White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-05-19
ASSN VARIOUS, JR., SPEAKETH :;


The last number of The Holt County News
contains . reply to our article in reference
to stealing an apprentice. which reply is
signed by the name of Ansel WatrOus,
Jr., individually. Now, when there are
three persons equally interested in the
News establishment, and our article. if il
referred to one Of them, did so equally to
the other two, why Ansel Watrous. Jr..
takes the whole burden upon himself, We
cannot divine, unless it be that he feels
guilty-and from what we can learn. he
has cause for such feeling. We desire
Ansel, Jr., to Danish from his mind the
idea that we want to get up some sharp
shooting between him and ourself; Tor
this affair we do not consider subject for
sharp shooting-but we wanted simply
to say what we thought about it-and we
did say. His idea of meanness-that .
man is mean who will not tamely submit
to being swindled-he is welcome to ;
and he is informed that we did make in
auiries before we censured the News firm,
else we had expressed our sentiments q
week sooner than we did for we had our
suspicious, but wanted knowledge oil
the facts before we said snything about
the affair. Ansel, Jr., says he did not
know we had an apprentice still, he wal
heard talking about getting said appren-
tice to work in his Office, several days be-
fore the theft occurred. The News estab.
lishment paid the buggy hire. when the
boy was taken from here. Ansel Wat
rons, Jr., knew that the boy had beer
gone after, for he almost told It at tht
time. And If Anscl Watrous, Jr., did
not know that he had treated us as meanly
as mean can be, and that he deserved 4
raking for it, why did he remark, day
or two after he got the boy, that he ex
pected the Chief would come down upor
him hard We presume that Ansc
thought, all the while, that he had gotteI
a raw apprentice-he didn't know tn
boy had been working with us-yet h
offered him S15 per month, if he wonlC
work for him. Ansel, you have go
yourself into tight place, and take rathe
questionable means to clear yourself of it
1t may be all right, Ansel but if W,
had said the same things that you have
in your reply, and under the same circum
stances, We should have felt that we wer,
perverting the truth-sometimes calleG
} lying. Ansel endeavors to shift the entir,
responsibility of the transaction upol
another person, and iniimates that tina
person win give his reasons for the cours
he has taken. We think we are postet
J in every particular, and would like TO
that person to do as Ansel intimates-w,
would have few plain facts to set fortl
for his edification. We wish il to b
distinctly understood that we hold tina
we have been grossly and wilfully swim
, died in this affair, and shall not be intim
} idatcd into silence by any threats or init
nations of what will be done. We ar
ready to grind until the grist is finished
} and all we ask is, that outsiders keep thei
fingers out'of the mill, if they don't wan
them mashed We have facts and reliabI,
proof to depend upon; and while w,
seek no personal quarrel. yet if Anse
Watrous, Jr., or any one who is embra
ced in his intimations, sees fit TO come a
us, let them come-only let them be sur
that they come with facts, which they cal
; prove