The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-02-21

me Bile RBDox.-The Blue Ribbon nicotine,
were held almost every night last week. and one on
Tuesday night of this week. number of additions,
names have been added to the roll During the LAT.
ter part of the week. the excitement was with refer
ence to closing the saloons Some one had found n
decision under which all the saloon iceuser GRANTEE,
in Troy were Illegal. The saloon keepers were in
formed of the fact and notified that their money was
ready to be refunded, when they called for it. A
committee of the Blue Ribbon Club undertook to
iorce the saloons to close, hut without success On
saturday evening, another law was found, applicable
to Troy, under which the licenses were legal. The
first Law had elated the temperance people; the last
one put the other side in high ylee
The meeting Saturday night, was devoted chiefly
TO discussing the saloon question. Mr.. Amos was
sorry the committee had acted hastily He believed
that mild measures would do more good in the end
he thought they had better go Slow and be sure they
were night before acting. Sheldon C. G. Bridges
and Col Johnston, in favor of showing no mer-
cy TO the saloons, but of going ahead and shutting
theIa up taking the risk of having the law on their
side. Mr. Amos, Mr. Webb, Mr.. Mcintosh, Mr. Arm
strong, and others, took the opposite side 1t was
never well to try to force things; and in a ease of
this kind, when there grave doubt whether they
or the saloon keepers had the law on their side it
would he well to proceed cautiously, and he sure
they were right before they went ahead. Nobody
wanted to bear the expense of fruitless lawsuit,
and reform could not be accomplished by violating
the law.
lhe law and order advocates in the club in
large majority over the mob element, and their coun
ellis prevailed. Meetings will continue to be held
once or twice each week. and the effort directed to
decreasing intemperance, by persuading men to
cease drinking. instead of trying to force them.
KANSAS LAwsUIr.-Our Troy lawyers sometimes
manage to get lawsuits interesting before they finish
them up. Some months ago, Price sued man in
Marshall County, and it wound up by almost get
ting into Jail. Webb has just had a suit in Nemaha
County, in which he had to double somersaults
to save lis client from being shot 1t appears that
an old man, aged y, bearing the unusual name of
Miller, married young woman of y. Miller, like
all old widowers who better fitted to die than to
get married. crazy to get the girl that he deed
ed her 100 worth of property in consideration of
her marrying him. Then she refused to live with
HMM short, guilty of 'gross neglect of duty
but took up with lawyer named Cook, who left
his family to go phandering the country with
her. Miller discovered that he had been tuped, and
employed Webb to bring suit for the recovery of the
property ont of which he had been deauded Cook ap
peared as the attorney for the noncohabitant piece
that Miller supposed he had bought. compromise
was effected by which Miller gave the 81 900
to cancel the other deed and go and leave him. for
Gods sake. He then accused Cook Of being the
cause of the trouble, and fight ensued, in which
Cook drew revolver, aud attempted to shoot Miller
but Webb seized his arm, and jerked it around pro-
mscueusly the balls entering the floor and furniture
until everything full of lead, that company
has been formed to mine it. Miller then thrashed
Cook handsomely, and then caused him to be arrest
ed for assault with intent to kill The Constable
put Cook in the room of Millers ex-wife, for safe
keeping, and in the morning they were both gone.
1t is supposed that Cook escaped from the window,
and that the woman followed, to try to catch him,
and bring him back.