tons this year, compared with 237
tons in 1918. No tin has been al
lotted for the civilian tobacco trade,
but the army is being taken care of.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05
GERMANS GIVING
SUITS TO CAUSE

AMSTERDAM of COM
ing confiscation of the contents of
German wardrobes in order to collect
100000 civilian suits for war
workers. are the subject of satire
in many of the newspapers in Ber-
in and elsewhere.
The Vorwaerts chuckles over the
possibility that Won Hertling may
have to appear at court in patched
pants and that Won kuehlmann may
arrive at the Peace conference with
holed elbows. One humorist sug-
gests that,s to save clothes, all per-
sons over 55 years of age be ordered
to remain in bed until eighteen
months after the war. Another
recommends widespread cultivation
of the fig tree.
The threats have, however, had
effect. In Munich, it is reported,
thirteen thousand complete suits of
clothes have been given up, al
though only 1850 were demanded.
Berlin is still hopelessly behind
and many complaints of unfairness
are made about the number of suits
required from the metropolis, eight
times more than was demanded of
Munich, whereas Berlin is only four
times the size Of Munich.
Complaints are manifest of hard.
ships on the lower and middle class
es. Radical newspapers accuse the
authorities of undue consideration
to the wealthy classes.
On the other hand, one of the
emperor's court chamberlains indig-
nantly writes to the papers that he
offered good suit with the lining
somewhat damaged but it was re-
fused and he is now wearing it him
self daily.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05
WORKERS LEARN
TRADE At YARD
At HOG ISLAND

PHILADELPHIA The axiom
Must Makes Master" is getting a
practical demonstration every day at
the Hog Island shipbuilding plant,
where a school of instruction has
been established and erstwhile clerks,
BARRIERS, car conductors and motor
men. policemen. firemen. shoemakers,
butchers, bakers and indeed repre-
sentatives of every known enter
prise and endeavor. are converted
into ship builders after brief tuition.
Most of these students, taught
by the hundreds in one branch or
another. are taken out of the in
struction- class after a week and
placed with journeymer crews.
While they are being instructed they
receive eleven hours pay for ten
hours work at the rate of 35 cents
an hour. When they have qualified.
their wages Immediately advance, so
that men who before were earning
SIS or $50 week in their own oc-
equations are now making $40. $50
and SEQ.
Their earning capacity depends
upon their ability and the amount
of time they put in. Many, in
order to swell their pay envelope,
toll longer than the required ten
hours, and thus frequently receive
as high as SIS a week.
The men find the employment
congenial and fascinating. whether
they are joiners, carpenters, rivet-
ers, seamers or otherwise engaged
in helping to turn out ships for
the government
Approximately $4,000 employees
are on the payroll at Hog Island.
They are not all men and boys.
There is representative number
of women. whose duties, however,
are confined to office or other light
detail
Just how large the total of the
weekly payments to the workers is
has not been officially disclosed, but
it is estimated to aggregate more
than s1,0oo.OoO.
The plant is the largest of its
kind in the world and the first ship
of virtually amending string of
vessels slipped down the ways last
month.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05
WAR ACTIVITIES
CAUSE HOUSING
TROUBLE GALORE

PHlLADELPHIA.-This city is
crowded as never before. The in
flux of strangers from all parts of
the United States to toll in the ship
yards, munition plants and other
places where government work is
being done has greatly intensified
the housing problem.
Few houses are available for rent
ers. A ITO Let" sign is scarcely
ever seen except in sections well
removed from the industrial plants.
Because of the high cost of build
ing materials. relatively few houses
are going up, apart from those be-
ing constructed by the government
for shipyard operations until after
the war.
Withal the problem of finding
accommodations for everyone is
slowly being solved, and after a
time many families who have been
forced to share homes with others
probably will be able to get places
of their own.
Rents, in keeping with other things
have taken an upward bound, sharp
~ in some instances. Steps have
been taken to prevent profiteering,
but there has been no government
objection to advances where con-
ditions warranted them
Perhaps no other city in the coun-
try can claim so large a number
of property owners as Philadelphia.
Real estate men figure that within
the past year more homes were pur-
chased here than in the three pre-
ceding years.
Where it was formerly possible
to clear a real estate transaction
in few weeks, it now requires as
many months. Clerks in title and
trust company offices have been
compelled to work nights, as we'll as
days, and even then they have been
unable to keep abreast of their task
Because of the keen demand for
homes. real estate valuations have
increased many millions, and Off
cial figures which will be published
later on are expected to show a
phnomenal increases in growth
over those of 1917.
The abnormal inquiry by home
seekers is attributed to the high
wages paid to men engaged in gov
eminent work.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-06-28

The government will finance war
activities until October by issuance
of treasury certificates, which short
time paper the public is urged to pur-
chase when offered and convert into
Liberty bonds of the fourth issue
when they are offered. These certifi-
cats will be offered to their customers
by the national banks.
Mr.. Larson states that the organ
ization for the fourth loan in this
state will be much the same as for
the previous loans, except in the mat
ter of getting people ready for it so
they will subscribe their money early.
He says much favorable comment
was made during the conference on
the good work Utah committees who
secured the states quota in next to
the record time in the last campaign.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-06-28
HAVE YOU SIGNED
A PLEDGE CARD?
Are You Doing Your Share in
Securing Utah's Allotment of
War Savings Stamps?
June 28th the People Of Utah will
Have Last Opportunity to Make Up
Allotment Of SO, ooo. 900 Which Has
Been Apportioned This State.

Have you stood up and been count
edf Have you enlisted in the army
that has volunteered it's dollars to help
Uncle Sam? Have you become stock
holder in the United States? Have
you Joined the army behind the army1
Have you shown that thrift and pat
riotism are synonymous? Have you
needed the command of Uncle Sam and
bought War Savings Stamps or signed
q pledge card that you will at definite
periods during the remainder of this
year buy War Savings Stamps? If you
have you are loyal American citi-
zen. If YOU have not you are in the
yellow class and Stacker.
vote is now being taken I'm tho
United States which is to be n vote Of
confidence In the government II
method is through the War Savir os
campaign. date has been fixed Tor
you to stand up and he counted. Then
Uncle Sam will know Just whom he
can count on. There will he two lists
on the day of the count. one will con-
tain the names of those who have
signed the pledge card that they will
buy War Savings Stamps and thus loan
him their money and who are with him
to the finish in the war which he is
waglng for the freedom of the world.
The other list and il will he Il very
small one. will contain the names OF
those who refuse to stand up and be
counted, the class that have the yell
low streak Where do you standi
June 2Sth the people of Utah will
have the last opportunity to make up
the allotment of Sg,0OO.0O0 which Uncle
Sam has apportioned II of the War
Savings Stamp loan. An army OF cam
vassers has called upon practically
every person In the state. There may
have been few that have been over
looked. There have been u few yellow
cards sent in to the War Savings
Stamp Commission. One more oppor-
tunlty will be given them 10 remove
this card from the file; that day Is
June 18th. The large majority have
signitied their faith in the government
by signing the pledge cards that they
will buy War Savings Stamps. On Ma
tional War Savings Day the Director
of Savings for Utah expects tn wire the
National Commission that Utah has
gone away over the top in pledges to
buy War Savings Stamps, that she is
still In the column Of loyal states that
she has confidence in the government.
II Is up To YOU to kclp him. Sign tho
pledge card when ii Is presented YOU.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-06-28
NO YELLOW CARDS FOR UTAH.
People Expected to Stand Behind tho
Government in War Savings
Stamp Campaign

Where do YOU stand? Uncle sam
wants to know. You have only few
more days In which to decide this queS-
day by Presidential proclamation upon
which you must decide whether you
are for the government. whether YOU
stand behind the army and navy of
the United States whether YOU are
loyal America citizen, whether
you are willing to loan your dollar to
enable the government to tight to The
end which must result In victorious
peace or whether you are against the
government and believe that the saw
age brutality of the Hun, the awful
atrocities committed by him on women
and children must not be avenged
On that date you will have TO show
your hand, the cards must be face up
for on that date which has been pro-
claimed National War Savings Day il
Will be known whether or no you have
signed II pledge card to buy War Saw
ingS Stamps al definite periods dur
ing the remainder of the year.
If you have not signed such pledge
or bought outright for cash your share
OF the War Savings Stamps loan, you
are In the Stacker class and as such
will be branded IN your community.
The yellow card proclaiming YOU a
Stacker will have been sent To tha
treasury department and you will be
entered in the small list of those who
are against the government and rs
such should 20 10 Germany and live
thnSn ~ /
whom you believe.
There Is no HALFWAY position In this
War Savings Stamp loan. The Vresi-
dent has called upon YOU to lend him
your savings both now and what you
can save during the remainder of this
year; the call Is II command to enlist
In the War Savings Campaign the Sec
rotary of the treasury has called upon
you To lend the treasury your savings
the Governor of Utah has called upon
you To come to the rescue of the gov
eminent with your dollars; the War
Savings Commission of Utah through
Its director and state chairman has
called upon You to sign pledge card
that YOU will let Uncle Sam have your
money; The senior senator from Utah
has done likewise and all these have
concluded their appeal thus that the
evening of June rs shall find no citi-
zens of Utah unenllsted in this ma
tionally important request of the gov
eminent" II is up to YOU. BE patriot
or yellow dog. Sign the pledge card.
Individually you are II committee or
one To see that your neighbor Is en-
listed as you have in volunteering your
dollars 10 Uncle sam