The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-04-16
Reminisceuees OF Printing.

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History o. Printing in noss County Aansaeid (fa)
AdcertiseT.
We shall watch tine Adpertiser with intarrst learn all
can in regard 70 The Early History OF Printing In
entered printing oes ii Tiegs county-the Wells
boro Adeyfiser since changed the Agiaor-and our
Ing up a ead o. wood. with Mr. Adams We have been
aeguamihd perhaps tveBty years and IN his town. Mans
-sticking type IN SIS on the old lanseid Ezprs.s
That uhee we eannos tell where it s In the ta Of 5o IL
paper printed at Highland Dunpban County bear
ing the name Of The Highlander the first issue q which
the writer j. Faulkner, A. NJ Pitts and Geo Bird viii
remember duly celebrated with appropriate DONORS
The material afterwards bought and % Iowa
fnl attempt Go keep paper alive there 1t 'woodbned
and was afterwards to Oregon Mo-, where red
time We have lost all interest the We hope
our friend Adams will give history cf the frst press In
which the very identical have mentioned IN
the brief foregoing description
There is still more history connected with that
press-besdes several slight inaccuracies IN the
above. The Highlander was run for abont eight
or nine weeks, at the beginning OF the year 1908
the publishers being Faulkner & Seayer, and the
editor T. p. Herrick, afterwards Colonel of the
Kansas eth. The material was afterwards taken
to Iowa Point, hut never used there. Neither
was it ever used at Oregon; but about lo6O, &.
H. Whitaker, of Savannah, purchased it, several
persons at Oregon going his security for the
money borrowed to pay for it. Whitaker pub
lshfd the Plain Dealer at Savannah on this mate
rial, until the latter part of the Summer of 1861
when the rebel recruits from Northwest Mis-
souri, for Prices army, who wrrc eneamped few
miles from Savannah, on breakng MP camp to
march, entered Savannah, aud seizing the Plain,
Dealer Office, loaded up the press and types, and
hauled them away. (rhe Plain Dealer was a
| Union paper.) In fact, We believe they took the
material and printed paper with it in camp,
before breaking mp. We think the press, or the
principal part of it, was left somewhere in the
vicinity of Savannah; but the other material
was scattered in every direction. At the siege
of Lexington, when the rebels ran short of shot,
! they loaded their cannon with the job type and
auatls of the Office and fired them at the Union
forces Some of the boys, after their capture and
parole, brought some Of this type home with
them, that had been fired into their eutrench-
ments; and We had some of it for a long time, as
relcs-perhaps have it yet, lying about in some
box or desk.
The man of whom Whitaker borrowed the
money became REBEL as dil all the security
except one, our old friend Isaac Fillmore, of Ore
gon, now residing at Highland Station. Some
time in the latter part Of the Summer of 1861, We
were standing an the bank of the river at White
Cloud, when far down ON the Missouri side we saw
a man galloping fast as his horse could come,
and he yelling at the top of the lungs for the fer
ry boat, which happened to be OH the Missouri
side. We imagined that the rebels had COM
menced killing and saughtering, and that this
man was the only one who had escaped. He gal
lopcd OH board the boat, and ordered them to
shove of, which was done. On reaching the
Kansas shore, We found the fugitive to be Mr..
Fillmore, who gave us an account of his race.
He said that he, with others, had become securi-
ty for Whitaker, for the purchase Of his press
The money was borrowed of a re- e all the sure
ties but himself were rebels, and the rebels had
destroyed the property. He had removed his
family to Kansas few days before, and had re-
turned to Oregon to arrange some business,
where he learned that the papers were being
made out for his arrest, to compel him to pay the
debt. He got few minutes start of the officer,
and beat him to the ferry.
Such was the end of that printing ofice-and
we guess that security debt has not been paid to
this day.