New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-21
THE AFFLICTIONS or KANSAS.
GOVERNOR LEwELIISG OUT IL STATEMENr
SKULL AND BONES Is TIE ST>TE HOUSE.

GOVERNOR LEwELIISG OUT IL STATENENr
SKULL AND BONES Is THE STATE HOUSE.
Chicago. Feb. oO.-A dispatch from Topeka. Kan,
SAYS The real facts To how hloodshrd Va aN"luc"
In Kansas are now coming 10 Hight, and II appears
that II was n much closer call than most pcopl" are
aware Of as Governor Lcwclling rclracird hi- siI
nature 10 the peace measures within twenty minutes
after he had signed them Upon hearing of his IN
tention Mr.. Cubison. Of Wyanfouc. went 10 HIM ana
said "Governor. do ! understand that You Wish II"
take your name from this paper ~ tn" Governor
ans wercd that h. had signed under durcss ana under
mistaken ideas Dostcr Is said To have been with hni
ana told him that the populsis would never forgive
him and possibly hr would not escape serious trout L.
50 he decided 10 withdraw from the agreement NI'
Cubbison then said 10 him "Govornor n y0n WIN
hold your signature from The paper there viii BE-
900 men killed within twenty minutes. ana Won
will be one Of them. The House Is ready {" hsh'
for ifs rights II will tolerate imprisonment ~ longer
II has been hard e. hold The members back. Ih'
sergeant sat arms are ready and wll armed. ana i"
sheriff cannot control his men on the ont'lf" m"'"
longer The fight viii begin a. soon - You say 80
and IT will begin In this corridor In 'front.' 81 your
Office. Think what You are DOING Governor Level
ling reached on, hi, hand ard said: ""iN" IN" Inc
miner. Let IT stand This alone avcrtel war.
Topela KAN Feb. 20. This afternoon Governor
Tev.lljug cavc out sat,mcn; In writing saying ''
while, the Il, pubcans camorous ~ icr boiolh =
ana affect 10 believe that they hav" eind Their In'
Inquiry Will establish that the Iopuli~t, have never
LOST sight OF the great essential In ihis '"n''
and come out of this inbroso secure In It, posses non.
That essential i, "thc preservation 81 ih' Ippul7'
House To wp' tlrst ont Of existence he SiN''
WAS the dasarlly and far-rcaching purpose ol ''
Republicans when they prccipatcd th" late heurFec
ii0np The Governor declare. that Tor thc HuP'm'
Coir now 10 declare the laws pa-oed By the IppuhT VI
House invalid would be 10 immediate Itself To the
tasc,t partisan demands ami face wave Of public in
d-naton unparalleled since the days when th" n)t"l
on, Judrc Tr,sclian wa, followed The scafoid 10y
an outraged people, where they beat him with slaves
TO make him ascend and then cAultcd at his Just but
shocldng execution The statement says the cox
crnor found himself confronted by the Sheriff 0i
shawnee County, and "A horde of drunken, rullanIy
deputies said largely be from Missouri. Will" tl'
militia of the state ION whom he hml TO relyl were
,lr,os, IN a man stained through and through Win
,reason The result That while he made terms
no DID il 1ust as Union at Fort sumter recog
nized Jefferson Davis or the loyal people ol Ihwre''
recognized Quantrell.
A human skull and cross-boncs hanging over a
door I'm the main corridor Of rc state House attracted
uuc attention this morning until 1t was removed by
secretary of state Osborne. ON thr wal hanu
pointcd to an inscription Whlcl r'f'u -, man
i,cmt,,red TOO far up Ob~cr," hi, fate. Sabc 'i
thr foor beneath was Il large valis", WIDE open ana
party filed with luman bone. ,,,.
1'nc TOpulia House met NJ ai','i%i"" % T., =" t,d
I'm thc south basement corridor "i the Hons buu
imo Cnrn.ntcrs were at work yesterday ana I1 ,
morning liking up the corridor IN lHpl,inH ui, S,' =
was made for Speaker DullsInore ou' " iii pi. f -.
Ji"us~ No provision made for reporters. in'
drsls Of the member, are merely lils b'ncn' On :" p h
and are twenty inches wide fIch deoh VIII ~
used by three members ana th"y are hFl"hs'i !" WV
rows With aisle bct"c'h'