Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago March 18-20, 1923 A warrant charging Henry Weiberg, automobile salesman for a Pittsburg concern, with first-degree murder in the shooting of Pete Lane, at Galena, early on March 11, was issued by the Cherokee County attorney and served on Weiberg today at St John's hospital at Joplin. Weiberg has been in critical condition as a result of a bullet wound in the head, supposedly received at the time Lane was shot. Thomas Pierson, a Mulberry coal miner, is believed to have been killed and five other men seriously burned in an explosion which occurred at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon at Thompson, Robertson & Gassalein mine No.