The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1871-08-10

tors ofTne Saline County journal.

IRON OTTAWA CoUJIY.
To the editors ofThe Saline County journal.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 1871.
Since l last wrote you, our enemies
the Lindseyites, seem to have ch6oged
their tactics. They have dropped ''conntyI
scat, /" and now think to annoy the ftfend9'
Of this place by having them asfestH OF
some filsc charge, and dragged pas sev-s
eral justices of the peace to one hrin&
in the soath-east corner Of tie county,
some twenty miles distant. They have
a facile tool that seems to be ready and
willing to do this dirty work for them.
The false charge Matched anginst Steele
and Stull, that they refused to give one.
A. ]. -Ingcrsoll certified copy of the
county commissioner proceedings in
reference to a petition asking tor are
location Of the county seat ofthis county,
on which the commissioners, after due
deliberatiOn, refused to grant an cleo
ton, was substantially disprovcd by wit
nesscs of the prosecution and defence;but
Justice Hooker, before whom the trial
took, place, fined them each s75 and
costs. The case was Immediately APP.
pealed to the District Court. Such a
case would not live in an honest court
an hour. Again this same A. J. niger
soil swears out a warrant against DR..
J. E. Wharton, editor of the Independent,
because that paper called him ga fiery
headed youth who lives on the classic
shores Of Coal Greek" and said that he
was the "present incumbrance in the
county attorneys Office" called him q
"Judas," because he betrayed the party
that elected him to Office, made COM
plete summersauIt and fell in the middle
of Lindsey in the mud, where he seems
to be doing the mud work Of that town;
said that {" \. J. /. stood for A Jackass
Insane or A Jenuinc Idiot, and wants to
go to the legislature" Mr.. Ingersoll
says the above means him. We don't
dispute his word-hc is likely correct.
II is probable this ATTAIN" will find 1t
a difficult task to prove "libcl against
DIR. Wharton for discussing the public
acts of county officers. Again, it is ru-
INQUIRED that IngersOll has sworn out
writ against Mr.. Spence, black man.
What crime our sable citizen has been
guilty Of has not TRANSFERRED. We dislike
TO write about this county seat affair,
but there is one other matter that has
TRANSFERRED that must not overlook.
When our Lindsey citizens thought they
were sure Of having a vote on the re-
location of the county seat, they held a
meeting in Lindsey on Sunday $50 it
has been alleged, and | have reason to
believe it is so,) for the purpose of de-
wishing ways and means to carry the cleo
ton. They lacked 100 votes "fe having
enough to Carry the election, and to
overcome this little difficulty it was
that every friend Of Lindsey
should hire mana voter, to work for
him on his farm or in his shop say thirty
DAYS before the election, and at the cleo
ton to vote him for Lindsey. Parties
who were not able to hire this extra
voter were to be assisted from the
" corruption fund" which this Sunday
meeting proposed to then and there
raise. A friend of Lindsey, farmer and
an honest man, who was let into this
little arrangement, thought it was not
right, and allowed" on Lindsey.
Minneapolis has grown more rapidly
than ever since this last onslaught by
the cOrruptionIsts. 1t has put quietus
on this contest, and has settled the
seat for ever at Minneapolis. BY
the time You have this in print there
will be at least eight honscs in course !
of construction here in Minneapolis.
Some of these buildings will be respect 1
able for size and finish. We have a |
splendid water-power here and n mill in
operation that makes flour equal to any !
in your city. We have
beautiful town site, splendid soft well
water for house use, and magnificent
of bottom lands surrounding MS.
We have new school house, nine months
of school in the year, Sunday school,
preaching by the Methodists, Baptis IS
and Presbytcrians. Our people are So
riable, wide-awakc, and welcome the /
stranger with hearty welcome. With
n railroad up the valley which will be
reality in time, and a good prospect of a
from the direction of yOur city
to cross the Solomon at Minneapolis, we
think we have bright future before us.
SOLOMON. |