Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-05-12
WHAT'S DOING AT HOPE, Now
PAPER There Starts Them All To
Guessing.

There seems to be consid %able
trouble to the square inch in thA title
town of Hope. There is a foundation
there for a good Nick Carter or Dead
wood Dick story, in fact, there is
enough evidence down there to war
rant the county attorney holding an
other one Of his lively inqulsitlon.
Here is the story as told by the Dis
patch:
Hope was treated to an unusual
amount of excitement Tuesday, which
set the town all agog. 1t started early
in the morning and lasted all d.
Now the trouble originated e
of our business offices, over II
matters, and all declare it MIR e4se1
ly unexpected. For that reas~k we do
not care to say who was in 1t, nor
what it was about, as the stories told
by the participants do not agree.
No one was a witness to the first
scrap but the parties interested, and
their stories do not agree (which Is
natural), hence we will not attempt
to describe the scrap. However, there
was a fight in one Of our business Of
fices, but no one was marked up to
amount to anything. One Of the par
ties came out of the house after the
scrap, went to his own home, got a
gun and came out on the street with
1t, but DR.. Entz saw him, and, learn
ing there was trouble, persuaded him
to put up the gun.
Everything quieted down except the
talk, until afternoon, when one OF the
men from the business place stepped
into Jim's Cafe to get a cigar. He
did not notice who was in the place.
only Mrs. Shops was talking to a
woman. He stepped up to the case
and asked for a cigar, and Mrs. Shops
came forward to wait on HIM, when
Diff! he got a blow behind the ear
from the other woman, accompanied
by some remark about him being a
dirty little cur. He turned around and
was SO astonlshed to see 1t was wo-
man that had hit him that he laughed
and walked out, as any other gentle
man would have done, without saying
a word.
None of these parties have been in
trouble of this kind before since we
knew them, and 1t is regretted that
this happened, for such affairs do not
tend to elevate anyone, only in the
estimation Of sports who enjoy seeing
trouble.
There is one phase to this affair
however, that should not go I'M
noticed, and that is the fact that a
man brings a gun onto our streets
with the avowed purpose of shooting
someone. This has happened in Hope
three times recently, we are told, the
other two times the gun being in the
hands or pocket of man under TIE
influence of liquor or drugs. This
should not be allowed once, without
punishment, much less three times as
reported. No man should be allowed
to do such thing without being pun
ished, no matter wac he is or what
his condition.
It is not a question OF his danger,
or the danger Of his enemy, so much
as It Is the danger Of our peaceable
citizens, any one of whom might get
shot by a man crazy mad or crazy
drunk. Suppose this man had turned
loose on our streets as he threat
ened to do, have you any idea he
would have hit the man he thought
he was shooting at? Or, II a man I'M
der the influence of liquor o. drugs
shoots, will he hit his marks The Dis
patch thinks duty has been shlrked
when men are allowed to do such
things as we mention. and are not