Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-03-20

financed by a syndicate of st. Louis
and Chicago capitalists, and President
Evans declared yesterday that the
work will be finished within the pres
ent year. While many persons have
thought that lumber was practically
the only native of the coun-
try, the engineers of the company
have found zinc and other ores along
the right Of way, and believe the re-
gion contains great mineral riches.
This, with the fertility of the soil, the
lumber and the abundant water
power, meal vast wealth when de-
velopement follows after the railroad,
say those interested. They declare
that Eastern capitalists have heard
rumors of the fortunes waiting to
be claimed in the Ozark region, and
that spies posing as lumber agents
have been going through the country
and collecting data"
Valley people will remember @. F.
Augsburg, who, for a number of years
was an employee of the REGISTER Of
fee. He and his family left here
about six years ago for Los Angeles,
California. Mr.. and Augsburg have
both since died. They had two daugh-
ters, Reva and Jessie. The latter,
who is the younger of the two girls, is
now the central figure in the divorce
court in the City of Los Angeles. The
following story of the young lady's
romance and it's unhappy termination
is reproduced from the Los Angeles
Times of February 2Sth: "The wife
of Rex Slinkard, a young artist, who
before their marriage was his model
and companion in Bohemia, brought
suit through Attorney G. H. Harker,
for $15 900 damages yesterday against
her father and mother in-law, charg-
ing alienation of his affections. She
declares he left her after a one month
of devotion and left also an unfnish-
ed picture, THE Nymph,' a life-size
portrait for Miss Augsburg was pos
ing at the time OF her marriage to the
artist. The young artist closed his
studio in Blanchard Hall, the Latin
Quarter of Los Angeles, and went
away six weeks ago. 1t is rumored
among the artists here that he has
opened a studio in New York City,
but his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Slinkard of No. 1887 Wright street,
will neither confirm nor deny the re-
port. When Slinkard returned from
his studies in Paris two years ago he
is said to have expressed the wish to
} an artist friend that he mightdiscover
a beautiful model who would give in
SEPARATION to his brush. A few months
later he met Miss Jessie Augsburg.
The idea of becoming an artists model
had not occurred to Miss Augsburg up
to the time she met Slinkard. 1t was
not until after several months of per-
suasion that the young woman agreed
to pose. He increasingly praised the
lines of my shoulders-dwelt on what
he designated as my delicate profile,
my poise, my wonderful eyelashes,'
Mrs. Slinkard said yesterday. Final
ly I permitted him to convince me
that I was a marvellous beauty and
agreed to pose.' In less than two
weeks after Miss Augsbusy began
posing, she says Slinkard began max
ing engagements to take her to din
ner at the Chinese restaurants and to
: go to places ~frequented by the artistic
y set. In three months they were en-
! gagged and in another three months
they were married, one day when the
. young woman's parents we're at theil
: ranch at Surrey. Il think his work
, on THE Nymph' was his best,' Mrs
!, Slinkard said yesterday, land if hit
! parents had let us alone we would
! have been happy and he would hav'
. made a great picture out of it. But il
J is unfinished and he said he would
! never touch it again. I think he wal
. forced to leave me by his parents.
Q Mrs. Slinkard was not received int
: the home of her husbands parents
y and did not see her mother-in-lav
o until three weeksago, when she wen
to the home to demand her hus
bands address. when my SOM
. wife complained to me that he hat
= left her without support I informed
her that he was not capable of taking
= care of himself the artists father
. said last night. Il buy his clothes ant
= furnish him with money. He's
Il dreamer and not a money maker.
9 advised her to get a divorce and l fur
nished her with money for a while O.
y condition she do so. The damag
. suit is a scheme to force a none
settlement out of me, but l will 6gh
. ii OUT
Q New Easter neckwear at Lopez's.