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PAGE FOUR
WHAT ABOUT THAT
DIL STOVE?
Buy a three burner and
quit fretting about the
cook going to the cotton
patch.
Dawson Hardware
Company.
NEGRO INJURED G. B. ARTHUR;
BARELY ESCAPED LYNCHING.
Pleadings of Stranger Saved His Life.
Half a Hundred Shots Were Fired,
and Stray Bullets Narrowly
Missed School Children.
With a dozen guns pointed at his
prostrate form after he had been
beaten to the ground by one of his
captors, Charley Wimberly, a negro,
barely escaped death at the hands of
a 4 mob in Shellman last Tuesday
morning. The pleadings of a stran
ger caused the guns to be lowered,
and the wounded negro was returned
to the guard house, at the door of
which he had escaped a short time
before.
The negro had a fight with G. B.
Arthur, a liveryman and brother ofg
Mr. C. H. Arthur of Dawson, and'
his son, Clarence, by whom he was
employed, resulting in the negro
wounding Mr. Arthur in tne back of
the neck and knocking nis son, Clar
ence, down. A report was circulated
that Arthur had beer fatally wound
ed. Citizens became enraged, and
chased the negro through the streets,
finally capturing him.
The stranger, whose name could
not be learned, made an impassioned
speech, pleading for law and order.t
His pleadings of a few words soon
caused the cocked weapons to be low-l
ered, and the negro was carried to
the town guard house. |
Wimberly had for a long time been |
in the employ of Mr. Arthur, but a
few days ago quit, it is claimed, ow
ing him a sum of money.
Mr, G, B, Arthur received a deep
but not dangerous wound in the
back of the neck, and Clarence Ar
thur was knocked down.
The negro then ran and hid under
a pile of tin roofing left from a recent
fire. He was soon captured and
taken to the town lockup. While
Marshal Hardage was unlocking the
door he made a break for liberty.
Fully fifty shots were fired at him,
but none took effect. He made a
circuit of the Crittenden cotton ware
house and then dashed up Ward
street, with fully a hundred people
in pursuit,
Hiding in Back Yard.
After going about one hundred
yards with bullets whistling all“
around him he ran into the back\
yard of W. R. Curry’'s residence,
where he was captured. |
The crowd not knowing the extent
of G. B. Arthur’s wound, wanted to
kill him on tue spot. Fully a dozen
guns were pointed at him as he lay
prostrate on the ground. He was
severely wounded by one of his cap
tors by a blow on the top of his
head with a heavy piece of timber.
Members of the mob as they
raced through the streets came near
kiliing a number of school children.
Several houses were struck by shots,
and the hat of a negro bystander was
pierced by a bullet. There were sev
eral narrow escapes, and it is a won
der that no one was hurt.
A negro by name of Will Brooks
was later given a severe whipping
for assisting Charley Wimberly to
escape.
He was warned to leave town,
which he did in a hurry.
Sheriff Bynum took Wimberly to
Cuthbert Wednesday, and waiving
eommittal trial he was placed in jail.
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CHRISTIAN IS OUT OF JAIL.
Leesburg Man Who Was Arrested for
Peonage Gives Bond.
In default of a $2,000 bond, fixed
by a United States commissioner, T.
R. Christian, Jr., a prominent con
tractor of Leesburg, was sent to the
Macon jail to await trial on the
charge of peonage before Judge
Boyd at Asheville, N. C., on the first
Monday in November,
Christian had been previously ar
rested in this case and had given
bond to appear July 6 in Asheville,
but did not appear, and claims to
have sent a doctor's certificate of
illness. Whether or not the bond
was forfeited is not known, but his
bondsmen, J. A. Lipsey, Ira Cook and
D. J. Mims, all of Leesburg, refused
to renew the bond.
A day or two after his confinement
Christian made satisfactory bond
in Macon and returned to his home
in Leesburg. It is stated now thar
the bondsmen who were on his first
bond did not refuse to g 0 on his
second bond, and would have been
willing to do so at Leesburg the
night of Mr. Christian’s arrest had
the circumstances been such that th's
could have been arranged.
The alleged peonage with which
Christian is charged was in connec
tion with railroad construction in
North Carolina. Christian was em=
ployed by Smith & Barry, a con
tracting firm, and it was while in
their employ that the alleged acts
of peonage charged in the indictment
are said to have occurred.
Christian is a young man, and a
member of a well-known and promi
nent Lee county family.
THE NIGHT RIDERS IN THREE
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA COUNTIES
From the Savannah News.
A dispatch from Albany, Ga.,
which we publish this morning
states that in a section of country
ten miles square, covering portions
of Mitchell, Baker and Calhoun coun
ties, every negro church and school
house was burned by night riders.
I'hat is a deplorable state of affairs.
The night riders could not have been
composed of responsible citizens, be
cause good citizens wouldn’t engage
‘n such lawlessness. Besides, they
know that such lawless acts will de
stroy the efficiency of labor and are
likely to provoke retaliation. The
offenders must be persons who have
nothing at stake and who are there
fore indifferent as the effect of their
lawless conduct.
A question which presents itself is,
what are the authorities of the three
counties in which the crimes were
committed doing towards discovering
and arresting the offenders. It looks
as if the affair might be of such im
portance as to justify the governor
in taking a hand in it. If outrages
like this are to go unpunished it will
not be long before tne night riding
will assume larger proportions, and
white men as well as negroes will
be the victims. The thing to do is
to-take hold of this instance of law
lessness with a firm hand and by
punishing those engaged in it stamp
out the evil at once.
It scems that in that section there
have been two assaults on ‘women
| recently. But, assuming that such
GRAY WILL GET ON THE LIST.
Editor of the Atlanta Journal Will
Qualify to Vote Next Month.
Editor James R. Gray of the At
lanta Journal, who was recently
twitted by the state press over the
fact that he had failed to register
this year and to qualify himself to
vote in the election today for the
democratic nominees and disfran
chisement, has notified the tax col
lector of Fulton county that he
will arrange to reg'ster within the
next day or so. He will be in t‘me
for the national election next month.
Dyspepsia is our national ailment.
Burdock Blood Bitters is the nationa!
cure for it. It strengthens stomach
membranes; promotes flow of diges
tive juices, purifies the blood, builds
you up.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
!BLA(‘KE.\'ED RUINS MARKED THE
‘ TRAIL OF THE NIGHT RIDERS.
’ i
|As They Rode Through Early, Cal
| houn and Baker Counties on
Their Incendiary Mission.
There is a reign of terror among
the negro inhabitants of a considera
ble portion of Early, Calhoun, Baker
and Miller counties as the result of a
raid by night riders, the trail of the
' raiders being marked by the black
’ened ruins of thirteen negro church
es and school houses.
| The night riders first made their
appearance at a point three miles
east of Kestler, in Early county,
‘where the first church was fired.
'They galloped away toward Notch
way creek, in Baker county, and be
fore the glare of the first fire had
reached its height another was being
‘kindled a few miles away. |
- When they reached the creek they |
turned and went south to the Miller |
county line. Nearly all the negro
scho_ols and churches in this widei
territory were burned, and the coun
try was lighted up with the glare of
the many fires. Fire followed fire,
and the destruction of every building
to which the torch was applied was
complete.
This occurred on Saturday night,
and hundreds of negroes went to
their churches Sunday to attend ser
vices only to find heaps of hot ashes
where their meeting houses had
stood. Many of the best members of
the negro race in the four counties
named are members of the congrega
tions of some of the burned church
es.
This is the same community where
a few months ago a number of negro
lodge rooms were dynamited and
where several lynchings have recent
ly occurred, the last having taken
place only a few weeks ago.
The cause of what is generally re
garded an outrage is not known, but
the recent attempted criminal assault
of a white woman by a negro near
Kestler is supposed to have been one
of the causes which led to the appli
cation of the torch to this property
of the negroes.
All classes of negroes in that vi
cinity appear to be very much dis
turbed over this latest outrage, and
they naturally entertain grave ap
prehension for the safety of their
homes and other property. There
appears to be no clue to the identity
of the supposed night riders.
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1,000 NEGROES REGISTERED.
A Heavy List of Blacks Over in
Lee County.
Nearly 1,000 negroes have regis
tered in Lee county for the state elec
tion today. Some of them were got
ten off as tax defaulters by the reg
istrars. There is about 400 available
white votes in the county. Whether
all these negroes will vote and how
they will vote is a problem.
is the case, it doesn’t justify a gen
eral assault upon the entire negro
population. No doubt that most of
the negroes in the section covered
by the ruins are peace loving and
law abiding. The dispatches say
such is their character. What justice
is their in punishing a large com
munity for the crime of a few worth
less brutes? The assaults do not
excuse in the slightest degree the
outrage on peaceable negroes. They
don’t justify any sort of an outrage.
Doubtless the destruction of the
churches and school houses was no
punishment whatever for the worth
less and criminal negroes who com
mitted the assaults. Hundreds of in
nocent men and women are made to
suffer for the crimes of two or three
criminals.
That is one phase of the matter.
The other and the graver phase is
the danger there is in injustice of
this sort. Even law abiding negroes
may be stirred to crimes by outrages
like this reported from the three
foregoing counties. Anyway, labor
ers in that section are likely to be
come discontented and abandon their
homes. lln that event farms will lose
a part of their value.
If the sheriffs of the counties are
unable to deal with the situation they
should call on the state for assist
ance. We are confident from senti
ments to which the governor has
given expression respecting the sup
pression of violence and mob law all
the power of the state would be used
in ferreting out the offenders in the
outrage and in bringing them to jus
tice.
RELEASED ON SMALL BOND.
Negro Who Killed Another at Ed
wards’ Store Gives Bail.
Harrison Key, who killed Sid Dan
ifel at Edwards’ store, over in
Randolph county, an account of
which was printed in The News, was
given a commitment trial before Jus
tice Jones in Cuthbert. The justice
ruled that the evidence indicated a
case of manslaughter, and fixed
Key’s bond at $lOO. This was made
and Key set at liberty.
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GOV. SMITH'S SOUND VIEW
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VOTERS IN JUNE PRIMARY ARE
l PLEDGED TO VOTE FOR BRYAN
l'l‘ho Governor Gives Out an Interview
in Regard to the Democratic
Primary Rules. All Must
Support the Ticket.
In commenting on the reports pub
lished in several state papers of an
’interview between Governor Smith
and Hon. Hewlett Hall, chairman of
Ithe state democratic executive com
‘mittee, in which the governor was
stated to have taken the position
‘that it is time for the democratic
party in Georgia to get back to a
position of regulatity, Governor
Smith has given out a statement in
which he says that nothing took
place between himself and Mr. Hall
to justify the reports.
The governor says: ‘““Nothing
took place between Mr. Hall and my
self to justify such a story.
“In this connection I wish to cor
rect another line of publications that
is going through the state.
‘“The criticism which I made two
vears ago upon the action of the
state democratic committee was that
it undertook to have printed upon
the back of tickets a stipulation
which required a voter in .906, twoJ
vears in advance, to pledge himself
as to how he would vote in 1908.
“I insisted that no cuange should
be made from the rule which had
been in use for years.
“The democratic convention at Ma
con adopted the rule which was in
force in Georgia prior to the action
of the committee in 1906, and the
democratic state committee on Feb.
6, 1908, followed the same rule.
“It fixed the right to vote in the
primary as follows:
‘“ ‘All qualified white voters in
Georgia, irrespective of their past
political affiliations, who in good
faith, desire to align themselves with
the democratic party and who intend
to abide the result of the party pri
mary and support the party nomina
tions’
‘““While it would have been unfair
to require a voter in 1906 to bind
himself as to his party allegiance for
two years, I did not object in 1906
to the old rule, which was readopted
by the committee in 1908 and which
required a voter to align himself with
the democratic party in addition to
agreeing to support the party nomi
nees.
“This year the state convention
selected presidential electors. The
man who voted in the primary of
June 4th. not oniy voted upon state
house officers, but he also partici
pated in selecting delegates to the
state convention, who se& delegates
to the national conventi and who
named the presidential electors.
““I regard those who voted in the
primary of June 4th. last as commit
ted not only to support the entire
state ticket, but also to vote for the
presidential electors named at the
DeGive opera house convention, who
will in turn vote for Bryan and
Kern.”
FAT AND THE WHITE PLAGUE.
Eating of the Former a Protection
Against Tuberculosis.
There should be a law passed to
compel people to eat fat meat as well
as lean, as a measure to prevent the
spread of tuberculosis, says a prom
inent meat dealer of St. Louis. If
people would take to eating it the
ravages of tuberculosis would de
cline. People ought to eat it, for it
means health to them. I always pro
test against cutting off fat meat and
discarding it, even at the request
of a customer. It is a wrong idea.
The fat should not be separated from
the lean under any conditions. It
preserves the meat, it holds the
juices, and helps it to retain its fla
vor and good taste.
Societies for the prevention of the
spread of tuberculosis are endeavor
ing to educate the people on sanitary
questions, and the benefit of fresh
air. This is good, so far 2s it goes,
but if they would educate the people
to eat fat meat they would do more
effective work. They should teach
this in connection with the other
measures that they are advancing to
prevent the spread of tuberculosis.
A doctor who has made a study of
tuberculosis agrees with this opinion
and says most emphatically that one
who rejects fat meat is more suscep
tible to tuberculosis than one who
will eat it. Tubercular persons are
generally opposed to eating fat meat.
Even before the disease has fastened
upon them they will reject it. This
renders them easier prey to the dis
ease. After they have become dis
eased their stomachs may not be able
to digest fat meat, even if they
should try to eat it.
HUGHES HAS THE LITTLE END.
ißet,t‘lm.; on the Race for Governor in
| New York Is Against Him.
The first big Hughes-Chanler cam
paign bet in New York was made a
day or two ago, between a betting
commissioner and a friend of John
W. Gates. The forfeits were $24,000
to $20,000 with Hhughes at the short
‘end. The democrat seems to be in
;the lead and gathering strength
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As we stated in the beginning of our Closing
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WASN'T THIS AWFUL?
Taft Made the Mistake of Referring
to an Old Maid as the Mother
of Sturdy Sons.
The people of Sauk Center, Minn.,
are making merry over what they
regard a fine joke on Candidate Taft.
He had said that the question for
| the voters to determine was whether
they wanted to continue a party of
action in power or place at the head
of the government a party which had
done nothing but make misleading
prophecies regarding economic ques
tions.
‘“We don't want to try it,” said a
somewhat elderly woman in the au
dience.
“I hope not, madam. T have no
doubt that you are the head of a
family of sturdy men, whom you con
itrol, and I rely on such intelligent
(ladies as you to carry out your
views,” was Judge Taft’s smiling re
! joinder.
| When the train had started Mr.
{Taft was informed by one of the
llocal statesmen aboard that it was
| Miss Sylvia Townsend with whom he
had had the colloguy.
Woman Interrupts Political Speaker.
A well dressed woman interrupted
a political speaker recently by con
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