The Leavenworth Times from Leavenworth, Kansas • Page 4

TH JLE AVEN WOKTH TIMES: SATUK DAY MOKNING, AUGUST 128, 1897: WWSW MISSOUMAXS WON OUT. SPECIAL IN WATCHES ROBBERS HOLD FORTH UPON THE RIVER BANK. HUGH CAMERON HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED. For Thursday, Friday and Saturday, NEW OVERSEER OF CONSTRUC-TRUCTION APPOINTED. JOHN PENNISTON DISCOVERED A MAN UNEARTHING A SACK OF GOLD.

tilted? WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE ARCHITECT AND APPOINTED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 13 A PRACTICAL CIVIL ENGINEER AND BUILDER AND COMES FROM ST. LOUIS WILL HAVE FULL CHARGES UNDER DIRECTION OF WARDEN. THE BLUFFS ALONG THE RIVER BANK AN IDEAL PLACE FOR A BAND OF ROBBERS TO HOLD FORTH THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE OCCURRENCE CONSIDERABLY WORKED UP MANY MEN SEARCH TILL LATE AT NIGHT FOR THE SUPPOSED ROBBER CHIEF. Gold filled cases, ladies or gents sizes, Elgin, $8.75 Waltham, Springfield or Hampden movement worth warranted for five years. $12.50 Boss gold filled eases, ladies or gents sizes, $12.75 warranted for fifteen years with any of the worth above named movements $17,00 Boss or Fahys make, oases warranted for i $17.50 twenty years, with high grade Elgin or worth Waltham movement.

$22.00 14 Karat solid gold ladies watches, with $19.75 worth Jiilgm or altham movement. 20 00 14 Karat solid gold ladies watches, highly 1 $29.50 ornamented cases, with Elgin or "Waltham worth movement 14 Karat solid gold gent's watches with $48.50 Elgin or Waltham movement 00.00 ROSENHEIM'S Jewelry Emporium. Next door to Hunting's Book Store. 417 Delaware street. HARVEY SHERMAN TRIES TO PLAY EVEN WITH A AMPLER BUT ENCOUNTERS THE LAW.

Harvey Sherman was arrested last night on a state warrant issued from Platte county. charging him with grand larceny. Sheriff Dillingham brought the warrant over and the local officers placed Sherman under arrest. Sherman had been arrested early in the evening on information from Platte City, tut upon investigation of the case Chief Cranston said it was too trivial to hold a man on and Sherman was accordingly released. The Missourians then got their war paint on and Sheriff Dillingham came over with a state warrant.

Sherman's story is to the effect that he was over at Platte City yesterday playing the races. Towards evening the bookmaker went broke owing him (Sherman) The bookie left his place ostensibly to raise dnds with which to square himself and upon his failure to return within a reasonable time Sherman cap tared hi? paraphernalia worth in all about 40, the owner claimed. Sherman brought the goods home with him and left a note to the bookie to the effect that he could have them upon the payment of $7.50, the amount due on account. was a long parley between the Missouri sheriff, the local officers and Sherman at the police station at midnight, and the case was finally compromised by Sherman returning the gambler's paraphernalia and paying the sheriff's fees, amounting to $3. Spread Out Before You here is as fine a display of rings and trinkets as one ould want to see.

Quality is what we depend upon to gain your confidence and sensible prices ought to. win your trade. WUERTH AND SOX, Leading Jewelers and Stationers, Del. and 5th Sts. DO NOT The Place to Buy A Good Stove We are agents for the celebrated Bridge Beach Cook Stoves and Ranges.

Also the Beckwith Round Oak Heater. We have secured other good makes of stoves all at reasonable prices. Tin work of all kinds done in workman-like manner at low prices. BAKER LARIMER. HOUSE WAKMlSti.

KEARNS' LEGION A. O. U. W. ENTERTAIN THEIR FRIENDS.

Last night was the regular meeting night of Kearns' legion No. 140, A. O. U. but instead of their regular business they decided to have a kind of a house warming, as it were.

In this CONVICT TRIES TO GAIN HIS LIBERTY. Hugh Ckmeron of Leavenworth is no longer overseer of construction of the new federal penitentiary and the place that knew him once will know him no more. It is not because of anything that he has done or left undone that his place has been taken away and given to another, but rather because there was more in the work than he felt qualified to do. Shortly after his appointment, in going over the plans and learning the complex duties expected of him, he frankly admitted to the warden that he was unable. to cope with the situation.

He was neither an engineer or a builder, and it was essential that the overseer be conversant with both these branched of mechanical art. To carry out the plans of the architect, as approved by the attorney general, the overseer must be able to interpret them in all their details, even to the minutest particular, so after a consultation with Senator Raker, it Mas decided to allow the architect to recommend his assistant. This he did and the name of F. K. Hinds of St.

Louis was forwarded to the attorney general. This recommendation was approved by that official and Warden French notified of the appointment. The letter of notification states that F. E. Hinds is to be designated as "overseer, to take charge and management of the laying out and construction of the new federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, subject to the direction and approval of the architect." The compensation is fixed at $100 pet-month and the employment is to continue until such time as he may be notified that his services are no longer required.

He is a man in middle life, is a practical civil engineer and builder and will be able to interpret the plans of the architect, as well as direct the entire process of construction, under the direction of the warden, who will have full control. Yesterday was spent by the warden and the new overseer in an inspection of the quarry and prison site. They also were in consultation with the county surveyor. Harry Perkins, who surveyed and laid out the topographical chart, where "the work is now being they were assistted by Leavenworth le- Miss our big Sheet Music Sale today! If you do, it will be the mistake of your life, and you will always regret it, Popular Yocal Hits At 10c per Copy for Today Only! Remember these are the regular 40 and 50 cent popular hits, sold elsewhere at 1-2 the marked price. This sale is for one day (today, Saturday) only.

After Saturday the same hits will cost you the regular price 1-2 off. Phones 165. HOFFMAN BROS Chickering Hall. gion No. 23, and the and female relatives of the members.

The south hall in The Times Building was comfortably filled at 8 o'clock, when George W. Leak, who acted as LEAVES THE HOSPITAL BUT RUNS AGAINST A GUN. master of ceremonies, called the meeting For some time past the vicfnity of the elevator at the foot of Kiowa street has Men the rendezvous of tramps and hobos. These knights of the road and tie would infest the willows skirted along the Missouri river biuff extending from Kiowa south to Ottawa. The bluff i3 an almost perpendicular one and at Its base extending for several feet east to the railroad tracks the ground is literally covered with willows, the projecting branches of which would afford secure and absolute shelter for these itinerants.

For some time this condition of affairs has existed, causing the people in the neighborhood petty annoyance, as the tramps would make desperate and successful raids upon th-j contiguous hen coops. Beyond the loss of the chickens, the people felt no uneasiness, thinking that the wants of these proud votaries of Epicurus would be filled and that hence all the worry in the world alxut the existing condition of affairs would be wasted. Circumstances developed yesterday, however, that will cause the people in the neighborhood much worry and many sleepless nights as the following story shew. John Penniston, aged about 50, who resides at 914 North Second was in an empty box car on the track at the foot of Kickapoo street. He was gathering the remnants of corn that had been left irt the car by the elevator employes, preparatory to fattening his fowls.

While an earnest hope was permeating his bosom that after said fattening occurred, they would not fall into the hands of epicurean tramps, he heard a peculiar noise on the west side of the 'track. He ran to the open car door to investigate, and he instantly beheld a man digging at the foot of a small willow about twenty feet due west of where he was standing. He watched the mysterious digger, and beheld him draw from the hole which he had dug, a large bag. The stranger opened the sack and pulling forth an immense handful of gold, gazed at the yellow metal with avaracious eyes. Penniston was amazed but retained sufficient presence of mind to yell out "Hello, you have got it." The man turned around and upon seeing Penniston, an intense look of terror spread over his features and after hastily putting the coins back in the sack, started north at a fast gait.

He dodged along the side of the willows for a short distance and then darted in between the cars. Penniston saw him emerge from the cars along the east side of the track and as a clear foot patch lay before him. he literally flew along, tightlly II. B. ESTELLE SENT UP FROM TO-PEKA FOR BREAKING INTO A POSTOFFICE PINES FOR FREEDOM AND TRIES TO GAIN IT-TWO SHOTS FIRED BUT NO ONE! HURT WHEN DISCOVERED, RETURNED TO BED.

to order and in a few appropriate words welcomed the visitors and explained the object of the gathering. Music by a mandolin club succeeded, after which Edwin Winchester gave a recitation which was well received. After a piano solo by Miss Bauman, little Inez Walling sang a solo which captivated the audience. She has a sweet voice and gives promise of becoming a good singer. The remainder of the program included a tableaux, in two parts upon which is the best, the Klondike gold fields or the Select Knights and a reproduction of John B.

McCullough's mad ravings. Vocal and instrumental music interspersed the program and upon its conclusion all repaired to the. banquet hall. Here the ladies had the tables well filled with eatables to which all did justice. After the supper the young people enjoyed themselves in dancing and various other amusements.

Our New Blocks Now Open' A bold and unsuccessful attempt to escape was made by two convicts confined in the United States penitentiary Thursday night. That they did not secure their liberty was no fault of theirs, but due to the watchfulness of the night patrol. Guard WThite. It was about 9 o'clock, when in making his rounds, he approached the vicinity of the hospital when he saw a figure trying to scale the wall. The man had hold of the electric light bracket and in a little more would have given the laugh to prison locks and stone walls.

Commanding the attempted fugitive to come down he hastily threw his done. The new overseer will bring his from St. Louis ani will soon be actively at work. THE FIRST CONCERT. -1 CITY NEWS.

$3.00 $2.50 gun to his shoulder and fired. Another shot was fired, the sound echoing back IT DRAWS AN IMMENSE CROWD TO THE COURT HOUSE PARK. The Friday night concerts in the court house park by the Soldiers' Home band are as popular as of old. The first one of A the season drew an immense crowd last night, Fourth and Walnut streets being packed with vehicles for a distance of nearly a block. The space around the from the stone walls of the buildings as if a park of artillery had pealed forth a warning note.

Instantly the prison yard was a scene of activity and there was a hurrying to and fro of armed guards, who appeared to have come from the nether regions, as if by magic. During this time two fleeing figures were seen turning the corner of one of the buildings. These men disappeared in the hospital and it was soon found that no one wis in the yard. The prisoners were then counted and none was found Dr. Olney.

dentist. Manufacturers' National Bank Building. There were convicts In the federal penitentiary yesterday. i J. L.

Laming of Tonganoxia will erect a new eight room residence. Freight traffic on all roads out of Leavenworth, is largely on the increase. 4 Bicyclists report the roads more dry and dusty than they have been at any time this season. Robert Rinz aged 41 and Flora C. Sands, aged 20, were married yesterday by Probate Judge Hawn.

Alex White and Jessie Wright, accused of vagrancy, will be tried before Justice Bond next Wednesday. band-stand was also crowded and it is estimated that from 4.000 to 5,000 people were in attendance. The program was mm, an excellent one, and each number was roundly applauded. The concert will be given each Friday night hereafter as long as the weather is favorable. missing.

It was clear that the figure on the wall (and the fleeing forms turning the cor NOW IN JAIL HIMSELF. RICHARD SPRINGE. clinching the heavy bag of gold. Penniston promptly notified the police officials of the affair and Officer O'Leary was hastily summoned. He was shown over the ground by Penniston and looked at the nole in the ground, which had been used as a receptacle for the gold.

In the meantime the stranger had made good his escape. Several men along the track tried to stop his mad flight, but to no avail. He is described by the people who saw him as a tall, heavy set man with light hair and dressed in black. The neighborhood is considerably stirred up and the concensus of opinion is that the sheltering willows in close proximity to where the buried treasure lay constituted the rendezvous of a band of thieves. A crowd of busy last night searching the river banks as far north as Fort Leavenworth, but as late as 11 o'clock the mysterious robber chief, for such they consider him, had not been apprehended.

Probably the bluffs along the river bank have for years been the hiding place of a "Jis band of robbers, whose operations might have extended over several states. OFFICERS PULL THE VETERAN WHO SAID HE HAD BEEN ROBBED. Charles Dart, the veteran who went to the police station Thursday night and put up a cock and bull story to the effect that he had been robbed, was run in last night on the charge of disturbing the peace. He was mixed up in a disturbance at Third and Kiowa. There were three or four plain drunk arrests during the day.

ner were no myths, as a pair of slippers had been picked up in the yard. These could not have been worn by spirits, so a close investigation began. Upon going through the hospital everyone was found to be in bed and no evidence of anything out of the usual order was at first discovered. Closer investigation, however, revealed the fact that prisoner No. 338, H.

B. Estelle, by name, was in bed with his socks on. He denied that he had been out, but the tell-tale socks, blackened with dirt and full of cinders, gave the lie, direct, to his assertions. Estelie had been sent from Topeka, KB A MAY BE BURGLARY. To what is going on at our store these days it pays to come here to do your trading there is not an article that we sell but what is sold below what it could possibly be bought for elsewhere.

rOLICE COURT OCCURRENCES. under a three years sentence for breaking into a postoffice and had until September, 1899, still to serve. He had been sick and was placed in the hospital for treatment, and while there planned a scheme for liberty. It appears that the lock? on the hospital had never been changed and were MORRTS SULLIVAN CHARGED WITH TOUCHING A SWITCH HOUSE. Officers Brown and Barrett last night arrested Morris Sullivan on the charge of breaking into the switch house, near the Union Pacific freight depot, and stealing a coat and tome other articles of clothing.

Sullivan was very drunk when found by the but he still had some of the stolen articles. He was locked up and may have to answer to the charge of burglary. old ones. It is 'probable that various parties have had opportunities to make duplicates of the key and that Estelle had secured onp, and when the oppor tunity presented itself, used it. NOTHING BUT STRAIGHT FIVE SPOT FINES IMPOSED.

A quintet of "rot-gut among them the omnipresent John Doe, were soaked S3 each in the police court yesterday morning. James Collins, pinched on a charge of drunkenness, was proved innocent and was given his liberty. Geo. Finlenbinder was fined $3 for disturbing the peace. A.

Groom was plastered for five "sll-verines" and had the fine remitted. Anna May was- touched for 5 plunks on a charge of street walking. Arthur Goodell. who was accused of stealing some tools, was released and court adjourned. 10c 5 His attempt to escape was made in his underclothes, and now, instead of er hospital treatment, he has been set to work, and while doing so, will mourn SIRS.

KREZDORN DYING. over his frustrated plans. IHIOSIEIRY SPECIALS Ladies' Tan Seamless Hose, three thread heels and toes, per pair Ladies' Fast and Stainless Black Seamless Hose, double heels and toes, special price per pair. Ladies' Stainless Black Cotton Hose, good ones, per pair CHILDREN'S HOSE. The Full Value Bibb Seamless, made to give sat- isfaction to the wearer, fast and stainless black, our special price per pair MEN'S HALF HOSE.

Black. Tans or Unbleached French Lisle Seamless, best in the land for the price, per pair The attempted escape and the shooting caused no unusual excitement in the prison. The locks have all been changed and yesterday thre was no evidence of the previous night's excite WIFE OF THE DEPUTY SHERIFF REPORTED TO EE VERY LOW. It was reported at 1 o'clock this morning that Mrs. Ernest Krezorn was dying.

All of her relatives were summoned to her bedside at that hour and it was said that she could net live through the day. ment. 2o Mechanics lodge No. 89 of Odd Fellows will meet tonight at which an interesting time is expected. Chaplain Cade of the Federal prison, will preach in the Congregational church on Sunday morning.

The case against Howard Downs, for assault and battery, will be called in Justice Bond's court today. Dick Brannigaa charged with assault and battery, will have a preliminary hearing before Justice Johnson this morning. Prof. B. K.

Bruce and wife have returned from their vacation, which- was spent in Minnesota, Michigan and Chicago. The case of Joe Feverly, charged with assault and battery is set for hearing in Jus-time Johnson's court on the 31st inst Lodge No. 112 Knights and Ladies of Security met in regular session last night, in the north hall in The Times Building. Knight patent lawyers of St. Louis, report that John L.

Phillips of LeaTcn-worth, has taken out a patent for a safety pin. Assistant General Freight Agent Phi Hi and Commercial Agent Gannon of the Missouri Pacific were in the city yesterday calling upon shippers. The regular work of the Leavenworth county normal institute closes today. Monday and Tuesday an examination for teachers' certificates will be held. The change in time on the Burlington goes into effect tomorrow and the parlor car will have Kansas City at 5:58 p.

which is eighteen minutes later than at present. The state case against Albert Kuester, charged with assaultinng Jacob Hass wita a rock, was called in Justice Bond's court yesterday and continued until September 4. A team belonging to a milkman took a spurt in South Leavenworth yesterday and made things lively for a while. Outside of spilling a lot of mlib little damage was done. John Biggs, charged with stabbing Joe Turner, was arraigned before Justice Johnson yesterday.

His prelimiary hearing was set for September 10 and he was remanded to jail in dtault of $1,000 bond. A. C. Harding of this city has been reinstated in the service of pension department at Washington, on the recommendation of Senator Baker. He was let out during Cleveland's first administration for "offensive If you have not had a real good, sweet an3 tender watermelon this season now is your time for the Dustiu Commission Company, will get la a car at noon today, of just such melons.

Every melon sold under this kind of a guarantee. No disappointment. The Rev. J. W.

Alderman, D. presiding elder of the Kansas City district, Methodist Episcopal church, will arrive this evening, and be the guest of Hon. Wtn. Fairchild. He will preside over the quarterly conference of the First M.

E. church at 8 p. m. W. M.

Jewett brought into The Times office yesterday some great specimens of peaches from his farm. One pach measured 103i inches in diameter; two others were 1014 inches. They were of fine color and quality. Edward Standhardt, aged 21, and Lillle O. Johnson, aged 18 have been licensed to marry.

Handel used, whn traveling, to order dinner, for three, cr if hungry, for five, In either London or Paris. MUSIC AND DRAMA. 10, BASEBALL SUNDAY. The Rothschilds and the Sluggers will cross bats Sunday arternoon at Kor-man's park. The Rothschilds beat the Sluggers two weeks ago, and the Sluggers desire to recover their reputation as the champions of the city by defeating the Rothschilds.

The game will be called at 3 m. Charles Fenning will officiate as umpire. The line-up of the teams will be as follows: ROTHSCHILDS SLUGGERS rjlhe 1 RIGHT LABEL TQT3TD) MAM -011 he 414 Delaware. The attraction at Crawford's opera house Sunday night will b-i Merritt and Davis' farcical comedy "McSorley's Twins." This amusing skit was one of the few of last season's successful money-makers in the theatrical line, and it evidently has gained a lasting reputation among 'theater-goers. This season's company is an entirely new one, and roster contains tht names of several well known fun-makers whose past record is an assurance that they will be vastly amusing in the ludicrous opportunities offered in "McSorley's Twins." -RIGHTBOTTLE at Tihe RIGHT PRICE -at FIELD'S PHARMACY.

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