The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-23

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shaved at an obscure barber shop and
then drive dafkly across to town to take
a Missouri Pacific train at the Union sta
ton. He was to meet only one man-C
p. Lawler, an attorney, brother Of Daniel
w. Lawler, the St. Paul lawyer and politi-
clan, who is one Of ,Younger's friends.
But G. E. Lawler was unfortunately &C.
companied BY, ''Wally''' Hoffman, a brewer
and Snowman from Chicago, and by one
OF Hoffnan's associates. Is,gsesx sIzse..f, b. i
The party, as appeared later. were to
discuss tender to Younger of the Buck
skin Bill Wild West Show The four
drove to the Midland Hotel, where Young
er was asked to alight and remain over
night. =. He refused. He wanted to get
home at once and see his sister, In argu-
ing the matter one of the Chicago men
addressed Cole by name. The clue was
caught by the negro hack driver, and no
sooner had Younger been driven to the
Union station than every one there was
whispering that Cole Younger was in
town.
e., Reporters Had Suspicious.
A few minutes afterwards and before
the Lees Summit train started at 9:15
Q CLOCK, two reporters for morning news
papers were already asking DR.. Rockford
II ne were Younger. "Of course not re-
Piled he who yearned to be violet under
he. snow. do I look like him ?''-..Well.
not exactly said one of the Young men
positively, but who's that fellow over
there? He's the man we want, L think. :"
The two seekers then approached a plump
faced drummer in another seat. The
drummer laughed, denied his fame, and
called across to Cole "Get on to these
fellows, will you? Why, I don't look any
more like Younger than you do."-'Look
here, Mr.. Reporter" spoke up the &C. q.
L NOD i,,
paper next day as Having accompanied
Younger from Minnesota "You don't
mean to say you took DR.. Rockford for
Cole Younger?''-"'Yes they did" chimed
in Cole, "and 7 suppose that other man
over there and I must be the Younger
Brothers. Well, we look safe enough
Beg pardon, DOCTOR apologized one in
quirer, ''all our mistake; but they say that
Younger's a fine-looking man Don't
you believe 'em, boys cried DR.. Rock
ford as the newspaper men retired, eve
seen his pictures in the papers!"
One reporter, however, who represented
an alert evening publication of Kansas
City, had secured information from St,
Paul as to the manner in which Younger
had folded his tent rArabe. This man
| insisted on going out to Lees Summit
and was duly rewarded although he did
not himself recognize the man he was
seeking. ~. ...t.er q
| IOuuSeI pidCLlCdlIy escaped reCOE-
milton until after his arrival home.
The snow was deep at the little sta
ton twenty-four miles south of Kansas
| City, the temperature was ten degrees be
low zero-the deepest snow, the most Sc
we're cold of all the winter Very natural
that Kansas City paper should observe
next morning, in red-ink capitals, "Some
People May Think That Cole Younger
Brought This Weather Down From Mime
sota.''
The Old Home Reunion.
Younger had planned to spend one night
at the Hotel Summit, kept by his own
nephew. A. 3. Donahue, before anlounc-
ing that 'Dr. Rockford had fled in the
darkness. But this nephew at this old
fashioned frame inn opposite the station
the evening from Kansas City telephones
At once he inquired Of the big man in
black, aren't you Cole Younger? They
! said you were coming mo, I'm DR..
Rockford Then, Selling the landlord s
hand, Yes, I'm Cole Younger, and your
my nephew
Cole hurried away at once with his
nephew into the arms of nieces and grand
! nieces. Only once again did Cole leave
his relatives until he retired at 3 o'clock
Monday morning. This was when his old
! schoolnlate and army chum, jeff Boggs,
| the village constable, "came down a'sail-
in in response to a telephone call.
] Next morning Kansas City was not GER
/ tain that Cole Younger had reached Mis-
| souri,. One newspaper declared that he
had, the other thought it possible. The
i Associated Press, however, was not con
WINGED. so that the minneapolis Journal
was first told that afternoon, in the north
west how easy it still is to travel I'M
known by rail in these days of universal
publicity. saht'
4 Despite the dep snow, which kept farm
i ers at home last Monday throughout Jack
4 son county and even prevented the rura
free delivery carriers from venturing forth
!: upon their routes, old friends of tht