The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-12-30
NO LAWYERS OR
CRIME IN TOWN
For Years There Has Been No
Cause to Have the Law on
a Soul in Eudora, Kan.
COLONIzED BY CHICAGOAAs
Only Once Has Crime Raised Its Hydra
Head and That Was When a
Bandit Robbed Bank Twice
In One Month.

Eudora, Kan.-In the line of mode
law abiding localities. Sir Thoma:
More wrote a piece about a place M
called Utopia. Although Sir Thomas
failed to say so in so many words, ne
may be quoted as asserting In efrec'
that Good morning, Judge" was a re
mark M never would hear In Utopia
Utopia, however, exists only In I'M
agination. Eudora. now--it's In Kan
sas.
For the last two years at least there
has been no call to have the law OIL a
soul in Eudora. II was at that time
that the last Of Eudora's police judges
passed out of office and the office
passed out with him. Since even long
er ago what once was the lookup has
been simply the basement OF the city
hall. no more, no less. And that strong
arm of the law, the city marshal. to-
day would be a mere ~figurehead did he
not unite in his person the additional
functions of street commissioner and
grave digger.
Back in 1857 Eudora was colonized
by people from Chicago. the Kansas
City Star says. But before long, like
the colonies of ancient Greco. she cast
of the yoke OF the mother city and
now they have not even a police court
I'm The town took It's name
from the lithesome daughter of an In
dian chieftain of the friendly Shawnee
tribe. There may have been some
thought that the honor should go to
the chief himself. but his name was
Paschal Fish, and Eudorans, ever con-
siderate of the future. hesitated TO
fasten on posterity such a p. o. ad-
dress as Fish, Kan.
The stormy days of the Civil war
inflicted no more on Eudora than an
attack of nervous prostration when
Quantrell passed within three miles on
his way to Lawrence. But true peace
did not begin to settle on Eudora until
Kansas went dry"
D~iscouraoing for Lawyers.
About twenty years ago there were
two lawyers in town, and when they
died they left no successors. 1t had
become evident that Eudora was no
6eld for legal talent. One old inhabi-
tant thus states the present legal sit
uatiOn:
There be STILL" he drawls, some
liars left around these parts, but no
lawyers"
In the folklore which already is be-
ginning to surround the regime Of the
last police Judge is this anecdote:
A culprit was hailed into court on
some trivial offense. Guilty or not
guilty." asked the judge-then before
the prisoner could answer-"You must
be guilty. If you were not guilty they
wouldn't be bringing you In here"
Only once has crime reared its ny
dra head and looked really nasty In
Eudora. That was when a 19-year-old
bandit robbed the Eudora State bank
twice in a month, shot a policeman and
put a bullet In the jaw Of Fred Starr,
cashier and present mayor. They still
live on that excitement of 1909. back
in Eudora, and they declare it'll last
'em.
Since then there hasn't been a thing
unless you count the time a negro
whipped out a knife and slashed a
new suit Of store clothes which John
Paxton had just put on.
Yet It's Lively Withai.
Don't believe for a moment that all
that rectitude mean Eudora isn't mod.
ern. It's a thriving little city of CSC
inhabitants and they rate a per capita
wealth Of 1854. according to bank de
posits.
EudOra Is not a candle light village
There's electric lighting. t~wenty-fouI
hours of 1t to the day. And you should
see Main street Of a Saturday night
when the movies are open. Motor cars
(almost every Eudoran has one o.
two) are lined up several deep alons
the curb.
But the most recent innovation Is ths
paving just voted in by the council
three miles of the city's streets are Il
be treated to an asphalt surface ant
no more win the dust whirl in Owe
Ed Pilla's dry goods stock or cal
springs be je~opardized. But most o.
all. has the paving come as a boon t.
Herb Landon, street commissioner
Herb, II has been mentioned, also Il
city marshal and grave digger. Bafflet
as he was In those two branches OF hi
career Herb has turned the forces O
his pent up energy and enthusiasm int
the street making job.
Such is the town of Eudora. which
long & passed out Of the class whicl
is designated as zone horse"
Shoe Prices Went In