The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-17
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

The death of King Hurnbert has
prougnt to light the fact that there are
anarch1sts IN plenty in this country,
salu gentleman at the National who
was discussing current events with sew
eral friends, and it has been announced
that our government has manifested an
intention OF investigating the anarchist
situation, and the examination should
De thorough and the remedy speedy and
drastic In my opinion anarchy should
De stamped out in this country because
the man who will murder a king Will
murder president, and the assassina-
ton of King Humbert was most GER
talnly planned in this country, state
mentS to the contrary Notwithstanding.
The anarchists in Pennsylvania rejoiced
over the death of King Humbert which
proves they are a murderous lot of
rascals who should be sent out of the
country. Individually an anarchist is
a coward for no brave man would
skulk as he does. A brave man meets
q condition openly; an anarchist hides
behind a secret organization where vile
plots and schemes are concocted for the
murder or injury of the brave and law
abiding citizens. A secret organization
which viii admit men who are known to
be anarchists will bear watching and
when 1t IS found that one of their num-
per commits murder such as the as
sasslnat1on of the king of Italy, every
member Of that organization should be
forced to leave the United States, for
they are certainly not the kind of citi-
zenS we want. The man who will enter
secret organization for the purpose
of doing that which he has not the
courage to do openly is a coward, and
the fact that occasionally one will kill
an unSuspecting victim shows their
cowardice all the more. When an
anarchist kills man knowing that he
will certainly be punished with death
he is not brave, because if he did not
commit the deed his fellow conspirators
would surely kill him. It is a choice
of two evils with a chance to escape If
he Obeys and a certainty of death if he
refuses
itself to be used as a nest in which
anarchists can hatch plots. They should
be hunted down and driven from the
country and the instant one lands seek
ing safety from the authorities in his
native land, he should be captured and
turned over to the authorities from
whom he is trying to escape"
1--WE are continually hearing of col
1ege professors going on scientific ex-
petitions to Arizona and New Mexico
looking for relics of the old races which
formerly inhabited that country" said
a gentleman at the Fifth avenue, land
in my opinion they could not go to a
country that would prove more fertile
for their researches. 1 have been over
a great deal of that country and if half
of the tales told are true, and 1 believe
they are, there will be an interesting
field there for explorers for years to
come. 1 was at Fort Bayard visiting
an army officer about six years ago and
he told me of a cave in that district
which had been found by some of the
soldiers and which he intended visiting
during my visit. The cave was about
100 miles from the fort and was stu
ated about half way up a cliff which
was several hundred feet high. We
reached it's mouth by zfgzag path
from the top of the cliff The entrance
was about six feet square and was on a
stone ledge. The first cave was a large
room that would hold fifty people and
there were many smaller caves COM
municating with it. The floors were
strewn with arrows stone jars, overs,
rings, mats, beads of all colors, knives
of bone with wooden handles and many
other objects equally curious on account
of their primitiveneSs. Everything was
in good state of preservation although
the articles must have been there for
at least a hundred years and probably
more. The arrows were made with
shafts of reed with tips of flint and
there were several piles of them. The
bows and oyerS We're stained with fancy
colors and the old residents of that
country say the paint used was made
from a solution of copper. The cave
had been inhabited by bats for years
but was at one time the home of the
cliff dwellers. We carried away all the
most valuable relics and L consider that
we were well paid for our hot ride over
the sand. If I ever have the opportuni-
ty l will visit the cliffs in northern
Arizona where it is reported that many
caves. homes of the cliff jewellers can be
found"
almost every person has a difficult
way of carrying money" remarked a
gentleman at the Copeland who had
just returned fat pocketbook to his in
side coat pocket, ''but / have always
chung to the long pocketbook in which
can lay the bills at length. 1 generally
carry it in my inside coat pocket. |
notice that a great many men do not
carry pocketbooks but keep their money
in a roll and you will notice that the
men who do this are not travellers; not
business men. Every gambler or sport
carries his bills in a roll and nine times
out of ten the roll is in the right hand
vest pocket or in the little watch pocket
in the pants. OF course all men carry
their silver money in a pants pocket
pocket The old time way of carrying
a big pocketbook in the hip pocket has
been abandoned on account of pick
pockets who found them easy to take.
Indians have a way of braiding their
paper money in their hair and it is al
most impossible to steal it from them
as many light fingered man can tes-
tify If you will take the trouble to in
vestigate you will find that every Indian
who has any bills will either have them
braided in his hair or tied up in the tail
of his coat. OF course they may have a
little loose money but that is where
they always carry their 'wad.' L heard |
a police officer in Arkansas City say
of Indians in Jail at that place a tramp
who was in with them stole over $3.50 |
from them and that all of it had been |
braided in their hair. The Indians were |
very drunk and did not miss the money |
until the tramp had been released