White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-05-26

ere long. TO hear that they have '.seon -
elephant :"
We did for them the best we corIl
advised them to turn right back ,r I-
home again, and thereby save nv. a 90
but they were full of hope and con6Sa; '
and declared their determination, a, nee
had come thus far, to go on througb
April 9TH, we published an unfavo,,,.
report contained in the Holt COM
News, upon which the editor attomn,,
to throw discredit. The followin, -.
tracts arc from our remarks tb.rrrro.
We have not lately heard of PolIa.r,
but if he escapes the fate of numbs, :.
other letter writers and town speculate,
out there, he may soon be looked Fl, :,
the neighborhoOd of home:
"TnE WORK GOES BRAvEIy Oxn
The good work of exposing the goll
hnmbug. still progresses and We c Ta..
week have some new developments
When a man comes back and ventpros :,
tell the truth, there are editors sit,;n,
nearly thousand miles from the digpinrso
and have never been any nearer to them
who coolly tell him that he lies, or Know
nothing about the mines. But this Min,
is rapidly losing its effect.
The only prop now left for the Mem,
is Perry Pollock and he, we are IN.
formed, is engaged in town speculation
and is consequently interested in sendiDs
home favorable reports. Ere long he viii
be creeping back home. chop, fallen, and
then the faith Of the News will have n
collapse
April 2lst, we spoke as follows. Of
statement to the effect that one Brapb,m
had offered to puff certain routes for pav.
The rival "out6tting points" are he.
coming so jealous Of each other, that ,bev
are compelled to expose their own Lum.
buggery. OF late, the st. Joseph, Leav.
enworth and Kansas City papers have
been filed with Captain Branham's won.
dcrful stories. In the above extract va
find the pith of the matter. When the
humbuggers begin to expose themselves
we may soon look for an explosion of tho
whole thing. We have no doubt that the
above is strictly true, as far as Branham's
fishing for pay was concerned but il the
whole truth were told, we woulGi hear thai,
every one of the tremendous stories toll
about the mines, from Kansas CITY 10
Omaha, is gotten up for tue same object.
by persons who are in for a speculation,
or by their hired pimps. Let them 60
they are telling on themselves
The same Issue contained various IN.
favorable letters, to which We referred, as
follows
The present number Of our paper is a
"golden issue" in which we give large
amount of valuable information in reganl
10 the Pixies Peak humbug-sll of which
our readers may "bet on"
May 9th, we published the following
item:
We have heard any amount of unfa.
vorable gold news, during the past week.
Hundreds, and some say thousands, are
getting back home as fast as they can.
perfectly satisfied with their sight at the
elephant" We think the humbug Is
rapidly coming to head for a tremen.
dous explosion.
2 And Immediately thereafter, the ezPlo-
! sion came; and it is still coming. From
the foregoing extracts, it will be seen that
our skirts are pretty clear Of this swind-
ling affair. If all the humLugged ones
had taken our paper, and followed It's
advice. it is easy to comprehend how
much better of they would now be. As
it is, they would do well to subscribe a!
once, and obey its injunctiOns, thereby
insuring themselves against many a future
trouble.