The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17


| and the entire country is excited on ac-
count Of the rich strike in the Tansy
mines. operated under the lease by Col
by & Beckwitn. The mine Is locator on
| the Mother lode just this side Of Sonora.
The workmen struck a pocket, and in ten
hours they had taken $31, 900 in gold
from the pocket, and there is more to
follow
TOPEKA WAS STIRRED Up TOO
Outraged Over the Crime Against Women
at Kansas CITY.
Topeka, Kan. July 1.-THE Capital
has the following:
The order of the board Of police COM
missioIers Of Kansas City, Kansas, for
the punishment Of police cour, women
on the rock pile has caused great in
dignalion at the state house.
The order was to the effect that IN
fortunate women in the cry prison VINO
were unable to pay their fines should be
dressed in boomers and sent out on the
streets, or the rock pile, the same as
men.
G. c. Clemens went TO Governor Lee
dy yesterday and made a most vigorous
protest. He denounced the orer as an
outrage upon humanity, and declared
that it would damage the cause Of Popu-
ism irreparaply.
The Populist heart" said Mr.. Clemens
TO his excelency as lacerated and
bleeding for humanity. Now for Off
Gals CT the Populist party to put wo-
men on the rock pile for breaking a
city ordinance-great God, Governor,
can scarcely contain myself
Governor Leedy told Mr.. Clemens that
ne would look into the case when he
had time. II hope you will said Glenn
ems, land I want to add that if any wo-
man at Kansas City is placed on the
rock pile, I'll commence a habeas cor
pus proceeding for her release. and 1
will make it mighty hot for the men who
perpetrated the outrage"
Chief of Police Quarles of Kansas City
was in Topeka Wednesday, and ii is
said that he had a conference with the
governor about the order Of the board,
and that the governor approved it.
Mr. Clemens told Governor Leedy the
story of the riot in Topeka some years
ago over the placing of two colored wo-
men on the rock pile. AT that time Da-
vid Overmyer made a speech In denun-
citation OF the act. and people say it sent
him to the legislature.
A reporter for the Capital yesterday
asked overnor Leedy IL he approved the
boards action.
Women work on the rock pile at
Leavenworth." he replied.
do you approve it?"
81 can't say that am IN favor Of wo-
men being compelled to break rock, but
I think there are times when the sight
OF the rock pile would do police court
women good. have no fault to find
with the action Of the Kansas City
board
That is all the governor would say
about the case.
Secretary Of State Bush, Auditor Nor
rfs and Treasurer Hefiebower denounced
the order. and each protested to the
governor. Attorney General Boyle and
Superintendent Stryker were not in the
city.
A dispatch from Kansas City says
that the women who were in the Jail
there weIe released yesterday. having
raised enough money to pay their fines.
The dispatch also says that Chief
Quarles has telegram from Governor
Leedy no: to put the order into effect
at present
In conversation with a reporter for the
Capital last night regarding the case,
Mr.. Clemens said:
kilograms from Kansas City inform
I~oD
there. That does not satisfy me. There
should have been no such project for
Populist officials TO abandon. Had the
old abolitlonists elected a president, and
one of his a marshal, or a district at,
become even more jealous |
than the shareholders in pursuing fugi>
tive siaves-would that official have been
permitted 70 simply abandon his job?
tie Populist appointee capable of even |
this worse than barborous |
project, is not Populist al heart He |
should not be permitted TO represen. a |
single hour the cause ne has blasphem- |
ed While live and retain the slightest |
degree OF my old-time ability 10 raise |
sheal. there will be no women. in over |
ais or out Of them, on Kansas rock
piles. without considerable tr.bulation 70
those who put them there. That might |
as we'll be quite plainly understood The /
soil once trod by John Brown is too sa-
cred for te bleeding feet Of theehatL-,vw
cred for the bleeding fee: OF a rock
pile woman slave. The Peoples party
will never condone even the meditation
Of this infamy.
"Who are the women who are 10 be
thus cruelty misused? And what crimes
are they to expiate by Their degradation?
Are they the daughters OF the Rookie
felIers or the vanderb!lts? Are they
the erstwlile churfs Of the Duchess Of
Do they receive paternaI
from the plethoric treasu-
~ OF some Rothschild? The women
who are the victims OF every moral cru
sade's' persecution. and OF the cease
ess tyranny ~ the police. come not.
,r come rarely. from luxurious homes
A farmers daughter coming 10 the city
20 find work meets AT every step on her
new pathway the allurements OF the H.
.rt,ne. The poor mans daughter. the
light Of his humble home. Is force5 By
lard times - engage in the fierce strug-
lie for bread. and everywhere the lech-
.rous idler plots her fall The woman
who mas yielded 10 the nbertine's false
headings has no; long 20 learn that
Every woe a tear can chain.
Except an errinE sisters shame"
Society rloses rs doors 20 her She
would no. find welcome in church SIZE
: cast our. and women who clam -
GLOW Christ and do HIS bidding shun