The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-07

Il is steadily increasing. Our customers
are in the coal regions and they retail
TO the foreigners employed about the
mines. Last year, in this part Of Penn
sylvania, / sold sixty thousand dol
lars worth of revolvers. and this year
] expect to add twenty thousand dol
lars to that figure"
The Huns, Slavs and Italians live IN
a manner particularly advantageous to
the propagation of crime They con-
gregate in settlements. each class by
itself, and horde together in two or
three room houses like cattle.
In a Hungarian boarding house there
are usually two rooms. with no desig-
nation, such as kitchen or bedroom.
There is a stove, table and bed.
The boarding house keeper and his
wife occupy the bed, the boarders
sleep on the floor, on piles of straw,
with a blanket or two over them. No
articles of apparel are removed unless
the boarder is unusually fastidious;
then he pulls off his boots. Generally
he is not fastidious, and neither the
blankets nor the straw are renewed
from one years end to another.
Living under these conditions, 1t Is
not surprising that there are so many
times in a month especially prolific
of crime. pay day is the worst The
mines pay once a month, and as soon
rs the money is in his hands the
Hun, Pole and Italian hurry TO the
saloon to drink ''polinky," villain
ously strong whisky to which ''Jer-
sey lightning" Is mild and weak
Before darkness there are a few fist
fights, but no great damage is done.
1t is not until later, when thoroughly
under the effects of 'polinky," that
the foreigner" is reused 10 those
deeds Of atrocious violence which
have given him the name of being a
fiend incarnate. Long before mid
night men, women and children in
The settlements" are wild with drink,
est fights, then clubs and then the
deadly knife and revolver are brought
into play, and before morning there
are broken heads galore, while sell
dom il Is that one or two dead men
are not lying cold and stiff in the
streets, and the oft-rcpcated head
lime: Another Murder" appears in
the papers. II constable or detective
there is, enterprising enough TO take
charge of the case. he tries TO get
evidence, but il is useless The peo-
pie Of the settlement" know nothing
about il. The man in front of whose
house the corpse lay is quite at
loss 10 know from where IL came.
The dead mans brothers, IN fact, are
ignorant of all facts. The callousness
OF the dead mans relatives 20 al feel
iuGs of sorrow are sickening 20
civilized being They are ac.uated By
the philosophic reflection dead man
TO good, let live man live" and they
hre up 20 this bideous sentiment.
Naturally the COASTAL bic gives up IN
disgust, aud the coroner's jury brings
in q verdict Of met his death a. the
hands Of persons unknown" That 5
the last of the case
Weddings aad christening where
''polinky" flows freely are also proli6c
IL fights and very often the innocent
infant a. the christening meets death
under thu heels o. the brutal fghters-
Grimes committed under the provo
cation Of ''Polinky- are more frequent
among the Euns and Poles than the
Italians The former seem 20 require
drink 20 rouse them 90 brutal deeds,
while the latter commits crime with
all his senses alert The Italians q
he coal regions are decidedly the
lowest class % their nationality. and
generally come 20 America because
Italy : no longer safe for then-
Here they End opportunities for life
of the sane sort q brigandzge which
they enjoyed IN Italy. and they band
together FOR mutual Interest Like
the Hun and Pole theT live u settle
Ineuts- and 20 THE men Q: their nEa
s-ttleIn~nt are loyal and cAirzI-ous-
Bat woe - the Italian q some other
settlement - there IS a quarrel D.
tween the two Then the always zeen
s-listto = brought into play and the
aEt-hcrlt.es svsrv nogT zns hen have =
.Irster.ous murder - Oe.r h=2ds