The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-18

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Thurstou. ia his nl-iirectei enor. 20 XII
Col Anthony. came very nearly altering
the present makeup % the T-r.fei states
Senate. BE had an old fa- nf1DeI navy re-
Nolher OF the model. which when One
/ looks INTO y in another mans hand. seems
To carry bullet as big rs a baseball An
ilouy. who knew that Thurston was look
ing ior him. foullslly permitted his cIe-
my 20 pass him ON the street The PCS
Sn9l raised the nap on Che should sr 81
COL Anlhony's overcoat ana struck It,
Glen Baker. who Is now Junior Kansas
senator. Mr. Baker was distant "a long
ploch holding "a sidewalk conversation
win a frleud-a pleasant LevenWorth Gus
tom which prevails 10 this day. The bul-
iet passed completely through Mr.. Bakers
lungs and broke a window. Thurston's
next bullet struck a young man of the
name OF Douglas i'm the head He shot
five times at Col Anthony. but never
scored. II was an unfortunate
lhlns ior IhurstOn THAT be- shot
Baker. That Thurstou was on the street
tnSn Instead of IN the penit.ntiary. was
owing to Bakers defense OF him AGAINST
"a murder charge Thurston. who was a
natural born murderer. had shot his bus
/ mess partner Embry, through the heart
anoht hFe months before. and 10 was
BAKER eloquence that kept him out of
me state coal mine. which is worked by
the conNicts. When the man was tried
ier smoothing Douglas and assaulting An
thohy, Baker was still confined 10 his bed.
ana Ihurston was given two nine-year
sentences. He served one Of them and
| was released. He died last year
W. W. Embry, who was killed hy Thurs
ton made Col. Anthony famous IN the
medical profession. The Kansas editor
IS known 10 science as one Of TWO or three
men who have had their suhclavian arte-
RES severed and lived to report the sensa-
non. Embry was very determined man.
He had strain of Indian blood In him,
winch may or may not have been the rea-
/ son why he was an utter stranger 10
D HFH q u A.
ne round his man. Embry was a printer,
and Col Anthony had gone into war
against the typographical union. of which
Embry was prominent member. The
trouble soon settled down into a personal
matter between the two men. One even
| ing Col Anthony was going upstairs into
lhe opera mouse In company with Col w.
n. hunt, sheriff Of Platte county, Miss0u-
! RI, and Col Tom Moonlight, who Is now
the United States minister to Bolivia. An
tnony was slightly I'm advance. As he
reached the top Of the stairway Embry
VINO was going downstairs, met him, and
directly the theater was filled with smoke
and panicky audience Anthony fell
J unconscious into the arms Of Hunt and
Moonlight. He was shot I'm the breast.
fortunately, surgeons We're Ia the audi
ence, and fortunately also, the night was
bitterly cold, and as the dying man was
CARVED into the open air the blood cOagu-
lated in the wound and closed IL up. The
death song was chanted one hundred
llPapers printed Col. Anthony's obituary.
Ihis was tWenty-one years ago. and he Is
hale man yet. For weeks he lay In his
bed unable TO move. Four nurses were
employed to stand six hours watches
daily. Bach In his turn held finger on
the artery at the point IL was cut Day
after day they stood thus, until almost
perceptibly the wound healed. The sur
geon in charge became famous.
After Embry had settled with the state
by service In the penitentiary he started
INTO the newspaper business with Thurs
Ton. Col. Anthony was postmaster ana
II was charged by the two men that he
Kept their paper out of the mails II
was IN disagreement over business af-
fairs that Thurston killed Embry, and IL
was to finish the postofiice fight he sought
Anthony's life.
Col. Anthony has a profile resembling
| nothing so much as the sharp aquilin.
| features of our national bird. His face
even IN his old age Is relentless ana
changeless in its determination, and his
eye still burns as fercely as it did in the
old days. War seemed to be the delight
of this mans soul, but 1t was always
II against what appeared to him to be an
II evil He looked upon the establishment
| OF rival newspaper as a public calamity
| and on that ground Justified his beating
| OF eX-United States Senator Ed Ross
| who moved his printing house over from
Lawrence and started the Standard. Ross
| was always Anthony's physical inferior
/ and would not have lasted in a fight un.
/ der the rules Anthony gave him no OPP
! puINuHANy 10 try Out walked DTlgklV
/ and spAt upon the statesman and then
| beat his venerable head with a heavy
| cane.
There was another United States sena-
tor who found Col Anthony troublesome.
| That was Senator Lane-"Jim Lane Of
| Kansas" Lane was found dying beside
/ the road between the city of Leaven-
worth and the post. He was taken to
| the quarters of DR.. S. f. Few, one of the
| founders Of Leavenworth, who was at
/ that time medical director and in charge
of the post All Of DR.. Few's science
could not restore Lane to consciousness
and his desk at the next opening of the
! upper house of congress was draped I'm
| black. The manner of Senator Lanes
/ death, whether III was a self-murder or
/ the result OF am accident, IS still in dis
| pute among early Kansans. As he would
/ have been impeached If he lived and pros
| ecuted on the charge of misrepresentation
funds, the suicide theory was generally
accepted. Anthony was then engaged i'm
an attack upon Lane, and the latters
| friends always held the editor RESPONSE
bic for the picturesque Kansan's untimely
| taking Off
Col Anthonys later years have been as
| busy as he could wish. His paper has been
boycotted two or three times, and as MEM
| Der of the police board and mayor OF the
| city with prohibition laws 10 enforce in a
town filled with thirsty men, he has found
much employment for himself. His ac-
tons have always been in vindcations of
principle. At the outbreak of the war he
headed a regiment. His fight was for the
abolition OF slavery and he fought hard.
He gave neither himself nor his men any
rest when there was a chance to shed
blood for the honor of the flag and to the
end that all men might be free. One day
there came a general order forbiddng the
harboring Of fugitive slaves an military
camps. Col. Anthony wiped off his sword
and turned in his resignation. "If this Is
not war for freedom, I'm not in it," he
said, land If as a soldier / can't harbor
fugitive slaves, I'll go into the harboring
! business as a private citizen" w. e. l..