New-York tribune., 1896-01-26

ONCE THE HOME OF MAvy PROMINENT PEOPLE

ONCE THE HOME OF MANY PROMINENT PEOPLE
From The Kansas city Times.
Three miles south of Ach!son IS ~ site OF "a
d,al ciiy. whose s'gr''7 1",r ,j =, the trcad OF
t"rus"eHM, H. 90 ,, W.-t transported tho proiIcts OF
the East across the great American desert ~ '"'
10. 70 ~ .t,, in which for a few years . 30 men
d 49, "", " .n1 children lived and laborei ana loved
In which many lofty asplrs tons were po'i az, ~ ~.
which several young men began careers 'h"' nave
TIKI city was located what The early trsnch
~ "s''7 - s,r,r- MO existence suddenly ani
impcrcrptibly II might almost hay" been consiere'
q creation 81 ile magicians wani. .
=, Sas named sumner. In honor of nc sr'at
Massachusetts senator. It's ON, n'p.ou , '''
pro legr q grcgo" Oor the law ani me I"oit',
summers Gf-t citizens cam" mostly from Massa-
chusetts They had come to 'Re ion", - ui,hIn
,'bose w,lis ali previous conditions OF slavery
should hc dlsregard'd. and where All M" O'''
Tso grown o. sumner phonomenai li,h9-
graph printed IN 1871 shows strcc's %, Sos That
incs imposing seats of learning 'huIcm SItcS ',e w.,
,gerc.J Inc Clouds elegant hotels and 10, atrr-' u
liver fu Of noating palaces. ITS leNce ,'p NJ, N,n
holes and barrels ~ merchandise. and the wniio
smoke from numerous factories hahEll~ au"Nr '''
CITY ike a banner OF peace ana ptOSi'4l' l.,
ono dav the steamboat Duncan :. Carter land'i
nj sumner on its hurricane deck was J!hh -.
insas tnen m. horizon his prophetic SOU uttered
,6ese words: .fsehod the home OF he future Sena-
Here the young college graduate. who since thai may
day became the senator rom Narsss se onG ichl
arrano s ha ua,i ,se and then he moved to Atchson
br,n,,ir@ win him Summers official seal and the
IJepe lived that artcrward brilliant author and
journalist ALERT -. Richardson, whose iraSIc AZ
NcR-York Tribune Is well remembered. li,s >, ~ n
yond the Mississippi IL TO this day the mos.
Here lived nlne-yar-old Minnie Hauk. VINO was As
day to become pnn. Was 5 BORN "0 in poverty
and cradIed in adversely. Her mother was poor
f Here lived John Z: Renshrrs the now i noted S,,r
author-lecturcr and free thinker Mr. RemspnrF is
has probably delivered more Lectures IN me last
thirty years than any man IN me ,tTn q,
| agrcuItural implements lived and made and menhcd
/ Ucre Iove,oy tho Yankee preacher. preached
and pray ed and invoked Gods wrath upon the slave
1i.re lived .Rrother' and Sister Newcomb.
from whom have descended long line OF Jealous
and eminent Methodsts ,, - ..,,o,or
r,,tiian" In Atchson the ''ngger was slave; IN
Sumner he was a fetch II was IN Atchson INA,
the abolition prsacher rardee m B. raT, IN th river
jonathan Lang. alias 'shang." the hero OF Sena, ma,
tor ngass Catfish Arist0craGy a IN nnnr sma 1e Whe,
ali his lovely companions had faded ana gone
"Shang" still plned on the stem ,o,r ,,,..
every other citizen had moved away. ana un'ii every
house save his miserable hut had vanished IKE the
base esq fabric OF n vision. leaving no wreck penihd
/ lie claimed and was proud OF the title, the last
| Mayor os sumner. ,,,.,. ,,... itct.
| ming struck his cabin and II WAS devoured ny
/ hamcs And thus passed away the iast re"c VI
Atchison secured Its first railroad. The smoke
from the locomotive engines drifted 10 sumner ana
One dav there was an exodus OF citizens their
/ houses were down and the tmDers tnereoi
carted away and pexnd as bY W ax
/ or saw asserted IT'S domIrion once more ana toI
day benea n the shadows cast ny mgity oahs oar s an,
signing cottonwoods. Sumner lies dead ana lot
! gotten