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The Washington times., 1905-09-10
No Praise for Saloon Men.

i don't remember II: may have said
IL L didn't say anything I'm favor of
the saloon men. you can bet on that
won't positively deny that l said IT,"
Mr. Funston said he was talking In an
ordinary tone of voice Il was talking
with Mr.. Dunlap and Mr. Woods on the
corner" he said. 1T is strange they
didn't hear the. language Mr.. Wheeler
testified to. l saw Mr. Wheeler standing
on the sidewalk. fifteen or twenty feet
away
DO you remember that Mr.. Dunlap
said 10 YOU: L couldn't say anything of
that sort now. It might create q mob p -
Mr.. Dunlap said TO me that there was
an order for everybodv 10 keep quiet
he was talking sarcastically, and said
not 10 talk above a whisper"
What were you saying TO occasion
that remark?"
L said | had no sympathy or pity for
the saloon Keepers. but that / was sorry
Tor the innocent people who had lost
their property"
Were you saying that when Mr. Dun
lap said you might cause mob?'
L said that | was against any mobs /;
that the courts could settle this question
! said II there was any mob they would
nave to include me in the deal-that is
mat | didn't want to mob the man that
blew up the saloons, nor the saloon men
themselves"
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A Private Chamber of Horrors.

In that knowledge he seems to find
as much happiness as other men de-
rive from the possession Of fine resi-
dences, beautiful pictures. parks.
flower gardens, and other things that
are supposed TO be most worth striv-
ing for He passes most of his time
in his private chamber of horrors
fondling his relics of the Holy In
QUESTION. AS before observed, there
is no accounting for tastes
The old man consented TO pose for
his photograph seated between two
of his most priced relics. One of
them represents a she devil holding
aloft male deyotee of pleasure i'm
paled on a three pronged fork.
Around the handle is twisted a snake
with its fangs buried in the victims
vitals. The latter holds in his left
hand a wine cup from which the
liquor in which he can no longer find
sOlace for his troubles is flowing to
the floor.
His crown is tumbling off his head,
and TO complete his discontinue.
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Mr.. . Funston fatty ccntradicted the
statements made by Mr.. Wheeler
Mr.. Wheeler was not only mistaken
ia giving that testimony. 1t was more
tran mistake. asserted the eX-Rep-
reSentative on the witness stand THE
gentleman's imagination is greater than
his facts. -
At one point in the examination Mr.
Funston was asked If he had talked to
j oliceman Cannon in front of McClain' s
store.
Il just stated that / was talking to
this thing here, he replied, bowling TO
Cannon. Il remarked TO the man / was
alking with. when We were near the
Coutant corner. that IL these men
pointing TO Cannon) had done their
duty and the county officers had done
their duty. there would have been no
dynamitinS | intended that for Can
ron. l wanted him 10 know what my
sentiments were"
How angry were you when you said
that2" Mr.. Funston was asked.
About as angry as i am now.
How are you now?''
Just cool as a cucumber. replied
Mr.. Funston amid laughter.
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Attracted Gaping Crowds


Until short time ago the existence
Of this grim collection of medieval
horrors was unknown except TO a
few of Mr.. Smiths intimate friends.
But recently he has built a private
museum for the reception of his
leather imps and demons Their con-
veyance from the cellars in which
they had been for years accumulat-
ing TO their new abode through busy
thoroughfares and in broad daylight
naturally attracted no little attention.
A gaping crowd followed the vans
containing the collection to their des-
tination, and thus the general pub
lie learned of the old Quaker's strange
hobby.
Mr. Smiths habits are those of a
recluse. No miser guards his gold
more jealously than he does his
chamber OF horrors. 1t was with
considerable difficulty that some days
later the writer succeeded in obtain
ing admission TO it. Built on what
was once the back yard of the house
he occupies in Remington, one of
London's most populous districts, it
is a spacious apartment some 80 by
40 feet, and 20 feet high. 1t is
lighted from above by skylights
guarded by iron bars. The walls are
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
CHIEF OF CAMPBELLS
SEEKS GOLD OF M'LEAM
Continued from First Page.)

ed for the MacLeans- 1t seems by al
right TO have belonged 10 the Mac
Leans. But what should that Scotch
king from the Stuart clan IN London,
Charles I, do but make the ship a pres
ent TO, OF all persons in England or
Scotland; the Campbell, styled the Earl
of Argyll. The gold did not even belong
TO Charles Stuart He claimed II be-
cause the Spanish at the time OF the
Armada were the enemies of the British
king and what treasure they left was
the property of the English sovereign.
But the SpaniardS had actually paid
the money for food and the king was
giving away MacLean gold to the
Campbell The MacLeans were boiling.
When an unfortunate Swede came to
Tobermory Bay TO raise the vessel for
the Earl OF Argyll the clan gathered
and drove the trespassers away.
After number OF futile attempts to
bring the riches to the surface. IN 1740
the Duke of Argyll, then John Camp
bell, a bachelor, took a hand in the
digging for sunken Spanish treasure. He
brought up a bronze cannon which had
been made for Francis 1 of France by
the famous Benvenuto Cellni, and bore
the fleur-de-lis and French kings coat
Of arms, This is now mounted in the
grounds of Argyll castle in Inverary.
Man after man. duke after duke, have
tried TO secure more treasure. The
ghosts OF the old sailors must have
laughed at the weakness OF their labors.
Instead of coming to the surface, the
old hulk sank further into the bottom
of the bay. Even the mountains. per-
haps inspired By the Dodags in behalf
of the MacLeans to keep the Campbells
from obtaining the gold. have sent down
earth and rock into the water TO help
hide the ship
John Edward Henry Douglas Suther-
land Campbell, Duke of Argyll, husband
of Princess Louise. daughter of Queen
Victoria, and himself the biographer of
Victoria. has employed all the powerful
apparatus that science has placed in
the hands of men for the exploration
of the depths of the ocean. Instead OF
cropping about in the darkness, the
divers move around almost in daylight
in the beams OF u mighty electric lamp
be side them Electricity. the irresistible
Aladdin lamp OF the modern man. with
the power of 1900 of Sir. Lachlan's
candles, has swept away all the secrecy
and darkness which was TO preserve the
treasure for the MacLeans- Machinery
is easily sucking the sand and mud
from the deck of the vessel. With the
Nitchcraft of modern science guided by
a Scotchman. ore Captain Burns. the
Campbell IS at last, 10 all appearances,
going to revei in the gold Of the Mac
Leans.
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
"A Lie" Cried Funston

That's a lie" interrupted Mr.. Funs-
ton. loudly enough to be heard all over
the stage. The Judge cautioned hin,
against interrupting witnesses. Mn.
Funston apologized.
The sensation of the SATURDAY matinee
was the testimony of w. A. Wheeler
an official OF the lola Portland Cement
Company. Mr.. Wheeler testified that
he was standing within a few feet of
Mr. Funston on the street corner where
the alleged infiammatory words were
uttered. He stated with great delibera-
ton that Mr. Funston said:
Il am glad that some one had nerve
enough 20 do II. The only regret | have
Is that the men weren't there to no
blown with their buildings. If the police
officers had done their duty this would
not have happened. / have no sorrow
in my heart for the men along thie
street that have suffered loss, because
they have done business day after dav
With these men and have not put "A ston
t. the saloon business
Mr.. Wheeler stated that the words
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come from far parts of the country and
had known Mr. Funston thirty years
Many were old soldiers. 1t was nerfact-
~ clear from the character of the sneo-
taters that most Of them were I'm sym
patny with the ex-Congressman. kVnSth-
er they believed him guilty of the
charge or not. there was no doubt tina;
him Mr.. Funston himself sat on I'M.
stage OF the theater, where the ,Giinass-
es were examined. listening closely 10
every word OF testimony offered bV the
prosecution once or rw:ce he restrain
ed himself only with difficulty from cX-
pressing his opinions audIbly concern
ing the testimony which the wJ.neesas
gave frequently he turned TO his ar
toTneys TO comment with great vebero
ence upon the testimony OF witnessas
At one point in the trial Pa+rolro,,,
Cannon testified that Mr.. Funston had
threatened his life and cursed him.
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
Policeman Not Everywhere.

Cannon said that policeman couldn't
be everywhere continued Mr.. Funs-
ton. Il remarked that il was remark
able when he was needed he could not
be found anywhere. 1 brought up the
fact that he ran my son in for being
drunk and let the men who sold the
whisky pass. Cannon's reply was that
he did not do it; | was mistaken in my
man. / politely bowed and begged his
pardon for the mistake. Then Mr.
Robinson came along. and L walked
away.
Cannon called after me that IL
didn't look ont he would run me In.
turned TO him and said: If you have
a warrant YOU can run me in. | turned
around TO him and he had his hap
under his coat tail. and he said: i ha> o
a warrant for you. | thought he meant
business. and l said: You can shoot
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
Read Story of Pirates Raid.

For nearly sixty years William
Smith lived in ignorance of their
existence. He kept a poultry shop
in London and being a shrewd dealer
made lot of money out of it which
he doubled by judicious investments
in real estate. He had never mar
ried; he was stranger to the joys
of domestic life. and as the years
rolled by and his prosperity increas-
ed, he began to yearn for some other
object in existence than the mere ac-
emulation of wealth, for this strange
man cared nothing for the luxuries
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2svels in CHASTITY Relics.

Their owner, man of nearly four
score years, and of singularly benign
aspect, seemed strangely out of place
amid such grueSome surroundings.
But evidently he regarded the collec-
ton as the browning achievement of
well-spent life. Had it been some
beatif1c vision, vouchsafed to an old
man 20 cheer his declining years. he
could hardly have gazed upon it with
more satisfaction. And the smell of
it he fairly reveled in as indisputable
evidence of the antiquity of his
treasures.
With much pride he told me that
he had expended over 100000 in
amassing the collection. He valued
it at SIPS, 900, and had no doubt he
could easily get that sum for it,
should he ever be persuaded to sell it,
but no sordid considerations of pc
cuniary profit had prompted the
patience, persistence, and enthusiasm
which he had devoted to its acquisi-
ton.
The collection, he said. had origin
ally been stolen from an old church
in Lisbon, some three hundred years
ago, by Spanish grandee, Don Carlos
Sebastian, who had turned pirate, and
apparently-which was considered far
worse in those days-skeptic, too.
Loading up ship with his strange
plumber he set sail for England and
there disposed of the lot. They were
scattered all over the land after that;
not few of them finding their way
into low-ceilinged baronial halls,
where their presence impaired va
riety to the decorations.
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
Stifed Shrieks of Tortured.

The collection includes panel pic
lures painted on raised leather, which
adorned the walls of the Holy Inqui-
them depict writhing victims of both
sexes undergoing the worst cruelties
that human deviltry could infiict
upon them in the name of religion
Others are designed to show the still
worse fate that awaits impenitent
heretics at the hands of the devils of
the neither regions.
The Washington times., 1905-09-10

r. oRMER CONGRESSMAN E. H.
- FUNSTON, father of Gen. Fred
j erick Funston, has just com
pleted three days engagement
in the lola Opera House = was
popular but not a financial success. In
fact. Il cost Mr. Funston Sl3.13. This is
the worst business done in the lola opera
house for long time. However. IL must
not be supposed that Mr. Funston was
making a bid for theatrical Fame lie
was not playing Hamlet" And the
admission was free. The bill for SI3.1S
came I'm the way OF fine Of five ard
costs"
The lola opera house has. I'm fact.
been given over 10 a police court trial
instead of a theatrical entertainment
When IL became generally known that
the former Congressman had been ar
rested on charges OF carrying conc >aled
weapons and using infiammatory Ian
guage. great popular interest was
aroused Mr.. Funston has many friends.
particularly among the old soldiers.
Judge Adair, who tried him. and who
found Inn guilty, was among these old
friends. The Judge hated 10 do II, but
he had TO.
The lola melodrama had its plot in
the blowing up by dynamite of three
lola Joints" or saloons by a crank.
These joints had caused lot of ill-feel-
ing in lola, and ii was asserted that AZ
ter they had been blown UP Mr.. Tuns-
ton appeared on the street and declared
that IL was a good Job and that nc was
glad somebody had the nerve TO do it."
Then he was said to have fiourishad a
revolver and shotgun and the arrest
followed
The parquet of the Grand Theater
where the trial was held. was filled dur
ing the sessions OF Saturday and Mon
day. Many Of those in the audience mad
The Washington times., 1905-09-10

freproof. and electric bells and wires
afford additional protection-entirely
superfiuouS, one would imagine
against thieves and burglars. With
the figures grouped about it so as
to display TO the greatest advantage
their grotesque hideousness, the place
seemed like the incarnation of a hor-
rid nightmare. From the ancient
leather vestments of the weird images
emanated al odor suggestive of any
thing but the sanctiiy of the church
TO whose zeal for the conversion of
heretics they owed their origin.
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design. Their purpose was to terrify
victims On the threshold. 10 Danish
hope end awaken despair One of
them shows, on the outside panels,
Father Time, overlooking the sor-
rowful partings of heretics from their
friends And when the door is OPEN
ed, by some mechanical Continuance.
two gigantic devils step forward on
either side of the doorway, with up
lifted swords, which move up and
down with the closing Of the door.
1t was with a sense of relief that
the writer heard the iron door of the
queer old Quaker's residence clang
behind me, and breathed again the
free, untainted air of twentieth CEN
fury England. But there had been
obtained a realizing sense Of what il
was that inspired Drake and his men
to fight like devils against the hosts
of Spain
The Washington times., 1905-09-10

poor devils out at La Harpe, but YOU
can shoot me- 1 then went after nv
Didn't you state that your purpose in
coming to town that day was to shoot
me man who sold your son whisky"
at the jail?'' 90
did not that day The man who
SAYS ! did is a falsificr. and the truth
isn't In him.
Did you say in substance that II was
good enough to Mr.. Dunlap. referri lg
To the explOsion?''
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were uttered in n tone Of voice that
could have been heard fifty feet away
Mr. Wheeler added that Mr.. Funston
also made this statement I'm substance
when retaliation was suggested on the
part OF the saloonkeepeTs:
If any man is wanted for blowing Up
these saloons. let them take IL out o.
tho tointkeepers' hides
Mr.. Wheeler testified further that
after Mr.. Funston had made the state
ment he had turned to n bystander and
said that any man who would talk like
that on the street today ought TO be
locked nm
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Did Mr. Woods say he wouldn't say
that now?'
In reply to my declaration that I
had no pity for the saloonkeepers- /
was talking in a positive tone. not an
angry tone / was giving them some
straight facts and putting them out by
the yard
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suasion, TO devote the last twenty
years of his life and a large share
OF MS fortune to gathering what is
undoubtedly the most gruesome col
lection of Holy InQuisition relics to
be found in Great Britain-and per-
haps in the world.
They comprise some 500 leather-clad
figures, most of them as grotesquely
hideous and horrible as distorted
fmaginations and perverted artistic
talents could render them. They
range in size from efigies of Lillipu-
tan dimensions to those of heroic
size. Among them devils and hob
COLLINS predominant. They were used
TO inspire terror among the victims of
the lnquisition by helping them to
realize what their lot would be in
the next world if they did not Weld
to the persuasive powers of the
thumbscrew and the rack and other
instruments Of torture and abandon
their heresies.
Some of them were EMPLOYED in
church professions to stimulate the
faithful 10 make more generous con-
tributions and to inspire an ignorant
populace with a wholesome respect
Tor folk who claimed to have power
to save them from such hideous mon
sters
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of life which money can command
By chance one of the old odorifer-
Gus leather imps fell into his posses
sion and seemed to exercise a strange
fascination over him. He read the
story of Don Sebastian's raid on the
old Lisbon church. obtained various
musty documents relating TO il, and
conceived the idea that he would
make it his chief aim, in what re-
NAMED TO him Of life. to hunt up the
scattered collection and acquire pos
session of it,
He devoted infinite pains and pa
thence to his task, tracking leather
skinned demons and hobgoblins TO
their various lairs all over the coun-
try. never resting content when he
had spotted one until he had be-
come its owner. He believes that he
has now conered the whole of the
strange freight which the sacrilegious
Don Sebastian sold to English here
tics three hundred years ago.
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from a money chest, which he grasps
in his left hand. the coins are falling
out On the other side he devil is
shown in the act of casting female
sinner into the flames. In another
group the power of the church over
demons is allegorically portrayed. In
cited by prelate who holds an effigy
of the crucified Saviour, a dragon has
seized a devil and is flogging him
with a whip made of snakes.
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
London, Aug. &c.

HERE is no accounting
for tastes. 1t would be
idle to speculate on the
reasons which have led
William Smith, an old
The Washington times., 1905-09-10

" ORMER CONGRESSMAN E. II.
- FUNSTON. father of Gen. Fred
erick Funston, has just com
pleted a three days engagement
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
Don't Want n Dnm.

Nineteen farmers have united In an
Injunction suit against Jacob Brown to
prevent his rebuilding a dam across
the Smoky Hill river at Abilene. The
dam was carried out by the flood. It
furnished power for the towns electric
lights, but the farmers say 1t caused
the river to overflow.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
Old Landmark Raxed.

Andrew J. Collins, well-known
farmer living four miles north of Of
tawa, is razing a Franklin county
landmark. He is tearing down barn
built of native lumber which has stood
on the Collins farm for more than
half a century. The structure was
erected in the latter SOS. the Oldest
Inhabitants in the neigh borhood, who
settled there in 1860, saying that II
was weather-worn when they went
there.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
Holton In Darkness.

AS a result OF a quarrel over rates
between the electric light company at
Holton and the council. the company
has shut OF the city's lights and the
town is in darkness. The company
wanted to increase the rates and the
city demanded a reduction. A boom
for municipal ownership has been
started.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
Custer Hearing Postponed.

The case of custer brought last win
ter by the Oil Producers association
against the Atchison, Topeka & San
ia Fe Railway company has been con.
tinued in the district court at Sedan
until the. February term. Senator
Fitzpatrick for the plaintiffs asked a
continuance. producing letters from
the Santa Fe officials which indicated
that the case could be settled out OF
court by the granting of requests made
by the oil men.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
Four Per Cent. Desert.

A report of assertions and court
martials at Fort Riley just published,
shows during the last two months
there were 81 assertions from the
troops and batteries at the post and
that there were 81 trials by summary
court. During August 7S soldiers de-
serted. This number is more than 4
per cent of the garrison.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
HI. c. LOOMS Loses a Foot.

Col. H. G. LOOMS of Winfield, I'M
.derwent amputation of his right foot,
it being taken off a little above the
ankle joint. Amputation was made
necessary by slight sprain in the
joint of the great toe, some months
ago. From inflammation arising gan
,grenous condition set in which resisted
all efforts to reduce.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
Four Per Cent. Desert.

A report of assertions and court
martials at Fort Riley. just published,
shows during the last two months
there were 81 assertions from the
troops and batteries at the post and
that there were 81 trials by summa-
ry court. During August 70 soldiers
deserted. This number is more than
4 per cent. of the garrison.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
NEGRO school Case Hearing.

The state supreme court has issued
a writ of alternative mandamus
against the board Of education Of Kan
.sas City, Kas., returnable November
Z, requiring said board to show cause
why colored pupils are not allowed ia
attend school at the same hours and
in the same building as the white
pupils.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
Alfalfa for the UpIands.

The Hays City experiment station
has discovered species of alfalfa that
will grow in the uplands Of western
Kansas. 1t has fine stem, bushy
top, and grows as thick on the ground
as timothy. 1t doesn't require much
moisture. It will yield three crops a
year and the seed crop is said to be
larger than the regular alfalfa.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
OIL Production.

The pipeline runs for the first week
of October have averaged 1880 bar
rels a day. This is an increase OF
:9,57S barrels day over the September
average, and will surprise the pipe
line people. This is by far the largest
amount of oil ever run in the west
in the same number Of days, and Is
running within 10000 barrels of the
daily production of Pennsylvania oil.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
May Buy Eureka Lake Hotel.

A committee from the grand lodge
of the Odd Fellows OF Kansas has been
looking at the old Manhattan Beach
hotel with the object in view of buy
ing it for the Odd Fellows home. The
property Is now offered for sale for
one-fifth of its original cost and the
committee which visited the place
was we'll impressed with the Idea that
it can be converted into a home such
as they have in view.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19
How Changed.

She-It must be dreary in the noun
tains, now.
He-Yes; nothing to hug but stoves,
suppose.-YQnkers Statesman.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19

If all the world loves lover. why
does it take such fiendish delight in
catching him at it?-Puck.