Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-16

That they saw pistols on Ine per-
sons of the arrested strike break
ers. A dozen witnesses have been
summoned, among the number
being two persons at whose homes
the strike breakers lodged for a
day or two. The situation re-
mains unchanged here. The
"scabs" or strike breakers as
they prefer to be called now have
a boarding car. The local strik-
ers are firm and determined and
the same spirit seems to animate
the strikers at all points along the
road. There has been no vio-
lence here, nor any threat of vio-
lence. The strikers are observing
the law and declare that they ex-
pect the strike breakers also to
obey the law.-Piedmont Banner.
In this issue of the REGISTER
Mr.. w. A. Thompson, candidate
for Judge in the Western District,
tells the people that he asks their
votes, not as a "wet" or "dry"
man, but as a Democrat. And as
a Democrat, ii he be elected, he
will administer his Office in &C
cordance with the will If the ma
jority of the voters of the county.
Some time ago, upon the instant,
and without due consideration, he
signed a paper requiring him, if
made Judge, to follow the rule
laid down by the present court;
upon consideration, Mr.. Thomp-
son sees that in this he "a wrong,
and he has the courage to avow
his mistake. For this he is en-
titled to the confidence of the peo-
pie, since he who acknowledges
error on any one point, will not
be likely to lapse in other par
ticular. The fact is, the action of
the County Court in making a
two-thirds rule, and doubling the
license, was, under the circum-
stances, | think, ~inexcusable and
indefensible. Local option had
Just been defeated, and the county
had voted in favor of "the sale of
Intoxicating liquors." under the
conditions then eristing, Uiz: Dram
shop petitions to contain the
names of a majority Of the tax
payers in the town or townships
in which they were to be located,
with a license fee of $500 a year.
When the court changed those
conditions it set at naught the law
fully expressed will of the people.
AS above stated, its action was
indefensible from the standpoint
of Democracy and justice. If the
county had gone dry bya ma
jority of one vote my prohibition
friends would have required me
and you, my neighbor, to submit,
and if we had not bowed in ac-
, q~uiescence to the decision, they
would have righteously de-
nounced us alike as contemners OF
!, the public will and violators OF
law. I think that sauce for the
goose ought to be for the
7 gander, too. Mr.. T. does we'll to
5 clearly define himself on the ques'
ton,
The editor of the De Soto Re-
! publican recently made q trip tc
Iron Mountain and writes thereot
as follows: "Iron Mountain, from
which the Iron Mountain railroad
F., gained it's name, is an interesting
= place. 1t is not entirely a desert
ed village and yet the ruin tina
time has wrought cannot be esti'
mated. Once a beautiful villag'
j at the crest of the lofty ozarks
e busy with hustle and hustle of lif,
l and energy; hundreds of mel
gained a Livelihood and dwelt, ant
q breathed the pure ozone; dram
a from the cooling springs that gush
ed out from the mountain side
q 1t is not so to-day. The walls o
many of the buildings are crumb
ling with decay, thorns and this
+ ties are taking the place of tn
q honey suckle and the rose, Will
huge piles of blackened stone
help to make the surrounding
5, CHASTITY desolate. In the earl,
a fifties this mountain of iron wa
E. discovered. Mining was begul
u and for years millions of dollars
worth of ore was taken out an
Q shipped away. Finally work wa
= suspended, the people movet
le away, and what was once a beau
s tiful little city is to-day a mass {
J, ruins. Fate has not put upon tn
village the seal of ruin forever, a
is the lands, which consist of a trac
N five miles square, has recent
+. been transferred to a new com
IT pany, and it is now proposed t
o inject some of the old-time life in
( to ii. The buildings are to be re
paired, shafts are to be pumpe
ar out and again worked. Alread
"a three carloads of ore being ship
ID ped daily. This, however, is NJ
re being taken from a shaft, it is bt
ing washed out of the mountai
side by means of hydraulic watt
Oh power. The water is hoisted frol
a lake to a reservoir situated @
te top of another mountain, the pres
ID sure gained being 225 pounds
the square inch. Eight-ply ruiz
ST Der hose four inches in diamett
l. with huge brass nozzles is pointe
Ia at the embankment and the watt
Ia is turned on. By this means, VIII;
rs is called surface ore is burrowe
d. out. Chunks weighing hundred
or of pounds down to little nugget
10 are washed from the bank an
I'll loaded on cars. The immensit
of the work done by the compan