The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-01-17
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less employed by eveS. more scru
! puIouB railway manaS ,efs than he,
supplied by his cofPorSsfun, i
transportation and con6foisof mar
ket, 81 the Erie was the great thor
4 oughfAre TO the OIL regions. 4
4 compact was struck. Iii & entea1l
4 tbs refinery company, reinforced a
) leapital, and with Q change OF uahl
) and heavy "draW becks" on the Fri
; freight bills, the Hunters Point 70
f1neFy sailed strongly into s0ccesafu
competition. Stokes was Seoeetaf,
as well as partner. at one tifne hf
profits from the refinery gave hin
? 81, goo per week, -
u In 1854 Stokes married the dsught
or OF j. W. Soathwick, provinces
furniture dealer In New York; ont
/ OF the oldest IN his line in that city
I A short time since one OF our old.
lest residents showed as q set OIL
furniture, a wedding outfit brought
to Chicago in 1886, bought Of Mr.
Sonthwick, who is now q man Of
immense wealth, and still in active
business In . great Broadway es.
Establishment. The wedding Of
/ Stokes with Miss Southwick seemed
! to lack nothing that wealth, posi-.
tion and social surroundings could
i bring to insure happiness. They
4 made their anmptuous hoEna in thu
II Hoffman House, and moved among
4 the most brilliant flfSp of Gae me-
'itr6pofis. = o. $50 ? i-3 ga
/ HE next scene In the drama
4 brings the infamous woman Hans
field into the plot. Solomon de-
scribed her many centuries ego. and
/ we far So1omon knew what Re waA
writing about. But his painting has
4 never Been eurpasSed, ana IL some
body could have slipped into Stokes
mind this little pen-portIait, made
Two thousand years ago OF jose
phiue Msns1eld aud her infamous
sisters, II might have spared com
munitY the fruits of The new &C
lquaintsnce. Here are some Of the
wise mans celorings OF, his subject !:
:, She lieth in wait az fer 4 PREY, and
inereaseth the trAnsgressions among
men. 40, -
Her feet 90 down to. death; her
steps take hold on Hell.
! =. Her house incIineth into death,
aud her paths into the dead. None
that go, unto her return again.
He goeth after her stIsightway,
as an OK goeth to the slaughter.
,'She hath cast down many wound
ed, yea many strong men have been
slain by her.
Her house is the way to hell, go.
ing down to chambers of death.
The dead are there. Her guests
are in the depths of hell.
And just precisely that happened
which the Son OF David predicted !;
path turned downward. A quarrel
between Flax and Stokes followed.
It was carried into affairs of busi-
ness. Fisk refused to allow the
Hunters Point concern to make q
dividend, and thus cut of Stokes
supplies. The disgraceful relation
with Mansfield became more shame
less, and the father-in.isw, South
wick, sent his daughter and her Aid
to Europe early in 1871, to remove
her from the scene of the scandal.
Stokes, enrsged at Fisk, use.l his
position ss Secretary to collect $30,-
| 900 from Devoe, an oil merchant,
which sum he held openly and de-
family IS his share of the profits.
! Flax caused his arrest on a criminal
charge. Stokes turned to his wealthy
releatives. No one OF them would
bail him, and he was forced to make
terms and submit, and refund The
money. His relations to Fisk were
bitter, and out of the intensity of the
evil passions and criminalities OF his
position with Mansfield grew MUIR
der. Turn to Solomon again, and
there is no mystery in the chain OF
sequences. It is said that the same
steamer that took out to Europe the
murdered Fisk by Stokes carried
divorce procured by her family for
his wife, who still remains abroad.
The story of family grief and re-
verses is not all told. The senior
Stokes, after thirty years of retire.
ment and enjoyment of luxurious
home, is bankrupt and homeless in
his old age. One Of the daughters
died two weeks after marriage. The
second daughter, the wife of q Mr..
Sutton, attached herself so strongly
to the fortunes of her brother that
her hu- band discarded her, and she
is in refuge with her aged and pen
niless parents. The second son, q
young man OF great promise, died
two months ago of grief and shame
3ts the family reyerseS, and the whole
tale Of the innocent and suffering
victims by this complication of
crime and shame is not to be fully
told without including some of the
best known and esteemed of New
York families.
If Young men in our communities
could only ride on express trains TO
the DEVIL and take no one with
them, there would be less to be said
since, aside from these considera-
tions, it l. every man's individual
right TO barter away his life and for.
tunes and sacred honor at his oWa
price. Satan buys great many OF
these poor fellows very chep~ and at
short option for seller. But in every
case Of n family train, the shock
| aud crush of shame and disgrace
must fall on innocent as we'll az
guilty. In behalf of the fathers and
mothers and sisters of community,
lot general warning be made of the
case of Edward Stokes. Where has
romance woven anything so sad 2
Where. in modern communities, have
been given more abrupt and start
ling variations of light and shade,
from che brightest point of promise
and assured happiness to the depths
of darkness and misery, than those
on which the curtain falls?
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