White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-11-19
Danpsrr Thieken Around Ua!

We are informed that . certain Lob
ster, or some name of similar sound and
beauty, whose hole is down on the Island,
talks of raising company to sink our
Office! Now, the fellow is hardly worth
but we would advise him not
to attempt such thing. as his wholesome
might in consequence be somewhat i'm
paired, and a very fine louse-pasture
damaged. We understand there is q
man of his political faith in this vicinity.
who has been very anxious, for some time
past, to get peep at him. If this man
should come across him, we presume he
would not very soon feel in humor for
sinking our Office, or meeting Jim Lane
with eiter a knife or a pistol
We will here remark, that this is the
third loa6ng cut-throat who has threaten
ed to DO something desperate with our
Office, and yet it exists. When the office
was being landed here, a degraded bloat
stood by, and remarked that the hardest
work he ever did, was to carry part of a
press at Lawrence, and throw it into the
river; and if we said a word against the
Pro-Slavery party. he would undertake
a similar job here. He has not permitted
the light of his benign cOuntenance to
illume our town since. The second one
we are almost ashamed to speak Of, on
account of the disgrace which attaches to
the ground on which White Cloud stands,
from the fact that he once polluted it. and
was here protected from inst retribution.
1t was thieving demon by the name Of
Phillips, who last year murdered mere
boy by the name of Jones, who, we be-
lieVe, leaned towards the Pro-Slavery
side, but had come to Kansas with the
express determination of keeping out Of
broils. This Phillips deliberately shot
him down, and took his horse, which was
a very fine one. The boys friends swore
revenge, and this being then an obscure
portion of the Territory, Phillips came
here, and was here locked up in house
for safe keeping. Somehow becoming
disabled, some of his vagabond crew kept
guard at different points, to watch any
movement that might be made for his
arrest; and he was number Of times
hauled over the river, on the ice, in sled,
after night, during the coolest part of the
Winter, for fear that strangers who came
along. might be spies to discover his
whereabouts. This scoundrel also made
a promise that he would watch our paper
closely, and the first time word or 8
hint was thrown out against the Pro.
Slavery party, our press would go into
the river. But Phillips also made his
presence scarce, when white people began
to settle here-as the beast of prey flee:
before the march of civilization. We
believe he still retained the murdered
boys horse. We know not where he il
now, but We do know that there are &
numbefof watchful eyes on the look-ou
for him, and a number Of strong hands
ready to rid the world of brute, and t.
stop up q hole in the internal regions
which has long been gaping for him. Al
for ourself, we have said just what w
had mind to, and some things, if WI
remember rightly, not the most favorable
for the Pro- Slavery party. We alst
notice that the river is near at hand, ant
that our office is still in operation.
We will also here remark, that thu
time for mobbing printing Offices in Kan
sas is past; and these rufians seem t.
have a pretty good inkling Of the fact
too. But whenever such cattle as Phil
lips, Lobster & Co., wish to ascertain
what He'll is like, before they go there
they had better try the game on, just TO
an experiment.