Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

snooung distance OF MIN!
The following, telegraphed from
Denver, Colorado, under date of
September 9th, appeared in Mon
days st. Louis Times. "With a
large caliber revolver clasped
tightly in his right hand and a
gaping bullet wound in his right
temple, the dead body of Carl
Strader of Des Arc, Mo-, who has
been going under the name of
j. B. Farr, was found yesterday
afternoon in the editorial room of
the Wray (Colo.) Gazette. Strader
was last seen alive Saturday night,
when he appeared respondent
and discouraged. He left a note
giving his true name and address.
He asserts in the note that he was
the son of a wealthy Des Arc (Mo.l
banker, and that while acting as
cashier in his fathers bank he be-
came addicted to drinking and
gambling and was discharged and
ordered from home.
Strader wandered about three
years, landing in Wray six months
ago. He went to work for the Gdz-
cite, and was soon made its editor,
which position he held until his
death.
While in Wray he neither drank
nor gambled, but confided to an
intimate friend that he could not
much longer resist the temptation,
but before he would succumb
again he would end his life"
The remains were taken to Des
Arc and interment occurred there
Tuesday. To the bereaved par
ents the REGISTER extends SYM
pathy.
When a certain young man, now
the guest of a well-known family
in the West End, showed up at
the Adding Typewriter company
factory Monday morning to apply
for a job, Joseph Meeko, former
member of the Dalton's baseball
team and an employee of the con-
Germ, gazed in establishment at the
shoes and shirt in which the
stranger looked stunning, 1t re-
quired only an instant's thought,
then Meeko leaped on the appli-
cant, shaking him about some-
what vigorously and demanding
an explanation. The coincidence
of shoes and shirt on the visitor
and the theft from him of just
such a shirt and pair of shoes was
so convincing that the rough
handling of the wearer was
deemed justifable. Meeko COM
PEELED the stranger to accompany
him to police headquarters, where
the robbery of his room, the thief
obtaining a bran-new shirt, new
shoes and a ring, was explained
to officers. The West End guest
was sweated. He explained that
Monday morning he had met a
young fellow on the Frisco rail-
road tracks. The young chap
asked him to buy a pair of fine
shoes and a new shirt for a paltry
amount. He did so. Els descrip-
ton of the salesman fit that of a
young man who has visited
Meeko's room on occasions, and
the victim refused to prosecute
the suspect who was wearing his
clothes, believing him innocent.
The visitor removed Meeko's gar
ments, sent out to his hosts for
his own and the incident was
closed.-Popldr Bluff Citizen.
The Labor Day Picnic at Could
, ing's Park was as quietly pleasant
an affair as one could wish. The
weather was good picnic wealth
er-neither suffocatingly hot mol
/ yet too cool for the welfare of the
ice cream and lemonade man.
The rays of the sun were filtered
through a layer of hen-speckled
cloud hanging high. An excur-
sion train, bearing over three hun
bred people from De Soto came
: into Ironton station about $3.50
i A. M, and a half hour later the ex-
. cursionists were enjoying the
parks outrageous spread of oak
> and maple. They were met at the
station by the A. V. Cornet Band
which guided them to their desti-
, nation, and during the day awoke
from time to time the harmonious
/. echoes of the grove. After noon
the local people gathered in and
not less than eight hundred pic
t nicers were present. There were
no gambling devices on the
: grounds, but a homemade Flying
= Dutchman and other means O.
Q amusement were conservatively in
evidence. A dancing platform
claimed and received attention,
T but the Terpsichorean devotees
were neither unduly ardent MOI
too numerous. Yet the Grandpas
fiddled and the dancers danced
Y right many a square and rounded
measure. No accident or disturb
ance marred the day. In fact, il
: was Just such an occasion as ont
Q enjoys most, though hardly con
: scious of it at the time, and will
leave a better taste in the mouth
1 of memory than sometimes doe
It one of more intense enjoyment
Among the old-time friends from
4 De Soto I met were DR.. Bliss anC
Judge A. D. Williams-the latte
formerly a resident of Des Arc anC
Judge Of the County Court. H
: holds his age we'll, but, like tn
rest of US, is growing old, thougl
his auburn hair and whiskers d,
not SO strongly accentuate thi'
y fact. Others | saw whose name
y oro n;uap alcau,baro on6 ona on,