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"By E. L. Rainey. SPOT CASH CLOTHING SALE CONTINUES =ON—= _ 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. > \ 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. “ e “ 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 ’ = e ————————————— 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. e s R ket l ace s acKedt. First Door South of National Bank, Dawson. Ga. __;’ 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 A 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. et et o b All furniture, carpets, rugs. matting, cooking stoves, crockery, glassware tawar, clthin, shoss, aoion e S4B 8t tncluded 1a Pant's (i i < il i o e SR g