The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-12
Scores Officials For the Condi-
lions Which Now Exist.
HE COMPARES TOPEKA.
Calls Attention to Conditions
in Capital City.
Discusses Robbery of Old Sol
diers In Klondike.

Soldiers home It also contains 1nforIna- /
ton concerning the 100 or more saloons
in the city of Leavenworth; the Tim |
Burk, Pat Noonan, Donald McPhail and |
the State Journal which created SO much |
comment a few months ago. and editor |
ia1s from various papers on the subject /
In his Introduction Mr.. Butler says: :.
THE notorious klondike is just outside |
the National Military Home, twenty-five |
miles north of Kansas City. One mile |
frowning walls of the Kansas State |
TO the north three miles is Leavenworth |
City with its twenty thousand people, and |
still farther north two miles is the Mill
tary Fort with its soldiery and their
letters, moonshiners. mail robbers. and
west. Criminals, their relatives, friends |
and associates gamblers. toughs and
going, besides discharged ex-eon-
Yicts that settle here to-. raise
on the community. Some three thousand
old soldiers, the unfortunates of the late
Soldiers home. Their pension. roll Is
nearly one hundred thousand dollars
the easy prey of knaves and scoundreis.
Expert confidence men and the slickest
swarm like buzzards, to fleece these aged
warriors and the regulars at the Fort.
KIondike the center of this maelstrorn of
viciousness and depravity. A score of
range the hills and confront one at every
turn and cross roads Squads Of hard
ened beings under escort OF deadly Weap-
and armed guards parade the high
ways to and from the quarries and other
works. The unearthly Screech OF the
prison whistle every morning reminds one
of the arch Demon it echoes and re-
the sable minions to their daily tasks;
All these environments, conditions and
mosphere Seems filled with black angels
and fallen spirits
'''Of elanking letters, low mysterious
Blood crusted daggers, and uncoffined
Pale, gliding ghosts. with fingers dripping
And Blue flames dancing round dungeon
with these Introductory remarks we
now present the most astounding evil
that in the state of Kansas at this mo-
than the bowery, Five Points or Null
berry district in New York city, more
dangerous than Tombstone or Ieadville,
where murder stalks at MONDAY and pan
demonium reigns at midnight, For
counts of this modern Sodon, and yet the
half has never been told
Inferno, Mr.. Butler says:
From the preceding pages, it will be
seen that when the Klondize is wiped
out forever the work of protecting the
old soldiers will be only begun. From
the home to Leavenworth, the aged vet
Grams must run the gauntlet of ten awful
road houses to get to an Inferno of
mills in the city. The domoralizing in
fuence of this plutonian aggregation is
state wide. They are leading the rebell-
ion They are as illegal and unlawful
Colonel Dan Anthony to the contrary not
wfthstanding-as the KIondil1e. This pow
er for evil and crime is as much greater
as is their numerical strength. Like the
KIondikers, they come up every month
and plead guilty to violating the consti-
pay the officials for their connivance.
Those officials and records are ample
evidence and absolute proof of open
ganized teason. The saloon fixtures and
6araDhernaIia are as seIf-evidenf as
LIQUOR in their possession. and men get
ting drunk. Should send the pronriefors
to prison surely to find counterfeit-
er's molds and bogus money in a mans
During the soldiers reunion, in To-
peka7 Officer McElroy suspicioned that a
grounds He teiephoned Chief 's Ramsey eye
and received orders, over the telephone,
said the officer. You don't need one.
Just pull it, said the chief. And they
and bottles Of whiskey. This Is the way
they do business in the capital, and F
r Millspaugh, Episcopal Bishop of KAN
For instance. Topeka is a city of fifty
thousand lnhabitants-SO that it is quite
| Of Kansas avenue, the principal street Of
| the city! and not see single saloon on
Compare m ETH this with the rub-rIdtden
striking !gtn-miIls, biear-eyed denizens,
and drunken orgies. Topeka gives the
Sheldon; Leavenworth a William Page.
| who wanted q special hell set apart for
! the saloons, dives and blind tigers.
IAN old soldier was Iimping along on
| two canes on one of the principal streets
female rushed out and grabbed him by
| an arm, and faced him toward the sa-
| loon door. He hesitated and another fall
! len angel took him by the other arm He
/ still held back and a third denizen of the
] place in calico pushed him from behind
| off the sidewalk inside the dive. They
/ argued that beng a large pens1oner he
/ must have some cash about him.
/ State Journal, October 18th, 1899, says:
-: 4tI y oceSullss nave peth II.
/ stItqted against some of the small fry
/ while the real principals and proprietors
are anmolested Before the grand raid,
1 the other day, to pull nine stool pigeons.
/ due and timely notice was given,' and
/ was found. Then, to leave thirteen KIon-
| d1Sers and ten roads houses doing
! LeavenWorth is adding insult to in
| jury. As soon as the sheriffs back was
turned, everything was in place again,
And this was the way the Klondike
/ four cited for trial, and, at the last mo-
/ ment. the prosecution backed square
down, compromised, ana turned the noted
! outlaws free to prey on society. Nobody
punished and none of the real criminals
/ putting up the signs restaurant eating
/ house. lunch room, and displaying
rev PIES. bologna SausageS, cheese and
| cookies. does not change the deadly char
/ aeter of the Eklondike. What a roaring
farce. from start to finish. an eternal
] disgrace to the annals of Kansas. An IL
1 Illustrated article on Klondike. in the To-
! peka State Journal fully sustains the
foregoing.
1.-THE ten road houses are not in the
/ Klondike, and nearly every one carries
a bloody record from one to three awful
murders, while the unwritten history Of
the saloons in the CITY of Transgres-
/ sors' would cause the flesh Of canni-
| bal to crawl with very horror Their
/ doings are too revolving for publication.
| Business men go armed, for their lives,
I not only against the floating rabble. but
| to protect themselves from official DULLES
| from mayor to justice of the peace and