Squatter sovereign. [volume] (Atchison, Kan. Terr.) 1855-1858, 1856-01-29
Pre- -Emptions in Kansas.

ne pre- eInIliOn laW1WdS passed lof the
benefit OF those who, in good faith, would
settle upon and improve the public lands
before they were brought into market, and
we would be glad to see all who are hon
estly entitled to the benefits of the law
avail themselves of it, and by that means
our Territory would be rapidly improved,
and in short line we should not be de-
pendent upon our neighbors in Missouri
for our Tread and meat. But In riding
over the Territory, and perhaps as much
in our own county, and around the town Of
Atkinson as elsewhere. twill be found that
| almost every quarter section considered
valuable, has claimant but not a settler
in good faith as was intended by the law.
| This is neither fair, just, or right, and if
longer countenanced must work very inju-
| riously, and prevent the country from set,
ling. Persons are daily coming into our
county now looking for claims to make
| farms upon, and they say that they cannot
find good claims near our town, that all
are claimed by some one, but that all the
Improvements made upon most of them
are either role Foundation. or a pen about
from three to six feet high. apparently
made six or twelve months since. The
idea Of such claims being recognized as
valid is nonsense, and gross fraud upon
tie Government. and those who are will
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Persons need not expect to live IN towns
and hold prescriptions in the country !;
neither can people live in Missouri, or
elsewhere, and hold prescriptions in this
Territory a 81 itso 20
We call attention to these matters just
now, because we know that in q short time
There will be large emigration here OF
persons who intend to make their homes
among us, and those persons who have
marked claims, or made foundations, or
fpig pens upon them-never intending to
settle upon then-bat with the view oil
keeping others off them until they become
valuable and then selling them at high
prices to those whoare willing to settle in
lthe country, viii find that no such oarages
will be tolerated. Men who will not hive
on claims. are not honestly entitled to them
! and ought not to be permitted to speculate
/, upon them, and make honest settlers pay
for nothing. If such system is tolerated
our country will not be settled for years t.
come; and we shall hereafter advise those
, who come among rs to settle, 10 go out IN
TO the country, and whenever they find Z
good quarter, without bona fide settle
upon it, to pitch in and go to work.
II
Gen. Brown. of the Her
aid Of Freedom. says that . # ever Gen
A,chison is found in this Territory witt
: arms in his hands, they the abelitionists,
will have him shot We will inform III,
valiant editor, that Gen. A intends moving
10 this county in few weeks, and when
: ever the traitors of Douglas county, or an.
other portion Of the Territory, refuse ODE
dience to the laws of the Kansas I.egisla
ture, enacted at Shawnee Manual Labo
} School last summer, and posse IS cal!et
ent to aid the sheriff. Gen. Atchison vii
De found on the ground with arms il
: hand and if you want his scalp you cal
J hare an opportunity of taking ii, proyidet
your courage docs not evaporate as it dit
be- fore when the militia was called out.
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i ga The Scientific American is of tn,
E opinioa thai railroad ira ms will yet be run
: ming al he ru.e af o0e hundred mites Pc