Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-08-21
without any emotion, We'll, that was q
pretty close call, , and resumed his exper-
iments. It was q wonder to me how he
ever escaped death out there"
AN AWFUL OUTRAGE.

An Attempt Made to Blow Up the Resi-
dence Of the Assistant Attorney-General
of Atchison County
ATcH1soN, KAs, Aug. 15.-An attempt was
made at 2 o'clock this morning to blow up
the residence of j. F. Tufts, tho newly ap-
pointed assistant attorney general, who has
been very active end successful the past
week in closing the saloons. The job was
bungled, however, and but little damage
nary black powder, filed with nails and
slugs, was placed beneath bedroom win
dow on the back porch and exploded by q
slow fuse. The conclusion broke the floor
of the Torch and loosened the ceiliDg above,
forced open doors and shattered several
windows. II the explosive had been placed
inside of room the house would have been
torn to atoms and the inmates killed. There
we're six persons sleeping in the house, viz,
Hall, and three children. The explosion
startled the family from bed, and shook
houses within q radius o. quarter of mile,
go that the people ran out into their yards
thinking it was an earthquake. Jerry
Tolhert, a colored man, being in the
neighborhood, was awakened by the
shock and reports that he saw the men
leaving Mr.. Tufts yard by the back way.
They passed his house going north on q run.
and he describes them simply as men CT
medium stature, dressed in black clothes,
one wearing black and the other white
hat. Another neigh or reports that there
acre tire. men in the party. It was a
bri zht moonlight night and they could be
distinctly seen.
Within five minutes after the explosion
about 100 neighbors gathered at the house
and collected the debris. The can was still
lying on tt porch and the nails and slugs
altered in every direction. The can bore
the brand Of the American Powder company
and the steLci an. q Co., Kansas City,"
Two newspapers, the Kansas City Times
and the A oh son Champion, of yesterdays
date We're also found On the porch. These
articles were all taken possession of by Sher-
If Shaw.
intelligence of the affair spread all over
the city at an early hour and created the
wildest excite ment. OF course the RESPONSE
billty was charged to the saloons, and men
who had previously favored the whisky side
of the prohibition question, came out boldly
and denounced the scoundrels who engaged
i'll the attempt, and arrayed themselves on
he side Of law and order. Governor Mar in,
who il in the city making his usual Sunday
visit to his family, was informed by tele
phone. at an early hour, of the attempted
that on tomorrow he would issue the follow.
ing proclamation, Offering reward for the
apprehension of the villains:
WHEREAS. On the morning of the 10Th of
August, 1886, an attempt was made in the
city of Atchlson TO blow up the residence of
j. F. Tufts; and.
WHEREAS. At the time this brutal rand
COW ardly crime was planned and executed,
the residence aforesaid was occupied by Mr..
Tufts, his wife and two small children an
adopted daughter and his father-in- law, and
the lives of six persons were thus attempted
and endangered; and,
WHEREAS, This atrocious and brutal crime
was undoubtedly inspired by the fact tn It
Mr.. tufts was employed as assistant attor-
ney general of the state, and as such officer
was engaged in prosecuting persons engaged
in vic ating the laws Of Kansas; now,
Tn. refore, ], John A. Martin, governor of
Kansas, do, by virtGe of authority vested
in me by law, offer a reward of $500 for the
arrest and conviction of the parties who
perpetrs ted the dostardly crime, or $3.50 for
the arrest and conviction of each of the
persons engaged in perpetrating it.
In testimony whereof have caused the
gre It seal of the state to be affixed. Done
this 18th day of August, 1886.
JoHNA MART1A.
By the governor:
E. B. ALLEN, Secretary of state.