St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-10
WAR IN KANSAS.
Kansas still evinces a disposition to

Kansas still evinces disposition to
bleed. Mail.
1t seems that the moral atmosphere of
Southwestern Kansas would be greatly
clarified by series Of consistent. fire.
Guent and carefully regulated hanging
bees. There are several kinds of an
archy, but the Kansas brand seems to
be about the most bloodthirsty and dan
gerous.-Chicago News.
The value of judicial frame Of mind
was well shown in that Kansas episode.
Judge Botkin, suspecting that an am
bush had been laid for him, sent for
ward sheriff who was promptly muir
dered. Thus the integrity of the court
was preserved; besides, sheriffS are com
para lively inexpensive Mail.
Gov. Humphrey, of Kansas, has been
more active during the last two weeks
of his official career than in all the three
preceding years of it. No sooner is the
work of selecting a successor to the late
Senator Plumb off his hands, than he is
confronted with state of civil war in
two Kansas countieS.-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
1t no doubt requires about as much
nerve to hold court in Southwestern
Kansas, with its county seat wars, as it
does to hold court in the mountain dis
tricts of Kentucky. 1t is gratifying to
see that Kansas has some nerve on the
bench. Judge Botkin may be killed
while doing his duty, but death is the
only bar to prevent him holding court as
the law requires. Chicago Inter Ocean.
There are degrees, even in murder.
A state of society where men shoot each
other on sight is bad, but may be some
what picturesque. In Southwestern
Kansas, however, forty towards sneak
into cover and, armed to the teeth, wait
the coming of one defenseless man.. lie
avoiding them, they fall upon five of
fcerS of the law and shoot down three
of them in cold blood. 1t IS one of the
most despicable crimes of history, and
nothing should be left undone to secure
he punishment of its perpetrators, and
The prevention of recurrence OF It's
tlike.-Chicago Herald.
Kansas gentlemen of Stevens county
have been shooting each other with con-
siderable spirit as the result of neigh
bOrhood war leading up to assasSina-
ton. with trimmings of the same. In a
conscientious effort to kill a judge some
residents of WoOdSdale and Springfield
have managed to pick off sheriff. This
is an unfortunate error, as it may inter-
fere with their being hanged with due
promptneSS and fitting ceremony. The
latest battle only marks another stage
of a long and bloody county seat war
which has caused numerous KansanS
to make dramatic exits with their boots
on. Gov. Humphrey and the militia
should now stop the mischief and keep
it stopped.-Chicago News.
Sixty Kansas mllltiamen have been
dispatched by Gov. Humphrey to the
assistance of Judge Botkin at Arkalon.
1t is to be hoped that the status of the
Kansas militia has improved lately.
Not so very long ago they were ordered
| to Topeka during serious labor troubles
there. While they were marching on
one side of the street one of their guns
| went off by accident and the bullet
| found victim in Presbyterian minis
| ter who was walking thoughtfullv and
inoffensively on the other side. Then
| the governor ordered the militia to go
| home. The killing of the minister was
the sole accomplishment of the Kansas
| militia on that occasion.-Chicago Her
aid