Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-15

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Sheriff O'Neal received a telegram
from 4. j. Williams, prosecuting at
torney of jefferson county. giving &
description of one j. C. Beaucleigt
and asking him to arrest and detair
said Beaucleigh until he Civilians
could get here. Beaucleigh and two
other men had arrived here that eve.
ming, having made the trip overland
from Fredericktown. They were all
attaches of the Sands & Astley Circus
| that exhibited in De Soto Thursday
| and Fredericktown Friday. 1t seems
that this circus. like many other tent.
ed aggregatiOns, carried miniature
Monte Carlo establishment along with
it and the verdant specimens of the
genus homo that abide in the County
of jefferson were quick to avail them
selves of the opportunity to 'get some
thing for nothing" They only tempt
ed fate with such sure winning games
as the three shells. monte and the like.
1t was the old case of the ..gentleman
loses and the gambler wins"-with the
gentleman soon squealing like fun to
get his money back. The Sheriff.
" I'LL Vi oCPutlCSs ""S
called, but by this time the smooth men
had captured about all De Soto's loose
change, made themselves scarce and
could not be found. They were fol-
lowed to Fredericktown next day,
however, when Beauc,eigh was arrest
ed as manager of the circus. for per-
hitting gaming in connection with his
institution. He got out of the clutches
of the law on a writ of hdbeds corpus,
but was promptly arrested again and
put up forfeit for 1925 for his APP
pearance on Tuesday of this week.
This could not all be accomplished un-
til Saturday, however, and by then
the show had left the town. Beau
cleigh then decided to come over here,
take the train and catch up with his
folk at Poplar Bluff. He had been
here less than an hour, though, when
our sheriff received the aforesaid tele-
gram and promptly took him in custo-
dy. Beaucleigh and his friends pro-
tested vehemently. but realized the
folly of resistance. Prosecuting At
torney Williams came down that night
and took his prisoner back to De Soto
on an early train. The warrant On
which he was arrested was issued from
jefferson county, but it is said that
Beaucleigh is wanted in Illinois where
there is reward of 5000 for his ap-
prehension, and the Jefferson county
authorities took this method to get
hold of him.
Though full official report of the
proceedings of the Convention at Per-
tie Springs is printed in this paper, the
personal account of the writer, who
attended as delegate. may not be de-
void of interest. In company with Mr..
Fletcher we departed our native heath
Monday afternoon, and after All all
night ride on the steam kyars, arrived
at Warrensburg about $3.50 Wednesday
morning. The trip from st. Louis was
fairly comfortable, the railroad COM
pany furnishing an extra section OF the
Flyer for the accommodation of dele
gates. We occupied seat in chair
car, and made out to emphasize the
long hours oil darkness with cat-naps
at irregular intervals. Our arrival
was too early in the dewy morn to be
greeted by the usual brass band, but a
lone member of the ribbon-badged re-
ception committee was on hand to let
us know we were welcome. The dele
cations from jefferson and Iron took
in the town while awaiting its awaken
ing to the cares of the day. We prom
enaded its more prominent thorough
fares and viewed its sleeping beauty
from all points of the compass.
Warrensburg is an old. solid town,
we'll supported by the rich agricultu
tural territory surrounding it. There
are two or three public buildings of
the modern sort within the corporation
limits to counterpart the general an
tiauity of the town. The courthouse
covers three squares-the County
Clerks Office being on one block. the
Probate Court on another, and the 9TH
er sections of the county government
taking in the third. The city hall and
calaboose is one of the more preten-
tious of the modern structures, just
finished, and occupied at that early
hour by one sole inhabitant: darkey
with Vandyke beard. who looked out
upon us longingly through the grated
window. He said he was in for hav-
ing taken .stoo much schnOpps" the
day before; that his lodgings were
fresh, clean and dry-too dry. In fact,
for his constitution. He was very COM
municative and his cheerfulness shone
in marked contrast to his strained sur
roundings. Leaving him to the tender
care of the city ordinance in his case
made and provided, we continued our
ramble until the rising sun aroused the
sleeping city, and the hinged venetian
doors gave way to expectant touch.
We touched one and shortly afterward
to breakfast The inner man being
doubly satisfied, we boarded a car on
the 3k-mile narrow-guage which con-
meets the town with Pertle Springs.
This summer resort has big hotel,
lake, an uncertain bridge across a
ravine. an auditorium OF 5000 capa-
CITY, and lot of smaller structures for
the accommodation of committees and
other bodies selected from the crowd
at large. Numerous bible legends and
illustrations decorated the arched cell
ing of that appropriated to the use of
the resolutions committee on this &C.
casion. We are not well up in scriptu-
raj matters. but we took one of them
to be a representation of Dave Francis
selling the Missouri Democracy to Shy
lock for a handful of silver-a very
neat and appropriate stroke on the
part of the local committee. we
thought. About noon the convention
was called to order bv Mr.. Carroll as