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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
WAR COST us. S4,573,13G
HOUSE TAKES UP DEFICIENCY
APPROPRIATION BILL.
More Than 26,ooo,ooo Asked for Pres
ent Fiscal Year, Largely on Ae-
count of Mexican Crisis,

Washington, D. C.-The urgent
deficiency appropriation bill, making
provision for more than Sc, 000,0 600 for
the present fiscal year, largely on ac.
count of the Mexican crisis, is before
the house. rs
An interesting statement had been
prepared by the war department to
show exactly the approximate amount
of the deficiencies in appropriations
of the quartermaster's department of
the army, due to the Mexican situa-
ton to June 80, next. This made a
total of $4,573,136 1t includes $1,100,-
149 for subsistence, $2,429,070 for
transportation of the army, both along
the border and to Mexico, and numer-
GUS other items relating to pay on &C
count of increased strength of the
army by reason of the Mexican trou-
BILE. The government already is obi
gated for ~S1,624,852.
The figures showed that fitting up
chartered ships for troops and ami
mails cost $4,000. For horseshoes
and nails alone the bill carries $500
The c~hartering of the steamers Sal
tilla and San Marcos to June 30, cost
$S1, 500, and for chartering of addi-
tional steamers to June 80, $685. 900
was asked Altering the transport
Mcclellan for cold storage cost $40,-
900.
The movement of troops to the Mex
lean border during the month of April
cost $155,507.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
cassvilIe stone May Be used.

Jefferson City-The fact that B. ].
Rosewater, president and manager of
the Cassville Marble and Stone com
pany of Cassville, Barry county, has
been summoned to Bedford, Ind, for
a conference with Capitol Contractor
X. F. Gill and c. J. ingalls,, president
of the ingalls, Stone company, leads to
the belief that the Cassville Burling-
ton limestone is to be selected for use
in the new Missouri statehouse.
For several weeks it has been ap-
parent that negotiations of some kind
have been going on between the Cass-
vile company and the Gill company.
This view was borne out by the fail
ure of an attempt Of a synd cate OF
Kansas City %quarrymen to get IN OPP
ton on the Cassville quarry.
C~assville Burlington limestone is
closely related to the Carthage stone.
1t is technically known as "3urling-
ton" limestone and is found at Cass-
vile in Lodges of sufficient width to
quarry in any dimensions called for in
the new capitol.
The understanding is that if a deal
is made with Gill and ingalls, by Rose
water the equipment Of the ingalls,
Stone company, which was to have
been used in the development OF a
quarry in Ste. G~enevieve county, will
be transferred to Cassville.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Ettorney.esneraI ASKS More Taxes.

Jefferson City.zAttorney-Gere
Barker has concluded that the tele-
phone companies in the larger cities
Of the state are not paying anything
like their proportion of taxes, and pro-
poses to call the matter to the atten-
ton OF the state board of equalization,
which has convened to assess the
steam railroads, street car lines, tele'
phone and telegraph lines and bridge
property for the present years taxea.
These properties were assessed last
year at a total of $3.50, 295,055.
There are 276 telephone companies
in this state. The Bell system was
valued last year at $4,256, 800, the Mis-
souri, & Kansas at $2,621,19 Kinloeh
$791,S13, American Telephone and
Telegraph $744,S43, Kansas City
Home .~$1,216,7SS. These and all the
other telephone companies will have
a hearing before the board May 90.
The encouragement declared these
companies were paying taxes on a ri
diculously low valuation, out of all
proportion to the valuation placed
upon other classes Of property. Pub
lie service corporations are supposed
to pay on about one-third of their &C
tual value. The encouragement said
he did not believe the telephone com
panies were paying on above 3 pei
cent of their value.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
TO APPEAL LGA!N.
FORMER POLICE LIEUTENANT is
FOUND GUILTY.
Prisoner, Twice Convicted of lnstisst-
ing Crime for Which Four Gun
men Have Been EIectrocuteo.

New York City.-Police Lieut.
Charles Becker, who has been found
guilty a second time of the murder
or Herman Rosenthal. will appeal
from the verdict.
Becker was remanded to the Tombs
until May %, after his counsel asked
and received a week in which to
make motions. II the motions are de-
MED, he then win go to Sing Sing
death house to await once more the
outcome of an appeal to the court
OF appeals.
The second trial of the case had oc-
cupied two weeks. Becker was first
convicted 10 months ago, The court
of appeals granted a new trial. Four
gunner recently we're e~lectrocuted
for the actual shooting of Rosenthal,
and Becker was charged with insti-
eating the crime.
When the jury entered the room
the foreman, F. Meredith Blagden, was
iii tears. After Becker had been
brought in Clerk Penny requested the
jury to arise. When Blagden was ask
ed whether a verdict had been reach
ed, he brushed the tears away with
a handkerchief and answered.
We have. We find the defendant
guilty as charged"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
WILSON CAN SAVE LEADERS
Court Takes Under Amusement Cases
Of Three Who Were Granted New
Trials at Former Sitting.

Chicago.-The "a labor leaders SEN
fenced in the "d.gGamiting cases" who
are at liberty on bonds have but three
weeks more of liberty. The United
States court Of appeals ordered them
to surrender June 6 to the warden of
the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kan, or be taken to the ~penitentiary-
from Chicago on that day.
The order will affect only 10 of the
"a men, five of them having returned
voluntarily to the penitentiary after
the United States circuit court of APP
peals denied them a new trial. They
are: Murray L. Pencil, Springfield,
ILL.,; Frank c. Webb, New York; Phil
ip A. Coonley, New Orleans; John t.
Butler, Buffalo, and Edward Smyth,
Peoria.
Only a pardon from President Will
SON a now save the convicted men
from serving their sentences, which
range from one to six years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
STAYS WIFE AND TWO WOMEN
to Die-Slayer Suicides When
Puraued by Posse.

Thief River Falls, Minn.--Four
persons are dead and another is
expected to die as the result of a
murder and suicide at the farm OF
o. K. Olson, 30 miles north Of here.
Louis Gilsoul went TO the Olson home
and shot four women. He killed him
self when pursued by a posse.
The dead are: Mrs. Ludwig Larson,
aged 40; Mrs, Louis Gilsoul, 30; Miss
Inga Olson, II, and Louis Cilsoul.
Mrs. Olson, at whose home the trag
edy occurred, wassso seriously wound
ed that she probably will de-
Mrs. Gilsoul, a daughter of Mrs. Oh
son, had separated from Gilsoul and
this led to the tragedy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
.CANADA'S PLACE
AS A PRODUCER
Canada Is Getting a Greet Many
Americans.

Three young provinces, Manitoba
Saskatchewan. and Alberta" says a
New York financial Journal have al
ready made Winnipeg n Of the great
est primary wheat markets OF the
world. In 1904 they raised 5~S,00O,0Oo
bushels of wheat. Five years later
they produced $780, O0. 900 bushels. In
1913 the crop Appropriated 100000
900 bushels. At the present rate or
progress Canada must soon pass
France and India, and stand third In
the line of wheat producers. Ulti-
mately 1t will dispute with Russia and
the United States for the first position
Wheat has been the pioneer OF our
development. Undoubtedly 1t VIII
prove the same with Canada. In the
last calendar year our trade with Can
ada amounted to 497 million dollars.
Only with two countries--the United
Kingdom and Germany-is our trade
greater. No vivid imagination is
needed to see what the future deyel-
opment of Canada means to the
people OF the United States.
The influx of American settlers to
the Canadian prairies is now in fult
swing. Within the past few days
over so of those arrived at Bassanp
carrying with them effects and capital
to the value of $500. 000. Fifty settlers
from Oregon arrived in Alberta a few
days ago; while Is families OF settlers
from the state of Colorado arrived at
Calgary on their journey n~orthwards-
The goods and personal effects OF this
! party filed 20 box cars. OF live stock
alone they had ITS horses, is cows
and 1000 head Of poultry. Another
class of settler has arrived at Peers,
ITO miles west of Edmonton, where mo-
fewer than 200 German farmers have
taken up land. These are from good
farming families and brought with
them a large amount of capital.
Then in South Western Saskatche-
wan, there are large numbers settling,
these from the United States predomi-
mating, while in the northern and CEN
trail portions of all these provinces,
the settlement Of new people is going
on steadily. Early in April, Peter
Goert2 arrived in Cardiff after a six
day Journey from Mcpherson, Kansas.
Mr.. Goertz who had purchased land
here was in charge OF a party OF 38
people from the same part of Kansas
and they came through with a special
train which included all their stock
and implements. The equipment was
all Rock Island cars, and was the first
full immigrant train aver sent out by
that railroad. The farms purchased
by the members of the party are
amongst the best in the district.
When the Panama exposition opens.
next year any of the three transcon-
tinental lines in Canada will make,
convenient mean Of transport for
those going to visit, and In doing
80 agricultural districts OF Western
Canada a be seen, and ocular DEM
onstration given those who have heard
but not before seen, of that which has
attracted SO many hundreds OF thou
sands Of American settlers.-Adver-
hsement.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
DENIES USE OF ROTTEN STEEL
Army Engineer Says Swindle Was
Discovered Before Unsafe Ma
teriaI Was Used IL Locks.

Washington, D. C.-The great steel
locks in the Panama canal are
as strong and as safe as engineering
skill can make them, and there is not
the slightest danger to life or proper
ty in their use, Notwithstanding the
disclosure of attempted fraud in the
supply Of proper metal for their con
struction.
This statement was made at the
Isthmian canal offices, when attention
was called to criminal presentments
found by the grand jury in Pittsbrug
against five steel makers on a charge
of conspiracy to furnish inferior ma
terial for the locks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
STORES TO CLOSE SATURDAYS
New Economic Problem Presented by
John Wannamaker's Action in
His Own Stores.

.-.|T -..'+"
Philadelphia, Pa. John Wanna
namaker announced that he will close
his stores in this city and later in
New York IN all Saturdays in July
and August, and both stores at s
o'clock every day in the year when
they are open.
He said he would use his influence
in every direction 10 have a national
closing of retail establishments on
Saturdays the year round.
More than 80 per cent of all the
store workers are of the unskilled and
u~norganized class. An economic fac.
tor may be that Ave days pays in
stead of six will be the ultimate re
suit.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
80 IN PERIL, REFUGEE SAYS
Party of Americans is Short Of Food
and Six Start on 200 Mile
Trip to Honduras.

Pensacola, Fla.-Thirty Ameri-
?ans at Laguna, in the Mexican
state of Campeche, are unable to CON-
municate with the United States au-
thorities and are in danger Of vio-
fence, according to ]. P. Lewis, of Pc
tersburg, Va, who reached Pensacola
on the Russian schooner Kalps.
Lewis said the Americans were run.
ming short of food when he left, and
that their situation was serious.
Six Americans, he said, set out on a
journey of 200 miles through dense
forests, in an effort to reach British
Honduras.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Full Quart of Berries.

Jefferson City.-Commissioner F.
III. Fricke, Of the state food and drug
department has issued notices to
berry shippers and dealers informing
them that the use Of short measur
boxes this season will mean prosecu-
ton.
Investigation has shown that each
season finds the false bottoms in the
berry boxes creeping closer to the top,
until now the consumer is being
cheated out of more than 20 per cent
Of the berries he pays for, said the at
torney for the department.
I'VE have found that the boxes in
which berries are sold by the quart
will hold a quart If the bottom is
put at the bottom where it is supposed
to be-" he said.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Reward Ordered paid.

Jefferson City.-Ten opinions were
approved by the supreme court in
banc and delivered. One of these writs
asked for an order to the Springfield
court Of appeals to certify for review
here the a involving the payment
Of the reward for the capture Of Wal.
ter Dippey, who murdered Stanley
Ketchel, the middleweight pugilist, in
Webster county, Oct. is, 1910. This
writ is denied, the supreme court de
clining to review the case. This means
that R. P. Dickerson, the Springfield
capitalist, at whose ranch Ketchel
was shot and killed, must pay the re-
ward and costs In the case, aggregat,
ing S5,642. Dickerson maintained that
he offered the reward for the dead
body of Ketchel's slayer, not for his
capture. The reward will be divided
between Thomas and Joseph Hoggard
and 2. T. Murphy OF Webster county.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
1000 SWITCHMEN MAY QUIT
Vice President Whitney Announces
Walkout Unless Roads Live Up
to Their Agreement.

Chicago. Il.-Ninety-eight per cent
of 1000 switchmen in the rail-
way yards Of the Chicago district
voted to strike unless the roads live
up to their agreement"
Vice President Whitney of the
switchmen announced that unless the
roads now complied with all the terms
of the contracts which the trainmen
claim they have violated a strike will
be ordered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
To Announce LAWYERS, Board,

Jefferson City.-Goy. Major an
nounced that he would Don give out
his selection Of a commission of ff-
teen lawyers to envolve a plan for
gimplification of the code of civil and
criminal court procedure in Missouri
and report it's suggestions to the les
sion Of the general assembly in Janu-
airy. So far the names Of only three
of the lawyers who will constitute the
commission are known. They are Ed
ward J. White of Kansas City, presi-
dent of the Missouri State bar Asso-
citation, Charles p. Williams, presi-
dent of the st. Louis Bar Association,
and John /. Williamson, president Of
the Kansas City Bar Association.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
At SEA IS DAYS
U. S. CUTTER PICKS UP MORE
SURVIVORS.
Fifteen Men Left Burned Steamer Co.
lumbar in Open Boat-Eleven
Dead of Exhaustion.

Boston, Mass.-Four survivors of a
boatload of Is who escaped in the
third boat of the freight steamer Co.
lumbar, burned at sea on May 3,
we're picked up by the United States
revenue cutter Seneca 40 miles south
of Sable Island, according to a dis
patch received here from the cutter.
When their short allowance of bis
cult and water had failed, they main
tanned life by chewing boot leather
and a few stray crumbs of hard tack.
Rain water was all they had to drink
after the water cask went dry.
The first two days after drifting
away from the flaming Columbian
they saw three steamers too far away
to be signaled.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
attorney SUES TO
RECOVER EXCESS
BARKER SAYS REORGANIZATION
SCHEME MUST BE PROVIDED
70 FOR PAYMENT.
sENDSASSIsTANT TO ST.LOUIS
Plan to Liquidate Unsecured Claims
at SOC on the DoIlar-This Does
81 Not Apply to
= Overcharges.

Jefferson City.-John T. Barker, at
torney general of Missouri, an
nounced lately that unless the state
public service commission requires a
provision for the settlement of over
charge claims against the Wabash
railroad before approving the pro-
posed plan of reorganization, he will
file a suit in the federal court to have
the reorganization plan and action OF
the commission set aside.
Barker sued the Wabash to recover
100000 in overcharges alleged to
have been exacted unlawfully from it's
passengers and shippers during the
tendency Of the injunction granted
by Judge Smith Mcpherson against
the enforcement of the new rate law,
in 1900.
When the Wabash reorganization
hearing was called to meet in St.
Louis Barker forwarded an official
communication to John M. Atkinson,
chairman of the Missouri public serv-
ice commission, suggesting that a pro-
vision be made in the scheme of re-
organization as finally approved for
the payment of all claims for over
charges.
He sent Lee Ewing, one of his as
~sistants, to st. Louis to argue the
point before the joint commissions.
Mr.. Ewing appeared before the COM
missions, but no decision was reached
or his proposals.
In the plan of reorganization sub
mitted 1t was stated that all unse-
cured claims would be paid on a basis
Of so per cent, when ascertained.
Barker says this does not apply to
the ~overcharge claims, and that if it
did it is unsatisfactory.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
BOY SLAIN; MAN FOUND DEAD
Elein, III, Youths Throat Slashed
While Visiting Playmate, Whose
Uncle Supposedly Took Poison.

Elgin, Ill.--His throat slashed,
Orville Magnus, 7, was found dead
in the home of Charles Redanz,
here. In an adjoining room lay Har
old A. Lawlor, IS, a photographer,
dead. Nearby was a phial, which had
contained poison.
Victor Magnus, a wealthy and prom
inent resident of this city, and the
father of the Magnus boy, discovered
the double crime.
The Magnus boy had gone to the
home of his playmate, Harold Redanz,
to pass the night. Lawlor, the photog-
rapher, was caring for the house in
the absence of his sister, Mrs. Redanz.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
The Button Doctor.

During the short seven years Of her
life, little Florence Louise had be.
come duly impressed with the preya-
lence of specialists in the medical pro-
fession.
One day, after returning from a visit;
to a small playmate, she calmly an
nounced:
"Rena swallowed a button"
Are you worried about her" she
was asked.
"Oh, she will get along all right.
Florence Louise complacently replied.
They sent for q regular button doc
tor."-Judge.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
OPENING OF CANAL PLANNED
Col. Goethals Heads Commission to
Arrange Ceremonies to Take
Place January /, 1915.

Washington, D. C.-President Will
son signed an executive order
placing the Panama canal commission
in charge of the ceremonies for the
opening of the canal, Jan, l, 1915. The
commission is to be headed by Col.
George w. Cocktails, governor of the
canal zone, with Richard l., Metcalf
as vice chairman. This other members
of the commission are Coils. Sibert,
Gorgas, Pousseau and Hodges.
The headquarters of the commission
will be in Washington, with Metcalf
in active charge.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Aleqed AssalIant Arrested.

Jefferson City.-Isaac Jones, a
young negro of this city, was arrested
by the police charged with an at
tempted assault upon Catherine Ger
Der, a 10-year-old white girl, who es-
capped from her assailant and ran to
her home in this city with the man
close at her heels. The negro chased
the child clear to her door, and did
not desist until the girls mother
screamed for help. The child identi-
fed the negro, although the police are
rather disposed to fasten the crime
upon another negro. Jones is in Jail
and there is great indignation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
subcontractors Approved.

Jefferson City.-The state capitol
commission has approved the firm Of
Ables G. Godfrey Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
as subcontractors for the ornamen-
tai iron and bronze work upon the
new state capitol, according to D. d.
Aronberg, Gill's representative in JEFF
feson City.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Boy RaIloonlst nrowna.

Alton, Hin the presence OF a
large crowd Of men and women who
were powerless to save him, Robert
Cowan, IS years old, making his sec
Ont flight In a hot-air balloon, fell into
the Mississippi river and drowned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
ONE CONFEssEs ON SCAFFOLD
One of Two Blacks Hanged Tells Of
Murder Plot in Mississippi
in March, Last Year.

Friar Point, Miss,--Joe Thomas
and Dave Nash, negroes, were hanged
here for the murder of Deputy Sheriff
Frank Mullen, in March, 1918.
Nash confessed on the scaffold, say
ing he and three others plotted to kill
Mullen, who was sent to the wharf to
arrest a negro for attempting to kill
the mate of the steamer Kate Adams.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Meclunq Injured bv FAN.

Jefferson City.-D. G. McClung,
chairman of the Democratic state
committee, is suffering from a
sprained hip and severe bruises. He
was injured at the Country club,
where, after an al fresco fish barbe-
cue, he slipped and fell during a foot
race. tx 4
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Finds Winter Wheat Good.

Observation-Disclosures by the de-
partment of agriculture on the 1914
wheat crop are for a total winter and
spring combined, of $500 900 bush
els. This is on a combination of the
largest acreage on record and prom.
Use of the greatest yield per acre in
years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Kills Three Women and Self.

Thief River Falls, Minn.-Four per-
sens are dead and another is expected
to die as the result of a murder and
suicide at the farm Of o. K. Olson, 80
miles north of here. Lonis Gilsoul
went to the Olson home and shot four
women. He killed himself when pur-
sued by a posse.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28

Jefferson City.--Joseph Durkin, a
st. Louis man convicted at Macon of
picking the pocket of q railroad man,
and sentenced to serve two years in
the state penitentiary, was granted a
new trial because one word was wrong
in an instruction. The instruction de-
fined larceny as wrongful or fraudu-
lent stealing. taking or carrying
away" The court held that the con
junction "and" should have been used
instead Of "or." Durkin has been tried
three times before.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Hlt BY TraIn. browne n creek,

Jefferson City.-Price Ware, 80
years. old, was found dead In shallow
water at the mouth Of Wears creek.
Circumstances indicate that he was
struck by IN engine In the Missouri
Pacific yards and knocked into the
creek. He was probably so stunned
that he drowned while unconscious.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Limited Intentions

How do you propose to support
my daughter, sir?"
7 didn't propose to her to support
her at all. only proposed to her to
marry me."-Rehoboth Sunday Her.
aid.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Are There That ManyY

Church, e that Milwaukee fe
preparing to change over one hundred
street names.
Cotham--Going to name the streets
after the different establishments
which made the city famous. probably.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28
Midshlpmen Given Bibles.

Annapolis, Maryland.-Bibles we're
presented to the midshipmen Of
the graduating class of the naval acad-
envy by the American Seamen's Friend
society of New York. One hundred
and ffty-six midshipment received
copies. Protestants were presented
with the American standard version,
while Catholic received the Douay
version.