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FROM OCR HISTORICAL SCRAP BOOKUrfaarl Tuua-Our First Vltil l« lt;JuId«S«rw, • I'cr.oual, «lcGoing from Kaos** City to Leaven worth by the Mioaouri Pacific tram, a few days ago, we passeJ, some three miles north of Wyandotte, the “mortal realties'* of the ones rather famous town of Quindam. All there is left of the tuwu that la visible from the car window ia the ruina of a atone building, which we think U the one in which the C^uindsro Chindowao, a paper started there in the spring of 1857, wn printed. Our Aral Tiail to the town was in April, 1857. One morning when at work at our “case In the ••Herald of Freedom* office, at Lawrence, where we took i altuatioo until all things Wert In rcadi eu for our “advance” on Emporia with The News materials, Mr. Plumb, now senntnr, came In with the information that we mustjgo with a team to Qninda-ro for a part of the matlt; rial on which The News was to be printed, which had landed there from Cincinnati. He in company with a few of the free state hoys had orgaoized a company to go to Independence, Missouri, that night to rescue from the jail there a free state man who had been ■o unfortunate aa to fall iuto the bands of the bordef ruffians. This was the reason we were to take his place with the os team With our notions of peace and quiet, at that time, we tried to j dissuade Mr. Plumb from the hazardous undertaking which he proposed, but this proved un-lcas, so without wasting lime we were on our way U) Quindam. Away from Lawrence two or three milea there were no white settlements, and only two Indian housts on the entire trip. Our companion du voyage was one Captain J. II. Holmes, whoa; errand to Qulndaro was tlie same us ours. This jreutlcman had diatln-
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The Emporia Weekly News
Emporia, Kansas, US
Thu, Feb 23, 1882
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