Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-15

muster a quorum at its meetIngs-the
very condition under which consolida
tions are usually desired-would be
helpless and doomed to indefinite in
anition. II Mr.. NJ, knowing charges
were preferred against him, and trial
about to result, cared 90 little about it
as to make no inquiry, he oughtn't TO
kick now that he was expelled for con-
tempt. II he had desisted from con-
tumacy when shown that the law for
bids such donation" as was attempted
to be made, the subsequent proceeding
would not have eventuated. The MEM
| bers of Iron Lodge-the writer being
of the number-were willing to give
the ten members of Pilot Knob Lodge
three years dues, each, out of the
funds to be turned over, and SO voted;
but when it was found the law would
not permit this action. it was promptly
and properly rescinded. and the P. K.
Lodge members notified that they
would be received ''according to the
constitution and rules of the order. y"
But Mr.. NJ. says Brother so-and-so told
him they could make the donation and
it would be all right. A most excel
lent plea! Yet such advice Oughtn't to
go" with an old official and a brother
of thirty years standing. priding him
self on his knowledge of the laws of
the order. But, as we said at the
start, discussion in this matter is not
profitable, and so-fnis!
Last Sunday morning, at o'clock,
three troops of cavalry, under COM
mand of Capt. Geo. F. Chase, rode in
to Ironton, on their way to the rife
range. situated about two miles south
east of this place. The command
started on Its ninety-mile march from
jefferson Barracks at 500 A. NJ. Thurs
day, covering seventeen miles that
day. Cold Creek was their first camp
ing-ground. The second days march
brought them to the vicinity of De
Soto, and Pennington was reached
Saturday. The men arrived at their
destination in excellent condition, but
both they and their horses showed that
the hot and dusty road was not strewn
with flowery beds of ease According
to the POSt-DtSpGtch, Capt. Chase said
at the beginning of the trip: 1.-THE
march OF the Second Squadron of the
Third Cavalry to Arcadia is being
made under most adverse circum-
stances. / do not suppose that a body
of soldiers ever set out on similar ex-
pedition with a poorer equipment.
The Government makes little or no
provision for trips of this kind. The
appropriation this year was so small
that it was impossible to provide the
necessary adjuncts for a march of
ninety miles in hot weather. / have
in my squadron IA enlisted men and
la horses. The six officers are rid
ing horses bought with their own
money. There are only two mule
teams in the camp, and they are draw
ing wagons totally inadequate to car
ry the necessary baggage. The am
bulance has been pressed into service
and is now filed with baggage. There
is not an extra horse or an extra wag-
on with the squadron, and only one
rig that could be pressed into service
if any of the men should succumb to
the heat. That is a private buggy be-
longing to Capt. J. l.. Mackey of A
troop. The stock is in bad condition
and many of the men are raw recruits.
Some of them may not finish the trip.
In case of sickness all that can do is
to send the disabled men back to the
Barracks on the train. Altogether,
could not be worse" Not
withstanding these adverse conditions,
we hope the stay here will prove salts
factory aud healthful. The squadron
now camped at the range comprises
Troops "A, D and H. under command
OF j. L. Mackey, Lieut.. Kirby Walker
and Lieut.. Olo W. Bell, respectively.
Capt. George F. Chase is commanding
the squadron, with Lieut.. c. Z. Hawk
ms as Adjutant and Qusrtermaster and
Capt. Charles B. Ewing as medical at
tendant.
In the September. 1896, Report of
the Missouri State Board of Agricul-
ture, is a letter from 7. E. White,
State Veterinarian, treating of the
same eye disease which this summer
is affecting the cattle of this section.
A letter from Rockville to him stated
that the writer's Jersy bull was first
affected; ''the left eye began watering |
and then turned white. In the course |
of day or two the other eye became |
similarly affected, and at the time of |
his writing the eye had assumed a |
fiery red, and that the animal could |
see nothing;" also, that three of his i
cows had taken the disease. Says
Veterinarian White, who calls the af- |
lection Catarrhal Ophthalmia: This |
disease, at different times, has caused |
great anxiety to owners of stock. / |
have met with and treated a great |
many cases both in and around the |
vicinity of Sedalia, Missouri. My at |
tention was first called to it about if |
teen years ago in herd of fine Short |
Horns, the property of an eminent |
specialist, DR.. Ed. G. |
Evans, of Sedalia, Missouri. 1t is a |
fact known to all medical men that the |
surface soils are reeking with germ
life of all kinds and descriptions, es-
pecially is this so of the bacilli of pu-
trefaction. Moisture in any degree |
tends to hold the bacilli to earth, hot |
dry air liberates them in the dust that |
arises. II the eyes are in good condi-
ton and strong enough to resist the |
germs, no harm ensues, but the oppo- |
site of this is sometime the case; es-
pecially so in extended periods of hot |
dry weather; the intense heat reflect |
ing the suns rays from off a dry |
parched earth into the eyes of the ami
NAL is most trying to the vision. and |
as q consequence renders the eye weak |
and watery. These putrefactive germs