White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1862-05-29
Pursuit Of . Charaster, Under Din.
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We are told that Columbus Parker
usually called 'Lum. Parker. for short
feels exceedingly venomous At us. and at
White Cloud generally. He has been
hoping for power to ''send every man in
this place to He'll" with one exception !;
which circumstance goes to confirm the
general opinion that 'Lum. is "H-ll
Of . fellow" But it is . hard joke on
the solitary person embraced in 'Lum.'s
saving clause. Bot Is 'Lum. has never
exhibited honor and manhood enough to be
employed by Old Harry as his transpor.
tstiou agent to that region supposed by
small children and Hard Shell Bsptists
to be located somewhere under the ground,
he has to content himself with some sort
of revenge within his reach. He there
fore threatens to "put us through"-some-
times called "sueing for his character" !"
That is . laudab:e undertaking. Any
man who has no character. is jnsti6able
iu sueing for one. And 'Lum. is . man
at least he comes 90 near it, that the
Law generally recognizes him as one, in
tax-paying time. And it is the duty Of
every charitable person to do all in his
power to aid fellow beings in supplying
thing that they need so badly. There
fore. we shall do our prettiest to assist
'Lum. in obtaining a character. To this
end. we commence BY publishing a con-
fession made BY Joseph H. jolly. at St.
Joseph. who had been captured ON Jay
hawking expedition. q few weeks ago.
1t will be interesting. not only to 'Lum..
but to several other persons therein nam
ell, who need characters as badly as he
does -
Said Joseph Il. Jolly lives two miles south
east of Iowa Point. Jolly and the fol-
lowing named persons occupation was
Jayhaw king in Missouri, to-wit: Joseph
Anderson. Rush Island Harkness, Rush
Island Burdick, Iowa Point; 'Lum.
Parker, White Cloud; VIM. Herring.
White Cloud Wash. Burkhart, Iowa
Point Thomas White and Bill Costs,
prisoners at Leavenworlh Shuff, Iowa
Point Thomas Devault, Iowa Point.
Jolly crossed the river at Amizonis, in
company with ten men. headed by Hsrk-
ness and Phillips. Said party was COM
ing to Missouri for the purpose of steal
ing or Jayhawking negroes. horses. wag-
ons and harness. Said company stsid
all night at Jolly's house. on their way
to Missourifor the purpose Of jayhawking.
and asked Jolly to go with them. He
agreed to go with them if he could Jay
hawk set of harness from q secesh in
Missouri. They told him there was plen.
ty of harness in Missouri, and then Jolly
agreed to go and get them. They came
to the Missouri river after dark. took the
ferry boat and crossed the river to the
Missouri side. Said company were pi-
loted by three negroes. yellow boy
Sam, belonging to james Howell, of An.
drew County. Mo-, a black boy Al. be-
longing to the widow Mackey. Andrew
County, Mo. The otter boy Jolly did
not know. There were Charley Phillips.
Hardness and Joe. Anderson, of Rush
Island. and Burkbart, of Iowa Point.
The rest of said company's names be
did not know. The negroes were to
show them where to find stock. and then
the white men were to assist the negroes
in getting away their families into Kan
sas. Said company we're all well armed. !
He heard the boy Sam. swear that his
wife had been carried of South. and be |
would kill his master for it. The COM
pany then went to house near by and |
took two horses aud two saddles. They
then sent two white men. jolly and an
other. with the boy AL. to the house for
the purpose of getting the boys wife and
\ wagon and team. They called the
man out of his house and drew their
guns. on him. Jolly then left, for fear of
murder being done. After he got over
he fence he heard the report Of several
guns and men following. He does not
know whether the man was killed or not.
He does not know whether the negro
got his wife or not. but the negro got q
horse and side saddle for his wife, which
they had taken from the other house with
him for that purpose. Jolly then sscre.
ted himself in the woods and slept until
He says that the man. at whose
house the guns were fred, was named
Jackson. jolly rode one of the horses
that was taken at Culp's to Jackson's.
BE left the horse tied to the fence at the
house. jolly says that there is . rendez-
vous near Hiswaths, Brown County,
Kansas. He has seen great many hor-
YES coming there this Winter. Jolly
thinks that Phillips or Harkness has con-
.rol Of the party.
Said Jolly acknowledged the above
confession to be true. in the presence of
Gen. Loan and Captain Byrne.
7 FaRs on RoY's CRssx.-On. Sunday
asst. some small boys, at the residence of
Thomas J. Kenyon. on Roy's Greek, in