Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-18

rections, headed by Miss Mary
Perry, of st. Louis, a sister-in-law
of former Governor David R.
Francis, spent Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday at the hospital
and will report direct to Governor
Hadley. It is expected that this
board will recommend some
changes in the conduct of the in
stitution. However, every mem
Der of the board declined to make
any response to inquiries. The
designations of Doctors Lloyd and
Weber, which were rendered at
the same time with the resignation
of DR.. Keaney, have not yet been
acted upon by the board. 1t was
announced Tuesday that the
board would pass these resigna-
tons until the regular monthly
meeting June 9TH, at which time
the places of the assistant physi-
clans will be vacant by the ex-
piration of their terms. By de-
laying action until that time, there
will be no necessity to take action
upon the designations"
A a has been selected to lay
out the route for the three-day en-.
durance run of the Missouri Auto
mobile Association for the Arcadia
Country Club run, which will take
place about the middle of June. 1t
is equipped for a weeks trip and
will leave here Sunday morning,
May ID, carrying besides E. l..
Corwin, the driver, j, E. Poland,
official pathfinder for the Missouri
Automobile Association, who will
gather road information and data.
The tentative route over which the
car will GO and which has been
selected for the run is from here to
Arcadia by way of DeISoto, Bonne
Terre, Flat River, Doe Run, Iron
Mountain and Graniteville. The
car will proceed from Arcadia to
Sikeston by way of Frederick
town and Cape Girardeau, and
from Sikeston back to st. Louis by
way of Cape Girardeau and Ste.
Genevieve. The, Etrophy for the
proposed run will be donated by
the Arcadia;Countr Club. 1t will
be an elaborate cup. Six cars will
accompany the pathfinder out of
st. Louis and as far as Arcadia
Club. They will assemble at Grand
and Olive Sunday morning at 8
o'clock. Passengers in these cars
will be st. Louis newspaper men
and officials of the club. A big
Studebaker seven-passenger a
will be driven by Eddie E. Ernest,
a widely known salesman, and
Glidden tour driver. A. G. Webb,
manufacturer of motor fire engines,
will drive his Thomas. A Mara
thon will be driven by Meyers.
Howard Harrington, head of the
local Overland Co., will handle the
wheel of an Overland and Hustick
will pilot a lSpeedwell.-St. Louis
POST Dispatch.
A party named John Watkins,
of st. Louis, wto says he is the
representative of a new railroad, a
proposed trunk line from Chicago
to the Gulf of California, was in
Potosi last Thursday and met a
number of our business men in
formally in Attorney S. G. Nip
per's Office for a little railroad
talk. Mr.. Watkins claims the men
behind this enterprise have $780,
600, 900 to put inlo it if they meet
the encouragement they seek. The
road is to seek it's course through
this part Of Missouri after gaining
entrance to the state over the new
free bridge at st. Louis. When
asked upon what terms the road
would be brought to Potosi, Mr..
Watkins stated that they wanted
a bonus of S65, 900, depot site and
a free right-of-way through the
county, 10 per cent. of the bonus to
be paid at nee and the balance
! when the first train is run over the
road into Potosi. The proposition
was discussed in its various
| phases, but no enthusiasm was
worked up over the project, es-
pecially after the question of the
bonus was preached. The first
payment of this bonus, the 10 per
cent, it was alleged by Mr.. Wat
kins, was to be used in the sur
veys, but he could give no posi-
tive assurance that after the road
had been surveyed it would be
built. The way we look at the
matter is, that if it is going to re-
quire a free gift of S65, 900 and then
some to get another railroad to
Potosi the old town will continue
to get along with it's present rail-
road facilities for some years to
come. We believe our people
would be willing to meet it with a
free right of-way and a free depot
sites, but nix on the bonus.-Po-
tosi Journal.
/ H" "|..H p.
Last Saturday evening about
sunset. about one and a half miles
from Bixby, in the west end of
Iron county, Fife Butler, nineteen
years of age, was shot and Instant
ly killed and her father, James
Butler, was shot twice through the
right breast by Drew Pitts. The
first news of the tragedy reached
Ironton Monday morning about 9
O'Clock, when Pitts, accompanied
by a couple of his neighbors, SURE
rendered to the officers and told
his story of the shooting. Butler
and Pitts are woodchoppers and
neighDors, living probably a hum
dred yards apart. Saturday even