The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
KRIDER
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Wins the Big Casino
Cooking Main.
At Least One Hundred Dead
Game Canton Sports
Are Today Wearing Decidedly
Ruf1ed Feathers
And are Virtually Dead Cocks
in the Pit.
A Midnight Swoop Which Sur
prised Cock Fighters.
Cleveland Birds Have u Good
Show of Winning the Battles
When the Sheriff of Stark County
Makes Brilliant Fly
And Sinks His Spurs in the
Neck of the Sports.
Cleveland Birds Have u Good
Show of Winning the Battles
When the Sheriff of Stark County
Makes a Brilliant Fly
And Sinks His Spurs in the
Neck of the Sports.

Description of the sosne at the Time the
Raid Was Msde-How the Fellows
Scrambled d to Get out-A Sporting Event
Which Was Replete With Excitement.
II is certainly unconstitutional to believe
that man is born without inalisnable
rights among which are life, liberty and
the pursuit OF happiness. Ii is the last
clause In the constitution which causes
trouble, for anybody will agree with you
in saying that life and liberty are to be
held essentially sacred by every American
citizen. The trouble is all caused by the
last clause in the constitution and the inS
depreciation placed upon iG by the Ameri-
cau people in general. Every body has
his own peculiar idea of that clause. 1t ia
not doubted but that there are those who
believe that when the trainers of that
declaration gave birth to the phrase "the
pursuit of happiness" they had in mind
cock fighting as a legitimate enterprise.
IL would bs actually too bad il every
person in the world had The same opinion
about the same thing, for the world would
be either all good or all bad and then
there would be no chance for Us
brilliant sG lishts who &C! as beacG9s ,9
But this is theorizjng, and we arc not con-
fronted with any such an overturnable
thing as theory. The fact that there
was fight among some very game game
roosters at Lake Park Casino, Myers
Lake, near Canton, Ohio, is the thiug
with which we are confronted.
Now that very fact in itself, in this day
and age, especially il America, would not
| cause the loss OF sleep TO e great degree,
but when there is suspicion of interfer-
| ence with what some Americans consider
| 10 be their absolute TighiA, a great degree
| of interest Is added.
For ius!aDce, take game rooster fight.
| IL nothing is saId hb0uti IL only those in.
| rerested care to attend. But IL Jhere 10
| publication given the III after for the pur'
| pose OF attracting attention the fact that
| such publication may have originated in a
| diseased mind is lost sight Of, and Ameri-
| cans at once rebel and cay by their actions
| You are attempting 10 do away with our
| rights and we Will attend any yhow.n
During the past three weeks the sports
| OF Canton have been preparing for this
event and word was passed around in
sillop, Navarro, New Berlin, Wooster,
Louisville, Osnaburg and the back pre-
cincts that there would be the grandest
cooking main ever held in this county.
The manager of the Casino made great
preparations for the event and the pret-
| test pit ever seen in these parts, with
carefully tramped clay as bottom, the
embellished and highly embossed ceiling
OF the Casino as dome aud about twenty
inches Of boards, making sn iuciosure oi
| about sixteen feet square was laid out
in the middle of the dance hall
IT, was az pretty a, place to pi
| q bird as one would see in several weeks
travel, and as the thing got noised
around, there was an influx of the sport
ing element to the city. Mysterious look
lug sacks which were very plainly labeled
"coffse," arrived in the city.
Now u. Dannemiller and son will sell q
grade of cCf.e which can't be beaten In
The world, and why there should be sucl
extensive shipments of ccE-e, which wal
clearly an encroachment upon the loca
wholesale dealers territory, could not be
quite understood, untii there WAS 9
suspicious barn yard sound emanatini
from those coffee sacks. Then 1t wa.
known that the coffee sacks did not con
tain coffee, for whatever qualities cotfeS
contains as an American commodity, i
cannot crow.
Il was these coffee sacks which proba
bly, gave the snap away. At any rate Q
great crowd of people went TO the Casino
| Monday night TO witness q cock fight.
SHERIFF KRIDER WAS AWARE
Of the preparations being made by thu
| spurIs for the battle Of tne birds and h'
| put in odd moments during the day II
quietly planning TO swoop down upon thu
scene when ,he hilRrity Of the occasion
had reached It's height, and gather in few
| OF the enthusiasts who we're having sucl
glorious time in disregard of the law
With the coming OF darkness his efforts
were redspubIsd and by midnight possi
Of about twenty had been marshalled TO
the raid. The force consisted of police
officers and able bodied men who were
sWoru ip as deputies to assist In uphold
ing the dignity OF tho law for the occasion
Abous ~ :l5 o'clock the sleritf and posse
embarked on two bob sieds for the seem
of battle. Everyone wa expecting yer!
lively and interesting scene when the!
should descend upon the pit, and certain
it 10 that their expectations were full!
realized. The party proceeded with du'
| caution and arrived at the Casino withou
the inmates having the slightest suspicion
of the approach. Qdietly the posse sur
rounded the building and an ofiicer wa
stationed at each door to prevent the es
cape of anyone from the interior. TheI
the sheriff and the remainder of his forc'
entered the building. la the barroon
were about thirty men part OF whom weri
busy drinking and the balance were test
ing their luck at tho wheel OF fortune. II
the middle of the dancing hall neat pi
was constructed about sixteen feet squar
and around this, on the floor, on chairs
benches, tables and all points OF elevation
was an eager, excited and yelling crow
OF men. The balcony overlooking the pi
and the stairway leading to the sam
were jammed with spectators
Between four and Ave hundre,
men, all excited over a battle that wa
Just being fought, had their eyes rivete'
upon the pit as the otilcera OF the lay
entered. So intense was the interest II
the struggle between the birda that tn
ADVENT OF tho sheriif and his follower
} was not noticed. The battle between tn
cocks had reached point where disput
was on over the decision of the referee
One man claimed the other fellows bir
had failed to come TO count within tn
time prescribed by the rules and the othe
, | fellow denied the assertion and said hl
! fowl was not whipped. There was goo
' money up on either aide and the contro
T | veruy wAxed hot. The feeling of the spec
Z tAtOrA were wrought up 10 an extraord
' nary pitch. Tho excitement grew INC
! mentarlly and the blood OF the sports O