Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-10-23

be most satisfactory. He will proba-
bly, be here again at an early meeting
of the City Council to give that body
approximate figures on the cost of
putting waterworks in Ironton.
City Marshal Fisher tells us that q
number of people are slow about pay
ing their dog license. The tax is pay
able any time in the year, and if not
paid before October 25th the delin-
quent is liable to a fine of from SO to
$40. A number of people seek to
eyade paying the license by denying
ownership of the dog that stays at his
or her home. The ordinance provides
that the person permitting the dog to
remain on his or her premises is liza
BILE for the license. The Marshal has
no discretion in the matter and will
rigidiy adhere to the ordinance. So,
unless you want to pay the fine, you
had better hurry and hquidate your
dog license.
James Schrum Of st. Francois coun-
ty who is serving a life sentence in
the P~enitentiary for the murder of
Clint Gibson at Iron Mountain Dam,
is prosecuting an appeal to the Su-
preme Court from a death sentence
passed upon him for the killing of
Montgomery Hall at the same place.
Schrum and his son, Harvey, as the
result of "a family quarrel, shot and
killed Gibson and Hall on July 10,
1918. They we're tried first for the kill
ing OF Gibson. The father received a
life sentence and the son a twenty
ive-year term. From these convic-
tions neither appealed. Subsequent
ly James Schrum was convicted of
the murder of Hall. The jury sentenced
him to hang. The question is involved
of whether he could be executed un-
der the second sentence, If it is af-
flrmed, or whether he must pay the
penalty under the life imprisonment
sentence. 1t is thought that Schrum
can not be removed from the Peni-
Tertiary now except by pardon of the
governor. The three convicts who
led the outbreak from the Peniten
tiary in 1905 9 pardoned by the
governor for the offenses for which
they were serving, and were execut-
ed for the killing of John Clay and
Capt. Allison, prison officials.
A friend of the REGISTER in the
east sends me this clipping from the
New York American: big jeff
Tesreau, star pitcher of the Giants,
will marry Miss Helena Elizabeth
Blake at 2 o'clock this Afternoon in
the Church of st. Thomas the Apostle,
West One Hundred and Eighteen
street. The bride-to-be is one of the
six sisters i'm the family of John J.
Blake, bridge builder, who occupy an
apartment at No. $50 West One Hun
bred and Nineteenth street. When
Tesreau and the bride ELECT appeared
at the Marriage License Bureau to at
tend to the important preliminary
Jeff did not know what to do with
his hands, and by putting n big foot
on another came near tripping him
self up. But Miss Blake was perfectly
unconcerned, and her younger sister,
Miss J~osehpine Blake, amused herself
by sitting down at the table and fill
ing out a blank license application
with her own name and that of George
Burns, left fielder of the Giants, who
was also of the party. But last night
Miss Josephine fastened to disavow
that there was anything prophetic in
this prank. Another one of the six
sisters, when asked if Josephine is 60
ing to marry Burns, broke into a
laugh, poked Josephine in the ribs
and cried: She just better wait until
he asks her first The reason fol
hurrying the wedding is the depart
ure of the ball players on the round
the world tonr. Besides the Tesreaus
there will be Jim Thorpe and his
Indian bride, taken at Carlisle yester'
day: Larry Doyle and his bride he
a marrieda month ago and Lefty Rus
sell, of the White Sox, and his bride
of a week"
Magnificent stock of Iadies, Misses