Their goods [emigrants from Ottowa, Illinois], consisting of plows, scythes, clothing, and in fact articles of agriculture and domestic use of all kinds, together with arms, were taken, and are now lodged in Majors & Russell’s warehouse, Leavenworth.
The warehouse of Majors & Russell, Leavenworth, is a general reselling shop of stolen goods. Many of the rifles taken at different points on the river, together with provisions, stores, agricultural implements, &c., taken from Free-State emigrants, are stored there. The firm is one of the most extensive in this locality. They are the agents of the Southern Aid Societies, and the money raised in the South is sent to them. Beside the arms and other goods they have stolen from Free-State emigrants, their warehouse has been made the depository of a large number—some five hundred stand—of public arms, nuns and bayonets. The Territorial officials might as well have left them in Weston, Mo., in the care of Gen. string fellow. The plunder and the public arms are stored together.