Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-07-25

suspending work on the structure,
and ordering that all the material
be again stacked under the shed,
where it has been the past twelve
months and more. Now no one
seems to know when work will be
resumed. The station house as
planned will be all right. There
are two large waiting rooms, bag
gage, express room, warehouse and
Office. But when will it be built?
Only the mighty railroad officials
know, and they refuse to tell.
The local mail service on the
Iron Mountain Railway is simply
outrageous. Packages of REG
listers sent out Wednesday after
noon for points south within the
county do not reach their destin-
alton, as a rule, until Friday; and
last weeks edition got to Hogan,
eight miles south of here, yester-
day morning.! l received a letter
from the postmaster at Glover
Monday notifying me that the
package for that place had not
arrived, and I, supposing it had
been lost, sent a duplicate. The
railway mail service through this
section has for months been bad
enough, the Lord knows; but now
the word ''rotten" is the only one
that fits it. Are the authorities in
the postal department helpless?
Is there no remedy? 1t would
seem so, since protests upon the
part of the people interested are
of no avail.
Sheriff Marshall last Tuesday
evening received a telegram from
Gov. Folk, announcing that he
had committed the sentences of
John and Amalek Brooks, sent
enced to be hung here July 18th,
to life imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary. The Brooks brothers in
August, 1905, shot and killed John
Clemonds at Graniteville. They
were tried in the circuit court here
the following April, found guilty
of murder in the first degree and
the ease appealed to the supreme
court, which affirmed the decision
of the lower court. The Governor
has a couple of times respited
them and now commutes the sent
ence to life Imprisonment. The
prisoners have been in the Jail
here ever since the commission of
their crime. Sheriff Marshall will
take them to Jefferson City in a
few days. Tuesday morning, be-
fore the news of their commutaion
was received, the Brookses joined
the Catholic Church.
The big damage suit filed in
circuit court here by L. M. Hem
son against George g. Orchard,
which was due to come up for trial
yesterday, assumed a new aspect
this morning when the plaintiff
filed his affidavit alleging that he
could not have a fair trial before
the presiding judge on the bench.
After considering the affidavit the
court Immediately disqualified
himself and ordered the case
transferred to Shannon county,
where the issue will be tried out
before Hon. w. N. Evans at Emil
nence. The suit was brought by
the plaintiff to recover S25, 900 dam
ages from the defendant for an
alleged libelous article which APP
peared in the columns of the Citi-
zen, then owned by Mr.. Orchard,
in which Henson was character
lied as a murderer in taking the
life of old man Hecht some few
miles west of here. MOI only does
the petition allege this as a ground
for recovery but many other things
| stated in the article in connection
with the killing, is set up as being
false and injurious to the plaintiffs
character. Henson is represented
by Hon. Wilson Cramer and ex-
Congressman N. A. Motley, while
Orchards side is being looked
after by Senator Orchard and At
torney l.. R, Thomason.-PopJdr
Bluff Republican.
The Iron Mountain railroad COM
pany played in great luck Mon
day afternoon, else it would have
had a big wreck on its hands
somewhere in the Hogan neigh
borhood. About four o'clock that
day a big train of chad ORDER
freight cars pulled away from Ho-
gan station north-bound. Just
before the train reached Tip Top
it broke in two and about twenty
cars started backward down the
hill. There wasn't a good brake
on the whole train, and soon the
cars were flying down the Hogan
grade at most terrific speed. A
freight train was standing on the
main track in front of Hogan sta
ton, and a collision seemed GER
tain. The section boss, who
happened to be near, took in the
situation at a glance, however, and
promptly opened the switch lead
ing to one of the passing tracks.
And none. too soon. The rum
away cars whizzed into the switch,
passed the station and onto the
main track again. Nor were they
brought to a standstill until Jor-
dan was reached - some three
miles away. Then a brakeman,
who was on the runaways, got
down and barely had time to flag
a freight train coming from the
south. There were two close calls
and the section foreman by his
quick wit and prompt action doubt
less prevented a calamity. For
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