Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-09-21

away, and instead of a roadway
there is a sstep-off" twenty feet
deep. The lumber in the screen
factory yard floated around pro-
miscuously, and the water at
tanned a depth on the field south
of there much greater than was
ever known before. Mr.. Alex
ander, who lives on the Begley
farm, east of town, suffered con-
siderably and lost over two hun
dred chickens, his coops being
carried away by the rushing flood.
While the rain was unquestionably
an unusual one, yet the volume of
water in Knob Creek was doubt
less greatly augmented by the
breaking of the company dam at
Pilot Knob, which gave way about
eleven o'clock. The foot bridge
across the branch that leads from
the dam was CARED far away, and
the railroad bridge over the same
stream was rendered insecure by
the mad rush of waters.
The following article, taken from
the Seattle (Wash.) P~ost-InteHi-
gencer, will be of interest to many
of our readers, owing to the fact
that the young lady mentioned in
the article is the daughter of Lou.
Gideon, who twenty-five years
ago was a resident of this town
and was married to S. E. White
head, who was at the time in
charge of the work at the manga
nese iron mine south of town:
"The appointment of Miss Rea
Whitehead as chief clerk of the
prosecuting attorneys Office, to
take effect June 1, was announced
yesterday, Immediately following
the news from Olympia that she
had successfully passed the State
bar examination. Attracting ma
tional notice at the age of IA years,
by breaking the shorthand speed
record with her eyes blindfolded,
becoming court stenographer in
the federal court at Skagway at
16, admitted to practice in the
courts of this State and appointed
to an important position at 81, the
young lady considers herself
merely at the threshold of her
career. The score of years which
she claims is attested by the news
paper records of the public inter-
est that her creditable career has
aroused at various times. Apart
from these, she might easily pass
for a high school girl with her
mind upon the festivitieso of a COM
ing graduation. For the last year
the young attorney has been at
tending the law classes of the
University of Washington. Ac-
complishing two years work in
one, and laboring under the per-
sonal direction of Dean Condor
after school hours, she did not feel
the need of waiting for her class,
but went to Olympia last week,
and is now admitted to the bar,
while her classmates will graduate
some time next spring. After her
feat of writing shorthand blind
folded, at the rate of 40 words a
minute, in 1887, Miss Whitehead
became stenographer for Burke,
Shepherd & McGilvra, and after
ward went to Skagway, where she
was soon appointed court reporter.
For several years she has been in
Seattle, as a law student, and as
stenographer for Thomas R.. Shop
herd. She resides with her mother,
Mrs. Thomas Bosley, at 2514 Fifth
avenue"
The following, handed us by
Mr.. Azariah Martin, will be of in
terest to many persons in. the
Valley, among whom the writer
passed his earlier years. 1t is
dated U. S. S.. Cleveland, Sanchez,
Santo Domingo, August Is, 1905:
"Dear Father:-I have just re-
ceived your letter of July 9th. We
do not get our mail very regularly
at this place. We went over to
San Juan, Porto Rico, and to St.
Thomas, D.. w. l., the latter part
of last month for stores and to
have a little recreation ashore.
We had a very pleasant time in st.
Thomas. l visited the old castles
of the ancient pirates, Blue Beard
and Black Beard. They are still
in pretty fair condition, and the
people living near them have not
given up hopes of finding the
buried treasure, said to have been
left when the King of Denmark
overcame the two old pirates. The
accidental drowning of Jake Lopez
is sad, indeed, but it only shows
that people living ashore are as
much exposed to accidents as we
on the sea. If the powder in our
magazine happened to get a little
too warm we would all be blown
to atoms, and if the ship happened
to roll a little over 45 degrees we
would all be drowned. So the
boilers might blow up, as did the
cruiser Bennington's not long ago.
We might run upon some I'M
chartered rock and the ship sink,
or accidentally fall overheard and
drown; still none of these things
have happened to us yet. Of the
three hundred and some odd men
on this ship we have not had a
death yet, excepting one man
transferred to a hospital died OF
consumption, and another while
on a furlough lately committed
suicide. We have had men with
broken legs, arms, stab wounds