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1,036
50.56
52,385.00
Horses two years old and under three
888
75.32
66,890.00
Horses three years old and older
435
89.86
39,090.00
Total
The county
19,705
$22,826,810
$4,883,445 · $4,517,770
274,275
553,481
2,938,736
De Soto
390
.
-
25 (gallons 2,000)
960.00
Sorghum for forage or grain, tons
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Work horses
5,003
94.25
471,555.00
Ponics, cripples and plugs
1,476
43.29
63,900.00
Stallions .
65
257.15
16,715.00
Cattle six months old and under one year
4,395
17.43
76,625.00
Cattle one year old and under two
3,083
28.35
87,425.00
Steers two years old and under three
896
43.75
39,200.00
Steers three years old and over, rough fed
149
39.19
5,840.00
Steers three years old and over, half fed
83
45.78
3,800.00
Steers three years old and over, full fed
95
64.74
6,150.00
Cows and heifers two years old and over not kept for milk 2,70S Cows two years old and over kept for milk. 6,677
36.12
97.830.00
Bulls one year old and over
351
42.59
14,950.00
Mules six months old and under one year
451
39.29
17,720.00
Mules one year old and under two
399
58.69
53,420.00
Mules two years old and under three.
470
89.70
42,160.00
Mules three years old and over
153
105.95
16,210.00
Work mules
1,313
113.07
148,460.00
Asses and burros six months old and over.
42
81.30
3,415.00
Sheep six months old and over
1,461
3.65
5,345.00
Hogs six months old and over
10,982
8.68
95.425.00
Goats six months old and over
52
2.8S
150.00
Farm implements
97,275.00
Wagons
2,083
20.00
41,660.00
Carriages and buggies
1,550
18,86
29.235.00
Automobiles
460
298.43
137,280.00
Motorcycles
11
85.45
940.00
Bicycles
26
10.96
285.00
Gold watches
906
10.81
9,795.00
Silver watches
414
5.32
2,205.00
Plate and jewelry
S99
77.28
69,475.00
Other musical instruments
172
22.91
3,940.00
All bonds not exempt from taxation
13,950.00
Shares of stock in any company or corporation.
15,585.00
Moneys on hand and on deposit, including moneys invested in government bonds
461,905.00
Credits taxable .
172,320.00
Average amount of merchant's stock for preceding year ..
442,545.00
Average amount of merchant's moneys for preceding year.
28,370.00
Average amount of manufacturer's stock for preceding year
5,140.00
Value of manufacturer's products on hand March Ist ....
200.00
Wheat, 86,695, bushels, value per bushel.
1.22
105.965.00
Oats, 152,035 bushels. value per bushel.
.40
60,820.00
Corn, 279,060 bushels, value per bushel.
.50
139,485.00
Seeds, 842 bushels, value per bushel.
2.14
1,805.00
Hay, 2,253 tons, value per ton
6.87
15,480.00
Judgments, amount owned
3,600.00
Mortgages, amount owned
726,850.00
All moneys invested in certificates of purchase at sheriff's sales
20.00
Value of manufacturing tools, implements and machinery, other than engines and boilers, which shall be listed as such .
18,345.00
Engines and boilers, including gas engines.
205
141.80
29.070.00
Value of household furniture
198,435.00
Family libraries, net taxable value
2,390.00
Value of mechanical tools, law and medical books, sur- gical instruments and medicines
Value of poultry
8,940.00 39,585.00
36
219.86
7,915.00
Jacks .
10,300.00
Pianofortes
20,900.00
Real estate sale contracts
44.28
295,720.00
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200.00
Value of nursery stock
Typewriting machines
59
23.22
1,370.00
Adding machines
4
57.50
230.00
Cash registers
6
17.50
105.00
Billiard and pool tables
5
67.00
335.00
Scales
33
21.36
705.00
Threshing machines
33
393.18
12,975.00
Electric and water motors
9
575.00
Individual interests in mutual or co-operative telephone companies not operated for profit
202
2,025.00
Value of all other species of personal property not herein listed, including particularly tax-sale certificates, office and store furniture and fixtures, cameras, kodaks, and picture-taking machines, incubators and brooders, fire arms, etc. .
90,460.00
Dogs, three months old and over, March Ist :
Małe
Female, spayed
30
1.0.00
Female, unspayed
105
230.00
Corporation capital-stock assessments
87,650.00
Assessments of shares of bank stock, after deducting as- sessed real estate
364,560,00
Pipe line and telephone property assessed by county
assessor
48.920.00
Total value of personal property
5,270,935.00
Total Constitutional exemptions allowed
555,200.00
Balance taxable personal property
$4,715,735.00
1,540.00
CHAPTER V.
EARLY EVENTS AND INSTITUTIONS.
First Business Concerns-First Marriage-Horace Greeley Visits John- son County-Old Settlers-The Mehaffie House-The First Twenty Years.
FIRST BUSINESS CONCERNS.
Olathe "Herald," Kansas Territory, of December 29, 1859, contained professional cards of the following attorneys, Griffin and Ocheltree were editors at the time.
Campbell & Deveney, Jones & Nash, McDowell & Means, E. S. Wil- kerson, William Ray, Wilson, Isaacs & Wilson, of Leavenworth City, Kans. Ter .; Davis & Williams, Wyandotte; Reid, Otter & Bonton, of Kansas City, Mo. ; Johnson, Stinson & Havens, Leavenworth City, Kans. Ter .; Jonathan Gore, Shawnee, Kans. Ter .; W. H. M. Fishback, Olathe ; Glick & Sharp, Wyandotte; Bartlett & Cobb, Wyandotte: Shannon & Shanon, Lecompton, and J. T. & F. H. Burris, Olathe. Office south side of square, one door west of court house.
The following land agents' cards appeared in the same issue of the "Herald :"
John M. Griffin, attorney, notary public and general land agent; R. S. Stevens, general land agent : Campbell & Barton, general land agents. E. S. Nash, attorney and general land agent, says, "The total expense for locating warrents, including his fees and land office fees, is twelve and one-half cents per acre, all letters of inquiry answered free of charge."
Other advertisers in the "Herald" of this date are: The Planters Hotel. Leavenworth City; Exchange Hotel, Pleasant Hill, Mo .; Dare House, Olathe, S. F. Hill, proprietor, with good feed stable connected with the house; Francis Gallop, Westport, Mo., clocks, watches and jewelry ; J. C. Forest, tailor, Olathe, Kans. ; Parmeter & Petit, Olathe, architects and builders; The Pearl Saloon, Craig & Seward, proprietors, advertising a fine line of the best liquors, cigars, sardines, oysters, etc., an attentive barkeeper will always be found in attendance and order will be pre- served, no liquors sold on Sunday ; G. M. Ott, bakery and provision store ; Frederick Hoff, grocery ; Olathe Academy, corner Park and Chestnut, Mrs. R. M. Forest, principal; S. B. Myrick & Company, drugs and medicines ; Cornwall & Barton, real estate, one, two, three, five and ten acre tracts in their addition to Olathe; Walker Maxwell & Company, office at the Spring Hill Nursery, Spring Hill, Kans., 100,000 grafted apple trees at $15.00 per hundred ; The Kaw River Steam Sawmill offers walnut, oak, and cottonwood lumber at the mill, one-fourth mile below
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the bridge, N. B. Lumber exchanged for all sorts of produce by Barnett & Betton; McCarty & Barkley, forwarding and commission merchants, general steamboat agents and collectors. Nos. 5 and 6 Levee, Kansas City, Mo .; Collins, Kellogg & Kirby, drygoods, notions and fancy goods, St. Louis, Mo .; livery and feed, carriages, buggies and horses, J. T. Quarles; W. C. Holmes & Company, of Wyandotte, announce their new flouring mill ready for operation and tell the "Her- ald" readers to "Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest this;" D. M. Boland & Company, of Kansas City, Mo., tea, trays, window and look- ing glasses, chandeliers, fluid and coal oil lamps; Pat Cosgrove, sheriff, advertises a sheriff sale of lot 3, block 10, and lot 9, block 30, with a good house on lot 3, situated in the town of Monticello; Greenbury Trekle, of Aubry township, gives notice to James Jones, a non-resident, that on the IIth of October, A. D. 1859, an attachment for $25.55 and cost of suit has been made against him, and the following articles levied on : One buggy, one lot merchandise, one account book belonging to store, a musket, one haystack and lot of rails. Notice of sale, November 21, 1859, at A. J. Gobharts, Aubry township, near Squiresville.
FIRST MARRIAGE.
The first record of a marriage license in Olathe was that of Charles A. Osgood to Miss Caroline Roberts, June 15, 1857, John P. Campbell, probate judge, performing the ceremony. Mr. Osgood was a partner with Dr. Barton in the laying out of the Olathe townsite. When the war broke out he went into the federal serve and was wounded in battle, and sent to Leavenworth, where he died. His body was brought to Olathe for burial .. He was buried in the western part of the city. near the Santa Fe railroad. The present cemetery, at that time, was not established. Julia A. Osgood was born, March 20, 1858, and was the first white child born in Olathe township. She and her mother, Mrs. G. B. Alger, reside on east Santa Fe Street, Olathe. Julia was married to J. D. Woodworth in 1889. Mr. Woodworth came from Cole county, Illinois. Mrs. Osgood married G. B. Alger after the close of the war. She has a clear memory of Olathe, as it was in 1857. She and her husband owned and lived on the twenty-acre farm adjoining town on the south, now belonging to Clem Swank. £
She sent Julia to her first school at the old stone school house where a Mr. Deverel taught, and she went to a church on Kansas avenue, just south of where Willis Keefer's hardware store now stands. The first sermon Mrs. Alger heard preached in Olathe was in 1857, in a building located at the southeast corner of the square. This building was used for soldiers' quarters during the war. Mr. Alger was taken prisoner by Quantrell when he sacked Olathe, but was released with the other citizens of the town as he left.
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HORACE GREELEY VISITS JOHNSON COUNTY.
Greeley left Atchison on Monday, May 16, 1869, in a two-horse wagon, intent on reaching Osawatomie by Tuesday evening. He had with him three people. The rains had been heavy and stage travel much impeded. His allusion to the Garden of Eden is surely good enough to satisfy anybody.
The following quotation from the pen of the great journalist, in "Greeley's Overland Journey," has reference to his trip through Johnson county in 1859:
"Lawrence, Kansas, May 20, 1859.
"Crossing the trail almost at right angles. we left the smart village of Olathe (county seat of Johnson county) a mile or so to the west, and struck off nearly due south, over high prairies sloped as gently and grassed as richly as could be desired, with timber visible along the water courses on either hand. Yet there was little or no settlement below Olathe-for the next twenty miles that we traveled there was hardly an improvement to each four miles of the country in sight. And yet, if the Garden of Eden exceeded this land in beauty or fertility, I pity Adam for having to leave it. The earth was thoroughly sodden with rain, so that temporary springs were bursting out on almost every acre, while the water-courses, including those usually dry, ran heavy streams. each of them requiring skill in the charioteer and good conduct on the part of the horses to pass them without balk or break. We must have crossed over a hundred of these 'runs' in the course of this day's travel, each of them with a trying jerk on the carriage, and generally with a spring on the part of the horses. These water-ways have generally a lime-stone bottom not far below the surface of their bed; but their banks are apt to be steep, and are continually growing more so by reason of the water washing away the earth, which has been denuded of grass and worked loose by hoofs and wheels. Traveling by jerks like this is not so pleasant as over a macadamized road, yet our day was a bright and pleasant one.
"Thirty miles of progress, twenty of them over prairie, brought us to Spring Hill, a hamlet of five or six dwellings, including a store, but no tavern. Our horses needed food and rest-for the wagon, with its four inmates, was a heavy drag over such going-so we stopped and tried to find refreshment, but with limited success. There was no grain to be had, save a homeophatic dose sold us for a quarter by a passing wagoner, and thankfully received; we gave this to our steeds, regaled ourselves on crackers and herring, and pushed on."
Mr. Greeley's statement of "No Tavern" at Spring Hill was due to the fact that Mrs. Hovey had a sick headache when the Greeley party arrived. The usual dinner hour had passed, and Mrs. Hovey, having no help that day, felt unable to furnish their meals.
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The "crackers and herring" were purchased in the old store across the street.
The Greeley party left Atchison early Monday morning, going to Osawatomie, driving to Leavenworth. At Leavenworth they shipped their horses on board the steamer, "D. A. January," and went down the Missouri to Wyandotte. At Wyandotte they stayed over night and from there drove through Shawnee, on south to Spring Hill. This trip from Wyandotte to Spring Hill was what the "thirty miles of progress" meant.
OLD SETTLERS.
The Old Settlers' Association of Johnson county holds an annual meeting-which is always an affair of great interest. The tenth an- nual meeting of this organization, held at Olathe, September, 7, 1907, had a double significance, in addition to being a regular meeting. It was the semi-centennial celebration of the opening of the county offices at Gum Springs, then the county seat, and was also the occa- sion of the dedication of the Santa Fe Trail monument erected in the public square at Olathe.
One of the interesting records of that event is the registration of old settlers, attending the meeting, who arrived in Johnson county, Kan- sas, in 1857, or prior thereto, as follows :
B. F. Cross, March, 1857; John Elston, October 21, 1857; W. A. Mahaffie, November 25, 1857; William R. Rutter, March 12, 1857; D. P. Hoagland, April 15, 1857; J. M. Hadley, March 18, 1855; William T. Quarles, February II, 1857; Henry Fleek, May 10, 1857; Mrs. Rachel Fleek, May 10, 1857 : Mrs. William Pellett, April 12, 1857 ; James Frame, October 19, 1857; Jiles H. Milhoan, February 24, 1857; Mrs. Belinda Milhoan, March, 1857; J. Henry Blake, March 7, 1857; William M. Johnson, May, 1847; Mrs. Mary J. Wagner, March 7, 1857; Mrs. J. E. Sutton, April 12, 1857; Mrs. Nelson Julien, April 12, 1857; Isaac Fenn, April 1, 1856; Thomas Adair, March 16, 1857; Mrs. Emily L. Millikan, May 28, 1857; George Thorne, May 17, 1857; David Smith, February 14, 1857 ; Mrs. Lizzie Collins, November 22, 1857; Mrs. Sarah McAlister, February 22, 1857; D. P. DeTar, October 15, 1857; George White, Janu- ary 10, 1857; Mrs. Laura White, July 4, 1857; Levi Rice, March 24, 1857; Mrs. Jane Rice, March 24, 1857; J. A. Pearce, April 1, 1857; Mrs. Jane Mascho, October 21, 1857; B. F. DeTar, May 8, 1857; J. J. McKoin, September 20, 1857 ; Mrs. Mary Donovan, March 15, 1857; W. T. Turner, March 15, 1857; Dr. Thomas Hamill, May 15, 1857; Mrs. Anna Alice Smith, June 26, 1853; Fred McIntyre, February 12, 1857; Mrs. Clara Honn, October, 1857; D. W. Bousman, April, 1857; James Skaggs, October 9, 1857; D. Hubbard, March, 1857; Mrs. M. A. C. Brown, October 10, 1857; Mrs. M. J. Washburn, October 10, 1857; Charles Sprague, April 7, 1857; William Bronaugh, February 8, 1857; T. H.
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Moody, July 20, 1857; Perry G. Cross, March 1, 1857; Mrs. Margaret Ogle, August 1, 1857; W. J. Cook, May 14, 1857; Pat Cosgrove, May 15, 1857; Mrs. M. A. Bowen, September 14, 1857; Mrs. Mary Plummer, May 1, 1857; N. Ainsworth, February 20, 1857; Mrs. Mary Griffitts, August 5, 1857; F. W. Moody, July 15, 1857; James Russell, March 27, 1857 ; Mrs. Isabel Julien, November, 1857; Mrs. George Alger, February 14, 1857; Charles Dellahunt, March 22, 1857; Henry Mize, November I, 1857; Mrs. L. M. Sanderson, May 3, 1857; J. B. Mahaffie, October 20, 1857.
THE MAHAFFIE HOUSE.
The Mahaffie House is a stone building on the Santa Fe Trail about three-fourths of a mile northeast of the Olathe square and was at one time one of the popular hotels of the county. Beaty Mahaffie, who came here in 1857, built the hotel, the stake line of the early days changed horses here and brought Mr. Mahaffie many customers. William Mahaffie, ex-county assessor, was a boy of ten when his father located there, and he remembers many interesting things concerning early day history. A stage team got scared one night as the driver was going to change horses, and in his effort to hold them the driver was jammed against a post as the team went through the gate, injuring him so severely that he died in a few days. The stage driver's name was John Thompson, a soldier who had just been mustered out of the service. The team, with the coach attached, ran out on the prairie, circled around, then came back through the gate into another- breaking it down before they were stopped. A lady and four children were in the coach but none of them was injured. William Mahaffie knew Sanderson, the owner of the stage line, quite well. He says he was a most interesting talker and had a wonderful memory. Mr. Sanderson said he never hated to give up any two stations as bad in his life as he did Mahaffies and Spragues at Spring Hill. As fast as the railroad was built south it put the stage line out of business and when the old Gulf railroad reached Ft. Scott, Mr. Sanderson had 400 head of horses on hand. Another man was operating a line from that point south and he came to Sanderson and asked him what he intended to do with all his stock. Sanderson told him that he was going to open up a new line through to Ft. Smith, Ark., by way of Baxter Springs, Kans. The other man said that would put him out of business if he did. "Buy me out then," said Sanderson, "$40,000.00 will do it," and the man bought him out. The Mahaffie house was 16x32 feet and is still stand- ing. J. B. Bruner, Fred Gilbert, Colonel Reed, of Ocheltree, and Captain Schermerhorn spent their first night in Kansas at Mahaffie's, and Mr. Mahaffie was instrumental in getting them to locate in Johnson county, and Johnson county has been the gainer because of it.
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THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS.
(By John W. Giffin.)
The act of the Territorial legislature, incorporating the Olathe Town Company, was passed and approved February 20, 1857.
Dr. John T. Barton, who was formerly surgeon of the Shawnee Indians, conceived the idea of locating a town near the geographical center of the county for the purposes of a county seat.
He associated with himself for the purpose of a town organization the following named persons who became by virtue of the act of the legislature the "Olathe Town Company," to-wit: Dr. John T. Barton, Charles A. Osgood, A. G. Boon, R. B. Finley, William Fisher, Jr., and Henry W. Jones.
As soon as this portion of the Shawnee Reservation was surveyed by the Government surveyors, and the townships were sectioned, Dr. Barton made this selection with consent of the Shawnee Chiefs and a surveyor by the name of Bradford, from Lecompton, the then capital of the Territory of Kansas, was called upon to lay out the southeast quarter of section 26, and the northeast quarter of section 35, of town 13, of range 23 east, into lots and blocks, streets and alleys which he did during the last week of February and the first week of March, A. D. 1857.
Olathe was named in this manner, to-wit: as the lawyers would say before describing a piece of land; Dave Daugherty, a Shawnee Indian. was brought along as chain carrier, and in case of necessity he could act as interpreter, if any squaws should come wandering around the new town, and when the train reached the top of the hill near where Jonathan Millikan now lives, the Doctor halted them, and with glowing cheeks and sparkling eyes, enthusiastically remarked that yonder were the quarter sections upon which the future county seat of Johnson county should be located. Dave straightened himself up-took one good look-gave a few of his Indian grunts and then exclaimed in Shawnee, "O lathe," which in the Indian language means beautiful. Dr. Barton then and there declared that the name of the future county seat should be the Shawnee Indian word for beautiful-Olathe.
To insure the prosperity of Olathe, Dr. Barton and Charles A. Os- good erected a house 12x14 feet, one story high, on the lot where the Avenue House now stands, for the purposes of hotel, drug store, dry goods, groceries, saloon and postoffice, all of which were carried on with due regularity and to the great comfort of the hundreds of set- tlers who soon flocked into the county for the purpose of securing locations near the county seat.
During the summer of 1857 Dr. Barton and a young man by the name of Edwin S. Nash entered into partnership for the purpose of
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showing claims subject to preemption-they having purchased the field notes from the Government surveyor, and from the Shawnee chiefs the numbers of the lands selected by the Shawnees, thereby enabling them to point out long before it was made public the certain pieces of land that would be subject to preemption, and by this means they were enabled to exhibit a degree of prosperity that might otherwise have been wanting as they charged from $10.00 to $25.00 for showing a "claim" clear of the Indian selections.
Dick Taylor, a fiery young Southerner from Louisiana, and since that, the renowned Gen. Dick Taylor, of the Southern Confederacy, built the house now standing where M. G. Miller's grocery store is now located, on the southeast corner of the public square, and north of the Peoples Savings Bank. This house was built during the month of August, 1857.
About the same time Eugene Bell built the first store house on the corner where Charley Tillotson's stone building now stands, on the northeast corner of the public square.
The next house built was what was afterwards known as the "star saloon." and kept by a young man, a nephew of the first member of Congress from the Territory of Kansas, after the organization of the Territory. This house was built by Judge John Polk Campbell, a cousin of James K. Polk, President of the United States. Judge Camp- bell had been formerly a State's attorney for the Nashville District of the State of Tennessee. Judge Campbell came to Olathe early in the summer of 1857, and having purchased a half interest from William Fisher, Jr., a former secretary of the Olathe Town Company, and Fisher resigning, Judge Campbell was elected secretary of the company, and from this time until the end of the organization Dr. John T. Barton was the president and J. P. Campbell the secretary of the town company.
In May, 1857, Jonathan Millikan came to Olathe and during the month of August of that year built the first residence ever built in the town. It stands yet. on the south side and in the middle of block number 29, being the same block in which the old Masonic hall was situated.
About this time in 1857 a house was built where the court house now stands and here is where the first child was born in Olathe, during the fall of 1857. It was a female child of African descent.
Simion F. Hill, during the summer of 1857, built the store room where John V. Haverty, who since married his youngest daughter, Alice, and opened out a general country store-keeping everything young Western life should need or want.
During the month of June, 1857. a hotel was built on the lot in the rear of where the colored school building now stands, and facing on Santa Fe Avenue. This was kept by J. B. Whittier, a brother of Mrs. Jonathan Millikan and a cousin of the great Poet Whittier, and
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a young man by the name of Jerry D. Conner, now, and since 1859, a resident of Eldorado, Butler county, Kansas. Mrs. Jonathan Millikan was the first white woman to reside in Olathe, and Mrs. Mary Whalen, now Kirby, the second one. Mrs. Kirby's daughter, Miss Mary Ann Whalen, was the first white child. Her mother brought her to Olathe when she was only about eight weeks old, and she has been a citizen of the town continuously ever since, and is now nearly nineteen years old. Time flies rapidly and we find in the town and county those who were not born when we first knew this country, who are now young men and women, yet we do not appreciate the fact that the time is fast approaching when we, who knew this country in its infancy, will know it no more.
During the fall of 1857 a man by the name of Charles Mayo, a. lawyer, who had formerly been the mayor of the city of Boston, built. the house now known as Fishback's office, on the southwest corner of the public square.
In September, 1857, Henderson H. Boggs built the house now known as the Avenue House, on the west side of the public square. This was first occupied by Whittier and Conner during the winter of 1857 and the spring and summer of 1858, then Boggs sold the house to a young man by the name of Benjamin Dare, and he, while acting as deputy postmaster in S. F. Hill's absence, abstracted a letter belonging to L. F. Crist from the office and being found out and arrested, was bound over to court, gave Hill as his bondsman, sold Hill the hotel and left for parts unknown, or at least he has never yet been discovered. Then Hill sold the house to the Turpins.
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