Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23

part of the company as to the con-
venience or accommodation of the
public. We certainly hope if
there is not an improvement in
our service that the next legisla-
ture will make the rate one cent.
Says the Pennington Times:
"According to a decision just rem
dered by the Supreme Court of
Missouri, a man who has a deer
farm or preserve has no more right
to kill and sell out of season the
deer he has raised than a hunter
has to kill wild deer. Judge Fox,
in his decision says, There is no
property in wild animals =
The title which a person holds to
deer which he has raised and kept
in captivity is no better than his
title to the wild deer which he kills
and captures and reduces to his
possession That sounds like
queer law, and as if a hunter in
the deer season would have the
right to enter the preserve of any
person who has a herd of do
mesticated deer and kill them for
his own use. According to the
decision all deer are wild animals,
and as there is no property in
wild animals the man who raises
deer in a preserve has no legal
title to them"
Six dogs were poisoned in Ar
cadia last Saturday-fve the prop
erty of MI. VIM. H. Thomson.
These dogs we're household pets,
highly valued, kept closely on the
premises of the Valley Home, and
annoyed nobody. The motive for
their killing is hard to understand,
unless it be to make the way easy
for burglary and theft. The other
dog was the property Of Chas.
Eldracher. Mr.. Eldracher's son
delivers the daily papers, and the
dog usually accompanied him on
his rounds. Last Saturday, while
on his rounds the dog ate a piece
of meat lyingin the road, and died
within a half hour. Strychnine
was probably the poison used.
Just how constituted the person
who will so take the life of an in
offensive creature, it is beyond me
to say, and the occurrence recalls
to me a saying of old Corny Or
chardson when told of a very dirty
transaction: "These are the things
that make a man sometimes think
he would have been a better man
if he had been born a dog!"
The following is a apecial from
Jefferson City, Mo-, to Tuesdays
st. Louis Republic: "Governor
Folk to-day granted a parole to
Charles M. Jones, under the terms
of which Jones will be released
from the penitentiary tomorrow.
He was convicted in Jackson coun-
ty, April, 1905, of forging a check
for $40, and sentenced to the peni-
tertiary for five years. Jones'
family live in Iron county, Mo-,
and bear an excellent reputation.
He is a young man and was never
before involved in trouble. The
check in question a cashed by a
Kansas City grocer. Some time
after Jones was convicted, a man
named Prill was arrested with
several forged checks of exactly
the same kind in his possession.
He became violently insane after
his arrest and is now an inmate of
the insane asylum. In a letter to
the Governor, the prosecuting at
torney of jackson county ex-
pressed grave doubts as to wheth-
er Jones ever forged the check,
and recommended his release. A
number of prominent citizens of
Iron county joined in the request
for the release of Jones, among the
latter being Mann Ringo and Rep
resentative Polk"
Just why est Louis passengers
should control the stoppage of No.
/ at this station and Arcadia is a
thing known only to the inner
circle of the railway. 1t is MS an
noying a position as could be put
on the schedule. If the fact that
there were or were not such pas
sengers on the train was tele-
graphed ahead, it would alleviate
the bother. Now, say, you want
to take No. 1 to Piedmont OF Pop
lar Bluff. Three days out of four
the train has est. Louis passeng-
ers" for this town, and you're all
right; but you never know till you
hear the toot-toot of the locomo-
tive, and your soul is held in no
pleasing suspense. II it goes by
with a whirl and a snort-well,
you are in no mood for prayer
meeting. This train ought to sotp
here every time; but if it is too
great an accommodation to the
public to have it do thatzif it
would reflect too greatly upon the
independence of the management
why, at least, bulletin the stop
page or the non-stoppage of the
train each day. If est. Louis
passengers" must be favored, let
it be done without the unneces-
sary snubbing of rural patrons.
For more than a. week the sec
ton men have been on strike, from
Jefferson Barracks to Hoxie, on
the main line, and on the Belmont
branch, as we'll. In that time not
a spike has been driven or a rail
or a tie replaced on the three sec
tons between Iron Mountain and
Hogan, and presumably the same
conditions exist on all the other
sections. The constant s~upervis-