Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-05

as a cinnamon bear or the corpu-
lent editor of this paper. Nay,
nay, Pearline and sapolia. He
must attend to his advertising like
he attends to his store, use his To-
cal papers judiciously and liber-
ally, and he will never make a
failure.-Austin Harpoon.
The wood work in the halls OF
the public school building and the
belfry was destroyed by fire last
Wednesday night. The main
building narrowly escaped and il
required some hard work to SUBJ
due the flames. The discovery OF
the fire was made about nine
o'clock by Fred Kindell. Jr., who
lives just across the street. He
gave the alarm and soon most oil
the town was on the scene. When
the discovery was made the stair
ways and floors in the hall were
burning fercely, and the flames
soon shot up through the cupola
into the belfry. 1t was an unus-
ual sight. A big fire on the pin
nacle of the building and no 9TH
er flames in sight. The fire grew
fierce and warm as there was con-
siderable wood work in the tower
and the superstructure of the roof.
The roof itself is OF slate and this
probably saved the main building.
The fire engine was brought into
use and the bucket brigade work.
ed nobly. After a while the flames
were conquered and the main
building remained intact. How
the fire originated will probably
never be known. It started IN one
of the closets under the stairway
in the hall, and may have been &C.
casioned by a match being thrown
in there where coal oil is some
times kept. The school board
held a meeting next morning and
ordered school dismissed until
Nov. 10th. In the meantime tenn
porary floors and a stairway will
be built. An insurance of $4,000
was carried on the building and,
fortunately, had just been renewed
a day previous to the fire.
To-day w. w. Turner, assistant
treasurer Of the Poplar Bluff Char
coal Iron Company, received the
plans of the big furnace to be
erected in this city and a plat of
the company's subdivision in
southeast Poplar Bluff and re-
ceived notice that H.. Carleton
Slack, of Boston, an official in the
company, would arrive here to-
morrow and then the work of pre-
pairing to launch the great BUSH
ness will begin. A booklet giving
much of the course to be followed
by the company and telling of the
process in handling the ores has
been issued and. is now in the
hands of w. w. Turner. The
company has q capital stock of
S350,00). The officers are George
F. Kendall, president; Theodore
@. Search, vice-president; Fl. F,
Kendall, secretary; Walter E.
Scott, treasurer, and w. w. Turn
er, assistant treasurer. The COM
pany is made up of New York,
Philadelphia and Boston capital
Offices will be maintained in all of
the cities, as we'll as here. The
plats show four hundred and fifty
lots in the addition, a public park
of quite four blocks and q factory
site of one hundred and thirty
acres. The processes of the COM
pany are complex to any one other
than a mineralogist or miner.
However, it is declared the plan
as outlined is perfect. The pro-
duct of the company will be char
coal ingots, a product for which
there is a great demand at q high
price and of which the supply is
limited. Before beginning bust
ness the company has secured
rights to operate under new and
improved methods protected by
patents and other unpublished
system. Under these patents re-
duction is largely effected by the
use Of gas generated from the de-
s~tructive distillation of wood,
leaving residual the charcoal for
subsequent utilization The va
riety of ore to be found in the
lands of the company is the well
known blue and black hematite
or Q of Missouri. 1t will average
fifty per cent. iron into the furnace.
The company estimates that the
cost of mining the ore from the
lands will not exceed $3.50 per ton,
loaded and delivered. The fur
mace will have a capacity of two
hundred and fifty tons of ore, pro-
ducing therefrom one hundred and
twenty-five tons of the best char.
coal ingots.-PopIar Bluff RepubK'
can.
On last Saturday morning a
about 6 A. M. Redge Chiffon sho'
his wife to death and then turned
the weapon upon himself witt
deadly effect at the wife's home il
Gilman, this county. The facts
concerning the double tradedy are
about as follows: Chiffon and his
wife, whose maiden name was
Eula Boston, daughter of Thomas
Boston, had been married some
seven Or eight years and had lived
together until the early part o
the present year when they separ'
ated and he went to California
where he secured employment and
finally persuaded her to join him
and they lived there for some time
when she returned to this county
and started a boarding house