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From: "Jim Laird" <>
Subject: [KSJEFFER] Local Items; Oskaloosa; Jan. 22, 1897
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:39:36 -0500


The Oskaloosa Times
Friday
January 22, 1897

He Passes Bogus Checks.
J.A. GILCHRIST, of Seneca, and L.A. PODVENT, mine host of the Teer hotel at Holton were in town Wednesday morning in chase of a young man wh has been victimizing a number of banks and hotels in northeastern Kansas by passing bogus checks.
The young man suspected has been making this town for the past two years and his friends here think there must be some mistake.
He is a brother-in-law of Charley Eagles, the well known cigar dealer, of Topeka.
Through a traveling amn Podvent learned that the man wanted was here, and he telephoned sheriff HAM to be on the lookout for the fellow and to order a hack to meet the down freight as he would come down. The sheriff could get no satisfaction over the phone except that Podvent would be down and wanted a hack. The hack was ordered, went to the depot but because the train was not on time did not wait, so the two gentlemen had to walk up town through the mud and snow; and the way "Alec" spit out fire and brimstone was a caution.
Their man went to Topeka Tuesday night, and they went back to Holton to catch a train for Topeka.

A Close Call.
John FLETCHER is digging a well for Lee MERRITT on his lot on Piety Hill, and has got down about thirty-five feet. This morning, in some way a stone about half the size of a man's head fell from the surface and struck John a glancing blow on the head. He was rendered unconscious for some moments, but was able to get down to Smith's drug store for treatment. This is the second time Dr. Smith has sewed up John's scalp.

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