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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
LOST FORTY MILLIONS;
LAMBS FALL HARD
AMERICANS EASY MEAT FOR
THE SHADY" STOCK DEAL
ERS. WON'T TAKE ADVICE.

America squandered $40,800,000 in
fake stocks last year! Americans with
a little money laid by are the biggest
suckers in the world. They get skinned
then they boiler, and when it's too
late they listen to advice.
That is the estimate of Charles M.
Minton, the shepherd of Wall street.
He is the head of the Minton Brokers
investigating bureau, of New York
city. and his job is to keep tab on
crooked stock statesmen and brokers
for the big exchanges. Stock swindles
are being operated in every big city
and in some smaller ones, ne says
He declares he can name at least l5O
shady houses in New York city
alone
Men Bigger Suckers"
"M,en are bigger suckers than wo-
men," said Minton. more of them
fall. mean. Women are more con-
servative-but when they fall they fall
harder. | know one, woman who re-
Gently lost $4,000 in fake stock deal
s.Oil stocks used to be the faVorite
medium for gyp artists. Next came
mining stock These are pretty wei
PLAYED out now. New schemes are be-
ing Matched all the time. Radio is now
being used to trap suckers. Many Of
these artists have long lists, and boast
that they trap one out OF every hvs
persons they scheme against. Ameri-
cans are becoming more guillble every
day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
Tune In! Give Ear, and
Hear the Doodad Mourn

NEW YORK.-We'll soon be
able to listen to the pining OF the
Australian Whimplewiff, the Sc
nega1ese Ipsedingus and, sitting in
our front parlor, hear the doo-
dad, the poor little doodad, mourn
ing for its mate
Radio, which has already driven
portions Of the populace to the bug
house, the poor house and the en-
cyclopedia, has achieved another
triumph. 1t has found the feeding
ground of the pink headed duck in
India.
The news was flashed by radio
gram on Saturday to the American
museum of natural history from the
Faunthorpe Vernay India expedi-
ton. Tune in! You'd be surprised
at the wonders natures has in storel
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
BLOOD STAIN REM OWED
AFTER THIRTY YEARS
faint OF AFRICAN DESCENT
FOUND UNTRUE. BIRTH
SECRET is Barred.

For 80 years a wanderer in lands
where the faint of his supposedly Afri-
can blood would not make him less
the man in the eyes of his fellows,
Frank Kyle Spofford, now Al years
cid. has come into his birthright as
white man, and the mystery of his
birth has been cleared up. 1t has also
made him the Legal heir to his moth
er's estate, heritage small, however,
in comparison to the satisfaction OF
knowing that the leopard's spot that
has marked him all his life has been
cleared away.
Spofford has come into the estate
of Annie Kyle, of Oakland, Cal, his
mother, who, for many years, lived in
seclusion in house Of mystery" with
her hermit brother, Robert B. Kyle
During these years Spofford roamed
to the far places of the earth, believ-
ing himself to be Frank S. Hill, the
son of Nanny Liza Hill, typical,
before-the-war negro woman.
Spofford worked in the gold mines
in Alaska, where eventually he accu-
INFLATED a fortune. He always believ-
ed that some day the true story OF
his birth would reveal him white
man. He had not seen Nanny Liza
for many years, but when he made
his pile" he decided to visit her at her
home in Kentucky. She welcomed the
wanderer and told him the true story
of his birth.
Left Estate to Son.
In 1874 the scars OF the civil wal
had not cleared away when Annie
Kyle gave her heart to Col. Penn.
broke Spoford, gallant soldier O.
the north, who had located in Ken.
lucky. Her brother, rial southern
aristocrat, picked a quarrel with thu
dashing Yankee and killed him. Kyl'
then fled to Mexico.
Annie Amelia Kyle had her owf
secret, and when she learned that he
lover was dead she went to the cabir
of Liza Hill, her childhood nanny
and there her child was born. No ont
guessed the secret or the whereabouts
Of the girl She then joined her broth
er in his Mexican exile, and year
later they moved to Oakland, whert
they lived lives of seclusion.
Nanny Hill told young SpofforC
that she had received word OF tn,
death of his mother.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
UNCLE SAM TO SHARE
COOGAN KIDS WEALTH
JUVENILE MOVIE STAR SIGNS
CONTRACT THAT WILL NET
HIM $1,500,o00 A YEAR.

LOS ANGEEES.-Of the $500,000
which Jackie Coogan, child film actor,
is said recently to have received as a
bonus for signing a contract with Me-
tro Pictures corporation, $260,7Z0 will
60 to the government in the form Of
income tax, according to figures made
public by Rex B. Goodcell, collector
OF internal revenue.
The worlds greatest 8-year-old self
made boy recently signed a contract
which will guarantee him nearly ST.
100000 year for several years.
Jackie's papa and mama signed their
names to the contract after confer
ence with Metro corporation officials,
and it is reported that Metro will pay
$500,000 as mere contract clincher
and give Jackie 90 per cent of the net
profit from pictures, which will run
more than a million a year.
Six Big Firms Bidders.
Master Coogan's first contract ex-
PRED recently, and six of the biggest
film companies began bidding for his
services. All are said to have offered
contracts with a salary above the mill
lion mark Doug and Mary Fair
banks lost in their effort to secure the
youthful screen star.
No self-made man ever made a
more rapid rise than Jackie. Less than
four years ago he signed his first con-
tract, to appear in THE Kid" with
Charlie Chaplin, at SIS a week, after
his parents had refused $40. Today
THE Kid" is worth close to $780,
600, the money being placed in le-
gally construed trust fund for his par
ents, thus assuring that he will have
It when he reaches manhood,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
POOH! POOH! OUR
GROCER BEATS THIS!
KING TUTENKHAMUN LEAVES
HAM" IS NOW $3.50
YEARS OLD.

LUXOR, Egypt What is believ-
ed 10 be the oldest specimens OF canii-
ed beef in the world have been dis
covered bv excavators in the tomb OF
King Tutenkhamun. While it was not
wholly palatable, being 1850 years
old. the meat is in an excellent state
Of preservation.
The meat has been embalmed and
was contained in elliptical receptacles
resembling huge Easter eggs. Still
other meats found were launches o.
venizen. trussed ducks and joints OF
game. Noticeable among this diseoy-
cry was a giant duck he exeava-
tors also removed today Jour bronze
candle sticks of great beauty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
DRINKING IS ON WAVE,
SAYS DRY LAW HEAD
RECORD FOR LAST 2 YEARS
SHOWS BIG DECREASE IN
INTOxIcATIoN IN U. S.
ARRESTS ALSO ON A DECLINE

Alcoholism and Insanity Cases in Re-
cent Years Decrease Heavily; Coun-
try Is Greatly Helped by the Dry
Law, Says Haynes.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Intoxica-
ton is decreasing, particularly among
women, r. A. Haynes, prohibition
commissioner, said tonight in a state
ment pointing out the progress being
made by prohibition in the partly
hostile centers.''
HAYNES based his assertion on data
gathered in what he thinks are repre-
sentative cities of partly hostile CEN
ters," New York, Chicago, Philadel-
phia ard Boston.
so Per Cent Drop.
Arrests and arraignment for lntox-
ication show a drop of more than st
per cent for the two prohibition years
as compared with the wet years from
1910 to 1916, he said. Alcoholism and
insanity have registered similar drops,
Haynes stated.
1T is commonly admitted that IN
the great metropolitan centers OF the
east, where there were, in many IN
stances, considerable majorities against
/ the prohibition law, the fight to estab-
Ilish proper respect for and observation
| of this law, is most strenuous. How
ever. the progress being made in these
great partly hostile centers IS amazing,
and Just as an encouragement TO snow
that Our enforcement program IS sue
ceeding in the most difficult sections,
and that already the benefits resulting
are many, the following comparative
| facts have been collected:
in New York city there are two
| sets of figures on intoxication, "
the police record of arrests, and ~
! the magistrates courts records OF ar
fragments and convictions. These sta
tistics, while not identical numerically,
agree in showing a decrease OF more
than so per cent in the annual aver
age number of cases of intoxicatlon IN
the two prohibition years as compar-
ed with the wet years, l9l0-l9l8:
"The police department records .ot
arrests for intoxication show de-
crease Of o. per cent.
"The arraignments in the magis-
trates' courts show a decrease OF OF
:
per cent.
Convictions Decrease.
Convictions in magistrates courts
show ar decrease of SO per cent. The
present percentage of the arraigned
who are convicted is higher than for
"These percentages refer to the an
nual averages of the wet and OF the
prohibition periods.
"Women show a remarkable de-
crease. The figures of arrests by po-
/ lice are not at hand; the decrease. OF
arraiqnments OF women for intoxica-
ton In the magistrates courts was 81
Der cent as compared with general
decrease of 90 per cent. Where there
were formely 1926 drunken women
arraigned, in the dry years there have
been but $50, less than one-flfth as
many"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
Moonshiners Are No
Respectors of Persons
Stills Found on Farms of Ministers
Judge and Professional Men.

TETON, Ga.-That violators OF
the law against making whisky are no
fIespectors Of persons was recognized
long ago. Not long since moonshine
whisky still running full blast was
found on the farm of the pastor OF the
FIRST Baptist church and the pastor
lost a tenant. Later, a still was found
on the farm of a leading physician.
HIS colleagues were twitting ill1n
about it and he said that such a thing
might happen to any man, when one
o. his professional brothers asserted
mat it couldn't happen to him. The
physician led the scoffer to a still on
me Scoffer's farm next day
But, boarding the lions in their den,
so 10 speak, two moonshiners were
arrested and landed in Tiff county jail
saturday night. One was operating a
sun on the farm of the Judge OF the
cily court of Triton. Not even judge
u superior court is safe these days, 4
-r owns farm, and the judge of the
1nton circuit is keeping his eyes open
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
EYES OF THE WORLD ARE ON R1EAND AND THE NEAR EAST
Count Corn Eaten by
A Rooster; TT Grains

PIPESTONE, Minn.-Just how
many kernels of corn will a rooster
eat in Il hours? There is a great
difference of opinion on this sub
ject, as was shown in guessing
contest held at local store. An
accurate count was kept of the
number of kernels Of corn eaten by
the bird in question, and it was
found that it actually devoured 72z
kernels of corn between 9 a. m. and
9 p. m. Mrs. F. M Conkiin, of this
city, made the nearest correct
guess, 743. The guesses ran all the
way from IL to 1900 Some of the
most experienced poultry raisers
estimated the number of kernels Of
corn the rooster would consume at
less than 100.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
Bodies of 400 Chinese
On the Way to Coast

los ANGELES, Cal.-The bodies
81 l0f Chinese who died in the east.
e ern nart OF the United States, and
, n,ta friends and relatives are send
; mno9 then, TO China for burial, arrived
here today aboard the British steam,
err Esther Dollar, which IS expeSteo
10 ali for the orient tomorrow. Inc
Chinese. If is said. believe their souls
never will reach heaven unless then
bodies are buried in their native land
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
F orty Story Building TO
Replace Dearborn Depot

CHICAGO-Prelin1inary plans for
a great terminal project to replace the
Dearborn street station recently burn
ed and later repaired, were announced
on Sunday by the Chicago and West-
ern Indiana railroad, owners OF the
property. The scheme provides for a
group Of three buildings to enbody
the terminal, the center building rising
to height of forty stories
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
Anyone Want to Purchase
Nice Court House Cheap
Uncle Sam Has One for Sale in New
Jersey at a Bargain.

JERSEY CITY, N. J.-Uncle Sam
has one first class, citified court house
that he is willing to sell for the ridIc-
ulous sum of 81, PA. 19-no discount
for cash.
The Hudson county court house IN
Jersey City, estimated to be worth
IS, 100000, was seized by United
States Deputy Marshal James ] Don
nelly to satisfy Judgment OF 81 ,Z4I. -
obtained in the United States district
court by towing Company.
Some time ago tug owned by the
towing company ran into Lincoln
highway bridge at Hackensack, dam
aging itself to such an extent that ac-
ton was brought against the free-
holders of Essex and Hudson counties
for damages.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
and pounds.
Prospects in Newly
Invaded Territory.

The boil weevil is now distributed
over almost all OF the important cot
producing sections with the ex-
ception of North Carolina. Practical
ly the only other territory remaining
t1ninfested is the zone along the west
ern margin of the cotton belt. Some
of this territory has been invaded in
the past and the weevils have been
driven back by adverse weather con-
ditions. Whether the weevil will new
er become seriously injurious in this
territory is problematical, but it has
shown marked ability to adapt itself
to unfavorab1e conditions. Just how
far this adaptation will extend it is
impossible to predict.
The progress of the weevil invasion
has caused one erroneous impression.
When the weevil invades a new dis
trict complaint is made of its serious
injury to the cotton crop during the
first two or three years, and then little
more is heard of it. This naturally
leaves the impression that the weevil
is seriously injurious in new terri
tory for only a few years and then
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30

although in several instances the vim
ter conditions have caused decrease
in the infested area. During the first
ten years after its advent into this
country the annual rate of spread OF
the weevil was 5,640 square miles.
From 1901 to 1911 the annual increase
in the infested territory averaged 20
$3.50 square miles. In 1916 it reached
n, 800 square miles OF course, the
figures given do not refer to the area
in cotton. In many parts of the in
tested territory the area devoted to
cotton is much less than 10 per cent
of the total area.
At the end of that year over 100000
square miles of territory had been in
Tested by the boil weevil, leaving only
about 10000 square miles of cotton
producing territory uninfested. Practi-
cally IS per cent of the cotton belt is
now infested by the weevil, and the
area now infested produces 94.6 per
cent of the cotton crop of the cotton
belt of the United States.
"A form of the boil weevil is found
in the mountains OF Arizona feeding
upon wild plant related to cotton.
This variety has been under observa-
ton for number of years, and finally
was noted in 1920 attacking cultivat-
ed cotton north of Tucson, Ariz., be-
tween that city and the Santa Catalina
mountains. The state of Arizona is at
tempting to eradicate this infestation
by non-cotton zone in the infested
district
The boil weevil is known through
x9A1f,nt, Of 4
southwark to Guatemala and Costa
Rica. 1t is known TO occur also in
the eastern half of Cuba.
The losses caused by the boil Wee
vii are both direct and indirect, and
extend throughout practically the en-
tire financial and economic structure
Of the cotton belt It is impossible to
estimate the losses due to deprecated
land values, closing down OF cotton
gins and oil mills, and other indirect
results of the weevil INVASION All es-
Inmates have been made entirely on
the basis of the direct loss in non
production of cotton lint and seed. The
bureau of crop estimates of the Unit
ed States department OF agriculture in
the fall of 1920 estimated an average
annual loss for the last four years OF
about $300,0O0,000. Other estimates
have differed somewhat, but certainly
the annual direct loss is now we'll in
excess of $200,000,000.
The damage in nadimdual fields is
influenced by many actors and varies
widely, ranging from slight injury tc
complete destruction Of the cotton
crop. A fair idea OF the possibilities
of loss is afforded by the gains which
have been secured in recent poisoning
experiments where weevil injury has
been eliminated. Gains in FIVE, six OF
even seven hundred pounds of seed
cotton per acre due to poisoning are
not unusual, and in exceptional in
stances gains have exceeded one thous-
and pounds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30
WITT FORCES PREPARE
FOR A HARD BATTLE
1cHT WINES AND BEER IS
GLE FORGING TO FRONT IN
-1nMAL CAMPAIGN.
MANEUVERS IN BOIn rlA4s lES

Modification of Volstead Act May Be-
l come Paramount Issue in 1924 Pres
dental Campaign. Johnson May
Lad G. o. P. Moist Division.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-30

DEVOTED TO
PUBLIC SERVICE
, 1923-01-27
ALLEGED BRIDE
TAKER TRIED ON
CHARGE
Figures Raised on Copies
Of Liquor Permits by
Shelley, Claim.

HELENA, Mont. Jan. 80. II.
p. Shelley. suspended federal prohi-
bitfon Enforcement director of Mon
tana and Louis Fischl OF the Parchen
Drug company OF Helena. spent two
evening in May or June, 1922, in
Shelley's office raising figures on
copies of liquor sale permits, accord
Ing to testimony given in court here.
Trial OF Shelley. who Is Montana
member Of tho Republican National
committee. on a second indictment
changing acceptance of bribes to per-
under way Friday, after the yer.
dict late ThurBday by the jury find.
ing him Innocent of the charges in
the first Indictment, which asAoged
acceptance OF brides from breweries
to permit manufacture of beer with
an Illegal alcoholic content. The
second Indictment charges taking
bnibes from tho Parchen Drug COM
pany. Helena. the McKibben Drug
store, Great Falls: and F. S. Williams
a druggist OF Billings.
The two sessions of Shelley and
FrFschl in Shelley's office, the latter
part of May or early in June. 1922.
came after Fischl had reported to
Shelley that he a heard the federal
authorities were preparing to investi-
cate the Pnnchen company, Fschl
'estif'e ed. His story on the stand was
hat he took copies of sellers permits
rom his own files to Shelley's office:
hat Shelley found corresponding
Nop'es IN the directors files. and cor
"espond'ng applications for liquor
ale permits. Then. according to
Tsch's testimony. reference was
lade to reconds OF drug stores in n
'ozen cites in Montana to see how
oearly they had reached the quota
Of LIQUOR. to which they were entitled
md the copies of the applications,
the vendors permits and the direc-
tors cop'es were raised.
Copies of all three documents in
more than n dozen cases were intro.
fuced by District Attorney John l..
slatteny. and with them copies of the
permits which mad been mailed to the
reasury denartment in Washington,
, G.. on which We're none of the
ltries alleged by the prosecution to
L been made by Shelley and Flschl
4 the copies Of the permits which
7mu'ned in Helena.
, 1923-01-27
RULING MACHINE
IS INSTALLED BY THE
COMMERCIAL PRINTERS

The Commercial Printers. Casper's
Oldest established printing house. has
installed a Hickok ruling machine,
the first OF its kind TO be used by
any job print shop in Casper.
The Hickok is considered the most
modern and efficient ruling machine
manufactured It requires the ser.
vices of a skilled mechanic who has
been brought here from Denver and
who started work last week.
Because OF this additional equip
meut. the Commercial! Printers will
be able to turn out forms OF all kinds
of office stationery in n colors re-
quired. There is no form OF station.
cry too difficult for the machine to
handle. Heretofore the necessity OF
sending such work out Of ow delay
ed delivery OF these orders. 1t is now
possible to complete a job of this
kind In "a hours.
, 1923-01-27

that a landlord making an Anu-child
stipulation in a lease or rent contract
shall be fined from $50 to 800 for
zach offense.
The bill follows:
Section 1. 1t shah hereafter be
deemed unlawful and opposed to
public policy upon tho part of any
owner or agent OF any dwelling
house, ] q or apartment. desiring to
rent. lease or let the same. to require
as a condition precedent TO the rent.
ing or leasing of any dwelling house.
Hat or apartment, that the person or
persons desiring 70 TO rent or lease
such dwelling house, Fat or apart
ment shall have at the time such APP
plication is made for the leasing or
renting of such dwelling house. flat
or apartment no children under the
age of II years residing in their fam
nies. n It shall be deerNed unlawful
and opposed to public policy to insert
In any lease or agreement for the let
ting or renting of any dwelling house,
tlat or apartment. a condition termin-
ating such lease or agreement IL
there are or shall be any such child
rem In the family of any person hold
ing such lease and occupying such
dwelling house. fiat or apartment,
and n such agreement or lease CON
tanning such provision shall be deem
ed opposed to public policy and en-
trey void as to such provision.
Section 2. Any person, company.
corporation or association violating
any of the provisions Of Section l of
this law shall DO guilty Of a misde-
meanor and shall DO fined not less
than 5000 nor more than $4,000 for
each and every o~ffense."
, 1923-01-27
PARADE, DINNER AND DANCE FEATURE INITIATION OF
EIGHT CANDIDATES BY FORTY AND EIGHT CLUB

a dance Mt the Arkson. Al the din.
ner there were speeches by w. b.
Cobb, chef de gar DR., ]. F. O'Don-
nell. who was in charge of the init
iatory work. j.. G. Nelson, chem
mot rationale Of the 40 and 8"
society. and d. w. ogiIbee. past
state commander Of the American
Legion and one of tho outstanding
figures in legion affairs in wyom.
ing. Fears that discord and lack
Of harmony would interfere with
the progress of tho local Legion
post were dispelled by all Of these
speakers. Tho serious side of the
toc!ety which met last night is
shown by the fact that all those
who attain the upper degree OF tho
legion must have done some meri-
torious service and must continue
to take an aAtive part in the affairs
of the legion.
Those initiated last night wero
Thomas wickland. v. r. Dacken,
c. z. Duncan, 7. J. McReon, A. ].
Thickstrum, p. T. Cox w. b.
Hazelmlre, and G. NJ. CruEen.
, 1923-01-27

HANDICAPPED. hog.tied and IN
prison garb, eight "goofs," who
later were initiated into LIE Societe
des Ouarante Hommes and HUT
Cheveaux. were dragged through
the down town streets yesterday as
preliminary to the more formal
ceremony later In the evening.
This was the first promenade
held by the local post and tho APP
pearance of the members. with
their box car and other parapher-
MALTA. excited considerable SOM
ment among the pedestrians. The
sight of the usually dignified DR..
Victor r. Dacken, tho sedate w. B.
Hazelmire. the austere T. J.. Mo-
Reon and the rotund DIR. O. p.
Duncan trotting down Center street
will probably mean that their bust
ness and professional standing viii
suffer in proportion to their loss OF
dignity. The procession was led
by Bill Alderman and his Arkeon
orchestra.
Dinner at the Henning for the
entire membership was followed by
, 1923-01-27
DRY NAVY FOR
PACIFIC COAST

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 27.-An-
other navy is 10 be added to the Pa
ciflc coast. Samuel F. Rutter. federal
prohibition director for California.
announced here today. 1t will be of.
ficially known as the Omitted States
Pacific coast dry navy"
The new "dry navy" patterned
after New York's famous fleet, will
chase every liquor carrying craft
found inside tho Pacific coast three
mile limit.
just when the dry navy is to be
gin operations remains shrouded in
secrecy as Mr.. Rutter aid he wanted
to spring IT as a surprise upon those
periodical voyagers who ply between
United States Pacific coast ports and
the Canadian supply bases"
EVERY day in every way" Rutter
said, wei mako the sea rougher
and rougher for sea-golng bootleg
ers And our little motor boats will
be about the fastest things on the
Pacific ocean. Just watch the dry
navy's smoke"