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Every piece of Silk and Worsted Dress Goods now in the house, consisting of
Ladies” Broad Cloth, Silk Finished Brilliantine, Silk Warp Henrietta, Etamines,
and all the new weaves in Black Skirt Patterns, will be marked down
Ten Thousand Yards Hamburg, worth 5 to 10 cents, to close at 3 3-4 e.
Thres Thousand Yards Hamburg, 15 to 30 cents, to close at Bc.
RUGS! RUGS! RUGS!
The greatest display ever shown in Dawson ; all marked low down.
Three hundred pairs Shoes, worth $l.OO to $3.00, the entire line to go at... Q¢ pair
One thousand yards calico tO Cloße BN i iemnmsi s i
On Children’s and Boys’ Suits. A lot of fine White Blankets at cut prices. Also eul
prices in handkerchiefs, ties, ladies’ and men’s hose, crockery and tinware.
Come early if you want the choice patterns and prices.
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made with M. & O. R. R. through Liwited train, carrying Pullman
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Full information upon application to Ticket Agent, or address Charles F.
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THE DAWSON NEWS.
DAWSON. GA.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1904.
: RATES:
Seqlon Ticket 60 Day Ticket 15 Day Ticket
$37.60 $31.40 $25.60
HITGH VS. TERRELL
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Geowrgia’s Governor is Scored
by Deposed Captain
IN SCATHING OPEN LETTER
;Governor is Accused of Prejudging
~ Captain’s Case and Approving
Courtmartlal Verdict With
) out Even Reading It:
Former Captain Robert M. Hitch, of
Savannah, the officer who was dismiss
ed from the service of the state by a
courtmartial because he allowed a
‘mob at Statesboro to take two prison
ers from the troops and burn them,
has written a very stiff letter to Gov
“ernor Joseph M. Terrell. In part Cap
tain Hitch says:
Now that I am relieved of that en
forced silence which military disci
pline imposed, and am at liberty to ad
dress you as a Georgian and an Amer
ican citizen, I feel it to be the duty
which I owe to the state and to the
Georgia state troops, and to myself,
to plainly delineate certain manifesta.
tions of your character which have
been brought to public attention since
August 15, of the present year. Be
fore doing so, however, I have pur
posely waited a reasonable time for
deliberation and reflection lest un
consciously I might imitate that inde
cent haste which you have lately ex
hibited on occasions when the reputa
tions of good men were lodged in your
keeping.
In military affairs, the commanding
officer is always accountable for the
conduct of his command. For the ac
tion of the troops at Statesboro on
August 15 and 16 I have always aa
nounced myself as willing to assume
full responsibility and have never
sought to shift the burden on any sub
ordinate officer or enlisted man. A.d
neither the people of Georgia nor my
self will allow you to escape your fu'l
responsibility for the action of the
court martial convened at Savannah
by your command. Under the law, you
are the commander in chief. Unde:
the law, the action of that court mar
tial had to be submitted to and pas -
ed upon by you before it became effec
tive. On you, therefore, must rest the
blame.
You have never been fond of as
suming responsibility. On the cou
trary, you have persistently pursued a
course which always placed others b :-
tween you and possible criticivm.
Under the military law, you couil
have ordered me to Statesboro on Au
gust 15 with instructions to act im
mediately under your command and
according to your directions. Yours
would then have been the responsi
bility. Local feeling and sentiment
would thus have been eliminated. In:
stead of taking this course, you saw
fit to send me there under instructions
to report to sheriff of Bulloch coun
ty, who, it now appears, was closely
connected by marriage with the mur
dered Hodges family, and to “compiy
with such orders as he might give,” to
“act in conjunction with the sheriff of
Bulloch county,” and to take orders
for duty from the judge presiding at
the trial. It therefore became nec.s
sary in your eyes to find a scapegoat;
some victim must be found, some one
must be sacrificed in order to relieve
the pressure leveled against the chief
authorities of the state, * * You know,
I know, everybody knows, that had
one shot been fired during those hours
while I was on that court house stair
way holding back those frenzied pe>-
ple at the point of the bayonet pending
the arrival of Colonel Grayson with his
reinforcements, who, I assumed, was
on the way, the indiscriminate slaugh
ter which would have ensued would
have caused me to be branded as &
murderer and a monster from one enl
of the land to the other. * * I stated
to the court of inquiry, I declared be
fore the court martial, and I now re
peat that in my judgment I discharged
my full duty as a soldier at Statesboro,
as well ag my duty as a man. It was
a hard duty to perform, such as has
never before confronted an officer cf
the state troops. I did my duty as I
saw it, and each passing day has con
vinced me more and more that I saw
it right. I have no apologies to make.
My conscience is clear, my confidence
in the corectnesg of my course ua
shaken, and I am content. You, I am
sure, cannot say as much.
Beyond the statement that every re
port and all the evidence in the Hitch
courtmartial case was given careful
consideration by him personally, Gov
ernor Terrell declines to discuss the
letter of ex-Captain Hitch.
Further than this, the governor
merely says: ‘“For me to enter into
any discussion of such matters with
FIVE ELECTORAL TICKETS
Democrats, Republicans, Populists,
Prohis and Socialists Out for Votes
of Georgians on November Bth.
Georgia, in common with all the oth
er states ef the union, will vote on
Tuesaay, November &, for thirteen
¢lectors for president and vice pres
ident of the United States. Each con
gressione! district will likewise ballot
for a representative in the fifty-ninth
congrees, for which in the Georgia dis
tricts there is little opposition to the
democratic candidates nominated at
the primary.
Georgians have before them the
choice of five electeral tickets this
year-—the democrdtic, republican, pro
hibitionist, populist and socialist. The
voters cast their ballots for the elec
tors and the successful electors hal
lot f{or president and vice president
of the United States.
The socialist ticke: is a new one
in QGeorgia this year, and witd Eu
gene V. Debs as its standard bearer,
the party is hoping te make inroads
somewhere.
There are thirteen democratic elec
tors who will cast their ballots, the
vote of Georgia, for Judge Alton B.
Parker for president and Henry G.
Davis for vice president.
At Large—T. B. Felder, Jr, and
George P. Menroe.
First District—W. G. Karnell.
Second—J. D. Rambo.
Third—Norman C. Miller.
Fourth—J. J. Bull :
Fif:n—S. C. Tapp.
Sixth—George Collier.
Seventh—l Lloyd Thomas.
Eighth—M. G. Michael.
Ninth—Samuel C. Dunlap.
Tenth—P. B. Johnson.
Bleventh—O. M. Smith,
Following is the Roosevelt ticket,
At Large—J. C. Hendrix and H. L.
McKee.
First District—Henry Blun.
Second—J. E. Petezon.
Third—W, B. Seymour.
Fourth—A ~ H. Freeman.
Fifth—J. G. St. Armand.
Sixth—Charles Akerman.
Sesenth—A. D. Hull,
Eighth--C. L. White.
Ninth—W. T. Day.
Tenth—B. B. Vaughn.
Eleventh—O. W. Cele.
Next in order comes the populist
tickst, with Thomas E. Watson, of
Georgia, at its head, 28 the candidate
for president. These are the populist
electors: -
At Large—W. S. Weir, John A. Stb
ley.
First Digtrict—D. C. Newton.
Second—Jesse Ward.
Third—Seab Montgomery.
Fourth—Bion Williams.
Fifth—W. F. McDaniel.
Sixth—W. P. Glover.
Seventa—H. W. Nally.
Eighth—George P. Brightwell,
Ninth—J. P. Brooks.
Tenth—Y.. D. McGregor.
Eleventh—D. R. Johnson,
Rev. Sam Jones, nf Cartersvllle,
heads the list of electors for the pro
hibitionists, who if they could by any
means be successful, would cast their
votes for Dr. Swallow, of Indiana, for
president. These are the electory for
the prohibitionists:
At large—Sam P. Jones, George
Gordoi.
Firgr District—R. B. Reppard.
Second--L. B. Bouchelle.
‘Phird—A. J. Cheves.
Fourth—Charles Deckner.
Fifth—Charles Deckner.
Sixta—W. E. H. Searcy.
Seventh—J. B. Cheves.
Wighth--J. V. Andrews.
Ninth—G. F. Hughes.
Tenth—Walter McCarthy. -
Eleventh—A . J. Hughes.
And finally comes ihe gocialist tick
et, with Eugene V. Debs, of railroad,
strike fame, as its candidate for pres
ident. Here are the Georgla electors
for the socialist ticket:
At Large—Alfred E. Seddon, S. B.
Austia.
Firs: District—J. L. Hodges.
Second—C. E. Fitts,
Fourth—H. Hart.
Fifrh—Richard H. Wadlow.
gixth—. Damour.
Seventh—Dr. I.°F. Lacewell
TWO SUICIDES IDENTIFIED.
Young Men Mangled By Train Were
: Payne Brothers.
The young men who were killed on
the Jellico railroad, near Athe.'s,
Tenn.,, Wednesday have been identi
fied as the Payne brothers, from west
ern North Carolina. It is thought they
were asleep on the track.
Costily Blaze at Barnesville.
At 9 o’clock Thursday night fire
broke out in the warehouse of Baird
& Sappingtoa, st Barnesville, Ga, anl
.
Occurs in Tunnel of Coal
Mine Near Trinidad, Col.
TWO SCORE MINERS DEAD
Heartrending Scenes Enacted at
Mouth of Death Trap—Fatal
Fumes Kept Wllling Res- 3
cuers Back.
From thirty to sixty men lost their
lives in a terrific explosion which oc
curred at mine No. 3 of the Rocky
Mountain Fuel and Iron Company at
Tercio, Colorado, forty miles west of
Trinidad, Friday afternoon.
The exact number of dead may nev
er be known, as the mine is burning
and in all likelihood the bodies wi'l
be consumed. A large number of mine
officials lefr Tripidad as soon as word
of the accident was received. the
company doctors were picked up
along the line as well as all available
physicians.
E. J. Foreman, a government stock
inspector, was at Tercio when the ex
plosion occurred. He returned to Trig
idad Friday and gave the following
account of the affair:
«] was standing not more than 303
yards from the mouth of the tunnel
when the explosion occurred.
“The explosion wag preceded by @
low rumbling sound resembling an
earthquake, which made the e€arta
tremble and startled the whole neigh
borhood. I looked towards the mine
and out of the tunnel and two air
shafts came a great volume of smoge
and dust which continued for neariy
a minute. Out of the two air sharts,
each of which are seven feet in dia
meter, timbers that were fully two or
three feet in diameter were shot inte
the air and broken to splinters. Rocks
were thrown over the camp for a
distance of a quarter of 2 mile. In
faot, it rained rocks, broken timbers
and all kinds of debris for fully a
minute, and many people were injur
ed by being struck with these mis
siles.
The explosion, which resembled a
volcanic eruption, caused the wildest
excitement. Men, women and chal
dren rushed to the mouth of the tuu
nel, and women whose hushands were
in the mine had to be brought away
by miners to prevent their being kill
ed by deadly fumes coming from th 2
mouth of the tunnel.”
Fumes Overcome Rescuers.
The mine in which the accident oc
curred employs eighty men, and it is
believed that at least sixty were in
the mine at the time. News of the
explosion brought asgsistance from the
adjacent camps, and within a short
time hundreds of men were trying to
enter the mine. Deadly fumes over
came the rescuers frequently,but their
places immediately were taken by
others ready to risk their llves. It
was not thought posible that any one
in the mine could escape death.
It was impossible to secure names
of the dead and injured. Nearly all
the miners employed are Slavs. The
explosion is supposed@ xo have been
caused by dust.
But one body had been recovered
Friday night, that of T. Duran, a
driver who was just entering the tun
nel when the explosion occurred.
BALFOUR SCORES RUSSIANS.
England’s Premier Scouts Story Told
. by Admiral Rojestvensky.
Premier Balfour addressed an im
mense meeting at Artillery hall
Southempton, England, Friday night.
In reverting to the North gea trag:
edy, he said:
“In the story of our fishermen there
was much tragedy, but no romance:
in the story of the Russian admiral
there is no tragedy, but I am driven
to the belief that there is much ro
mance. It is impossible to dount
which is the correct story. I shou!l
not have approachéd it but for the fact
that the admiral’s story is really ar
attack upon our national honor and
implies that we are not doing our duty
as neutrals.”
R R e
MORTGAGE FOR A MILLION.
Filed by Georgia, Florida and Alabama
Railway at Bainbridge.
A mortgage for $1,000,000 was filed
in the clerk’s office at Bainbride, Ga.,
Saturday by the Georgia, Florida and
Alabama railway.
The mortgage states that it is for
the purpose of making such improve
ments and extensions of their road
northward from Cuthbert toward At
lanta, either by way of Richland or
Lumpkin or for making any other €x-
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