The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-01

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worth, where He Sees the Saloons Wide
Open, the Brothcls cunning in Full
Blast and a Drunken Man on the Side
walk-SIurs the Old Soldiers and Blasts
the Town in the Most Outlandish Fash
ion-It is said His Trip there will Fall
Flat.
Topeka, Kan, July 31.-(Special)-All
| the talk here is over the threa tening
| row in Leavenworth. The opinion most
generally entertained is that nothing
will be done; that the present police
| commission at Leavenworth will be al
lowed to remain and the Emporia man.
Culver, who went up to Leavenworth
to stir up the row, will have TO subside.
Culver OF Emporia returned to Topeka
yesterday from his trip Of investigation
10 Leavenworth, made a I the suggest.
ton of the prohibition executive COM
mittee. He went ostensibly 10 discover
exactly the situa ton as to the present
and prospective enforcement of the pro-
hibitory law. He interviewed a great
number of citizens and business men,
preached morning and evening Sunday
az the First NJ. L. church and Monday
Chickering hall. The result Of his in
vestigation he embodied in a report
which was made yesterday to the State
Temperance union, and at his own re-
quest, to Governor Morrill, also.
To a reporter for the Capital yester-
day Judge Culver said that he arrived
at Leavenworth Saturday evening at
About o'clock and at once sent a no.
tice of his arrival and Of the proposed
n no fr1l
ing 10 pay for the insertion. The
Times refused TO publish it, giving as a
reason that the announcement of the
meeting would cause a boycott OF the
paper. 'On Saturday night" said the
judge, II visited fifty-two open saloons.
two wholesale, and fifty retail. wider
open than l ever saw them in Chicago or
New York or any other city on this con-
tinent. There were sixteen brothels,
full of women, doors and windows open,
with all kinds of declarations at the
door and otherwise. Soldiers from the
fort and veterans from the Home SEEM
ed to be the chief patrons of both the
saloons and the brothels on Saturday
night.
ION Choctaw street I found a man
lying on the pavement, apparently dead.
His face seemed to be covered with
blood. but man ran out of one Of the
saloons and says, He is not dead: he
has not been murdered and rubbed
his hand over his face; That is made
by the electric light reflected from the
leaves of the trees We went to the
police headquarters and reported him.
and they answered that they guessed
that was the man they had just brought
in. They had gotten him in before we
got there
Sitting in front Of the National hotel
on Sunday night, l saw one man so
drunk that he could not be awakened,
and another man nearly as drunk as
he trying to take care of him. There
were fifteen places where, while front
doors were closed on Sunday night, |
there were side entrances where the |
light shone out on the sidewalk and |
could be found without any difficulty. |
The largest number of persons I saw |
congregated at one bar in the city Of |
Leavenworth while 1 was there. / saw |
at the National hotel. where I counted |
eighteen persons standing. and seven or |
eight sitting who seemed to be in the |
Get of drinking Both the wholesale |
and retail places were as wide open as |
they could be. There was no effort to !
conceal anything. Even the screens in |
many places We're not before the doors, |
and the glasses and the liquors in bot |
ties were arranged as they are in all |
well regulated saloons
VIII ciltl 10 Sdy ITdC WndI saw !
in Leavenworth exceeds anything that |
] have ever seen in all the years of my
life
Now. with regard to my meeting on
Monday night. The Standard of yes
terday evening requested all good peo-
pie to stay away from the meeting
We advertised it by dodgers over all
parts of the city. There were several
there; as nearly as / could Judge be-
tween 80 and 500 persons. representing
some of the best. and / think largely
the very best people of the city There
were some saloon men there, a few. I
can not tell how many. We had very
interesting meeting, and the people
seemed TO be anxious TO know what they
could do. A great number of them ex-
pressed a hope that the governor would
come To their rescue and help them at
his |