The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-06-13

bnt his chief assistant, old wills. Peters, We be
lieve is still there; aud NO doubt We shall meet
many of the self-samc noble red men who car
ried away 90 many basketsfull after the feast
was over.
The Chief originally intended to he mild on
politics. This determination lasted one week.
Then the paper went to pitching in. 1t advocat
cd the policy Of the Free State men voting 1t
the election of 1857, instead Of protesting, a.
formerly. They did vote then for the FIRST time
ata regular election, and carried the Territory As
well as rescuing Donipban County from Pro-
Slavery rule.
We have number Of names on our subserip-
tion list, of persons who became subscribers to
the Chief with Vol. l, No. I, and have taken it
ever since. We know of q number Of persons
still living within reach, whose marriage notices
were published in the early issues Of the CAief,
whose children have children. The Chief may
therefore justly claim to be the grandfather of the
rising generatiOn-as it expects to be the great
grandfather Of future generations.
The following usmed persons have worked on
the Chicf, as regular hands. We also give their
subsequent career and present whereabouts as
far as we have been able to learn them:
Morris Lewis, 1857. Worked from the CON-
mencement of the Chief until the latter part Of
the Summer, when he returned to st. Louis. He
was publishing paper at Pocahoutas, Arkansas,
iE 1861. We understood that be became Lieu
tenant in the Rebel army, but we have had no
tidings of him since.
the first issue of the Chicf, and returned to st.
Louis in the Fall of 1s5s. He was still working
there, several years ago.
Cyrus L. Hester, 1878. Returned to Ger
mantown, Ohio, where he died few years ago.
He came to White Cloud, late in the Fall of 1857,
on the steamer Florida He spoke of another
Young printer, who came on the same boat, and
landed at AtchisOn. 1t must have been John A..
Martin, who says he came to Atchison on that
boat, about that time.
Hiram S. Walters, 1858, and again, in 1866.
The last We heard of him, was q few years ago,
when be was working at Evansville, Indiana.
Cyrus B. Bowman, 1889 Learned type
setting in the Chief Office. Served during the
rebellion in the LIST Kansas. Is now employed on
the St. Joseph Herald.
Edward C. Grumley, 1859 60 -6l-62-63. Learn
ed his trade in the Chief Office, and during the
war, served in the 14th Kansas. A few months
ago, he was working in the Government Printing
Office, at Washington.
Martin Scrafford, 1859. Commenced in the Of
fee of the Iowa Point Dispatch, aud then worked
several months in the Chi.f Office. Printing was
not his forte. Served during the rebellion in
the 7th Kansas. At last accounts, was in Col
orado.
John P. Cone, 1860. Worked a month or two
on the Chief. Afterwards startedthe Seneca Con-
rier, and is now residing at Seneca.
Lewis r. Starr, 1s6O-6l. Served in the 9TH
Kansas. After the war, resided in Andrew Coun-
ty, Missouri, in the neighborhood of Whitesvile,
and in Anderson Comfy, Kansas. Do not know
here he is now.
Donald Mcleod, 1s6l-2-3-4. Served few
months at the close of the war, in Col Furnas'
Nebraska regiment, in the operations against the
Dakota Indians. When last heard from, few
years ago. was residing at Norfolk, Virginia.
Willie Mcleod, 1924. Went with his moth
er to New York, and from there to Norfolk, vir-
ginia, where he was residing, q few years since,
married.
John d. Brown, 1s62-34. Served in Gen. George
H. Halls regiment of Missouri troops. Went to
Denver in 1865. and from there to Norfolk, vir-
ginia, where he had position on , Government
receiving ship in the harbor and died few years
ago.
E.A. Davis, 1863 Had charge of the Chief
for two months, while we were at Topeka. Is
now publishing the Wathena Adrance.
George W. Hester, 1886. When last heard
from, was living on q farm, in Illinois.
II. c. Van Buskirk Commenced in June, 1856,
and has been working regularly ever since-l2
years.
Alb. Hook. Learned to set type, and worked
by spurts from 1868 to 1875. Is now at White
Cloud, making bricks without straw.
Ross Sturgis. Commenced in June, 1871, and
has been in the Office ever since-7 years.
10. Fox, 1s74-56-7-s. Learned to set type in
the Chief Office. Has just gone to the mountains,
for the benefit of his health.
A. W. Beale, 1857. Is now working for the
st. Joseph Steam Printing Company.
J.P. Knopp and NJ. T. Whitaker. Both "typing
away" at the present writing.
During all these years, numerous tramps have
had work, from day OF two to a week but a.
their name is legion in every Office, we have kept
no record of them.
Several distinguished persons have also set
type on the Chief, merely to show what they could
do. Among these were ex-senator Bigler, of
Pennsylvania, Gov. Osborn, Secretary of State
Smallwood, and Prouty.
This anniversary is an appropriate time to re-
view the newspaper history of Doniphan County
We find it impossible to get at the exact day
upon which most of the papers were first issued,
and in some cases We have no memoranda even
of the month but We shall take the various pa
pers in the order in which they were started, and
give brief sketch of each.
/. The Doniphan Coastifufioaast was the nrst pa
per published in the County, having been started in
1856, by Thomas j. Key. 1t was violently ProSla-
very violent in fact that Kew several
times got into personal difficulties in consequence of
his denunciations of ProSlavery men who were not
sufficiently ultra in their views to please him. 1t
will be remembered, that at tho time Of the conspr
aey and attempted not for the purpose of numbering
Gov. Geary. a ProSlsvery man named Sherrard was
killed. Key published some offensive remark. re-
garding him in the Coastifa fiomaisf DIR. Sherrard
brother of the deceased who resided in St Joseph
made journey to Doniphan, for the purpose of |
shooting Key. He met the latter in the street. near
his home, but Key, suspectins mischief by ruse |
obtained permission to 90 into the house, where he
escaped by the back way The Consffsfiosaiisf sus
pended about the latter part Of July, 1853 and the
'fhce was removed to Iowa Point to pnblish paper
,alled the Esqsirrr.