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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-08-04
THE WORLDS LARGEST ARTIFICIAL LAKEIs LOCATED ALABAMA

to 114,0O0OO0,0O0 as requirements OF
the city increase.
In the construction of this project
it was necessary for the Alabama
Power Company to construct a city
for 5000 persons in a wilderness and
to build railroad connecting with a
distant trunk line To make the reser-
voir safely navigable. healthful as well
as beautiful, the company is expend-
ing approximately $1,000000 in clean
ing the land OF timber and underbrush
Several saw mills have been set up
and the trees are being sawed into
lumber to be used i'll the construction
of the dam and for other purposes.
This vast storage of water will as
sure four and one-ha1f feet navigation
in the Alabama river, into which the
Tallapoosa flows, practically all the
year around, to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-08-04

ken by the Alabama Power Company
and is expected TO be completed late
in 1926 Three huge electric genera
tors, each driven by $4,000 horse
power water wheel turbine, will be
furnished By the General Electric Co.
These will be the largest generators
in operation in the south.
To gain proper conception of the
immensely of this development COM
PARSONS are interesting. Against the
$50, 900. 100000 gallons of Cherokee
Bluffs there will be but l70,000000,
100000 gallons at Mussel Shoals. The
Roosevelt dam reservoir, hitherto con-
ceded the largest artificial body OF
water in the world impounds but 420,
100000, 900 gallons, and the Hetch-
Hetchy reservoir in San Francisco
now contains but 67,000,000,000 gall
Ions and has facilities to increase this
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-08-04
DOZEN MEN[OFFER to-
Idle IN ELECTRIC CHAIR
WOULD SACRIFICE THEM
SELVES AS PROTEST AGAINST
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
WANT A PUBLIC EXHIBITION
Prominent Doctor, Who Says Victims
Suffer Torture, Is Among Number.
All Over 80 Years of Age, and Are
Anxious to Die for the Cause.

| WASHINGTON, ID. c. we've
old men of this city are seeking death
by electrocution.
They have asked permission to die
! in the electric chair as protest against
capital punishment.
| II the plans of the Prisoners Relief
Society here go through, their wishes
will be fulfilled.
| The society is planning to stage a
capital punishment exhibition al
which the twelve will be victims.
Most prominent of the volunteers
is DR.. Walter C. Murphy, practicing
physician in Washington for SIS years.
"The state has the right to take a
mans life" he said, but 1t has no
right to torture him before he dies.
"As a doctor | know that the cleo
trio chair is the most horrible torture
conceivable.
Like a Dentists Drill.
Imagine a dentists drill run into
all the nerves of your teeth at once,
, then imagine that pain all through
your body instead OF only in your
mouth, and you will have some idea
of how its victims suffer.
Il feel that if the people could only
see the terrible agonies OF man be-
ing electrocuted they would soon abol-
ish the. practice.
THAT is why | am willing-even
anxious-to sacrifice myself as an ex-
ample"
The movement was started by G.
p McGraws. aged philanthropist who
made known his desires to DIR. K. r..
budding. Prisoners Relief president.
In explaining the reason Tor his
strange request he told how he had
been convicted OF murder and sentenc-
ed to death in Ohio, more than thirty
years ago.
Il appealed the case, won new
trial and was finally acquitted, ne
said. But the shadow of my trial still
hung over me in the town where |
/ lived | was completely ostracized.
"Now I am old. | have nothing lett
to live for. But l would like to do
some act that would help mankind.
| The other ten would-be victims, all
over 80. have requested that then
names be withheld until plans for then
execution have been completed.
All Willing to Die.
These men all mean what they
saw" budding said They are willing
and anxious to die for the cause.
'As to our capital punishment ex-
hibition, which we plan to hold the
second. week in December, am now
negotiating with the Washington Au-
ditoriuin Corporation, Calvary Baptist
church and First Congregations
church for a place TO stage it.
I'VE plan TO have twelve electro
chairs on the platform, with volun-
teer victim in each They will be cleo
trocuted one by one.
! Il have written to the attorney gen
Ieral asking for a ruling on whether
such an exhibition may be held. :.
But if he rules against II we VII
go right ahead with our plans; | be
iieve that these men, all July ma
tured and in their right minds, hav'
the right TO take this action Il the,
wish"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-08-04
AT 1000 MILES AN HOUR
WHAT CAN BE Expected

Can human beings travel at the
rate OF 1000 miles an hour and live?
Such a speed is mechanically pos
sible, but the physiological element
may make it impossible. Expert
ments on animals show that such
speeds produce anaemia of the
brain and hence insensibility and
sometimes death. A we'll known
aviator who won a speed record in
describing his sensations said: Il
went out cold as / turned the py-
Ions" that is, he became insensible
for the fraction of a moment OF
course he recovered almost imme-
diately, but with a higher speed he
might not recover. What that speed
is has not yet been sascertained.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-08-04
A SHORTAGE OF COTTON
GOODS FELT IN RUSSIA
Women Shoppers Stand All Day Long
To Be Waited On.

The shortage of cotton goods in
Russia never has been felt so acutely
as this year With the coming of the
summer, says the Washington Post,
Moscow textile shops are literally be-
sieged by all classes of town popula-
ton and numerous peasants, who
come great distances to buy a few
yards of Bingham or cotton dress
goods.
Foreigners are much surprised by
the sight of long queues of women
shoppers who stand patiently all day
long outside every state textile shop,
obstructing traffic and necessitatirSg
the regulation OF the crowd by militia
men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-08-04
RAILROADS PAY GEORGIA
IMMENSE sum IN TAXES
CONTRIBUTED ABOUT TRHEE
MILLION DOLLARS TO THE
STATE TREASURY IN 1924
DECREASE in FEDERAL TAXES
Only $73,367,510 Was Paid the Gov
eminent, While. S265, 945,732 Went
Into the Golfers of Various States,
An Increase of Per Cent.


That the railroads are a great sus-
tanning force of the state government
of Georgia, whatever may be said of
them by way of criticism, is evidenced
by report just made by the bureau
OF railway economics, which shows
that in 1924 the class railroads paid
$2,874,220 in taxes to the state of
Georgia. This was an increase of $70,-
9O7 as compared with 1923, when the
class ! carriers paid to the state ST.
803,3l3 in taxes,
An interesting fact in connection
with the amount of money paid for
taxes by the carriers in 1924 is that
while expenditures made by them for
federal taxes showed a slight decrease
under 1923 the amount to the various
states showed an increase. OF the to-
tai amount paid nearly 80 per cent, or
sos, 945,732, went to the various state
governments. Railroad taxes in thirty
five OF the states, principally states
where the greatest railroad mileage is
to be found, showed an increase OF
more than per cent, compared with
the preceding year In only thirteen
OF the forty eight states was there any
decrease in railroad taxes reported.
On the other hand about 20 per
cent of the total tax bill of the rail-
roads, or S73,367, $40, was paid by the
carriers to the federal government.
This was a decrease Of $3700,000, or
nearly 5 per cent, compared with the
taxes paid by the railroads to the same
source in 1928.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-08-04
SALARY OF STATE OIL
INSPECTOR STRICKEN
FUND FOR BUREAU OF MARK
ETS rs CUT IN HALF IN AP-
PREPARATION BILL.

While the lower house OF the gen
era1 assembly was considering the APP
preparation bill a bitter fight was
made by number of legislators on
the state department. Of agriculture.
l. Amovement to cut the maintenance
fund of the state bureau OF markets
from 100000 to $4,000 was success
Jul, and the salary of the bureaus di-
rector was eliminated
In another fight on the department
the salaries OF the chief oil inspector
and his head clerk were stricken from
the bill.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-08-04
Acreage Agent Of Ohio
Capitalists Is in Georgia

A. B. Duren, representing a
gsoup of Cleveland, Ohio, capital
'sts, is in south Georgia for a few
o. 70 get first hand information
c,s$ptDIAr lands in this territory.
The sy1Rp With which he is
connected ago bought a
tract of 5000 acre. ee coun-
ty. Mr.. Duren is be- Shown
around by w. E. Fench, OF the in
dustrial department of the Georgia
and Florida railroad. Mr.. French
spent couple of weeks in Cleve-
land and following his return as
serted that investors in that city
are greatly interested in the many
advantages and possibilities OF
south Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-08-04
Women of u. S. Smoke
Five Billion, Cigarettes

American women will smoke 5000
ooo 200 cigarettes this year, according
t ~ Erv Kahaya. president OF the Stand
ard Commercial Tobacco COMPANY a. :
ri New York city. He estimates ina.
IS 600 600 cigarettes will be consumed
~ this country during the current year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-08-04
Hordes of Dead Flies
Wrecked Automobiles

Carpeted by thousands OF dead flies
and insects the pavements in Evan
ston, ILL.,, under street corner lamps
became so slippery that many automo-
bile crashes occurred when cars Skidd-
ed on the dead bugs
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05

OF the farmers Of the nation in a
new cooperative grain marketing
movement.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05
MOTHER ASKS
AID FOR SON
Seeks New Trial for Him on
Grounds Of New Evidence

Minot, n. d., Jan. "a mother
OF convicted burglar under SEN
tence of two years to the state pen-
ltentary, but now at liberty under
bonds pending the result of mo-
ton for Il new trial, has made and
N signed an affidavit which she hopes
Will bring decision from the court
to grant her boy another trial, prin-
cipally on the grounds of newly dis
covered evidence.
y, The mother is Aurelia Perron, and
:, the son who stands convicted of bur
-gfary is Alloye Perron, residing on a
9 farm near Donnybrook.
:, That another young man, Layton
/, Stubs, friend of the Perron fam
-, lily, has confessed to her that he was
the person responsible for the theft
aOf gasoline, of which her son was
;, convicted, is the substance of the
. mothers affidavit. Stubs, who was
"a co-defendant with Perron, but who
failed to appear for trial, and for
; whom bench warrant was issued.
!, Is now confined in the state peniten-
4, tiary at Bismarck. serving one wear
; sentence on another charge, accord
: ing to Mrs. Perron's affidavit.
], At the time of the trial of Perron.
according to the affidavit Of Mrs.
! Perron, the purported facts as set
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05

Washington, Jan. 5.-Cl0ser organ
, lZailon OF agriculture to promote
orderly marketing and secure return
of at least cost of production to the
farmer was preached by Frank O.
Lowden, former governor of Illinois
and himself a farmer, before the
meeting of the National Council of
Cooperative organizations here to-
day.
lndiscrlmnate marketing, without
regard of requirements at whatever
price Offered and monopolistic con-
troll o. the two methods, he said, are
beth wrong. He declared that the
farmer must retain control of the
price of his products until thew
reach the consumer
To accomplish this, Mr.. Lowden
offered organization to increase "the
bargaining power" of the farmers,
adding: Those forces representing
the purchasers of farm products
have become highly organized, while
farmers have made less progress in
that direction than any other body
OF our citizenship, and therefore are
az a tremendous disadvantage"
Crop Sold Low
Mr.. Lowdcn said: ut is safe to
say that the larger part of the bum
per crop of 1923 was sold at price
which did NOT cover cost of pr0duc-
tioh. IT corn growers had been or
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05
Farm Bureau
Man To Speak
On Marketing

Fargo, N. d., Jan. 5.-Grey Silver,
former Legislative representative of
the American Farm Bureau feder-
alton, with headquarters at Wash
lngton, d. c., now president of the
Grain Marketing company of Chica-
go, will be the principal speaker at
the fifth annual meeting of the
North Dakota Farm Bureau fedora
ton. which will be held in Fargo
Jan. Is and l6 the week of the Tri.
State Grain growers convention.
Mr.. Silver will discuss national
Legislative work Of the farm bu-
reau, of which he had entire charge
for several years. He will also ex-
plain to North Dakotans the plans
and progress of the Grain Marketing
company, an amalgapation of sew
eral of the greatest private grain
organizations of the coun-
Try. discussed widely in the press
some months ago.
This company is now endeavoring
to secure the backing and support
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05
2 INDUSTRIES
ARE ASKED FOR
INTEREST CASH
State Treasurer Sends State
ment Showing SS23,5S2.Ol
Is Due Taxpayers
BANK AND STATE MILL
This Amount of Interest Not
Paid by the Two Indus
tries To State
BANK AND STATE MILL

j Two state industries the Bank of
NORTH Dakota and the North Dakota
VIII AMI Elevator Association owed
On January | the state treasurer Il
total Of Ss23.JS2.0l interest on
cording to records OF the state
, treasurer's office. One of the last
, acts Of Treasurer John Stcen was TO
send It statement of the interest To
|, the industries.
I OF the total amount the Bank Of
North Dakota owes $35O,OOO for in
terest paid by the state through tax
sociation is indebted to the state
in the sum of $473,5S20l. No in
tfrest has been paid by the mill and
elevator association, while the Bank
oi North Dakota had paid $200,O
oi total Of $550,O00 interest. The
total interest charges to January
ON bonds to finance the industries
amounted to 1923, 5S2.Ol
The bond interest on $4,000 600 Of
capital stock bonds issued for the
Bank Of North Dakota amounts to
SltU,O0U Il year, and the first semi
annual installment of $4,000 inter
est became due on January |, 1920.
The interest charges to the mill
and elevator association are divided
between the interest on $4,000 900
construction bonds. providing funds |
t. build the mill at Grand Forks, and
$l,"5o,O0o milling bonds issued to
provide operating capital. The first !
interest charge Listed on the con
struction bonds was $76.lI372. due !
January |, 1923. No interest had
been paid and the total due the
state now is $405, l5207.
On the $l,350000 milling bonds,
the first of which became due Jan
uary | 1924. the total now is sos
a29.94. 1t is contemplated these
bonds and interest be met by prof
It's from the operation of the mill.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05
DEFICIENCY
BILL REPORTED
Would Appropriate $157.1ll,.
700 of u. S. Funds

Washington, Jan. 5-An emer.
""n"' deficiency bill carrying $751;
ll1,7OO was reported today by the
House appropriations committee to-
day with leaders planning to rush it
to the senate within the week.
or the amount $50, 0OO,O 900 would
be available for the refunding of il
legally collected taxes; $3,5Ol 200 for
continuation Of work on dam No. .
at Muscle Shoals, and 1900, 900 for
purchase of the capital stock of the
newly created Inland Waterways Cor
poration. Other items included:
$215,OOO for prevention of epidemic
diseases, to be used particularly in
Graduating bubonic plague among,
rats at the ports of New Orleans and
Oakland. California.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05

forth by her in the affidavit were
not known to her and neither was
Stubs whereabouts known until
after the trial
The affidavit declares Stubs has
iniol mea MRS. Perron that he stole
the gasoline, which was mixed with
IInsccd oil, and had hidden it in "A
stlawstack near the Perron home.
later putting it in Perron's car with
out the knowledge or consent of
Perron.
Copies of the various papers in
c'dent to the motion for new trial.
including the affidavit Of Mrs. Per.
ron, nave been served on States At
torney v +. Stenersen
Arguments on the motion are
scheduled to be held in Minot before
Judge George II. Moellring of vii
iiSton on Thursday, January -.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE

ganizcd and found that the market
would not receive their corn at what
i. cost them to produce it, they
would not have dumped the larger
part of the crop upon the market in
ii few brief months.
They would have sold sparingly.
They would have stored the remain
der, knowing that seasons Of boun-
tiful production are always followed
by seasons of low production and
that soon they would receive fair
price for their corn.
'lf organized. they would have
adjusted the supply to the actual
demand and they would have made
this adjustment before the price be-
came demoralized.
I'm fact, it made later. but only
after the great bulk Of the crop had
left the farmers hands 1t can not
TO often be stated that the supply
Of any commodity which affects the
market price is not the entire stock
ii the commodity, but only that por-
ion of which is offered for sale at
| given price.
The Normal Price
"The normal price is fixed by the
upply and demand, but the normal
'rlce is not determined until after !
he farmer is ruined.
what the farmer is interested
H. he said, "is the market price
he price that rules from day to |
ay, which first must be named by |
"Who is so fitted to make this
inst declaration as the producer
imself? he asked. "He knows
hat it cost to produce that bushel
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05
A New Coach.

Recognizing the demand for a truv COM
portable and economical of the coach
type. Dodge Brothers have provided it.
The Coach reveals characteristics
maturity of design-in the low-surnq
lines OF the body in the Arrangement IF
the interior for five passenger comfort
ana IN the exceptional dimensions of the
doors and windows
The arsacquer fnished in Do1oe f3rottere
ole with body stripe of carto1che yellow
FITTINGS and fixtures are first quality
throughout and balloon tires are standard
equipment
solar as riding comfort and dependablitv
are concerned it is only necessary to add
mat the Coach is built Dodge Brothers
sturdy chassis and cushioned by DODGE
Brothers undressing springs
$io9 b. H,erdL
NJ Il. GILMAN
y 2 ~ j.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05
Employed in
State Capitol
For 10 Years

l.. 0. Rudser, chief clerk in the
office of State Treasurer John Steen,
who moved across the hall in the
state capitol with his chief, when
the latter became state auditor to-
day, has entered the ranks of long
time employees in the statehouse.
kudser served in the state treasur-
er's office for 10 years, eight under
MI. Steen and two under Obert A.
Olson.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05
L0WDEN ASKS
COOPERATION
ON FARM PRICE
Declares That Fixing of the
Price by Producers Is
Very Necessary
SPEAKS OF 1923 CROP
Says Large Part of Corn. Crop
Was Sold Before Normal
Price Fixed
SPEAKS OF 1923 CROP
PRESIDENT SPEAKS

Washington, Jan. 5.-Coopera-
tlv" marketing can and should
be made Il success in America,
becaus" it provides the best
means Of stabilizing the complete
agricultural marketing associa-
ton. President Coolidge declared
at the annual convention of the
National Council of Farmers
Cooperative Marketing Associa-
tons.
Addressing delegates to the
convention, the President warned
that cooperative marketing pos
sesSed no magical attributes, and
asserted that il must start from
the soil and be developed up
wards
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05
Judge Berry to
Decide Case

Mandan. Jan. ;. Judge II. l..
Berry of the Sixth Judicial Court,
will hand down his decision this af-
telnoon or tomorrow, he said, in the
suit brought by State Insurance Com
missioner S. A. Olsness for the re-
moval Of Lyall b. Merry of Dickin-
son az receiver of the defunct Farm
ers Insurance Company of Stark
county.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05

To clean your bowels without
cramping or overacting. take Casca-
rets!
You want to feel fine; to be quick
" free from sick headache. dizzi-
ness, biliousness, colds, bad breath.
Il sour, acid, gassy stomach.
One or two Cascarets, anytime.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05

Of corn or pound,of limp cottoS.s
'if later it sh6ald turn out that
his Judgment had been wrong as to
probable supply or demand, he may
change the price. But the price will
not fluctuate from day to day and
from hour to hour; nor will it be
the football Of traders who have no
interest in his enterprises"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05
Town Closed
By Quarantine

Russell. Mimi, Jan. 5.-The death
of Mrs. Allen Burckhardt from
smallpox here has caused the health
authorities to close all churches.
theaters. dance halls and other pub
nc places. There has so far been
no spread Of the disease.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05
Ruthenberg
Gets Sentence

st. Joseph, Mich, Jan. 5.-Charles
+. Ruthenberg, convicted of viola
ton of the Michigan criminal syn
dlcalism law. today was sentenced
by Circuit Judge Charles f. White
to serve from three to 10 years at
jackson state prison and to pay
fine of $4,000.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-05

VIII start the bowels acting. When
taken at night, the bowels work
wonderfully in morning.
tascarets never sicken or incon
Venlence you next day like pills, cal
omel, salts or oil.
Children love Cascarets too. 10
cent boxes, also 25 and so cent sizes.
ANY drugstore.-Adv.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-01-21
TYPHOID DEATH
PROBE REVIVED

Chicago Jan. 2O.-A possibility OF
arrests In connection with the death
Of William McClntock was foreseen
here today when the virtually defunci
death probe was revived at a secret
star chamber conference between
Coroner Oscar Wolff. Chief OF Police
Morgan Collins and Judge Harry
Olson, chief instigator of the in
yestigation.
The presence of Collins at the CON
ference Immediately gave rise TO re-
ports that arrests impended. 1t was
the first entry OF tho police depart
ment into the probe.
The conference came to public at
tention only when newspaper men
called at the coroner's office to learn
the reas sons for the continued delay
in calling the inquest which 1t had
been believed would amount only to
the admission of a formal report that
McCintock died only from typical
textbook case OF typhoid fever"