Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-02-04

Iron Mountain conductors, Mr..
Burr Hall. The following was
telegrAphed the News from Mar
shall, Texas, under date Of Jan. A:
"The news of the death Of Con-
ductor Burr Hall, which occurred
on his passenger train, near Walls,
La, on the Texas and Pacific rail-
road, on Saturday night, from be-
ing shot to death by q negro, was
received here with much regret.
Burr Hall was one of the oldest
conductors in the southwest in
point Of service. He was for years
on the Iron Mountain, running a
train between Texarkana and Pop
lar Bluff, Mo-, and afterward came
to the Texas and Pacific railroad.
He was a brother to Clark Hall,
who was with the Missouri Pacific
railroad, and also q brother of
Mrs. Peters, who for a number OF
years conducted the hotel and
meal station at Walnut Ridge,
Ark. The deceased was married
about a year ago."
Will Kaths, of Pilot Knob, mail
clerk on the Iron Mountain, was
quite painfully injured, and had
q narrow escape from death last
Wednesday morning. Mr.. Kaths
left st. Louis on the fast mail
train that day, and having his
work about finished, about forty
miles this side OF Little Rock, was
sitting in the car chatting with his
fellow employees. The train was
running at a high rate of speed;
in some way or other the mail
catcher on the car became ex-
tended and struck a car standing
on the siding. The door of the
mail car was knocked open and
struck Mr.. Kaths with great force.
He was rendered unconscious and
the other clerks thought he was
dead. The train was stopped, a
physician summoned and he soon
revived. Investigation revealed
that he was bruised on the head
and face and his left arm broken.
He was taken to Little Rock and
placed in a hospital there, and
then removed to st. Louis. He
hopes to be home soon, but it will
be some time before he can resume
work. 1t was a close call, a
mighty close call, and we congrat-
ulate the young man on his fortu-
nate escape.
On Wednesday of last week l..
V. jennings filed with the County
Clerk a petition for a dramshop
license, the dramshop to be kept
at Esther, to be acted upon by the
County Court at the February
term. Attorney Merrill Pipkin,
who is employed by the Law En-
forcement League to look after
matters pertaining to such Pc
titions, in examining the petition
of jennings concluded that a num-
Der of men whose names were on
the petition had not signed it, and
he commenced to investigate by
seeing the men. The following
denied having signed the petition
and several of them promptly
made affidavit to that effect: G. l..
Simms, Alex Moore, B. l. Morris,
T. B. Chandler, F. A. Gossett,
VIM. Green, John Cowley, John
| McBrien, A. Overall and j. B.
| Williams. There were a number
of others whose names to the Pc
tition are believed to have been
forged. A warrant was wor out
before Squire j. P. Zolman for
jennings arrest on a charge OF
forging names to a dramshop Pc
tition. The penalty for this Of
tense is a fine of not less than S25
for each name nor more than three
months imprisonment in jail. In
passing, it may be we'll to say
that every petition to the County
Court for dramshop license will be
closely scrutinized, and that those
who are so anxious to get a license
that they will violate the law in
the attempt, will have little or nc
chance of succeeding. Jennings
was arrested Tuesday evening by
Constable Good and gave bond in
the sum of 5000 for his appearance,
-Farmington Times.