Report of the special committee appointed to investigate the troubles in Kansas,: with the views of the minority of said committee.

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
There are others here that came over with the Missourians and
voted that are not residents of the district, and are as follows:
J A C Webb
John T Elkins
M A Owen
W B Wilson
P Glynn
Samuel M Barrowman
Samuel Hays
J R Duncan
A Boulby
James G Douglass
The rest of the names I know nothing about, or cannot remember
about them. I took a memorandum on the day of the election of all
these matters. Mr. Skinner, mentioned here, lives on Platte river,
and has a large mill there. He has never been in the Territory since
that election.
By MIr. Whitfield:
I am now living at Indianola, but shall consider my residence as at
Kickapoo as soon as I dare go back again. I was forced to leave
Kickapoo because I dared to be a free State man. I came to Leavenworth city from Kickapoo. I have been to Port William but once,
and that was when I took some papers for the free State election of
members of the legislature. I was living in a house in Kickapoo. It
was broken open while I was from the city. I am certain no charges
were made concerning matters found in my house. I profess to know
a large majority of the men in the Kickapoo district. I state, on my
oath, that Lewis Burns was not living in the district at the time of
that election, but was living at Weston, Missouri. He had come over
into the Territory and made a claim in Salt Creek valley. His family
was not brought over here at the time of the election, though they
have resided for a week at a time on his claim since then. To my
knowledge Lewis Burns had not lived in the district before the election. I have lived at Kickapoo since last June, until some time in
January. Colonel Burns' claim is three miles from Kickapoo, and if
he had been living on it I should have known it. The candidates
voted for on that day were John W. Whitfield and Andrew H. Reeder.
One man voted for Mr. Reeder. I did not see any man except Mr.
Lawrence prevented from voting. I cannot tell whether Mr. Reeder
was a candidate on that day. I know he would have been the choice
of that district if they had been allowed to vote without intimidation.
I will swear, before God Almighty himself, that a majority of that
district are free State men.
By Mr. Reeder:
Previous to the election held by the free State executive committee
on the 15th of January, 1856, I was requested by them to take with
me blanks of the election returns and poll books for the different precincts in that district. I did so, and delivered them safely to some of
the precincts. I came into Kickapoo on the Wednesday previous to
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Charles Whitecarver
Aldrich Carver
R C Stuttward
J C Richardson
Joseph Brookr.
Phineas Skinner
Samuel Doyle
Sandford Leach
John Groff
Thomas Douglass