The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-06-18

taDllsheu which might easily be fol-
lowed by succeeding secretaries of war.
and thus the desired end be accom-
plished without the cession of the prop
erty to the federal government.
Brought Tears to His Eyes.
Congressman Spaulding recently re-
ceiyed a letter which brought tears to
his eyes. II was from the widow of
David Sample. late lieutenant in the
Fifteenth Michigan infantry After hav-
ing served faithfully during the war.
Lieutenant Sample in 1865, refused to
permit one of his men to be arrested
without written order from the officer
OF the day. Thereupon he was court
martialeG and dismissed from the serv-
ice. Two years ago Congressman Spauld-
ing secured the passage of bill grant
ing Lieutenant Sample an honorable
discharge. The congressman just re-
ceived letter from Crosse Isle inform
ing him that Lieutenant Sample is dead,
and with his dying breath he thanked
Spauloing for having made ii possible
for his widow to secure the pension to
which she is entitled under the law. 1t
was very affectionate. indeed.
Il. NJ. Hopkins. secretary of the Sagl-
nav Chamber of Commerce. with head
quarters in Chicago, is procuring lots
of petitions against 81 rate on lumber;
but the Michigan senators will not be
influenced by these petitions. They re-
gard them as machine-made.
Led Charmed Life.
Charles William Quantrell was one
Of the remarkable products of the civil
war;" said Farmer Dade of Missouri.
HE led a charmed life, committed
many depredations, constantly risked his
life, and for many years after the close
of the war was supposed to be still liv-
ing. Indeed, as late as 1888 or 1890 it
was rumored that Quantrell had died
Of disease near Birmingham, Ala.
las matter of fact, in February 1865,
Quantrell, at the head of about 175
mounted and well-armed Missouri guer-
rillas, left Fayette county, Mo-, for an
other field of operations. The guerril-
las were all dressed in federal uni
form and looked as blue as indigo and
as loyal as bleeding Kansas. They sue
cessfully passed numerous Union posts
and detachments, and eventually reached
western Kentucky where they renewed
their peculiar savage warfare against
all who were arti-Confederates The
loyal Kentuckians defeated them in sew
eral encounters, and al last, in the early
spring of 1S65-about the time of Lees
surrender, think-in fight in barn
yard some miles back Of Louisville with
a company of Kentucky troops under a
Lieutenant Terril, Quantrellw was mortal
ly wounded. four or five of his men
killed outright, ard his band broken up,
never again to reassemble. At the in
slant that he received his death wound
Quantrell was on foot endeavoring to
mount behind one Of his men. a boy
named Newton Hockensmith who was
killed in his efforts to save his leader.
Was an Ohio Man.
1.-THE noted bandit, Frank James, and
Clay Evans Of Saline county. Mo-. were
with Quantrell in his last fight. They
often told of the time. place, and man
ner of Quantrells death; and the guer-
rilla's mother, Mrs. Caroline Quantrell
of Canal Dover, o., was assured of the
death of her son at louisville. The of
lenses of the civil war were amnestied
by its termination and buried in the
bloody chasm, and If Quantrell had lived
all these years without revealing his ex-
istence and identity 1t would have been
very foolish in him. and Charlie Guam
trell was not fool.
ut is not generally known that Guam
trell was an Ohio man. He was born at
Canal Dover in that state and was edu-
Gated in his native village and at Fort
Wayne, Ind. He went to Kansas in 1859
as Free State man, and for some time
was engaged in school teaching in the
then territory. But finally he went
astray, and, to escape punishment for a
certain offense fled to Missouri, where,
protesting a change Of political senti-
ment. he was well received. When the
war came on he entered the rebel serv-
ice, but in q few months deserted the
Confederate army, and, organizing a
company in western Missouri inaugur-
ated the fearful system Of guerrilla war
fare which produced so many horrors in
Missouri and Kansas. At the time OF
his death he was about 30 years Of age.
Quantrelrs Principal Lieutenant.
"Cole and Jim Younger were both
members of Quantrells band, though
Jim was very young at the time. On
the occasion Of the massacre at and the
sacking and burning of Lawrence, Kan,
Cole Younger was Quantrells principal
lieutenant, and it was he who. in the
uniform of a federal officer, rode into
the town on the morning of the attack,
inspected the situation, and reported il
to Quantrell."
On an electric car today I heard a
peculiar remark by a retired clergyman
"a man who has large moned interests
entrusted to his care. He was convers-
ing with an active minister of his own
denomination and said that he knew Of
twenty preachers Of his own faith who
are in this city without ministerial
charge. Some daily with life insurance
work; others dabble in literature. while
q few live on their wits The speaker
attributed this spiritual surplus to the
mistaken zeal of societies for the in
crease Of the ministry. which offer to i'm
young men a support through
college and the theological seminary,
and thus bride them to take up a calling
for which they have no taste, and are
neither morally nor intellectually fitted.
"It is free lunch route 10 the altar" he
said, land nothing better could be ex-
pected of 1t than that II should produce
q race Of clerical bummers. The PAM
pered pauper finds too late that he has
made a mistake in climbing UP into the