Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03
MISSOURI STATE NEWS

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| The Governor has dkpatehed Adjts. Gen.i
Mitchell to- Dsceola, st. Clair County, ~
prosecute on behalf ofsthe State during the
! special term OF the Circuit Court of sid
county, now being held there, and more
particularly to investigate and aid in bring
| ing to justice the perpetrators of the recent
outrages committed in said county. Fol-
lowing isia copy of the Governors letter Of
| instructions to Gen. Mitchell:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, !
JEFFERSON CITY, May II, 1850.
Gen. e. Y. Mitchell, AdjastG,H General: ? ~ :
- SIR-A great outrage has recently been per-
term Of the Circuit Court VIII beheia in that
county to morrow. The Prosecuting Attor-
ney of st: Clair has an Indictment pending
against him for official corruption. He may
| be innocent of the charge preferred against
| him, and as such is the legal presumption, he
Is entitled to the benefit of that presumption.
The Outrage just perpetrated in that county Is
one OF the fruits OF the lawless acts of 1877.
The persons who perpetrated these crimes in
| 1877, or those who justified that lawlessness,
though not participating therein are now
reaplng the bitter fruits of the bad seed then
sown. I am satisfied the good men of that
county are in the majorty-largelyi in the ma
| Jor1ty-but many of them have been inactive
and supine in bringing Offenders to justice.
sarv b noe th tue OF tney WIZ
! ly the officers of the law can enforce the laws
with only ordinary assistance, but when .
Prosecuting Attorney is arraigned for official
corruption, he becomes an object Of
dlstrust and whilst have confidence in the
ability and fidelity of the bar of st. Clair,
with the exception of this one indicated
deem it advisable the State shall be repre-
scented before the Grand Jury and IN the
to the persons charged with the commits sion
of these great crimes. Men of that county
have taken the law into their own hands and
have murdered persons confined in Jail await
ing trial. The attorneys of that county,
have no doubt, are employed to defend some
OF those who were engaged in these wicked
acts; hence they can not be asked to prose
cute temporarily. hope it will not be nee
essary to invoke the authority con-
vised Statutes, and cause these crimes
to be investigated and prosecuted in another
county; but If that exigency shall occur. the
authority referred to must be exercised. The
murderers of the three men confined in the
Jail shall be prosecuted. If indictments can
found elsewhere, and thus will the offenders
be brought to trial. YOu will Immediately go
to st. Clair County, exhibit this communfca-
of that Circuit, who trust will Immediately
appoint you to prosecute during this term. So
Prosecuting Attorney, he ought not to be per-
mitted to go before the Grand Jury unless he
shall be called there as q witness. thrust the
Judge Will clothe you with all the power nec-
essary to enable the object in view TO be &C.
oomplished. And should any of the resident
attorneys, feeling that the peace, good order
and fair name of St. Clair has been outraged,
be In a situation to aid you, You will accept
their services should you need assistance.
Respectfully yours, JOHN s. PHELPS.
Near Sibley, Jackson County, James Par
sons, a lad of about eighteen years, in COM
pany with another lad named Stewart, was
chopping wood. Parsons, unknown to his
friend, lay down behind large log and went
to sleep. At quitting-tim Stewart threw
his ak over behind the log, and the edge
struck Parsons in the thigh, severing the fe-
moral artery. Death ensued in four min
utes.
st. Joseph will give the Missouri Pacific
Railroad Company $50, 600 towards building
a depot in that city.
The Kansas City, st. Joseph and Council
Bluffs Railroad Company has filed with the
Secretary of State copies of the lease by said
company Of the Nodaway Valley Railroad
and the Tarkio Valley Railroad of Missouri,
and the consent OF q majority of the share
holders in the leased road to such lease The
lease is for 800 years. :
A bogus revenue detective, who has been
extorting money out of various parties
through the State for alleged violations of
the revenue laws, chiefly by not canceling
cigar stamps, has been captured in st. Louis
and sent to Harrisonville, Cass County, for
trial.
The safe of John Siebel's brewery at Glas-
Cow was burglarized the other night, but
the gross proceeds of the robbery was only
about $35.
The Chicago tribune is authority for the
statement that the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Company are about to begin active
operations for building the long contem-
plated extension of their road from Viele, in
the southeast corner of Iowa, to Kansas
City. The estimates for the work are now
being made. The new line will be about 225
miles in length, and runs through fertile
and prosperous section of Missouri. From
Chicago to Viele the distance is also about
225 miles, which will make the total length
of the new Kansas City line from Chicago to
Kansas City about $50 miles. The principal
object of the Burlington in building this
new line, says the Iribune, is TO become in
dependent of the Hannibal and ST. Joe, which
it has to use at present as its short line to
Kansas City. The Burlington has Kansas
City line via the Kansas City, St.
Joe and Council Bluffs; but, while
this line answers all purposes as q freight
line, it can not compete for the passenger
business to that point with the shorter and
more direct routes. The building Of this
will complicate the affairs of the Southwest
ern Railway Association still more, as an
extra provision for the Hannibal and st.
Joe, which now receives large share of its
Missouri River business from the Burling-
ton, will have to be made.
j. Fl. Bartlett, highly respected farmer
of Ca>s County, committed suicide few
days ago. Financial trouble and bad health
are supposed to have been the cause.
VIM. G.. Glass, prominent wholesale
liquor dealer of Kansas City, has been ar
rested upon the charge of violating the rev.
enue law. -..-
Frank Patton, an employee of the Ameri-
can Express Company at Kansas City, was
shot and killed on the morning Of the 18th,
while returning from beer garden in the
suburbs. A party of men in a wagon passed
Patton and his friends, who were on foot
The pedestrians charged that the driver of
the wagon crowded them up against
the fence; hot words ensued, followed
by Patton throwing stone at the wagon,
which had meanwhile passed on. One of
the men in the wagon, named Jim Hazard,