The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-12
A PENTACOsTAL FIST.
Former wichita Boy Rec,iv an Artistic
Trsunclrg al Guthrie.

1t is not very often that Wichita man
gets licked, but when such an event oc-
ours it is generally an artistic one.
Charlie Coombs was formerly Wichita
boy and he lived long enough in this bone
and muscle-produciDg atmosphere to make
a better fight than the Guthrie Capital
credits him with. There is a slight
suspicion, however, that the Capital
young man and Charlie are not on any
better terms than their respective papers
and the verdict of Charles Wichita
friends should be withheld till the Leader
is heard from. Ten to one that the Leader
will say that Charlie wiped up half OF
Logan county with Mr.. Pen.ecost. 1t
may be, TOO, that Mr.. Pentecost slipped
few extra comps into the Capital mans
vest pocket before he wrote the following
picturesque description of the affray:
There was blood on the crescent moon
last night. He looked like tramp with
one peeler shut. The sun this morning
arose with CORY locks. War, bloody war
hung ominOus.
"Who writ thai roast?"
The incisive words were spoken by Harry
Pentecost, manager of the opera house, in
the Leader Office to G.. W. Coombs, one Of
the reporters on that paper.
1T was written because we've got 1t In
for you." replied Coombs with a move
ment of the right hand TO his hip pocket.
You have. have you," cried Pentecost,
take that you red-haired -"
Biff, bang, zip, flop, docksoio2er in the
eye, paster ia the smeller an uppercut on
the jaw. The enraged manager picked his
man up by the seat of the pants. There
was fearful crash. Like a meteor the
reporter was dashed through the plate
front window. Chairs were flying through
the air. Two young lady paper pastors
crawled under the counter. Niblack, the
new reporter from Missouri, thought the
Dalton boys had come to sack the town
and fell in the cellar. where be lay un-
der a pile of rubbish. Roy Hoffman
ran out of the back door. ran
against a closet in his haste and
| turned it over on screaming woman.
but his gallant nature did not respond TO
her pitiful cries. A farmer coming in
with load OF pumpkins said he met him
on the school section making tracks for
the kickapoo country. HorDstein. the
new foreman Of the job rooms, lately
come from Chicago, jumped through the
broken window pane, cleared the street
and hit in the direction of Chicago. The
last seen, u farmer north OF the Cimarron
river with \ shot gun IN his hands was
chasing him with hounds across his
watermelon p6CcD, mlStdhiDS uitu ZOE d
melon thief. In the meantime Harry
Pentecost's boot on the right foot was
doing business with the seat OF the unfor-
tunate reporters pants out in the middle
Of Harrison avenue.
The ARRAY was caused by ''roast" in
this mornings Leader on the manager of
| the opera house. There had been roast
once before, and Harry Pentecost bad Of
tered $50 TO know who wrote it. Yester-
day Mr. Coon bs wanted cODDlimenCarieS
for the Alba Haywood performance and
was told that the Leader had extended no
courtesies TO the company nor TO himself
and WAS not entitled to any consideration
in return. Mr. Coombs seems TO have
made public statement :hat he would
| roast" the manager of the opera house.
| Whether he did or net, Mr.. Pentecost met
| him rst this morning and took it out
on him. 1t is said hostiiities are not yet
! a end