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1 [The foflowin ,, •datement of Rev-. L. M. Koons, and correipondenCe, were crowded lout of the-Jou olfl, and.'
e• ,accompanying
we publish them as it s.upplenient to the paper.--Eds. Ifineri' Journal.] ‘-, ' - . 1 ' ' f;V
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. RUTH
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That thep tic may ktve - the benefit of statements other than my 4'n relative to g6Umdo , Terntory, and 1
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ISO refute the. asst.. moons made by a certain H. P. SLAT , EIt, accusing me . oftnisrepr selitatton-tn my statements
,-. ,of that new aud developing . country, and to lay before [ this coMMun ty the f,' as 'tiered• 17 1 ..tr. 'Rl.le
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iiII,L, in reply toa letter Of-inguiry, written him by Ji W. d0N.:1,11.13 a d 11. : SLATER; b thi of-W iclNre ap
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pended,"and to show the animt*ofthe Men., thus sce,ltting On the tra k. 6 my conduct, satbratithe follow-, `
,Ing letters, replies, and affirmations:The several wtritings will explainiltemselves, and it nIY l'emains' CO Me '
to ask a careful perusal' of the whole. ---,
' L lyi I LOONS.
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,ard soon. ' IlOpingthit,t4m' are ilajoying the perfs:M who sobscribedito - tlie within '
good health,•,l • ror i i ‘eVerlciur humble ) 'letter, appeared hefore mn]thiti twenty
and devoted 1
s frier ' 1 - ' , ,, i second day of NOemher, A. D., 167„K
LARRY P, Swii•EttL. and made oath that helverili' believed diet'
I 1 • ---" contents of the withiniktter to be true.
• DENVER! Nov. 21st, 1867. ] , ~ ' Grin under my hand arid
C oNAR D : 1 j 1 • , c i , .; {L.S. 1 the.se' lof the paid Court of-,
,PottsviHe,, ..: , . ' • ~ ....---e--T , I, ticiall , this twenti- second
... Sir. : In' Answer 'to your letter regard- day o£ November, 1867.
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- ling Rev. L. M. KooNs : `', . ' ' 1 1 - tlMoNaa L,:-Holut, •
~,and'!-
/*stating . ' You . ask, if nyp person• or persons of My.:
,- I t , - ] Ct .i erk - 4a i r. 4 , 1 i.
:acquaintance 1 could !come to Pottsville, ' ' 1 4 - ,,,- ' 1----7, II 1
dui') before
ille, charged ' in time re pgive• • esi 'd 'O ee iri c'elnikc l r ' DEWS ER ) on. , N0q2.0, 1867.
' e^; Court l / Who is to•-paythe 9xpenses Of —f l 1, '' 1 l'i : ~--'
.a - posea Of specula, h •f •• v , , `. ... I ~ We, t e undeisigneklate of the Couri , ty
00, 'which lad been ' ,e l e
d a church in. Denver, ''',
" persons .
.1 do not anow of any one
, who would . go to . pottsv,ile to , give , evi: _of Schuylkill and tate - Of penhaylvania,
] now residents' of the l pity' a ip(,),...
deuce; ;ping Mr.]l\ooN',B nut ,could get -• r ' r: A I • I .l m . , '-
_iie I have no doubt that'tl i te
. • - plenty to r , o and.. ~i ve evi dice !for ;him: ,ounty, 101 rapa, oe, and i _territory lof
-I true,m . any people seem to think , , e • e 1... -:-• .• •-• id ' • • Colorado; hiving ',read ; in 'the Pottsville
1 here are some men], it you, woo hunt '•,
_.. - iiiihisters who were present willnot Stan'clard . 'ublishel in Ale •Bormi ,, ii of
for them, who would swear falsely against . ' P • . 7 . e
ft, it for fear of disgracing time 'church ; . him
Y ' '' thenk• "Did-vi—r--- Pottsville, -Schaylkill / County . „.and State,
4CS;LATER, who is a friend . of mine, advis- b . 1 . °ll . .. lot .ac b .i ~-„ ,r- "°N B ,of Pentr i vliania a,,letter bearing Aate the,
buy a mission in enver ~ ;
- ed me to write and ask you: Did KOONS second day of / j ire, lA. D r ,' 1867; or ,
He bought .a house- and lot, and then
buy a` mission lot in Denver '{' Did-he pay ; th reabouts, andlsigned 11. V. LATER
easli for it? What did lie giv9 . .flir it ? converted the house into, a churc•li ; 1 c
; '•• ' II inakin;* ceri:liii Char fi n es a<*ainst'-Rev V•
"Did he pay cash , .
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for 10 Ile did 1 i • '-0. ; - g 0 11 •''
Did he speculate in- lands: Ur other .prop- ‘„ ..,.;,.? IN. KOORS, late of] the Borough 9f P o w.
at did he give for it " 3
'•rt ri ? What is his character asia minis- • , - ' He t .-- ', ville Cl:Olney-And State aforesaid, miot j ';,i ---
' ; '3OO for the house 'and2lot :he got a . ./f-, 1 ,
ter nd a Man? Were the stateinetits, h 'C' fo ' l d ...
citizen o t, e ity , - 9 ",Denver,, -o ora o,
'' lil;rary • for the ' quadav &Mod ;1 nanere
made in this County at ,different times,- ' i d t; • b e d s Asserting Oat I Said id. 31, KOC4S made
light,i cli f nrc i ll'-, haiipews . ine e ; l urnfs
as, to Colorado being a gond ' , country, "&c., , certaiii statement's, ill POttsville, :Id else- .
~. fuel, "Sc., allac his own ekpenae l ,
- true or fhlse? Had he la congregation, wbere,l Calculate-ill to • Mislead anAideeeive '.
there ? 'And if i)o. how! many ; persons %
'property )
i , he speculatet in lands, lorzot ilr
such",p l ersons as should Place anyirelian • e.,
Ile bought a:great deal f his ; ~.] t_ - a --• ... 1 , 11 ii. . ' -
Can j-ou, -or any persons or person of your '''a temen s, l an in e iti a view
• ction or
acquaintance who is "posted" in regard I reperty and sow . a Portion nt'-itl , * fin .4
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What is ,his eharaeMylk.9 a * minister' ' of indn i ciln 9 E " er il . i ora t i . "", .th, this
to the fhets, conic to Potts Ville in time
to and it ' ' • ' -' -
an "]. Ile was/liked bi al his •
1 country, khotring that his statetn is were ,
give your evidence in December Court,-as m• •11, i ld • 1 I a . i
.fal l e and ,caliulated to undeetiveythe ,un'-
Kbotip has prosecuted the, BARCLEYS for contgregat,inn,l,.
• n rch Pers T o r w li)
A di d
sus stspectini ..-,--Now, therefore,, tilt under- .
!ibe.l, founding his ;charm on the " local'; no belong tii
d ilsze
i i.',.. „. ere are, o
signed,' late froM.thel County Of tSchuvl- •;
item" Mentioned on the• e 'first page of this'! course, some p,oons who - --lik_e nobody' but kill', , A rout'of th st e • f
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letter, said 4- item ", havin , * been pub- t" w A 1 , ii ina a-- ii , ;Li s Den4r, voldntarilt offer our. teoimony -.,
fished in the Staraor& of ' - 'o . et. ,ti' )' 'I y , 7
er , the; statement s e ll
i (1 . t that we have nd',l the 'statements of L. ...,
- have sent 'a ciiPy-ng it JtiEonottE be t
si.
~1 , ere " r rime " , as to C ° , ra ,„ . . Kbotia, miLle,•olPottSville, rekeeting •
ei g a pod country,l&c., true or fai.-e.. the,
Asss, and a copy of: the .a to-Mr. l ekent and ,' 'tore proSpeeti of the
, .., ,T- ey were true, as you can see by looking .
I..,STANTos editor of the Dower Cit of Derive? 'd the Territor: 6f CIA: '
he Colorado' na ersr
- ..‘tte, who will no doubt show it IO fOll '---a--t..f7i of ; ' ,]• • 1 1 1 ). , hod radot ofits ini ense mineral]; wealtW find '
By answerin;. , , at your earliest co tai •f.
(oi a o u neja congre6at y, in , tne i re .
the riehnes] cit• ittif soil, fond' saliO•iiv of
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. t'llee, and giving me any facts in elation - 44 • w c many p b ersot.
. d He hadabo u t
~ .its'eliaMte, tr 4 in every essential I:4410
to , the man litmvl,, youiif greatly -- '- re t!' l a 1... ru "'... e 7' es ' - e l tilan Y P`'`" lar, sd far is -chme under our obsprvation , ',
'sons who did not - yon the] church. ,
s',,blige '
~/,/ above; Kati'' 1
1 1 uric thetime We have been rest eras of"-
The: - ' Obtaiti&l from relit
YouN, respectfully .t ' , *, ''', I - ~ . , e'lerritary of Colorado, andwoul dicer-
ble parties. ---- , • ~ , , . Ii , , .. ~.
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A 7 S t 4" RD ' - II . ii" above" d fully offer bur testunntry orl i the rth ca
, opi , the , !will ; -meet yo r ap
.Ass . Editor. Siiim il aril. '. - the statetuentS - tnede hy the said ' ev. L.
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\; Iroval, I remain .1_ , ,
e , , M. libotts While on, visit-to rtnnsvl
- - 'Respectfully yours, ' -- ' r• '' 1 - L -be i "'i sy, - "
td the fall of -1. e year 1 b, and
..insWering the above questions -.---.• T] W. V. IIt•SSEL. wants; ; . • 'l6 .., '
confer t ] great favor. I would a , _____.:.. s , 1
~o- - - . ; ,tcte spnng of the year' ~ r
well to see KOONS ShOVed up the . • TERRITORY OF COLORADO, 1
ink.. ', ' Orr° T. Il %CY:
1 1 ‘I' W 'I: Z" C ilt n 'i l‘ 4 7 r i l iN ' ' Gro W. I litT6l Al".
' all the information You ✓can \'' County.of Aroßahoe: • I
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sg the above subject will 'be ~,I . I L.:Morino': .V. Ilona, . W ES . It, 'L. ---,-- -', ..":,._- lim . li. ', Arr ''' . I
, Now, do not fail tu - an-
,"Clerk of the Supreme Court of Said Ter- • E,o m u . .. L. [CAA'S, i '''' 'E V A fili:Rilleillan;.
-ive KCiblge.. 'len When ritory, do hereby- celifY, that T. W. C.l' J. F. Sroewnoar,.. ' sroux-4 . - 1114iti„As,
'll send you a Staid- , Russzt., personally known to me 'to be ]] Witi.iAm l l4cori, 1 • , W. i s,.! Irmi,t.r.ii... ,
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MR. THOS. RiISSI4.:
nvertr,76diorado :
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Dear' Sir : My employers, BARCLAY
.13nos, publishers of The Pott sv ille_ Stan-
!,larti, lat•eineurr i ed the'
,Otnity
L. M. KOONS, of your city,ly. publishing
the letters of HARRY. P. SLATER in regr , - /
to his false statements about Calorad
also bY publishing a "
that KOONS had been,itbroty
the Lutheran Synod in 1-0 -
,with 'appropriating to '-
'tion tlj sum of 1"
Vi'ven him to'bT
NoW,
I.tatement
that
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ive re ,, ardi
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r , a y
soim,4nci •-,
.. you do *rite.