Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30


the talk in army circles through
out the country. He has charged
that he was the victim of a CON-
spiracy among several of his SUI
perior officers. On two occasions
Lieut.. Mohn has been courtmar-
tailed and both findings were
against him. In each instance he
had written letters to military au-
thorities which were deemed by
other officers as rejecting upon
them. In February, Lieut.. Mohn
was fined 5000 and the loss of 90
files for a letter he had written
commenting upon an argument
which had arisen over a failure of
a soldier to shoot at the range, for
which Mohn was blamed. This
letter was termed by Capt. Slocum
to be "impertinent and untrue"
Mohn demanded that Slocum be
tried for this statement, but in
stead Mohn was tried and fined.
He appealed over the courtmartial
to the President, who ordered a
court of inquiry to investigate
Mohn's charges that he was the
victim of a conspiracy. The court
| findings we're for the dismissal of
Mohn. The Presidents approval
is reported in the news dispatches.
Lieut.. Mohn was a trooper in the
regular cavalry and won his COM
mission in competitive examina-
| ton after service in the Philip
pines. He has charged that West
Point officers were in league
againt him."
From an Exchanges: "Since the
fall pasture has lost what little
attraction it ever had for the town
COW, she has become a greater
nuisance than ever. The last
municipal election showed the
town cow that she had a safe ma
jority behind her, and her depre-
dations have become almost in
tolerable. The town COW is no
beauty. Hell hide would look well
in a lanyard and her tough old
carcass might be ground up,
canned and shipped to the Philip
pines. The untutored natives prob
ably could not distinguish between
it and real beef. The town COW is
worth at the most liberal estimate
S22.19 counting hide. horns and
bones; and she is mostly bones
and paunch, And this same beast,
with an intrinsic value of a little
over twenty dollars, has been
known in a single day to destroy
a thirty-five dollar fence, twenty
five dollars worth of trees and
shrubbery, chew up ten dollars
worth of family linen, break forty
dollars worth of plate glass front,
swipe a sack of flour out of a farm
wagon on the street, devour an
enormous quantity of potatoes,
cabbage and turnips in front OF
the stores, and then wind up the
days festivities by giving down,
after a patient and laborious
struggle on the part of the owner,
three and one-half ounces of the
bluest kind of milk. The town
COW has the protection of the law
and you have no recourse. If she
breaks down your fence, build it
up again. She will probably
break it down again next day;
but keep on building. If she de-
stroys your flowers and shrubbery,
plant for her to destroy. If she
reaches up and yanks your only
shirt off the clothes line and re-
duces it to pulp, buy another shirt.
or keep your coat buttoned up tc
the top button. Her appetite fol
shirts must be respected. If ar
ordinary citizen trespasses on your
premises and so much as lifts his
hands against your property you
can shoot him and the law will
protect you. If the town COW tres
passes on your premises and you
iniure one hair of her measly ole
hide the marshal will deliver yor
to the mayor and it will be better
for you if a milestone were hanged
about your neck and you were
cast into the middle of the sea-
all of which proves that it is mucl
better to be a COW than an ordinar,
citizen. Let US hope and pra,
; that the time will come when tn
law will remove it's protection from
: the town COW and the butcher vii
, remove her hide"