The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-05-16
killing i'm kansas.

rive or SIX months ago. MT. DOW. q free
State citizen Of Kansas, was shot down in
the highway near Hickory Point, Kansas, by
Colman, Pro Slavery man-Dow being an
armed at the time and in no manner threat
enlng or molesting Colman. Neither the l..
5. authorities in Kansas, nor those pretend
ing TO hold Office under the Mlssourans' Leg
stature, have offered reward for the arrest
81 the murderer, or taken any step calculated
q bring him to justice. But they did arrest
Bronson, Free State man with whom Dow
boarded, on trumped-u charge Of having
threatened the life Of Colman, and were
taxing him to prison when he was rescued by
number of his fellow citizens.
Three or four weeks later, Barber, Free
State settler from Southwestern Ohio, was
riding from Lawrence to his cabin on the
prairie, three miles off, when he was shot
dead from his horse By Pro Slavery U. s.
Indian Agent. No attempt has been made
by the Federal or Territorial authorities TO
bring this assassin to Justice.
Still more recently, the Free State party
were holding an election at Easton, near
Learenworth when they were set upon by an
armed Pro-Slayery party. The Free State
men mustered in such strength that their ad-
yersaries recoiled from the conflict and left
the Free State men in undisputed possession
OF the ground. The latter soon after scat
tered towards their several homes, supposing
al danger of collision was over. But the
Pro- Slavery party had kept together and
were lying in wait for such portion Of the
Free State party as they could attack with
impunity. Mr.. Brown, leading Free State
settler from Ohio, fell into their snare. He
was surrounded, captured, chopped 10 pieces
W th knives and hatchets, and at length dry
en- home in his own wagon and laid down at
/ his door to die, which he did soon after. His
wife into whose presence he was thus thrust
| - now maniac. No reward has been Of
fered; no attempt to convict the perpetrators
Of this hendish murder has been made by
the Federal or Territorial authorities, up to
/ this hour.
| But at length a Pro-Slavery man, the bo-
| gus "Sherif'' Jones, has been shot, by some
unknown person, but who is probably Free
State man. He was in Lawrence seeking to
bring on collision between the Free State
men and the Federal Government, by arrest
ing persons in the name and bv the authority
Of the bogus Territorial Legislature. Every
man IN Lawrence was ready to submit to the
service OF any process emanating from the
United States authorities, and it would have
subserved every purpose but one to have mad
these Writs issued by the United States
Judges, but Jones evidently sought not to be
obeyed but to be resisted. Finding the people
indisposed to recognize his Shawnee Mission
authority, Jones sent to the nearest Fort for
I. ). troops, and, with them at his back, ar
rested whomsoever he pleased. Intense ex-
element and indignation pcrvaded the town,
and that evening Jones was shot as aforesaid,
| Thereupon the Free State party held great
/ al
ton, and resolved thaF the perpetrator should
be brought to justice. Governor Robinson
promptly issued a proclamation, Offering a
reward of $500 for the detection and an
prehension of the culprit And we have
/ high hopes that he viii thus be detected and
punished.
4 Such Is the contrastel course Of the two
adverse parties in Kansas, with respect to the
shedders of blood among them. We trust ii
will continue SO contrasted to the end-TN.
j \. Trib.