The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-05
THEY ALL HIDE OUT
POLICE COMMISSIONERS ARE VERY
WEARY OF THEIR JOBS.

they Cannot Stand the Cold Shoulder
which the Business Men Turn Toward.
Them-smythe, Lieurence and Keel
Seldom show Up on the streets-Ths
Prohibtionists are Sick of the Farce
Not CiOsed-Smythe Tries to Shift tho
Responsibility on the Others.
The new police commissioners are
having a hard time of it since they
have become the tools of Tiger Bill
and everybody who has observed them
in the last week is satisfied that moth
ing but the salary now induces them
to hold onto the Office.
The business men turn the cold Shout
der to the commissioners in such an
emphatic way that they feel keenly the
disgraceful position in which they have
been placed and they are hiding out as
il We're, and keeping as much as posi-
bic off the business streets.
When Lieurance goes down to the
commissioners office in the city build
ing he travels the back streets instead
Of coming down Main
Dave Smythe has his office in the
Sedgwick building and he occasionally
rides his wheel up First street and
comes onto Douglas avenue down in
1.-THE neighborhood of the railroad where
he holds a few confidential chats with
the boys.
He is a prohibitionist but does not
allow prohibition to interfere with his
nd "a
sly and tells the boys that he is all
right but that the trouble is with Lieu
rance and Keck who he says are Re-
publicans.
Some of the joint men actually be
lieve that Smythe is trying to keep
keck, Lieurance, Tiger Bill and the
other crankS from making fools of
themselves. He explains that he voted
TO displace Judge Hatton with Seth
Tucker because Lieurance and Keck
would have done it anyhow and he
thought it best 10 end the fight at once.
Lieurance claims that the Eagle has
slandered him by It's insinuations
about the Jersey cow but he has never
had the reckless affrontery to deny
that he is the individual who inherited
the Jersey cow.
However brave a man may be he
does not like to face a whole commu-
nifty when he has wronged them and
the police commissioners know very
we'll that they are wronHng this COM
munity by heaping taxes upon the tax
payers all to no purpose. 1t is no Won
der that they avoid meeting the busi-
ness men.
Tiger Bill came out of his jungle yes
ter6ay but he was mighty glad to get
back again. He had Con Kelleher ar
rested for violating the prohibitory liq-
uor law with a great flourish of trum-
pets.
Tiger Bill got word that there was
something III the wind but he did not
know what it was He learned that
Colonel Nicholas Bird had habeas cor
puS papers made out in the Con kelle-
her case and that he would proba bly,
be yanked up before the district court
tomorrow to show by what authority
he held Con Kelliher in prison.
This vicious beast of the jungles sniff
fed danger in the very air and he hast
ened TO his prisoner to make terms
ana # possible to find out what Colonel
Nicholas Bird intended to do.
The tiger became tame as a kitten
and told Con Kelliher that he would
dismiss this case against him if he
would promise to engage in the liquor
business no longer
He nearly dropped dead when Con
said: NO. Mr.. Tiger, selling liquor
Is my business and do not know where
10 get another job now to earn my
bread. I cannot accept your PROPOSE
ton"
What this could mean Tiger Bill
could not tell. Here was a man in ris-
on because he refused to give bond and
confessing that he was in a business
that Tiger Bill had promised all the
cranks that he would suppress in ten
days and make Wichita dryer than
Emporia or Pumpkins cross roads
Tiger Bill was dumbfounded and he
went home determined to wait for fur
Their developments. He knows that Col
onel Nicholas Bird is a fighter from
the backwoods and whether a conceal
ed trap has been sprung on the tiger
or some new law point has been dis
covered he was unable to figure out
and could only wait for future devel-
opments in the district court today.
In the meantime the prohibs are
paving dust in the air like a mad bull
Al the sight and scent of warm red
blood. They want TO know why the
joints are not closed. They have found
out that when one joint is closed that
it and two others Immediately open.
There are joints and joints and tt
ger Bill and the commissioners all
KNOW II. Wnen commissioner SmVthe
yentured out on Main street day before
yesterday he was surrounded by a
crowd that he soon found out were
not his friends and a prominent citizen
of Fingman leaned over and asked Mr.
Smythe If he could tell him where he
could get something to drink. Il can
tell you a number of places where you
can get it, growlei the Democratic
member of the board of police commits
SionerS.
That is what the prohibs cannot IN
derstand. Why are the joints not clos
ed they are every hour asking. They
believe that the way 10 close joints is
TO close them and they lima gined that
Tiger Bill could go around and close
all the joints and put the keys in his
pocket and that would be the end of il.
They are finding out that this is not
being done and they are loosing con-
fidence in Tiger Bill.
he TELLS HIS SIDE.
Rev. Tom Irwin is Back from Criorado and
a.. Not