Kiowa County Signal from Greensburg, Kansas • Page 2

Kiowa County Signal. 1 NEW OF.BCANiAJ THE MISSING MAN By MARY R. P. HATCH Author of "Tho Bank Tragedy C'opyrlBht. .1 H1I3, by f.ee and Shepard old fogies, and lazy to boot.

We put TO TEST A KANSAS LAW. The Missouri Pacific Railroad Refused To Build a Sidetrack. The ILugrave Grain and Live Slock association has brought a ease against the Missouri Pacific road beforo the state board of railroad commissioners, file outcome of which will be to test the constitutionality of the state law compelling railroads to erect sidetracks to elevators off their right of way. The railroad refused to build such sidetracks in Hush county. If the commissioners decide in favor of the grain company tho road will take the case to the courts.

te Aldn't como to the bank. irersp he Is at the mill." "Without coming home, Young Osborn bit his lips an thought deeply, hut each moment grew more bewildered. "Did you sptak to him?" asked Mrs: Hamilton. "Yes, and he spoke to me. Hanking hours aro over at four, you know, and It was just after dark that I saw him going Into the bank as I was passing.

I said. It. was the first thing I thought to say, for I was surprised to see htm so soon. he said, and laughed a little. 'Didn't expect me back so soon, did I said, 'I Then he went In and shut the door after him, and I went home." "Tony, that couldn't have beep Mr.

Hamilton." "It certainly wns. It was his voice I heard, and his form, features, gait, everything. I couldn't have been "Tony," said Mrs. Hamilton, In a low, terrified voice. "I am afraid you have been deceived.

It must havo been a burglar." "Oh, no, there isn't the least doubt In the world that It was Mr. Hamilton; none at all." "Was everything right this morn Ing?" "Yes." "Nothing missing?" "No, nothing at all. All that surprises me Is that he Isn't here." "He would certainly have been had come home. That makes me think you have been deceived." For answer Tony took from his vest pocket a small shirt-stud of unique design and handed it to Mrs. Hamilton.

"I found It on the desk just as It would have fallen if It had become loosened from his shirt front." "Oh, Tony! What does it mean?" cried Mrs. Hamilton, with white lips. "What can it mean? -It is his. I gave film tho set myself, and had them marked with his Initials. See, this Is "I noticed it," said Tony, quietly, "and I was sure It wae his.

Now, how did It happen to be on his desk this morning, unless It dropped out last night?" "Perhups it wns laid there, unnoticed, since he went away." "Impossible. I have dusted and put everything In order dally." Tony's habits of order were incontrovertible. "Cannot you recollect whether he spoke of missing one before be went away. Mrs. Hamilton?" "No.

he said nothing about one." "Then you will find that I am right." said Tony. "Mr. Hamilton was at the bnhk last night at about eight o'clock. He must have been detained somewhere, nnd will, no doubt, be hero shortly. You may expect to see him coming up the street at any moment' he concluded, reassuringly, for he fufcr that she was terribly shaken.

-5 "I hope you are right, hut I have felt worried ever since he went "Oh, he's all right, sound as a trump. I wouldn't worry, IT I were you," and Tony went down the but paused to ask, "Shall I go around to the mill and, ask Mr. Carter if he has seen anything of him?" "Yes, please do, and ask Uncle Carter to come up to see me, if Vane isn't there." "All right. and he turned away. "I wish everything were all right, but I'm afraid it isn't," he muttered.

(To be continued.) GREENSBURQ, KANSAS The hook by Jay Gould just sold at Ruction for $5.73 wasn't Ins pocket-book. Dr. Osier la to be knighted. Ilia shield should bear a chloroform bottle in rampant. A medical journal advises all pcorlo to take a rest at noon.

Hm-m would rallier take our dinner. An Alabama editor is trying to hire a good hand lo go fishing; for him. Getting relaxation by proxy. Hush O. Pentecost may he an expert on "torn even if he does mis-judge (he utility of conscience.

A Pennsylvania man is justly Indignant at being thrown out of bed by lightning, as he had left no call. Woman prisoner In New York dead after fifty-two years' imprisonment. The simple life conduces to longevity. A horse named Hoi Polloi won In a big race the other day. This proves conclusively that there is nothing in a name.

A Georgia darky pawned his wood eh leg for whisky. When a man has all Ihe whisky ho wanls he is willing to sit still. New York is looking forward to am other increase In the tax rate and doesn't seem surprised. New York is used to It. "All liars are not dead yet," says the Calhoun Democrat.

Wouldn't that editor find this a lonesome world if they were? It Is a great deal easier to persuade a girl that archery is coming in again if she has pretty arms, than it is otherwise. We learn from the hypercritical New York Sun that the presents at Cant. Hobson's wedding were "numerous and costly." Even though Jim Jeffries has retired he should not take so despondent a view of the country, as it may yet Brow olher great men. One of the best-known Russian newspaper correspondents is Mr. Ne-mirovich Danchenko.

Will he, too consent to Bill for short. New that Oliver Herford is going to lie married, perhaps he will realize his life-long dream of being able, to live some (lay on a farm and keep a bee. A contemporary points at the timber of literary men who are marrying of late as a proof that the profits of literature are increasing. Queer idea "profits." Salisbury, N. thoughtlessly con tributes to the tense excitement of the hour by reporting a shooting scrape In which Clay Grubb was hurt hv Vnt Crump.

Col. Watterson says that If Paul Jones was a pirate then George Washington was a footpad and Frunk-lln a lobster. We judge that Paul Jones was not a pirate. New York is much perturbed be cause trade has Invaded the aristocratic residence districts of that city. Still, It trade can stand It the aristocratic districts ought to be able to do so.

Mr. "Kid" McCoy is about to marry a lady who inherited $3,000,000. If this will serve to take Mr. McCoy out of pugilism and the saloon business the public may well offer the lady Its Hood wishes. Mrs.

Stuyvesant Fish, attired in a magnificent, gown, recently paraded In a drenching rain in Washington. All fashlondom Is expected to follow the now fad and the fool-killer will get in his work at last. The czar of Russia. It is said, has invested In English securities and $6,000,000 in American rails, iron and coal. And doubtless he would give it all If that would make everybody love him.

Judge U. S. Kendall of West Virginia says that motliersin-law causes nine-tenths of the divorces. This will Interest those who have believed that the other woman whom he vants to marry is the usual cause. Tho American government will put whisky In a warehouse and keep it for the benefit of the owner.

Why not put some barons and counts in cold storage till American girls demand them for homo consumption? It is painful to read In the New York papers that Mr. Yerkes has had to take In his bronze gate at night, to keep it from being stolen. Mr. Yerkes' faith in the honesty and goodness of hlR fellow men has received a severe shock. The wedding of Gouvernetir Morris was most Informal, so far as the dress of the men present was concerned, although the women were wonderfully gowned.

And we have oflii ial information that for short she calls him "Ciuvvey." Boston Globe. DUGAN WILL RECOVER. Tho Cody of E. C. Schneider, His Victim, Tsken to Wheeling, W.

Va. KANSAS CITY. KAN. The rm-linn the saloon Uo KT who. wiiK wounded jn a pistol fi.nht Friday iiiijlit, romainy about tho .9 a inc.

Dr. C. M. Stenion, bis physician, vaid that tho patient, was getting a nicely. It is now announced that If S3 uiifo sec-n happens lie will recover.

A police oftker has been stationed at the Pugan home constantly since the shoot in Tho uard will be continued until Ihe coroner's inquest. The body of I'M ward C. Schneider, who wounded Dugim and was killed by the saloon man, was sent to Wheeling, W. Va. Mrs.

Schneider and her son accompanied the body. WHEAT HARVEST BEGINS JUNE 25 KANSAS CITY, KAS. Wheat, harvest in Kansas will actively begin June 25. This was the word received from T. B.

Gerow of Topeka, superintendent of the Kansas Free employment office. In a message to A. B. Jamison, superintendent of the free employment bureau at Kansas City, sa'ys he thinks between 25,000 and 30,000 men will be needed. A rate has been secured from the railroads of 1 cent a mile to the fields.

This will apply from Kansas City, St. Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth, Top-eka, Ottawa, Kurt Scott, Chanute and Cherryvale. The greater number of hands coming from the East will secure the low rate and he handled by the Kansas City office. Negotiations are still pending with the railroads for a reduction of rates on the return trip, but they have not yet been concluded. BURIED IN A WATER TRENCH.

Fellow Workmen Worked Quickly and Rescued Musgrove. KANSAS CITY, KAN. Warren Musgrove w-as buried by the cave-in of a water trench under a 20-inch main at Fourth street and New Jersey avenue, where be was working about, midnight Sunday night. The Metropolitan Water conipaily Is changing the main at this point and Musgrove was employed its a laborer. He w-as buried by three feet of dirt, but his comrades worked valiantly to release him.

The fact that he was under the pipe at the time prevented his suffocation, fir. A. J. Gannon attended the man, whose only injury was a cut over tho eye. MAYOR OF PEABODY, DEAD.

Georcje Campbell Had Livel in the Town More Than Thirty-Five Years. PEABODY. KAS. (iiorge W. Camp bell died in his home here' Saturday Mr.

Campbell was one of Peabody's pioneers. He came here more than thirty-five years ago. He formerly was engaged in the lumber, grain and cattle business anil had represented Marion county in the legislature. He had been mayor of Peabody for the last two years, Mr. Campbell was "3 years old, A KANSAN Ml RED IN A CREEK.

W. P. Manners, 85 Years Old, Fell From a Bridge. CARNETT, KAS W. P.

Manners. S5 years old, wandered away from the home of his son, William Manners, Saturday night. Early Sunday morning he was found three miles from the city, mired in the mud and water of a creek into which ho had fallen from the railroad track. His face was badly bruised by the fall. Bet On Kansas Wheat.

KANSAS CITY. KAS Said II. V. Mudge, Second Vice-President of the Rock Island: "I have made a bet With J. E.

Hurley, general manger of the Santa Fe, that Kansas will yield more that 72 million bushels of wheat this year. You see, we made the same bet last year, anil I had it won until the floods came; then Hurley The yield was something more than 00 million bushels. And the bet is a box of Hurley's favorite cigars, too. I'm going lo win this year." Turned On Gas in His Room. KANSAS CITY.

KAN. Arthur D. Cozad, years old, proprietor of the Cozad Printing establishment of this place was found unconscious from Illuminating gas Sunday in a room at the Scho uliofen hotel, -125 Minnesota avenue, in mis city, ue uitu hi en revived at 'thuny hospital Dr. ('. M.

Slenui) said that he would recover. A discreet shoe clerk never sells a woman a number 5 shoe. Another Acquittal for Chauncey Dewey SMITH EN TICK, KAS Chauncey Dewey, who whs recently acquitted of murdering nu tubers of the Berry family in Northwest Kansas, during a range feud, has been acquitted by the Masonic lodge here. Charges of tin-Masonic conduct were preferred against him as a result of the Berry The average man la cxtrordianaiily patriotic when thero are no war clouds In sight on the hur.zun of his ovn CHAPTER II. A Green-Haired Woman.

Amos Talbert, the comfortable, genial landlord of the Essex House, had a wife and daughter; the latter unmarried, though not of uncertain age, as the had not the least objection to any one's knowing that she was forty-two. With her bright complexion, brighter eyes and manners, she was one of tho most attractive ladies in Grovedale, and it was no task, therefore, for Mrs. Hamilton to chat with her for a few moments. "Have you many guests in the house she asked Miss Talbert. "Very few steady boarders, but a good many "I wonder If the green-haired lady Is gone yet." said Miss Chase, looking up from her work with a smile.

"Yes, she went on the seven o'clock train." "On the train with my husband." thought Mrs. Hamilton; but you may be sure she did not say this. Instead she repeated womlerlngly. as she looked at Miss Talbert with polite interest, "a g-reen-halred lady!" "I Sm not surprised at your surprise," said Miss Talbert, laughing. "You would wonder still more if you were to see her.

She came on the train last night and went away this morning." "But you don't mean to say her hair is actually green, do you?" "Not a bright, vivid green, but a sheeny emerald tint hard to describe. The sea takes on such a color some-limes in the shadow of an overhanging cliff. You should see it, Mrs. Hamilton. She is very pretty, has lovely features, and a sweet voice.

I was quite charmed by her." "I think she knows Mr. Hamilton." said the dressmaker, "for she ran out lo meet him when he came down the street." "Ah! perhaps you know her, too," said Miss Talbert, looking at Mrs. "I just want to see Hamilton. "Her name was booked as Mrs. Anderson, Newark, N.

"No, I do not," she answered, "and I have never heard my husband speak of a green-haired acquaintance." This statement in regard to the meeting of her husband and the green-haired lady coincided with the glimpse she had of it from her tower, though at that distance she had not noticed the color of her hair. An 'accidental meeting, evidently; but they went on in the same train together, perhaps in the same car. If friends, undoubtedly hey rode together. Well, what of that? Friends meet each other at every turn. Her husband might in the Dast have done the woman a kindness or some little service.

It would be like him. He would tell her all about It on his return. And, with a pleasant adieu to Miss Chase, Mrs. Hamilton went away. She called at the Savings Bank in passing, and Tony Osborn, with his pen behind his ear, came at once to speak to her.

Good morning, Tony; very nusy, i suppose. 'Awful, now Ham Mr. Hamilton is away. "Did he tell you just when to expect him back what day, I mean?" asked Mrs. Hamilton.

"No. In a week or two, he said. But It's all a joke about my being busy, you know, for everything was put in shape before he went." "I'm glad to hear you are not driven." said Mrs. Hamilton, reflecting that her husband always cleared the way for others, but took the rougnest path himself. And then she went on her way.

She met Mr. Henderson, who Btopped to speak to her, and to ask when her husband would be back. "Only been away six hours and we miss-him already! No one can matt-nge like Vane. In a week or two? Yes, that's what he told me. But, by George; ho never told me where he was going.

Strange! Always goes off in May. Of course you know." She murmured something about Boston and rest. "He needs it. by George! Hope he'll get It. 1 shall need a rest when he eets back.

Our biminess grows, Mrs. Hamilton. It's double what it was two years ago. Didn't realize It while Vane was here." "He works too hard, Mr. Hender-.

"1 know it. Your uncle and I arc too much on ms shoulders. I tout mm so this morning. says 'Vane's been working too 'I know says he. 'Vane lias lost twenty pounds "Is that asked Constance, startled.

"So your uncle said. S'posed you knew it. Well, this will never do, stopping to talk to pretty women when business is booming at the mill," and the jolly mill-owner passed on, leaving Constance to pursue her way homeward. How hollow the house sounded! How still it was! What would life be without husband or children? Grim walls, staring pictures, lifeless furniture do not make homo, she realized forcibly as tdie sank into a chair and folded her gloved hands on her lap. "Two weeks pass so quickly," she uitirrnured.

"Sometimes I can scarcely realize they have passed. When he comes back 1 shall ask him all about it. have never done it, but I will now. Secrets ought not to come between man and wife. I will tell him so.

They might make trouble. They do Mr. Henderson thinks it strange, I could see that, and so does Tony. I must tell Vane about It when he comes back." As you may imagine, with such contradictory thoughts, and so much alone, Constance did not find the days very swift in passing. Indeed, they lagged terribly, though she made calls, practiced her music and did sundry odd jobs of sewing, the accumulation of the winter months.

To add to her anxiety she did not receive one word from her husband. Meanwhile, she had seen and talked with Mrs. Fry about the green-haired lady. Mrs. Fry brought to Mrs.

Hamilton a basket of freshly Ironed muslins the day after Mr. Hamilton's departure, and Immediately launched forth In a description of the green-haired woman. Mr. Hamilton." "The queerest sight! though there's no denyin' she's a dreadful pretty woman." "I cannot see how a woman with green hair can be pretty," said Mrs. Hamilton.

"You would the moment you saw her. But you can ask Mr. Hamilton. He saw her and knew her, too, I guess." "Are you sure?" "She spoke to him. 'Twas Jest as I was a comln' to the laundry an' he a comln' down the street to take the train.

'You she says. 'You are says he. 'Oh, yes," she says. 'I did an' she looked round at me. Mr.

Hamilton looked at her pretty close, as if sort of think-In' or studyin' of her face, an' then he spoke again, but what It was he said I didn't hear, because, of course, twan't none of my business. Besides, he spoko too low." "Probably she was insane." "No, I guess not. She seemed kinder troubled, though, and folks In trouble always go to such folks as your folks. Or else she knew him. Whichever 'twas, she was a nice, modest woman, an' a dreadful pretty one." What Mrs.

Fry told her was but little more than Constance had already heard, but it gave her much to think about for several days, Indeed, until a week had passed. But, at the end of that time an Incident occurred which surprised and alarmed her not a little. One morning, hearing the door-bell ring, Mrs. Hamilton opened It herself, Tilly being busy, and was surprised to see Tony Osborn standing there, idly flicking the dust from his boot with a small cane. "Ah, good morning, Mrs.

Hamilton. Jolly weather. Isn't it?" "Very pleasant. Will you come in, Tony?" "Thanks, no. I Just want to Gee Mr.

Hamilton." "Mr. Hamilton! Surely you hare forgotten that he Is away." "But hasn't he got home?" "Certainly not. I dun't expect him for a week." "He was at the bank last night, Mrs. Hamilton. Of that, I am certain." "Then where can he be now?" 'I don't know.

I supposed he was here, and I called over to see him as NEW BANK READY SOON. Plans for $250,000 Institution Are Progressing Rapidly, KANSAS CITY, KAS. I'lans for the new Banker's National bank of Kansas City, are said to be progressing and the new institution will be ready for business before long. The location of the new bank has not yet been decided upon. The new concern with a eapital of $250,000, will be the largest bank across the line.

UNIVERSITY TO HAVE NEW DORMITORY KANSAS CITY, KAS. Kansas City university of Kansas City, is to have a new girl's durmitory to cost between. $20,000 and $25,000. It will accommodate between fifty and sixty students. W.

S. Wilson, president of the hoard of trustees, and W. J. Heinz of Pittsburg, will advance $2,500 each toward the cost of the building Chan-' celler D. S.

Stephens announces that, besides these donations, $7,000 is already in the treasury available for use. The rest of the required amount wil' be raised by subscription. SHE CUT HER OWN THROAT. A Kansas City, Woman Committed Suicide With a Razor. KANSAS CITY, KAN.

Mrs. Mamie Cook, years old. the wife of Milton W. Cook, a member of the Suburban Realty company and the Canadian Land company, at 125 West Ninth street, in tills city, committed suicide Sunday morning at their home, 1713: Garfield avenue, by cutting her wrists and threat with a razor. Four days ago Mrs.

Cool; warned her husband to hide two razors which were in the house because she feared she might be tempted to kill herself, and he did so. Site had been in poor health for more than a year. HIAWATHA WILL CLEAN HOUSE. The Novel Plan Inaugurated by Kansas Town Society. HIAWATHA, KAN.

The Hiawatha Civic Improvement society has set r.side flag day. June 14, as a cleaning' up day and has ca.led upon all citizens of the city to get out their brooms, mops and garden tools to give the place sueU attention as it never had before. The plan is to have a similar dialling up day twice every year. The improvement society has secured prizes which will be offered for Ihe prettiest flower beds, neatest kept hi wns and cleanest alleys. SO'JGHT DEATH BY LAUDANUM.

John Tinnell of Kansas City, a Laborer, Saved by Prompt Work. KANSAS CITY, KAN. After writing a letter to his mother, Mrs. Amanda Tinnell, of Steele telling her to come and see him, as it would he her last opportuntiy, John Tinnell, a laborer, drained a bottle containing ten cents' worth of laudanum at midnight. He was taken to the police station and Dr.

A. J. Gan-' non. after attending him, said the poison would not prove fatal. Tinnell is 25 years old.

Domestic difficulties were the cause of his act. A 'HOLD UP' IN KANSAS CITY, KAS Two Young Men Robbed W. P. Jen. kins, a Confectioner, of $14.

KANSAS CITY, KAS. Two young men entered the confectionery store of V. P. Jenkins, at 1719 Central avenue, Kansas City, at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning, and at the point of revolvers compelled him to give them all the money In the cash register. $15.

The young men then inarched Jenkins up the street a block and disappeared. Clay Center to Drill for Oil and Gas, CLAY CENTER, KAN A company has been formed in Clay Center to drill for oil and gas and a contract has been drawn up with an Independ ence, drilling company to go down 2.500 feet. Work probably will be started largely to sntisfy curiosity as to what is beneath the surface In this section. Chas. F.

Scott Spoke in Leavenworth, LEAVENWORTH, KAN. Re pre sentative Charles F. Scott of Iola, pave the hacealaureate address to Ihe graduating class of the Leaven worth High school Sunday night. The auditorium of the High school build ing was crowded with the relatives and friends of the class, The gradu ating exercises of the class will be Thursday night of this week. Fortv one men and 112 women out of every million persoiit born reach the age of one hundred years.

COULD NOT BREAK AWAY. Fascinations of Baseball Shown New York Incident. Baseball has a charm all its own. Last Saturday at noon a promoter started down Wall street to take a. steamer for British Guiana.

With him was an Englishman who had never seen a ball game, having lived all his life on his estate bordering the Esse-qulbo river. The promoter was going down to buy from him for a syndicate a vast tract of forest land. A pock of youngsters from Watet st'eot, chased by a policeman from their native heath, began to play baseball on narrow Hanover street, Just when the promoter and his friend uVonlil have been increasing their fw pace. So they stopped along hundreds of others, from bankers push cart men. ll tv.o fiilrl wn nnrrnw one: thtV eight-year-old batter faced the City bank; right Held was uiockcii uy Brown Brothers, and left field by the Custom House.

The catcher's backstop was the United States IJoyd's building. The play was scientific. The Englishman was an apt student and joined in the roar as a three-bagger into an iron shutter of the custom House cleared the bases. Then followed a home run into an apple cart on Wall street; those who chose to celebrate the piny by picking up apples and eating them did so. Tho promoter finally dragged the Britisher away.

They missed their steamer at that, and it took a lot of persuasion plus a yellow note to get a busy tug boat captain to give chase. Off Bay Ridge they boarded their liner talking baseball. New York Sun. The Man Knows. Mrs.

Crlmsonheak A woman nevei knows what a man is doing when he's out of her sight, but a man generally knows what a woman is doing. Mr. Crlmsonheak That's right. A man is always pretty sure thai a woman Is talking. Disenchantment After Marriage.

"Did Chumpleigh marry tho wldoi; that he couldn't live without?" V- Yes, and now he's wondering ho.v her first husband managed to live with her." Town Topics..