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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-06-29
Order of Publication.

In the circuit court of Iron county,
Missouri, in vacation, May 2s, 1916.
The state of Missouri, at the relation
and to the use of B. P. Burnham,
collector of the revenue of Iron
county, Missouri,
against
j. G. Bruner and j. l. Boucher, if
living; or the unknown c~onsorts,
heirs and devisees of J. G. Bruner
and ]. l. Boucher, if they be dead,
defendants.
(Aetion TO Enforce Lien for Taxes.)
Now at this day comes the plaintiff,
R. P. Burnham, collector of the rev.
enue of Iron county, Missouri, and
files his petition and affidavit, setting
forth among other things, that the
defendants,
]. Q. Bruner and ]. |. Boucher, if liv-
ing; or the unknown c%onsorts, heirs
and devisees of ]. G. Bruner and j.
Q. Boucher, if they be dead,
are non-residents of the state of MIS-
souri,, and that they cannot be served
with summons in said state;
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;
Lot q in block IA of, the Murdoch
Crumb Company's subdivision of parts
of sections % and 80, township 81,
north, of range 4 east; tract 80 in
section SO, township "a, north, of
range 8 east, 1852 acres, as shown by
Murdoch Crumb plat book 3, page 5;
All of above described land being sub
ject to mineral reservation made by
Big Muddy Coal & Iron Company in
book SO, page PAL, Iron county land
records-said real estate being in Iron
county, Missouri.
Gan itemized statement in the ma
ture of a tax bill showing the amount
of taxes, interest and costs now due
said real estate for the years aforesaid,
amounting in the aggregate to the
sum of four and 37-100 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 October next, 1916, and on or be-
fore the third day thereof (f 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, judgment render
ed 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
hereof be published according to law
in the Iron County Register, a weekly
newspaper 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 Of
fetal seal, this goth day of
May, 1916.
JESSE NJ. HAWKINS, Clerk
Circuit Court, Iron county, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-06-29

and said real estate, or so much thereof as
may be necessary 10 satisfy said judgment,
interest and costs, be sold under a special
heri facias 10 be issued thereon.
II is further ordered that a copy hereof be
published according 10 law in the Iron Coun-
~ Register, a weekly newspaper published
in said county of Iron and stale OF Missouri.
JESSE NJ. HAWKINS, Circuit Clerk.
A tru cop from the recordi
SEAL Witness my hand and Official seal,
this 18th day OF May. 1916.
JESSE N. HAWKINS, Clerk
Circuit Court, Iron county, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-06-29
Order of Publication.

In the circuit court Of Iron county,
Missouri, in vacation, May 20, 1916.
The state Of Missouri, at the relation
and to the use Of B. p. Burnham,
collector Of the revenue OF Iron
county, Missouri,
against
A, 1, Higgins, II living; or the I'M
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-06-29

county Of Iron, and State of Missouri.
JESSE NJ. HAWKINS,
Circuit Clerk.
A true copy from the record:
Witness my hand and official seal, this
[sEALl goth day of May, 1916
JESSE NJ. HAWKINS, Clerk
Circuit Court, Iron County, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-06-29

In the circuit court of Iron county,
Missouri, in vacation, May 80, 1916.
The state of Missouri, at the relation
and to the use of B. P. Burnham,
collector of the revenue of Iron coun-
ty, Missouri,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-06-29
Order of Publication.

In the circuit court of Iron county,
Missouri, in vacation, May 90, 1916.
The state of Missouri, at the relation
and to the use of B. P. Burnham,
collector of the revenue of Iron coun-
ty, Missouri.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-06-29
Order of Publication.

In the circuit court of Iron county, Mis-
souri,, in vacation, May 20, 1916.
The state of Missouri, at the relation
and to the use of b. P. Burnham,
collector OF the revenue Of Iron county,
Missouri,
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
.KACE GETS White
SLAVE INDICTMENT
Mayor Will Try to Obtain Tom
Schmitz's Waiver to
Preiiminaries.

Following the receipt Of the Fedora
indictment against John Smith, ALA.
Tommie Schmitz, alias Handsome
Harry, alias Lewis Sheriff., who was
brought to the Cape late Saturday
night on charge of violation OF the
Mann white slave law, Mayor Rage
yesterday declared that he intended
to see Sheriff. at the city jail today
to learn if he will waive a preliminary
hearing and agree to go to Joplin,
where he is wanted at once.
The indictment returned by the
Grand jury at Joplin charges him with
violating the white slave law on four
counts. Sheriff. was arrested at
Grandin, Carter county, Mo-, last Sat
urday by q special agent of the De-
partment of Justice and City Marshal
Gillespie of Puxico.
Sheriff D. F. Sutherland of Garnatt.
Kansas, where the man married his
second wife-Hazel NJ. Stewart-of-
fered a reward of 500 for the arrest
of Sheriff., after he had escaped the
officers by leaping hand-cuffed from a
moving train. He was wanted at that
time for bigamy. The papers received
by Mayor Rage show that he had
abandoned his first wife at Nowata,
Oklahoma and married without hav-
ing obtained a divorce.
The documents received in the Cape
included several photographs of Sher-
rill. He is said to be one-eighth
Indian. While escaping the police he
posed as a lame tramp and scalp
doctor
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
MISSOURI POISON
CASES INVESTIGATED
StOmachS of Women AnaIyZed
By St. Louis University
Expert.

Vienna, Mo-, March 229.-Prosecut-
| ing Attorney L. B. Hutchinson is
awaiting the arrival here today of DR..
II. G. BriStow of the St. Louis Uni
versity medical faculty, who has been
| making an analysis of the viscera of
Mrs. Thomas Nelson and Miss Clara
Matthews, who died March - under
mysterious circumstances after drink
ing water from a bucket on the Mat
thews farm in Maries county.
The authorities believe the women
we're poisoned and that a deliberate
plot existed 10 get them out of the
way. At the time of their death an
inquest was held, but it was adjourned
to be re-opened on April ?.
If DR.. Bristow's report is that the
organs contained poison, warrants will
BE- issued Immediately for those sus-
pected or who would have motive
to bring about the death of the two
women.
The residents of both Maries and
Pulaski counties believe that the wom-
en- were killed. The prosecuting at
torney, however, said he would take
no active steps in the matter until he
had heard from DR.. Bristow. The
physician called to attend the women
said that both women showed symp-
toms of poisoning by bichloride of
mercury.
Four persons drank of the alleged
tainted water and three died. The four
that were made i'll were Mrs. Thomas
Nelson, her 15-months-old baby, and
her two sisters, Clara and Ella Mat
thews. Mrs. Nelson and Miss Clara
Matthews died on March % and the
baby on March %.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
SHERRILL WAVES
HIS PRELIMINARY
Protests His IOnOcence to Rage
Breaks Down at Sight of
Fathers Photo.

The preliminary hearing before
L. S. Commissioner Rage yesterday
WAS waived by John Smith. alias Tom
ME Schmitz. alias Handsome Harry,
alias Lewis Sheriff., who is in the city
Jail under Federal indictment issued
at Joplin, charged with a violation of
the Mann white slave law.
He announced MS determination to
waive the examination through H. +.
Alexander, his attorney, after he had
a long talk with Rage, who went to
the Jail to see him yesterday.
Sheriff., the name that he has used
since he came to Southeast Missouri
and by which he was going when ar
rested last Saturday at Grandin, will
be taken before Judge Dyer at the
April term Of L. S. District Court in
the Cape, and he will be transferred
to the Joplin court for trial.
The indictment against Sheriff.
charges him with violation of the
white slave law on four counts. In his
conversation with Rage yesterday he
denied the charges Of white slave
operations. He admitted the charge of
bigamy that was placed against him
at Garnett, Kansas, where he was
married a second time without having
obtained divorce from his first wife.
In the papers that Rage received
with the indictment, there were sew
eral photographs. Kage showed these
to Sheriff. for purposes of having
some of them identified. When Sher-
rill saw q photograph of his father
holding young sister on his knee, he
broke down and cried in Kage's
presence.
He told the Mayor that he was con-
fident that his relatives would aid him
in his defense in the court. He said
he is pcnniless.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
KAGE AND COUNCIL NOT
ASKED TO FIRE CAUCUS
Mayor and Lawmakers Say They Buy
Equipment But Viii Avoid All
Chatter in Regard Thereto.

Mayor Rage was incensed yesterday
when he learned that virtually every
civic organization in the Cape had
been consulted through their executive
heads and been invited to participate
in Fre-Prevention mass meeting
this afternoon in the Park theater. and
not word was said to the Mayor or
Councilman concerning the admins
tration's share in supporting the
movement.
"Our participation in fire prevention
and fire fighting" the Mayor re-
marked, will not be confined to talk
ing about it, however. We intend to
equip the city with the apparatus that
will do the business, should be ever
have another big fire."
The movement for, the mass meet
ing was headed by Sam, Carter of the
Commercial Club. Allen H. Hinchey
and NJ E. Leming expect to be speak
ers. They will talk on what is ex-
peeted of the people of the Cape in
the campaign for fire-prevention, in
augurated through the Commercial
Club and several other organizations
working in conjunction with the State
Federation of Commercial Clubs, st.
Louis Fire Prevention Bureau and the
Fire Underwriters Association.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
ST. VINCENT'S YARD
IS A BEAUTY SPOT
Church Ladies Begin Annual Cam
paign to Make Lawn a
Blossom Bed.

The ladies of St. Vincent's church
have begun identifying the church
yard on South Spanish street, as has
been their custom for years. Flowers
are being planted, the large plants are
getting their annual pruning, and Ike
lawn is being put into condition.
St. Vincent's church yard demon
strates what the city beautiful move
ment can 90, if the proper efforts are
made. The church is fanEed on the
norrh by the ruins Of an old residence
that was destroyed by fire almost q
score of years ago.
In order 70 overcome the i'll effects
of the forsaken brick walls, the ladies
of the church, who are advocates Of
the city beautiful campaign, decided to
make the church yard tire prettiest in
the city. and they succeeded.
Along the northern boundry of the
church property a row of plants, with
almost tropical foliage, were planted.
These grew to enormous heights and
obscured the most unsightIy sections
of the walls upon the adjacent
property.
A gardner is employed to care FOR
the grounds, which are kept properly
watered and trimmed throughout the
summer months. Great bowers of
blossoms bloom continuously during
the warm seasons. The success the
st. Vincent ladies have met with in
this lawn has made the city
beautiful idea a hobby. They are now
to have other unkept lots
made pretty with shrubbery and
flowers.
Mrs. A. D. Speak, who is manager
of the ST. Vincent church yard, is one
of the ladies who is active in the city
beautiful plan.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
CHILD" 20 YEARS
OLD, WEIGHS LBS.
South Cape Woman Tells d. II.
Palmer Story of Her
Daughter.

The anamoly Of "child' 90 years
old and weighing seven pounds has
been in the Cape for the last few
days in family in South Cape, ac-
cording to a story told yesterday to
d. Fl. Palmer, of the Wasem Drug
store in Haarig, by the mother of the
child.
The child's name is Ethel Mcmillan.
She can neither talk nor walk, accord
ing to the story the mother told, and
the most that she ever has weighed
in her life was 80 pounds.
The weight Of seven pounds was
obtained, the mother said, by DR..
Hammond in Campbell a few days
ago, when he made bet with another
physician over the weight Of the child.
The family has travelled in a wagon
overland from Arkansas, their orig
in2i home, and today will strike camp
in South Cape, where they have lived
since their arrival here, and take the
ferry boat for Illinois.
The discovery of the phenomenal
Child" was made here when the
mother asked AIr. Palmer to furnish
her with some medicine for her child.
Mr.. Palmer inquired to learn the age
and size of the individual ne was re-
Cuested to give the medicine for. The
woman then told him that although
the child" was % years old, she
weighed but seven pounds.
She said that along their route out
of Campbell, where the child's pres
ence became generally known. the
road was filed with persons who asked
to be allowed to see the child.
The mother Of the child said that
she had been suffering with pneumonia
ali winter and that accounted for the
extreme light weight, coupled with the
! fact that about three years ago, she
said, she had an attack of spinal
meningitis that affected her weight.
Most OF the weight now is the head of
the child, which is larger than any
other portion Of the body, she told Mr..
! Palmer.
In medical science, such pygmies
are known as cretans. It is physiol-
ogicalIy possible for such a stunted
growth to occur if something happens
to the thyroid glands in the throat so
as to hinder their proper functioning.
These glands control the growth of
the person and if they do rot func-
ton properly, the growth in the bones
and muscles does not take place.
Physicians who were asked about
the case last night declared this may
be an extreme case of cretan.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
HAS FOOT AMPUTATED.
Gangrene Caused Operation Upon
Mrs. S. p. Williams Yesterday.

Following an illness of several
weeks with an affection of her right
foot, Mrs. S. P. Williams, of Pacific
street, yesterday underwent an opera
ton at st. Francis hospital and had
the foot amputated.
The infection started from a small
sore on her foot several weeks ago.
1t became rapidly worse and a few
days ago gangrene set in, which made
it necessary to amputate in order to
save her entire leg.
Mrs. Williams was reported to be
doing well last night.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
kAGE JUMPS INTO WEDDING
GAME ON RETURN FROM CITY
Ties Knot for Couple from limo and
Chaffee-Bride is ri Years Old
and Bridegroom is rs.

Scarcely had the Mayor fully recov-
cred his equilibrium after his flying
trip to st. Louis in the interests Of a
new fire department, when he was
called upon to perform a marriage
ceremony yesterday.
The applicants for the license and
ceremony were Charles Brown of H.
mo and Miss Lottie Myers of Chaffee.
The couple were married by the Mayor
shortly after noon and they departed
for their home in limo. The bride
was "a years old and the bridegroom
was IS.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
HELLO" GIRLS NOW
LOOK FOR new JOBS
Three STRIKERS" at Jackson Fail
to Get Advance in
Wages.

( Jackson, March 29.-At the close Of
the second day of their strife" the
three Hello girls who asked for an
increase in wages, tonight announced
they had given up trying to reach an
| agreement with ,he telephone com
pany and were going to lool, for
ether Jobs.
They declared they would not return
to their positions as operators in the
jackson exchange and as a result the
telephone Office was jammed with
Jackson girls seeking to become
Hello girls in their places.
Two OF the girls who left Monday
evening were on the long distance
boards and we're in charge Of the lines
over the entire county as well as lines
outside Cape county. The third oper-
ator YhO remained of duty was
local operator.
Miss Meta Meier. who had been in
the service for about five years. went
back to her post Miss Jennie Horn,
chief operator. who has been in service
Is years, was the only operator who
didn't Join in the stril;a.
Miss Meier is the oldest of five
children and her mother is a widow.
The others who declined to return TO
their switehboards were Miss Frances
Milde, eight years in the service; Miss
Bertha Hartle, five years in service;
both long distance operators; and Miss
Pearl Beat.ie, three years in the serv-
ice, local operator.
The first two said they had been
getting s22.5O a month and asked for
an advance to $50. The others asked
for raise to S27, they said.
One of the girls said that on some
days they were required to work rs
hours. The next day they would be
or duty but hours. the two night
shifts. alternating. The 18-hour day
was on the basis of a split-hour shift,
part of the time being in the morning
and the remainder at night.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
GAVE AWAY TRIP TO CHINA.
Knehans Forced TO FcregO $1,000 Trip
Turns it Over to Friend.

o. A. Knehans, city counselor and
bankruptcy referee, yesterday was
visited by the man to whom he turned
over a $1,000 trip to Hongkong, China,
a few years before Mr.. Knehans came
to the Cape. The man was w. Paul
MObley of st. Louis, an attorney.
Mobley was in Southeast Missouri
yesterday looking elt some land he had
purchased and stopped off in the Cape
for few hours to visit Mr.. Knehans.
At the time Knehans gave Mobley the
trip to China, ne was in the Federal
building in st. Louis and Mobley was
an attorney Just starting his practice.
Knehans was unable to go at that
time
The $1,000 was to pay all expenses
and the job at Hongkong was to settle
legal matters connected with property
held in this country. Mobley was in
China FOR a month on the trip and
gone from st. Louis three months.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
OHIO HAS ANOTHER FLOOD.
Governor May Call Out Militia to
Patrol Inundated Sections,

Columbus, O., March Ex-Governor
Willis tonight is considering calling
out one battalion of the National
Guard for patrol duty along the banks
of the Scioto river, which is nearing
the flood stage. Refugees today in
vaded the capital and prepared to
spend the night there, unless the river
recedes. Reports reaching the capital
tonight state that many points in Ohio
are threatened with serious floods.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
PARKER KAGE RECOVERING.
Mayors Grandson was Threatened
with Attack of Pneumonia.

Parker Rage, grandson of Mayor
Kaye, yesterday afternoon was out
following a two-weeks' illness, during
which time he was threatened with
pneumonia in his left lung
About two weeks ago the boy con-
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31

L. o. Collins of Cairo, H., was a
business visitor here yesterday.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
MASONS INITIATE THREE.
Johnson, Dittlinger and DIR. Hope ar

Johnson, Dttlinger and DIR. Hope are
Taken into Lodge.
St. Marks Lodge No. SO of the An
cient Free and Accepted Masons last
night gave the first degrees of the
order to three candidates at a meeting
in the Masonic hall, Spanish street
and Broadway.
The men who received the degrees
of the order are Prof. B. F. johnson
of the Normal School faculty, A. C.
Dittlinger and DR.. D. H. Hope.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31

tracted a severe cold. He was con-
fined to his home and the cold was
accompanied by an attack of influenza
During his illness he developed several
symptoms of pneumonia and not until
q few days ago was ne considered out
of danger of a severe illness with that
nlalady.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-31
FILES BANKRUPTCY PETITION
Carter County Man Has S475 Assets
and $500 Liabilities.

and $500 Liabilities.
U. S. Referee in Bankruptcy 0. A
Knehans yesterday received a volun
tary petition in bankruptcy from Ber
Chiffon, of Chiffon, Carter county
Mo. Mr.. Chiffon was in the mercan.
tile business there.
His petition and schedule of assets
and liabilities were forwarded to Mr.
Knehans by j. L. Hewett, attorney fol
Chiffon, and a hearing of the case was
set for April II.
In the schedule filed. assets are
listed at about S4475, in ending 10
hogs. The liabilities, many of which
are from merchandise concerns, ap-
proximate $500.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-06-21
PACIFIC FLEET IS
ORDERED To MEXICO

San Diego, Cab, June 21.-The cruis-
er San Diego, flagship of the Pacific
fleet, with Admiral Cameron MGR.
Winslow on board, was prepared to
leave for either Guaymas or Mazatlan.
The cruiser Chattanooga left for Aca-
pulca and the cruiser Denver left soon
afterward for Salina Cruz.
The United States destroyers HULL
Hopkins and Truxtum sailed from San
Pedro to accompany the San Diego
The cruiser Milwaukee will follow in
a few days when necessary repairs are
completed.
The warships are under orders tc
proceed to the west coast of Mexico
at top speed. The ships bunkers were
filled to capacity with coal and large
supplies of meat and other stores
we're taken on board
The cruisers Colorado and Pitts
burg, the latter the flagship of Real
Admiral Fullam, commander-in-chie
of the Pacific fleet. will sail to joir
the ships under Admiral Winslow
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-06-21
CARRkkzA'S ORDER
DEFIED BY PERSHINC

Ell Paso. Tex, June 21.-Defiance by
United States soldiers of President
Carranza's threat to attack General
Pershing's forces If they move south,
east or west Is the most important
development in Mexico in q twenty
four-hour period marked by compare
tive quiet
If the threat is carried out Ameri-
can and Carranza forces will clash.
On learning from friendly Mexicans
that the bandits were operating to the
south and west of Namiquipa, General
Pershing Immediately sent two de
tachments of cavalry in pursuit.
The American troops trampled over
"Carranza's dead line"
General Pershing arranged to sup
port these detachments with heavy
reinforcements should they be at
tackled. He is also keeping his com
munication lines north to Columbus
strongly guarded. Trenches have
been thrown up in Juarez near the
two international bridges.
General Francisco Gonzales, com
mander of the garrison, stated thai
while he did not expect a clash witt
General Bells forces In Ell Paso the
intrenchments were intended as pre-
caution against attack.