Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-08-02

many years. A wife and four
children mourn his demise and
revere his memory. The remains
were inferred in the Caledonia
cemetery Monday, a large con-
course being in attendance.
Through a letter to VIM. Trauer-
NIGHT from John Marin, dated at
Hurricane Island, of the coast OF
Maine, we learn of the death of
James Copeland, formerly a stone
cutter at Graniteville. Saturday
evening, the 18th, he retired to his
room, seemingly in usual health;
but, not appearing the next morn
ing, his landlady went to his room
to awaken him. Receiving no re-
Spouse to her summons she entered
his room and found him sitting in
a chair-dead. He vas a Mason,
a member of Star of the West, Nc.
1873, and his body was taken charge
of and buried by Webster Grove
Lodge. Bro. Nairn speaks highly
of the Masons there, and the men,
bers of the fraternity here desire
to make acknowledgment and ex-
press their appreciation of the
spirit which which governs their
brethren of the far East.
John G. Russell, of Belleview,
was a caller Tuesday. MI. Russell
informs us that his wife returned
Saturday from a four months visit
to relatives in California and
Washington. She vas located at
Meridian, California, about one
hundred and fifty miles from San
Francisco, when the terrible earth
quake visited that city in April
. last. Mrs. Russell says that the
/, newspapers never began to tell the
complete story of the horrors OF
that calamity; words were not
= equal to the occasion. She also
says that the report that San Fran
, cisco is rebuilding is a mistake.
Little, if any, rebuilding has been
! done, and the people do not seem
to have the heart to undertake the
!. work. Mrs. Russell also spent
! several weeks in Seattle, Washing
q ton, with her sister, Mrs. McClurg.
= The great West is all right, she
: says, but Missouri for her every
time.
st. Peter sits at the heavenly
: gates, his hands on the strings OF
the Tyre, and sings low songs as
4 he patiently waits for the souls o.
those who expire. He hears II
= the distance a song that swells
4 from the foot of the heavenly
= throne, and he smiles as the music
. is waited along and MARBLES a lay
a of his own: "There is room il
q this region for the millions o
- souls who, by sorrow and woe
), were bereft; tits for these VIII
- have suffered the melody rolls
q but the kickers turn to the left
" There is room for the people who
when they were young, persisted
in sowing wild oats, yet boomet
y up their town with sinew an
t, tongue, but the kicker must g
If with the goats. There's room TO
A. the people who pointed with prid
l. to the beauty and growth of thei
d town, who kept singing thei
praises aloud till they died, bu
the kicker will please amble down
ID They'd say the music was all GU
l. of tune and the angelic gown han
me down. and send to the moo
u for a ieweler to sample the gold
as the crown" So while there
as room for a million of souls who b
c. sorrow and woe were bereft, W
IN want no complaint of the musi
that rolls, so the kicker must tur
to the left.--Er.
n, Last Wednesday afternoon, jul
Is as we were going to press, the ar
nouncement came over the phor
that the jury in the case of Sta
VS.. Arthur Spaugh had found til
90 defendant guilty of murder in tt
second degree, assessing his pun
ishment at fifty-fve years in tx
penitentiary. To all good, Law
abiding citizens in this vicinity I'll
r. verdict was an unpleasant su
a. prise. This is the plain truth, al
TO / may as we'll state it plainl,
pm Not that our people thirst for I'll
blood of any man, but they fe
n that here, if ever, was a Ca
ne wherein the law could be full
th' indicated only by the impositit
ng Of it's extreme penalty. The mu
tly der had been done in cold bloc
o. and with no adequate provocatio
ng A good man and a faithful offic
las had been sacrificed in the line
of duty; for attempting to do tn
the which his oath of office requir
nd him to do. There was no QUAR-
for no personal feeling on his pa.
in and he met his death without ia,
re. or possible reproach. The witne
are Brown was on the premises at t
ce, time of the murder. He testiti
.ew that when Polk approached, A
ca thur, who was inside the hou'
Six called out to his brother to "co1
ct in" VIM. Spaugh went in, Gle
ing the door after him. The shel
DIS. threw open the door and-instanl
was shot and killed. Brow
'on testimony stands unimpeache
and to the average citizen it prov
acA forethought, elaboration a
as preparation for the crime, il
I'VE proves anything whatever. 7
een defendant, testifying in his O.
behalf, admitted that he killed t
he1 sheriff with a shotgun, and tn
anu shot him several times with a
Cne ynlyer as he lay dead or dYi