Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-23

fly Mr.. Clarkson to an unusual de-
gree for presenting the Alsop
Process to millers and instructing
them in its installation and use."
Deputy Sheriff Ricard of st.
Francois county, accompanied by
the notorious Joe Bone, the con-
fessed robber and thief, were in
our town, and surrounding country
a couple of days this week. Bone
had told the officers that part of
the stolen plumber was being cared
for by a man living about fifteen
miles from Centre vile. At the
time Ricard and Bone arrived in
town, Deputy Sheriff Howell was
just in the act of starting to the
place of one Neidem, near Rose
Hill, EARNED with a search war;
rant) where it had been reported
there were some goods, supposed
to be a part of those stolen from
Flat River or Bismarck. AS soon
as Mr.. Howell informed Ricard and
Bone of his intended trip, they
said they would 60, too. 1t was at
this time that Bone spoke to Ricard,
saying: "That's the place; that's
where I've been telling you the
goods are" But after they arriv-
ed at Neidem's residence they vel
all very readily convinced that the
goods were not those stolen from
Bismarck or Flat River. They re-
turned to Centreville and remained
over night. Ricard and his "bird"
departed the next morning for
Pennington, via East Fork, where
he (Bone) said in his first confess
sion, that the stolen goods were
deposited in Weeks cave. Bone
says that if he a strike the trail
followed by those who accom-
panied him when the ''loot" was
conveyed to the cave, he can fol-
low it to where the goods are now
being concealed. Bone, in our
opinion, knows all about where
these goods are, when and where
they yer concealed, and every
little detail appertaining thereto,
but to divulge their hiding place
would probably put someone other
than himself in a close place. He
undoubtedly is screening some
one who is near and dear to him,
or someone of whom he is afraid,
one who he thinks would take his
life.-Reymolds County Outlook.
The first common law marriage
that ever occurred in this county,
and in Southeast Missouri as far
as we are aware, took place here
last Thursday afternoon, Mack
Minor and Miss Martha E. Smith
being the contracting parties. The
bride is the daughter of John
Smith, now serving a six months
term in the county Jail for cruelty
whipping her last fall. The bride
being under age, it was necessary
to secure the paternal consent be-
fore a license could be secured,
but, this, he refused to give unless
she would. admit that the testimony
she gave at the time of his con-
viction was false. AS she was
bent on matrimony, and not on a
trip to Jefferson City, she very
emphatically declined to accept
the conditions imposed. Several
trips were made to the county
bastile, but the old man remained
as immovable as the bars through
which he had gazed for the past
three months. But Glove laughs
at locksmiths," and, in this in
stance, at the locked Smith and
all the other Smiths. After re-
freshing the elmer man. on a
hearty meal of cheese and crack
ers, they hied themselves to the
office of Attorney R. I. January,
where between tears and bushes
and shivers (superinduced by
dampened hopes and too much
cheese) they laid bare their
troubles. That gentleman, whose
sympathies are ever aroused by
the least evidence of suffering or
want, vowed by the shade of
Blackstone that there were other
ways of killing a cat beside chok-
ing it to death. After reading a
decision of the supreme court and
a few sections from the road law,
he proceeded to draw up a contract
for a common law marriage. Mr..
Minor and Miss Smith then APP
peared before the hymenal altar,
hastily improvised out of a table
in the county clerks office-and
with the assistance of the attorney
and witnesses, proceeded to cir
cumvent the law. MI. Minor plead
guilty to being twenty-nine years
of age, of sound mind, and pos
sessed of a yearning to become the
son-in-law of the man who was at
that moment looking through the
window at the proceedings from
between the bars of the county
Jail. Miss Smith admitted that
she was only fourteen years old,
but manifested a desire, not to say
a blushing anxiety, to remain a
Minor the rest of her days. After
repeating the words of the con-
tract and making their marks,
which were duly attested by
several county officers in good
standing, they were pronounced
man and wife by the officiating
minister" In the cool of the
evening they departed for their
future home in the north part of
the county in the neighborhood
that abounds in caves and stolen
goods and st. Francois county
sheriffs. And the crowd went it's
several ways, thoroughly con-
WINGED that there is always "some-