Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-18

"a thus GehneQ:. F.t+ ...- Il -....r-
p D. Warciaims. or claims arising out of the
furnishing of troops and supplies to the
United States Government during the late
civil war. and, 2. claims arising under the
enabling act of Congress and the ordinance
of acceptance by the State, under which the
state was admitted into the Union. This com
pact guaranteed to the State, in consideration
Of certain conditions by it accepted, five pr
cent. of tho net proceeds arising from the sale
OF all public lands in the state of Missouri
after admission, etc. The amount due the
State on account of all sales made for cash
has been paid; but large proportion of
the public domain in the, State has been To-
Gated with the military land warrants of the
Governments, issued i'm payment of services
Heard claims hat isnch locations should be
regarded as sales for cash, and that the State
is entitled to iiye per cent zen 1T, thereon These
the five per cent. of the proceeds of such
salcs-estimathlg the land ut the price of jos
per acre-amOunts to S426, 900. ,Ssss-zsL
z THE SSIBAL AND ST. JOE MATTER.
- The Governor devotes considerable space
TO setting forth of the facts in the ,Hanni-
bal & ST. Joe Railroad matter. After stating
the tender of $4,000. 600 for the release of
the States lien, its first refusal, the subse-
quent acceptance of S3,O9o,0OO as part pay
Ment, and detailing the legal proceedings
which followed, he says: ~
! 4 " is matter of regret that this company,
alter having so long and so faithfully met its
naturing interest on the bonds should have
cunnIngly drawD, as it was supposed, I'm the
interest of the road-and the advice and di-
sacred obligation that can exist between a
creditor ana debtor. The State from the be-
claiming discountenaneed the construction
placed upon that act by the company, and
.simply manded q tulfilment of the obliga-
ton n6mtnate in the bond, and at no time
has acted otherwise. than justly and len.
dently with the road. even when reverses and
embarTassments surrounded, it and almost
g wrecked it's nnanciais xistence. No road has
a afi a N IL frnrr ft,<,
State than the Hannibal & st. Joseph. The
i more it has been aecommodated the more it
3 has demanded. 1t received from the State,
. under the act of 1881, 81 900 special bonds
as q loan OF the public credit, redeemable at
after the expiration Of twenty wears from the
date of issue; and, again, under the act of
: 1s15- it received the same number of bonds of
: the same character redeemablev in thirty
years: and in 1S74, upon the urgent ap nIica,
fion Of the road to the Legislature. the 81 $780,,
soo0 bonds issued under the act of 1851 were
newed for a further term of twenty years;
TINS, in fact, receiving from the State 900 900
foffyyears-afav solicited by hOre xtend-
ed TO any other company. In consid eration of
thistact, and upon PRINCIPLES of honor, the
,eyade its honorable and legal obligations TO
the power which evoked it into existence If
duty+ of the State to resist it Co the extreme
limit If the law. The protection of the rights
erls @ 5ber Of its high
A reeornmendation; that the Legislature
appropriai g money to conduct the litigation
of this railroad question. and to pay for the
2 legal services already rendered by Messrs.
; Henderson & Shields and Glover s. Shep-
ley closes this part Of the message.
OUTLAwRY.
On the subjectTof outlawry the Governor
saws: - ,1e EsT9sCs ~.
VA Since the close of the war Missouri has been
infested by bands of train and bank robbers.
road travel and banking dan gerous, in certain
localities in the State, but also gave the State
an unenviable reputation at home and
Mypredecessors assiduously endeavored, by
the use of every means and power within
their control, to accomplish the destruction
sbortiSe., On the 18th day of july. ISL, GER
tain parties, under the leader slip of Jesse w
James, stopped and robbed train upon the
line of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railroad at point near Winston, in Daviess
berry, killed william Westfali, the conductor
: OF the train, and John McCulioch. an en-
July, 1881, issued the following proclaIna-
tion: THE proclamationis here quoted.l
six weeks after this proclamation had been
issued, as if in grim defiance of the power of
the law and vigilance of law officers, a train
was stopped and robbed on the line of the
Chicago 4 Alton Railroad, near Blue Cut, in
jackson County. The band committing this
robbery was under the leadership of Jesse w.
james; and his associates, it is said were
Frank James, Dick Liddil, Wood Hite CIar-
= ence Hite, and Charles and Robert Ford.
81 When the proclamation was issued, it was
said by cavilers that il would wholly fail in
its objects and that no good would be ac
gcomplished by the offer of such large sums of
sInoney for the apprehension of those de>per-
ate men, The results which followed so
closely upon its issuance furnish ample
vintiication of the policy which inspired it.
. No tie no faith in honorable comradcship, is
stronger with an outlaw than the power of
: S1Ie1n the 18th day of February, 1882, Fob Ford
.surrendt redro Capt ain ii. Craig, of Kansas
City. ON the 18th day of January, 1882. Dick
Liddll surrendered to j.. Il. Timberiake.
sheriff OF Clay County.
ON the 18th day of February. 1882 Clarence
FIite was captured in Logan County, n.y., by
Capt. Craig and j. II. Timberlake, and was
to for se a9 II VIM i've
fall and one for the participation in the Win
lston train robbery-weres pending against
him. He was arranged under the Indictment
and pleaded guilty to the charge OF robbery.
and was, on the same day, sentenced to
twenty five years Imprisonment in the Penl-
Tertiary, which sentence he is now undergo
ing. -.i .-4ss.-. e.. ~.
On the Sd day of April, 1892. Jesse w. james
J was killed il, the city of st. Joseph by Chas.
and Robt. Ford-his followers and associates
IN crime. The Fords Immediately surrendered
- themselves to the legal ,authoritfes of Blu
chanan County and were placed in Jail. q
An indictment charging them with murder
by q Grand jury. to which at the April term,
lsS2. they both pleaded guilty in the Buchan-
an County Circuit Court, and were pardoned
by me on the same day, upon grounds OF pub
BIC policy.
Frank James voluntarily surrendered him.
self to me in my office, in Jefferson City. on
the 5th day OF October, 1SS2. 1 Immediately
delivered him to- the law officers of Jackson
County, where he is now incarcerated in Jail,
awaiting trial on one or more indictments
On the 4th day OF December, 1891 Wood Hite
was killed by some one of his confe,ierates in
crime at the residence of Mrs Bolton near
Richmond. Ray County, Mo. Her house had
been the headquarters and hiding place of
the outlaws, in that part of the State, for
many months.
ON the 18th day of May, 1882, Robert Ford
was indicted in Ray County for the murder of
Wood Hite. TIE case was removed, by change
of venue, to Clinton County where. on the
-E5tli day of October, 1852, he was tried and ac-
-suitted. He is now under recognizance on a
charge of robbery, as also Is his brother,
Charles Ford.
ON the 9Th day of October, 1882, revoked
Aha proclamation of July .. 1851, for the res-