The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-09-07

Is the truth? That John 8. Frazer was
most foully murdered we all believe.
Who did the act? We don't know.
Frank Kinney and Jerry Hutton have
been arrested, charged with the crime.
When 1t became known that Messrs.
Gibson and Frazer were intending TO
ship large number OF Texas cattle into
this county, they were waited upon by a
committee composed of leading farmers
in this county, and q conference had, In
which the dangers to domestic cattle
were discussed, and Gibson and Frazer
notified that they were exposing their
nelghborS and friends to serious and
irTeparable loss In order to advance their
own private interests. Gibson ard Fra
zer answered all argument first by de-
clRring their belief In no danger, and
second by offering to pay GH losses that
might occur from Texas fever. There
the conference ended without all" feel
ing, as the Journal states, ana one Of the
parties to this conference afterwards
leased to Mr.. Gibson large pasture.
The Journal Is "off" again when It
says this conference took place after the
cattle were landed. The conference was
had quite while before the cattle ever
reached the state of Kansas.
The Journal Is "off" again when 1t
says the cattle were landed at Sedan. The
cattle were landed in the Indian Terri
tory, south OF Coffeyvllle, and driven
across the line Into the state west OF
Coffeyville and thirty miles east Of Sc
dan, February %, 1890. Wire fences
were cut soon after the cattle were driven
into Chautsuqua county, not only around
the Gibson u Frazer pastures, butarOund
other pastures with which Gibson 8
Frazer had nothing to do, and which did
not and never have had ahoof of Texas
cattle in them.
The Journal wlllfully lies when it
produces what 1t pretends TO be a note
from one committee to another, as no
such committees eUer eGGsted and the Of
fcers haze no such Information, | know.
The Journal again wlllfully lies when
1t speaks about members Of the alliance
forming inner circles and meeting at q
house near certain crossroads, the
owner Of which house has since gone
crazy. No such thing has ever occurred
in this county. The thing is lie out Of
whole cloth.
The Journal again lies when It says
that s. s. Kirkpatrick has been hired by
Governor Humphrey TO take charge Of
and prosecute the case. The facts are
that Humphrey and all the rest Of the
clan like him, with the Journal, when
this murder was committed rushed into
open declaration charging the crime and
laying 1t at the door Of the alliance, and
seemed to be perfectly satisfied to let it
remain there undlSturbed, az none Of
them ever did anything TO bring the
criminals to justice until Davis and
West (the detectives to whom the Jour
nal ascribes 30 much honor, through the
FreenlGn'S Lance, Peoples party paper
at Sedan, charged "that the criminals
were known TO the officers and that they
were permitted to 60 free in order that
the republican papers and orators might
charge this crime to the Peoples party,
las they did,, and thereby GAIN" then It
was that Humphrey showed some inter
est In this matter, and then It was that
the Journal also showed some interest
in the matter, and some Of It's managers
wrote some letters (which can make
oath to il Mr.. Journal thinks l know not
whereof / speak), and the only action
that Humphrey then took was 20 insist on
the county attorney commencing prose-