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$250,000 STOLEN LOOT
ORANGE PAINT ON FUR LEADS
OFFICIALS TO STOLEN DYES.
THIRTY IN PLOT.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A dirty white
cat with a bright orange tail and a
broad orange stripe down its back
scampered across one of the United
States army piers in Hoboken one
day last month. It was a peculiar
looklng pussy, and some department
of justice agents who were there in
Hoboken working on the theft of a
half million dollars’ worth of Ger
man dyes, which were taken from
the Hoboken warehouse of the Tex
tile Alliance, Ine., last July, were
interested enough to pick the cat up.l
There was ground for their suspi
cions, they discovered. The cat wasl
not a natural blonde. It was born‘
albino. So they set it down and fol
lowed it home. It led them to a“
house on River street and started
them on a trail which ended yester
day with a completed chain of evi
dence in their hands, which, accord
ing to Frank R. Stone, special de
partment of justice agent in charge
of the New Jersey district, involves
twenty-five or thirty men. Nineteen
of the suspects are in custody and
nearly all, Chief Stone says, are
members of a gang which has terror
ized the freight yards district in Ho
boken for years, numbering among
its operations silk thefts which in the
course of the war ran to more than
a million dollars, .
Wednesday 3,000 pounds of the
stolen dyes were recovered in a
-warehouse in Brooklyn, making up,
the agents say, with another 3,000
pounds which were recovered in Pat
erson last Saturday, the total amount
stolen in July. .
The robbery occurred the night of
July 8. A truck containing seven
men drove up to the Textile Alliance
warehouse at Jackson and Fifth
streets, Hoboken, and rang the night
watchman’s bell. The watchman
thought it was the policemen on the
beat and came to tge door. He was
gagged, bound hand and foot and
tied to a hand truck in the corridor.
The dyes were loaded on the truck
and the gang sped away.
Chief Stone decided that the only
solution lay in trailing the stuff to
its source. The dyes are used in the
manufacture of silks, and the agents
knew that Paterson, with its silk
mills, was the place where the dyes
would be sold,
The stage was all set for the cat
with the bright orange tail and the|
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}broad orange stripe down its back.
‘Stone and his men saw the animal
‘on August 31. They watched the
‘house it led them to and the men
who lived there, and last Saturday
while on the lookout in Paterson a
sedan car containing one of the men,
followed by a big red truck, passed
them by. They stopped both ma
chines.
All the men who have been taken
into custody are awaiting arraign
ment before United States Commis
sioner Soant on September 21.
Christian Miller, Ricahr O’Connell
and “Seranton Joe” Hoskins, who
were arrested Saturday in Paterson
when the Ted truck was stopped,
were held in $20,000 bail each. The
others, who were arrested later, were
held in $5,000 and $lO,OOO bail.
UNITED STATES FARM REPORTS
AN INCREASED WEIGHT ALSO.
HOW IT IS PREPARED.
} CHICAGO, IlL.—When the dairy
farmer of the future needs feed for
his cows he may get a fresh supply
by going out in his wood lot arfd re
‘ducing a few stumps to sawdust. By
chemical treatment hydrolyzed saw
dust may be converted into a nour
ishing cattle food.
This fact was brought out today
at the sectional meeting of industrial
and engineering chemists, American
Chemical Society, at the University
fo Chicago. The process of prepar
ing such animal food was described
by E. C. Sherrard and G. W. Blanco.
White sawdust, finely ground, is
treated under steam pressure with
diluted sulphuric acid in a large boil
er known as a digestor. This breaks
up the fiber and extracts the sugar.
To prevent injurious effects the acid
is neutralized by adding lime to pro
duce chemical reaction. The liquid
thus obtained, when boiled down, is
rich in sugar, and when mixed with
the fiber produces a moist feed con
taining about fifteen per cent. of
water, in which form it is fed to
dairy cows.
At the Forest Products Laboratory,
United States department of agricul
ture, Madison, Wis., experiments
proved that three cows thrived on
this sawdust ration and not only gave
more milk but increased in weight.
The result was so satisfactory that
the government has decided to take
up the matter on a larger scale at
the experiment stations throughout
the country and furnish a detailed
report on the value of hydrolyzed
sawdust as cattle food.
CHARITY PATIENT DIES;
LEAVES $125,000 ESTATE
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NEW YORK.—When Peter Vjdo
vitch, a 65 year old charity guest of
the municipal lodging hduse, died in
a hospital here on Wednesday it was
learned he was possessor of a for
tune exceeding $125,000.
COLONY NOT ALTOGETHER AN
UNCHEERFUL COMMUNITY.
- SOME LIVE MANY YEARS.
LONDON.—An African leper col
ony, situated near the prosperous
Nigerian town of Zaria, is described
in the Daily Telegraph by Marjorie
and Alan Letheridge. They write:
Away outside the city of Zaria is
a sad little community. It is ap
proached by an unfrequented road,
and one senses subconsciously that
one is nearing some abode of “orrow,
maybe a cemetery or a native mad
house, or even a prison, But no; it
is something quite different; it is the
native leper colony.
Chance had never placed either of
us in such close contiguity with the
real leper as on this occasion, and it
left us with a species of pitiful hor
rors that such things could be. It was
scrupulously clean, this colony of the
damned; the Emir sees to that, He is
mightily interested in the cases of
these unfortunates, and it is due to
his initiative that so much has been
done, for the services of an English
doctor cannot often easily be spared.
Natives chatter usually; these are
silent.
The ring of Jlaughter is absent;
even the ctildren look serious as
though computing the chances of
their developing the plague which
has laid their parents low, for curi
ous to relate children often escape
the scourge although living in the
leper settlement.
Qutside the huts sprawl the human
wreckage, who may last twenty
years or more, wasting away literal
ly inch by inch. We saw women
with no fingers or toes, men whose
faces had withered and shrunk from
the ravages of the disease, children
who had developed the dreaded sores
which foredoom their owners to be
for always outcasts amongst men.
Forty Years a Leper,
And yet it was not an uncheerful
community. An old woman showed
us her house, and was insistent that
we should see how she lived and ate
and slept. A youngish man shook his
fingerless hand at us, and then dem
onstrated how it was feasible to do
every manner of operation with
merely a stump. He seemed to find
it almost funny, And an old woman
maintained that she was the mother
of them all, and that she had been
according to her own computation a
leper for forty years or more. It js
possible, we were told, only death lis
always waiting, and when it arrives
is horrible.
Your Mahometan native is not un
like the Russian moujik. In the sick
and suffering, ;n the epileptic and the
insane he seed not something to
avoid, but rather something worthy
of respect, if not of veneration,
something that has been fashioned by
God for some reason of his own, and
thus transcendentalizing all his other
formal works. And thus, beyond seg
regating these people at night, they
‘are otherwise free and even do they‘
marry,
Offspring Sound.
The idea is not pleasant, but, as
our guide said to us, “Why should
we interfere with them? It is not
their fault that they suffer. It is the
will of Allah, and if they marry of
their own why should we interfere?”
Which brought out the aforemention
ed statement that two lepers may
marry and bring into the world per
fectly sound children, an extrordi
nary fact if accurate, one which
should mightily interest those absorb
ed in the fascinating study of euge
nics.
We also learned that with improv
ed houses, more care for sanitation,
and a general uplifting of the moral
tone leprosy showed signs of dimin
ution, though it must be many a
long year ere it is placed under con
trol in its entirety. Meanwhile it
speaks wonders for the care of the
Emir for his people that, unasked
and unaided, he has succeeded in
thus far segregating these people,
who, incidentally, come from all over
the Emirate, being reported as un
sox(;lnd by their local headmen. In
addition, they receive a small sub
sistence in a financial way, and are
at liberty to buy what they like in'
the local markets. After all, this is
a much more practical way of offer
ing: charity than the hard and fast,
cut and dried manner in which char
ity is so often extended in other
countries. : ‘
JUDGE ZACK SHELLEY
DIES AT CUTHBERT HOME
Was Brother of Mrs. Yarbrough
Of Parrott. . ‘
Judge Z. H. Shelley, ordinary of
Randolph county, and one of the best
known men in public life in this 'sec-l
tion of Georgia, is dead. While he|
had been in more or less feeble
health a year or two the illness caus
ing death extended only from Thurs
day, when he suffered a stroke of
paralysis, until Monday night. ;
Judge Shelley for more than thir
ty years had held public offices—tax
receiver, tax collector and ordinary,
in which office he was serving at the
time of his death, and which he had
held for a number of years. There
was not a man in all the county who
was more familiar with detailed in
formation regarding the county, such
as location, numbers and values of
land, tax values, etc. He knew near
ly every person in the county and
was popular with the masses.
His wife and a large number of
relatives survive Judge Shelley,
‘among them Mrs. Sara Yarbrough,
of Parrott, a sister of the deceased.
\ CHRONIC CATARRH.
Our manner of living makes us
very susceptible to colds and a suc
cession of colds causes chronic ca
tarrh, a loathsome disease with
’which it is estimated that nine
ty-five per cent. of our adult popu
lation are afflicted. If you would
avoid colds or having contracted a
cold get rid of it as quickly as pos
sible. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
is highly recommended as a cure for
colds and can be depended upon.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
“MAN HIGHER UP”
YEARNING FOR “HIGH LIFE” IS
CAUSE OF $300,000 BOND ROB
BERY IN GEORGIA.
ATLANTA, Ga.—The “man high
er up” in a conspiracv to rob the
railway passenger train No. 36 on
the night of Wednesday, September
8, which proved successful and nett
ed the conspirators aspproximately
$330,000 in bonds, is being sought
by local postoffice inspectors, follow
ing the confession to the plot made
Thursday by Rufus Knight, aged 23,
ex-soldier of the Rainbow division,
and C. C. Monroe, aged 22, a railway
mail clerk. "
The confession® of the two youths
implicated B. W. Franklin, a young
white man, of Richmond, Va. Frank
lin secured employment in Atlanta
on May 10 as a conductor with the
Georgia Railway and Power com
pany.
Two Men Bound Over.
The two men’were given a pre
liminary trial before United States
Commissioner Carter Thursday at
noon, and were bound over to the
federal grand jury on charges of
conspiring to defraud the govern+
ment, embezzlement from the mails
and mutilating mail sacks. In default
of $5,000 bond they were remanded
to jail.
GIANT CHINESE TOPS.
Some of the tops with which the
Chinese amuse themselves are as
large as barrels. It takes three men
to spin one, and it gives off a sound
that may be heard several hundred
yards distant,
Its Grandmother’s Recipe to
ke%) her Locks Dark,
lossy, Beaatiful.
The old-time mixture of Sage Tea
and Sulphur for darkening gray,
streaked and faded hair is grand
mother’s recipe, and folks are again
using it to keep their hair a good,
even color, which is quite sensible, as
we are living in an age when a youth
ful appearance is of the greatest ad
vantage. a
Ncwadays, though, we don't have
the troublesome task of gathering the
sage and the mussy mixing at home.
All drug stores sell the ready-to-use
product, improved by the addition of
other ingredients, called ‘“Wyeth’s Sage
an@ Sulphur Compound.” It is very
popular because nobody can discover
it has been applied. Simply moisten
your comb or a soft brush with it and
draw this through your hair, taking
one small strand at a time; by inorning
the gray hair disappears, but what de
lights the ladies with Wyeth's Sage
and Sulphur Compound, is that, be
sider beautifully darkening the hair
pafter a few applications, it also pro
duces that soft lustre and appearance
of abundance which is so attractive.
This ready-to-use preparation is a de
lightful toilet requisite for those who
desire a more youthful appearance. It
is not intended for the cure, mitiga
tion or prevention of disease.
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Monroe was the second man to be
arrested in connection with the rob
bery, Knight having been arrested
at Homerville, when his uncle be
came suspicious of him because he
had nearly $300,000 in bonds in his
possession. Monroe’s home is in Ea
gle Springs, N. C.
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PAIN AND SORENESS CAUSED
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7o The Farmers <
Of Terrell = |
We announce that .we are again ready for the
1920-21 Ginning Season. Our gin has been
completely overhauled and repaired and many
improvements made whereby we are able to
give you even better ginning service than
heretofore. _ '
Our Gins Are Capable of a High Turn
Out Each Day of Clean, Soft Cotton.
B farmer who gins with us is assured of
prompt and courteous attention—the best bale
and service.
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462 POUND BRIDE WEDS
GROOM WEIGHING 126
NEW YORK.—Miss Esther Light,
of Rye, N. Y., who weighs 462
pounds, became the bride Tuesday
night of Daniel Holmes, of Purchase,
N. Y., near here. The groom weighs
about 126. pounds. He is known as
leader of Methodist praying bands,
and as an exhorter.
A new kind of concrete permits
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