The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 4, 1884, Page 2

rode threatens to enci “KANSAS DESPERAEOE One of Ben Harrisen’s Soldiers | | him, but the party Experience—Quick Disposition of a Rapist. Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer. Galena, Kan., May little mining town is situated at the ’Frisco line and the junction of the Fort Scott and Gulf railroad, and the | voyager who teels that lite would be safer after traveling from Tahleq on the ’Frisco stops over here for Finding that Lhad to uah the other line. stay over night, and knowing that probibition had made dull places of the saloons, I decided to learn some- thing of lead andzinc mining, as well ef the history of this place, which cased the inhaditants of the town of Baxter Spring to move away, and leaye their buildings to fall into decay from want of occupants. A guide escorted me toa shaft operated by one of the earliest mining settlers, a man who came here in 1877, and kas yemained ever since. After an in- troduction the veteran invited me in to the engine house, where there was a fire and a light, and seated me on a grease-coated stool, and then, when I had informed him that I re- sided in Indiana, he said: “TI came from that state myself. i was in the Seventeenth regiment, Ben Harrison’s’’ **Tell me something about Ben as a soldier.”” 1 said. The old man litted his crippled leg into a comfortable position and said; ‘He was a good one. I got my wound at Peach Tree creek, but I saw Benin that fight and in every . other one that the regiment was ever im. He was the coolest, bravest man I ever saw in battle, and the kindest of commanders to his men. He was always just, and, though a stnct disciplinarian, was indulgent whenever he could be. We all be- lieved in him and respected him. The boys couldn’t lay around his tent and take liberties with him, but he was the friend of every soldier under his command. To-day I would rather vote tor him tor President than any man living.’’ When his enthusiasm over General Harrison had expressed itselt, I asked him for the moral history of Galena. ‘+1 don’t know that it had any for | the first two or three years atter the diggings were discovered. The most of the land belonged to the rail- yoad company, and it organized a town company after the discovery of lead and zinc. In disposing of tne land all mineral rights were reserved, In the fall of 1877 there must haye been 2,000 men in the digings, and not a single woman. All the hous- €s that were built were in some way used as saloons and gambling places. Everybody had money, and, though a great deal of drinking and gam- bling was carried on, the men had very little incentive to murder. There was a great deal of shooting going en, but it was generally’ done to scare, and the only persons hurt were those accidentally in the range et some drunken fellow’s pistol. But ie the spring ot 1878 the women seemed to come down in drove, most of them bad, but a few good ones.s. THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT a seemed to flock here from every quarter, even from Texas. It is a mile and a half to the Missour n the east, and three miles to the indian territory on the south. The ertminals could escape in any direc- tion, and for a time had almost ab- soiute immunity from arrest. This naturally made them bold, and satety from the hand ot the law on their part forced the better class to avoid them as muck as possible, but when a collision occurred to take the ante their own hands line law THE FIRST KILLING here was in’the nature of retributive justice, and should not be classed with the murders. Early in the spring of 1878 a man whose name I do not remember, if lever knew it, outraged a beautiful girl, the daugh- ter ot a miner who had brought his { ces, so that no doubt existed 14.--This | as to the guilt of the man in custody. The father begged for permission to kill refused it, and of law. called insisted on certain forms | They organized a court, | twelve men to act 2s jurors, evidence. |g o’clock the evidence was all ind in ten miuutes the jury brought | verdict of guilty, with death ! |sentence. The acting judge | became acting sheriff, with the jury | and the tather of the outraged girl |asa posse. They took a lantern and quietly went down the creek below where the old limekiln now | stands, and, fixing a rope over the limb of a sycamore tree and placing | | a flour-barrel under it, they brought up the prisoner. Some one asked him if he didn’t want to pray, but he said he didn’t think it would do any good, as he expected to take break- fast in hell any way, and, as he was ured. they might go on with their gymnasium, as he did not want to be kept awake all night. The boys then took off all his clothes and examined his pockets. He had $40 in money and a fine silver watch. All his ef- fects were caretully wrapped up and addressed to the coroner of the coun- ty. Then the man was placed on the barrel, his hands tied behind his back, the rope carefully adjusted by the judge and sheriff, and when all was ready the tather of the girl kick- ed the barrel away, and the poor wretch was started on the road for the break-fast he expected.”’ **What was done about the ter?’ I asked. “Oh, nothing. The corner came down the next day and had the body buried, and I suppose the county got the benefit of the effects of the vic- tim. The circumstances were all told me by the acting sheriff.’’ in | at} By in, and sunset began taking in Sos then mat- THE KILLING OF TIGER BILL. was the next real sensation that line. Tiger was a gambler and des- perado, who ran with Harry Camp- bell alwavs went around telling what a desperate tellow Tiger Bill was, and cautioning the boys nottorile him One Saturday night the Blount boys, a couple of young tellows from up down here and in the country, came went to Long Em’s ranch, the lead- ing dance house here at that time. They ordered wine, and = when the time came to pay Em manded $10. The boys didn’t haye it, but offered her $2. all the money they had. She knew they were greenies, and sent out for Bill and his pal to help her out. They came in and covered the boys witn their navy sixes and told them it they didn’t put up something they would kill them, The boys had a watch worth $60, which they said they would leave as security if they would be allowed to redeem it the next Saturday night, which was agreed to, and they left the watch with Em and departed. During the week Em’s man spouted the watch on taro, and lost it, so that when the Blount boys returned on Saturday afternoon to redeem it she couldn’t turn it up. The boys had come down heeled and before she knew it they had covered her with their re- volvess and demanded $50, the dif- ference between the price of the watch and the amount of their wine bill. Em gave up the $50, and the boys went down to get supper. While they were there Em sent out for Tiger Bill and told him what had happened. Bill hunted up Har- ry Campbell, and the two went down to the hotel and the Blount Campbell introduced Tiger to them as a pro- tessional man-slayer and eater, and Tiger told them that they had rob- bed his friend $50, which they must give up or he would be under the unpleasant necessity of taking it from their dead bodies. The boys didn’t say much, but &at at the table until the landlord came around, and they paid for their suppers. I was! at the table and saw them rise, but I tell you they nz a shootin’, and the first shot laid out Tiger Bill. Camp | bell was shot through the arm, but he ran like a coward, de- Tiger found boys in the dining-room. of and the boys | ed off home. only eral me | or whether | trom Mier to Matamoras, armed and mounting their horses, THE MUKDER OF MONTE BoB affair, after know represented nappened Bill he and | Tiger wi was a queer a little while IT don’t but he was killed. ere ame from, was as a man who had once been a gen- t had by teel gambler, fallen to the plane of He ! No one knew his real name, had any day ment. he living. One preparing to renew work in a and after the water was pumoved out ! and ] some men wer shaft, discovere Bob. aman went down the dead body of Monte had evidently lain’ there week. His head was jeily, and at first it was thought that and beaten to a down the shaft but4in a a young woman 1n One ot the dance- that Bob had been mistress, who had beaten him to death with a billet of wood, and that the two women had dragged the body to the shatt and thrown it down. The murJderess was young and _ pretty, ot that stamp were so scarce around the camp that the buys telt they could not spare her, so she was never molested. PROMISCUOUS KILLINGS came along so frequently in those days that I cannot remember them all. A saloon keeper cut a man’s throat with a butcher knife, and the next morning another man was found dead with a_ bullet-hole through his head. He was in the alley behind the saloon. Then Bill Norton killed Kilhan—shot him fulf of buck-shot, and then riddled the dead body with bullets from his revolver. A shoemaker killed Con- nolly and badly wounded his father, and afew days afterward Joe Ivy killed John Finley in a big whisky But the men who were killed and the ad- he had tallen crushed his skull, ew days houses stated killed by his and women row. always had a vig funeral, worst fellows always crowd of miring friends at their gra he Just then the bell yeteran said the shift S. the changing rang and was und he would have to go down in the shatt. I bade night and returned to my quaters, him good was of- James room the that Galena and and tered the Jesse at hotel. I then learned and Short Creek are one place, that this is the place was shot by Shepherd, City desperado, wounded, but he managed his es where Jesse the Kansas dangerously make and to ape. Across the street from the hotel is the which the tamous Colonel Jennison, the Kansas jay- gambling and a building in hawker ran_ his den saloon. smmilar place at Levenworth in spite of the prohibition amendment to the JTAYHAWKER. Jennison is now running constitution. These are Solid Facts. The best blood purifer and system re.- ulator ever placed within the reach of suf- tering humanity, truly is Electric Bitters, Inactivity ot the Liver, Biliousness, Jaundice, Constipation, Weak Kidneys, or any disease ot the urinary organs, or whoever requiies an appetizer, tonnic or mild stimulant, will always find Electric Bitters the best and only certain cure enown. They act surely and quickly, ivery bottle guaranteed to give entire sat. isfaction or money refunded. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by F. M. Crumly & 4 Will There te Revolution ? From the St. Joe Gazette. Some ominuous stirring 1s taking place over across the Rio Grande, the various in The plying a quicker and, more profitable trade than they have at any time these ten years. Strange | and here and _ there States ot Mexico. robbers are | generally, a/ He | out al surroundings of Potosi. and halts there. revolutionists Vhe black bar business meets flag there. ner there t ver the Republi kinspeople | i helpless in. = es. For weeks and weeks ti robbers. What fin- ! ways are ab oned to the On neither s the combat s ade shes. It is a land of devilment and and debauchery atter | murder, and thett, while the that a prostrate the woundt selt inflicted. Ot course the law finally triumphs, | but not until revolutionists ar gorged with the spou!s of honesty, in- dustry, and flee away to their fast- to divide the plunder, lasts, and bleeding uprising n and thousand tr ral the e nesses and then resolve themselves into the known of their original isolation obscurity. This is the way the old revolutions un and ot the old days have always in Mexico, but not since Maximilian was shot at Queretaro have the Mex- ican peopie had one of these old- fashioned and thorough-going revo- Nor do we believe that one ot them 1s any longer possible. Mex- ico has a standing army larger than that of the United States. It is well organized, fed, equipped, paid, and has a real soldierly spirit, born of the fact that volunteers fill instead of convicts, begun lutions. armed, the regiments, peons, and the beggars of the streets as formerly, In addition, Porfirio Diaz is almost certain to be the ot the Republic, and he has a theory, borrowed from the first Napoleon, which “Bullets first; speeches afterwards."’ They know Diaz in Mexico. They know his methods. They have felt on other cccasions the full weight of next President demands: his iron hands, and the must desper- among the robber bands of Coa New Leon, and often, and take him. ate huala, Tamaulipas will think often and tate they highways encounter hesi- the No, long before to to revolution. When he Wil Ibe He London judy. Cousin) Ahce—They Tom, that vou can be heard a off when on How whisper Cc rather tell me, mile duty. it you can’t speak above a when you talk to aptain (much smitten but nervous) —Well—er—you see, I havn't thority over if give me the having day I think you’d find T make plenty of row. Would believe it? She did. me? ‘Lom any you; but— you'd prospect of some can you hildren What gives our Children roay cheeks, Was cures their fevers, makes them'sleep: Castoria. When Babies fret, and ery by turns, What cures their colic, kills their worms, Castorin, —=<—_—== What quick! cures Constipation, Sour Stomach, Colds, Indigestion : Castoria, ———— Farewell then to Morphine Syrups, Castor Oil and Paregoric, and Se ae ee SS Sanaa unnatural | WEIR CULTIVATORS Hail Castoria. ———— old faces—scarred, eagre, question- | I late than at! ten | ing—are seen oftner of any time these Sort ot restlessness can be telt last years. eae coming and clad not in the uniform of the nation, which has not been seen or felt before these last ten vears. Heretofore, such signs toms as these have universally ken Running a line the going of armed horsemen, the border towns or | | down } of | itself | symp- beto- revolution. marauders lengthens “Castoria is so well adapted to Children | that I reeommend it as superior to any medi- | cine known to me.”—H. A. Ancuze, M.D,. | 111 Se. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N.Y. Tae Cuntaur Compaxy, 182 Fulton St, N.Y. HAISH & COS. 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Best facilities for handling Corn in Bates County. DUMPS We carry our corn up by machinery, gm empty aload of corn in two minutes. No danger team or wagon Highest market price cash up no gram bling, Honest weights. Try ® once. Webave re ated the Grain Market of igutler, and have beew worth thousa ¢ farmersof Bates county. In addition corn we handle r kinds of Grain LEFKER & CHILDS. ! easy and safe, only 5 feet high. to ds of « all ot! nee rer ees BENNETT, WHEELER & Cl}: REEVES & C0., Columbus, Ind. one emeneoe BUCKEYE BINDERS, TABLE RAKES AND MOWERS WAGONS, HARDWARE. GROCERIES. NEW Self-Swinging STALKER For 1884. NAILS, TRON, BUGGIES, WIND ENGINES IRON, WOOD STEEL, WAGON Man on the stack , OF allows Stacker to chaff in center of wtac other can do this. The new stacker-head prevents straw and chaff fal rough lower end of Stacker. than a minute to start it—no guy icks oF props to fix or take off . 3 no top-heavy trap It is the most — cord WOODWORK, 4g aratus places all straw and x w hoisting ap from start to finish, Mo AND CHAIN BARB WIRE, PUMPS.” andy machine built. r Catalogue No 3, or eall on |Benactt, Wheeler & Go., JEW EILER.- I take ph the public ure that ak in announcing to 1 have located in it my tuture home, and best as- vatches and er brought i will sell Having had many » in ihe manufae- and clocks in Eu- prepared to repair NEW ip for cash. ars experie : ti I : h q ) hy 7 duc Geo pre \ sily me oe os q shal ent har i Sil) p wei toh Mt pas Shq no matter how family here. The girl gave the | didn’t get him.” alarm, and the man was captured within half aa hour and identified by the girl and her little brother. ‘There vere many corroborating circumstan- andi } plundering inland uatil it abuts upon | | out, and thenmoves, murdering “‘What was done with Blounts?” | I asked. “Nothing. drink by seve: Monterey, begirts Parras apout, | sweeps the substance trom the rich, ‘urigated fields near to Saltillo, | They were invited to ral parties, but declin- fed nor how badly they ve been abused. By bringing items to me, you can have them pe uitgood running order aud guaran tee satistactio FRANZ BERNHARDT Butler, M o hk I