Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-11-29

The following appeared in Tues
days Globe Democrat, telegraphed
from Jefferson City: "The first
installment for clemency for VIM.
Spaugh, Jr., sentenced to be
hanged January 10th for the u
der of Sheriff Polk of Iron county,
has already reached the Governor.
The plea is largely based on the
ground that Arthur Spaugh, a
brother of the condemned man,
jointly charged with him in the
commission of the crime, received
a penitentiary sentence, which he
is now serving, and that the moth
er of the two men is still to be
placed on trial, charged with COM
plicity in the killing of Sheriff Polk.
The sentence imposed on Arthur
Spaugh was fifty-five years in the
penitentiary, from which no ap-
peal was taken. The death PEN
atty imposed upon VIM. Spaugh
was returned by a Reynolds coun-
ty jury. The case came to the
supreme court, which affirmed the
finding of the trial court"
A pair Of grafters are operating
in Missouri with the smoothest
graft of the year. One enters a
business house and offers a $40 bill
in payment of a small purchase,
gets his change and departs. Then
his confederate enters, makes a
purchase and hands the clerk a 81
bill. When his change comes he
insists that the bill was of the $40
denomination, and asks that the
proprietor be called when the clerk
declares it was a ST bill. The
CRATER tells the proprietor that the
thing can be easily settled. The
$40 bill was all the money he had,
he says. A short time before he
had occasion to wish to remember
a telephone number and iotted it
on the bill. See if 969LI is not
marked on the bill in your cash
drawer, he says. If you have such
a bill it is mine. OF course that
Inscription has been marked on
the $40 bill by the first visitor, and
tthe proprietor no longer hesitates
before such conclusive proof, but
hands over the bill and calls down
the unfortunate clerk, who he be-
lieves might have played him a
trick.
A bill will be introduced into
the coming Legislature to reduce
passenger fares on all main lines
to two cents per mile. | think
three cents per mile is not extor-
~tionate If the railways will give
good service-I don't mean by this
their running at sixty miles an
hour, but by conserving the con-
venience and comfort of the public
in other ways-if they will look
we'll to that the three-cent rate will,
work no hardship. For instance,
No. 1 is the most convenient of our
trains running south ~ when it
stops to let off and take on pas
sengers; but it will not do that,
excepting when it carries one or
more persons from st. Louis whose
objective point is this station.
Nine days out of ten this train
does stop here, but the element of
uncertainty in the arrangement is
always greatly to- the discomfort
of patrons in the Valley. 1t would
cost so little to the company to
make the stopping certain, that I
am sure a petition that it be done
would not be turned down by the
management.
The Department Of Agriculture
has been gathering data and max
ing careful estimates, among other
things, of the average annual loss
to agricultural products in the
United States due to the ravages
of insects. They place the aver
age annual loss to all agricultural
products due to insect ravages at
500, 900, 900, which includes loss to
field and forage crops, live stock,
fruit and truck garden, forest pro-
ducts and stored foods. In one
year a single insect, the chinch
bug, caused a loss of sixty million
dollars, and the Hessian Fly caused
a loss Of S24,000,0 900 in only two
States in one year. A careful
estimate of the average annual
damage caused to the apple crop
by the codling moth shows it to
be twenty million dollars. Mil
lions OF dollars of damage is
caused each year by the San Jose
Scale, the exact loss by it being
impossible to estimate because it
attacks SO many different kinds of
fruit trees and bushes and not only
ruins or Injuries the fruit produce
ton, but kills the plants outright.
st. Louis county is one Of the Sec
tions suffering most Of late. Mil
lions of dollars are lost each year
in Missouri by corn or boll-worm,
attacking corn and cotton; corn
root-worm; cotton-worm; wire
worm; cut-worm; plant lice; web
worm; plum curculic, especially
to the apple; scale insects; canker-
worm; apple magot; bark beetle;
wable-ly, and hundreds of other
species.
Bishop futile made his annual
visit to Ironton Saturday night
and Sunday, for the purpose Of
administering the sacrament OF
confirmation and inspecting the
records Of st. Paul's Church. He
took part in all the services Sun
day and preached twice. His SER
mons were both forceful and Of
enduring value. Bishop futile,
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