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I KIDU MOKMM. OCTOBER ♦*riiE 8IKE8TON STANDARDM\ JOSEPH EDITOR TELLSAltai T JESSE JAMES DEATHMoralists and purists may live ami inveigh -they may plead, coax, cajole, or threaten people—hut they will never succeed in effacing the f name or the knowledge of Jesaej Jam*s. the world famed outlaw who 1 in day? just after the war made these! part? of Missouri not only famous, but interesting a? well. The highly colored and untrue story sent out from this city at purists’ suggestions, by some cheap penny-a-liner. to the effect that the Jesse James house on high school hill is going to rack and ruin is entirely without foundation, as the house is almost a good as in the days when it sheltered the great outlaw am’ sometimes members of his gang—hut that is the purists’ fault—and loose and long tongued-ness.Jake Spencer, who at the time of the killing of James was owner of and editor of the St. Joseph News, as the present New?-Press was then known, probably knows as much as any living person just now of the gruesome affairs and a story from Spencer is alway - welcome, Mr, Spencer has been in Los Angeles for ihe past month eii;ng a great order of Goss Presses to the coast, and when the rotten story of the purists i relative to the wrecked condition of the Jesse James house showed up in I the Isj? Angeles Evening Herald as it did all over the county, Jake after giving it the once over, grabbed the trusty pencil which he had a abstracted from some friend’s pocket,! and wrote the real story for the Evening Herald, which that great j paper plays up as a front pager in its big Sunday edition of September j 2, and here is how' Jake tells it:The Story of ‘Th* Old Home of f Jesse James’, which appeared in the j Evening Hera hi under the dj August 29. and written by a St. Joseph news pa plt; i man, carries me hack to the old days when 1 was publishing the St. Joseph New-.Inasmuch as the readers of The Evening Herald have had the history of the house of Je-* James, it might he interesting to tell them something about Jesse himself whi!e he was a resident of St. Joseph.On the morning of April 2, 1882,I was advised by the coroner that a murder had been committed at a certain number r Lafayette street. I went immediately given and upon ari l saw the body of J on the floor direct!; door.“I had known him many month*?.For weeks prio newspapers? all overof iiddre.-s ■ house ! lyingfront‘Howard’ t trior to his death jver the country, al- jmost every day, contained stories of I me bank being looted, or some ra 11-• ad train Wing held up. All the. uhberie- wer• • ;:?tdhuttd _?hedames boys.No matter if a job wa- pulled off in San Francisco or Los Angeles one i ight and another job in the far Eastt h« night following, the James boysdid it, according to newspaper ac-And a!■ • • *t far awaytime Jesse James eph. and Frank wa-'froWhen they neede* money went out am1 robbed a bank, they laid low and kept away : he officers until they needed money and then they robbed a They had legion*, of friends * iend? in crime, but people sympathized with ihem, not hocau hey were criminal.-, but because * »e thing that mad* them criminalwhoAt thecaking out of theANNOUNCEMENTHard Road** EverywhereWe have become associated with the A. J. Matthews Co., Inc., in the handling of their lands and will, on or about November 1st offer for sale several thousand acres of this property.These lands have been carefully selected over a period of years by the biggest farmers and best judges of soil in Southeast Missouri. They embrace many of the choicest farms in Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard and New Madrid Counties. Most of the land is on hard surfaced roads and practically all of the property is located adjacent to the thriving and prosperous towns of Oran, Randles, Perkins, Sikeston, Lilbourn, Malden, Parma, Gideon and Risco, Missouri. Taken as a whole this is the finest body of improved land in the state of Missouri.The land that is to be sold will be subdivided into small farms and sold at reasonable prices. The terms are to be 20 per cent of the purchase price in cash, a Joint Stock Land Bank an Insuance Company, or a similar long time loan in a first mortgage and the balance in annual payments over a period from five to eight years, at 6 per cent interest. It is our hope that large numbers of farmers and people of limited means will take advantage of this opportunity to acquire homes for themselves and their families, for not until Southeast Missouri becomes a country of home owners will the “Modern Promised Land” come into its own.In keeping with that same idea of enabling people to acquire homes for themselves, we are also offering the cut-over lands of the Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company in tracts of 20, 40, 60, or 80 acres as desired by the purchaser at reasonable prices and on the most liberal terms any land has ever been sold in Southeast Missouri; 10 per cent of the purchase price in cash the balance 10 years after date at 6 per cent interest, with no interest the first two years if the purchaser improves the property.We expect to work with the other real estate firms in Southeast Missouri in handling this property andsolicit their co-operation.For further information about any of this land you may be interested in, seeA. J. Matthews Caleb Matthews John Porter J. B. StubblefieldSikeston, Mo.Oran, Mo.Risco, Mo.Malden, Mo.ORThe Himmelberger-Harrison Land and Investment CompanyCAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURIWar the Jante-family1 peat e j-t mi plentyanc1 we* ehighly re-pect- jkm w the burbti place. Foreveryde- ;• The i•kb rJam* s lt;owneda farmteethethatdisappearedanother?efct Indejremit•nee, Mo.came totakehis place and■wetIn theear- ot tihe wa* |the saine faet.**Id man Jagio t woS {Or»right,detective- thinkingtheFrank andJes1»«•, wer*busy tm the!boy? wlt;.re athome, threwa bomb \am. Th-were !*moerat? andthr ugha window of th* blt;*use, 1kill- joutherrpatfeiser.-They had |ing oneof thechildren andcompletecommittedno lt;hey were not]y severing the right arm o-f theold jtalking ptlilies, they \vere tvot tak- 5mother.Thehoy? were notat hlt;ome ing Northor South, buttheirsympa-1that nig•ht.* hie? were with theSouth.They 1Oneafternoon in the earlly part of 1were not lt;■xpec•t mg a viftit frlt;m any J1882. aman lt;-ame into thebushnes? j..ne who nteamL harm.office ofthe S! Joseph New?and iBut one* day, while the t hr?boughta copyof that evening’sedi- jn the fiekA atwork, abandof men!tion. After rlt;•adirig it he siepp.d1 upjrode up, vrentinto thefield.hangedto theeounter and askedme iif I !* he fatherand1 almostkilledFrank.;was thrpublisher of theNew -.liThis wasthestart of Frank andjtold hini 1 wa?..mameee aet-onoid ostr“He told mehis name wa.- Howran!Later! heyjoinedQuantrel! and jand added thathe liked the .Newsandhi- band.Whi*n the var end-ed they stook agreatinterest n rlt;fading it.were out laws aml a leward of$40,009Thecopyof the paperhehadHoward came to the o a copy of the pape every robberyand bought And almost ~ue contained a James tory, double leaded amiplayed up tothefrazzle. The James ensation of the eoun-- day and weeks wore on we ne friend? and discussed almost topic except the James hoys. ,a? an interesting eonver-ation-a man of pleasing personalityj hi? saloon at lt;At the time i com s pen dent newspapers. 1 the story, and i ; at lea«t 50,000 * Joseph and 25(! jail tm TheBoh wa? killed in ■ de, Colo, the murder, I was t several lar^e mediately sent out less than three days Dangers were in St. 5o wspaper men from f the country.• of the News wentoffered for their The reward . sleuth in theit.Even after the reward was of- ! lt;red and officer* and detectives wen el ter them, they went back home and began tilling the old farm.Mary a d« teeth* went there to «i k employment. And not a single me of them wa? refused work. They j ere st lit into the field and told what I do. The next morning the det* * mis-ng and no one evercapture dead ot j just finished reading contained a wa1- large and, story of a bank robbery committed en try aa- af • the night before in -ome -mall town it Ohio. Xnd the James bo\ did the job.To thrs day 1 can see the smile that came over his face when he rest: trk* o that he knew 1 wa- publishing a reliable new - paper. Had 1 known the man with whom 1 was » j versing was none other than .Jesse James, 1 would have completely col-d.very afternoon after thus visitwhile he lived in St. Joseph he attended Sunday school with hi? two children.Charlie and Bob Ford were living with th* James family in St. Joeeph.The t hr fThey looted bank? and robbed railroad trains. But all the time they were looking for an opportunity to kill James for the $20,00 reward which had been offered by Governor Crittendon.The opportunity came when Jesse wa hanging a picture after he had taken off hi? vest, which contained his two pistol.-. While standing on a chair, with his back to the Ford.-, Bob shot him through the head.They then gave themselves up, were jailed, and after the coroner's inquest were released and given the $20,000 reward.Six months later Charlie committed suicide by jumping in a well, andto press at 10 clock. In that day printing prlt; - . were slow' and we could not *3;*;i the demand bymany thousand- of copies.“On the same lt;ay of the murder 1 contracted with a large printing establishment to publish a hook for me of about 200 pages. It was entitled ‘The Life and rareer* of Frank and! Je“My contract called for the delivery of the book the following Monday. After my day's work at the office I wrote al. mght in order to supply copy for the printers,The book wa delivered on time and before the last copy was bound the entire edition of 5,000 copies were -old to new.? dealers in many cities of the country. Had the edition been 500,000 copies I could have sold every one of them.A year or so after the death of Jesse, Frank, in company with Maj. John N Edward,-, waked into Governor ( rittrvedon’s office at Jefferson (ity ami placing his pistol on thetable, ut rendered. Hlt; was tried for robbery and murder, was acquitted and for years after w-ae; connected with a theatre in St. 1 Louis.“A few years after the death of Jame-, his widow and two chidren moved to Kansas City. Crittendon was then governor. He needed an office boy and ran an ‘ad’ in the .Star..Early the following morning a bright lad, neatly dressed, applied for the position. Crittendon told him he was a mighty nice boy and asked hint his name. The boy replied, ‘Jesse Janus’.The boy was given the position, took up the study of law and is now practicing in Kansas City.The old James home in -St. Joseph a little dilapidated, has been visited by thousands of people. Even now hundreds of people, of strangers, visit it every year. The admission fee is 26 cents. St. Joseph Observer.K lt;’ MINISTERS CONDEMNREED FOR WET STANDKansas City, Mo., October 2. The Ministerial Alliance of Kansas City late tdoay adopted a resolution condemning United States Senator Jas. A. Reed, Democratic candidate for i e-election, for his stand on the prohibition question, and urging the support of church people and the good people of the state for R. R Brewster, Republican senatorial nominee, because of his stand on the question.The resolution reads, in part:“We, the members of he Ministerial Alliance of Kansas City, Mo., do expns? our sincere regrets at the position of Senator James A. Reed and our hearty appreciation of the stand of R. R. Brewster.More than half of the sugar consumed in the United State*.? comes from foreign sources, reports the Unite*! States Department of Agriculture. Of the 5,632,590 short tons consumed during hte year ending June 30, 1922, 1,348,190 tons were produced in the United States. Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the Philippines supplied 1,334,553 tons and most of the remainder came from Cuba.The Standard $2.00 per year.Good brown muslin 12c, heavy for 15c. Pinnell Store Co.The general range of potato prices this season was from one-third to two-thirds that of the corresponding time last season, says the United States Department of Agriculture.Nearly 3,700,000 gallons of maple sirup were produced last spring ii the 13 Important producing States, the largest in four years, and *53 per cint more than in 1921, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. ^ ,
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Sikeston Standard
Sikeston, Missouri, US
Fri, Oct 06, 1922
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