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"By E. L. Rainey.
SPOT CASH CLOTHING SALE CONTINUES
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Frocks, Prince Alberts, and Some Boys' and Youths Hats
The Sale Has Been a Big Success.
We Sold Upwards of 40 Suits First 2 Days of Sale,
" Our Mr. Davis is now in the Estern markets, where he will spend some weeks buying our spring
stock. We are preparing to make the effort ot our lives this spring. We intend show the largest, most
comprehensive and up-to-date line this spring the Dawson public has ever seen.
W H. DAVIS & CO.
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BACON SAYS ISLANDM
A LOSING INVESTMENT.
GIVES ANOTHER VIEW OF THE PHILIP
PINE QUESTION.
georgia Senator Presents Facts That
Will Cause American People to Do
Much Thinking. Billien Del
lars Will Be the Cost. ¢
In the Saturday Eveuing Post Sevna
tor Bacon of this state has an interest
ing article on the question, Will the
Philippines Pay? It will be recalled
that Senator Bacon visited the islands
last summer and made a pretty thor
ough study of their resources and of
their prospective commercial value to
us. It may be as well stated at oace
that he does not believe that they are
a good investment. He points out
that they have already cost us more
than $300,000,000 at the very lowest
estimate. As a matter of fact there
are estimates by competent authorities
which make the cost, up to the present
time, over $400,000,000. But, assum
ing that the cost is only the first nam
el amount, it is easy to dcmonstrate
that the cost wiil not be less than $60,-
000,000 a year for the next five years,
even if it becomes safe to reduce our
srmy there to the number of men the
administration now thinks will be suf
ficient.
The civil administration is costly,
fmd its cost is steadily increasing.
Iroops are being sent home all the
while because they become invalids ;
Thg cost of transportation for troops
and supplies is very great. Besides,j
a_boun every soldicr that returns is a
fit Su.bject for the pension list, and the
pension sharks are pretty certain to
get him on the list. If, therefore, our
Occupation of the islands should con
tinue for five years longer we would be
out 600,000,000 on account of them.
~Senator Bacon, however, presents
‘_h? opinions of well informed army of
licials to the effect that we shall want
an army of at least 50,000 men for sev
eral years, to prevent insurrections,
;n'e people being in anything but a
riendly temper. These same officers
predict that we shall need an army io
the xsla‘nds for a generation or more.
PThe infereuce from what Senator
acon says is that the islands will
fosn u 8 more than a $1,000,000,000 be
‘ore they are self-sustaing, if in fact
their revenues ever become large
€nough to meet the cost of the govern
ment. As yet the value of their com
:nerce to us is 80 small skat it i 3 hard
¥ worth noticing.
ofl:hth;? foregoing no account 1s taken.
2 ; lives of nolflien that have been
00l ill be sacrificed in holding the
eB. The number is already large.
2 lea,. due to the climate, have of
uree killed and injured mamy more
than the insurgents.
m::::mr Bacon goes over the argu
]a;ds advanced for holding the is
‘:Onclub.ermanenti y and arrives at the
. filou. that .t.hey will not have
Peache:elgm if .t.he conclusion is
ik 3 that there is little or no pros
- irom any point of view, that they
THE DAWSON NEWS.
GERMANY TO RAISE COTTON.
Negroes to Be Taken There as an
Example.
J. N. Calloway, the teacher of agri
culture in the Tuskeegee, Ala., negro
school, has just returned from the
German colony at Togo, in westera
Africa, where he was hired by the
German Colonial Economic Society to
go ayear and a half ago with three
graduates of the Tuskeegee agricultu
ral departent to teach cotton raising
to the natives. Calloway says the re
sults have been successful enough to
warrant a continuance of the work.
He will return in a montb, taking with
him a limited number of negro men
trained in practical cotton cultivation,
who will locate among the natives as
model farmers.
The work in Togo is undertaken by
the German Colonial Economic So
ciety, an organization composed of
about 2,000 of the nobility and leading
bnsiness men of Germany, working in
co-operation with the German govern
ment.
International Stock Food at Fulton’s
will pe a paying investment. He
thinks that a way will be found to
get out of them that will be honorable
to the nation. It is evident, from
what he says, that it would be a wise
thing for us to do to get out of them
now. It can be done honorably at
present as well as at some future
time.
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“ BOTTOM OUuUT. l
’ Having determined to convert our immense stock into a first-class grocery business, we inaugurate
today, February 19th,
( A GRAND COST PRICE CLEARING SALE ’
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of Jour stock of RACKET GOODs, consisting of almost everything you can mention, We give you be
low our cost mark, so you can readily see this is no fake sale. Come early and bring it with you:
I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4 0 Repeater
This sale will continue from day to day until the goods are sold, so if you need goods and value your
dollar now is YOUR CHANCE TO SAVE THE MERCHANTS’ PROFIT. We positively mean just what
wesay. Everything in the racket line goes. No goods charged, no trading stamps given and no goods
delivered during this sale.
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First Door South of National Bank, Dawson. Ga.
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Dawson. Ga., Wednesday, March sth, 1902.
MANY FILIPINOS ARE IN THIS COUNTRY.
There has been a remarkable in
crease in the Filipino population of
Lonisiana in the last two or three
years, says a New Orleans dispatch.
When Speaker Henderson said, a
few mouths ago, that we need have no
fear of an influx of Filipinos, as there
was not a Filipino resident in this
country, he appearantly overlooked
Louisiana. There have been Filipinos
in that state for halfa century or
more; and a single colony, that of St*
Malo, in the parish of St. Bernard,
was 300 strong locg before Dewey’s
victory. An account of this colony
was printed soon after the battle of
Manila bay.
What, however, has not been no
ticed heretofore, Jis the recent large
increase of these Filipinos- Their
number, two or three years ago, was
estimrted at from 700 to 800.
They lived mainly in two settle
ments, one at St. Malo on the coast of
Louisiana, where they were fisher
‘men operating on their own hook, and
catching a large part of the fish sup
ply of New Orleans: and the other oo
the Mississippi, where they worked
for Chinese merchants. catching and
drying shrimp for the Chinese market.
There is no explanation of the origin
of these Filipino colonies, but it is sur
mised that were established by desert
ers from Spanish vessels. These de
serters hid in the swawps, far away
from human habitation, and were very
secretive and held themselves aloof
from their neighbers. Little is known
of their history.
They are never called Filipinos in
Louisiana but Mauila men. Most of
them speak a little Spanish, butiwmong
themselves they speak mainly in
Tagal, and live just as the Tagals do
in Luzon.
Apparently there has been no re
cent immigration of Filipinos to Louis
iana; the federal statistics give no ac
count of any.
RIVER BOAT BURNED.
Steamer Naiad and Part of Cargo
Burned on Chattahoochee.
The steamer Naiad, owned by the
Georgia and Florida Navigation Co.,
was burned at Blountstown a few
nights ago. The boat and part of her
cargo, including the mail, is a total
loss. There were no fatalities. |
Terrace Your Farm Lands. |
All farmers desiring their fields laid w
off with level rows and hillside soil
protected with terraces from washing
rains, can have it promptly done by
seeing me or leaving word at my res
idencz on Church street. I have the
best instrument made,and promise you
satisfaction. Charges reasonable.
Yours toserve T. H. HARDEN.
MARCH TO BE AN OLD TIMER.}
High Wind and Much Bad Weather. Ihnyl
Sudden Changes.
Old-fashion March weather, with
many sudden changes, is the forecast
of the weather prophets. High to low
temperature, thunder storms, heavy
rains, hail, snow and high winds will
prevail during the month of March
over the country east of the Missis
sippi river and especially severe over
'the lower Mississippi apd Ohio valleys
and river districts and at Pittsburg
[and beadwaters of the Ohio and moun-=-
tain regions over West Virginia, Ken
tucky. Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Illi
nois and the lake regions and Penn
sylvania, causing high stages of water
and fAoods.
High temperaturz to waves and
extremely heavy rains over the South,
Texas and coast of South Atlantic and
Gulf States, causing flood and storms on
the Gulf of Mexicoand storms of heavy
rain, hail, snow and high gales over
the East, New England and North
Atlantic States and coasts, the Atlan
tic Ocean and Great Lakes.
Warm waves to sudden fails in tem
perperature to cold waves, rain, wind,
snow and blizzards over the northwest
and states west of the Mississippi
river. |
All furniture, carpets, rugs, ma.t.-J
tings, cooking stoves, crockery, glass
wavre, tinware, clothing, shoes, notions,
etc., ete., are included in Pace's cost
sale, |
Vol. 18--No. 26.
THE MINDER SENTENCE
HAS BEEN COMMUTED.
THE DAWSON TAILOR HAS BEEN SAVED
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FROM THE GALLOWS.
Governor Candler Signs Order Commuting
His Sentence to Life Imprisonment.
The Case Was Hard Fought.
~ The death sentence passed Gpon Isa
idore Minder in Bibb superior court,
‘conirmed by the superior court of
this state and the supreme court of the
Uuited States, has been commuted by
Governor Candler, and Minder will
spend the balance of his life in the
penitentiary unless pardoned. v
It is not probable thata fight such
as that made for the life of Minder
has ever been made before in the his
tory of crime in Georgia. Minder mur
dered Andy Mahoney that nobody
disputed. It was admitted at all the
trials of the case that Mahoney was
killed by Minder, but the attorneys
for Minder have contended from the
beginning that Minder was justifiable
in his action from the fact that the
man whom he killed had heaped abuse
and disgrace on the nead of Mindez;
for many month before the tragedy.
One day Minder walked into the
shop in which Mahoney was working
and found Mahoney sitting on a table
engaged with his work. Minder
walked up to him and with a large
knife struck him several times in the
back, inflicting wounds that resulted
in death. Minder was arrested and
soou afterwards tried in the superior
court. He was convicted and sentenc
ed to pay the death penalty. A mo
vion was filed asking for a new trial,
but this was overruled and the case
was carried to the supreme court of
this stave, where a new trial was
granted. The case was again tried in
the superior court, the verdict being
the same as in the preceding trial,
and again a new trial was asked for,
and again this was refused. Thistime
the case was carried to the supreme
court of the United States on grounds
that Minder had been deprived of ma
terial witoesses living in Alabama,
who, under the law of this state, could
not be brought to Georgia to testify in
the case against him. The case
was heard in the United States su
preme court,and a verdict or a decision
handed down sustaining the superior
court of this state.
After all these efforts to save Min
der’s life had been exhausted at heavy
expense Mr. Cooper, attorney for Min
der, appealed the case to the state
prison commission, she pardoning
‘board of the state, which heard the
sase several davs ago, recommending
‘thatthe desth sentence be eommuted
to life imprisonment.
Promotly on the action of the prison
commission Governor Candler issued
aond, order commuting the sentence of
Isadore Minder to life i nprisonment.
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All furniture, carpets, rugs. matting,
cooking stoves, crockery, glassware
tawar, clthin, shoss, aoion e
S4B 8t tncluded 1a Pant's (i i <
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