The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-26

state politics in which he has been a
factor. His last political battle was to
make his son the, congressman from
this district. The fight was a great
one, but he lost in the convention, and
then before the courts, and as a last
resort before the state itself.
But the fights of Colonel Anthony
were not all mental fights-he used his
fists. His INITIATES are abe number
less as the stars. He made enemies
but every man who enters the lists
makes them. The lodestar which steer
ed him through his eventiful life will
always be found to have been closely
associated with the word honor. He
the sensation of fear. That
led him into any opposition
regardless of it's number of
size To find the correct perspective
ways admit that Anthony never turned
his back and that his battles were fair
Stories are told of how Colonel An
thony with several companions held
up a whole party of at least SO Mis-
sourians on a steamboat going up the
Missouri river, because his party was
being molested. His capture of the
Confederate flag attended by his shoot
ing of Satterlee, a Leavenworth editor,
is famous. The street duel with re-
volvers between himself and Colonel
Jennison, over one of Anthony's char
acteristic editorials, six shots being
hundred times. His introduction to
Kansas was a personal encounter with
Major Miller, an Indian agent, to
whom he had said that he was an old
time WING. The agent struck Anthony
across the head with the butt-end of
revolver and shots followed, al
though there was no killing. But he
met Miller. again in the pro-slavery
states. One night he was called from
his hotel and-met with a thrust from
a knife, which, however, did him lit
tie injury. He pulled his revolver and
shot Mile, one of the men. Later he
found out that the man he mad injured
had come with Miller to kill him. The
attempt of another LeavenwOrth edi-
tor by the name of Embry came close
to costing Anthony his life. 1t oc-
CURED in 1872. Differences had grown
up between the two men. One night
Anthony was coming out of the the
alter. Embry stepped in front of him
and fired. The ball entered his cheek,
grazing downward and severing the ar
terry in his neck. His life was de-
SPARED of, but within three months
he was back again at his desk. Embry
was killed shortly afterwards in sa-
loon quarrel with his partner. Then
a man named Thurston, a partner of
Embry, shot at him one night as a
result of a quarrel in connection with
some matters pertaining to the city
council. The shot missed Anthony but
struck Lucien Baker. later United
States senator. and inflicted serious
injury. But his quarrel with ex-Sher-
iff Bond, while his last, was one of
the worst. He and Bond were enemies
of standing. One day they met on the
street and Bond struck him. Anthony
reached into his pocket for his re-
volver. A friend came to Bonds res
cue and the two tried to hold the IA
nous old editor. But he succeeded in
getting his revolver from his pocket
and pressed it against Bonds breast.
BY accident, Bonds friend got his fin
ger between the trigger and guard of
the pistol and Anthony could not dis
charge the gun. In the struggle which
Anthony was kicked in the
face and badly hurt. Later young Dan
Anthony met Bond on the street and
avenged his fathers insult. This de-
lighted the old man so such an ex-
tent that he gave his son a large
and valuable farm.
Colonel Anthony was married on
January 21, 1864, to Ann ieOsborn of |
Edgartown, Mass. His father-in-law |
Captain Osborn, was a famous whaling
of the coast.
Colonel Anthony established the
Leavenworth Times in 1857 and lacks
but three years of having conducted |
It half century.