Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1894-12-07
VOLUME XIII.
ons Dollar and Costs.

This is the song Squire IL. A.
Wheeler sang our venerable sire, A.
c. vandiver. last Friday.
Baby" Singleton, editor OF the
Signal. was the prosecuting witness.
The facts in the case are about as
follows:
On Monday, the 18th day o: Nov.
C. p. vandiver, editor and proprietor
OF the COURIER, discharged an en-
ploye for good and sufficient reasons.
Singleton wrote up an account OF
the "tragedy"in which he stated that
Vapdiver had struck the aforesaid
employe. and after discovering that
he (vandiver) was not likely to OBJ
tain q victim for his "private grave
yard with his flst." that vandiver
picked up the Office poker. but was
prevented from using 1t by r. F.
Keeley, the COURIER foreman.
Not considering Singleton either
morally or mentally responsible for
the exaggerated and false account he
had given OF the affair, we called on
J. K. Robertson. the senior proprie-
tor Of the Signal. and asked that he
right the wrong his paper had done
sand at the same time brought him
to the COURIER Office in order that he
might get Mr.. Keeley's version VI
the difficulty" he having been an
eyewitness to the trouble.
Mr.. Robertson assured us that he
knew nothing about the article in
question until after it had appeared
In the Signal. Had he known OF
its existence before the Signal went
to press 1t would, possibly. not have
been published.
Mr.. Robertson promised to make
amends honorable in his paper the
following week, but left town on the
next Monday, having, doubtless.
turned his promised apology over to
"Editor" Singlston TO write mp.
Seeing the unenviable predicament
IN which he had been placed, Single
Uon endeavore extricate himself
from his disgraceiul dilemma by re-
sorting to- other Misrepresentation,
and submitted to rs the article be-
fore it was published.
Right here We wish to remark that
NO gentleman will hesitate to apollo
Gize for a wrong done q fellowman,
but il is different with a scrub like
Singleton.
We declined to take any notice oil
the article submitted, on account OF
Singleton's irresponsibility. having
fully decided to deal with the senior
Robertson in the matter OF the in
justice that had been done US.
Our father called at the Signal Of
fce on Thursday morning. we believe
it was, to see II Mr.. Robertson had
returned. and was informed that he
had not.
He asked Singleton II he intended
to publish that article, to which he
replied he did.
Our sire then told him II he did. in
the light OF the evidence and the
facts In the case. that he (our father)
would publish him (SinRleton) as an
infamous har and q dirty dog, and
SingletoD's reply was, "you better
hot"
The Singleton article appeared in
the Signal and in last weeks CoU-
R1ER the frebrand was put to Single
ton as promised
About one week from the time our
father called at the Signal Office and |
had the conversation with Singleton |
Singleton swore out a warrant for
our sir-'s ar-sr.i. charging him with
disturbing hi i~ace.
The case wss allied for trial before
Squire wheelrr last Friday. Prose
cutting Attorney Wallace appeared
fo- the state and our father in his
own behalf
The trial sresulted in the imposi-
ton OF fne 81, which, with trim
mings. amounted to 1915, the
court and prosecuting attorney re-
fusing to include their costs, amount
ing $6.95.
The state gets 81, Constable
veareh s1.75. and Chas. g. Single
ton and j. w. Robertson. the former
editor and the latter junior proprie-
tor OF the Signal. each received so
cts. as witness fees