The Lansing News from Lansing, Kansas • 1

A JL. '-NT 11 -4 Knw Issued Every Friday. LANSING, KANSAS. MARCH 15 1912 VOLUME 17 NUMBER HOTEL SOLD AGAIN. THE YOUNGER BROTHERS' EXCUSE.

he is more than pleased with the -first of the month, way his candidacy is being re-1 The heavy snows that mm I I he Old EVlaids Club Probably the mostpopular home talent a 1 1 1 1" ceived over the state. T. Ilargis suffered an attack of stomache trouble Friday morning and had to be taken to the prison hospital. He was on duty at Post 6 at the time. He able to be taken home Lansing people have been i play ever given here, is to be repeated frill dav evenin, the 22, in the City Hall.

"The Old Maids' Club" was first given by the members of the Rebeccka lodge December 5th and proved so popular that it is to be W. L. McKinzie has traded the Commercial Hotel pre'perty here for thirty six town lots in La Porte, Texas. Erastus Smilh of Kansas City is the new owner of the hotel property. Mrs.

McKinzie and children left Wednesday for their old home in Sterling, 111., where they will visit relatives for three week and then join Mr. McKinzie in Chula-vista, Cal. Mr. McKinzie is warking at the carpenter trade and Hary is foreman of a crew of lemon pickers. MRS.

STUCKEY DIED WEDNESDAY. boosting for the bill at the Ne Orpheum the first of the week, Misses Lucy Jones, Bettie covered the ground since ho fi of the month havo caused and Jame Hartmah as ir. trouble as they have any Hartman. deliver coal the Carr coal mine in and aror Lansing, and have had rr; orders than they could hat since t'he bad weather, but il. have managed t) keep Jdieir tomers supplied and their have been appreciated.

H. F. Hundley intends to pi another table in his pool I next week. He- will tear do the partition in the front end the building and make other i. provements for the comfort his patrons.

A. J. Gilbert returned week from a business trip Great Bend and vicinity. C. W.

Bressler, the railv reproduced. Cleavenger, Edith Aaron, Olga Gauger, Anna Donovan, Maude Nancehelser, and Prof. C. G. "The Colored Suffragettes" 1 Maier attended the.

teachers' meeting at Saturday. In addition to "The Old Maids' Club" a black-face minstrel entitled "The Color- i John Greever, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B.

Greever, has been ill with appendicitis for several vo weeks. ed Suffragettes will be given. This is given because the RebecckaS want to give an entertainment that will be worth twice the price of admission. Both sketches are chuck full of comedy and the interpitat- Miss Wilson, who was called mail clerk was iiome on Tu here by the illness of her sister, i a at -r-, I UaJ' Mrs. Anna Stuckey died suddenly Wednesday night of heart disease superinduced by acute indigestion.

Mrs. Stuckey had enjoyed a hearty supper and had gone to bed as usual at her home two miles south of Lansing. Dr. L. J.

Swann was called and it was he that notified Coroner Davis. virs h. a. atone, returned Rev. Gordon B.

i nrvmi in niTmMiin I A i uuiuK, xjawiciic iiiu.iuaj. fnrmflr nnsf-nr nf the nfn ions of Lansing's most prominent actor- i Will and HavertBirdof Topeka churchy will deliver a sermon spent Sunday with their parents. folks will cause the "blues" to be a thing of the past with those who witness the two productions. Thomas Kahili, teacher at the Junction school, attended the Lansing Lawrence game Satur-. VIRGIL ESTEP BREAKS HIS LEG day night.

km Fred Drees spent Sunday in 1 ill a Lansing. The children of and Mrs. Tickets 15c I City Hall-- William T. Forback have been enduring a seige of whooping- "Yes, you boys have quoted the excuse correctly that has been generally accepted as the cause for the Younger brothers turning highwaymen, train-robbers and murderers the manner in which their father was killed, but I happen to know the man who was in command of the independent company of free-state men who killed their father and I know that he lived within 32 miles of the Younger homestead for many years after the war, and, so far as I know, is living there today, and the "Youngers made but one effort to 'get' him." The speaker was an old gentleman who served in a Kansas regiment that, seen most of its service along the Kansas-Missouri border during the Civil War, and he had been listening to the conversation of a group of young men. Continuing he said: "Younger, was captain of a company of bushwhackers and he was shot and killed by an independent company of freestat-ers in command of Wolly.

Capt. Wolly lived at Butler, about 32 miles from Oceola, near which latter town the Younger family had their home, and at the close of the war Capt. Wolly returned to Butler and engaged in the livery business. "A few years following the close of the 'war I met the captain in his home town, and knowing the excuse the Younger's gave for turning outlaws, I asked, the captain if he was not afraid they would 'get' him, for I knew that he was in charge when Younger was killed. Capt.

Wolly replied that there was rjo danger, that there was quite a number of his old comrades in the vicinity and that they always tried to keep 'tab' on each other, and that when the Youngers did come for him they would receive a warm reception by men who would shoot as quick as they did, and the Youngers knew this. "The captain said that the Youngers had sent word to him once that they were coming 'after' him, and that he had sent word back for them to come ahead. He said the Yaungers came tc Butl er, but they learned of the reception in store for them and did not call on him. "So you see boys, the Youngers were not very anxious to avenge the death of their father, in as much as the man who was responsible for his death, lived within 32 miles of their stronghold and they never made but one attempt to 'get' him." cough. Virgil Estep broke his left leg just above the ankle Tuesday evening while playing in the prison gymnasium.

Estep was attempting to swing from a ring to the horizontal bar when he fell. His left foot struck the edge of the mat and his ai.kle turned. Harold Codding carried Virgil to the hospital where Dr. Axf ord set the broken after which he was taken to the home of his parents on Kansas Avenue. WILL ROBERTSON INJURED.

to pay their farewell tribute to him. "THE OLD MAIDS' CLUB" AND "THE COLORED SUFFHAGETTS" TROUBLE CLYDS MATTOX IN AGAIN. the Methodist church here Sunday evening, March 24th. Mrs. Z.

M- Carey had one of her toes amputated this week. Dr. Axford performed the operation. Miss Florence Harland who has been visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Dan Storrs, Sr returned to her home in Kansas City Wednesday evening. The Misses Hague of the Soldiers' Home spent Saturday shopping in Kansas City. Mrs. II, Scott and family are Backing their household goods preparetory to moving to their farm in southern The family has made many friends here who regret to have them leave. Tne reproduction of "The Old Maids' Club" will be given in the City Hall next Friday night, the 27th.

In addition to the play as given before, there will bii a blackface comedy. Mrs. Waldon, who lives in one of the Elder houses on Caldwell Auenue, is very sickv Dr. Swann is the attending physician. Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Jones of Girard announce the arrival of a seven-and-one-half-pound baby girl at their home on March 3. The young lady's name is Margaret Helen. Clyde Mattox was arrested in Oklahoma City yesterday and taken to Tulsa charged with the robbery of the Guarrantee 'State Bank of Kiefer, Oklahoma, the night, of 26th. when $:5, 200 was taken by robbers.

Mattox Will Robertson came near cashing in Tueseay He was shoveling snow from the roof of the barn at H. W. Kellogg's when he had just returned from a roping contest at Fort Worth, Texas. Mattox was twice convicted of mur Aubrey Ham returned to his home in Blue Rapids Monday after a short visit with his aunt, Mrs. Emma Ham.

Miss Myrtle Hobbs of Boling spent Sunday with Miss Bessie Ham. Clyde Scott and-DeWitt Hargis spent Monday, in Kansas City. Mrs. W. H.

Ittnerof Taconia, visited her sisters, Misses Georgia and Myrtle Willis, the first of the week. Mrs. John Bedwell and Miss Aletha Bedwell were shopping in Kansas City Monday. Miss Jennie Dickey entertained Misses Zella Robertson and Vera Lindsay at her home in Nine Mile over Sunday. James Hoge and wife visited friends at Loma Vista Sunday.

A. Lamm was down from Omaha and spent 'Sunday with his wife. The members of the local Rebecka lodge will reproduce their play given In entitled "The Old Maids' Club" at the City Hall next Friday nigt. They have received many requests and have concluded to put on the play again on that night. They thought the entertainment a3 given before was a trifle too short for the admission chargedso they have added a blackface minstrel part that is sure iome comedy.

The title of the minstrel is "The Colored Suffragette and they handle the question of woman's rights in a way that will make you forget the depth of the snow, the poor crops last year, your vanishing bank account and all of your cares and troubles. The actors of local celebrity who will take part in your entertainment are Mesdamks der in Oklahoma and once at Wichita, but has got out each time by pardon or parole. The officers say there is evi dence against him sufficient to convict him in the Kiefer robbery. slipped and fell striking his head and shoulder against a Himberv Bill O'Connor found Robertson in an unconcious conditien laying where he had fallen. Robertson was unconcious for two hours.

He is confined to his bed but is improving. a CONVICTS KILL PRISON OFFICERS. JOE BISHOP'S SISTER DEAD. H. B.

Horstman Walton John Higgins M. T. Ilargis Julia Graham J. W. Brown W.

A. Harmon Wm. Lindsay H. C. Walker C.

M. Lindsay W. H. Owens LEGAL Mrs. Leota Bishop, a sister of Joseph Bishop, of Lansing, died Tuesday in a hospital at St.

Josedh, Mo. The funeral will be held today from the Bishop home at Tonganoxie. W. D. Hedges Misses Bessie Ham Bessie Lindsay Messrs Ray Horstman March Guy Vera Lindsay Jessie Huston Ceola Brown S.

E. Parisa NOTHING BUT BASKET BALL Three prison officers were killed and another guard seriously wounded in a get-away at the State Prison at Lincoln, yesterday afternoon. The murdered are James Dalahunty, warden, Henry Wagner, deputy warden, and G. Heilman, usher, Thomas Doody, a guard was wounded. The killing was done by Charles Taylor and John Dowd, bank robbers, and Charles Morley, convicted of highway robbery.

They had secored firearms in some way and some explosives with which they blew the prison gate open. State troops are after the escaped prisoners. Dowd, one of the convicts, had only been in the prison a short time. While on trial in Cass county, he was guarded by Capt. J.

T. Crouch of this place, who was then a special officer EDWIN CANFIELD IS DEAD. John Bedwell has returned to duty at the prison after an absence of several months. Dr. F.

J. Crumbine, secretary of the state board of health, and C. H. Chandler, state architect, were at the prison the first of the week looking over the site for the tuberculosis ward. They ayproved the site selected by Warden Codding and work is to be begun on the building as soon as the ground thaws.

Officer and Mrs. have a vry sick baby at their home. The child has pneumonia. Mrs. Frazee has also been sick.

CARD CF THANKS. TRATOU'S NOTICH, STATE OF Lenvemvortb County, Sis. In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the inaiterof th; ot Lee Ltiinm, deceased. Notii-2 is hfiicby giT-n Letters of Administration have grained to tii: undersigned, on 1 he Liaic ol Lei.

Liiimn late ot said County, deceased, In- ti.e I lenorab.e the Probate Court os the Cotinly anu mate atoreba d. ila'i iie dayot Feoruary A. j912 Mow, al' Deis ms asm-i ills Estat-t are hereby not lied tr.ai thev muit present the sainr tj the tin ders gned tor allowance vnihiii one veiir from die daie said letters or they nia be fxediuled 'rum a ay bem fi: of san est ite ami that if Mich claims be ex dbiied within two years alter i of sua letters, tiuy shall be ever haired. vARIHAl. IUV.M.

Aiministrr -nf the LLLLUMM, DeLCae Lansing turned the tables on Lawrence High School in the game Saturday night by defeating them. 32 to 29. In the game at Lawrence a few weeks ago the local boys were defeated 50 to 22 but the revenge Saturday night was ample. From the tip-off Lansing led and maintained the lead until tne gnish. At the end of the first half the score stood 18 to 9 but the Lawrence boys took a spurt toward the end Edwin Canfield died Saturday afternoon at the home of his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. F. M. Canfield, of pneumonia after an illness of five days. The funeral Was held from the family home on Kansas Avenue Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Rev. V. L. Post of the local Christian church We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their' sympathy and assistance during the sickness and following the death of our son and brother. We desire to voice our appreciation of the courtesies and help extended by the officials of the state prison.

The floral offerings of the Sunday Schools of the Christian E. G. Pitzer left the employ of conducted the services. Burial the state prison as an officer the i was in Delaware cemetery. and Baptist churches and the for the Burlington, for five nights.

Crouch said upon his returned that this man had the appearance HANLON'S members of the two churches, will long be remembered. MR and MRS. F. M. CAFIELD and Family.

of the game and it looked as though our boys were going to losd or a ew minutes. Brock and Scott, the local forwards, seemed to be able to make baskets from any angle, Ilenre, center, played usual fast, game, Bird and Hargis, a-, guard, wore after their men ail tie luii-i i of as desperate a man as he ever saw. and upon hearing of the killing yesterday, he said he would bet this fellow was into the mutiny. Edwin Canheki was born in Niota, 111 June 27, 1873. He came west with his parents in 18S5 and two years later came to Lansing and had lived here ever since.

He had been an invalid all his life and the repeated attacks of asthma and pneumonia made life a burden. During his last sickness he mad-; the remark that it was better for him to go and be at rest, he had suffered so much. Besides his parents, he is survived by vv.e brotl-f and four Kilters. i.Vi cf were precoiit HERE AND HEREABOUTS. i v.v 4" 4- 4- -r i C.

G. Thomas of Tonganoxie, was a Lansing visitor Sunday. Frank J. Ryan, Leavenworth County's candidate for governor on the Republican ticket, was in 1 many nice plays. Tiie visitors Lansing High School wac to 'gave a better exhibition of team have played the last year's Lsav-I work than has been seen on the enworth High School basket ball 'local court.

team Wednesday night but the Leavenworth boys were unable i Elmer Campbell wae home Sat-to ct their Uam together. 'uuljy. 0 hand- made csgarj something you will seldom find cr FOR SALE BY ALL DZALi; Sunday. Mr. 11 an says.