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The Marshall republican., 1906-10-19
COUNTY COURT MINUTES
August adjourned Term. Oc-
tober. 1906.

Court convenes pursuant TO
adjournment, present Hons.
D. II. Stouffer, j. p. Force,
W. G. Gaines Judges;R +. l..
Smith Clerk, G. ID. Bacon
Sheriff.
Court opened by the sheriff.
Loan granted Carrie l.. Cas-
well 10 sum of 1925.
j. w. Jordan ct oil present
petition for bridge over
branch on road between secs.
35 and 30 Twp. SO Range 10,
and commissioner is directed
TO view and report.
s. II. Gray, justice of peace,
Blackwater twp. resigns.
Ordered that commissioner
build concrete culvert on road
On south line Of sec. 3j twp.
SO, R.2l.
Commissioner directed u
build concrete culvert on
north and south road through
sec. 81, twp. SO, II. 81.
Dramshop licence granted
Dan G. Porter, Marshall fol
is months.
Miscellaneous accounts pre-
sented ana allowed.
Appropriation of $40 made
in favor Of john l. Hardin fol
work on public road between
secs.l Is and II twp. 80, R.20
Petit jury drawn for Nov
te m Of Criminal Court 1907
as follows:
Arrow Rock-Chas Niemeyer
Steve Craig.
Blackwater--Foree 1ellwood
Walter Brown.
j cambridge--W L Decker, Jos
Howell, r TJenkins.
clay-Joseph Auer. Geo R Dur
can.
Elmwood--rAD Davis. A r Deal
: Grand Pass--W vogt. Ale
= Long.
7 Liberty--J D Ro.hrock. Tho
: Johuson.
J Marshaii--A c Potter, Geo Y
Fellers, Thos H Bagneil.
/. Mismi--F @ Young, 8 P Petel
!, man.
Ssls Fork--P N Smith. T
: Murphy.
Loan granted John Blair !
: sum OF $1,000.
II In the matter of Lloy
Kemper ct al for public roac
same established nnd $500
J, allowed W = Pinkard u
s \
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Sale

G.. t.. Mo re aud NJ. II. Clris.
tain wal have u JOINT SAFE ot
personal property On thn
Oh ,stain farm, , miles sun.h-
west al Maj shall, on next
TIE "iay, Oct. BIRD, commenc-
lnw I'D u. ~.
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damage. Court appropiates
500 for lun Der. and BIT May
field is ordered 10 open same
Mt expense Of petitioners.
Road petitioned for by + SADIE
white ct al is received and
declared Il public highway.
Court appoir Is Judges for
general election Tn November
1906 as follows:
Arrow Roek--Jno McCufhn,
Geo Bradshaw, b II Bray. VIM
wilhelm, i w Windineier. II q
Sheppard.
Nelso,-Geo Alexander, Irwin
Williams. Lewis Richardson. J X
Barron, Gus Pete y. Lewis Petery
Hardeman-A Davis, A 5
Brown, Edward Fenwick, G. II
Amsberry l. l. French, Henry
Casey.
Naptou-Dave Dennis. Harvey
McMshsn, II Hollywood. Austin
Dennis. David Goodloe, l. { Shack
leford.
Prsirie Lawns ID Pile. X a
Tussey, Rufus Clark, ST.. g !
Stone. Thos Teck meyer b i Hess
Ridge Prairie Jas Mari, liz
Renno, Geo Finle =. J L Sears, $ Il
Perkins. Joe Shac xletord.
Sister-John Z Brown, Waite
Bridges, w X Rhoades. l. /
Howard. I + HUI Up. Geo Mark
well.
GiiIiam-R H Land, r H Ayres
William Lee, + M TIeinsler, Ge'
NJ Green. Louis Bariinghaus.
New Fraukfon Mike Babler
Boone Winston. ID T Sydens,rick
er. Phil Rideubach, Chas Thier
fielder. r p Price.
Cambrfdge-D d Petty, 10
Howell, Jas Daniel. Alex Turner
f Jackson. ] W Jordan.
Saline City-Hepry Detmer,
d Davidson, Jesse Heusick, 10
Ciger. Jr., Orsoa King, Herr,
B~erleknmp.
Orearviu-W r Burroughs
Joseph A Johnson. Joe Cot'
Frank Leimkuhler. II A Bremen
Jas Butts.
ElmwoodJ Bennett Davis.
G FrizcIi. Sydney BoulwaIe. n
T'eriiil, J H Coulter. Sam 'Fulkel
SON.
Mt Leouard--Robt d Wright
Robertson. Phil Kellett. Herr
Franz. Geo Hasau, Henry Fulke
son
Salt spriugs--Jos Hauil. j
AcKeever. Jos Baidus. Walt
Baker. VIM Bsuers. + Q Fuiks
son:
Blsckbum--W Taylor, J
Hin, DR. G Blackbarn, L ca
nesu. Geo Gerken, H Drunk hors
} Grand Paas-Tnos Taylor. @
! Ia Mcclure. Jno + cordsr. j
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-14
OVER SEA HABIT.
Difference on This Side the Water.

The persistent effect upon the heart
of caffeine in coffee cannot but result
in the gravest conditions, in time
Each attack of the drug (and that
means each cup of Coffee weakens the
organ little more, and the end is al
most a matter of mathematical demon
stration. A lady writes from a West
ern state:
Il am of German descent and it was
natural that l should learn at very
early age to drink coffee. Until l was
% years old drank scarcely anything
else at my meals.
"A few years ago 1 began to be af-
fected by steadily increasing nerv-
BUSINESS, which eventually developed
into distressing heart trouble that
made me very weak and miserable
Then, some three years ago, was added
asthma in its worst form. My suffer-
Ihgs from these things can be better
imagined than described.
During all this time my husband
realized more fully than did that cof-
fee was injurious to me, and made
every effort to make me stop.
Finally it was decided a few months
ago to quit the use Of coffee absolute
ly, and to adopt Postum Food Coffee
as our hot table drink. I had but little
idea that it would help me- but con-
scented to try it to please my husband.
l prepared it very carefully, exactly
according to directions, and was de-
lighted with its delicious flavor and
refreshing qualities.
Just SO soon as the poison from the
coffee had time to get out Of my sys-
tenn the nutritive properties OF the
Postum began to build me up, and /
am now fully recovered from all my
nervousness, heart trouble and asthma.
gladly acknowledge that now, for the
first time in years, / enjoy perfect
health, and that I owe it ell to Pos
tum." Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek. Mich.
kThere's a reason. Read the little
look, "The Road to Wellville," in
pkgs.
Postum Food Coffee contains no
drugs Of any description whatsoever.
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Bank Burglars at Work.

to work with the soap and "soup"
(the latter being their name for nitro
glycsrine) and blow their way in
The safe comes next. They make
a soap lip a. the top crack of the
safe door, cai:< the crack of the safe
door all the way down, and pour the
nitroelycerine INFO the lip, from
which it runs down inside the door
along the sides of the bottom This
done, the thieves put the percussion
cap III the soap lip. attach a foot long
fuse. light it and retire outside, clos
ing the door. Sometimes when they
are blowing safe inside a vault they
even close the door of the vault These
precautions lessen the noise and mini
miZe the danger of an alarm.
Old detectives say that there are
really no safes that can withstand this
attack with nitroglycerine Many
so-called burglar-proof safes have
been laid open until their experience
has taught them to lose faith in the
name. True, there are safes that fire.
quently resist attack. but this is be-
cause the thieves do not know how
to DO it; not because it couldn't be
done
The detectives say that bank rob-
bling is crime in which only
white men engage. 1t is unknown of
negroes. Another singular fact about
it is that the men engaged in it are
almost all of an age. 1t is not the
work of boys or graybeards, but the
adventure of men varying little from
So years. Most of them are ex-con-
victs Detectives have observed that
a safe blower once settled" as they
call conviction and Imprisonment, in
variably returns to the soup and soap.
The explanation is obvious: He needs
ready money.
The inference from all this is that
the winter can have no terrors for
the bsnk robber. Handsomely reward
ed sor his industry, he can retire for
a season and indulge in few Injuries.
If. as bank officials affirm. the bold
bank robbers who have made such q
whooping campaign this last year
take refuge in the brick-walled can
yons of the larger cities of the CEN
trail west after their autumn activities,
this should be a winter of plenty OF
prosperous robbers in the Mississippi
valley, with a plethora of money To
be sure a good deal of it under these
circumstances would be tainted chiefly
by powder and some of the currency
may be little bent. but it will have
to be pretty badly shot up to be I'M
welcome.
Many a small banker would rest
easier if some means could be found
to more fully protect himself and
his patrons.
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Many Institutions Plundered by
Craftsmen During Re-
cent Months.
HOW NEFARIOUS WORK IS ACCOMPLISHED
Over Thirty Successful "Jobs" in Mississippi
Valley States During Last Quarter of 1905
Are Regarded Most Danger
Gus of Criminals.

Chicago.-A compilation of the bank
robberies which occurred throughout
the middle western states last fall
shows that the season was an excep-
tionally prosperous one for cracks
men. Many a little banking institu-
ton was plundered of its wealth by
the night-prowling profession.
For time it was daily occurrence
to lsarn that a bank robbery had
diana, Kansas. or some of the other
neightoring states of the Mississippi
valley Very often as many as two
or three banks were robbed on the
same night at different towns. show
ing that several bands were pursuing
the nefarious work.
Partial List of Robberies.
Beginning with the first of October
and ending with the last day of the
old year, no less than 80 successful
bank robberies occurred in the states
of The middle west. Following are
some of the Jobs
The bank of Willard Ky, was
robbed on the night of October 9, and
pursuing citizens killed one robber
and captured four others.
A series of bank robberes occurred
in Indiana between October "a and
November 3. The robbers got $4,000
from the bank al Sanborn, S. 800 from
the bank at HagerstOwn, $4,000 from
the bank at Ridgeville, and wrecked
the vault at Windfall. An attempt
was also made to rob the bank at
Odoa, but no money was secured.
Citizens of DIquoin. H.. routed a
gang OF safe blowers on the night of
November l.
Bank of Creighton, Creighton. Mo-,
was lobbed of $4,000 night of Novem-
Der 3, and the vault partially demol-
ished by nitroglycerine
On night of November 5 robbers
tried to blow the bank at Washing
ton, Ind, and were frustrated in get
ting $4,000 by the bottom of the safe
blowing out before the doors opened.
In blowing safe at Cherryvale,
Kan, on the night of November 20.
robbers started fire which did $75,-
600 damage.
Bank of Pleasant Plains, ILL.,. shot
up by safe blowers on night of No
vember %. They got $500. Another
gang Got $1,000 at jamestown, ILL.,, the
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outdone by Indiana. Illinois. Ken
tucky. Kansas, Arkansas, the Indian
Territory. Oklahoma, Texas and
Nebraska, all parts of the favorite
range of the hank robber.
1t is strange, but true, that few rob-
berries ever occur out of season. A not
able exception was at Royal. Ill,
where bank was robbed of Sc 900.
This robbery occurred in August The
most remarkable recent case occurred
early last fall when robbers broke into
a bank at Mineral Point, Wis, and Sc
cure1 $25.290.
= Robbers Work in Gangs.
1t is singular that very few Jobs
are done sing.e-handed 1t is tradi-
tional that bank robbers and safe
blowers work in gangs. They send
in two men to do the work and leave
two guards without Occasionally
there is a fifth man, but not often.
The bank robber is considered BY
detectives and notice officers to be the
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glar tools, some of them of remark
able workmanship; but the possession
of these is rare.
For the most part the gangs work
with nothing but the nitroglycerine
and the soap. They pick out small
city, rarely one with a population of
more than 5000 or 1000. generally one
with less. Such towns have but
small night police force, if. indeed,
they have anything more than night
marshal
The gang sends man in town dur
ing the day to locate the bank At
midnight the whole quartette moves
in. The night marshal is hunted up
and gagged. Bank robbers have their
own colloquialisms for all these things,
and if they were telling it they would
say they stuck up" the marshal and
put him away" This means they thrust
gun in the officers face compelled
him to throw up his hands, bound and
gagged him, and laid him out of
harms way behind some building, or
back in an alley. Looking after the
night marshal is almost always an
easily accomplished preliminary. Few
of them ever discover there are bank
robbers in town until it is too late,
and case where robbers were antici-
pated by the marshal and routed be-
fore they robbed the bank is sufficient
ly rare to be called unknown.
Actual Work at Bank.
After the way has been cleared in
this manner the thieves go to the
bank, either pick or break the lock
of the bank door with a crowbar, and
enter the chamber of wealth. If the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-14
SAYINGS OF sAors.

Glory should follow. not be pursued
Pliny, Jr.
Benevolent feeling ennobles the most
trifling actions.-Thackeray.
The usual fortune of complaint is to
excite contempt more than pity.-John-
son.
A given force applied for given time
upon given point is bound to win
Napoleon.
Courage consists not in blindly over
looking danger, but in meeting it with
the eyes open.-Richter.
Character is bundle of habits. Hab-
its originate in the mind and are regis
tered on the body.-George D. Trip.
Every person has two educationse
one which he receives from others and
one. more important, which he gives
himsen.-Gibbon.
The mere lapse of years is not life:
knowledge, truth, love, beauty, good
ness, faith alone can give vitality to
the mechanism of existence.-Marcus
Aurelius.
Half the sorrows of women would be
averted if they could repress the speech
they know to be useless nay, the speech
they have resolved not to utter.-CeorSe
Eliot
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-14

renee somewhere in the middle west
at this season. The dweller in the
country town knows what it is when
it brings him out of his peaceful slum
bers in the dead of night.
There is no installing that sup
pressed roar If he is a game man
the citizen gets his gun and goes out
on the firing line; if he is man of
peace. he assures his wife that the
noise they heard is thunder.
Few Robbers Caught.
1t is a singular fact that few bank
robbers are caught. Now and then
a gang of them will make a mess of
it and bring the wrath of the citizen
soldiery down on their heels, but the
average of mortality in the business
is below that of street car riding and
autOmobiling. Bank robbers work in
quartettes, as did the adventures of
Dumas, and about the only difference
between their lives and those of the
famous Three Musketeers is that the
bank robbers adventures are invaria-
bly, more remunerative and always less
sentimental.
Sometimes everything goes to
smash. as it did with a gang at Will
lard, KY, on the night of October %
last, when posse put bloodhounds
upon the trail after the bank was
robbed and fought a battle with the
thieves, killing one and capturing the
rest.
Sometimes, too, bank robber grows
careless with his wealth and excites
suspicion by displaying it. This was
the undoing of Harry Stewart, who
was arrested in ST. Louis December
while attempting to dispose of $1,000
worth of stamps which had been part
of the loot in a robbery at Shelbyville,
Mo-, few days before. Stewart con-
fessed to completely in the robbery.
The greater part of these rowing
rogues, however, get away without
fight or a capture. They almost in
variably work between midnight and
two o'clock, when citizens are wrapped
in slumber. Indeed, their methods are
so identical from one end of the great
Mississippi valley to the other that
berries were the work of the same gang.
Detectives, however, know better.
The Robbing Formula.
The formula for robbing bank is
simple. simpler than one not familiar
with the workings of gang of safe
crackers would suppose.
The gang gets few sticks of dyna-
mite, takes the nitroglycerine out of
it and carries this violent explosive
away. 1t has been the case, too, that
quantities Of nitroglycerine have been
stolen from "a manufacturing plant
where the deadly explosive is made
in the northern part of Indiana 1t is
the superstition of Capt Kinney, of
the Indianapolis detective department,
that the robbers have this explosive
hidden away in some woods and car
ry away small quantities of it as they
need it.
Besides the explosive the other es-
sential to robbing safe is bar of
soap. Sometimes the saDa has bur-
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wrecked by EitrOglycerine on the
night of November %. The robbers
got $1,000. On the same night another
gangs got 1925 at Piggott, Ark; a
small sum at Metz, Ark; 500 at Law
ton. G. T.; SS5 at Terrell, Tex, and
$1,000 at Vallonia, Ind.
Over $4,000 was taken from the bank
at Owl, |. T., on the night of Novem-
Der so
Robbers blew a safe at Shelbyville,
Mo, and got 1910 on night of De-
cemoer l.
The Farmers and Merchants bank,
at Forest Grove, Ore, was robbed of
$5.453 on night of December 2. On
the same night another gang got $4,000
from a bank at Carrolton, Tex.
Citizens at Falkland Ind, fought an
exciting battle with bank robbers on
night Of December 6. The thieves got
away with $500 On the same night
another gang got $3.50 at Ardmore,
l. T.
All Precautions Useless.
Banks in all the small towns in
arserais, while thorough, up-to-date
equIpr;ent of burglar alarms was
generally installed and special armed
watchmen employed by the banks.
The methods employed in practically
every one of these bank robberies have
been the same. The loot has seldom
failed. Sometimes it has amounted to
$4,000 from & single robbery, and
it mas scarcely ever been less than
$1,000.
No. since the days when the ia
nous Reno gang of bandits terrorized
the people with it's daring crimes has
the country been so boldly worked by
! bank burglars as it was during the
autumn just past. With the advent
/ of the rural telephone and the de-
| velopment of the interurban electric
railways the states boasted of prog
ress that was popularity supposed to
make the profession of yeggman sc
hazardous that organizations of bur.
| glars and systematic looting of banks
would be abandoned. But such seems
not &c have been the case
Missouri, which invented train rob.
berry, usually leads all the states OF
| the union in hank rObberies This
year. however, the state where peo-
pie have Ito be shown" has beer
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same night, and a third 5000 at Fair
mount. i'll.
Bank robbers made an unsuccessful
attack upon Danville, H.. on the night
of November 81. and the same night
another futile attempt was made at
Tamaroa, Ill.
Robbers entered Eldon. Mo-, on
nigh- of November %, but were re-
pulsed by citizens, who captured their
bottle of nitro glycerine.
John Rodenberg, of East St Louis,
feeling that safe blowers might visit
him, Losted the combination of his
safe il plain view. The expected
visit came, and the thieves got $32
out of the safe on the night of Novem-
Der &c, without using the destructive
nitrogly cerine. He saved the safe.
The State Bank at Chapman, Neb.,
was dynamitei on the night of No
vember %. yielding $4,000.
The entire front of the American
Exchange bank. at Browns, Ill. was
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

During the year 1904 Siam exported
more than s12,OOo,0O0 worth of rice.
Teak wood is second in value
According to a recent report from
Toxic, there are 1876 wholesale and
2S5,414 retail tobacco dealers in ia
pan.
Il The annual value of the mineral
products of Germany is about $780,
100000. Coal and iron are the most
important
Prof. T. J. ]. See, of Washington,
has determined the height of the at
mosphere by a new system, which
consists in noting the time of sunset
and that of the complete disappear
ance of the blue Of the sky.
With a tensile strength often ex-
ceeding 300, 900 pounds per square inch.
steel piano wire seems to be the
strongest material known, and it pos
sesses the additional valuable prop
erty of very high elastic limit.
1t is stated that the best managers.
pattern designers and dyers in the
Lancashire cotton mills, tempted by
high wages. are going out to India and
Japan to take charge of mills there.
Great quantities of textile machinery
are also being exported.
A peculiar process for separating
non-magnetic particles like gold from
sand has been patented by L. T..
Weiss. The metallic particles in mass
are electroplated with iron, by a spe-
cial apparatus, and can then be sepa-
rated by any magnetic method.
The use of milk of lime for quickly
and effectively eXtinguishing fires in
coal mines is recommended by Inspec.
tor Wolfang Hummer, a German. The
suggestion is not new, but has been
newly tested with satisfactory results.
The emulsion-which can be used with
hand or power pumps-runs into and
fills the crevices of the coal or mineral.
Statistics show that since January
], 1904, 23 new furnaces, with ca
pacity of $780, 900 tons of pig iron a
year have, been blown in, and that 16
furnaces, with a capacity of 100000
tons year. are now under construc-
ton in the United States. 1t may be
added that plans for as many as Is
modern blast furnaces, in addition to
the 16 now building, are quite sure to
be put through.
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most dangerous kind of criminal. 1t is
said that bank robbers will shoot
quicker than any other type. They
are absolutely fearless, and their dis
covery of the destructiveness of nitro
glycerine has made it an easy matter
for "secOnd-class bum to become a
first-class bank robber.
1t is said that few bank burglars
are mechanics, relying upon the nitro
glycerlne to open the vault, no mat
ter low strong the safe or how well
barred the DOORS ''Give a tramp a
can OF soup and a bar of soap. and
two or three other buns to work with
him, and he'll get into the fanciest
burglar-proof safe that was ever
made said a detective.
That so few robbers are caught is
explained by the detectives in this
way. The robberies occur at little
towns, here, there, everywhere Crack
ing the safe between midnight and two
O'Clock. the thieves have often as
many as four or five hours of dark
ness in which to get away If they
can catch train across country in
this time it is long chase to catch
them. Unlike the James and the
Younger boys, they don't ride into
town in the daytime, shoot up and
down the street until the bank Is
robbed, and then ride off into the
woods. The up-to-date bank robbel
comes and goes under cover of night
and almost invariably relies upon the
railroads to carry him far away from
the scene of his crime within a few
hours.
So it is that the muffled boom O
the bank robbery is a nightly occur
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-14

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Fits of depression or restlessness and
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region and between the shoulders;
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tendency to cry at the least provoca-
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tration.
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