The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-23

L OuuSefS SdlHeTeO Ill1Ck I1OLet sum-
nit. The office was filled with war
time comrades, all of Virginia or Ken
lucky descent-a pure American type,
with keen blue eyes, resolute faces and man
ners SO gentle as to be almost feminine.
There was Captain George Wiggington, a
former leader Of guerrillas, who is now a
prosperous farmer; Captain Will Gregg,
Quantrelrs first lieutenant. reformed into
a republican office-holder; Uncle Billy
Jones, who was shot twice through the
body at White Oak and whose left lung
still leaks; and Major Tom Nolan, who
doesn't do nothin' now-leads kind of a
private life .. .- ..
To See "Massa Cole"
The kitchen, in turn. was crowded, with
old negro men and women, all excited at
once more meeting 'Massa Cole" Several
had been slaves on the Younger farm.
These included an aged woman, Aunt
Susan Handy, for whom Younger had in
quired at once on his arrived. "Ole Aunt
Suze," his former nurse or NANNY had
snow as fast as the horses
could struggle four miles along
the blocked roads. Both her
arms encompassed Coles neck. When
her kisses ceased, her "honey boy weight
215 pounds, was blushir1g. But Aunt Sue,
as we'll as her sister Aunt Ann Coldwell
had both saved Coles life when, on several
occasions, the old home had been sur
rounded by revengeful Jayhawkers.
Monday morning Cole began refusing
and continued to refuse, all public recep
tons. barbacues and other proposals of
old timed hospitality.
1t was Tuesday evening that Younger
met Frank James at independence to dis
cuss the Wild West show. This project
| 49, a lo
known at Kansas City by the same Chi
cago men that revealed Younger's arrival
Oh the KaW.
James, a modest, slender and rather
feeble man, who complains OF ill-health
said, after his interview with Curiosity, as
Cole was styled by the confederates, that
ninety per cent of the American people
pardon I went all through Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio. West Virginia and severa
other eastern states last year." added
James, land everywhere they asked il
there was any prospect for Youngers par
don. Everyone thought that he had beer
so generously treated in your state thai
pardon would be the only proper close
to his experience there. And most of the
people I talked with were republicans
tou I sincerely believe that Younger will
| keep his word now as he always did, anc
that he will make an honorable citizen
No don't he relaizes what he owes to his
good friends in Minnesota He must I'M
| derstand, as I do, the truth Of what the
master said, The greatest Of these is
charity I feel that the man who does
not forgive his fellowmen in this worl6
simply burns the bridge that takes him tc
| the next world.
A Statement on the Show.
| From Lees Summit last wednesday,
| Younger himself sent to his North Stal
friends, through he urnal. his
frst acknowledgment that he was to owr
| a Wild West show. With this state
ment he coupled his reasons for believing
| that such an undertaking would not VIC
late either the language or the spirit OF
his pardon. He explained with manifest
! sincerity:
.It was understood that should, above
all, do nothing that might mislead any
laws life. Good God, wouldn't deceive
| anybody about that! I wouldn't even
suggest that there is profit Or happiness
in 1awbreaking or outlawry. I know toe
we'll there isn't. I was going to dwell
on that point in the lecture I had pre-
pared to deliver, but which I can't use
under the terms Of my pardon. So was
| glad to promise that I would not pretend
| to be hero; that would not put myself
forward in any play or other performance
as if I was trying to revive the past OF
glory in it. I should never have gone into
any play. even II the pardon hadn't inter
| fered. / shall not appear anywhere in my
| circus before the public, nor in the ring
or the parade. I shall not allow any fea
lures in the show that represent out
lawry Of any sort.
But think I'm certainly entitled t,
use my own name either as the owner o
a show or as the author of a book. 4
mans name need not stand for his mis-
| takes alone; it shouldn't if he can help It
I want to make the name Of Younger a.
respected hereafter, If possible, as it use,
to be when my good old father was alive
III. B. Curry.