Animals and Red Skins

[W. Gray]

One Wm. A. Wood from an unspecified U.S. location writes and asks (after inquiring about the community rules of offspring production):

"What kind of animals do you have and do the red skins trouble you?"

To which the editor replies,

"The largest wild animals here are the prairie wolves, (more like foxes than wolves) rabbits, prairie chickens, and a few skunks. The red man has left forever; except now and then he comes through the neighborhood begging. Come and see us friend Wood, and you will find that we are not out of the reach of civilization, if we are away from railroads."

[The nearest railroad at the time was Independence.]

From the January 1875 edition of the Progressive Communist (Progressive Community, Kansas) located east of Cedar Vale in the south half of Section 9, Township 34S, Range 9E, in what is now Chautauqua County.

[Diane Amberg]

"community rules of offspring production" means what? any thoughts?

[W. Gray]

Without going into an explanation in the newspaper, they merely stated they wanted "no reproduction of undesirable children."