FREE STATE EMIGRATIGN, HOSTILE PREPARATIONS, AND THE BEGIN
NING OF DIFFICULTIES Free State Settlers; Disturbed by Mis-
sourians; Squatter Government; C. H Branscomb; First >et
tlement of Lawrence; Of Topeka; Manhattan ; Grasshopper
Fall; What the Emigrant Aid Societies Did, and Especially
the New England; The Border Alarmed; Platte Argus; The
Passions of the Border Men Excited; Resolutions at Border
Meetings; Reward Offered for Eli Thayer; Threats Towards
A. Guthrie; Platte County Self-Defensive Association; Re-
marks of the Border Chiefs; Lives and Characters of the String.
fellows; Missouri Secret Societies; Real and Avowed Causes
of their Formation; Self Defensives Seize T. A. Minerd and an
Old Citizen; Arraign Rev. F. Starr; Seek to Control Trade;
Citizens Protest Against Them; They Remove their Headquar
ters from Weston; First Invasion of Lawrence.............. 116-130