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THE DAWSON NEWS.
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PRESIDENT ATTENDED CHURCH
IN HUNTING GARMENTS.
Vo Monntain Band of Road Agents
Ever Looked More ¥ormidable.
Wild and Wooly in Extreme.
\ Gleenwod Springs, Colo., dis
patch savs unique in the history of
Coloralo was the chureh service held
at the ol blue school house on West
Divide creek Sunday, attended by
President Roosevelt and his hunting
party and all the ranchmen and their
families for miles arounds The little
district school ,building was not a
tenth part large enough to accommo
date the congregation, and as a result
the organ was moved to the front
porch. Om this porch segts were pro
vided for the president and his party,
the Rev. Horace Mann, of Rifle, Col-
Orado, the choir and the trustees of
W church, 5
The embers of the congregation
Stood o sat on the ground of the
hoo! vard, or in their conveyances,
Which wer grouped around the build
nZ. The sermon by Rev. Mann was
Otan unusual kinde It began with a
Sry teeming with slang of the Wes
®rnfavor, and was full of advice
“ited 10 a comngregation inuring it
¥lfto the hardships of mountain life.
touched on ‘the responsibilities of
UE position of president as well as the
Maracteristies of some of the men
"ao | occupied that exalted place.
Aftes he had concluded the presi-
Yntspoke for ten minutes. He ex-
Pressec Lis well known views on good
“lzensiip, the morality of man and
Yiriotism and duty to . home and
@intr. He was cheered heartily
Wroughout his remarks. After the
were coneluded the president
nds with every man, woman
d vresent. The president’s
,'"“" esented a picturesque appear
; s they came to the service. All
vun horse back, and they were
e3¢o Tn their hunting elothes.
\’a had no others at the camp.
sy of those in the congregation
_Ure their best clothes. The gowns
: sof the women were showy
JH4in striking contrast to the muddy,
% tuck, blue jeans and other rough
| “#7als making up the costumes of
“iresident and his fellow hunters.
- untain band of road agents
,' vsed more formidable than the
_went and his party. The { west
. “irof the party went straight to
" ircarts of the people’ They ap
| “9ded and yelled regardless of the
¥ and place.
MUST EXPLAIN DECREASES,
Controller General Wright Says Rail
roads Will Have to Show Him.
Comptroller General William A.
Wright in speaking of corporation
tax returns said that in all cases
where a return shows a decrease, as
compared with previous years, he
would exercise his authority and re
ject the valuation, making an assess
ment of his own.
“They will have to show me,’’ he
said. ‘“‘Railroads and other public
utility corporations ‘cannot make a
smaller return for 1905 than for pre
vious years, without establishing a
mighty good reason for it. All other
property has increased in value, and
most of the returns are showing it.”’
INNOCENT MAN SERVED YEARS
Was in Georgia Penitentiary for a
Crime He Did Not Commit.
The prison commission has recom
mended a pardon for Jim Richardson,
a Fulton county negro, who has serv
ed fourteen years of a life sentence
tor a murder now known to have been
committed by another man.
Back in 1890 a white man named
Smith was shot and killed at Bolton,
out near the Chattahoochee river, and
Richardson was convicted of the crime
on circumstantial evidence. Recently
a white man named Moore, who lived
at Bolton, died, but before his death
made a statement to several parties
declaring that he had killed Smith,
but stated that it was without inten
tion on his part. He heard some one
on his front porch at night, and think
ing burglars were trying to get into
his house he fired out the front door.
The shot killed Smith, but Moore pre
served silence and let Richardson go
th the penitentiary for life.
Affidavits as to Moore’s dying state
ment and other evidence in the case
were placed before the commission,
and the case made out in Richard
son’s favor was quite a clear one.
It is expected, therefore, that a par
don will be granted him.
A GOOSE WORTH HAVING.
Thirty Years Old, and Has Furnished
Beds for Whole Family.
Mr. W. A, King, near Tifton, has a
very valuable zoose. The fowl is 30
years old and has been owned by Mr.
King for twenty-seven years. The
goese lays an egg every day, and sets
once a year. From this goose several
flocks of geese have been raised, and
from r product enough feathers
have bxn gathered to make a feather
bed for every member in the family,
eight in number, and a parr of pil
lows for each. Besides, there are
feathers for two extra beds. The old
| goose still lives and is now on her an
'nual set.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1905.
Four Hundred Acres in Kansas Have Been Turned into
a “Tank Farm’ Valued at $2,000,000, and Their
Annual Product Amounts to $8,000,000.
Neodesha, Kan., Correspondence Boston Transeript.
The onslaught of Kansans upon the
Standard Oil Company has called at
tention to the fact that near this city
John D. Rockefeller has what is un
doubtedly the richest farm in the
world, and not a dollar’s worth of
produce is raised upon it. The farm
consists of 400 acres of fine land. Tlts
value is nearly $2,000,000, and its an
nual crop amounts to about $8,000,-
000.
Mr. Rockefeller doesn't try any ex
periments with corn or wheat, nor
does he try to increase his wealth by
engaging in the raising of cattle,
sheep and hogs. The Rockefeller farm
is purely a tank farm, and is so call
ed in this neighborhood. At approx
imately the same distance apart on
the 400 acres are 50 big oil tanks,
each having a storage capacity of
from 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil.
A space of eight acres is set apart for
each tank, and around each is a dyke
of earth five feet in height thrown up
to catch the oil should a leak be
sprung or to fight away the flames
should they come in the wake of a
stream of oil that had burst its con
fines.
Each of the tanks is made of sheet
steel, and cost about $4,00). They are
about 50 feet in diameter and 30 feet
high. They rest flat on the ground.
The steel floor is covered with heavy
black oil paper, and a conical roof
surmounts the whole. A stairway
leads to the roof from the ground. In
the middle of it is a door locked with
a Rockefeller padlock, which cannot
be duplicated, and to which only
trusted employes carry keys. .
In these tanks is stored the surplus
oil of the Kansas field. The produc
tion has been increased greatly. A
year ago it was about 13,000 barrels a
day; now it is more than twice that
figure. The Standard refinery here
can take care of only 2,500 barrels a
day, butat Sugar Creek, near Kansas
City, the company is putting up an im
mense one. Even this, however, would
have been inadequate.
llf the state is geing to put the com
pany out of business in Kansas the
Standard will lose several millions in
investments, such as the tank farm,
which eannot be moved without great
impairment. There are smaller farms
at Humboldt and Caney.
These tank farms are connected
with the oil fields everywhere. Big
mains run into each of the six large
producing counties, and from these
laterals extend to wherever there is
any oil. The moment an operator
can show a production of 50 barrels a
day the Standard will build him a
pipe line. Until the recent fuss this
was the rule, and gangs of pipe layers
were kept busy all the time, many
wells being capped awaiting the arriv
al of the pipes.
More than $6,000,000 is invested by
the Standard in pipe lines in this
state. Solid trainloads of pipes and
sheet steel were daily sights in the
field last summer. Each main is sup
plied with a pumping station which
forces the oil through the pipes.
Where the oil does not run by gravity
the Standard has been paying a cent
a barrel for the steam used in pump
ing, which in itself has been a good
source of income to the operators.
Forty men are employed to ride the
pipe lines and guage ‘he oil. Their
business is to look for thefts and
leaks. Oil stealings nave not bevn
infrequent in the past. A line will be
tapped at some secluded point and a
wagonload of oil taken, to be sold
later to the refinery people.
These guagers visit the oil wells,
measure the oil and run it into the
line. They give the operator a ticket
and he sends the accumulated ones to
the headquarters the first of the month
and gets his check. An aftidavit must
accompany each claim, in which is set
out the name of the owner of the roy
alty. Few of the wells are operated
by the owners of the land, most of
them taking life easy on their monthly
royalties. These they receive direct
from the Standard office. In this
way they feel sure the operators are
not defrauding them.
BUG EATS THE BOLL WEEVIL.
Another Enemy of the Cotton Pest Is
Reported to Have Been Found.
Chief Howard of the entomological
bureau, department of agriculture,
has been notidied of the discovery of
an insect in Falls county Texas,
which is destroying the boll weevil.
It is expected that an expert will be
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STARTLING NAVAL FIGURES.
Big Stick Fellows “’oulil Spend Six
Hundred Millions.
In an address before the Geograph
ical society of Philadelphia on Thurs
day night Admiral Melville said that
we ought to spend at least $600,000,000
on our navy right away, that our
present navy which cost more than
$200,000,000 wasn’'t more than big
enough to defend our coast. If we
make the Panama canal a sea level
canal, he said, we shall want a navy
for its defense alone that will cost at
least $400,000,000, and we shall need a
fleet at either end of it. And the Phil
ippines will require a big fleet for
their defense. He expressed the opin
ion that it would be the wiser plan to
get rid of the islands at once, before
we have a squabble over them with
some one of the strong naval powers.
With a treasury showing a steadily
increasing deficit the programme for
navy building presented by Admiral
Melville is calculated to cause our
statesmen some uneasiness. A navy
costing $600,000,000 would require a
verry pretty sum annually for main
tenance, besides unestimated millions
to keep it up to a high standard of efli
ciency. As a battieship’s life isn’t
longer than twenty years, perhaps not
so long, if we adopt the policy of a
mighty navy, such as Hobson and
Melville, and even the president, think
we ought to have, we might as well
make up our minds at once that a
great deal more revenue must be
raised than we are collecting at pres
ent.-—Savannah News.
SODA JERKER AND HORSESHOER
Wherein the Later Has the Advan
tage Over the Former.
A New York newspaper notes:
“*Many horseshoers throughout the
country complain that they cannot se
cure a sufficient number of young men
to learn the trade.”” Why? Is it be
cause the young fellows are afraid of
a little dirt and grease? Do their
public “school educations unfit them
for the horseshoeing trade? They
are usually ready enough to take a
job behind a ribbon counter or at the
soda water stand. Is it more dignified
or honorable to ‘‘jerk soda’’ than to
fasten a set of shoes on a horse?
Meanwhile, the competent horseshoer
makes as much wages in a day as the
sodawater gentleman does in a week.
Now, does close association with the
horses shut the door of soecial oppor
tunity in the face of the energetic and
upright young man? Andrew Carne
gie’s niece has married a coachman,
and her uncle says he would rather
have the worthy coachman in the fam
ily than a worthless duke.
YOL. 28..N¢t). 38
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WILL PLANT LESS COTTON
JOURNAL OF COMMERCE SAYS
SUCH 1S INTENTION OF SOUTH.
Twelve Hundred Replies Show That
More of Other Crops Will Be
Planted. lLess Fertilizer Used.
The New York Journal of Com
merce has just printed its first regular
cotton repong for the season of 1905.
Over 1,250 replies were received, their
average date being April 25, and the
chief points of inquiry: First, the ac
reage for 1905, and second the con
sumption of fertilizers.
The south evidently intends to plant
less cotton and more of other crops
than last vear; how much less of cot
ton it is yet Paltogether too early tO
determine. At the close of April the
season was. fully two weeks late, and
planting was correspondingly back
ward.
Estimates of a reduction of between
10 and 15 per cent. have already been
made by prominent members of the
trade, and indications are that when
planting is completed the lower esti
mates will be the nearer correct. In
fact, some good authorities anticipate
a decrease of only 8 per cent., in spite
of the campaign of cotton planters’ as
sociations for a reduction of 25 per
cent. The paper says:
“Our own correspondents report de
creases varying from 5 to 25 per cent.
and quite a number reporting' the
same acreage as last year and a few
an increase. However, for reasons
above stated, the lateness and incom
pleteness of reports, the Journal of
Commerce refrains from making any
acreage estimate at this time, and
simply publishes the replies of corres
pondents as an indication of the drift
of well informed opinion.’’
Inquiries concerning the use of fer
tilizers bring out very contradictory
answers. The paper’s own corres
pondents generally report decreases
in their use, similar to their reports
of decreases in acreage. From official
sources only partial information is ob
tainable as to the sales of fertilizers;
and this indicates that sales are in
some cases less than last year and
only in a few instances more than a
vear ago. These different statements
are, of course, explained by the fact
that while less fertilizers have been
sold for cotton more have been used
for truck farming, corn, ete.
Have Struck Their Talent.
An exchange says that all the con
gressmen of Georgia have adopted
themselves into cotton choppers.