The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-18
old KANSAS PIONEER
Colonel Dan Anthony Recalls
Early Kansas Days.
RESIDED IN LEAVENW0RTH
His Days in Kansas Full Of
Exciting Episodes.

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has been long in the public eye, who has
led what President Roosevelt once so
tersely termed the strenuous life" who
is so much understood, or rather so lit
tie understood, as Colonel Daniel r. An
thony, Of Leavenworth, Kan. A few Of
his close friends in the East view the
Z career Of this famous editor, this fight.
/ ing editor. and Kansas pioneer, with cor
rect perspective. To them the motives
which have actuated him, and the strong.
willie nature of the man form pages of
an open book.
1t was in 1854 that Colonel Anthony,
then very young man, made visit to
Kansas. It was W en- the conflict be-
tween slave territory and free soil was
| impending in that tel ritory, and young
Anthony carefully surveyed the situation
! Coming back TO the east ne told the story
Of Kansas at a convention at Saratoga
1t was in 1857 that Anthony again visitec
| Kansas, this time with the determination
! to help redeem the state and save it
| TO freedom. Last night, forty-four
years later. with the battle won, and
/ bearing the scare Of the conflict, Colonel
Anthony told the story.
Trouble in LeavenWorth began with q
railroad deal From the outset, Colonel
Anthony and others desired to make
| Leavenworth the great railway center Of
! the west The trouble began in 1868,
when Colonel Anthony was mayor. Said
/ he:
1--WE wanted the terminus Of the Union
| Pacific railway at Leavenworth. and it
! saw necessary to raise 100000 when the
/ ri God
| 000 I went to New York. and after n
deal Of trouble I obtained tho loan on
/ the security Of the iron and the bonds Of
/ the branch road 1 went back to Leaven-
worth and tried to put it through the
/ council. The council defeated the meas
ure. Then they voted grant of $3.50, 900
in city bonds for the building of the nee
essary branch, and s5O.0OC of these bonds
went to one man as subsidy
When the Missouri Pacific railroad
was completed to Kansas City, 1t was
| proposed to build the line 70 Leaven-
1 worth, some twenty-seven miles. Propo-
! sitions were made 10 us to build the road.
! In accordance with the wish Of our cit
| liens I came east again and conferred
with the late Franklin Clarke, Of Roches-
| ter, who was then comptroller Of the
! currency. I explained the situation to
! him and he said that for $4,000 he would
undertake to construct the road. I went
| gack TO Leavenworth with the PROPOSE
! ton, and under the influence Of certain
| men the people rejected it. They voted to
| give 4 local company $4,000 in county
anG city bonds, half Of each. Then the
! company bonded the road for 100000 and
| stocked it for 500 900. IN addition they
! got . treaty through the United States
! Senate by which the 10000 acres OF the
! Delaware Indian lands, worth $1,000. 600.
were given to the Missouri River rail-
! way company to build this twenty-seven
miles Of railroad: ali of this to build
a road which Freeman Clarke had offered
! to construct for $l50O0O. The reason they
! succeeded in this steal was because they
+ pat in money at elections, and used money
/ in getting the Indian land treaty through.
/ They used money IN Congress"
This" said 'FIghtin Dan Anthony.
rs the basis of all Of the fight against
me. was fighting for the people OF
Leavenwcrth. It was not a personal
fight plainly?"
Ia answer to question Colonel An
thony said he had never had a serious
alone.
You have had serious personal diff
culties, however, have you not?" was
asked
oh yes, certainly"
What is there about that early Mis-
souri, river incident"
oh said Colonel Anthony. that
story is a gross exaggeration. We had
no fight on the steamer The writer's
have told you how I neld up a crowd Of
Aiissourians with a pistol That is all
untrue. There We're three hundred Mis-
socrians on the steamer, and there were
thirty of Us Free state men. We only had
our revolvers. and our guns were packed
up We di5 not want to fight What we
wanted was to set into Kansas as peace
fully as ne could. and the NIissourians did
not show any fight. There was no ex-
hibition OF arms whatever on that oc-
easion and there was not particle Of
trouble"
What about taking that Confederate
Gag2"
That was different, but even then. nor
on any other occasion. did ever assan
anyone. / always acted in self-defcnse.
III ten YOU about that Confederate fae
We tiled three times 10 set thar flag.
which vas Up at lotan. 40 eight miles
from LeavenWorth. The first time we
went after jr we set licked before we GOT
tnere by an overwhelming force. The
next lime We went after it we went up
on a BOAT The nag was 1t store. bur
ij was hauled dow before The boat land
ed We went into the store and saw the
1ag toioed up on 8 bench / slid I
suessed I would take the has with me.
instantly thirty men pulled their rerol-
Fers a7c said shes guessed would not.
Under the circumstances did not take
thc Gae- There Were only two OF rs there
ana the toat was q mile away.
a nsht gr,w out If this second ar
tempt in THIS way a man by the mama !
81 Sateriee ran a small paper ir Leaven- |
worth. ara in ehis paper he called me n
coward fer nos Jaking the Confederate 4
Ias FROM the ,hirty armed men. II VAS
certain That Slteriee carried q revolver I
took q man named Har-er with me i
anG went T. Saterlae's Office ID demand i. /
rssr2otioi'- lie pulled his rex oliver and So |
Gld Z and we both shot about the san,o
time lie hit Hamor. wouaGing him but
slightly Ehln ne ran and turning -or on 4
enc Anec ard g7oi deliberate aim ~ me 7
ans missed Ic IVES later shown ia cs-irr
tnat Re Gred his second shot g little b-
iaTe dia- He missed. 1Iy shot took e. I
ieet Sc his sroin and be diei ia a15ut az +
hour-
= WAS t1ed ay 5arv - seven pro
slavery Hea ana ave Free atate -scn /
ana was unanimously acarittea I ~
el-'el IS many assurances ~ regard iu