Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-18


is the name of a new corporation
which has just been Incorporated with
a capital stock of $50, 900, with its
Office at Lesierville, this county. The
following officers and directors we're
selected at a recent meeting Of the
stockholders: Nj G. Harrison, pres. +;
r. T. Minor, vice-pres. Belle Harri-
sou, sec'y; Jas. L. Dobbius, treas.
Directors: M. G. Harrison, R. 7.
Minor, Belle Harrison, Jas T. Dob
bins and M. l.. Harrison. The object
of the organization OF this company is
mainly for the purpose Of growing
ginseng for the dried root market.
1t is the intention of the company to
plant an acre or more OF ginseng each
year for three years or longer. About
80, 900 shares Of stock haye already
been subscribed and are now selling
the market for so cents on the dol
lar, but will be advanced Jan. 1st.
The organizers of this company are
all we'll known business men of our
county who are financially responsible
and who have given the raising and
culture of ginseng years of study and
now have some of the finest beds of
ginseng to be found anywhere. The
profits realized from the growing OF
this plant is enormous, as it sells for
$40 to $14 per pound when placed on
the market in China, and it is the in
tention of this company to ship direct
to that country County out
look.
The station house at Ir)nton is not
%consonant with the public needs and
comfort. The waiting room is like az
ordinary chicken-coop in dimensions,
and as uncomfortable as CONSTRUCTED
space, dingy walls and i'll constructed
seats a make it, In fact the ques-
ton of comfort Is not to be considered
in connection with it. There is no &C.
commodation for ladies, and, while
waiting the arrival of the train that is
to carry them to their several destina-
tions, they are crowded cheek by jowl
with white and black, clean and un-
clean. In very truth it is shameful.
Then the freight department is as
fully inadequate to the requirements
of the business transacted. With
nearly every arrival of the local
freight train, merchandise must be
piled mountain high, one consignment
on another, until it is q heart-rending,
curse-invoking task for any consignee
to dig out the freight belonging to
him. Now this is all wrong. lronton
does a bigger freight and express bust
ness than any Otner station between
De Soto and Poplar Bluff, and her
passenger traffic stands in the same
ratio. Certainly, the commonest
business sense ought to lead to the
remedylng of the things complained OF.
| am not kicking for the love of it, but
because the situation demands it. If
the management of the road doubt
this, let them inquire OF their patrons
of any and every degree.
The following, from Sundays Re-
public, is OF local interest because of
the probability that the victim of the
accident was a former resident of Iron
ton-though this is by no means GER
tain. The Ann AXE who used to live
here and was the wife Of my brother,
VIM. AXE, since deceased, has been
for years a resident Of California, but
uyhnp last hnnp1 frnpp aha n liuir~
10 San Diego. So it may be another
Ann AXE who came to an untimely
death in the streets of San, Francisco.
No word has been received by the
relatives here, and this gives color to
the doubt that the sufferer was a
stranger to this community: "After
being trampled beneath the ironed
hoofs OF three fire horses and having
her skull fractured by the bottom of
the boiler of fire engine No. 10, Mrs.
Anna AXE, SO years of age, died at the
Central Emergency Hospital. The ac-
cident occurred shortly after 4 o'clock
az the entrance to the frehouse. The
unfortunate woman was going up Mar
ket atreet when the company's appa-
ratus, consisting of engine, hose cart
and truck, a returning from an ak
ercise run for the horses. The engine,
which was in the lead, was In charge
of Joseph Dolan, who is the assistant
driver in the place Of John Little.
Going up Market street from an east
anlp lipanttnr nNlnn ~ ohn,,t IN
TURF into the frehouse when he saw a
woman coming in the same direction
as he was driving. 1t was Mrs, AXE
Dolan called to her in a loud voice,
look outH and at the same time, think
ing she would stop and allow him to
pass, turned his horses onto the side
walk. There is a slight rise at the
entrance OF the firehouse, and it is
necessary to make a squirt to enable
the horses to carry the two-ton engine
into the building. just as the horses
made the quick movement Mrs. AXE
made a sudden start as If intending to
pass before the animals reached the
entrance. F. Jordan, a member of the
company, was standing on the opposite
side of the entrance, and, seeing the
danger, made an attempt to reach the
woman aud avert an accident, but be-
fore he could reach her he saw her
Knocked down by the horses and
trampled upon. He was barely in
time to save himself from being struck
Dolan also saw the danger and made
a heroic attempt to stop his horses.
He succeeded in swinging them to one
side and thus preventing the heavy
wheels from passing over Mrs. Axes
body, but her head was ground be-
meath the boiler, the bottom of which
runs close to the ground. The ambu'
lance was Immediately summoned, and
Mrs. AXE was removed to the hospital,
After a careful examination Doctors
Maher and Murphy pronounced her
injuries fatal, and Mrs. AXE expired o