Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-12-06

Ipletely destroyed. The furniture
was about all carried out of the
house and damaged very much.
No insurance on the building, but
5000 on the furniture.
Several new telephones have
been put in on Cedar Creek and it
was several days before Belleview
was cut of from the Cedar Creek
division and as a result the service
was miserable. The people on
the other line have the same rings
as Belleview, and as a result when
the bell would ring you wonld not
know whether it was you or the
other fellow that was wanted,
thereby causing much confusion.
There seems to be general dis
satisfaction here in regard to the
telephone, anyway. When the
patrons OF the telephone here took
a phone, it was with the under
standing that they would COM
plete the line on to the railroad and
the granite quarries at once. 1t
has been almost a year since the
phones were put in here and no.
move toward the extension of the
line yet. Several of the patrons
here have expressed themselves
that in case of no improvement
when their year is out, out goes
the phone. The Bonner is no
''knocker," but we believe Belle
view should have better telephone
service.-BelEeUiew Banner. y
The State Historical Society of
Missouri has just issued the first
number of the Missouri Historical
Review, a quarterly publication of
the Society. The contents include
the following articles of interest
and value on various phases of the
history of the west and of Mis-
souri,: The Romance of Western
History, by Professor E. G. Bourne
of Yale University; Thomas Hart
Benton, by Judge T. J.. G. Fagg of
Pike county; The Beginnings of
Missouri Legislation, by DR.. Isidor
Loeb of Columbia; Early settle
|ments in Missouri, by Professor
E.. M. Violette Of Kirksville; Gene
alogy of the Lincoln, Hanks, and
Boone families, by President H.
E. Robinson of Maryville; Bib
biography Of Official Publications
of Missouri in 1906, by Mr.. F. A.
Sampson, Secretary of the Society.
There are also Notes and News as
to historical societies, etc. The
purpose of the publication is to
stimulate an interest in the history
of the State and in the preserva-
ton Of historical material and to
furnish an opportunity for the
publication of papers on ~allaspects
of the history and development of
Missouri. The Review is sent to
all members of the Society. Any
person may become a member
upon application to the secretary,
Mr.. F. A. Sampson, Columbia,
Missouri, and the payment of the
annual subscription of S1.00.
Through his attorneys, Abbing-
ton & Stanley, Sam M. Phillips,
James M. Orchard of this city and
James A. Reed of Kansas City,
Geo. G. Orchard, county clerk and
former publisher of the Citizen, has
fled suit for damages against the
st. Louis Globe Democrat, says the
Poplar Bluff Citizen, in which he
asks for 100000 punitive damages
to his character, ON account of an
article he alleges the Globe Demo-
crat published in its paper in No
vember, 1904. The article which
is alleged to have been Of such
damaging consequences to Mr..
Orchard, was published in the
Globe Democrat just prior to the
election two years ago, in which it
claimed that Mr.. Orchard, Sam M.
Phillips, E. l.. Arlington and r. H.
Stanley had formed a collision
with Lewis Bollinger,a worthless
Niger, in which he was to deliver
the niger vote OF the city for MI.
Phillips, who was at that time a
candidate for the Office of repre-
sentative in the legislature, in re-
turn for which the above named
gentlemen were to procure a par
don from Governor Dockery for
Willis Bulliner, who at that time
was serving a term in the peni-
Tertiary upon his plea of guilty to
having robbed the Butler County
Bank of a large sum of money.
The article was sent to the Globe
Democrat from Poplar Bluff a day
or two before the election, with the
intention to influence the niggers
against the Democratic nominee
for representative. Mr.. Phillips
was defeated and Mr.. Orchard
claims to have suffered great
mental anguish and personal an
noyance from the publication of
the article, and thereby asks that
his feelings be paciied with APP
plication Of balm in the shape Of
5000, 900 in cold cash and such
other and further relief as to the
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