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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
MISUSE OF MAILS CHARGED
A Promoter of Many Companies Ar
rested in Philadelphia.
stanley Francis Charged with Ex-
plotting Get-Rich-Quick ompa
MES which Have Failed.

Philadelphia. March 2~5.-Stanley
Francis. alias Arthur 8. Foster, a pro-
moter of many companies, was arrest
ed by United States postal inspectors,
Friday, on the charge of using the
mails for, fraudulent purposes, and af-
ter a hearing before the United States
commissioner he was held in $4,000
bail for further hearing. Francis was
unable to furnish bail and was COM
mitted to Jail.
Postal authorities charge that Fran
els is n of the leading figures in the
Storey Cotton Co. and the Provident
Investment Co., which are alleged by
the postal inspectors to be fraudulent
"get-rick-quick" concerns. Both COM
panies have gone into the hands of re-
ceiverS, and most of the men who were
actively identified with the concerns
have disappeared. Francis was ar
rested in the Offices of Francis Bros,
publishers, with which firm he is con-
nected.
Among the concerns Francis promot-
ed was the United States Trust Co., of
Philadelphia. A meeting ef the direc-
tors of the company was held Friday,
and all the officers resigned. This was
followed by the officers Of the trust
company.
The postal authorities have also
caused a warrant to be issued for the
arrest of W. H. Latimer, missing man
ager Of the defunct Provident Invest
ment Co. He is charged with using the
mails'for fraudulent purposes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
TAR HEEL CLUB BANQUET.
Vi~ce-President Fairbanks and Rev
enue Commissioners Yerkes Were
the Guests of Honor.

Greensboro, N. c., March 23.-Three
hundred guests, including republicans
of prominence from all parts of this
and other states, attended the banquet
of the Tar Heel club here Wednesday,
at which Vice-President Fairbanks and
Revenue Commissioner Yerkes were
the principal guests of honor. In tall
ing the meeting to order, the toast
mester, Hon. E. Spencer Blackburn,
read a telegram of regret from Post
master-General Cortelyou, regretting
that he could not be present. The
POSTMASTER then delivered a short ad-
dress, in which he congratulated the
republicans of the state upon the elm
ination of the race issue and the dawn
ing of a better political day in this
section.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
THE R0GERS-ELY MYSTERY
Frank Ely Rogers Father Tells q
Plain, Simple Story.
Miss Ely LET the Boy in Buffalo, Go
ing Into a Store Ostensibly
10 Make n Purchase.

Chicago, March 2S.-The first ap.
parently adequate explanation OF the
mysterious disappearance of the boy,
Frank Ely Rogers, and his aunt, Miss
Florence Ely, four years ago, at Evans
ton, was made last night to a press
representative by James c. Rogers, IA
ther of the boy. Though simple and
straightforward, the truth of the mys-
terry, according to MI. Rogers, is
stranger than the many fanciful' stories
that have been written about the case,
which, in Chicago, has excited as much
interest as the celebrated Charlie Ross
case in Philadelphia.
Replying to questions as to the boys
return, Mr.. Rogers said:
"At the time of the disappearance,
my son Frank, like many boys of his
age, was fired with a desire to run
away from home and see life for him
self. His aunt, a sufferer from melan-
CLOlld, Wdo dUOuI W NC pIooSd W "a
in a sanitarium, a proceeding to which
she strongly objected. AS a result OF
these circumstances, the two left home
together, and went to Buffalo. There
they separated, Miss Ely entering a
large store, apparently to do some
shopping and leaving Frank on the
outside. She had previously given
him a small sum of money. From that
time until now Frank has not seen
Miss Ely, and neither he nor we know
her whereabouts.
Frank, following out his ideas OF
seeing life, made a living as best he
could, and has finally returned home
after many vicissitudes. This is the ex-
PLANTATION of the mystery as learned by
me from my son, and is apparently the
whole truth"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
TORNADO SEASON BEGUN.
The Little Town of LOuisburg,
Mimi, Almost Destroyed
Several Casualties.

st. Paul, Mimi, March ga report
reached this city Monday night that
the little town of Louisburg, in the ex-
IRENE western portion of the state, had
been practically wiped out by a lorna
do and that seven persons had been Sc
riously injured. 1t was also stated
that from two to even were killed, but
up to a late hour it had been impossi-
BILE, owing to lack of telegraph facili-
ties, to verify the latter statement.
Louisburg is a town of about 100 in
habitants in Lac Qui Parle county,
and has neither telephone nor tele-
graph connection with the outside
world. Reports from nearby towns,
however, state that three store build
ings we're utterly demolished, and Mat
every residence in the town was more
or less damaged.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
SECRETARY HAY TO RETIRE.
HI. Desire to Lay Down the Cares
of.Omce known 10 and Regret-
ted BY the President.

Washington, March 27.-It may be
stated on the best of authority that
Secretary of State Hay will not resume
his place in the cabinet on his return
from his present vacation.
His brilliant career as premier of the
McKinley-Roosevelt administrations
has practically come to a close. Ill
health is the sole cause of his deter
mination to retire, and nc n will re-
greet the severance of the intimate per-
sonal and official relations that have
existed between them for the past five
years, more than President Roosevelt
himself.
1t was just prior to his departure
from Washington that Mr.. Hay ac-
quainted the president with his desire
to lay aside the state department folio.
The president was unable to induce the
secretary to reconsider his course.
regretfully stated that if he were still
of the same mind on his return he
would accept his resignation.
1t has been well known to Secretary
Hays close personal and official
friends that his health has rapidly
failed during the last few months, re-
sulting from the strain of overwork,
they have hoped that q few weeks COM
plete rest, with change of air and
scene, would enable him to recover and
resume his place at the head of the
state department.
That hope has now been abandoned.
While there is no fear of a fatal ter
mination Of his present sickness, it is
realized that the secretary's active par
ticipation in public affairs has come to
an end.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Retail Business Livening Up as
Spring Advances and Crop Re-
! ports Are Favorable.

New York, March 25.-Bradstreet's
weekly review says:
While rejecting irregularities, due to
rainy weather at the east and south,
high water in central western rivers
and poor condition of country roads
generally, the volume of distributive
trade and the movement on industry
hold the increase recorded last week.
From the south, in fact, the tenor of
advices Is even better. Retail trade at
the large cities is livening up as spring
advances. Crop reports, especially
from winter wheat, are increasingly
favorable, notably in the southwest.
Railway earnings reflect a heavy grain
movement.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
WRECK ON THE FRISCO ROAD.
Several Persons Injured, One, Misc
Maggie Cooney, of St. Louie,
Fatally.

Paris, Tex, March ga north
bound st. Louis & San Francisco pas
senger train which left Paris two hours
late, encountered a burned bridge Fri
day afternoon, south of Arthur City,
ditching a chair car and two sleeping
cars, and partly derailing a smoking
car.
Miss Maggie Cooney, maid to Mrs.
Frank P. Hayes, of 1888 West Pine
boulevard, st. Louis, is dead, and the
following were injured:
Mrs. H. Peyton Moberly, Springfield,
Mo-; left hip sprained.
d. T. Killam, Lincoln county, Mo-.
bruised calf of left leg.
Eugene Ogilvy, St. Clair county,
ILL.,; shoulder sprained.
Mrs. Louisa Smith, Wilburton, I. T.;
injured In hip.
S. M. Wilbur, Paris, scalp wound.
L. o. Livesay, Frisco claim agent;
right arm and right knee sprained.
Miss Cooney died at a Paris hos
pital Friday night.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
WITH KNIVES TO THE DEATH.
Desperate Duel Fought by Two Men
Maddened with Liquor, at
Plum Run, o.

Steubenville, o., March 25.-A knife
duel to the death was fought by John
Dobinsky and John Slate, miners, at
Plum Run, Friday. The men, mad
dened by liquor, agreed to settle a
grievance with knives.
Stripping to the waist in a large
room they began to fight. Each thrust
of the knives that caused blood to
squirt was cheered by the loungers
who looked on. The men grew weaker
and weaker from the loss of blood and
fell. On the floor the men clinched
and sank their knives into each others
bodies as long as strength lasted. Do
binsky died stretched helpless on the
floor. Slate lived till night. Nearly
30 gashes appeared on each body.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
DESIRES PEACE,
NOT ARMED TRUCE
One of the Conditions Japan is Like
ly to Insist Upon.
RUSSIA MUST GIVE A PLEDGE
Must Build No More Warships For q
Term of Years, and Must Not
Back on Only to Come
Again Later.

Paris, March 27.-It is stated in
diplomatic quarters here that among
the conditions of peace which Japan
might ask would be that Russia give
a pledge to build no more warships
for a term of years. A diplomatic Of
fetal said that such a condition would
be the most effective mea of assur-
ing Japan against Russia's carrying out
her cherished project of naval rearma-
ment for the renewal of hostilities I'M
der better conditions than those at
present existing.
Would Check Russin's Plans.
1t is well known that Russia con-
templates a huge plan OF naval re-
Mobilization. Admiral Doubasoff, the
head of the technical board of the adj
miralty; Capt. Clado, formerly chief
tactical officer under Vice-Admiral
R~ojestvensky, and other Russian naval
authorities, recently have taken the
position that peace was desirable until
a naval reconstruction could be COM
pleted.
This appears to have stimulated ia
pans diplomats to consider means OF
avoiding a peace that would be equiva-
lent to no more than a truce, during
which Russia would have time to forge
an effective weapon, and therefore the
intimation is now given that limitation
of Russian naval armament may figure
as a means of securing prolonged
peace in the orient.
Peace Pour Par1ers Only Academic.
Concerning the recent preliminary
approaches towards peace, it is now
accepted in the highest diplomatic
quarters that these preliminary negoti-
atoms did not occur there, although
Paris may have been the channel
through which the results were trans
mitted to st. Petersburg and Toxic.
However, it is noticeable that there
has not been the slightest reference in
French newspapers to the peace move
ment having taken tangible form here
or elsewhere, except in continued
academic discussion of the peace prop
uganda and a few vague st. Peters,
burg dispatches showing that peace is
in the air. .
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
WILL CAMP IN THE OPEN.
President Roosevelt Intends to
Rough 1t During His Colo
RADIO Hunting Trip.

Colorado Springs, Col, March "a
Philip B. Stewart, who is arranging
the details of President Roosevelt's
hunting trip in the White River coun-
try next month, has received a letter
from Secretary Loeb stating that there
had been no change in the presidents
plans to visit Colorado.
Mr.. Stewart says the president ex-
poets to live entirely in the open if
the weather during his visit to Colo
RADIO is at all favorable.
THE president" continued MIR.
Stewart, will spend his days in the
saddle and his nights in a sleeping
bag wrapped in a rubber blanket"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
NEWFOUNDLAND HITS BACK.
American Fishing Vessels to be Re-
fused Licenses to Procure Bait
in Colonial Waters.

st. Johns, N. F., March 24.-The
Newfoundland government has or
dered the customs collectors through
out the island to refuse American
fishing vessels licenses to procure bait
in colonial waters, the government in
tending to introduce legislation at the
session of the legislature opening next
week to enforce the bait act against
Americans as stringently as it is now
enforced against the French, because
the American senate burked the Bond
Hay treaty. The advocates of retalia-
ton against Americans claim they can
make the crusade as effective against
Gloucester as they have already made
it against st. Pierre.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
COUNTRY'S OLDEST. NEGRO.
Cyrus ~Greenleaf, COlored, an In
mate OF Illinois Soldiers Home,
Claims to BE 1913.

Quincy, ILL.,, March 2S.-Cyrus Green
leaf, colored, an inmate of the state
soldiers home, claims the distinction
of being the Oldest man in the United
States. He says he was born in North
Carolina. in 1776, where he was held
as a slave until the civil war, when he
Joined the northern army. At the close
Of the war he went to Tennessee, where
he made his living picking cotton I'M
til he sought the Illinois soldiers
home. Authorities at the home re-
ceived his story with some allowance,
but the records show that when he
was admitted, in 1893, his age was
placed at Ill years, which would now
make his age 1923 years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
NOTED MISSOURI CHARACTER
Col. Ashley w. Ewing, Confederate
Veteran, Statesman and Lawyer,
Passes Into the BEYOND.

Jefferson City, Mo-, March 24.-Col.
Ashley w. Ewing, a famous Missouri
character, died at his home here at the
age of 6S years. He was in the con
federate army with distinction, and
represented Cole county in the legisla-
ture in 1876. For 20 years he was COM
missioner of permanent seat of gov
eminent at the state capital. He was
for years city attorney of this munio,
ipality and served one term as mayor.
Although a lawyer of acknowledged
ability, he practiced but little, and
then only when his personal interest
was involved.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
DESIRES OUR FRIENDSHIP.
Measures Being Taken for Cordial
Relations Between Colombia
and United States.

New York, March 27.-Importanl
measures are being taken toward a def
mite re-establishment of cordial rela-
lions between Colombia and the Uased
States, cables the Bogota, Colombia,
correspondent of the Herald.
By a definite, mutual and sa~tisfac-
tory arrangement, a settlement has
been effected of long pending claims Of
Americans in Cartagena, in which Bos-
ton capitalists are largely interested.
President Reyes is sparing no efforts,
the correspondent AYERS, to induce for
eign capitalists to cooperate in foster
ing Colombia's prosperity. Peace is sta
BILE throughout the country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
TO MEET THE COMPETITION.
The Chicago & Alton to Inauguratc
Interurban Service to Compete
With Electric Lines.

Chicago, March 2S.-Beginning
April /, the Chicago & Alton railroad
will inaugurate a service to meet com
petition of electric lines between Chi.
cago and st. Louis. Special trains
consisting of a small steam locomotive
and combination coach and smoking
car, seating 100 passengers, will be
run every hour between Pontiac and
Bloomington, 35 miles, and Pontiac
and Dwight, IS miles. To facilitate
this service platforms have been erect
ed, and stops will be made at every
public road crossing. The service will
be extended to other parts of the Alton
line when the double track south of
Bloomington and Springfield has been
completed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

Col. William Cornell Greene, we'll
known as a successful m~ineralogist
and president of the Green Consoli-
dated Copper Co., is of distinguished
colonial and revolutionary ancestry.
He was born in Westminster county,
N. Y, in 1851, and at the age
of 16 entered business in New York
City. Three years later he went to
the far west, and for many years en-
gagged in mining and cattle raising.
He located valuable copper mines and
amassed wealth. He is the largest
landowner in the world, possessing
1,7O0, 900 acres. with 100000 cattle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
TRYING THEIR NEW GUNS.
The Guns Recently Bought In
France Are Being Used for
Drill by VenezueIans.

Willemstad, March 27.-It is said
that President Castro is still living
near Marscay, where dancing and 9TH
er festivities take place every night.
All the guns lately bought. in France
are being used for drill and target
practice. The two big guns just
mounted at La Guayra were fired for
two hours in the direction of Cano
BlancO.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE.
The Anaeuser-Busch Brewing Co.
Suffers n Second Heavy Loss
Within Five Weeks.

st. Louis, March 27.-Fire destroyed
the freight depot of the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing association, located on
the east side of Broadway, between
Pestalozzi and Arsenal streets, Sunday
afternoon, entailing a loss of about
$100, 600. The blaze was discovered at
$3.50 p. M, and within thirty minutes
the roof had fallen in. The principal
items in the estimate of the loss are:
The building, valued at $25, 200; 5000
bags of rice, $4,000; II refrigerator
cars on sidetracks, $25, 500; office fur
niture, 81, 800; % refrigerator cars
damaged $3.50, and 200 tons of hay
burned, 81, 500.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
THE M'KlNLEY MEMORIAL
The Contract to BE Let and Work
on the Monument begun by
June 1 Next.

Canton, o., March 23.-Architect
Magonigle reports to Secretary Hart
zell, of the Mckinley National Mem
orial association, that he has COM
pleted the revised plans for the Nc
Kinley monument. These will be sub
mitted to seven contractors, who are
to be ready to report about April l. A
meeting of the trustees of the Nc
Kinley Memorial association is to be
held in New York May 1, at which
time the contract for the monument is
to be let. Secretary Hartzell says work
will be commenced on the monument
by June /.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

Skunk farms are revolutionizing the
fur market. Thirty years ago to call
a mar a skunk meant that he was
about as foul a creature as walked
the earth. But Mister Skunk is nov
a diligent article of commerce, and
the women are wearing him on their
lovely necks. He is convertible into
all kinds of precious furs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

The will Of Catherine MCGOWAN, Of
fered for probate in the orphans
court, Baltimore, provides that Messrs.
Patrick O'Mara, George Hi5bits, John
Hibbits, Thomas Hibbits, Peter Thurrl
and George MCGOWAN shall be asked
to serve as her pallbearers, and that
they be paid SO apiece for SC acting.
The will leaves several sums to relig.
ious and charitable purposes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
JAps EXPECTED AT sAKHALIN.
They Are Expected to Land Within
h Next Week or Two.

1hC LhEC AHARS>tSN
the Next Week OF Two.
St. Petersburg, March 27.-According
to government mail advices brought
to the mainland from Sakhalin and
telegraphed from Kharbarovsk, the
Japanese were expected to land at
Korsakovsk within a fortnight, the
port being free from ice in April. The
Russians are not in a position to re-
sist, the whole force on the island be-
ing less than 1000 soldiers and prison
guards. There are 5000 convicts in
the penal camps, the remainder of the
population, consisting Of 5000 natives
and 5000 time-expired convicts, with
women and children, who have settled
on the island. The prospect that the
convicts may be landed on the main
land, in the vicinity of Vladivostok, by
the Japanese. is considered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

The system practiced for obtaining
rubies in the mining districts in Bur
nah is of the most primitive descrip-
ton, says the Search Light. The min.
ing shafts are simply holes about two
feet square, sunk to a depth varying
up to fifty or sixty feet The snoring
I'D of the walls of the shaft is most
crude, the sides being supported by
posts at the corners and branches Of
small trees secured carefully against
the sides by means of stout sticks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
That law Ices not make a county

That law does not make a county
seat in Dakota "a demonstrated
when the Walworth county court
house was stolen-records, building
and ALTO be sequestered II the town
of Selby, where it still remains under
guard. In the meantime attorneys Of
the Walworth county bar do not know
whether to transact their business at
Bangor, the legal seat of government,
or at Selby, where the records and
buildings are.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
No Change of Position.

ST. Petersburg, March 27.-Gen
Linevitch, in a dispatch dated March
25, reports no change in the position
of the armies.
An imperial order relieves Gen. Grip
enberg from the command of the sec
ond Manchurian army, but permits him
to remain as aide-de-camp to the en-
peror.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

Galveston ranks first a. a wheat
port, having exported one-third OF the
total amount Of wheat exported in the
United States by water or rail, sec
ond in cotton-seed products, third in
total bread stuffs, and fourth in live
stock. The total value of her exports
to foreign countries last year amount
ed to $144, 997, 1888, a gain over last
yea- of $40, $3.50. The total number
of vessels entering and clearing the
port for 1904 was 1,497, representing
a tonnage Of 3~,452,536, as against
1,340 vessels with a tonnage Of 3,049i-
903 for 1903.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
THEY 0UARRELED OVER LAND
Isaac SaiIer Shot and Instantly
Killed by James BIce After u
Quarrel at Swan. Ia.

Des Moines, O., March pas a re-
suit of a quarrel over some land,
James Blee shot and instantly killed
Isaac Sailer, a half-brother, at Swan,
Ia, near here. Blee drove to the home
of his brother, and was talking to him
about the land when, he claims, Sailer
reached for his gun. Blee warned him
not to use it, and at the same time
seized his own Winchester and fired
point blank, The entire top of the
mans head was blown off. Blee is I'M
der arrest. The dead man was 43 years
of age.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
OMNIBUS QUIET AT FRONT.
No Collisions RepOrted-Nurses Have
Good Words for Japanese.

No Collisions RepOrted-Nurses nave
GoOd ord for Japanese.
Gunshu Pass, March 27.-Everywhere
along the front there is complete and
ominious quiet. No collisions were
reported Sunday. A nurse arriving
from Mukden states that the reports
by Chinese of ~ill-treatment of Russian
sick and wounded after the evacuation
of Mukden are entirely %unfounded.
The Japanese treated all who fell into
their hands in the most kindly man
ner, and gave the nurses permission
to return to the Russian army, saying
there were no women of that avocation
with the advanced column. They pro-
vided the nurses with credentials, in
dicated the roads by which they might
travel, and warned them that they
might be under fire west Of the rail-
a Several doctors, sisters and at
tendants remained with the wounded
at Mukden.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

st, Louis, March 2S.-Patrick Cos.
grove fell dead in the kitchen at his
home. 3027 Biddle, soon. after return
ing from mass. His wife had stopped
a few minutes to gossip, and when she
entered her home found Mr.. Cosgrove
dead r - .0N