Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-01-26

Mrs. Allen will go to Graniteville,
Mo-, whore the bridegroom has
charge of granite quarries and
where they expect to make their
home.-St. Louis Republic.
The following telegraphed from
Washington, D. c., under date of
January 10Th, appeared in Fridays
Globe Democrat: "Politte Elvins,
the special messenger charged
with delivering the electoral vote
of the state of Missouri, arrived in
Washington to-day and performed
his mission. Tomorrow he will
call on President Roosevelt, to
whom he will be introduced by Rep
r~esentative Bartholdt of st. Louis
Mrs. Elvins accompanies her hus-
band and they are stopping at the
New Willard hotel. They will call
at the White House at 10 O'Clock
tomorrow morning with Mr..
Bartholdt. Nh. Elvins delivered
the electoral vote to the president
pro tempore of the Senate, who will
announce it to-morrow Immediate
ly after the reading of the journal.
He received a certificate for his
mileage, which is % cents each
way. Mr.. Elvins and wife will
probably remain in Washington
sight-seeingfo for two or three days"
James Harris, who up to a few
weeks ago made his home at Gran
iteville, this county, was involved
in a fatal shooting ARRAY in St.
Francois county last week. The
following is taken from the last is
sue of the Lead Belt News: ga
shooting affair in the rear of
Smiths saloon at Elvins Wednes-
day afternoon resulted in the in
slant killing OF Dan Sparks and
the probably fatal wounding of
Jim Harris. Sparks was a barber
at Elvins and had a good reputa-
ton. Harris is a member of the
family already noted in the Har-
is-Dooley feud. The trouble
came about, so far as we can learn,
by Sparks attempting to take a re-
volver away from Tasting Parks.
The latter was drinking, and about
to get into trouble with some one.
Harris interfered between Parks
and Sparks and the latter shot
Harris in the left breast, the ball
passing through the lung. Sparks
then ran, and Harris pulled his re-
volver and shot him three times.
one of the balls taking effect in
the back of the head, and killing
him instantly. Harris was remov-
ed to DR.. Perkins Office, and later
to his home near Elvins. Sparks
leaves a wife and three or four
children, who are to be pitied in
this unfortunate affair"
From some rumors which came
floating over this way it seems that
trouble is in store for somebody in
regard to matters and things at
Asylum No. A. We are told that
a part of the board of directors has
been doing some scheming with
some outside parties in regard to
some of the buildings, and these
same members of the board of
directors had played a pretty
clever scheme to retain their po-
sitions, but whether they will do
it or not lies in the power of Gov
ernor Folk. 1t is said that certain
parties went to Gov. Dockery and
asked him to re-appoint certain
members of this board of direc-
tors; this he did, and then asked
for a senate committee to lay these
matters before and for them to
confirm, but this committee did
not do this because they knew
that these appointments would not
be approved by the senate as a
body. This Of itself does not look
right, but when an architect and
builder says he can put up a barn,
just exactly like the one on the
asylum grounds, and which cost
the state $4,000, for So, 100, there
seems to be something else wrong.
We are not giving the above for
facts, but as rumor. If such
rumors are afloat it is high time
the governor or the legislature
investigate a little. And, too, we
are told that the junketing COM
mittee is going to make an un-
favorable report of their visit to
the institution last fall. All indi-
cations are that there will be some
thing doing in the affairs of Asy-
lum Number Four.-Hondale Ga
zette.
The REGISTER two weeks ago
copied an item from the Lead Belt
News, concerning the arrest of Joe
Bone on suspicion of his having
been implicated in a recent rob
berry at Flat River. The Reynolds
Outlook of last week furnishes some
additional facts in reference to
him: "Joe Bone, who was arrest
ed at Flat River a few days since
for carrying a gun, while in jail
made a confession duplicating
others with himself in the robbery
of Norwine's store near Flat River
some time last summer. There
were some six or eight hundred
dollars worth of goods taken. The
goods yer hauled away in wag-
on's, and, Bone says in confessing,
they were brought to Big Brushy
in the northwestern part of our
county and there slowed away for
safe keeping. After Bone had
made the confession Sheriff Croke
sent four of his most trusted dep
uties down to our town, and in
company of Sheriff Jordan and
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