The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-11-25
EMPORTA NEWS.
Friday, November rs, 1870.
FROM TOWAyDA.
TowASDA, Butler CO., Kansas,

Nov. Is, 1870.
MEssKs. SyoTI Err. AND WILLIAMS:
Wishing TO aid your paper al. can to
&C Velope the resources and settle with
good people our lovely country, l send
you some facts from this point. Some
ten years ago it was held chiefly by
James II. Mead, our late senator from
this district, as an Indian trading post;
hence 1t Is probably the o!destpostofflre
in Butler county. Last spring the Rev.
Isaac Mooney, from Bureau county, IL
linois, came in and purchased two hun
dred acres in one tract, mostly on the
White Water, ole old settlement hav-
ing been o. the west side) was soon
commissioned postmaster, brought on
nice family store, and has recently laid
off thirty acres in town lots. He en-
tertains most neatly and indeed luxuri
ously all decent people who call on
him, and is doing generally fine bust
ness. Being strictly moral, and hold
ing the christian faith he and family are
aiding the better class of older settlers
in promoting purity and peace in this
beautiful region. A new school house
is to be finished soon, in which Chris
tian meetings will be held until one or
two churches are erected. Being mile
or SO below the confluence of the two
branches of White Water, the stream is
quite enlarged, the timber good and the
bottoms broad and rich. A steam saw
mill is now in operation, and two or
three number one sites for water mills
ready for some men of enterprise to
improve. Taking the entire White
Water valley for % or 80 miles running
south to the Walnut at Augusta, and
no lands in Kansas can be more promis-
ing. While most of the bottoms are
already claimed aud bought, yet farms
are offered cheap, and there are other
second bottom and uplands vacant, to
be had by demonstrating for nothing or
by pre-empting at $l.25 per acre
This village now has daily mail in
coaches both ways, between Emporia
and Wichita, and in a few years will be,
as we know, in worldly prosperity, be-
fore old eastern towns, and as we also
hope, in mental, moral and christian at
tainments.
This reminds me of those commissions
which seem to occur at times in all So
ciety, one of which has lately transpir-
cd here. The granite hills of New
England are by no means exempted
from earthquakes, nor at all times from
similar upheavals in society, which bad
men occasion. New frontier settle
ments may have more of them to en-
counter than the older, and yet be on
the whole about as moral and law abb
ding. AS some of your readers will
remember, about three weeks ago q
tcamster from Wichita lost his pocket.
book, containing sixty-fve dollars
while sleeping in his wagon near the
Buckeye House, in Emporia. One
Smith, alias Gibson, a desperate char,
acter. was arrested, but discharged fol
the lack of evidence to hold him. TAX
ing tho stage for wichita he came
through and joined his comrades in in
EQUITY. A vigilance committee had hi
and quite list of other names as gen
tlemen whose faith and works led then
TO live of of honest peoples toll. Mon
ey, cattle, and especially horses, hac
been strangely disappearing, aud then
as in case of Smith at Emporia, thes
gentlemen would always manage il
some way &c escape the just penaltie
of the law. Ignoring and outlawini
the law, as they did, the aforesaid com
mittee organized to meet them on thei
own ground, without the tedious an,
uncertain technicalities of law. Promp
decided and Nigilant as they were tn
committee arrested six, Smith included
put four TO death ON the Walnut nea
Douglas, while two escaped. Truly til
way of the transgressor is hard. Coco
honest, law-abiding citizens are neve
thus slain. The case seems to be de:
perate and the remedy is equally 81
Let the sad end of these men be a tel
ror to like evil doors. There may, it
true, be doubt in the minds of som
rs to the guilt of every one. While
know nothing on this point, and woul
deeply deplore the sufferings of any il
nocent man, as to Smith and some OIL
ers there can be no doubt. BY the
own desperate and lawless course, the
have provoked their own desperate en-,
Let all, we repeat, who are tempted
do wrong take warning. w. ?.