The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 3, 1891, Page 2

war and its attendant horrors, which A chapter which were un- captured by the rai ty, it tells Low the peo; A Story Full ot All the Elements) .:9, inen A ROMANCE IN BONDS. ates to the bends ver 1 and the building of railroads was 1@ ar of Romance and Adventure Iwo hundred thousaud dollars in and executed bonds had been issued ty the Mis transgression, A MOST REMARKABLE HISTORY. soa Va road, but before In @ con pee ‘ c {be comphed with | tass County Judges Jmprisoned for . oa : Contempt —Praud, Robbery, Sai bouds we 1 at ille ] cide and Mob Violence During the wo lbany were somely execu Abounds. made threugh the western part of finished with a gree —— the state by bands of bushwhack coupons—thirty-#ix abtcry AESATIREYICW ul predatory Unioni-ts. These ubell wi lished } A correspondent sends the Re bands wo other. and view the following interesting ac count of the noted bond i forwards battle were driven backwards by the fortunes Lie troubles in var of on yin 1,000 rGix 2 our neighboring county of Casx | During one of these raids the court This is one of the “bloody bonds The editor of this paper resided at jou.e was louted by the Unionists 80 called, becauss they gave rise to Holden at the time of the shooting gd the sieved bonds were carried \the Gunn City tragedy, in whieh J of the two county judges referred to om 4 hey were recovered from the|C. Stephenson, presiding justice of and no doubt many others of our) yar dals by a regular Union army of-| the counsy court; J. P. ¢ citizens are fully familiar therewith. | lficer ut Leavenworth of theltrust. These bonds afterwards judges of this county is but one) found themselves into the bands of more chapter in the history of the /tig Missouri Pacific railroad aud b aud held ney for the railroad, roe were killed In The arrest a few days ago ly ‘masked men, who stepped the train by a on the M.. K. & T. City on the evening of April 1s road at Gunn 23d, When the train stopped, Cline and bond question, which haw been ver- | ¢),¢%) history formed a bloody chap- ing the people of Cass county for | the last seventeen year. For that ter in the annals of the county. | THR TROUBLE BEGINS. drew a revolver and fired into the } length of time the judges of the) Ty6 other bonds which had been|crowd, wounding two men, axd H county have been in contempt ef the | jgued to the various railroad com.| jumped from the train and attempt. | i court of the United States. For 17 panies before the war now began t ,/ed to make his escape, but fell pierc-| i} years the bond question has been After the rebellion was | ed by several bullets, one of which A crop out. fought ever and over again by shrewd lawyers through all the lo- gal processes known, and still the holders of the bonds have nothing to show for their action except the county's promises to pay and the judgments of the court. The history of the bond troubles over and peace again came to the! | passed through his head, killing bim border the bond troubiearose. The | instantly. Stephensoa was LLED IN THE BAGGAGE Can people had recovered from their ex-| citement over the railroads, and us| where he sought safety by hiding. they had borns the brunt of devas-| He was shot through the throat, the tation they were on the verge of | ball passing through both jugular starvation aud bankruptey and | termined to resist payment on the! Veins, and was given a blow with some sharp instrument which split {| of Cass couaty is a remarkable 620! bonds which had been of no benetit | Lice slcail cto fii eyebrows, ki! i in many respects. The story of the|to their county. |Bim at once. i bonds themselves is dry and prosaic The holders of the bonds took ‘acl Di-troe was shot in the baek of | but the adventure and incidents at |iatter into the state courts, but|the lead, the ball lodging gver the tending their issuance and the sub-/tjose tribunals from the lowest to left eye He died in ab vit four sequent persistent refusal to pay, | the highest decided teat the county |hours. This tragedy was the cul- despite the decree of the national was right and refused to give jadg- | mina::on of a piece of robbery whiel | court, is a story which bears all the}joent in favor of the boudholders. | 1 disaster to everyone | elements of romance, adventure and |S» the maiter went until the last | nected with it, and whieh was | crime. Judges elected for the pur |eourt of resort in the state had) eo phiehed under the following pose of resisting United States of | made its decision aud then the hold cu | ers made overtures for a comprom-| 18e. ticers have been TRUE TO THEIR TRUBT, and have been fugitives from justice hiding like criminals in the brash and hidden by the citizens of the The boads which were st Two eleetions were held in the | Hari isonville by the freebootin county on the matter, but in both | eral offi id cases the veun overwhelm- vered by which were altel- pevple wards rec a regular officer ing majority inthe negative. This | at Fort Leavenworth, beeame the county while they were tleeing the! gurried the matter down to 1882,/ subject of a bitterly contested law- deputy marshals; they havelanguish | when the bonds were sold to parties jsuit. Thee vunty took steps to re ed in jails and the penitentiary rath-! outside of the state, aud then suit iene the bouds and after several er than betray the who placed them on the beuch for the express purpose ef defying the writ of the ceurts ef the national govern : as | | people was brought before Judge Krekel of | years of Litigation a compromise w the United States court, which re j effected by whie | sulted © Donds were to in a decision against the} be recalled and reissued to the St. | county, and the judges were order. | Louis and Santa Fe road, with an made without uny expense to the wment; they have paid heavy fines toed tu makethe levy to.pay the bonds, | additional amount in consideration | POP! Doubtless they think that the courts for contempt, which fines! which by this time lad accumulated Hfor which the road was to be built the government can make all the the citizens have promptly repaid. interest until the total amounted to| through the county. But this did| money that it wants atanytim:, an a] j To fully understand the situation | $1L.S62081 lei te uit enti obivel elie cia a fean thus pay for all the private en- of the case it is necessary to go back The county judges were CS. /|junetion was served on terprises that the cranks decree to the days when the people we 4 Hockaday, presiding justice; William | restraining them fromvefunding the! shall be thrust into their hands. | pioneers; to the days when the traf. | © Terese and © Fee ie lineation) bontian tlavlettha mations: anc Their function is statesmanship not | fie west of the Mississippi river Was! The order of the United States was/a shape that 229 unsigned bonds lay | They merely tell the gev- | sarried on in “prairie schooners” and a voteltaken ou thelin tle office of the county clack |crmmeue what to do, and at as 7the | drawn by ox teams and when west | patter. Hockaday voted in favor|awaiting the termination of the in-! [business of the government's clerks } ern Missouri was the seat of “bor lof making the levy, but Barnes and | junction proceedit It was at |? fizure out the details as to how SS =F | Jolnston were emphatic against it | this time that a conspiracy was en- jitisto be done. They have never prosperous, crops were large and) |The result was that no levy was|tered iuto by which these bonds lreahized that the government had f prices high; the farm land of the | made, and an order issued from | were to be signed and stolen by the | her only what tho people give | ? “ i ‘o . ¥‘ . prairies along the frontier tier of | J, Ige Krekel in chambers at Seda-| county judges with certain others |" that money must rest on a basis i u s at Seda- unt) = . a ae : counties responded abundantly to! yi. for the aorece lof gold or silver, aud that every do!- the efforts of the husbandman and! ARREST OF THB TWO JUDGES To AID AND ABET THEM. ‘lars worth of these metals in the | the country was rich. But with all | for conte: upt of | eourt The arrest Legal proceeding their prosperity there was one dia-| was made Sept. 5, 1882, and both | ing since 1S71 advantage: Markets were far away | judges were aa to Jefferson City | March 1, 187 and difficult of access. shad been pend-} On the evening of | 2.there met in the back ottice of Hines & Cline, Railroads | jand imprisoned in the penitentiary. lawyers, } were feeling their way carefully in| The judges were obstinate and re- | Judges Stepheuson and Forsythe, of | | the new territory aud the cost of| mained i in prison for about a month |the county court, J. R. Cline, law- transportation was so great the im-| when & proposition was made to! yer, O. P. Yelton, deputy county! mense crops availed nothing to the| compromise the bonds. The judges | elerk, and R. B. Higgins. The | { farmers. jrefused to make the call for an elec-| bonds were signed by Stephenson | } & RAILROAD CRAZE tion as long as they were confined as presiding justice, and Yelton was | This condition remained for many jand at the solicitation of the bond-| told that if he did not sign them he} years, and then came agents of rail-! polders they were granted a fur- would be killed. The signature was! road builders who talked of the ad-)jough to ge home and issue a call | affixed anda hasty flight with the! vantages of direct The people again ‘bonds followed. The with St. Louis The jemp yhatically refused to compromis | sold and the proceeds di people, however, were slow to grasp ‘and as the j judges declined to make the conspirators. the opportunity, yet the progress of | returned to It was several days before the these agents was ms arked with a! jon and remained there until the ex-/ people learned of the transaction, gradually increasing sentiment. The! | piration of their term }and then the indignation ran high. } insidious working had its effect after A hot search was made for the per-| many months, and at last where | petrators, and hanging was freely | there had been apathy there came threatened. Judge Forsythe return- such intense desire that one road ‘ed and plead remorse, and gave the! was not deemed sufficient and the full particulars of the plct and its} communication Chicago. for an election bonds were | and ed among | | the levy they were pris- | | From then until the present the! judges have been elected to the pen- itentiary with great regularity and followed by! orders from the United States court the elections have been i | people went wild ever the craze. ‘to make the levy, but these orders | execution. R. B. Higgins blew out | P Away back in the fifties the C have invariably been ignored, and | bis brains in the court room at Har | i ; ton and Kansas branch of the Lebo the judges hav. suffered arrest and /TIs onville, but the others were away. | ih i and Neosho road was projected and imprisonment rather than preve un The thievish judges were ousted and | if a proposition made to Cass county fgithful to the trust imposed upon others put in their plac Suit was i to issue $200.000 in bonds in aid of ghem by the people of the county. brought for the recovery of the i the road. ‘This was granted byt The arrest of t fthee bonds and eventually they were all si county court, which at that time bad | ty on the 1S onth, returned : Cl ne and Stephensen i the power to issue bonds without then came back tothe city and bra-! i eformality of an election. Fol zenly detied the peuple. They walk- * wing this bonds were issued to the ed the streets w Detroe as a body the Lexington, Lawrence an 1 Gulf, all i Hill and Lawrence and the = . Louis and Santa Fe roads in suce shoot down aby mau who attempted cession and the county took a verit-| But there is ‘another chapter to|to arrest them. At last the indigna.| able railroad boom. three came the | the bond question of Cass county. | tion of the people became too great | guard, and i avil d and openl county would} DY. BON they sought to have the government | ducing this debt | corresponding Maen in that phase. They had fnever taken ‘the trouble to look at it: in its) busi- { Somehow, and through some species | ; will prpve to these sosia! refermers \sen: sty evs was wired rhe ter i City is” Were rst. and to Harris ec ly Cariiste and the Cranks. ks may be! f nds of even themselves Some e individuals, just after the Cir nati Convention, crossed over to the other side of the Ohio with the; intentic the Pp vroject to on ef convineing senator | of their jlroads, of the wisdoin put the telephones of the country and | the! and to ex-/ the e| asked the-e| r telegraphs unto governments P class. possession, of The Kentuekian n other reforms sane men if their plan was to confiscate these properties. and finding that} accuire then by purchase, he put afew queries us to whether they | knew tue cost of such an acquisition. OF course they did He then} told them that the capital ex, ended | enterprises is about $10,- 000,000,000. This is about four times | not. in these as great as the national debt at the close of the civil war, and as we have been a quarter of a century re- two thirds, | the tine required to pay off such an | about iminense obligation as the purchase | of the milroads, telegraphs and tel-| ephones would impose would be} rly greate: The scheme had never presented | itself to the minds of these ness aspect and ta count the cost of financial legerdemain which they could not explain to the:iselvea cr ‘to anybody else. and never tried to explain. they imagined that the transfer of these properties trom | private into public hands could be treasury vaults represents an ap-| proximately equivalent umount of lavor performed by somebody st some time. A little judicious ques- tioning after the Carlele fashion that the dom are ignorance things which they eali wis- and folly of the 'most extreme aud dangerous sort.— Globe Democrat. tin the Field a | O., May 22.—The far-| mers representing Kentucky in the| Cincinnati Cincivnati, made their | May over the Ohio after the conven- convention tion and organized tion. The followi: Govevunor, state conven-| ticket was cho-| Pollock Barbour of Lieutenant gover BY 3 Jefferson county; jnor, Dr. S. F. Smith of Franklin county; Attorney general, Judge E. | L. D. Gufty of Butler county; Audit-| or. W. G. Fulkerson of Olio county: | Treasurer, O. G county; Superinte D. county: Register |B. Herrold of B ef the court Lair, of Nichol Sarter of Trigg udent of public in- Mornis of Ballard CS sk Cle «| struction, I. lau of Yr s county seein :ACKER’ PURE PINK PILLS. 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