Iron County register., 1882-09-21
Miscellaneous Items.

L. D. Ross, of the firm of Deland &
Ross, ticket brokers at Kansas City, arrest
ed on charge of selling counterfeit railway
| tickets, has been held in - 800 bonds. The
exact number of tickets he has had printed
or the amount of money he has realized by
the scheme has not yet been learned, though
it is supposed the swinde will reach way up
in the thousands. The tickets were said to
be excellent counterfeits, and were issued
in the name of the Peoria, Decatur & Evans
vile and Lake Erie s. Western Roads. They
were coupon tickets, and read between the
following points, Kansas City to Cheyenne.
Kansas City to Santa Fe, st. Louis to St. Jo-
seph, Chicago to Minneapolis and Peoria to
st. Joseph. The tickets were to be used
over the Hannibal & st. Joseph, Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific and
Union Pacific. The tickets were signed by
j. L. Allen, General Passenger Agent,
bogus name placed on them, so that when
the sw;ndle should be detected Ross could
not be held for forgery. The name did as
well as if it were the proper one. as very
few conductors would know the difference,
and, even if they did, would not be likely to
look at the signature of a ticket. s. K.
Hooper, General Agent of the st. Joe Road,
adroitly worked all the secret from him,
and secured 900 tickets, which had been
printed in compliance with recent order
from Ross, together with the letters of the
latter. Folsom protests his limo :ence of any
knowledge Of fraud in the transaction. The
tickets were sold to certain points to par
ties going only to intermediate points, re-
bates being given by conspiring scalpers at
these intermediate points, and were then
destroyed.
The control of the Hannibal and St.
Joseph Railroad was bought the other day
by number Of men who have long been
identified with the management of the Union
Pacific and Wabash Railroad systems.
Among them are Jay Gould, Russell Sage,
Sidney Dillon, Frederick L. Ames. and
Washington e. Connor, Gould's principal
broker. These persons bought at 42, prac-
tically, the whole of the common stock Of
the company, which amounted, according
to the last annual report, to 1857 shares.
They bought about 10000 shares. As the
preferred stock is only $5,OS3, ,024, they Sc
cured at once absolute control of the road.
1t is understood that no guarantee has been
made in regard to the preferred stock, and
OF course the Gould interest is entirely in
the common. It is believed that for the
So, 7S6, 900 involved in the purchase the in
terest will be turned over to the Wabash
company in return for bonds to that amount
bearing per cent. interest. At this fig
ure the purchase is unquestionably a good
one for the Wabash company, as the road is
receiving in rentals for the use of its tracks
from the Rock Island and Burlington &
Omaha companies an amount exceeding the
interest on the purchase money.
George Beers, II years old, has been
arrested at Sedalia for stealing horse, the
of p. E. David, living near Bunce-
town, Cooper County. Beers rode the horse
into town and hitched it in vacant lot,
where the animal was found by the Marshal
and watch set upon it. At police head
quarters Beers acknowledged the theft of
the horse, and also that he had stolen an
other animal from j. R. Reaves, a farmer
living near Vermont Station; also, a gold
ring. watch and revolver. Beers was sent
out to Missouri several years ago by the
Children's Aid Society of New York City.
He lived for awhile with Col. MCCULLOUGH,
the well-known Register of Lands.
AT st. Joseph, the other day, Messrs.
Barrett and Smith drove out on a sand bar
in the river, put on a load of wood, and
started home. In order to get off dry they
were compelled to molest fence owned and
put upon the bar by man named Adams.
The two men paid little or no attention to
the threats and talk of Adams and started
ahead. Adams had shotgun on his shoul-
der, and told the men to stop. They did
not, and he fired, the contents of his gun
taking effect in Barrett's neck, making
painful but not serious holes. Adams fled.
Settlers flock to Douglas County.
Kansas City cigar-makers have struck
,or better wages.
A card signed by Chas. G. Burton,
I'D Sixth District; Mack j. Leaning and
9. A. Thompson, proxy, Seventh District:
R. c. Crowell and D. A. Fuller, Eighth
District, and W. j. Miller, Ninth District,
members of the Republican State Central
Committee. calls for Republican State
at Jefferson City on the 21st |
nst. The card states that the signers do |
lot aequiesce in the decision of the majority
If the committee that convention shall not
,e held.
A copperhead snake four feet long
vas killed in Boonville few days ago.