Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-03-04


kept two guns pointed at the bankers.
No attempt was made to get the
money from the safe within the vault.
Alternating all of the money in sight,
the robbers marched the cashier and
directors into the vault and locked
the door. B. H. Selvidge, a jeweler
in an adjoining building, heard the
noise in the vault. The robbers were
leaving the building as he reached
the street. He fred and pursued
them a distance, but was unable to
get close enough to nit them. The
prisoners in the vault were liberated
a few minutes later. The others lock-
ed in the vault were Mrs. Haney, W.
M. Osborn and S. @. Haney. Blood
hounds yer procured from Poplar
Bluff, and pursuit of the robbers in
stantly instituted, resulting in the
capture next morning of one, and, it
is thought, the death of the other.
They proved to be John and Frank
Wilkinson, born and reared in Green
vile, and the discovery of their
identity was cause for surprise, they
having always been considered honest
and ~law-abiding men. Frank. the one
not(yet apprehended, is supposed to
have been drowned in an attempt in
his flight to swim Black river, which
barred his way.
The following, which / take from
the Memphis mo-. Democrat is of
local interest. Some of its conclusions
and differences may be amended, but
in the main / endorse its general SEN
timent in opposition to the particular
purchase proposed. Our W valley
offers superior advantage for a park:
'fHa Ha Tonka or some such out
landish title is the name of one of the
toughest, rockiest, most unfertile spots
in Missouri although it may be in
some respects picturesque and its
owners and some real estate brokers
are describing the place just now. A
junketing committee has been over
in Camden county to look this illus
trious spot over and will advise the
legislature whether the state of Mis-
souri, ought or ought not buy this spot
Of ground comprising a section more
or less of Camden county land the
property of the estate of Robert
Snyder. AS we understand it the
price proposed to be paid for this pile
of rocks in the Ozarks is $165 900. 1t
is estimated that in order to properly
improve the spot and make it a
beautiful park it would cost the state
approximately 100000 more. Then
to maintain the place as a pleasure
res rt there would be an extra annual
expenditure which in all probability
would grow from year to year like
the state university appropriations
grow. This would be a peach of a
snap for the Ozarkers to sell fifty
cent land at $165 an acre and dump it
off on the state. If the state wants
ground for a park let the legislature
send its junketing committee to
Northeast Missouri where the land
will not have to be made new in order
to grow flowers and shrubbery, some
of the things a park has to have. In
the Ozarks you have to cover the
clay and rocks and sand with fertilizer
before it will grow anything. Here
we have bluegrass plots as pretty as
Tower Grove park and flowers can be
made to grow in a season. This land
will sell for less money,than they r
asking for the rocks and the state will
then have something when she gets
1t. AS for the Democrat it is opposed
to the legislature making that pur-
chase and we believe the representa-
tive or senator from North Missouri
who votes for 1t might have to do a
lot Of explaining when he gets home.
Ha Ha Tonka is an euphonious lame
.(?) The Ozark rocks are picturesque
but we think the owners of the land
or the real estate men handling the
proposition had better come down to
about two dollars an acre before the
proposition would be worth consider
ing"