Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-06-15

ed to find the man. He soon came
up with him, but he proved to be
a white man and not the party
wanted. Sides lived at De Soto
where he was taken for burial. AT
last reports there was NO knowl-
edge of the whereabouts of his
slayer.
Circuit Clerk Hawkins last week
received mandates from the Su-
preme Court in the cases of VIM.
and A. j. Donohew and Clark
Stringer and Chas. Jones. The
Donohews were convicted at the
October term, 1909, of the Iron
county circuit court of fraudulent
voting at Henderson precinct in
the general election in 1908, and
fined $50 and costs each. The de-
PENDANTS we're released on $500
bond and made a bluff at appeal
ing the cases to the Supreme
Court. But the appeals were new
er perfected, and by the order of
the Supreme Court the Judgment
of the lower court stands. The
Donohews will now have to pay
up or go to Jail. Stringer and
Jones were convicted at the same
time of highway robbery. They
failed to perfect their appeal, hence
the mandate as to them.
Following numerous other
changes in the management of the
Bank of Elvins, Carr H%artshorn,
who was last week elected presi-
dent of the bank, was this week
also made cashier of the institu-
ton, to succeed @. j. Prince, who
has held the position for the past
two years. Mr.. Hartshorn is one
of the county's most capable and
industrious young business men
and no doubt will make the bank
a valuable official. He took charge
OF his new position this week.
Mr.. Hartshorn is also postmaster
at Elvins, but will probably re-
sign from the office shortly. AT
present the Office is in charge of
Geo. Kells, formerly private sec
rotary OF x-Congressm Polite
Elvins, and Miss Estelle Carr, who
has been a deputy in the Office for
several years; Mr.. Prince, the re-
firing cashier, is undecided as to
where he will locate but will go to
Arkansas. Accompanied by his
wife, he left yesterday for a visit
with home folks at Arcadia
Pennington Meas.
County Judges Scott and Ste
venson and County Clerk Rey-
burn returned Sunday morning
from Dunklin county where they
had been subpoenaed as witnesses
in the case of County Treasurer
Chapline of that county, whom
the American Bond & Audit Com
pany had found short in his &C.
counts. The gentlemen from Iron
county were never put on the
stand for the reason that the aud
itors were not called on to testify
and all u officials we're wanted
for was to tell of the actions of the
bond company officials here. The
Audit & Bond Company got $4,000
from Dunklin county for making
their examination of Dunklin
county's books and then would
not make affidavit as to its find
ings. Over in Howell county
where there is a Republican coun-
ty court-the same Audit Compa-
ny investigated the books, found
several of the officers short and
presented a bill of $500 to the
county. The county court, be-
cause the bond officials would not
make affidavit to their findings,
very properly refused to pay the
bill. The Bond Company threat
ened to bring suit, but has not
done SO up to date. And this is
the crowd that Fuller Swift and
his bunch want to audit Iron
county's books.
VIM. Trauernicht, Chas. New
man, Edgar Fletcher and M. M.
York, of Ironton, were in Farm
ington on Tuesday to see if the
st. Francois county court would
make an appropriation to repair
the road in Iron county between
Middlebrook and Pilot Knob, if
the citizens in Iron county would
likewise repair their end of the
road. The committee said that
the citizens of Ironton had SUBJ
scribed $3.50 and that the county
court would give $3.50 toward re-
pairing the Iron county end of the
road. The court told the commits
tee that it realized that this road
was in a bad condition and was
ready to spend $1,000 on repairing
it, if Iron county would spend a
similar amount, 1t seems there
are two roads: one from Middle-
brook to Ironton the other via
Graniteville. Only one will be re-
paired. County Highway Engi-
neer Francisco will go over the
roads and determine which is the
most practical one to improve.
The court told the committee
something of the improvements
st. Francois county was making
on her roads in the way of grad
ing, repairing and building rock
roads, erecting concrete culverts,
steel bridges, etc. The committee
was simply astounded, as but
very little substantial work is be-
ing done in Iron county. The
party from Ironton made the trip
in a new Mitchell automobile
which Mr.. Fletcher had just pur-
chased from the Weber Implement
Company of st. Louis.-Furming-
ton Mems