From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 21, 1911:

• “‘My man got away. It makes me sick but cannot be helped. W. H. Banning.’ This telegram received by Deputy Ike Johnson at the jail last night brought the first intimation that the two-year search of Pinkerton detectives for A. L. Breizendine, one of the smoothest forgers in the country, had been rendered futile. The much sought criminal had given the Douglas county sheriff the slip while changing trains on the final lap of the long journey home.”
• “Spreading rails was responsible for a near wreck which tied up traffic on the Ottawa branch for two hours this morning. The early morning passenger from Ottawa was derailed at Indian, just outside the city limits. Every car was off the track…. Excessive wet weather of the last week so softened the roadbed that when the heavy train struck this soft stretch this morning, the rail spread allowed the train to bump down on the ties.”
• “A Kansas co-ed was one of sixty-five to take the recent state medical examination at Kansas City, and of this number she made the highest grade in the competitive quiz. The girl was Miss Charlotte Kaulbach, a student in the school of medicine and one of the most brilliant pupils the new school has ever had.”