The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-19

ness Of these men. They face death with
the nonchalance taught by ife's fanil-
iarity with it.
The James boys, while never denvinr
their terrible record during khe war.
have steadily repudiated these charges Of
bank and train robberies. Each success
sive Governor of Missouri outlaws them
and sets price on their heads. to which
they regularly retort with an Offer to give
themselves up and face the decisions
of the courts if pledged fair treatment.
The father of Jesse and Frank was the
Rev. Thomas James, q Baptist preacher.
who attained considerable eIninence in
the State.
Clay county was part of the debatable
ground in the early troubles of the Jay
hawkers and the Border Rufians, as they
were opprobriously termed by their ene-
mics on either Gde At the outset of the
conflict Frank James joined Quantren
Jesse, only 16 years of age, remained on
the farm. One day company of militia
came to the place and hung DIR. Samuels
to tree three or four times, and left him
| for dead: Jesse was taken from the
plow and aed about with q rope around
his neck, beaten with the fats of sabers,
and warned that the punishment would
be worse if the family continued to har-
| Dor bushwhackers. Mrs. Samuels and
her daughter were taken to st. Joseph,
and for some weeks held in custody.
Jesse James joined his brother under
| Quantren, and from that day to the end
of the war the boys were in every mas
sacre and terrible encounter in the guer-
rilla warfare up and down the Missouri,
Kansas and Arkansas border. They
served under those most noted despera-
does, Quantrell, Todd, Anderson and
Taylor, out of whom the only one now
| living is Taylor, and he is a cripple, with
one arm shot away, shattered right
lung, and terrible scar on his thigh.
The James boys were prominent in
the sack of Lawrence, and afterward it
was party of twenty-seven men under
their leadership who fell upon detach-
ment of Jennison's famous 18th Kansas
cavalry on Cabin Creek, in the Cherokee
Nation, and slaughtered twenty-nine out
of the thirty-two. With his own hand
in this meeting, Jesse James killed Capt
Goss, and also the Rev. u. p. Gardner,
of the 18th Kansas.
They were with Bill Anderson at Cen
tralia, Mo-, when train of soldiers,
some armed and some helpless, was
stopped. A few shots were fred, and
then the Union soldiers surrendered, only
to be taken from the cars and shot down
until not man was left. Then the town
was sacked. The train was set on fire,
the engine turned loose with full head
of steam, and sent plunging away at a
fearful rate of speed toward Sturgeon.
When the place had been laid waste, An
derson and his men retreated to the
brush.
From Paris, in Monroe county, q de-
tachnent of Federal cavalry 800 strong,
under Maj. johnson, came down to
avenge the outrage. Anderson's men
lured the troopers into their trap, and
swooped down on them. Out of the 300,
barely twenty got back to tell of the
massacre. There were no prisoners
| taken. Jesse James killed Maj. johnson
and seven others. Frank James killed
as many more. The blood that rests on
these two mems heads is something SO
terrible that their old companions in
arms shudder when they tell of them.
The war record of these men would
| fill books, but this is enough to show the
character of their lives.