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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
WHITE SLAVERY IN CHICAGO
One of Them. Who Tried to Hang
Herself. Declares There Are Three
Thousand In the City.

Chicago.-According to the story of
Alice Wilson, aged "a, who tried to
hang herself in a cell at the Harrison
Street station, Thursday, there are
more than three thousand white slaves
in Chicago, and almost every saloon,
where women c~ongregate, is a slave
den.
The woman, who was arrested on a
Charge of disorderly conduct, claims
the saloon men pursue their slaves to
the death if the women try to break
away and lead better lives.
%Improvising a rope out of strips torn
from a shirt waist, Miss Wilson, who
was once the wife of a merchant,
broken-hearted over her arrest on a
charge of d~isorderly conduct, tried to
commit suicide by hanging. Mrs. Har-
rison, the matron, discovered her and
cut her down.
"There is no justice for u.s." declared
the young woman after she had been
revived, 81 am a white slave"
Then she told the pitiful story OF the
white slaves and declared there was an
organized band Of slave traders in the
city, who pay from $100 to $500 for
each woman who can be induced to
loiter in the saloons.
The police are investigating.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE
VERDICT AGAINST VAUGHAN,
RYAN AND RAYMOND.
The Three Missouri COnvicts Who
Committed Murder In an Attempt e
( O Escape To Hang.

Jefferson City, Mo.-The three con-
yicts Vaughan, Ryan and Raymond
were declared guilty of murder in the
first degree by a jury in the Cole coun-
ty circuit court, which returned its
verdict Thursday. Sentence of death
will be passed on all by Judge Martin.
All were convicted of the murder of
John Clay, penitentiary guard, killed in
the dash which they and Convict Blake
made from the prison in November
last.
The men were taken to the sheriff S
office shortly before nine o'clock, and
promptly at that hour were taken into
the courtroom. In anticipation of the
verdict, they were guarded by seven
men. As they entered the courtroom a
guard held the arm of each convict
Other guards were before and behinc
each man.
The prisoners were not shackled OF
handcuffed. They were seated in a row
with guards between and one at eact
end of the row.
The men stood up as the clerk reat
the verdict. The expression of theil
faces did not change as the clerk real
the words which meant death for then
all, When the verdict was read the,
sat down without saying a word o
looking to the right or the left.
There was a slight mistake in tn
wording of the verdict, and the jury re
tired to correct it. While this was be
ing done the men remained in tn
courtroom, sitting between the sever
guards.
The three men were sentenced to b
hanged April 20, but an appeal takel
to the supreme court will insure them
respite till next fall at least,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
PLOT NlPPED IN THE BUD
Alleged to Have Been Preparing
to Release Federal COnyicts.

Atlanta, Ga.-Wednesday the police
of Atlanta have arrested, in a cheap
hotel near the federal prison, nine men,
who, it is alleged by the police, were
preparing to carry out a plot to dyna-
mite the penitentiary in an effort to
release certain criminals undergoing
long sentences.
The men all gave fictitious names. One
of them has been identified by the
warden of the penitentiary as a des-
perate western outlaw, who has a"pal'
in the prison doing time for train rob-
berry.
Warden Meyer says he had informa-
ton some days ago that there was a
plot to attack the prison, and since
then the guard has been increased.
Warden Meyer says the men under ar
rest are nearly all from Oklahoma and
Indian territory.
A woman has appeared in the case,
said to be the wife of n of the con-
victs. She visited the prison as a
stranger and learned how the place was
arranged. She has not so far been To-
Gated by the police.
The nine suspects are in the county
jail. When arrested they had a large
outfit Of dynamite, nitroglycerin and
fuse. They were all heavily armed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
BILL FOR ONE NEW STATE
The Senate Strikes Out All the Pro-
visions Relating to Arizona
and New Mexico.

Washington, D.. Con Friday
5:35 p. M. the senate passed a bill for
the admission of a new state to be
called Oklahoma and to be composed
OF the territory of Oklahoma and In
dian territory. 1t was the house joint
statehood bill with all the provisions
relating to Arizona and New Mexico
stricken out. The motion to striks out
was made by Mr.. Burrows, and it was
carried by the close vote of 81 to 35,
after having been lost by the still
closer vote of 80 to Sc.
The vote on statehood came as the
climax of a day devoted exclusively to
that bill. Most of the time was given
to discussion, but the voting on the bill
and amendments consumed an hour
and a half. The speech making excited
comparatively little interest, but there
was pronounced excitement throughout
the voting period, aad it eliminated
when the success Of the motion to
eliminate Arizota and New Mexico
was announced after the second vote
on that proposition.
The test vote, upon which the OPP
ponents of joint statehood showed their
greatest strength, was on the For
aker amendment, which provided
that Arizona and New Mexico
should have an opportunity to vote
separately on the proposition Of joint
statehood, This was carried by a vote
of AZ "a %.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
THE STEUNENBERG MURDER
Meyer, Haywood, P~ettibOne and Jack
Simpkins Formally Indicted
at Caldwell, Idaho.

Boise, Idaho.-Grand jury indictments
were formally returned, Friday, at
Caldwell, against the alleged murderers
of ex-Gov. Frank Steunenberg.
Meyer, Haywood, Pettibone and Jack
Simpkins are indicted jointly, being
charged with having murdered Frank
Steunenberg. There is in the indict-
ment no mention of tie Western Fed
Grafton Of Miners nor any charge of
conspiracy. So far as the Indictment
shows, each is accused of having per-
sonally participated in the crime
charged.
The Indictment contains three counts,
all of a similar nature. The gist of the
| charges is that the accused men placed
a deadly box or bomb, filled with giant
powder, caps, sulphuric acid and other
explosives at the gate in front of Frank
S~teunenberg's residence with the inten-
tion of killing him. One count charges
the actual numbering of S%teunenberg by
causing the bomb to explode as Steun-
enberg was entering his yard.
The names of 20 witnesses, including
Harry Orchard, who has confessed to
his part in the crime, are Endorsed on
the indictment.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

POSSE OF DEPUTY MARsHALs
FALL INTO A TRAP.
Three Out of Six and All Their
Horses Killed BY Wickline Gang
i'm Indian Territory.

Vinita. l. T. United States
Marshal William H. Darrough has
been notified that, Sunday night
the Wicklife gang, fullblood Indian
desperadoes, ambushed a posse OF dep
uty marshaIs in the Spavinaw hills, on
Saline creek, nine miles northwest OF
Kansas, |. T.
The deputies had no chance to es-
cape. OF the six, three were killed.
The Dead.
Deputy Marshal /. l.. Gilstrap. =
Deputy Marshal Otis little.
Deputy Marshal Dick Terry.
The other possemen escaped.
Six horses were killed.
Marshal Darrough has asked the de-
partment of justice to authorize a
posse of 100 men.
The country in which the despera-
does are operating is a mountain sec
ton, very difficult to penetrate. The
desperadoes are aided by practically
the entire full-blood population. The
country to be searched is 40 by 10
miles in area.
It is reported here that many of the
full-bloods are joining the desperadoes,
and a desperate battle is expected be-
Gore the men are captured.
The Cherokee tribe, whose members
figured in the episode, is n of the
five civilized Indian nations, the others
being Seminoles, Choctaws, Creeks and
Chickasaws.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
THE FRENCH MINE HORROR
The Number of Deaths is Now PlRced
at 1900 to 1,300-A Scientific
Mine Theory Exploded

Paris.-The most reliable reports
from Courrieres as to the approximate
number of casualties in the great mine
disaster there Saturday give the figures
at between 1000 and 1900. 1t is prob
able that the exact number of those
who lost their lives will never be
known, owing to the fact that many
bodies probably were destroyed by the
fire which ragged through the mines.
The three shafts are guarded by mil
itary, and the rescue is being continued.
There is little hope, however.
M. DeHaynite, millionaire coal mer-
chant and leading authority in France
on the subject of mine construction, in
an interview ON the disaster, said:
1.-THE catastrophe marks the collapse
Of the scientific mining theory alleg-
ing that protection is furnished by
joining the galleries to allow means of
escape. With the old system Of single
or double galleries disasters are limited
to 200 or 300 casualties at the most"
The chamber of deputies unanimous
ly voted $4,000 for the relief Of the
victims of the risaster, and the Min
ers' association appropriated $4,000 for
the same purpose.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
WERE KILLED ON MT. DAJO
List of the United States Soldiers
Killed In the Recent Battle
With MorOs.

Manila, P. 1.-The following are the
names of IA ~privates who were killed in
the recent attack on Moro outlaws on
Mount Dajo.
Barsley Box, Lexington, Okla,
Edward Kilgore, Woodbcurne, Pa.
Thomas Harrison, Sand Hill, Tenn.
John Tomaszewski, Kingston, Pa.
Charles Banks, Ca3sonburg, England.
Louis Herr, Ontario, Can.
William Kelly, Paterson, N. ].
Robert Bastian, Sattoum-Germany.
Leo Calve, Miner, Idaho.
Charles Hoffer, unknown.
John Pfell, Bogue Chitto, Miss.
John Hines, Bridgeport, Conn.
Walter Hagedorn, Kingston, N. Y.
Henry Wreidt, Williamsport, N. Y.
Paul De Burk, Spokane; Wash.
John Shuler, Donnelly, Ky.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
NO DECISION YET REACHED
Secretary Taft Intimates That He
Has NOt Yet Been offered seat
On Supreme Bench.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of War
William HI. Taft has issued a statement
in reply to the report that he is to
be appointed to the supreme bench
of the United States to fill the va
cancy created by the retirement OF
Associate Justice Henry B. Brown,
and later, on the retirement of Chief
Justice Fuller, is to be made chief
Justice. Secretary Taft says:
81 am authorized by the president
to say that he has made no decision
as to the selection of anyone to sue
coed Associate Justice Brown. He
has been in consultation with Secre.
tary Root, Attorney-General Moody
and myself, the three lawyers of the
cabinet, in the matter, and no decision
has been reached"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
WILL Be NO WAR With CHINA
MAJ.-GEN. coRBIN TALKS ON
THE SITUATION.
The Reported Disturbances Have
been Greatly Exaggerated-Mis-
sionarfes Cause Trouble.

San Francisco.-There certainly
will be no war between the United
States and China" said Maj.-Gen. Hen
ry c. Corbin, upon his arrival from
the orient on the steamer Korea. so
far as / have been able to observe, the
reported disturbances in China have
been grossly exaggerated, and condi-
tons are not nearly SC alarming as ONT
would be led to suppose from reports
that have been published throughout
the western world.
THAT there have been disturbances
is quite true, but l do not think they
menace the peace of China and the
United States or any other nation
"The feeling against the Americans
in China does not exceed that enter
tanned toward all other foreigners, and
as | understand the situation the entire
anti-foreign feeling is due in a large
measure to the exploitation of business
enterprises which the Chinese feel
should be controlled by their own peo-
pie. There is a feeling against those
who have in various ways obtained,
through scheming and corrupt officials,
franchises and concessions.
aside from this chief ource of an
ti-foreign feeling, the troubles in China
are due to the presence of mission
aries. | was assured by a very prom
inent Chinese that the Chinese people
do not at all like the presence of for
eign missionaries. They resent the eff
forts of the missionaries to force a lot
of new creeds on their people"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
SUSAN B. ANTHONY DEAD
The Noted Champion OF Woman Suf-
frage Passed Peacefully Away
at Rochester, n. Y.

Rochester, N. Y.-The long, active
and eventfuI life of Susan B. Anthony
closed at 1910 o'clock Tuesday morn-
ing. The end came peacefully. Miss An
tiony had been unconscious practically
for "a hours, and her death had been
momentarily expected since Sunday
night. Only her wonderful constitu-
ton kept her alive.
DR.. M. E. Kicker, her attending ply
sician, said Mss Anthony died of heart
failure induced by double pneumonia
She had had serious valvular heart
trouble for the last six or seven years.
Her lungs were practically clear, and
the pneumonia had yielded to treat
ment, but the weakness Of her heart
prevented her recovery.
Miss Anthony was taken i'll while on
her way home from the national suf-
frage convention in Baltimore. She
stopped in New York, where a banquet
was to be given, February 20, in honor
of her eighty-sixth birthday, but had
an attack of neuralgia on the 18th and
fastened home. Pneumonia developed
after her arrival here, and on March 5
both lungs became affected.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
FOR FRIEND
President Roosevelt Cables Inquiry
Az to Lieut.. Johnston's Conditions
The Answer, "FIne,"

Washington.-Among the seriously
wounded in the battle CT Mt. Dajo- was
Lieut.. Gordon Johnston, formerly q
lieutenant in the presidents regiment.
The president sent him the following
cable:
Washington, ID. c.. March 10, 1906.
Lieut.. Gordon Johnston. Manila:
How are you?
[Signedl
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Sunday the president received the
following reply:
"The President, Washington-Fine,
thanks.
ISigned1 JOHNSTON"
Save for this cablegram from Lieut..
Gordon Johnston, the presidents Rough
Rider friend and a son of Gen. Robert
D.. Johnston, of Birmingham, Ala.
there were no advices received here
Sunday regarding the battle in the ISL
and of Jolo.
Gen. Ainsworth, the military secre-
tary, said that probably the list of cas-
ualties in that fight would not reach
Washington until about the 18th inst.
The 18th is the date at which the com-
handing officer in the Philippines usu-
ally transmits a list of casualties that
have taken place in those islands.
Latest reports of the casualties place
the Moro losses at nearly 900, many OF
whom were women and children, who
accompanied the male members OF the
hand into the fortified crater of Mt
Dajo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
AN ADDITIONAL DISASTER
A Rescue Party of Seventeen Men
Los Their Lives In the COur-
rieres COlliery.

Paris.-An additional and awful dis
aster following, Monday, upon the ter.
hible calamity that befell the workers
in the coal mine at Courrieres on Sat
urday, has cast its shadow over the
stricken town. A party, said to consist
Of II men, who went into the mine for
the purpose Of recovering the, bodies
of those who persisted on Saturday, lost
their lives in the undertaking. They
had descended in spite of the recognized
danger Of the attempt, and in the face
of the engineers warnings against
making a further effort.
Late in the day, after several hours
of ventilation Of pit No. 2, a party OF
Westphalian r%escuers, sent at the re-
quest of Emperor William, were au-
,thorized to descend. They succeeded in
penetrating a long distance and recov-
cred 200 bodies, which they brought up,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

Gen. James Shields had the unique
distinction of representing, at various
times in his career, three different
states in the United States senate.
Shields was born in Ireland, and
served through the Mexican war and
earned the brevet Of b~rigadier general.
He was elected to the United States
senate from Illinois. He served six
years and then removed to Minneso-
ia, from which state he was sent to
the senate to fill an unexpired term
Of two years. Shields then took up
his residence in Missouri, and for the
third time was sent to the senate.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
SET BACK
A Number of Midshipmen Found De-
fcient Set Back n Ycar-Sev-
eral From Illinois.

Annapolis, Md.-Owing to serious
deficiencies in studies, the following
have been transferred from the class
of 1907 to that of 1908:
R. G. Thomas, Iowa; A. G. Martin,
Illinois; S. S. Payne, Arkansas; E. H.
Henderson, Illinois; J. Fl. Knapp, Mis-
souri,; S. o. Greig, Illinois.
From the class of 1908 to 1909 for same
reason: R. c. Williams, Kansas; F.
w. Townsend, Illinois; H. G. Ridgely,
Illinois; B. D. Rogers, Illinois; w. e.
Page, Illinois; F. E. Johnson, Califor-
MIA; A. F. Webb, Kansas; G. B. Hester,
Illinois.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
TO OUT.EIFEL THE ElFEL
The Jamestown Exposition May
Have a Tower That Will Beat
That of Paris.

Norfolk, Walt is officially an
nounced by the management of the
jamestown Exposition Co. that a tow
er, exceeding in altitude the celebrated
Eifel tower at Paris, will in all proba-
bility be erected on the exposition
grounds. A cablegram has been sent
to London for plans and specifications.
The tower would carry upwards Of TO-
900 incandescent lights and could be
seen for miles at sea at night.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

The editorship Of a leading daily in
the British metropolis is a position to
which few of even English newspa-
per men dare aspire, while the diff,
Guilty of reaching it Is obviously much
greater in the case Of a journalist for.
eign born and foreign bred. So far
only one American has achieved the
distinction referred to. Mr.. Ralph D.
~Blumenfeld, the editor of the London
Daily Express, is a native of Wiscon-
sin, where he was born in 1864, and
before going abroad, he had had con
siderable experience in newspaper
work in Chicago and New York.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
OKLAHOMA CAPITAL FIGHT
Shawnee In the Field, and So Is ok
Iahoma City, Guthrie and
MuskOgee.

Shawnee, Okla.-It is said that the
chamber Of commerce Is arranging to
place a worker in every section of the
prospective state Of Oklahoma to
boost this city for capital location.
The strongest rivalry is expected
from Oklahoma City,, Guthrie and
Muskogee. For five years Shawnee
has been courtinE Indian territory
towns for fsvors on capital location.
The Indiahoma association. a union
Of $1,000 farmers in both territories,
is believed to be particularly favor
able to Shawnee.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
VOLUNTARY REDUCTIONS
western Railroads Said to Have
Decided TO Make Voluntary Re-
auctions in FreiEhts.

Chicagc.-All of the western rail-
roads, according to the Herald, have
decided to make voluntary reductions
in transportation charges amounting in
the aggregate to many million dollars
annually. The proposed reductions are
to be made in all the rates of the six
classes into which freight is divided
and will be effective in the entire terri
tory between the Atlantic seaboard and
Missouri river. In general the reduc-
ton will amount to approximately Is
per cent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
ROBBED OF FIVE THOUSAND
A Missouri Railroad Contractor
Lured To a Lonely Spot in
Kansas and Robbed.

Kansas City, Woodward Nee
gan, a railroad contractor of Camden,
Mo, reported to the police that three
men, upon the pretext of selling him
mules, lured him to a secluded spot in
the woods lear Rosedale, Kas., a sub
urb of this city, and robbed him of $5,-
600. Later Meegan captured one of
the men, c. c. Miller, of Oklahoma City,
Okla, in whose pockets was so, 900. Mil
Ter claimed the money belonged to him.
Both Miller and Meegan were held,
Meegan as a witness.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

OF all the White House weddings,
none was so important as the Cleve'
land ceremony. The interest of ths
whole world was awakened by the
event. Mr.. Cleveland was the only
president that received his bride in
the executive mansion, and his sensa
tlonal political career-he being the
first Democratic president since Buch'
anan-had attracted attention all
around the globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

During the recent electrical show al
the Madison Square garden, New
York, a series of experiments was per,
formed by Prof, Oyington. of Boston.
with ~high-potential and high-frequency
currents. One of these consisted OF
substituting the body of the lecturers
assistant for the usual vertical con
ductor used in sending wireless mes
sages. The current from the machine
passing through the assistants body.
from whence the energy was radiated
as wireless wave in the other.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

That men should just begin to ltys
instead of begin to die at the age OF
40 Is the firm belief Of Gotlieb Graul,
aged 103 years, Cincinnati's pioneer
resident. Mr.. Graul, in spite Of his re.
markable age, is still active, and does
not put much stress upon the state
ment Of Professor Osler. He was
born on Christmas day in 1903. He is
a skilled gardener and florist, and to
this day tills the soil and cultivates
plants at the Cincinnati Altenheim's
truck garden, where he has been for
three years, and expects to be for
many years to come:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

Not counting the appropriation bills,
which involve the distribution OF
something like $70O, 900, 900, there
have been introduced in the present
national house Of representatives
about $4,000 measures. There are 1856
votes in the house. If the yeas and
nays were to be called on all these
bills it would require, to vote upon
them, more than three years, working
ten hours a day, and excepting Sun.
days. OF course, the yeas and nays
are not called On all bills in congress,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

It is asserted by army surgeons
that the expressions on the faces OF
soldiers killed in battle indicate the
cause OF death. There is a look OF
repose on the faces of those who have
persisted from sword wounds, while
there is an expression of pain on the
c~ountenances of those slain by bull
Lot.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

This country's unparalleled prosper
ity in the last ten years has greatly
added to our love Of display. VIE can
not lay all the frivolities to the new
crop Of millionaires from Pittsburg or
Chicago. It hardly is possible to con
ccive Of that group buying the $685..
600, 1000 worth Of diamonds and pre-
cious stones imported into the United
States last year. This importation o.
gems to bsdeck the women Of the land
ID q new yearly record. 1t Is $8,500.-
600 mors than recorded in 1903, which
held tho record owe 1904 by $1,000
600.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
VIII Readiust Wager.

Marquette, Mich.-The various
mining companies operating in the Lake
superior region, it is learned, have vol
unfairly agreed to readjust all wages.
The schedule has not been made public.
but is understood to be a material in
crease over the present schedule.