The Kansas Chief from Troy, Kansas • Page 14

P. HARPER BOM J. i EAL'E -URflBE KANSAS. Old Times and Timers in Iowa Township. About the beginning of the present century, President Jefferson sent oat two adventurous pioneers, Lewis sad Clark, to explore Oregon, who pSBfil up the Missouri River on their way to the Pacific Coast.

In their journal of travels, they speak of camping at the month of a small river that put into the Missouri from the West, to which they gave the name of Wolf River and they were no doubt the lint white men that ever trod the soQ of Doniphan County. Bat then is abundant evidence" that this part of the country was inhabited by a prehistoric race, many centuries before the coming; of these pioneers of civilization. While this mysterious race no doubt roamed over a wide extent of territory in search of game, there is abundant evidence that their home was in the peninsula between Wolf River and the great Missouri, which at this point flow in almost parallel lines, and opposite directions. Broken fragment of ancient pottery, arrow points, and stone ana, are found scattered over this peninsula, and at Eagle Springs they are found covered up many feet under ground but nothing has yet been discovered to show that they had ever come in contact with civilisation. They evidently burnt their dead, as no human bones have been found, with the exception of a single tooth many feet under ground, where there had once been a fire and the finding of this tooth in such a place was what first led me to the conclusion that they burnt their dead.

The bones of the wild animals that they used for food, such as the buffalo, the elk, and the deer, KANSAS LEON ash, Doors, Blinds, Lath, Wm. H. HORR. )i Lime, Cement, and Coal Combination Fencing, Piaster Paris, and All Builders Material. DONIPHAN, GEORGE George Brenner, a son of Jacob Brenner, was born in Deidesheim, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, Germany, September 5, 1842, and came to Kansas with his father, in June, 1860.

He clerked for his uncle, A. Brenner, two and one-half years, and was employed as book-keeper in Atchison two years, when he returned to Doniphan, and went into the Grain and Agricultural Implement business with A. Brenner, the firm beingknown as A. G. Bren ner.

In 1867 he moved to Iowa Point, and took charge of a branch house of I i a We can make lietter Arrangements than any Merchant in the County on Car Iiail Lot. If liarn, Come and See What We Can Do For You. We Can Save You All of our Sasli, Poors, Blinds, are of the lest Finish, We have the celebrated Diamond Cement, for Plastering, Hard Finish, the Verv Best Material there is to be had. and can be had at Verv Moderate Prices. HARPER Shingles, you want to IiniM a House or a Money.

iL DR. JOSEPH. SO 1 8c DR. PARDY. i 'mm 1 vt I i GEORGE BRENNER, ME PROPRIETOR OF ETDE DONIPHAN, BRENNER.

the firm above named. He returned to Doniphan in the fall of 1868, and in 1869, he planted the first five acres of his vineyard, which he named the "Bellevue Vineyards," which he has added to until he has about fifty acres in vines, and his wines are celebrated throughout an extensive scope of country his vineyard being one of three located side by side, all owned by Brenners. He was married in 1866, to Miss Eugenia Frank. His advertisement speaks for itself. KANSAS.

this favorable notoriety his name of this delicious fruit, including of such leading varieties as the lovers of this beverage wherever Brenner sells his wines to retail Secure the Purest Native Wines, Address GROWER TOYARB John P. Johnson. The parents of the subject of this sketch were North Carolinians, who, in 1799, moved to Tennessee, and from there to Illinois, in her Territorial days. John P. Johnson was born at Pocahontas, Bond County, Illinois, December 6, 1817.

He remained at home until he was 17 years of age, when he attended McKendree College, at Lebanon, Illinois and after taking coarse there, he attended Harvard University, where he graduated Au gust 26, 1848. From 1858 to 1853, he was principal of the Seminary at Dan ville, Illinois, which, under his management, became very successful and profitable. He had made a thorough study of surveying, and in 1854 Xwas employed to establish the boundary line between the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, on the 40th parallel of north latitude, as far west as the Sixth Principal Meridian, which line formed the base line of the surveys for both States. Major Thomas J. Lee was the officer having the work in charge but after visiting Mr.

Johnson's camp, and inspecting his starting point on the sandbar on the east side of the river, he pronounced it all right, and de parted, participating no farther in the survey. From that time Mr. Johnson became a citizen of Kansas, being one of the very earliest in this County after the organization of the Territory. He located at Highland. In the summer of 1855 he made a horseback trip through a large portion of Kansas, to see the country.

Crossing the river at Junction City, he proceeded east on the south side of the Kansas River. When near Shawnee Mission, in aly, he was halted and apprehended i.by squad of men, who said they believed he was an Abolitionist, and who took him to Shawnee Mission. The Terri torial Legislature, which had been removed to that place, was then in ses sion, and there was much bad feeling, against Governor Reeder in particular, and all Northern people in general. CoL Thomas Johnson, the Indian Agent, who was also a member of the Territorial Council, knew Mr. Johnson, gave him protection, and secured his safe departure.

Mr. Johnson selected the town site of Highland, and was one of the founders of the town, where he established a bank, which he still conducts, perhaps the oldest in the State. He is undoubted ly, also, the largest land-owner in the State. Besides thousands of acres in Kansas and Nebraska, he owns exten sive tracts in Missouri and in Florida, the latter being orange and phosphate lands. He also has large interests in Arizona and other sections.

A great deal of his land is under cultivation, and besides he has large cattle, male and horse ranches. He is among the wealthiest men in the State. He has held the offices of County Commission er and Kauroaa Assessor, ana repre sented his District in the Legislature, in 1863 and 1864. Mr. Johnson has been married three times in 1847, to Sarah A.

Norton, of London, Ohio, who died in 1854 in 1856, to Sarah C. Canaday, of Georgetown, Illinois, who died a few years ago, at Highland and several years ago, to Mrs. Virginia M. Hutt, of Missouri. Mr.

Johnson now spends most of his time travelling from section to section, looking after his varied and extensive inter ests, and appears to be as hale and hearty as a man of 55 years, instead of 76. A i 1 I S. McConnell. Seward McConnell was in Hen derson County. Illinois, in 1861.

In 1870 he came with his family to Jeffer son County, Kansas, and worked for his father on the farm until 1881, when he moved to Goffs, Nemaha County, and engaged in the hardware business. There he married Miss Mary Denton, daughter of John Denton, one of the early settlers of Union Township, Doniphan County. In 1884 he engag ed in the hotel business at Goffs. In 1887 he moved to Doniphan County, locating at Denton, where be is one of the leading merchants, doing a gener al mercantile business. Daring the Administration of President Harrison, he held the position of postmaster at Denton.

He has always been an ac tive worker in the Republican party. He was a delegate in the Convention that nominated Case Broderick for Congress, and has frequently been a delegate in County Conventions. At present, he is a member of the Repub lican County Committee for Denton precinct. O. C.

Whitnev Was among the early citizen of White Cloud. He was born at wanton Falls. Franklin County. Vermont. April 6.

1826. Was married there, and moved to Winnebago County. Wisconsin, in 1852; to Galena, Ills, in 1853, where his wife died. Was again married in 1855, and in the spring pf 1S58 he removed to white Clond. and wnrltml at hia trade of stone mason.

In November of that year, while assisting in raising Ozias Bailey's pork house, on the op posite side of the river, by the falling of one of the timbers, both of his legs were badly broken, disabling him for months. In January. 1862. he enlisted in the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, serv ing for three years. After the war, be returned to White Cload, where worKea at bis trade, and for manv years held the office of Justice of the Peace, Mayor, and Police Judge.

His second Wife died January 31, He moved bis family to Troy, in Septem ber oi me present year. Two or his daughters are among the leading teachers in the schools of the County. BAKERY J.HORR&SON TROY, KANSAS. BREAD AT WHOLESALEBETAIL We want our patrons and the public generally, to know that we have recently put in the largest and most complete baking aparatus ever in the County. We have regular bakers in our employ men trained in the business, and who devote their entire time to this kind of work.

One trial of our bread, cakes, and pies will convince any one of their excellence, and our continually increasing trade, shows that our patrons are satisfied with our work. Our facilities are such, that we can do as good work as St. Joe or Atchison concerns, and can leat them on prices. 11 We carry the nicest line of fancy groceries in Troy, and anything to le found in this class of goods can le had, of the freshest and cleanest, at our house, and as ours is a cash trade, we only expect a small profit, and make up by quick sales. Come in and try onr cheese.

We hae something extra in that line. Confectionery We keep everything in this line that is for sale in thisjnarket, and lots of goods that so-called "restaurants" and confectioneries are unable to handle. All kinds of Candies, Nuts, Fruits, and Summer Drinks in their season, as well as lee Cream, of which we handle more than all others in this town combined. We have a big steam Peanut Roaster, which can be seen in front of our place on big days, and it takes the time of one man to run it. We can sell from 5 cents to 100 worth of roasted nuts with equal facility.

Its steam whistle is often heard in Troy, and is always a signal for a rush of the lovers' of hot roasted peanuts. Cigars and Tobacco We carry a large stock of chew ing and smoking tobacco and cigars of the lKst brands known in this section. We are open later than any place in town, and you can get a nice lunch, including oysters, and a good cigar, either one at a time, or at special rates by the box, at reasonable prices. Oysters We have made preparations with eastern houses for our oysters, this season, anil as has always leen the case in the past, we expect to have a monopoly of this branch of busi ness. When vou come to ns for oysters, you will not find us 'tjust out," for we will have them on hand, and will sell them by the single order, by the can, or by.

the ease. Festivals and others can get this class of goods from us as cheap as they can by sending out of town, and just as fresh, and always at a moment's notice. hen you have read down to here, yon will think that we ought to le able to keep a good lioartling house, and you are right. We keep boarders, permaneut and tran sient. Our terms are reasonable.

and parties who come to attend Court, Conventions, or to pay taxes, can find accoinniodations to suit them, at prices that no reasonable man can kick against. Aside from our regular meals, we have a splen didly equipped Lunch Counter, which is ready for business from 6 o'clock in the morning till id night. J. HORR SON reeeries Boarding House are found, but no bones of any domestic animals have ever been found. TheTrigin of this long lost race will most likely never be solved.

All we know abont them is that they were here at some remote period of time, but whence they came and whither they went is a mystery scaled op in the great unwritten history of the past, where it is feared it will remain secure from prying eyes till time shall be no more. It is fitting that in the midst of this historic spot nature should show forth some of its most benificent handiwork, and this it certainly did when it cleft the mighty earth, and sent forth the healing waters of Eagle Springs, to bless and gladden the hearts of the children of men. These Springs were discovered by William Plank, in 1881, and are located two miles from Highland Station, on the Burlington and Mis souri River Railroad. They afford abundance of pure, healthful water, that is unsurnasaed for the treatment of many diseases that ordinary remedies fail to reach, for a large sanitarium and pleasure resort. A good hotel, bath house, and artificial lake well stocked with fish and supplied with boats, minister to the welfare and comfort of the many visitors to this beautiful and popu lar health and pleasure resort.

Lookout Moun tain, one mile from the hotel, is a high elevation that commands magnificent view for miles in all directions of one of the richest and most productive agricultural countries on the face of the globe. The great Missouri River is also seen for miles coursing its sinuous way onward to the mighty Mississippi, and thence to the Gulf of Mexico. Wolf River, besides being crooked as the sworn statement of a defaulting bank president, possesses the remarkable distinction of running almost directly up the Missouri River for a distance of six or seven miles from its mouth. Following its sinuous course from Highland Station to its junction with the Missouri, it is a distance of twenty miles, while straight across to the same point, it is only five miles. The first settlers in this vincinity were George Logan, Fred.

Dickinson, John Alfrey, Jim Kennedy, and Thomas Crozier. These all came in 1855, and all of these but Kennedy are dead. It is remembered of Crozier, that on his pilgrimage to the mill at Iowa Point, he rode an ox. Among the first settlers around Iowa Point, I can now call to mind but four who have remained where they first settled. These are James Martin, Mrs.

Martha Martin, Henry Swinney, and Mrs. Steve Marcum. All the rest have either died or changed their places of residence. Of the first settlers in Iowa Point, I believe that Jack Hendron and old Uncle Jimmy Rawlins and their present families are all that are left. Frank Patton, an old citizen of the Point, went to Denver, about the beginning of the war, and from there drifted on up into Montana in an early day, when Indians and road agents made life mighty uncertain.

But the vigUants, headed by X. Beidler, finally drove the road agents out of Montana. It was nothing unusual for X. to string up a pair of these desperadoes to expedite business, while he was waiting for his breakfast. Frank is now, and has been for some time, in the real estate and insurance business in Butte City.

Sam Word, another old Iowa Pointer, is a big lawyer in Helena, Montana. John Pemberton, one of the founders of Iowa Point, went to Montana in an early day, and died there some years ago. He owned a fine ranch near Deer Lodge City, and some valuable water privi leges in the Deer Lodge Valley, and Blackfoot mines, between Deer Lodge and Helena. Harvey Forman, who, with Pemberton, founded Iowa Point in the latter part of 1854, was out about Denver, the last I heard of him, engaged in mining, I believe. Josh Marcum.

another old citizen of Iowa Point, was in the Blackfoot mines in Montana, the last I knew of him. I'll bet, if Josh is living, his head is slick as a billiard ball, as he was getting quite bald when my wife and I were at his place, in 1874. Milt. Moodie, another first settler of Iowa Point, also went to Montana, when the road agents had possession of the country, and was with a freighting train that once that was held np by these bold highwaymen. The robbers made the attack just as the train is pulling out in the morning, and got the drop on all the teamsters but who was sick in the hindmost wagon, and as a road agent poked his head above the front gate of the wagon to investigate.

Milt, put a bullet through it, and he rolled off int) the road. At this, the other teamsters grabbed their guns, and killed about half the gang, and drove the balance off and X- Beidler followed them up soon after, and caught and hung the last one of them. Haz. Forbes, who settled on a claim back of Iowa Point in an early day, is now a bloated bondholder in Highland. Has.

was originally from the Missouri bottom, opposite Iowa Point, and used to peddle pawpaws on the streets of Oregon, in Holt County, Missouri. This incident is related only for the purpose of showing what opportunities this conntry offers men of genius to get up in the world, the same as history records that Lincoln was a rail splitter and Grant was a tanner. And, to be poetical, that's what's the matter with Hannah. W. D.

Beeler, long since dead, was the first merchant in Iowa Point, and I remember that in an advertisement of the first lot sales there, it was stated that he had sold twenty-five thousand dollars worth of goods the year before. Dr. J. Leigh, now of Hiawatha, built and stocked up the first drug store in the Point, and Bolivar Beeler built the first hotel, which is still standing, and Jim Hudgins the first livery stable. Forman and Pemberton built the first grist mill and saw mill in the place.

The grist mill building is stiH standing, but there has been other machinery put in since, the old having been taken out and moved to Wathena, many years ago. Forman and Pemberton built the first tin shop, but Chris. Agee stocked it up and ran it a short time, when Eli Evans bought him out. John White ran the first blacksmith shop, and I think, though I am not sure, that William Marcum was the first harness-maker. The Iowa Point Enquirer was the first paper published in the place.

It was edited bv Thom as J. Key, who sold out to Watrous and Biggers just before the war, went south, and was killed in battle, somewhere not fir from Helena, Arkansas. I recollect after Key went south, he was accused of being an abolitionist, and sent back for proof that he was not. You are mistaken about Key being kilied. Lssa than ten- years ago, he was publishing an agricultural paper in Louisville, and we think is there still.

Ed. Ckie. I recollect, one day in the summer of 1855, while I was in W. D. Beeler's store, in Iowa Point, a young, hearty looking surveyor by the name of J.

P. Johnson, who had been tramping over the surrounding country with an eye to business, no doubt, came in and sat down, and pulled off his shoes to cool his feet. This young surveyor is now a banker in Highland, and one of the richest men in the State, though not quite so young as he was then. Early in the first settlement of the County, one of those cold blooded murders that shock and startle the community was committed in broad open daylight, near Highland. Young Dana Fox was ambushed and shot dead in his tracks, while doing some chore about his cabin on his claim, not far from Highland.

The assissin had approached him under cover of some growing corn, and shot him down without a moment's warning. The motive for the crime has never been discovered. It was thought at the time that a young Irishman by the name of Detaney. who lived at Iowa Point, and who had had some misunderstanding with Fox about a claim, committed the deed but there was not sufficient evidence to fasten the crime on him, as it was shown by credible witnesses that it would have been next to impossible for Delaney to have been at Fox's place when the murder was committed, and back in Iowa Point when it was proved he was there. The old settlers south of Iowa Point were Thomas Devalt, Joseph JbOey, Ehsha Frump, (and I now call to mind that Frump is stiH living on the place he first settled), Tillman Canon, James Plank, Pryor Plank, Allen Downing, and Job Dutton.

James Plank and myself were the first settlers on what, was known as the Iowa, Trust lands. These lands comprised abont one hundred thousand acres, and extended from near Eagle Springs on the south, up the Missouri River to the present home of the Iowa Indians, near the State line, north of White Cloud, and back west into the edge of Brown County. They were sold at public sale, for the benefit of the Indians, at Iowa Point, in 1857. Thomas Martin. James Martin, Bob.

Davis, Jack Baker, and Floyd Baker crossed the Missoa ri Biver at Iowa Point the same day we did, and took claims, but none of them moved onto their claims for some time after. Inmemberl marked my claim this way, on a bi( walnut tree that I had blazed for the purpose, April the 1856 "If say man jump this claim, be win have bad tack. Pryor Plank." Jack Baker and I had been over, the first of the previous Juanary, and took chums is the hills south of White Cloud. We camped over aight near where Ou Bailey had bis slaughter pm when he packed pork in White Cloud, sad the weather was nice and pleasant, though it had beea veTy eoid, and the river was frozen over. At that time there was a eabia standing ear where the old Cfcie office was built in White Clond, but there was no one living in it, J.

R. though some one had evidently, for a short time, at least. My recollection is, that there was some one's name on the cabin, but I cannot call to mind what it was. W. D.

Beeler was then, I think, building in Iowa Point, or getting ready to build. Charley Blakeley, Samuel Poteet, William Purkette and Isaac Perkins settled near the Point. Perkins lived on Cedar Creek, some five miles west of town. A daughter of his, Martha Perkins, got lost in a snow storm, on her way home from Iowa Point, in the winter of 1857, and was out nearly a week, rather thinly clad, and without anything to eat until she was found. She had been out several days before it was known that she was lost, and the snow had drifted so it was impossible for the searchers to track ber, and she was found by a pile of snow she had banked up to protect herself from the cold.

She had given up to die, until the day before she was found, a little bird came into ber snow house, and chattered so pleasantly around her, that she took it as an evidence that she was going to be rescued. When found, her limbs were badly frost-bitten but she only lost half of each foot, and recovered, and was alive and well the last I knew of her, long after this occurred. Isaac French, Houston Sharp, John Thomas, Laban Pritchard, Charley Blakeley, Charley Jasper, the two Gillmores, Milt, and Rial Parker, Alf. Young, Lige Collins, Jack Heeler, William Pierson, and John Pierson, were all old settlers in the neighborhood, that I now call to mind. John Pierson, who was rather eccentric in his ways, committed suicide from some unknown cause, probably because his mind had become unbalanced, Kit Williams, Buss.

Williams, Wash. Slemmons, Dick leach, X. K. Stout. Sam.

Patterson, B. B. Leach, and the two Poulets, were old merchants in Iowa Point. William Patton and Frank, his son, were old citizens of the place. They bought Forman and Pemberton 's saw-mill, and ran it for some time, and it finally 'passed into the bands of William Flinn, another old settler, who turned it into a distil lery, which, at the time, about 1864, was said to be the first distillery in the State.

Some of the heavy timbers for the frame work of shis building were gotten out by Noah Sipes, of Holt County, in 1856, and are now a part of the barn of John Cundiff, near Eagle Springs. Thomas J. Vanderslice. now of Kansas City, was an old settler. He is a son of the late Major D.

Van derslice, who wus agent for the Iowa Indians and the Sacs and Foxes, and had been for some time when the country was opened for settlement. Tom was twice Sheriff of the County. John Morgan, another old settler, now lives near Independence, in Jackson County, Mo. Jim Glenn, now of Highland Station, was one of the first carpenters in Iowa Point. I recollect, one time during the troubles of 1856, that Jim Lane, who had entered the Territory from Nebraska with an armed body of Free State men, sent word he was going to sack and burn Iowa Point, and all the citizens of the place, without regard to political faith, race, color, or previous condition of servitude, turned out to protect the town against the threatened attack of the "Grim Chieftain but Lane came not.

The whole thing was no doubt a ruse of Lane's to keep from being molested till he could join other Free State forces down about Lawrence. That night there was a strong guard posted all around the town, to prevent a surprise, and Kit Williams was on guard the fore part of the night, and some one from the outside approached nearer the lines than he thought they had any business to, if their intentions wre good, without making themselves known, and Kit, who was a little in his cups, was just pulling down on the fellow, when the officer of the guard happened around, and no doubt saved the fellow's life. Major Downing, who had charge of "the fortification," reprimanded Kit for his rashness, and Kit replied that he was put there with instructions to keep inter lopers outside th lines, and he proposed to do it, unless they were carried in on a stretcher. After that, there was no more disturbance on Kit's beat. Even the officer of the guard took mighty good care to speak out distinctly when he got in safe hailing distance.

I find that this article is being drawn out far beyond the limits of what I anticipated when I commenced it, and yet I have merely hinted at my recollections of a few of the early pioneers of Doniphan County. There are many more that I pass over regretfully, for want of space, but whose names are written indelibly on the tablets of my memory. Many incidents of interest to me are also passed over, for the same cause, that perhaps would not be interesting to the general reader. My recollections of the troubles of 1856, and the war of the Rebellion, which was simply a continuation and the culmination of the struggle commenced in 1856, would draw this article out to a much greater length, and I therefore paas them over for the present, at least. It is pleasing to note that the soothing hand of time is fast the wounds made by these bloody conflicts.

Heaven forbid that this great country should ever again witness such unhappy events. Pktor Piim. X. K. Stout.

Xerxes K. Stoat was born in Hardin County, Ken tacky, September 27, 1824, and was educated in the common schools. He came to Missouri in April, 1844, locating in Andrew County. He taught school one year, and then studied law, and was admitted to the bar. In 1850 he was married to Martha J.

Cobb. In the summer of 1855 be moved to Iowa Point, and engaged in the mercantile business, which he continued until 1862, when he removed to Troy. He was a member of the Terri-tarial Legislatore of 1857, and the latter year was postmaster at Iowa Point. After coming to Troy, he devoted himself to the practice of law, and from 1867 to 1871 was 'County Attorney. He was a member of the State Iegis-latore of 1874, an extra session of which was held for the relief of settlers whose crops had been destroyed by grasshoppers.

For the past twenty years he has abandoned the law, and devoted himself to his farm ad joining town, engaged In fruit-grow ing and stock-raising. I I Thomas W. Langan. Thomas V. Langan was born in Ireland, in 1844.

In the great famine year, 1817, his parents emigrated to America, locating in Buchanan County, Missouri, and in 1857 came to Doniphan County. Thomas was educated at Mount Scholastica Academy, in Atchison. From 1865 to 1867 he engaged in freighting to the Mountains. In the latter year he settled down to farming near Doniphan, which he continued until 1879, when he began the business of buying and selling stock, since which time he has had extensive dealings with the farmers of Atchison and Doniphan Counties. In some years, his business has been very heavy, running up toward 100,000.

Twice Mr. Langan wa? the Democratic candidate for County Treasurer, and "the fact that each time he wai beaten by but a few votes, in a County in which his party is in a large minority, proves his popularity. He is again a candidate for the same office not from any desire of hi own for office, but because his party insisted upon it. He has led an honorable life, and whatever may be the outcome politically, he can always meet his political opponents with a hearty good will. L.

W. Campbell. Here is another Doniphan County boy. Lucius W. Campbell was born on the farm of his father, Charles Campbell, in Wolf River Township, July 2, 1868, and was educated in the, country district school.

After being in business for a short time at Bende-na, he came to Troy, to take a posi-' tion in the Doniphan County State Bank, of which he afterwards became Cashier, succeeding Mr. O. Gage, and remaining until the management of the bank passed into new hands. Mr. Campbell fond of athletic sports, and is especially an enthusiast on base ball, being a member of the Troy Club, which beats oftener than it is beaten.

He is at present the Democratic nominee for County Clerk of Doniphan County, and endorsed by the People's party. He was postmaster at Bende-na, under Cleveland's first Administration. P. 8. He has fought the good fight, and gone down with colors flying.

Defeated, but not disheartened. First Odd Fellows' Lodge. The first Lodge of Odd Fellows organized in Doniphan County, was White Clond Lodge, No. 6, instituted December 15, 1858. It was the first Lodge chartered by the Grand Lodge of Kansas, the previous five Lodges having been chartered by other States.

They were located at Topeka, Leavenworth, Wyandotte, Lawrence, and Atchison. The following are the charter members Sol. Miller, Henry Ulsh, Francis E. Armstrong, William D. Beeler, John Q.

A. Troy, Henry F. Macy, Oliver C. Whitney, Christopher M. Williams.

Morris Fraley, Joshua Taylcr, and Jeremiah F. warts were taken in on card, Immediately after the Lodge was instituted. The following were the first officers: SoL Mfller, N. G. Henry Ulsh, V.

G. Christopher M. Williams, Secretary Francis E. Armstrong, Treasurer J-F. Swartz, Warden Henry F.

Macy, Conductor; Morris Fraley, Outside Guardian John Q. A. Troy, Inside Guardian. Of the original members, all are dead except Miller and Whitney, who both now live in Troy. The three members admitted by card are all living.

The Lodge temporarily suspended, in December, 1862, by reason of so many of the members having enlisted in the army that there was not a quorum left to hold meetings. i v. 1 If 1 Mokwk Indian Medicine COM RAN V. Mohawk Indian Blood Purifier, Mohawk Indian Cough Cure, Mohawk Indian Relief, Mohawk Indian Salve, Mohawk Indian Death to Worms, Mohawk Indian Dentifrice, And Mohawk Indian Tape Worm Secret. In every age of the world, in every field of action, Jol has haul chos en ones to lead the eliosen gifted ones who, whatever the duty, have been ready to do and tlare for the right.

In the realm ot seienee and religion the f-w have led the many. Chosen, eonseerated, gifted ones have gone before and blazed the way of the true ath, that the timid feet of the multitude might more seen rely It is not always given them to se the multitudes at their heels, for the world at large is slow to follow in new paths neither is it given them always to reach, in this world, the goal for which they strive. Often like Moses, they may only stand on I'isgah's heights, and view, from afar, the "promised Sometimes the years go by, ami the world seems to forget the great truth that was heralded, but, like the "little leaven which leaveneth the whole lump," the truth slowly, but surely, permeates the hearts of men, until finally the world comes to S4e and Ix-lieve it, ami the names of those who first announced it Itccomc household words among the nations. This applies very fitly to the Mohawk Indian Remedies they are new in this part of the country, ami therefore the public is apt to sneer at the marvelous cures that have Ik'cii accomplished by Dr. Joseph with them cases that have baflled the skill of the finest physicians in the laud have lecn taken up by lr.

Joseph and almost instant relief watt given, and in a short space of time cures were effected, and by the use of the Mohawk Indian Remedies. Testimonials from hundreds of grateful patients attest their merits. There is no guess work about the Mohawk Remedies. Their action is sure. Such a cure as wa.s accomplished in the ease of A.

Jsimoiison, appears more like a miiacle than the action of remedies, comroiinded lrom a formula that was given Eagle Eye, the White "hicf of the Mohawks, by one of the old Medicine Men of that trile. Vet we know that nature takes care of nature's own, and the Indians Ix-ing children of nature, nature has provided for them in the leaves, fruits, gums, Iht-ries, barks, panacea for all the aches and pains the llesh is heir to. It is a well known fact that the native North American Indian is the healthiest ami longest lived of the human race the reason is simple they go to nature for cures for nature's ills. The Mohawk Indian Remedies are. compounded from a formula that has been handed down from one generation to another forages.

That they are the Ix-st, not as good, but the best, that has ever leen presented to the public. We append extracts from a very few of the testimonials that have leen re-wived by Dr. Joseph, who has accomplished cures where all other physicians have failed, simply by the use of Mohawk Indian Remedies nature's own remedies. The Mohawk Indian Medicine. Company transacts business in a way that is entirely new to the public.

They employ skilled physicians, who have a reputation second to none, for their Western territory. They have employed two of the most skillful of their doctors, viz Dr. George I'ardy, a practicing physician for 35 years, and Dr. Joseph, a practicing physician for 27 years, and the testimonials they have received since entering Kansas alone, forms for them a record swond to none, and seldom equalled. Uut they themselves give credit where credit is due, and ascril; their wonderful successes to Mohawk Indian Remedies.

Mr. A. Simonson, of Troy, Kansas, says "The Mohawk Indian Medicine Company has leen in our city for the past two weeks, and I wish to state to the public that I tried various remedies and doctors, and some of our lest home physicians had given ine up to die. I was suffering from Paralytic Rheumatism. I had not been out of the house nor had my clothes on for months.

I sent for Dr. Joseph (Mohawk Indian doctor). He came, and strange to say, in one hour he had me out of bed. I could walk some, and stamp my paralyzed foot without pain. The next day I walked about for half an hour kept on improving, and at this writing, May 12th, 1 am able to get about." Ktill another.

Mr. Samuel Dittemore, of Troy, Kansas, says "To all who may be afflicted with deafness, I will say, don't despair of Iw-ing cured but if you see this, goto Dr. Joseph, of the Mohawk Indian Medicine Company. He cubed my daughter, (now 18 years old), who was totally deaf in one ear, and partially deaf in the other. Had been totally deaf in one ear from the time she was three years old.

After one week's treatment by the Mohawk Indian CTonijiany'g specialist, Dr. Joseph, her hearing is restored. Her health, which was very poor, is much improved. I shall ever feel grateful that the Mohawks visited Troy." One more, and we are done. Mrs.

Maria St raub, Wathena, writes "In behalf of the Mohawk Indian treatment, Doc-tor, I -annot find language to express my gratitude to you for the lenefit I and my family have derived from the use of your medicines. I used it for Liver and Kidney troubles, and severe pains in the head. There is nothing equals the Mohawk Indian Remedies. I sliall ever lie (as are many others) thankful that your Company visited Wathena." These are but extracts from a few of the testimonials received every day by the Mohawk Companies. The 3Ioliawk Indian Itemed ies are on sale at all druggists.

If your druggist has not 3Ioliawk, do not te put off with anything else. Insist apon having MOHAWK, and inching else. Don't let them say I have something just as good, for tLey have not. There are no remedies on the market "just an good'' as tl Mohawk. The 3Iohawk Indian Remedies are positively the best.

A leading St. Joseph paper has this to say of the proprietor of Bellevue Vineyards: "Kansas and her products are known throughout the length and breadth of this great domain, and while this is so, there is one gentleman in particular who per sonally enjoys a great share of is George Brenner. Since 18G9, when the fact became known that the locality in which he resided, Doniphan, ossessed soil peculiarly adapted to the propagation of grapes, Mr. Bren- ner has put in about fifty acres forty kinds, making a specialty Concord, Catawba, Elvira, Virginia Seedling, and Goethe. He is engaged extensively in the manufacture of wine, which has gained such a reputation for its excellent flavor and body that it has become the favorite with it has been introduced.

Mr. dealers in every section of the United States, save California, and also makes large shipments to Canada. In St. Joseph, his wyies are the most popular of all native wines, and connoisseurs prefer it to the best of foreign productions. It is the pure juice of the grape." Parties Desiring to and Best of Should EMI Belle DONIPHAN, Vineyards, KANSAS.