The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-01
MACKEY HAS JOB
q. S. Marshal Must DispOssess.
Conley Sisters of Tower
Judge Orders Frame Building
Removed in 90 Days.
WOMEN WILL SHOOT
Miss COnIey Tells Court She
Will Resist With Force.
Witness Tells How She Led Man
Away by the Ear.
WOMEN WILL SHOOT

Kansas City, July 1.-The little
frame watch tower in Huron cemc-
terry in Kansas City, Kan, where the
ConIey sisters stay on guard to prevent
Dissertation of the cemetery and the
graves of their Indian relatives, must
be removed within twenty days, ac-
cording to an order of Judge Jchn =
Pollock in the Kansas federal court
United States marshal, to remove the
building, if it has not been removed at
the end of that time.
Judge PolIock's order was granted
upon application for a mandatory IN
junction to remove Miss LYDIA b. Con-
made by Judge McCabe Moore, assis-
taut Tinted States district attorney
Judge Moore introduced two deposl-
lions showing that Miss Conley was
holding her position in the cemetery
nv force. The deposition of Marshal
Maclrev relative to the time he served
a notice of a writ of ejectment was
read.
offered to Shoot the Marshal.
when I spoke to Miss Conley in
May. 1911, to tell her of the writ, she
closed and barred the door to her
home in the cemetery. and SAID that
if I did not leave Immediately she
would shoot me full of holes, +ne
denosition read. W. A. Simpson. one
of the commissioners appointed 20 OBJ
tain the consent of the Indians whose
ancestors are buried in the cemetery,
testified in his deposition that Miss
ConIey was of warlike tendencies IN
regard to guarding the graveyard.
"a man named Wilson was sitting
in the shade of one OF the trees IN the
cemetery, reading a newspaper. MISS
Con1ev saw him, and taking him by
the ear led him from the pldce' Ii0
deposition says
SsThose dispositions would have you
believe that I am a regular JACK
johnson or Jim Jeffries, Miss ConIey
told Judge Pollock. It am not, though
I am a Sunday school teacher. lawyer
and a teacher in a business college. So
Won see that could not keep my rep
1ltation and act in the manner descr1b-
ed in the dispositions.
Huron cemetery was given to the
Wyandotte Indians to be used as d
b1lrving ground by the government IN
a treaty. made January 81, 1855. Con-
gress passed an act authorizing the
secretary Of the interior to sell the
cemetery and give the proceeds TO the
descendants of the Wyandotte Indians
in 1906 The Conley sisters heid tnat
the act of congress was unconStltu-
tionaI and built q frame building IN
the cemetery in 1897 to protect It
from anyone who might try to remove
the bodies of persons buried tnere.
TresDass Signs were nailed on the
trees IN the Duryiiis = AOe'ilNt - -
persons to beware of the consequences
il found in the cemetery.
Told the Judge She'd Fight.
s.I will resist with force anyone who
comes to tear down my home" Miss
Conley told Judge Pollock. "All my
loved ones are buried in that cen1e-
terry and I am going to see that they
remain there. I did not bury my
father and my mother there so they
could rest for a few years, but plac-
ed them there for eternity. I will try
every avenue of the law until my
rights have been restored"
Miss Conley said that she would
apply for an order restraining Mar
shall Mackey from removing her home