The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-05-15

All the talk, near the Indian Territory is, "On t,
Oklahoma Yes. and all reports to the contrary
TINS far, it is talk. and nothing else All reports
vast crowds pouring in from independence. Coffey
vile, &c, into the Territory, are absolutely false
few adventurers, with nothing to lose have crossed
the line but the general public are waiting develop
ments Great diversity of opinion exists as to thu
result. Of course, the people here very much in
favor of opening the Territory Its present condition
is certainly great drawback upon the prosperity Of
Southern Kansas. Undoubtedly, by this time rail
roads would have been built to Mexico etc. had the
Territory been open to settlement The general i'm
precision, at this writing, is that the movement is
dead. There was no bottom to it,
This man. "Col. C. c. Carpenter" is man of nc
consideration, dssipated and worthless. He has been
set up as fgurehead by more responsible parties
Instead, reported, the leader" of the first Black
Hills expedition, he forced himself onto compapy
ready to start, without cent a change of clothes
and beat his way into the Hills in their company He
was time and again turned ont of the camp for filth
ness, and on account of being infested with vermn
but, like that great and good man. U. S. G.. he was
bound to beat his way to the Hills if it took all Sum-
mer The company arrived Just in time to be put out
by the troops This report comes directly from one
Of the company, now living at Cofeyville The
writer had some talk with Carpenter at Kansas City,
and soon to the conclusion that lying was second
nature to him.
have talked with detectives and Indian Agents
direct from the Territory and they all scout the idea
that the Indians are willing the whites should come
into the Territory So opposed are they to the whites
that law was passed, last Winter, compelling any
Indian employing white man. white men hereto
fore have done the principal manual laborl to nav
tax of 25 dollars month, (except school teachers
preachers, millers, etc.) Men having ANYTHING to
lose, very foolish to take any chances in this in
vasion of the last foothold of the Indians Ten COM
panes of troops have already been sent upon the
line The proposed settlement borders upon the wild
Cheyenne Reservation, the worst Indians i'm the
country.
The great objection to the Territory remaining as
it is is its safe harborage Of criminals 1t is full of
desperadoes and villains. Not that there is not
enough left on the Kansas side. Money could not
tempt me to settle in these border Counties. Bad
faces are largely in the majority.
1 passed the Bender homestead, the other day.
There is broodng horror about the spot that geper-
ations will not erase. L. s. detective saws the
story published year two ago. about the hanging
of the outfit by the neghbors or accomplices is false
He thinks they bought tickets at Chanute as blind
never taking the cars but travelling by night made
have been adopted into tribe and now pass for
Indians People here say that Kate Bender was uu-
usually 'smart" and possessed of more than average
intelligence but that all of the Blenders were religious
monomaniacs. Truly, religion is q great civilizer
fellow ordained, the other day. here On re-
turning from the sacred edfce, he remarked to n
friend: "Jest fined the Beecherites now belong
to the blooded stock of the country 1t is my delb.
crate conviction the result of mature reflection that
no should be received into the sacred trade ex.
cept eunuchs. Husbands and brothers. think of it.
l spent nearly day among the negro refugees, at
Wyandotte Talked with q score or more. All sang
the same song They were prosperous, much better
of than the negroes in Kansas, but were compelled
to fly for their lives Yet tried in vain to find ne
gro who had been hurt, or seen q negro hurt by a
white man. 1t all right, where he lived but fifty
Dr. q hundred miles away, the whites were shootin'
niggers jst like jack-rabbtsr The negroes are no.
lorous liars; but there is something below the vis
Die. They have either been purposely alarmed or |
hey have concocted the thing among themselves. |
An old fellow by the name of Pollard, preacher,
,lamed to have been in the State Senate of Missis
ppi for six years. II ruined de politics oh ole Mas
ssip fo' six years. When weuns war in powah we |
in dc white man a sbown' We lecte.i 'em IN of6ee
IN all dat But st as soon as dey got de upah han.