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R. W. H. HOYL'S DENTAL OFFICES
- DAWSON, GEORGIA
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Revelations of Abuses in Some of
the Road Camps of This Section.‘
pirty and Woe Begone Zebras in;
sumter County. Spikes Are Put
on Legs in Muscogee. |
The prison commission investigat-i
ing committee have gotten down toi
pusiness in real earnest. That the
members intend to go quite to the
vottom and see through all the things
that should come within their pur
view is proven.
Fifty-four legislators *have been
requested to appear before the com
mittee and give detailed statements
of what they saw ard heard on tours
f inspection to the different convict
camps during last fall and spring,
and those that have been examined
have already thrown considerable
licht on the situation.
sick Men Worked.
J. W. Sumner, representative in
the house from Turner county, was
the first witness heard from. He was
me of a sub-committee that inspected
the county road camp' of Sumter
county, and the camps of Muscogee
county. In Sumter he said conditions
were found to be bad; men in serious
need of medical treatment being
worked at hard labor, with bad camp
and little hospital facilities.
Heavy Spikes to Legs.
S. A. Wooten, representative from
Wilkes county, testified as™ to the
rame inspections. He said that the
Sumter county camp was composed
mostly of “dirty woe-begone” ne
croes; that several who wer suffering
from diseases were forced to work;
that the sleeping quarters were
filthy and crowded. He noted that
deavy spikes were fastened to the
egs of a few men at the camp of
the Muscogee Brick Company, caus
ng scars upon their legs. :
Crowded in Bunks.
- W. W. Hamilton, representative
from Columbia county, who was also
at the Sumter county and the Mus
fogee Brick Company’s camps, cor
roborated what the others had said,
.;u(}xxlg that at the former they were
vadly crowded in their sleeping quar-
Ers, two men being compelled to
Cupy a bunk not more than three
leet wide,
Bad Bed Clothing.
_ L. W. Massengale, representative
‘tom Warren, told of painful discov
'“l“u:-s at the road camp in Floyd coun-
He said the sheets between
Which the men were supposed to
Jle€D appeared to be laundered about
nce every three months. He was
150 told that the men were chained
I their bunks, He saw two negro
Women \\.‘ho were suffering from dis
“dse chained to two healthy women.
‘here was one man who was ap
arently dying in the last stages of
Vhsumption lying on the floor with
10 protection from the weather.”
At the Cusseta county camp, said the
“bresentative, “I was told that a
d¥sician visited the camp about
€very three days.”
Aged Negro Whipped.
~..‘Y":' E. Cook, representative from
.lattahoochee county, told of the
_ovd county road camp, confirming
Jual the others had said. -He also
"0l of conditions at the Durham coal
SoH€ camp and the pookout Mount
oo camp. He said that while at
.o atter camp an old negro came
‘id began telling his tale of woe.
(1€ Irisoner said he had been in pris
" Tor twenty-five years, and was fre-
Hently whipped for failure to dig
. fouch coal as was set as a task
~ D€ others, The witness stated
0" 0. Maxmell, a deputy war
., "as present during the conver
oo %oand that he cursed the old
“vq,.. ing blasphemous terms and
o 0& “the d—da old rascal to re
thae Lo camp.” Mr, Cook also stated
i € committee had difficulty in
7,““’_*;! the conductor on the train
.., 'I% them out from Chickamau
mar. € Camp to give them time to
H" much of an inspection. ‘lt
o 4 10 me that he didn’t want us
tonr. iuch inspecting,” he said. Mr.
“tated that he thought the short
... Jtroad was owned by the same
. Who own the mine. :
._'3““l2“!‘ K. W. Taylor told of vis
/ targo, which he pronounced a
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model camp; to Stanley’s turpentine
camp and the Milltown camp. He
pronounced them all good. He said
that good shoes were worn and baths
are provided at the kargo camp, and
that all rules seem to be complied
with there. One man, white, com
plained because he didn't get beef
steak more than twice a week. He
saw a white man wearing double
shackles, but was told that he had
tried to kill several guards. He is
serving a life sentence for murder
while a street car conauctor in Sa
vannah. He talked to one of the
Rawlings boys, sentenced to life for
the murder of the Carter children
near Valdosta, and said that the boy
seemed pleased and satisfied with his
treatment,
Coweta Camp Good.
The senator also saw a white man,
the only one at the camp, eating with
the negroes at the Stanley camp. He
pronounced conditions at the Coweta
camp as very good, saying the bath
ing and hospital facilities were good.
“I found that they compel the men
to bathe once a week,” he said.
‘“‘Some they have to hoid while the
bath is administered.”” Representa
tive Moore of Cherokee testified rela
tive to the same camps. He stated
that at the Stanley camp a crowd
had thronged around him and told of
a little negro whom they claimed was
whipped every day in an unmerciful
manner. They seemed much in
terested in his case. The records
showed only two whippings.
Wardens and ‘“Extras.”
One of the wardens told us that
the state ought to pay the guards
more,” said Mr. Moore. ‘“We asked
them about themselves, and he re
plied: ‘Oh, we .can get ours all
right, but the guards can't.”
At the camp of the Stetson Lum
ber Company, at Arlington, Ga., a
crazy negro was iound working
among the machinery.
Wardens Admit It.
Representative Purr of Banks gave
a similar story of the visit to the
camps, saying that at Fargo and Mill
town the wardens admitted getting
money from the lessees for extra
work.
A Roast Proper.
Representative R. M. Young of
Troup' handed out a warm roast
for the camp conducted by Pinson
and Allen, Nicholsonville, in Miller
county. He described his visit in
detail, saying that he found the
sleeping quarters poor and dirty, the
food of poor quality and sparse, the
corn bread being made from unsifted
meal. Convicts said that they were
infrequently given syrup and vegeta
bles, both of which are provided to
be regularly served by the rules.
The Instrument of Punishment.
Representative Huie of Clayton
told of examining the instruments of
punishment at each camp he visited.
He said they usually consisted of
long and broad leather thongs, and
‘were sufficient to the needs thereof.
He stated that the guards called
‘them ‘‘negro rulers.” At the Monroe
county road camp he said several
}m*isoners told them that the guards
‘had been in the habit of getting
‘drunk on Saturday nights, at which
time they were very abusive, but that
this had been stopped by the officials.
DUG UP AFTER WEEK IN GRAVE.
Columbus Negroes Had Sensation *in
Their Midst,” and Enjoyed It.
After having been ‘‘buried alive”
for a week Jim Jackson, a Columbus
negro, has been dug up. Jim Wise,
a colored hypnotist, who thew him
into a trance, brought him back from
dreamland.
Jackson spent seven days in a
coffin in an improvised grave. An
air hole was provided for breathing
and his face could be seen through
the glass headpiece of the coffin, an
opening having been left in the
earth. Thousands of negroes saw the
tace of the sleeper during the week,
an admission being charged.
When aroused Jackson was at first
violent and it took four men to hold
him. He is now weak and light
nourishment is being given.
$7OO FOR ONE CARRIAGE.
Uncle Sam's General in Cuba Rides
in Much Style.
Seven hundred dollars for one car
riage is an item that was sent to the
war department recently by the gen
eral in command of the troops in
Cuba: and the controller has allowed
the item. It seems that the business
of the army in Cuba cannot be trans
acted in, or from, an ordinary car
riage worth $2OO or $3OO, since noth
ing but the best will suffice to pre
serve the dignity of the occupying
troops.
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Enameledware. We are closing
out what enameledware we have on
hand before getting in our Fall
stock. Prices cut away down. J.
M. 3 Clifton Hardware Co. ’Phone
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HURLED INTO AIR BY BIG SEA
BOARD LOCOMOTIVE.
Deliberately Walked om Track in
Front of Mogul, and Came Down
Limp and Mutilated.
From the Americus Times-Recorder.
Deliberately stepping in front of
a fast moving Seaboard passenger
train a negro woman, Mary Lee
Thomas, was hurled to instant death,
the bedy falling limp and mutilated
beside the track when the train was
backed to the fatal Spot.
The tragedy occurred at Mytilene,
a little station in Alabama, about &
o’clock yesterday morning.
And from the statements of eye
witnesses it seemed a veritable case
of suicide, the woman exerting some
effort, seemingly, to get in front of
the engine.
The train was No. 72, coming from
Montgomery to Americus with Engi
neer John M. Goolsby at the throttle,
and was clipping along at good speed
when, some distance ahead, the wo
man was seen climbing up an em
bankment on to the track. '
This required some effort, as she
seized a small plum bush whereby
she pulled herself up the steep em
bankment.
Landing upon the fill the woman
deliberately stepped upon the track
in front of the locomotive only a
few vards away. Engineer Goolsby
sounded his whistle, but a moment
later the limp black form shot high
into space.
Death was instantaneous, as sev
eral bones were broken and the body
otherwise mutilated.
- The dead negress was picked up
‘and carried on to Mytilene, and the
coroner of the county notified. En
‘gineer Goolsby thinks it a deliberate
attempt at suicide, particularly as
‘the woman used great effort to climb
'upon the embankment.
There is no path, road or crossing
at the point of accident.
l SAID OF THE SOLONS. |
Amuses Chattanooga.
’From the Chattanooga Times.
The Georgia legislature will come
to Chattanooga as soon as the West
‘ern and Atlantic railroad can get per
‘mission to haul them gratis. Funny,
isn’t it, when legislators have to ask
federal authority to ride on a rail
‘l‘oad pass?
To Be Pitied.
From the Savannah Press.
Atlanta, with the legislature on
her hands, is more to be pitied than
Washington when congress is in ses
sion, because Atlanta is dry.
In Trouble Already.
From the Valdosta Times.
It is a great pity that Georgia's
‘“‘reform legislature’’ shows signs of
the need of reforming so soon.
A Bad Predicament.
From the Rome Tribune.
Alas, that “Dear Atlanta.”” 1t has
the legislature and no whiskey to
drown its sorrow.
CURE IN KISS OF NEGROES.
A Fool Superstition Among Some
White People of Philadelphia.
Some of the negroes in and about
Reading, Pa., are coining money be
cause of a fool superstition that in
telligent doctors seem unable to
break up. There is a belief among
a great many of the white people
that the kiss of a negro will cure a
child of whooping cough or will act
as a sure preventive of the disease.
There is an epidemic of the cough in
the vicinity, and a dozen negroes are
kept busy kissing white children for
fifty-cent fees. Thirty ‘‘cures” in a
week have been affirmed, as a result
of the negro kissings.
We take pleasure in directing our
readers’ attention to the advertise
ment appearing elsewhere in our col
umns of the Southern School of
Telegraphy, located at Newnan, Ga.
There is a great and constantly
growing demand for telegraph oper
ators, and we are glad to see this
worthy and well-recognized institu
tion doing such creditable work in
helping supply that demand. Any
young man wishing to learn a good
profession should investigate the op
portunities offered in the telegraph
field by writing at once for the
school's free descriptive literature.
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THE DAWSON NEWS.
A MAN IN JAIL HAS SECURED
LONG SOUGHT LIBERTY.
An Incident Which Shows the Efficacy
of Advertising. Saw Opportu
nity and Seized It.
Wanted—Young man in jail
wants out; suggestions solicited
that might result in immediate
release; wants poet's address
who wrote “Stone Wails Do Not
a Prison Make, Nor Iron Bars a
Cage.” Address John L. Silber,
Kay County Jail, Newkirk, Okla.
For the first time in history a man
has advertised for liberty and got it.
The advertiser was a prisoner, and
today he is walking the streets a free
man. He can thank his quick wit as
well as the efficacy of advertising for
his freedom. He saw his opportunity
and seized it, even though handi
capped by prison bars.
It all vrame about through an offer
by the Daily Oklahoman of Oklaho
ma City of $3 for the most original
want ad. written for a Sunday issue
of the paper. Silber needed the $3.
So he sent the ad. quoted to the
Oklahoman.
Accompanying the ad. was the fol
lowing witty letter: “‘Mr. Editor:
Enclosed please find postoffice order
to pay for publishing ad., also en
closed. Perchance you will think this
want ad. unreasonable, ur at least
unusual. Therefore 1 will explain
the why and wherefore of it.
““Three Sundays have I read the
poems in vour jingle contest, and
they are responsible for an idea I've
got, to-wit: A man can get anything
he wants through a want ad. There
fore, being incarcerated, I naturally
want to be liberated, and with that
end in view I appointed myself a
committee of one on ‘ways and
means’ to determine the best plan of
procedure in extricating myself from
my undesirable surroundings.
“After a heated debate the afore
said committee decided to invest
‘two bits’ of his frenzied finances in
a bona fide want ad., and for a real
simon pure want—well, I feel like
I imagine Patrick Henry felt when he
said, ‘Give me liberty or give me
death.’ 00l
‘“Hoping for big returns from a lit
tle ad., I beg to remain yours ex
pectantly, JOHN SILBER.
“Kay County Jail.”
A. E. Moroney, R. M. Conway and
R. E. Kroh of Oklahoma City, who
were appointed by the Oklahoman to
judge the want ad. contest, awarded
the $3 to Silber.
But that was only the beginning
of Silber's good luck. Readers of
the Oklahoman became interested in
the young man through the want ad.
They called upon a law firm of Okla
homa City and begged the attorneys
as an act of charity to go to Silber’s
relief. They did so.
Being a stranger Silber had plead
ed guilty and took a jail sentence
rather than to stand trial and run
the risk of going to the penitentiary.
County Attorney J. E. Burns, fol
lowing the circulation of a petition
for the pardon of Silber, which was
signed by every county officer in Kay
county and most of the deputies, ask
ing for the pardon of Silber, wrote a
personal letter to Governor Haskell
asking him to grant an unqualified
pardon. Judge William M. Bowles,
who tried the case, R. E. Roder,
sheriff, and L. B. Hart, under sheriff,
also wrote personal appeals to the
governor.
The influence of legislators was
also invoked and a committee made
up of members of house and senate
appeared before the governor and
pleaded in Silber's behalf. The par
don was granted.
And so to a want ad. which cost
25 cents Silber owes his pardon.
The Remedy That Does.
“Dr. King’s New Discovery is the
remedy that does the healing others
promise but fail to perform,” says
Mrs. E. R. Pierson of Auburn Cen
tre, Pa. ‘lt is curing me of throat
and lung trouble of long standing
that other treatments relieved only
temporarily. New Discovery is do
ing me so much good that I feel
confident its continued use for a rea
sonable length of time will restore
me to perfect health.”” This re
nowned cough and cecld remedy and
throat and lung healer is sold by
the Dawson Drug Co. 50c and $l.OO.
Trial bhottle free.
W. H TEDDER
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New Automobile. Gasoline Engine
and Bicycle Repair Shop.
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I have just opened a shop in the Iron Build
ing near the court house and am in position to do
all kinds of repair work. When in need of work of
this line give me a trial. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop Phone No. 250, \ Residence Phone No. 231.
The Planters’
W archouse
E"'"';AS served the people of Terrell county for
b H i half a century, and is now ready for the
L { season of 1908 with better facilities than
«d ever to properly serve the farmers. Al
cotton stored with us will receive our personal atten
tention, and our long experience in our particular
line of business insures satisfactory service.
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Bagging and Ties
A full supply of IBagging and Ties always in stock,
and will be sold at prices that will meet all competi
tion. For our customers, we have in yard free ac
commodations for stock, including plenty of water.
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J. B. Jennings and J. T. Coker
Will be with me this season, and will be glad to
see and serve their friends. Mr. Jennings, who has
been at the scales several years and has become
known as the Old Reliable, will do the weighing
again this season, which is sufficient guarantee that
every customer will get correct weights.
The Planters Warehouse
A. ]. Hill, Prop. Main Street. Dawson, Ga.
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‘ If you are sick, don’t worry, but begin at once
to make yourself well. To do this, we but repeat
the words of thousands of other sufferers from
womanly ills, when we say:
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For 50 years, this wonderful female remedy, has
been benefiting sick women. Mrs. Jennie Merrick,
of Cambridge City, Ind., says: ‘‘l suffered greatly
with female trouble, and the doctors did no good.
They wanted to operate, but I took Cardui, and it
made me feel like a new woman. lam still using
this wonderful medicine, with increasing relief.’
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