Parsons Weekly Herald from Parsons, Kansas • 2

New TJeyv Advertisements, STATE NEWS, SPBIN AND SUMMER OF 1BT3. PAKSONS HERALD gin the ultinate price of that grain, lie offers a price at the close of harvest will allow him to store his puschases and the demands of consumption brings it up to the figure calculated, win-it he sells. The profit he makes must cover storage, interest on insurance and ordi- 13. K. CURRENT, SUCCESSOR TO CUKKEXT COOK.

AT The STew Terk Store JIayc just opened their mammoth STOCK or SPRING GOODS. varied assortment This Uuge and NEW AND FRESH riiOJI THE JUSTEIJN 3IAKK5Ta BARGAIXS IX An Elegant Stock of Drjr Goods. EXTRA JOor MUSLINS, riiJNTS, TVBLi: LINENS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, i.arci: and ASSORTMENT of CORRESPONDENCE. Ladore, Kansas, i June 30, 187 J. Friexd Hkrald: We have been waiting a long time to hear from those gentlemen who have abused many of our peaceable people.

It is time they were themselves. In the tirst place, it will be best to name a few of those who were so ready to swear out warrants and pay, or promise money to people to swear out warrants against innocent parties, during the Bender excitement, jn order to have their own names immortalized in the eyes of the public. Senator Vork has not acted as a gentleman should. He witli fifty or sixty men, raked and scraped this county, threw down fences, tore open farms, tore down clothes lines, took garden rakes and well grab-hooks, and everything ii; that line, and passed through "the country something similar to Price's Haiders. The people turned out and helped search for Dr.

York, tried to get State aid through the Governor, which Senator York endorsed, and said he had not thought of it, until informed at Ladore. Now, we want the world to see what Mr. York has done to those very people- that were assisting him to find his brother. They were the tirst arrested, some placed in jail, but no one appearing against them, were released, and yet Mr. York; never speaks, or rites, a word exonerating these men, or at any rate he has made nothing in their favor public.

The K. C. papers, May 10, said "the ltoach family, 7 miles from the Slaughter Pen, "was arrested. This is a lie. The lioaoh family lives 15 miles from there and was not arrested.

Although most of the murdered men could lie traced near Independence, yet it seems to be the aim and purpose of the Independence people and papers to throw suspicion on the people of Ladore and Osage township. Brow was last seen near Independence, MeCortney. a few miles south of that place, and McKinsey had a sister in that city. We also see that Longeor and little daughter passed througU there the same day they were killed. Dr.

York, the last one killed, that we know of, was last seen alive near Independence; but notwithstanding these facts, that city would point suspiciously to the poor, little town of Ladore and Osage township, and henever they could catch the ear of a Kansas city or Lawrence reporter, would belch forth the most bitter and degrading lies. "We, the people have got tired of these, outrages. York is guilty br not publicly exonerating us; Beers, we well believe, is a perjured liar; Newberry is beneath the notice of decent men; Attorney Ward will have our attention at the proper time; and others will not be slighted. We will not put you in jail, and then not appear against you. "We will appear, and bring our counsel; we will not leave for St.

Louis, nor for Texas. We won't use chains nor handcuffs; we won't rob your houses of private letters; nor offer 13,000 for people to swear against you. If we arrest you we ill not take you 100 miles from home, and turn, you out without one cent in your pockets, as the Buekston family were served, by some of you. You didn't honor him enough to give him a trial; but you can sneer and make fun of the prayers and petitions of Elder Xing and John Harness, while they were in your graybaek prison at Oswego. A small attorney's fee would have answered better.

We begin to think, up here, a small fee to the jailor would give more sudden relief, as that graybaek ilon never holds a guilty man long, and the innocent wont run. Now, all you slanderers, tell us if you please, what is the difference between the Benders, with all their hellish dwells hanging over them, and those parties who are publishing base and unwarranted falsehoods about a loboring and honest peojde. The Benders have killed and buried their victims; the others have scattered lies broadcast to the world, and left their victims, and their children, and great-grand children to hear these slanders from similar people. It is time for the people to talk a while. "We want you to look at the list of names of those arrested.

There is old man Tike, wife and daughter. Now, we know nothing about the Tike family that is bad. unless it is is a sin to work hard, or it may be possible that it was unpardonable for them to live in view of the Ben-, der house, in the estimation of some of those sancirled detectives, of Independence notrietey, that hung one Dutchman in the neighborhood, simply because he was a Dutchman. Those are the gents who are making and publishing the bitterest kind of lies in the public papers abroad to keep themselves from being brought to justice. "We know they are an outrage to community, and those papers at Lawrence and Kansas city that published such reports, from such men, ought to be discontinued in this part of the country, unless they take all back, except what they have said about the Bender Family.

We know- that those other parties are all innocent, and the prosecuting attorney knew it, and does know it, and why does he not come out and let the whole country know his opinion in this matter. Now comes John Harness, Parson King, Wm. Buck-stone, Mr. Mountain and wife. If all the people in that Independence outfit can tell what they arrested Mountain's wife for we would be well pleased to hear.

A poor girl, raised by strangers, not a connection in the world, that she knew of, came to this country long after Brown was killed, or probably about that time, but never saw him but she happened to be working near Independence, and had a soul in her large enough to marry a Mountain. This must have been the cause of her arrest. If Senator York had that kind of a soul in him when he, with sixty men at his heels at Bender's, and on an outside cellar door, they would have went through the cellar instead of being decoyed to Drum Creek by a Dutchjinurderer, under the week pretense that he would show them where he was shot at last winter. Oh! "York, how Kate told you her mother was excited over so many r.ien. York, tell the people about what you learned from that poor, sick woman who had the sidesaddle at the Bender's, and had to run in the night to save her life.

Was this not enough to raise your suspicions, so as to make a general search It appears not. You did not do it. At any rate we think you see your oversights, and now have, or try to get, revenge on innocent people to cover up your own ignorance. The-People. (To be continued.) At onlin, JIo, last Saturday, Chas.

"Wilson, a miner, shot and instantly killed Joe Savers, a saloon-keeper. Both parties were lately from Baxter Springs, an4 have XvUanieii, Fort just recovering from a fashiouable. Corn was seven foot high inlJutlej county, ihe middle of June, Independence Republican is a one Page paper. Independence is to have a three day's racing spree on the 3d, 4th, and 5th. M.

Ji. Hoover raped a 12 year old Martini French, at Ottamwa, and is hound not to run awsjy tur $300. r. .1 i cued at Augusta, to-morrow, and that prodigal politician, Sid Clarke, will orate. Miss Klla Terry, of Fort Scott, delivered the valedictory at St.

Ann's Academy at Osage Mission, last Wednesday. In order to get the machinery to put np hoop-skirts, Topeka did not have to raise the wind by voting honcls The cut worms and book peddlers are annoying the farmers just now, through the State. If the peddlers were in the same class as the worms, it would be a good thing. Concentrated lye is on the war path, dealing death to several juveniles in various parts of the State, the last week or two. Annanias is the first victim we have any record of, who died from the effects of concentrated lie.

Every politician in Coffey county has suddenly become a farmer, and some of them go so far as to put hay seed in their hair, and half-sole the seats of their pants with checkered jeans. It looks diversified to say nothing of the motives, and we congratulate them on their strategy. To make the following truthful, Walker, of the Mission Transcript, started for Parsons as soon as he wrote it: The beauties of a dog ordinance are rapidly being developed. Since the Council imposed a tax, every dog that lias not been killed, has suddenly left town for Far-sons and other humane settlements. Judge Wells called upon us to-day, says the Mission and said he was not removed, but that the change was temporarily made at his suggestion, and that when his case is tried, awl he its rindixitetf, he will be re-instated in his Marshal-ship.

Which by the way, introduces the rubhit story. Two early "birds," at Fort Scott, who are in the habit of getting up to grab their early "worm," say they saw a large serpent" encircling the sun, and the Monitor asks, "What fearful portent is indicated in this wonderful and ominous phenomena drink, is what we would urge upon those early birds. Coffey ville is miles, and Parsons 11; but we are glad the Coffey ville Courier says it is published nearer the scene of the late Uendcr horror than any other paper. Those wishing to subscribe for a good, live paper should make a note of this fact." This is better than offering a gold-headed watch, or a 7-octavo chromo to subscribers, besides it is cheaper. "We do not expect to see an Osage Mission paper for three weeks, as the publishers say that they "solemnly publish and declare that there will be no paper issued from our offices next week, or thereafter until our celebration is over and for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each otiier our lives, our and our sacred honor." It will take two eeks for Walker and Scott to get convalescent.

THE INDIAN TERRITORY. This superb country, unquestionably one of the most fertile on the globe, is a constant source of torment to the brave white men of the border, in whom the spirit of speculation is very strong, The hardy citizen of the South-west bears no ill-will to the various Indian tribes, but it irritates him to see such vast tracts of land lying idle. He aches to be admitted to the same privileges granted Indian citizens, the right to occupy and possess all the land they may fence in. and to claim all that remains unfenced ithin a quarter of a mile on either side of their fenced lots. He is crazed with the visions of the far-spreading, flower-bespangled prairies, the fertile foot-hills, the rich quarries, mines and valley-lands, lie burns to course at free will over the grazing regions were even the Indians laie such fine stock.

And now that the railroad has entered a protest against any farther excliir siveness on the part of the Indians, he thunders at the northern and southern entrances of the Territory, and will not remain tranquil. Front "The Great South by Ed card Kin 3. for July. The General Land Office reiterates, in a stronger shape, the ruling of the case of Haley vs. Bowers, to the effect that when land is held under a homestead location, and said location is forfeited from any cause, the locator may proceed at onee to take st to precmpt the umler saiJ pre-emption, land, and, pre-emption, noia it against other settlers, either before l.t-nnn frf.otiiT-r.

ni.l pre-emption. The Locusts are to be around this year to celebrate their 17th anniversary. This is a Lrul rear for Lowe- cusses, considering the jet set they have had, I GiSSOLUTION NQT1CE. Notice Is hereby giren that the flj-m of Kills, H-atherly Je is this day dissolved, by mutual consent, Ellis retiring. B.

D. FLLIS. VM. J. L.

McCAWLEV. DISSOLUTION NOTICE, The co-partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, under the Arm name, of Tompkins A Whitney, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The business will be connoted by C. S. Whitney, who assumes the liabilities and assets of the late firm.

J. B. TOM PK I N'S, O. S. WHITNKY.

Parsons. June 25th 1S73. M. J. RAGER, Surgeon Dentist Corner of Kiggs and Johnson Aves.

PAKSONS, KANSAS. B. H. DEI.L, SUCCESSOR' TO REEVES AXD DELL, WHOLESALE AND TIETAIL -DKALEIl IX- DliY GOODS, CJIiOCEIUES, BOOTS, shoes, HATS, CAPS, AND QUEEXSWA1IE, Shipping of PRODUCE Made a Specialty. Johnson Avenue, PAItSOXS, KANSAS.

CiO TO J. W. FOR YOUU DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, XOTIOXS, FLOUR, FEED, Xo. 7, East Johnson Avenue. PABSOXS, KANSAS.

7 1 4c 9 Fourth, of July At Hews' FRIDAY EVENING, July 4th, COMMITTE OF ARRANGEMENTS GEO. M. KLEISER, A. V. ALLEN, It.

S. SINGLETON. FLOOR MANAGERS: ANGELL MATTIIEWSON, A. W. GIFFORD, MESIC By String Band.

As; jisted by Prof, ilumacher. Arrangements are being msule for oa of tle gran-Jest iZUlrs ever bald La Parsons. BALL 1 JULY 1ST.3. If tlie resolves and resolutions of llu- different political parties and reflect in any rnctasuire, of the it is i tain tliat ii'j inore of the public ranted to, cr iiuaiu iuj.fii if granted jilun-'! the control oi and if as tho courts sav, it i-. it longer an ipen lutt thai 1 Hi I rent -making pw-r, the Pro- id Tt mid hae the li-rlit to i of the i.u'oii.c in Irea-! I with tho Indians, let the of United hold the treaty-nuikiny power responsible, and urge the President and Seriate when Ihey hhall be called upon to treat for the Indian Territory, to so frame the treaty that the Jyyds jjliull Up wis-)isd of only to actual settlers in tracts not to exceed 1C!) acres eai "i'nid xcejting and excluding any and all a ts granting lands to ail any r.ii!r ad company or other corpora-'tin." Let tliis fair land, willi its Italian ciime, the garden spot of the southwest, when it shall become the prop-city of the VtU' States be offered as a free heritage in frru tracts to all who will occupy and cultivate it.

Since it is ilw of the hoil who control th politics and shape the destiny of any nation, let American soil be owuhI by the toiling millions whose pri ate interest is the public-good. OEADHEADISM. The acknowledged organ of the railroads, the (Juzttte of Chicago lias at last spoken out in meeting, since the railroads have committed to the policy of not issuing free passes. It says it has no hesitation in saying that the pass system is a r.uisanco which ought to be abated without dehiy. Moreover, it claims that "the railroad companies have created the evil, and tl.cy must make the reform." There are authorities which should stej) in see that the railroads carry out in good faith the policy to which they have ostensibly pledged themselves, of discontinuing that form of bribery known as iio far as the passing of public officers is concerned, the laws of the State are the proper authority to deal with the evil.

So far the the press aid clergy is coT'ierned, the press and clergy owe it i their own dignity and their duty a i public teachers and exemplars, to help the railroads carry out their proposed reform, and indeed to compel such a reform by the moral at their command. It can hardly lie expected, however, that, the press, for example, will )' found speaking up unanimously 'or the abolition of the pass nuisance. There are too many habitual dead bouts in the business for such a i i ours to be expected. This being the caac, public opinion he. rallied and mustered by the rightful 1 -ad: i.s of society, among hom the truly independent newspapers are t.Jie most powcrlul, unflinching antagonism to the prar tic- of dead- i headism; in which case, depend up on it, the practice would not long survive.

Probably it docs not tie within the power of our legislatures to enact a law which should place the giving of passes absolutely out of the power of the railroads; but the practice might be surrounded ith such difficulties and inconveniences that it irmlln't j'tt, and hen that point should be reached, the whole battle, would be Mn; for railroads don't do things unit ss ey "pay." The is light when it says d' the railroad companies that they not always keep their agreements; thai th'ir vows to reform are not al kv.ys kept and that they "generally manifest much more alacrity in backsliding than in repentance;" but it is rong when it assumes that ti.e miblic must needs rely entirely upon the: broken reeds in carrying out the proposed reform. The law can, as it has already done in Illinois, declare "discrimination" by means of free jusscs illegal; and the law must be reinforced by public opin ion vnd a press vigilance which shall make it a live law, not dependent entirely upon the good ill of one of the parties who "feels the halter draw," and whose bad opinion of the law poetically proverbial. THE CRAMCERS-WHEAT. We don't know anything of the projected policy of the grange organization, as discussed ii) their tecret met tings for we have very little I lith in "orders" for public purposes. Hut, then, there are many men, and the great majority, in all such movements, who are honest in intention; and i fi'oits If we were a of the grange, thi re is one thirg, just now, that we would try to before them.

Tkcic is a bountiful crop of wheat about ready for the reaper in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska- and Ioyva. For want of thrift with many, and for want of co-operation with all, the; farmer is the k-tim of circumstance al ways in the of his crop. The grain dealer lnovvs to-day, at rre.t ccniies thetiade, try t.eui iy tiie aggregate of the trMle. very neatly the aggregate amount tf the wluiiit crop of the I'-tates. r.iid fn i-i this knowl-tdft ht u.

-it Lit: a tmul! laixt- a I i a FOURTH OF JULY CELEBEATI01T AT PARSONS, The big Jay will be Appropriately Celebrated ORATIOX, TOASTS AXD liESPOXSES, BASKET PIC-XIC, MUSIC, DAXCE AND FIRE-WORKS IX THE EYEXIXG. The procession wjU form under charge of Grand Marshal, Capt Jno. Singleton, and Assistant Marshal, Capt. IE A. Jxuls, at 10 o'clock a.

led by the Parsons Silver Cornet Band, And march to the Xticliino SIiops BUILDIXO of the M. K. the finest building in the State, capable of seating Fifteen Thousand People, where the exreises appropriate to the day, and the occasion will be held. The A. F.

Sp A. XL, an4 tha Knights of Pythias are expected to appear In full regalia. The people from the country and the neighboring cities-all patriots, of every tribe, nation kindred and tongue are cordially invited to be present and assist in an appropriate and befitting celebration of the Xation's birth-day with baskets brim full of provisions and patriotism. The following gentlemen will act as officers and Committees President of the Pay, Hon. E.

B. STEVENS, Mayor. Vice President, Maj. GEORGE A. HEYX'OLDS.

Marshal of the day. Captain JOHN SINGLETON. ARs't Marshal, Dr. A. L.

WILLIAMS. Caj.t. G. C. WEST, Orator, Judge JOHN R.

GOODWIN. Chaplain, Elder P. W. SIIICK, Reader, Professor DONOVAN. Com itte ok A iiatc km Rossol If.

A. Louis, Robert singleton. M. VV. Reynolds.

John Sipple, Com itte ox Ufx pitiox, Blue Eosoile. E. E. Htmintis, Geo. Wr.

Chess, Doubles, II. Gosling. i i. V. Hawk, 1.

Y. Thomas, V. Knapp, E. K. Current, Ed.

Foley. Committer ox DAxciNtj, Whlto lionet I. Q. Davis, Ren. Fessenden.

Jas. Wells jr, A. Vv. Gitiord, J. C.

McXcaius, J.J. Fierson. Commi ttee ox Mcsic, Theodore Dinsmore, Charles Hamacher. Committee ox I-'inance, Jos. Rinr.

Dr. W. jus. Allen, J. R.

Rrowo. VISUM I IX- WHITE AND YELLOW PINE AND POPLAR We also keep a full and complete Eto of DOORS, SASH, BLIXDS, SHINGLES, LATH Our Lumber is the best to be had in the Market, AND WE AVILL SELL AS CHEAP AS CAN BE BOUGHT ELSEWHERE. I Please call and mmiDe goods and prires lit Hire purcWing Inhere. Mcf lis feii Bsc Parsonsj Kansas, jTinrv lie A -r n---cdv, is to ionev ar.d the first red. -T((ts to tin- best of be f-fi and.

necessity at I he could OlH much lever price tha tain a or three months later. Now, if he could have the same advantage of information as the buyer, he or his grange, or a general board from the various granges, could lix the price, or tUrtt-ritdne a approximating the market iu the future, and thus inform the hole body on the subject. Or, farther, if by some system of co-operation or combination, ware houses or elevators could be eslab-1 lisht-d, where wheat could be stored by the farmers, anil a warehouse receipt or certificate be issued to hiin, on which he could draw at thirty, sixty or ninety days, a portion of its value, the heat being security at market rates on the day due, a vast, saving, in the aggregate, ami a de-cidcJ advantage in individual cases, would be attained. The security is the sain -j that the buyer gives for his advances, and is as good in first hands as in the last. This remedy will require time, and the beginnings must be small, but once started it would grow until the farmer would be master of the market, instead of the market being mas- ter of the farmer.

And this way- granges would subserve a better purpose than electing some noisy politician, who never farmed, to office. And we charge nothing for the idea. Kansas City Journal. HOW MUCH DID HE GET? AVe wonder how much the railroad companies paid Judge Valentine for rendering the following decision in regard to railroad assessments: "It is not only claimed that because other property is assessed by township assessors that railroads should also be assessed by township assessors, but it is also claimed that because a township assessor assesses property which is situated in his own township, that therefore railroad property should be assessed separately in eacli township through whk it runs; that long lines of raib roads, fur instance, extending through many counties, and from one end of the State to the other, should be so divided into pieces, or sections, that each township assessor may assess that portion of the road which runs through his own township, without regard to the value of the rest of the road, or without taking the rest of the road into id' ration. Probably the J.iY:SI.-i nri provide f.r ju.d an but it wotdd vt-ry absurd it.

us A railroad is an en- would be almost as easy fuvide a house or a hit Iraclioits and assess loci.r. each fraction- separately. A fraction of railroad, running through one township, would be worih but if anything, whiir- thut same portion, in coiineeiion with the balance of the road, might be invaluable. The Leg- jslature lias wisely provided that each road shall be assessed as a whole and then that the assessment shall be apportioned for taxation to each county, township, through which the road runs." The learned Judge failed to state the whole law, hich says railroads shall be assessed according to their net earnings." If this holds good, why not let farmers be assessed "according to their net earnings," and keep their own books to show, the same as railroad companies, "What is sauce for the (railroad; goose ought to be for the (farmer) gander. The fanners, this fall, will send up a legislature that ill knock the stuf-iing out of that goose, or we mistake their temper verv much.

The Missouri is very much higher this season than it lias been known to be for several years. The high water extends to Fort Scully, Dakota Territory. Advices from there to June 29, say the Avater is still rising steadily; the banks are washing and caving badly all along. Three miles below Council lilufis it as found necessary, in to save it, to move one mile of the track of the St. Joe llailroad half a mile eastward.

Mis. If ariet Peecher stowe, finding she cannot make it in to scandal Ilyron, has commenced on the playful alligator. Heather; "With suitable instruction, alligators may yet be seen in the Legislature. They certainly would not be more grasping and voracious than many in the situation and there is a tine openness about their manner of doing things that is prepossessing" It would be too sealey" for them to vote oflcA-pay. Intelligence has been received at Home, June 20, of an earthquake in the neighborhood of Verona, in the (lovernment of Venice, producing disastrous results.

Upwards of one hundred persons perished. IJuild-ings were shaken to the foundation and many fell, burying the occupants or killing those pacing in the streets, It is impossible estimate the loss, 1 I hOW tO Seiltl Fngiand i over the tons of gold to pay or? the Geneva. If we were at war, she might send it on a confederate cruiser, and capture it before it 4 1 nr. 1 gUU UKIB. 11113 OulU lie a of masterly diplomacy, for which she har een heretofore so noted.

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