Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-08-10

Now at this day comes the plaintiff,
B. p. Burnham, collector of the revenue
of Iron county, Missouri, and files his
petition and afidayit, setting forth
among other things, that the defendants,
Isabella R. Maekroth, Otto Maekroth
and Charles Z. Henderson, and Mis-
souri, California Mining and Develop
ment Company, a corporation,
are non-residents Of the state Of Mis-
souri,, and that they cannot be served
with summons in said state.
Plaintiff states that the defendants,
Isabella R. Mackroth, Otto Mackroth
and Charles E. Henderson,
have not been heard of for many years;
that plaintiff is not informed whether
they be living or dead; that if they
be dead, their heirs, or if they died
leaving a will, their devisees, are in
terested in the subject matter of this
petition; that the names of such heirs
or devisees, or both, cannot be inserted
herein because they are unknown to
plaintiff; that the said
Isabella R. Mackroth, Otto Mackroth,
Charles e. Henderson and Missouri
California Mining and Development
Company, a corporation,
were the record owners Of the land
described herein, but plaintiff has no
information except as herein stated OF
the nature of the interest and estate in
said land owned by said
Isabella r. Mackroth, Otto Mackroth.
Charles E. Henderson and Missouri
California Mining and Development
Company, a corporation,
and therefore is unable to particularly
describe the same, and that in the
event of the death of the said
Isabella R. Mackroth, Otto Mackroth
and Charles E. Henderson,
their said heirs and devisees have, by
descent or devise, succeeded to the said
interest and estate of the said
Isabella R. Mackroth, Otto Mackroth
and Charles E. Henderson,
from whom their interest in the pro-
perty herein described is derived. 1t
is therefore, ordered by the clerk of the
circuit court of Iron county, Missouri,
in vacation, that publication be made
notifying said defendants that an
action has been commenced against
them in the circuit court of said county,
the object and general nature of which
is to enforce the lien of the state of
Missouri on the following real estate,
belonging to the said defendants for
back taxes for the years 1918 and 1914,
to wit:
The north one-half of section 26,
township 81, north, of range l west,
$40 acres-said real estate being in
Iron county, Missouri.
Can itemized statement in the nature
OF a tax bill showing the amount OF
taxes, interest. and costs now due on
said real estate for the years aforesaid,
amounting in the aggregate to the sum
of twenty-five and 05-t00 dollars, is
filed with said petition as provided by
law
And unless they be and appear at the
next term of said court to be holden
for the county of Iron, and state OF
Missouri, at the court house in said
county on the fourth Monday in Octo-
Der next, 1915, and on or before the
third day thereof (if the term shall SO
long continue; and, If not, then before
the end of the term, and plead, answer
or demur to said plaintiffs petition, the
same will be taken as confessed. judg-
ment rendered in accordance with the
prayer of said petition, and said real
estate, or SO much thereof as may be
necessary to satisfy said judgment,
interest and costs, be sold under a
special fieri facias to be issued thereon.
1t is further ordered that a copy here
of be published according to law in the
Iron County Register, a weekly news
paper published in said county of Iron,
and state OF Missouri.
JESSE M. HAWKINS, Circuit Clerk
A true copy from the record.
[sEAL] Witness my hand and officia,
seal, this 24th day of June.
1916.
JESSE M. HAWKINS, Clerk
Circuit Court, Iron county, Mo.