Kansas City journal., 1897-05-26

accosted Hanback, after this fashion:
Look here. Lew. are you going to kill
Anderson tonight"
Sure thing" replied Lew; why not?'
'WelI. l want you to give Anderson
rest. There isn't any sense in killing
man over and over that way"
Anderson is mine" replied Lew, some
what heatediy. "and I am going TO kill
him just as often as I feel like il. Besides,
this is the first campaign in which Ander-
son has ever been killed. and you can see
for yourself how It fetches the boys"
This closed the discussion, but Williams
mentally resolved to break up the Ander-
son story on the very next occasion by
turning the laugh on Hanback,. He fixed
in his own mind how right at the most
pathetic point he would rise and say:
Excuse me. Colonel Hanback,, but last
night when you killed Anderson you cut
off his left leg instead of his right"
How did it work." inquired Topics, TO
whom General Williams was telling this
story.
Work? Work? Why. when that man
got Anderson's head into his arms I was
hawlins louder than any other calf in the
room!'
Seymour Foose, an old Kansan who now
resides in Blaine county, o. T., gives the
Wichita Eagle an interesting account Of
with the Indian. A number of Cheyenne
and Arapahoe Indians have been sent from
Blaine county to be educated in the white
mans ways. most of them to the school at
Carlisle. on their return they carry all
of the evidences of civilization-dress in
white mans clothes and speak English
well. A few weeks contact with the tribe
works wonders. The first indication of
their return to savaEery is the manner in
bfsb LOT
they become reticent and a few months
puts them into blankets and leggings. The
fact is the wild Indians laugh at the edu-
Gated ones and shame them into returning
to the savage state. Red Bird, chief of
the Cheyennes, is graduate of Harvard,
but he wears blankets and paints his face
with Vermillion.
Now that n lull has come in the discus
sion as to who is the oldest editor in Kan
sas, John Gilmore, of the Fredonia Cit
izen, breaks in with an entertaining ac-
count of the oldest printer. He divides this
honor between Francis Il. Swift and Ed
ward p. Harris.
Swift was a typesetter on the Herald of
Freedom in Laurence in 1856. At the break
ing out of the war he was made captain
of a company in the First Kansas infantry
in which regiment General Dan McCOok
and General Powell Clayton were also cap
tains. His first lieutenant was Caleb 5.
Fratt, who was killed in battle, but whose
memory is perpetuated in the name of
Kansas county. After the war Swift re-
turned to the printers case. Since 1883 he
has been steadily engaged upon the Girard
Press, and, though past Go years of age,
he still gets up an average string"
Harris is general foreman in George
Cranes publishing house at Topeka. He
worked at the case in Lawrence in terri
torial days, and was connected with the
state printing office for more than a quar-
ter of a century. John Gilmore, who writes
these "reminiscences, became the devil in
the Emporia News office i'm 1863, at which
time Harris was foreman of the establish
ment and Colonel Marsh NIurdock a COM
positor on it. Harris is wealthy, and il is
the common suspicion that he somehow
discovered the fountain of perpetual youth,
for he appears younger now than he did
thirty years ago. About a year ago he
broke his leg while scorching on q bicycle,
and some Chicago surgeons have broken
it over few times in trying to stralghten
out kink, but Harris still rides and still
scorches.
Woman's intuition isn't very valuable
when IL IS confronted with a problem cal
Culated to arouse sympathy. Several years
ago United States District Judge Ryner
held court in Topeka in place of Judge
Foster, who was sick. He was accom-
panied By Mrs Ryner, who often sat in the
court room observing the proceedings. One
day Russian by the name of Chris Steg-
man, whose home is in Ellis county, was
found guilty of perjury. He had been
witness in a land office contest and swore
to some point blank lies. When his attor-
ney was talking to the jury he related that
SteEman had a good wife and eight small
children, and said they would be left in
distress if the man was sent to the peni-
tentiary. This picture touched Mrs. Ryner
and she induced her husband to suspend
sentence. at least until Stegman could go
home and put I'm n crop. On two or three
occasions since. Stegman has been brought
into court to receive his sentence, but each
time Mrs. Ryner's sympathy secured a
postponement. She had left Topeka, of
course, for her homo is in Wyoming; but
before leaving she had enlisted the aid of
a lady friend who resides at the Kansas
capital, and there was always a plea for
Stegman ready when 1t was proposed TO
sentence him.
Last Saturday Stegman was sentenced
to seven years in the Kansas penitentiary
after conviction of assault upon a little
district court of Rush county. This little
girl and her family no doubt have bitter
thoughts about the over-Zealous sympathy
which left such a fend as Stegman at
large.