Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — Attorney Babcock, of Goodland, Returns from Visit in Missouri. [ARTICLE]

Attorney Babcock, of Goodland, Returns from Visit in Missouri.

Goodland Herald Attorney A. D. Babcock returned Saturday evening from his trip to Butler, Mo. He was very observant while there and learned that it was not safe, to start anything in the line of politics. He was within a few miles of the John Brown cabin, one of the landmarks in that country. Just before rile war the Kansas “Jayhawkers’ z and the Missouri rebel sympathizers were fighting all the time The old cabin was used as a fortress, the men when attacked and driven under cover fighting from this cabin and could stand off a large number of men. Another landmark there is a large tree where ten men were executed and their names were carved on the tree and stands as their monument. There were eleven to have been executed, but one fellow fell as the shots were fired, in some way being missed and played ‘posum’when they examined the men afterward, and showing no marks he was given a kick in the 4ace that removed one of his eyes. He did not flinch and this display of grit and nerve saved his life, and he lived in this neighborhood many years afterward.