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EY 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 wekes 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 seeq.
W. H. DAVIS & CO.
Y IN ALY
jDE IN BATTEAUX IN
BSTREETS OF MONTEZUMA
b 2t
, ER SPREAD OUT TWO MILES AND
TOWN SEEMED A MODERN VENICE.
ores Inundated and Great Property Loss
Sustained. Stocks of Goods Sub
merged and Ruined.
4
: I'he situation in Montezuma after
s B big flood a few days ago is report
- by the Americus Times to have
Beu deplorable. .
Bhe muddy waters of Flint river
read out for two miles, inundating
¢ eity and leaving destruction in its
Bk
'he mad waters from the river a
le away had backed into the city,
uadating the business portion gnd
- ing great damage, the water being
veral feet in depth on Main street.
Stores and basements werve flooded
d stocks of goods ruined wherever
e muddy torrent touched them. It
B anything but *‘a day of rest,”” and
ople, worked to save their property
Jom loss. Laborers worked in water
st deep to save goods in the stores.
Fiveand six dollars a day was paid
B srocs who would thus work. The
Jter stood two feet deep in some
!’gs. and many lost heavily by the
DO,
I Boats were brought into reguisition
B the litile Georgia city looked like
‘ nodern Venice as the people rade in
tteaux, gondola like, up and down
e streets. A boat line to Oglethorpe
as established and all travel between
; e two cities was by boat.
Qv dollar each way was the mod
l , '["‘-" price of passagze.
Che entire distance between the
0 towns, two miles, was one sea of
SRuidy water in the center of which,
<C an angry monster of the deep, ran
pe swift current of Flint river.
The new bridge built by the county
B dashed into toothpicks, not a ves
-2e of it remaining. The testle of the
r.m'al railroad was under water,
bile long stretches of embankment
ere carried away, leaving the rails
hd crossties swinging in mid air a
peless wreek.
Many thrilling escapes w2re made
¥ parties who crossed the river in
Dats,
It was the worst experience Monte
ima has ever known from a flood
andpoint,
MR. STEVENS IMPROVING.
as Injured in the Wreck at
Couch’s Mill Creek.
Honorable O. B. Stevens, who was
bjured in the recent wreck on the
buthern at Couch’s will creek, is im-
Oving slowly and will soon be out
2aln. His injuri:s were more severe
afl.Was at first supposed, but the at-
Ending physician apprehends to se
10Us trouble.
"l‘here isa nice and varied iine of
PO% stoves aad -ranges at Baldwin’s
“"d“"&'-'\‘. store, ard they will sell
lem cheap,
THE DAWSON NEWS.
MORMONISM INCREASING.
Is Stronger Than at Any Time in
Its Previous History.
New York papers are saying that
Mormon missionaries are/ very active
in that city. One of the missionaries
is quoted as having said recently the
number of converts in the neighbor
hood of Harlem, within the last vear,
was over 200. It is on the programme
to build a Mormon temple on Manhat
tan Island, near the Christian Science
church. [t is thought that such a
temple will be built in the near future
if the Mormon missionaries continue
to be as successful as they have been
during the last few years.
Men well informed as to the growth
of Mormonism say that it isstronger
now than atany previous time in its
history. It is growing in many parts
of the world. That the mormons are
very much in earunest is shown by the
fact that they keep 2,000 missionaries
in the field. The missionaries are
young men, and, as a rule, well educat
ed and well dressed. They do not de
pend up n their preaching so much as
upon their house-to-house visits to
make converts. That they should be
making converts by the hundreds in
New York city, and that, too, among
a class of very intelligent people, leads
to the belief that converts to any be
lief, no matter how unreasonable it
‘seems to be, can be obtained if the ef
fort is only persistent enough.
Dawson, Ga.., Wednesday, March 12th, 1902.
SPEND MILLIONS MORE ON PHILIPPINES.
It is intimated that congress will be
asked for $8,000,000 or $10,000,000 with
which to purchase the lands in the
Philippines owned by the friars. Itis
said that the president has decided to
send a special commission to Rome to
negotiate with the Vatican for these
lands. One of the commissioners will,
it is said, be Governor W. H. Taft,
and the other Bishop Thomas O'Gor
man.
It is a question whether congress
will regard with approval the proposi
WHAT IT COST TO SINK THE SPANISH SHIPS.
The cost of shot and shell that de
stroyed the Spanish ships at Manila
and Santiago has been for the first
time calculated by Rear Admiral Chas.
O’Neil, naval ordinance chief, who
shows that the battle with Ceryera’s
squadron cost the government in
amount of ammunition expended, just
Bliss Triumph Potatoes.
We have the original Maine seed
Irish potatoes. Call early, as thev are
scarce this season. Price 50c. per
peck. T. O. WHITCHARD & Co.
JUST A MOMENT.
Our Cost Price Sale, inaugurated February I9th has been a suc
cess so far, and we feel grateful to the public for its patronage.
We have a great many more bargains left, and they are yours at
just what they cost us. We will continue the sale but a few more
days, so you will benefitted if you come at once. This is our cost
mark. Bring italong and see for yourselves:
, 1 2 3 4 .8 f 2 8 4 0 Repeater
LBC D E F 6 Bt~ 'K A
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Full line of Groceries to arrive in a few days.
r Pace’s Racket -i
LFirst Door South of National Bank. Dawson. Ga. LS =
A D S e e s T
tion to inyest such sum in the Philip
pines, particularly as it is not settled
yet that it is our purpose to hold the
islands as a permanent possession. It
is not at all improbable that the peo
ple, if the question were submitied to
them, would decide that we have as
much money invested in the Philip
pines as it is‘advisable to invest there.
Our present investment is between
$300,000,000 and $400,000,000, and the
prospect of getting it back is not at
all promising.
| $84,864, while it required out $50,000
worth of ammunition for Admiral
' Dewey'’s fleet to put the Spanish out of
"action as Manila.
. The total weight of ammunition ex
| pended in the Santiago fight, includ
| ing powder,fwas 165 tons, and the total
' weight of metal thrown was 113 tons
Wanted, -
Twenty-five or thirty stands of bees
in good condition. Address
E.J. HORNE, Dawson, Ga.
R. F. D. No. 4.
TO PAY TOBACCO REBATES.
About $lOO,OOO to Come Back to
Georgia Merchants.
The internal revenue collector for
Georgia has been notified by the
Washington authorities that warrants
are being drawn up for the payment of
all rebate claims which arose when
tte recent schedule on”tobaces prod
ucts went into effect in July, 1901. It
is estimated that $lOO,OOO is due the to
bacco merchants of Georgia as a re
sult of these claims.
All dealers, manufacturers and oth
ers whose claims were properly pre
pared and liled with the internal rev
enue officer within the required time
following July 1, 1901, will evidently
soon receive their settlement warrants
although the internal revenue depart
ment of this state is not now prepared
to say just when payments will com
mence.
The tax on tobacco under the
war revenue act was $l2 per 100
pounds, or 12 cents 2 pound. Twenty
per cent of this tax was vemoved by
the last act, making the tax $9.70 per
100 pounds, or 9.6 cents per pound.
Food Changed To Poison,
Putrifying food in the intestines pro
duces effects like those of arsenic, but
Dr. Kings NMNew Life Pills expel the
poisons from clogged bowels, gently,
oasily but surely curing Constipation
Biliousness. Sick Headache, Fevers,
all Liver, Kidney and Bowel troubles.
Only 25¢ at Dawson Drug Co’s.
Vol. 18-=No. 27.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND
!
SLAVES IN PHILIPPINEN,
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE EN
SLAVED FOR DEBT.
Held in Bondage Until the Obligation Is
Satisfied, and Subject to Sale. Taft
Before Congressional Committee.
" The extent of slavery in the Phil
ippines was discussed by Gov. Taft
before the ecngressional insular com
‘mittee a few davs ago on response to
!quest.ions by members. He said slavery
i was confined to the southern Moro is
lands. The investigation made by
Governor Taft ard his associates had
brought out the fact that the slaves
included men, women and children,
who were slaves for debt, according
to the statement made by the datos.
The slaves could buy their liberty, but
until this was done the condition ran
from generation to generation. The
slaves were members of thz family,
and the relation was comparatively
mild, if it was possible to consider any
form of slavery as mild.
The ciyil authorities have never rec
ognized slavery in any way, he said,
and the military bad always released
slaves, but the slaves did not under
stand the advantage of liberty. Al
thorgh our wishes had been made
known, yet neither the e¢ivil or mili
tary authorities bad said slavory must
cease or war would be made.
Representati+e Patterson of Tennes
see asked the number of slaves. Gov--
ernor Taft replied that he and his as
sociates had sought to leern the num
ber, with the idea that we might buy
them and avert an exercise of force.
But when the natiyes lcarned this
they all represented themselves as
slayes. Governor Taft estimated about
one-fourth of this southern population
as slaves or from 250,000 to 300,000 in
in a population of 1,000.000 to 1,500,000.
When asked how many sultans there
were, Governor Taft answered that
suitans and datos were as numerous as
barouns in Germany or justices of the
peace in the United States.
In reply to a question by Mr. Patter
son, Governor Taft stated that the
slaves were punished by their masters
and whipping was not unknown to
them, slthough there was very little
severity. The slaves were subject to
sale, buv he did not know of any sepa
rating of mothers from their children.
BIG COTTON SALE.
Candidate Jim Smith Disposes of
2,000 Bales.
The cotton firm of B. B. Ford & Co.
of Macon bhas recently purchased the
entire cotton crop of Honorable James
M. Smith, the guberatorial eandidate
of Oglethorpe county, amounting to
about two thoudand bales. This is the
largest single transaction in the sta
ple which has taken place in the state
this season, and involves in the neigh
‘borhocd ofiseventy-fiye to one hundred
; thousand dollars.
~ Freeh water sround meal at Fulton’s
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