Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-08-05
ROB ANOTHER KANSAS BANK
Two Bandits Raid Institution at
Notaze and Escape to Usage
Hills with Cash.

The State bank of Niotaze, a town
twenty miles west of Coffeyville, was
held up and robbed of about 5000 by
two unmasked men the other after
noon. The robbers carried revolvers
and rifles.
Entering the bank they found For
est Erhart, the cashier, talking to
Charles d. Armour, farmer. The
men were commanded to hold up their
hands and the cashier ordered to get
the money from the vault. The rob-
bers locked both men in the vault and
carried their loot to where their horses
were tied nearly a block away. Then
they set out directly south for the
Usage hills of Oklahoma.
The robbers put the money they Sc
cured in sack, concealed it under the
coat one of them wore and slowly
walked to their horses. They rode d.
rectly south toward the state line.
In a short time Wayne Lindsay en-
tered the bank and heard the en-
trapped mems calls from within the
vault. He passed some matches to
the cashier, who, with the light, read
the combination of the vault and soon
released himself and Mr.. Armour
They were imprisoned about ten
minutes.
Sold Ranch at Auction.-The Will
liam Clarke ranch of 500 acres was
sold at auction twelve miles east Of
Salina recently. 1t was divided into
nine different parts and sold to as
many different buyers at terms of
one-third cash and the balance in one,
two and five years. The total sales
amounted to $4,000. Only $4,000
was given in notes, the balance was
all in checks.
Gas Explosion Kills One.-James d.
McMahill an employee at the Rich
mond pumping station on the Santa
Fe, three miles south of Ottawa, was
killed when an explosion wrecked the
pump house. The explosion is sup
GRAFTON of gases In the engine pit.
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To Build Big Oil Pipe Line.--It is
announced at independence that the
Harding oil interests of st. Louis
| have concluded negotiations for the
| property of Miss Haermana Kaess-
mann. The new owners will make
Their headquarters in independence.
An S-inch pipe line is to be construct
ed from the Gushing oil field to hide
pendence and from there to Chanute,
Erie and Humboldt.
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/ Army Builds Rock Roads.-Officers
and soldiers at Fort Riley have been
doing volunteer work on the road lead,
ing to Junction City from the post to
the reservation limits on Riverside
drive. More than 100 men put in two
days at grading, ditching.. and drain
ing and the road was then surfaced
with rock and rolled.
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Boy Killed Under Wagon.-Vernon
Reed, years old, was killed five
miles west of Augusta when he slipped
from load of baled hay. struck the
double trees and bounded off on a
stone in front of the wagon The
horses became frightened and pulled
the wheels over the boys head.
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Elevator Burned.-The elevator of
the Oswego Seed and Grain Company
burned at Fredonia the other morn
ing. The cause of the fire is I'M
known. The loss to the building is
$4,000, and in grain, $4,000 1t was
about half covered by insurance.
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Indian Students Build Gym.-Indian
students at Haskell Institute are build.
ing new gymnasium for the school
by their own labor, making practical
use of their knowledge OF manual arts
and crafts learned in the regular term
of school