Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-21
The Federal Lead Company has

The Federal Lead Company has
a force of men at work here this
week removing some boilers, shaft
ing and other machinery from the
lead mill at this place, and r
having it loaded onto cars and
shipped to Flat River. From the
general appearance of things it
seems that the company had
abandoned the thought of ever
working the mine here, but the
opinion of the public is that they
will. In the first place it is known
that there is a good body of lead
here, the managers of the company
even admitting it, but they say the
mines at this place did not pay. If
the lead is here, as they say, who
is to blame for it not paying? The
people seem to think that the mines
here were not closed down because
the mineral was not in sufficient
quantities to pay, but because it
suited the pleasure of a certain in
dividual to condemn the works and
order them closed. The stories
that the shutdown was made in
order to "freeze out" someone or
that the company might buy more
land may be true, but if they are
it has taken a long time to C
complish this.-Irondale Gazette.
About three weeks ago Chas.
Russell, who lives about twelve
miles south of Ironton, on Crane
Pond, had a valuable horse stolen
from him. Mr.. Russell and the
officers instituted a search but
could find no trace of the missing
animal or the thief. Last week,
however, Mr.. Russell received word
from E. w. Graves of Des Arc,
who had been down in Arkansas,
that he believed the stolen animal
was near Jonesboro, Ark. Rus
sell at once departed for Jones'
boro, identified his horse and is
bringing the animal home. 1t is
believed that the thief is a man by
the name of Thurman, now con-
fined in the Jail at Potosi on an
other charge of horse stealing.
Thurman made his escape from the
Potosi Jail something over month
ago and was recaptured last week.
On his way to Arkansas it is
thought he stole the Russell horse.
We made mention last week that a
man by the name of Gentry from
st. Francois county had located
a horse that had been stolen from
him last June, at Albert Radford's,
across the line in Madison county.
He also found a horse that had
been stolen from a neighbor of his
almost a year ago. Gentry and his
neighbor passed through here one
day this week on their way home,
having recovered their horses. 1t
is thought that Thurman also stole
these horses.
Mr.. B. w. Frauenthal, manager
of the bureau of information at
Union Station, will be appointed
general ticket agent, filling the
vacancy caused by the death of
Henry G. Lihou. The appoint
ment is made by Supt. Kearney,
approved by General Manager
Robertson. Mr.. Frauenthal will
enter upon his new duties on We'd
nesday. The selection is a fitting
one and will give eminent salts
faction. Mr.. Frauenthal has had
charge of the bureau of Informal
ton since the opening of the Union
Station, in September, 1894, and he
has filed that position with credit
to the managementand satisfaction
to the travelling public. His first
railroad work was with the Lehigh
Valley as messenger at Athens, Pa.
He came to the st. Louis Terminal
association in 1882, serving under
Supt. Mahoney in the telegraph
department, and he has been con-
nected with the Terminal service
in various capacities for twenty
years, one-half of that period as
chief of the information bureau.
He served for one year as relief
agent for the Wabash Western.
No selection has yet been made
with regard to his successor in the
bureau of information. The po-
%sition, especially during the
Worlds Fair year, is an important
one to fll.-Globe- Democrat, Jan. 10.
We congratulate friend Barney
on his promotion. May the "good
things" continue to come his way.
He richly merits the best.