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guerrillas were well out of hearing she un he cot a teacher's csrttfeate and taught a school at Coual Doyer. saved a little His Dana were tiotarmea im gu, uu pistols, for short range. 1 hey were nil un- many regular Confederate soldiers with Qunutrill on that raid. The survivors of Quantrill's band recently 1. G.

PTI1ILL guerrilla that ho extricated himself from thli trap with the loss of leas than 10 men, all told. His pursuers, too, numbered nearly 1,000 men, while he had only 800. The weary chaw over the prairie lasted till 8 o'clock and dark. Then Quantrill wai within four miles of Bull Creek ford. But ho did not come on to tho ford.

Just after dark he formed lino of battle, as before, and waited till his pursuers eaino near. Then suddenly his troop broke rank and turned about squarely to tho north. Scattering this way and that In tho darkness, knowing the country as they did, they easily broke trail and dodged tho whole Union force, both before and Imhind them. There was a skirmish at the ford, but no dunmge was done. At this point the Union soldiers gave up tho chase for the timo, and stopped for rest and food at Paola.

The trail had been lost in the darkness. Pursuit was not renewed till daybreak Aug. 23. Detached companies of Union soldiun from the various stations, besides those already mentioned, were hunting tho raiders in all directions. Lieut.

Col. Clark started upon tho rcfound trail at daybreak. A detachment of 130 men under Maj. Phillips and lO under Maj. Thatcher found the trail early, Aug, 23, and followed it immediately behind Coleman and Clark.

What of Quantrill After eluding the troops at Paola, he went five miles further, and then, within almost hearing distance of the Union pickets, he stopped to rest, forced to it by exhaustion. After briefly stopping ho pushed on to the bordor. At noon, Aug. 23, be reached the middle fork of Grand river in Missouri, a money, Kunsas wm at that time the sccno of the terrible conflict which was to determino hether she should be slave or free, and thither went William Clark Quantrill. The neighbors with whom he went man.

seed to enter a homestead ostensibly for him. He was not yet of age, aud could not enter it for himself. The story is not quite clsfr, but Quantrill never got the homestead, and one or the other of the neighbors obtain possesion of it This embittered young man. To revenee himself he took a yoke or. oxen belonging to one of them and hid the animals in the woods.

He waa arrested for stealing them. From that time dates the beginning of his irregular, outlawed life. the ensuinc lawsuit, without mends or influence, the boy got the worst of it and became embittered thereafter. He taught in Kansas even so late as 1800, and wrote letters home to his mother in Canal Dover, breathing the most affectionate and gentle spirit. I have seen some of his letters.

Tbeyare nther dreamy and poetlo in tone. In one of them he speaks of the snow covered land scape around his scboolhouso. Ho tells his mother how Kansas Is "locked iu winter cold eaibrace." Tho onlv picture obtainnblo of him is said be nn execrable one. There was one photograph of him in existence. Some one who thought it did not look terrible enougu oD-tained it and thickened the lower lip and lengthened the hnir and endeavored to make the ideal bandit.

In thus changing it he destroyed tho likeness. After his trouble about the homestead, Quantrill seems to have lost heart, and Irifted into wandering ways. He made a trip to Pike's Peak and other places, never remaiuing long in one spot. But the most remarkable fact iu bis strange life is his ASSOCIATION WITH JOHN BROWN. Of this there is no doubt.

Quantrill was still a free state man, and looked with horror on the attempt to plant slavery in Kansas. Month after month these two and a rew chosen others made midnight raids across the border into Missouri, stealing slaves away from their masters aud sending them into freedom. The raids were made likewise on Kansas neighbors who held slaves. It is said too that by and by the negroes brought away with them master's mules and horses, and that the value of the was divided among thoso who freed the slave, share and share alike. In Juno, 1S0O, Quantriirs mother, canal Dover, received tho last letter from her wan- derinz bov.

In it ho declares that he is wearv of life iu tho west, and that he is com ing home in September to "settle down." The next she heard of him was from the newspaper stories that turned their readers pale to the lips with horror at the deeds done by "Will Quantrill." At this time there comes a great DreaK in the life of the youth. Some terrible evejit must have happened that changed him through and through and made him hence forth the exact opposite of all he had been. That idea strikes one forcibly on hearing bis story. It is also the opinion of Mr. Scott, his old schoolmate, who has tried vainly to ascertain what it was that changed him.

In his raiding days, nt the bead of his guerrilla band, Quantrill used to narrate a story of how he happened to join tho south and form his band. He said that once in the woods hunting with his brother he left the brother alone in tho camp and went out to look for came. Hearing shots be returned quickly aud found that tho jayhawkers ba1 killed his brother, ana ne tnen vowed ven geance, etc Tne story is nusa a tuiupuuiuu ui yuan trill's was killed iu that way by Indians in some of his wanderings. Tiiat is the only foundation for tho pretty romance. Ho never had a brother with him during his raids.

His brothers were both in Canal Dover. DARK TREACHERY. His entrance into the guerrilla field was marked by an act of treachery that has never been excelled. He and three Confederates had planned to make a midnight raid on Morgan L. Walker, a rich farmer in Jackson county, Mo.

They meant to steal slaves and other property. Quantrill went ahead of the band to reeonnoiter. He entered Walker's house, was hospita-b 1 entertuined and ate supper. Whether this kindness turned quantrill's father, him from his purpose, or whether he had al ready made up his mind to betray his com- rades, does not appear. But here it was that the turn in Quantrill's career came.

Instead of returning to his concealed com rades and carrying out the raid as planned Quantrill revealed the whole plot to Walker and his son, and conducted them to the spot where his companions lay in ambush. Armed to the teeth Morgan Walker aud his son, Andrew crept upon the raiders. The a erring marksmen. They woum ran iuu gallop Into a crowd of men, discharge their revolver right aud loft, then wheel their horses and bo off ana awuy iiue me wina, leaving those in whose midst they bad ap- Each man or tnem carriou lour six re volvers, six-shooters, in his belt, and sometimes two more in his saddle. They could aim and Are at a gallop, thus sending twenty.

four to thirty-six shots home in me space or. breath, In its prime, Quantrilrs gang numbered not less than 300 men. They were nearly all young, and admirably mounted. The first growth of timber in Missouri along tho Kansas bor' had been cutaway. The second growth formed an impenetrable thicket, called the chaparral.

In the midst of this Quantrill aud his men concealed themselves. They bad paths quantrill's mother. tbemgelves knew. They know the country like wild Indians, every cross path and hill and stream in it. For three years Quantrill and his band defied tho whole power of the government in that aunrter.

United States soldiers were In pur suit of them constantly, but never found them. Now here, now there, they always eluded by hard riding and superior knowledge of the country the pursuing force. "KATE CLARK." In the first part of his career Quantrill was frequently accompanied by a female companion. She claimed to be married to him, and called herself Kate Clark. She was splendidly mounted, and was a daring rider.

Sensational stories, most of which are false, are told of her gorgeous attire, skillful shooting and various exploits. The amount of truth seems to bo this: Thero was such a girl, no more than 10 or 17 years old, who was Quantrill companion lor some time li the early years of tho war. She seems to have bcon the only woman of any ago, ex cept his mother, that the guernla ever had any liking for. After Quantrill's death Kate Clark went to Texas, whore she still is, "WE ALL DID IT." Quantrill and hfs men were a product of the times. So was John Brown.

And for the matter of it one side was nearly as bad as tho other. "You in the east have no idea of the war aswaeed on the Kansas and Missouri bor der," a free state man told me. "You never will have. America cannot afford to let the true story of it be written. For three years there tho war was fought under the black nr.

It's true: for we all did it. "Missouri Union men on the border were obliged to flee for their lives into Kansas. jvauauB. Confederate army or some of the numerous guerrilla bands." THE BORDKR. "The Union men did the same 011 their side, and no quarter was given or asked.

"This will show you what it was like: I was in Kansas attending to some, business there. To our office came one day an old man, who entrusted me with somo transactions involving many thousand dollars. "He told me not one word about himself, but by close questioning I found he was a Missourian who had fled to Kansas, He very wealthy, aud had had magnificent plantation which he was forced to leave. "By questioning further I found he had a son-in-law, a Union man, who was still in Missouri. 'Why does he not come away he can't get away; he's got something to 'Did he tryf he 'And what happened? 'Well, he and his son tried to bring some fine stock off with them.

His neighbors D1 they try to hinder mf Wled his son and took the stock away from hat he ttS nlS8r. Missouri. When Ins so wa? tkined hf to ftud know. He had something to do 'What)' rufflan8 'But howf 'He had to kiUthein, you 'All of 'Well, yes. Ho hid himsolf nnd 0Jnd watched whm he A 'Has he shot them yetr "'Not all of UVtr tninvt1 'I have not heard from him in six Th ff ninetee Do you mean to say that story is true I' I asked the Kansas man.

'It is as true as that I am here this THE RAID ON LAWRENCE. Among such scenes as those described the mild, soft spoken schoolmaster developed rUnsas, r. The Name Recalls a Bloody History. ItAID ON LAWRENCE, KANSAS. Old Hundred and Forty Citizen? Slain, Aujr.

21, 16G3. tie niitorjr ef 8unrle Massacre, Twenty Ave Tear Ago Jesse and Frank James ad Cole Younger rortraiU of Qtian trill's Tather and Mother The Dreaded Guerrilla Chief Mild Mannered School master Originally an Anti-Slavery Man ami Chosen Comrade of Old John Brown His Death at Louisville. Twenty-five years ago this 21st of August eeurred theplunering ana massacre at iw-rence, by the guerrilla band of William Clark Quantrill. The name is commonly spelled "Quan- trail" bv the historians. That is wrong.

I have seen it written in the guerrilla chief- teln'i own hand. C. QuantrilL" He wrote a very fair hand, too, plain, even, without shading, and delicate as a woman's. Tie ought to have written well, for the famous border leader was a school teacher by profession, lis was his father before him, Thomas II. Quantrill, principal of the public schools of Canal Dover, O.

Moreover, the elder Quantrill was a zealous Republican in politics, and brought up his son in the same faith. CANAL DOVER. Qusntrill was born in Canal Dover in 1837. The house in which he was born is still standing, pea HOUSE WHKRK QUANTRILL WAS BORIf. Old neighbors are still in Canal Dover who remember him from bis infancy to the day he left for Kansas in 1857, when he was 20 years old.

His old schoolmates are there-men who became Union soldiers, and fought for the cause to which the other Canal Dover boT opposed himself. Among theso old schoolmates still In Canal Dover is Mr. IV. W. Scott, editor of The Iron Valley Reporter.

In their boyhood Mr. Beott was much nttached toQunntrill. For the past twenty years ho has been collecting all the historical evidence in regard to the guerrilla that was obtainable from any source. Ho expects to write the truo life of his old school mate. To the rare courtesy of Mr.

Bcott our readers are indebted for much of the information in this page. Canal Dover is as beautiful a country tow: as earth affords. For agriculture the soil thereabouts is rich with inexhaustible fertil ity. I never saw so many fat people and handsome horses at one place as there are at Canal Dover. Through the town flows the picturesque little Tuscarawas river.

By its side, mile for mile along with it, is the Ohio canal, on whose towpath tradition says that Garfield drove mules in his boyhood, up anddow this very bank the blonde haired boy thread ed his way, dreaming of future greatness. WILLIAM CLARK QUANTRILL. He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. The contradictory stories about Quantrill were started by himself. In Missouri and Kansas the few who still remember him tell the reminiscence hunter that they are ready to eat their own heads off if he was not born at Hagerstown, They know it, they say, because Quan trill himself said it.

It is true, said it. After he had embraced the cause of the south so zealously, and become leader of a guerrilla band for the Confederacy, Quantrill passed himself off as a QUANTRILL. toutherner, a native of Maryland. It will be readily seen why. His father and mother were really from Hagerstown and came 6a newly wedded bride and groom from that place to Canal Dover.

Thomas H. Quantrill opened a humblo tin shop in Canal Dover. He was an energetic man, and ambitious. In course of time ho became a teacher. Then at length he was put at the head of the public schools in Canal Dover.

It is a responsible and honorable place in towns of that size. Mrs. Quantrill's maiden name was Clark, and the last day of July, 1837, her oldest on, William Clark, was born. As soon as he was old enough he was put to school. From his own father, a mild, gentlemanly, highly respected citizen, he received most of his education.

They call him "Will Quantrill" to this day at Canal Dover. Ho was a diffident, reserved youth. He would fight if drawn into a brawl and obliged to defend himself, but it was not bis choice. As he grew to manhood he becamo remarkable as a marksman. "Watch me make that pig squeal," he said once to Mr.

Scott He drew up his gun, and put a clean round hole through the ear of a many yards away. The shot was a per fect one, and Quantrill laughed as though greatly amused. But that was the only time he ever was known to be guilty of anything approaching cruelty. He was always fond of the woods and of hunting. He used to rather enjoy carrying live snakes in his pockets.

In lonely, rocky spots, out of sight of the busy, throbbing world beyond, sometimes he re- Marked to his companions: "Boys, wouldn't w. c. did the In to it rolled tho carpet. It was precious Indeed, tor it hnd concealed her husband. Ho, with two or three others who had managed to hide themsfllvos in time and those Quantrill placed iu Stouo's hotel, were all tho nwn who survived that murder.

Thero wero not enough of them left to bury the dead who lay all about them. It was the most pitiful sight ever seen ou this continent outside of an Indian massacre, fi'inrm ir. rnoonin nn A gentleman whof. is now a leading merchant in Law rence hid in the upstairs of his house JESSE JAMES. Ho escaped tho search inado by the guerrillas.

His wife begged them not to fire the house. They were deaf to her entreaties, and kindled the flames. They left temporarily. Tho lady extinguished the fire. A raider returned and relighted it, and again went away.

The woman put the fire out. The third time the man Larkln Skaggs came and sot the house on fire, aud yet the third time the noble wife extinguished it. By that time Lai'kin Skaggs began to feel the effects of the Lawrence free whisky he had been imbibing, aud was too intoxicated to try to burn the house any more. A little later he himself was killed and the house was spared. Thus this wife, too, saved her hus band life.

Larkiu Skaggs was the only one of the 300 guerrillas who lost his life in Law rence, and that happened from his intoxication. One man escaped in the strangest of ways, by a stumble. He tried to run across Jthe road and reach a clump of bushes. In this attempt he struck his foot and fell prone upon bis face in tho gutter, A mounted guerrilla was after him, full tilt, pistol raised. The doomed man felt something beneath him as ho lay.

It was a loaded carbine, cocked ready for uso. In that desperate moment he seized it mid aimed it at his pursuer. The guerrilla, seeing tho weapon, came no nearer, but wheeled instantly and galloped off. Men took refuge in wells, cisterns, cellars and anywhere else nnder ground, that in their wild panic was suggested to them. Above ground there was no safety.

After the raiders had done their work and passed on, a few haggard men crept out of their hiding places. Iu a well, some time after, four corpses wero found, the bodies of four prominent citizens of Lawrence. In their despair and terror they FRANK JAMES. had climbed down into the well to escape the guerrillas, and had been suffocated. Tho stories of atrocities committed on wo men and children by tha band nro not true, according to the best information.

Quau-trill finished his bloody work quickly aud rode away. i He started southward, only pausing iu his way to burn the farm houses along the route, It has heeu in id in extemmtion of Quau- trill's raid on Lawrence that it was in retalia tion for what Col. Jennison, tho jayhawker, had done in western Missouri. The Kansas free state men were called "jayhawkers." The Mlssourians who sought to implant slavery iu Kansas by blood and violence wero named "border ruffians," and it was between theso two parties that the war uf extermination was waged. PURSUIT.

Maj. Plumb's party reached Lawrence only in time to see Quantrill's rear guard disappearing southward. Tho guerrillas were returning to Missouri, to their impenetrable fastnesses in the chaparral. Quantrill had provided himself with fresh horses at Lawrence. Those of Plumb's men wero exhausted by tho hard riding since midnight.

There wus little hope of overtaking the band. Maj. Plumb pushed on, nevertheless. During tho forenoon he overtook tha forces of Capts. Coleman and Pike, who had started in pursuit of Quantrill from tho station along the border.

Capt. Coleman, from Littlo Santa Fo station, received the word, end without a moment's delay gathered his slender forces and went to Aubrey. The two captains there, with 300 men altogether, set in for the chase of Quantrill at midnight Aug. 31. Gen.

"Jim" Lane, then United States senator from Kansas, hastily gathered 100 citizen volunteers and joined the pursuit. But Quantrill showed the qualifications of a general on his retreat. The rear of js command was his best-guarded pointy lie kept here 100 of his most thoroughly trained and reliable men. They were mounted upon the freshest, strongest horses. When the Union forces came near this 100 men would halt and form in line of battle, as if about to engage iu fight.

The Union troops would then hasten forward and form. Thon Quantrill's rear guard would discharge a volley into their forces, wheel, and ride swiftly away. So they managed to detain and worry the pursuers, while the baud itself was drawing nearer and nearer to the border. These tactics of Quantrill gave opportunity to the tired out members of his party to take turns in rusting. Their physical endurance had been taxed to man's utmost.

They had ridden uot less than seventy miles the night before to perform their bloody work, After its close thero was no pause or rest, but they must ride with all their might to escape to the Missouri border. EAJ. FLC1M, Besides the forces already mentioned, Lieut CoL Clark, ot the Ninth Kunsas, was after Quantrill with another troop of several companies, hastily gathered. lie was in command ot the Union border stations south ot the Little Santa Fe. He received news from Capt Coleman of the raid at o'clock iu the morning of Aug.

31. Gathering what men he could, he found Quantrill's trail and followed it for a time. Then he suddenly left it and turned southwards to Paola, Kan. He hoped to intercept Quantrill at Bull Creek ford, near Paola, on his return to Missouri, and force him to give battle. CoL Clark reached the ford ahead of Quantrill.

Thus the guerrilla had behind him, closo at his heels, over TOO pursuers under Plumb, Pike, Coleman and Senator Lano, while ahead ot him, waiting for Sim at Bull Creek ford, was Lieut CoL Clark, with over a hundred more soldiers and cltiseus. It scorned impossible for him to escape. Yet such was the consummate skill ot the held a reunion nt Blue Springs, Mo. The mother of the guerrilla chief journeyed from C'aual Dover to meet them, She hoped to hear from their lips that her black as he is painted. Many of the old band are respectable, well to do citizens now.

Some, however, continued a career CJKN. THOMAS EWINU. of murdor and robbery after the war closed, and met either a violent death, or lauded iu one or another of various state prisons. The respectable survivors of the band are unanimous on one point they wero neither robbers nor murderers in the beginning, not, ludeed, till Gen, Halleck issued from Washington an order proclaiming Quantrill and his men outlaws in March, They raise their hands toward heaven and swear by all that is sacred that this is truo. After Halleck'8 proclamation Quantrill obtained a copy of it aud read it to his men.

"Now, boys, you hear," he said. "Thoso of you who wish can quit and go home. Those who stay will know what to expect." Some of tho band did thereupon leave, it is said. Quantrill further took a copy of the proclamation and wrote upon it these words: "For every man of inino you kill I will kill ten of yours." Theu ho sent the paper to Gen. Thomas Ewing, commander of the military district of Kansas.

From that time it was a war of extermination. Quantrill, however, did occasionally spare a life, and sometimes restored property wheu women begged for it. Though not especially chivalrous, he did not harm women. Indeed, he was far more merciful than many of the fierce borderers that gathered around him, and this was sometimes the cause of quarrels. Gen.

Ewing was ill provided with troops to meet the roaming guerrilla companies. He did the best he could, scattering squads of soldiers among localities where they could keep watch. Especially they wero ordered to have an eye on Quantrill's baud. Detachments were stationed along tho Missouri border, between that and Kansas for over fifty miles south of Kansas City. The provost marshal of Kansas City, was at that time a modest military man, by name Preston B.

Plumb, by titlo major. He is now the distinguished United States senator from Kansas. The Kaw river empties into tho Missouri from the west, just nt Kansas City. Fifty miles west of Kansas City, on the south sido of the Kaw, is the town of Lawrence. It now contains about 10,000 inhabitants.

Then there were only a few people in the town. The able bodied men were nearly all away in the Union army. On the night of Aug. 20, 1800, Maj. Plumb came in late to his headquartors.

Gen. Ewing was at Leavenworth, twenty-five V-0 ri -pi, I. tired at once. It was 11 o'clock. In a sec- ond story room of the headquarters a single light yet burned.

It shone through a win dow facing the street. An attendant of the office sat by the light, reading a newspaper. Suddenly there was a clatter of horses' hoofs up the street. They paused under the window where the solitary light burned. A voice below shouted faintly: "Halloo! Is this tho provost marshal's office?" said tho voice.

"It is. What's wanted?" "I am the bearer of dispatches from Capt. Pike. He sent me to say that Quantrill crossed into Kansas with 300 men this even ing at 6 o'clock, forty miles below here, nnd tuey were heading northwest, it was a verbal message." Then the solitary horseman went away again. He had ridden sixty miles since 0 o'clock.

The frightful import of this information dawned on the newspaper reader to the full. Quantrill in Kansas with 300 men, and riding northwest. It meant massacre, fire and plunder to some defenseless town. In five minutes lights were flashing to and fro in all the windows of tho provost mar shal's office. Soldiers were arming, nnd Maj, Plumb, ill and exhausted as he was, was up and preparing to lead thorn.

Horses were saddled swiftly in the darkness. Between 12 and 1 o'clock Maj. Plumb nnd fifty mounted men wero riding out into tho darkness, they knew not just where. Fifty soldiers were all there were at headquarters at that time. He gathered up other soldiers on the way, at Westport.

Gen. Ewing says he had as many as 500 men wheu be was at length fairly on the way. They rode all night as fast as their horses could carry them. Twenty-fivo miles from Kansas City they had word that Quantrill had passed through Gardner at midnight and was riding toward Lawrence. They then had their bearings.

Lawrence was the doomed town. They spurred on fast and hard, In the morning, soon after daylight, they reached Lawrence, a mass of smoking ruins, Quantrill had done his work already. He had done it so thoroughly that only one or two houses escaped. Quantrill himself spared one house, Stouo's hotel. It is still to be seen in the rebuilt city.

Its proprietor had done Quantrill somo favor in former times, and his house was saved from the universal ruin, Quantrill put into this building some twenty persons and saved their lives. One hundred and forty peoplo had been massacred in cold blood, aud twenty-four others wounded. Women and littlo children had been spared. A hundred and eighty five houses had been burned, and the raiders carried off all the plunder they could load upon their horses and themselves money aud other valuables. In front of one house the mistress came out aud stood before the guerrillas.

She was a plucky, determined woman. She begged with all the eloquence she was master of that her house be spared. It was in vain. The rough raiders bade her go out of the way, for her house would bo in Dames in five minutes. STONE'S HOTEL, LAWRENCE, KAN.

"Then let me take my carpet out of it first," beceed the lady. "You may do that," said the raldors, "but be quick about it." She weut into the house, rolled her carpet up and tutrsed it out to a place of safety. She watched beside that precious carpet till tho raiders were out of sight Her home, meanwhile, melted into ashes before her eyes. But She had her carpet still When the VP kAtl -i r- Vi timueroa ion-where he was comparatively safe. There ho scattered his band, and they took to the brush.

Lieut. CoL La-zear was a head of another flying party of Quantrill's pursuers. He had 200 men. AUg. 2 Col.

Lazear really 1 did encounter a portion of tho baud, and had scv a 1 sultory COLE YOVSGER. fights with them, A number of straggling guerrillas were killed, and some of the horses they had taken were recaptured. THE CONFEDERATE CAPTAIN, At one point In the flight, halt a dozen of Quantrill's men, worn out, had lain down in a cornfield to rest. They were discovered. With them was a regular Confederate captain in uniform, a man of fine presence and manners.

He knew tho stern rule of warfare in that region death on sight. Ho said to the officer of the capturing party: "I suppose nothing I can say for myself wilt do any good. The truth is, though, I came along with this band in the interests of humanity. I am a regular Confederate soldier on furlough. I feared for the atrocities these guerrillas might commit.

I Joined them in the hope I might prevent these somewhat. But I suppose that won't help me any now." "No," replied tho Union soldier; "I can't do anything for you." "I didn't think you could," said the Confederate captain; "but I have this last request to make. Hero is tuy wateh and my card. Promise me thsfc if you ovo ymwiii send these to my wife." "I promise," answered the Union captain. A ow minutes later tho Federal soldiers passed on, leaving six dead men in the corn field.

GEN. EWING'S FAMOUS ORDER. The Quantrill raid took place Aug. 21, 18G3. On the 25th of August Gen.

Thomas Ewing issued nn order depopulating all that part of Missouri that bordered on Kansas, Those who proved their loyalty were allowed to go into Kansas or to any of the military stations, the others were to go any place, no matter where, so thoy only moved out of the district. To force the execution of this order Gen. Ewing sent out military detachments to destroy property. Grain and hay in the fields and in barns were set fire to, and all that would provide food for man or beast was destroyed. When near enough to the military stations the live stock, grain and hay were removed thither; when not, they were destroyed.

So thoroughly was the order carried out that in the autumn of 1S03 one could ride down through the Missouri border counties fifty miles without meeting a living creature, even a house cat. Blacksmith tools lay rust-iug in the shop, the child's cradle stood empty besido the house door, where the mothor had left it in her flight. QUANTRILL'S DEATH. At the beginning of 1S03 Quantrill said to his men: "Boys, the war is ended; the south has lost. Do the best you can." He sent the married men to their homes, took most of the siuglo ones with him, and organized a smaller baud.

With these he continued for some time longer his life of roving aud depredation. With him were Jesse and Frank James, tho train robbers, and Cole Younger. These received their education under Quantrill. Cole Younger is now in the Minnesota penitentiary. Franij James is in mercantile business at Dallas, and is said to be lionized by tho people there.

At the beginning of 1SG3 Quantrill and his reduced band started north and cast They worked their way across tho Mississippi river above Memph is, entered Tennessee and finally reached Kentucky. It is believed that Quantrill was trying to reach Lee at Richmond and surrender with him. In Kentucky ho called himself Capt. Clark, and his men wore the Federal uniform. But their identity was discovered.

May 10, 1SG5, CoL Terrell, at the head of some Union men, surprised tho party at Wakefield's barn, in Spencer county, Ky. In trying to escape two of the band wero killed and Quantrill was mortally wounded. He died iu the United States Military hospital at Louisville, June 6, 1803. Ho is buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery of St John's church, Louisville. Eliza Archard.

Note by W. W. Soott, of Canal Dover, O. You may rely upon the pictures as accurnlo. Quantrill saved Stone's hotnl for this reason: lie-fore the war thero was much ill feeling between the factions, and Quantrill was Indicted by tho grand jury at Lawrence.

Mr. Btone gave hint warning, aud he escaped to Missouri beforu Sheriff Walker could find him. For this reason Quantrill put a guard over Stone's hotel, and conducted thither somo twenty or thu-ty strangers who happened to be to Lawrence; but Mr. Stono was killed by a member of tho band. His daughter had a fine ring wliiuh alio refused to-Rtve up, and a guorrilla wrenched It from her finger.

Her father knocked tho fellow down, and wait immediately shot dead. Quastrill only learned this during the retreat This was told mo in May, by Quantrill's meu, at Glue Springs, Mo. I was, as you relate, a schoolmate of Quau-trUl, and found and identified his grave. 1 will noou publish a mtnuta history ot his Ufa and death, with piwU which put the fots beyond' W. I Walkers opened fire.

One of the raiders was 7 killed. The other two escaped for the time, borses he counted them and recog-one being desperately wounded. Thelie ere The unhurt one would not desert his com-' tme the old man dropped into rode, but managed to drag him over fences silence, and each time the Kaiisas man was and fields through the darkness to a place of obliged to draw him out with Questions, temporary concealment. They were tracked had to PumP a m-' ftdIth" by the trail of blood that followed them for Kansas man- him hls a part of the way. Then tho trail was lost, came on through to Kansas after his neigh-Next day a party scoured that region hunt- boi-s f.

tiVhhW Thr lavnnW lmw. "'Well, no, he con dn't come then, you ever, and undiscovered, till hunger, a fiercer pursuer than man, found them out. The umvouuded man saw a negro in the fields ueur uj uuu tub.uu ivi iuuu uuu wawi, iir stead of bringing them the black man guided the pursuers to the spot, "Did they kill memr "in. two men were our.ea tuere," said ho narrator of the tale, in aquie voice. Afterwards Quantrill organized his band nnt Mnrornn WftllfRr'a unn Ininprl him December, 1SG0, Quantrill was at the head of a powerful guerrilla band, on the side of the "it 1 i.

WHM 1.. 1. tt was already a terror to free state Kansas. He had been chased out of the town of Law- rence by th. sheriff.

He dodged the officer fSSJ through its back and escaped. They goy he was in the regular Confederate nrmy a few months. But what made him turn suddenly from the side of the Union to that of the Confederacy! That is a question no man can answer, or even surmise a solution to. Some have believed he had a bitter quar- this be a grand place to build a cave and rel with old John Brown, which drove him into Quantrill, the guerrilla. Once he took hide a robber band in But when the boy to the southern side.

But nobody knows. from a train sixty unarmed men, stood them was actually at the head of a band of out- His most intimate friends never knew what along the track and shot them dead, laws and murderers, none were so horror ha was going to do next. He never told his Why Lawrence was chosen for the visita-tricken thereat as his old neighbors in Canal plans. His men would reccivo orders to tion is not known. On that point Quantrill Dover.

I have their horses coddled at such an hour, maintained his usual reserve It is con- He was a little below medium height, with, That was all. "When we went on tho Law- jecturcd, however, that he had a grudge blue eyes and a slender frame, but lithe and rence raid we did not know where we were against Lawrence because he had been ar-actlvo as a cat He was uncommonly pre-' doing," the survivors of his band solemnly rested there, and because the sheriff had jdocIous intellectually. At 10 years ot age declare to thla day. chased him out of the town. There were.