The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-01
BRIDGET Is GRITTY.
She Won't Close Her Saloon at
Leavenworth
As LONG As MORRILL PROTECTS HER.
An Attempt to Haul Her over the
Goals for Giving Away TAAnss 30
journal" Reporter.

An Attempt to Haul Her over the
Coa.a for Giving Away Things to
journal" Reporter.
LEAvEN WORTH, Kas., May 81, 1895.
To the Editor of the State Journal.
Your recent writeup Of the saloons IN
this city has caused Goals of fire to be
beaped upon my head. A Times re-
porter and q coIored man, who claimed
to be a constable called on me and after
filing up on beer and not paying for IL
the reporter says:
Mrs. McCarty, you have played the
divil, now"
And says says !, sure and what nave
l done
He says, says he, Mrs. McCarty, you
have been giving away secrets about the
prison appointments and other thin gs,
lust as we had succeeded in getting the
order of Gov. Smith revoked for three
DAYS; thus allowing the old soldiers TO
leave the Home grounds. Now comes
the JOURNAL man from Topeka and pub
fishes our business to the world
He SAYS, Col. Anthony wants you to
retract what YOU said about the Home,
through his paper
saws. says 1, 'Divil the bit will risk
me reputation by having anything to do
with Col Antony
Then the negro says: Come with me,
Mrs. McCarty, Judge Bond would like to
see YOU but did not go in company
with the men.
Next day 1 found Billy Bond in what's
called the Star of the West right across
from the police station. l found him to
be an old man with long, white beard. l
went up near him and asked if he was
Billy Bond.
He straig htened up in his seat, stroked
his beard, tried to look wise, saying IN
reply, Il am Judge Bond
| saws Sure and my name is Bridget
McCarty and what will you have?
He appeared very angry and says,
Bridget McCarty you are violating the
law every day. I have known it for the
last year. And you have been giving
things away to the Topeka papers. and
rs Judge of this court l am going to
close you up, stop your business
l says And the likes of yez judge,
dealing out justice upstairs and whisky
down shtairs.' says, Billy Bond, the
likes of yees can't hurt dacent woman
like meself | have known Governor
Morrill, for nigh on to 30 year and know
him to be an innocent, inoffensive old
man, and he won't see a poor woman
imposed upon
The reporter, constable, Bond, and two
police commissioners held consultation
ana QeclQeQ IL was my DUTY 10 apologize
to his honor; I told them l never would !;
that a justice of the peace who
would rent two or three houses to
big, stout men to run saloons and gamb-
ling houses in, and then prosecute a
poor woman for doing the same thing,
did not have any honor.
A big crowd was present by this time,
and said they guessed I was about
right Billy seen public sentiment was
against him and told me to go home, and
1 am at the old stand, and don't propose
to close unless Governor Morrill, requests
me to do So Respectfully,
BRIDGET MCCARTY.
The Royal Baking Rowder was intro
duced to the public over a quarter of a
century ago, and from that time the era
of good bread, biscuit, cake and pastry
commenced and from that time also be-
gan the decline, SO frequently remarked
by the medical fraternity, of those dys-
peptic ailments which formerly pre-
vailed among the American people, No
agency has had more influence in thus
benaficiallv affactin0 tho hoaIth aDd