Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-21

petition of the citizens of Ironton
for a new station building there,
this department is in receipt of a
letter this morning from General
Manager Sullivan of the st. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern, in
which he says: 1T is our inten-
ton to build a new depot at IRON
ton early next year-as soon as the
weather conditions will permit of
the work being undertaken, and
plans are now in preparation there
for. We have done a very large
amount of work in the direction of
station building and other i'm
provements during the present
year, and the Ironton station will
be reached early next spring.
The commissioners desire me to
say that they are glad the citizens
of Ironton are to be accommodated
with a new station, and they hope
ii will add beauty to the town.
Yours, Truly,
7. M. BRADBURY, Sec'y."
The REGISTER gives you hearty
greeting ga Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year!" and
prays' for this to each and every
reader. l do not set this down
perfunctorily and because it is the
rule to mouth the benson from
custom, with no more heart in it
than attaches to the formal "My
Dear Madam" overlapping a dun
or a tax receipt. No, | mean ga
Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year. to you, and you, and
you! Why should | not voice it
in sincerity? Are we not COM
rades? Have we not rejoiced to-
gether, mourned in common, as
sisted one another, disputed, en-
treated, advised, rebuked? We
know each others failings, but will
not therefore overlook the good
that atones for them. In this sea-
son of goodwill" when all that
is best in man is revivifed by
faith and custom, l pity the one
who cannot honestly and fervently
cry, with Tiny Tim, "God bless us
everyone!" and | hope he is far
without the circle of my acquaint-
ance. The REGISTERS greeting
goes far and wide, for there is
hardly a State or Territory in this
broad Union to which it does not
extend. OF the friends it has
known for nearly two-score years,
many now abidein lands far away,
and it is it's pride that it is one of
the ties which bind their memories
to the old home. May these lines,
where they meet the eyes of those
distant readers recall to them the
scenes they used to know and
spring a passing thought for the
friends they loved of yore. Then
| Fill to the brim with the rich ruby wine
Pressed from the grape, for It's given to
cheer!
Quaff to the toast-'tis yours and It's mine
"Here's A Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year!"
Arthur j. Yonker, the station
agent of the Rock Island road at
| Union, Mo-, who stole a mail
pouch September Sd, pleaded
guilty to the cargo of mail robbery
in the United States district court
yesterday and was sentenced to
seven months in the Iron county
jail. The light sentence was due
to recommendations for leniency
made by District Attorney Dyer
and POST Office Inspector A.. D..
Bunsen. Judge ,.Finkelnburg COM
mented on the charge as being a
grave offense, and said that the
position of the district attorney in
the matter was all that saved the
defendant from going to the peni-
tertiary. Inspector Bunsen stated
to the court that he had reached
the conclusion that Yonkers was
mentally unbalanced at times.
The inspector is inclined to view
Yorker as a man with a dual per-
sonaiity. His case has become
known to the st. Louis inspectors
as that of the cdr. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde man" Yorker persisted
from the day of his arrest that he
had not stolen the pouch, and it
was with the greatest difficulty
that he was induced to entera plea
of guilty. The evidence was all
against him, and letters taken from
the pouch we're found in the grip
he was carrying when arrested at
the depot waiting for a train on
which he was going to leave Union.
Yorker had been on a protracted
spree, and the theory of Inspector
Bunsen is that he took the pouch
and riled it and remembered moth
ing of what he had done afterward.
The robbery was not discovered
until after he was arrested by the
railroad company for misappro-
priating an express money pack
age. He acknowledged taking the
express package and vas given a
'short sentence in jail. Yorker
lived at Kansas City, Kan, before
coming to Union. He formerly
had money, and was prominent in
politics some years ago in Dakota,
where he was a member of the ter
ritorial Legislature several terms
Globe-D Democrat.
Before buying your Christmas