The Butler weekly times., 1897-09-30

TO the reporter, sis that an not
sleeping in place like this, Why
have | been spared when 50 many of
my comrades were takent Two men
shall b4 working in a field. one shaIl
be taken and the other left. That's
Scripture-you know my father was
Baptist preacher good man and
a good preacher-i.'s Scripture and
it's life, too
Frank James does not ike to hear
the battle of Centralia spoken of as
massacre Speaking of this after
be had left the scene of the fight be
said:
when great big grown men, with
full possession of all their faculties.
refer to that bittle as the Cen.ralia
ma ssacre' / thiuk they are pleading
, the baby act We did not seek the
fight. Johnsoa fooIishly came out to
hunt US aud be found us. Then We
I killed him aud his men. Wouldn't
be have killed every one of Us if he
had had chance, Wha. is war for
t if it isn't to kill people for a princi-
9 plee The Federal soldiers tried to
I kill every one of the Southern SOL
a diers and the soldiers from the south
= tried to kill all the northerpers-and
n that's all there is of it.
q We were just out there in the
f brush, not molesting anybody, when
Johnson and his men came out after
u.s. We never took prisoners We
) couldn't do it, How could we carry
. them around with us, We either
, killed them or turned them loose
70 and We diiu t turn many loose. Al
q for the Centralia tight-i. reminds
"a me of Macbeth: Never shake th,
., CORY locks at me; thou canst not sa,
: l did it..
= 1--WE didn't make war on womer
"a and children. They are the onl,
a people whom l sympathized will
70 during war. Men ought to be il
the fight on one side or the other
"a Nor did we fight the citizens excep
r. when they had played informer.
under stand one ci,izsn was killed i,
Centraiia in drunken row. Tha
ought not to have been done. Th
- Federals killed many more non ICON
batants than we did.
=. 1--WE lave been called guerrilla
- (Which some people pronounce gori
lasl, bush whackers and all that.
- do not know who originated th
name bushwhacker, bus it is prett
good description. We lived in th
,, brush but never fought from an
-, bush. We always gave battle in tt
open. / never fought from hehln
!, cover but once. Thsn thsra was on
three Ct US and $50 FederaIs wei
g fighting US, But we got away.
Bush " hackers" he continue
~ did some bad thinge, but they new
"a devastated aud luined the countr
- Wh+n General Sherman. whom Il
l. North wcrships as a great Chris.is
soldier. wsns on his famous mar,
he ie sued orders that the count
should be mads so desolata th
to get over it q crow would ha
to carry his haversack full of ratio
.., with him We did nothing like th.
And Order Number lie wing
~. 1 am glad Gen Bingham put tb
on immortal canvas. That is p
ture that talks That order simE
ruined hundreds of peaceful BON
. 10 Western Missouri. know Q
msn up in Jackson county who ma
oss a fortune going around picking
Will cattle that bad bean sbandore5
and high toned cattle thief
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~, DIEp:-In Kansas City, No,
Sept 25th, Adelia, wife of &. w. b
hey ton, of consumption, aged 4G yea
hey 4months ana l. Gays. Aael,a , naa,
ing 1859 and has resided here continue
sur- until March, 1896, when she with
husband and children moved to 4;
,nn- sas CITY. She had been sick for eig
heir teen months and died with the he
of a rest beyond the grave. S
: II leaves a husband and three sons
me mourn her loss. She was meiul
Of the Baptist church Of this ei
The remains were brought 70 Butt
rom SUNDAY and inferred in Oak Il i'll &c,
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