The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-20
LeaYenwOrth Bar Keeper Wants
Lansing Joints Closed.
Says Prison Guards and Trus-
ties Get Drunk.
HEMAKES A PROPOSAL.
VIII Shut Up His Place If
Others Do.
Governor Says 1t Is just a
Crank Letter.

Even the ''bar keeps at Leaven-
worth are taking a hand in the Sol
diers' home controversy started by De
Dartment Commander p. II. Coney
Mr.. Dan Brinkley. who tends bar IN
C. Brinkley's saloon on South Fourth
street i'm Leavenw0rth, says in letter
to the state Journal:
s'Leavenworth, Kan, oct is, 1909.
state Journal, Topeka, Kan.
II notice an article copied from your
paper in a recent issue of the Times OF
this city. in which Pat Coney figures
prominently. 1T would appear that Pat
has been consuming large quantities OF
cotton for the past few months from
the way he has been chewing the RAG
He is jumping all over us Leavenworth
Saloon keepers. for selling BOOZE to
the old Soldiers. when in fact others
are more responsible for their missfor-
tunes than we are. Lansing, second
clondike has open JOINTS all of the
vilest Type. the Elnora Hotel Joint,
would discount for general depravity,
any thing now running in the BoWery
OF New York and the Joint IN the Red
barn. is the Devils own kind, OId Sol
diers are drugged run into stall kept
drunk until their money is gone then
kicked out, this is much worse than
Go. as 4 cora Lneln up IL Unnecessary III
order to sober them up in time Tor next
pension day. Convicts visit the Ian
sing Joints, TRUSTEES Bowl up in them
and the Public are alarmed at condl-
lions there. Prison Guards visit these
places. and no kick from the Warden,
and I wish to say right here that if the
Warden so desired, he could close the
Joints at once. Now what want to
get at. Elder HOach is making a big
play to catch the Church people by his
"A INF hT5f
he will succeed for two thirds of the
Preac cheers haven't a lick of sense when
it comes to POLITICS. If the Elder is
i'm earnest why don't he instruct War
den Haskell to close the dives there,
TIoach don't need Police Commissioners
for this purpose. am not boaStng OF
the business I am in, but want to say
that. if Hoach will close the HOLES in
Lansing. I for one viii close and keep
closed, but I am sick of Coney and
others jumping on our business, when
the POWERS that be are running
after US for our influence at the Polls.
Y on paste this in your hat Coleman IS
not going to touch this City, from the
fact that he is tared with the same
stick used on our Mayor and Co Atty,
besides these fellows in Leavenworth
Co has periured themselves. and We
can put them in Lansing, where they
ought to be. The Boys in Kas City,
Kas will close their front doors for a
few days so the Elder and Coleman
CAN 1901 the I'll 6Cd MEM Be KS
when the cases against Gibson and
Rose are dismissed, then they viii open
in their old stands. Let Elder Hoach
start right at Lansing, and close the
Joints there, and if he does it, in
earnest I will so advise the Journal.
and be honest. about the matter am
frank to say that there is not another
Penal institution in the United States
where conVicts, see the sights as wit
messed in Lansing. No use for Cover
oh to to
ask the Lord to close them, for the
Lansing Joint Keepers don't attend
Pray Meeting, and its up to Hoach to
do something, as he thus far has been
failure. DAN. BRINKLEY.
Bar Keeper"
Hoch Calls Tt Crank Letter.
When the above letter was shown
to Governor Hoch he read it through
carefully and then laughed
II get lots of these crank letters, -
he said They write to me about
everything; tell me how to run the
state; criticise what I have done and
even want to borrow money"
1l was quite evident that the pro-
position of Mr.. Dan Brinkley bar
keep, to close UP his saloon If the erov-
ernor would compel other saloons 70
also close had not made a very grea
impression on the chief MAGISTRATE of
the commonwealth of Kansas
john Seatons one of the prison
board, was in Topeka today, and he
was shown the Communication from
Brinkley
1T seems" he said. chat Mr..
Hrinkley is sore because some of his
Lansing competitors are getting an
the business. am very sorry that
Mr.. Brinkley has d grievance. AS lar
SIS his statement that the convicts and
employees of the penitentiary are Az
lowed to go. out and get drunk in the
Lansing dives which he mentions is
concerned, it is all nonsense. They
are not allowed to do this sort Of
lnlng. And of course the old soldiers
don't get drunk in LANSING Joints .