The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-18
HE KILLED ONLY ONE MAN.
THE POOR RECORD or SUSAN II.
ANTHONYrs KANSAS EDITOR
BROTHER.
Remarkable Career Of Col. Daniel
Reed Anthony I'm His Efforts TO
Elevate the BenIahted DeniEens
of the Border states.

Elevate the BenIghted BeuiEens
of the border states.
From the Chicago Times-H -il
AS between himself and fhe ltiendar.
Col Daniel Reed Anthony OF Lelven-
worth. Kan. brother Of suFtn q. Aatho-
ny. can claim less than .three-qaa-ts OF
a century Measured BY expert Pee DE is
more than 2o0 years old. Il IS quite with
in the probable facts that tweul pounds
of lead have been shot at Col. Anthony at
| different spots In his life's merry road.
Such were the exigeRciss Of early Kansas
journalism. Some OF the buis found
their mark. but. happily f0r the interests
of reform in which Col. Anthony has ever
| been engaged, the great weight of ammu-
milton few wide. There are Jew more
rugged characters than Anthony to he
found in America. Heels typicai. AS edi-
tor of the Leavenworth Times and. prior
to acquiring that journal. as director gem
eral Of the Bulletin. he never Wrote a line
or a word that he was not wilkins 90 make
| good personally with shotgun, sN-shooter
or club. All lethal Weapons have been
| common to his hands at some time. For
the first few years Of his life, as a promo
| ter of peace and an obstacle 10 slavery In
| Kansas, Col Anthony stood almost alone.
The early abolitionists, until John Brown
came to Stay and preach the gospel of lib
erty and physical force. were largely
moral suasionistsN from Massachusetts
and other New England states. Anthony,
when he was young, was human war ca
! gle, and in his age simply became confirm
ed IN the ways Of his youth. He knew that
any argument except the persuasion that
goes with a ten-inch bowie OF the logic
/ which leaps from the mouth OF a gun
would fail to convince the border rufhans
| Of their errors of theory, He left his home
| in New York state and settled On the ter
| ritory knowing that he was simply going
| out to meet trouble. He was not disap-
| pointed. With all his many encounters,
| he had killed but one man. He creased
several and crippled more, but only one
/ persona man of the name Of Satterlee
| from Missouri-owed his Introduction to
| the future directly to Col Anthony.
1T isn't that I'm a poor shot" said he
one day in discussing the growth of Kan
| sas and the difficulties which beset the
/ educator and conservatOr of public morals.
1t Is not that / am poor shot that l
| have been so fortunate as not 10 kill sew
/ eral men. Nor Is the fact that I am liv-
| ing any reflection on the Workmanship
of the various gentlemen who have sought
/ to take my life. MY experience leads me
| to question the utility of firearms A bull
! let will miss far oftener than It will find
| the center I had a very discouraging
/ experience here in IeaVenWOrth. / was
walking up Delaware street one evening
/ at time when my paper had been maxi
/ ing special effort to purify the political
| atmosphere of LeaVenworth, and / was
in special disrepute with the vicious.
| Across the street was a crowd of fifteen
or more men, who at signal opened
fire on me. Not one OF their bullets struck
me. declared myself In the controver-
| sy for | was carrying two revolvers for
| Just such target practice. My assailants
all ran into stairway leading to the sec
| ond floor of a business block. In their
| hurry to escape they fell over one another
and became seriously involved and tan
| shooters into shat stairway, aud upon my
/ honor never touched a man. I can't UNI
| derstand to this day how / could miss, but
surely did. OF the twenty or thirty shots
| hred at me not one touched l concluded
| then that brickbats are much more deadly
| than bullets"
There are men-no friends Of Anthony's-
who assert that he has a strong inherent
| yellow strain. Platte county, Missouri is
/ fun of such. In certificate of his lack Of
| true game blood they cite his difficulty with
| Col. Cy Jennison in the Planters house
IN Leavenworth In this celebrated shoot
| ing match, Anthony, although he had a
/ long way the best of ii in the start made
| a very hasty and difficult target for the
| last few rounds from JennisOn's gun But
| why should net Anthony flee the scene
/ OF carnage2 He had shot his pistol empty,
| and 1t would have been sinful recklessness
| to have remained for Jennlson's conven-
| ience. The Missouri criticism was never
well founded. The reason Col. Anthony is
| eXecrated even to this day by his neigh
| bors in Platte county-the district adjons
| Leavenworth county on the other side of
| the state line-is because next TO the
| legislature of the nation, he did more
| than any other human agency to prevent
/ the establishing of the peculiar institu-
ton of slavery in bleeding Kansas. He
| combatted the movement in his paper,
and he fought the leaders In his own prop
| er person.
The Jennison fight was picturesque az
| fair. Before the war Jennison was doc
tor. He was brilliant, adventurous man,
/ and when trouble broke out organized a
| band of the hardest riding, most desper-
| ate fighting men that ever wore blue uni
| forms. Quantrelps outfit never made raid
| in Kansas that Jennison did not follow
\ with a red smoky ride through the bor-
/ der counties OF the adjoining state. 1t was
/ the pride and Joy of Jennison's "jayhawk-
/ ers,' or ''red-legs'' as they were known,
| that they straddled nothing but Missouri
| bred horses, and long after regular hos
| tilities ceased Jennison's men and the Mis-
| souri, natives continued to discuss with
knife and gun certain disputed live stock
| titles. When there was no longer an ex-
/ cuse for killing Platte and Clinton county
| cattle and burning the barns which had
| sheltered them, JennisOn then a colonel
| reopened his case of surgeons tools and
/ his medicine chest Not for long, however
/ He had become used to action, and in or
| der TO get It every day in the year went
| into the faro industry. Anthony had open
ed a crusade on the gamblers and the fight
| soon took personal form. Jennison said
| he regretted the necessity for such action
but it was so obvious that the public good
| demanded Anthony's removal he would
| himself undertake the task for the COM
mon good. The two men came together in
| the Office of the Planters House. The ed
itor shot first and the ball struck Jenni-
son in the leg near the thigh. Anthony shot
| five times more without damage, except
| to the furniture. Then he ran. Jennison,
| who had risen to his feet, followed shoot
| ing as he limped. He wept, not because
he was in pain, but because he couldn't
run fast enough to catch his enemy An
thOny reached his office, and, getting an
other pistol, returned to the hotel as rap
| idly as he had left It. His voice was still
! for war. and he was much grieved to find
that Jennison had been removed to a sur
geon's office.
| A visitor to Leavenworth few years
| ago was taking a walk through one Of
| the principal streets with William van
Benthuysen, managing editor Of the Chit
| cage Tribune, and John Coulter, Chicago
| correspondent for the New York Herald