Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-25

Farrar, Russell johnson, Albert
Langdon and Henry Kirby. The
following pupils have been neither
absent nor tardy at any time dur
ing entire term: Flora Reed,
Azalea Baldwin, Bette Grissom,
Lawrence Lashley and Albert
Schultz. ALICE NJ. GAY.
Last Tuesday the prosecuting at
torney filed information with the
circuit clerk, against one of Fred
ericktown's physicians for writing
false prescriptions. The informa-
ton contained seventy counts, and
each count set out a prescription
issued, the name to whom issued,
and the quantity of ingredients
issued and the date of issuance,
all in one day. The information
further shows that more than ten
and a half gallons of whiskey were
issued in this one day. The doc
tor is now under bond for appear
ance at the September term of the
circuit court of this county to
answer to the charge.-Frederick-
toDn Tribune.
w. HI. Smollinger was over from
Iron Mountain last Friday. He
tells us that he is getting the 800 or
300 acres of farming lands on the
claim in fine shape to raise some
bumper corn crops. He was elect
ed road overseer at the recent
school meeting and was over to
file his bond. He expects to ask
the county court at Tits May term to
order the abandonment of that
part of the Iron Mountain and
Libertyville public road between
Iron Mountain and the intersection
of the road with the Pennington
and Ironton public road, a dis
lance of about five miles. This
road has never been used very
much since work ceased at Iron
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. News.
We print in this issue a remark
able document purporting to have
been written by the Rev. B. P.
O'Laughlin of Rolla, Mo. It is
probably a forgery. Surely, no
Christian minister could be guilty
of weaving such a tissue of false
hood, or SO lend his pen to the
defamation of the dead. Sheriff
Polk was an honest, upright, sober
citizen, and his official life is with
out blemish. His murder was the
most horrible, uncalled-for and
cruel that disgraces the annals of
the State. I shall send a copy of
this paper (marked) to the Rev.
O'Laughlin, hoping to receive in
return a denial of the authenticity
tof the document referred to above;
if he cannot do that, l call upon
him in the name of Him he serves
to retract the wrong he has done
this community and to wipe out
as far as he may, the stain he has
cast upon the memory of the
Spaughs' innocent victim.
"The people of Iron county, re-
CARELESS of party, are congratulate
ing themselves upon having elect
ed Judge Schmidt as a member of
the county court. The people find
that they have in him a friend who
has their interest at heart. Judge
Schmidt has done more toward
opening the eyes of the people of
this county to the reckless ex-
travagance, carelessness, almost
criminal negligence of the county
affairs for years. He has exposed
the fraud where in the past ten
years the county has paid out
some $4,000 or So, 1000 for tax books
which we're never made. Benny.
This is a very serious charge:
Gin the last ten years the county
has paid out some $4,000 or $4,000
for tax books which we're never
made" If true, every man con-
nected with the transactions where
by the public funds we're stolen
would be a felon and ought to be
in the penitentiary. 1t involves
not only the county clerks, but all
the county judges who have ofioi-
ated for ten years. The frauds
could not have been committed
without their concurrence. The
men composing the court for the
last ten years are: A. j. Carly,
Chas. Hart, r. L. Carly, A. G..
Meyer, w. I'll. Buford, w. c..
Johnson, Marion Lewis and j. w.
Alcorn. The integrity of these
men, some of whom now lie in
honored graves, has never here
tofore been questioned; but now
we are told that they have been
untrue to their trust and felonious-
ly squandered the peoples money
for work that never was done.
Does Judge Schmidt authorize the
charge? We want to know and it
is our right to know. I, for one,
promise him if he will make the
charge and substantiate it he shall
have no more ardent supporter
than the editor of this paper in his
bringing the living guilty to pun
ishment. Does Judge Schmidt
make the charge? We demand an
answer.
The following is taken from the
st. Louis Times of April is: "The
atmosphere of staid financial
dignity in the Boatmen's Bank was
relieved Tuesday by a semblance
of gala festivity unusual in the
halls of banking institutions. The
day marks the fiftieth anniversary
of the continuous connection with
this institution of Cashier William
III. Thomson. When Mr.. Thorn
| O came to his desk Tuesday