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Ellis, Henry I., 768. Elite Theater, 458. Emery, Elmer F., 768.
Emerick, Josiah D., 769.
Enoch, Elmer Ellsworth, 770.
Enrollment in the Ward Schools, 336. Ernest, George W., 770.
Eunice Sterling Chapter, 388.
Evans, R. Kenneth, 493.
Evolution of the Farm, 648.
Fabrique, Dr. A. H., 415.
Faculty Friends' University, 345.
Fager, Josiah F., 771.
Fahl, Eugene, 16, 68.
Fairmount College, 325.
Fairmount College, 351-358.
Fairmount Library Club, 388.
Farmers Brought Wheat Many Miles to Wichita, 459.
Farmer Doolittle is Inspired Over Mulvane, 639.
Farmers Get Mail Daily Over Nine Rural Routes, 107.
February, 1910, In Wichita, Kansas, 46.
Ferriter, John, 501. Financial, 22.
First City Officers of Wichita, 14.
First County Officers of Sedgwick, 14.
First Duel in Wichita, 149.
First Impressions Were Lasting, 452. Forecasts, 596.
Formation of Tribe, 528.
Forward, Edward, 772.
Fraternal Aid, 414.
Fraternal Brotherhood, 414.
Frasius, Ruth, 385.
Fraternal Union, 414.
Freeman, Harvey J., 773.
Friends' University, 326, 340, 346, 389.
Frost Meter in Sedgwick County, 670. Fruit and Truck Farming Will Pay, 662.
Fruit Raising in Sedgwick County, 656. Fuel Probiem Perplexed Pioneers, 459. Furley, 628.
Gackenbach, Farley A., 774.
Gaiser, William H., 775.
Garden Plain, 629. G. A. R. in Kansas, 539. Gardner, James K., 776. Gardiner, James B., 775. Garrett, Alexander, 777.
Garrett, Lea A., 830.
Garriss, Ichabod P., 777.
Garver, Martin L., 778.
General Insolvency, 223.
George, Fred W., 779.
Gerhards, Christopher, 780.
Giwosky, John S., 781.
Goddard, 630.
Goodin, Edgar A., 781.
Goodrich, Cutler W., M. D., 783.
Goodrich, Walstein D., 784.
Governor of Kansas Praises Growing Wichita, 321.
Grace, Thomas J., 785.
Grade Schools, 335.
Grain, 21.
Grape Culture in Southern Kansas, 664.
Grass houses, 529.
Green, Aaron T., 785.
Greenwich, 630.
Grieffenstein 's Administration, 234.
Greiffenstein, William, 298.
Grimsley, Andrew, 786.
Growth of Wichita, 18.
Hadley, Elvin Spencer, 787.
Hadley, W. S., 787.
Hahn, Earl, 788.
Hampson, James A., 789.
Harrington, Thomas C., 790.
Harris, George E., 791.
Harris', Geo., Administration, 233.
Harris, Kos., 132, 164, 172, 180, 194, 196, 230, 249, 264, 273, 308, 435, 438.
Hard Hunting, 532.
Harper, William H., 790.
Harsh, Slyvester, 792.
Hatfield, Rodolph, 331, 448, 793.
Hattan, Clarence A., 797.
Haymaker, J. N., 72.
Healy, Edward J., 797.
Head Trading Post, 530.
Heart of Wichita, 430.
He Had No Practice, 270.
Heenan, David, 798.
Henderson, Harry S., 801.
Heinig, Richard, 800.
Helmken, Louis, 799. Herrmann's Soehnen, 414.
Hern, Nathan B., 801.
High, Severen E., 802.
High School, 333, 336. Higginson Drug Company, 61.
Highland Nobles, 414.
Hill, A. H., 803.
Historical Address, 256.
History of the "Wichita Eagle," 478.
History of the Wichita Union Stock Yards, 687.
Hockaday, I. N., 804. Holm, Ferdinand, 804. Holmes, E. F., 805.
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Home of the Commercial Club, 81. Hope, Alonzo B., 806. Hope's, Jim, Administration, 233. Houck, J. Fitch, 626. Hough, Claude F., 806. Houston, Joseph D., 807. Howard, J. E., 808.
How Postal Receipts in Wichita Have Grown, 109.
How the "Beacon " was Named, 476. How to Improve Apple Orchards, 660. Howe, Daniel S., 809. Hoyt, Charles C., 810.
Huckle, 632. Hull, Myron L., 810.
Hunter, Alvin C., 811. "Ida May," a Victim of Cowboy Sport, 458. In 1835, 116. Increase of Tribes, 526.
Indian Names, 527. Indians in Kansas, 525.
Industries Wichita Has, 33.
Insignificance of Man's Influence Up- on Climate, 607.
Irrigating Small Fruits Will Pay, 658. Interesting Romance of Wichita's First Skyscraper, 314.
Interesting Facts Concerning Wichita, 44.
Introduction, 594. In War Times, 531.
Investment of Sedgwick County Cap- ital, 498. Isbell, Frank, 812. Is This a Fruit Country?, 655.
Ivy Leaf Chapter, Order Eastern Star, 395.
Jamesburg, 633. January, 1910, In Wichita, Kansas, 44. Jewell, E. W., 813. Jewett, E. B., 420. Jones, Captain Samuel W., 543.
Jones, Charles W., 816.
Johnson, Frederick M., 814.
Johnson, Wallace W., 815.
Johnston & Larimer Dry Goods Com- pany, Wichita, Kansas, 27. Jones, James M., 816. Jones, Oliver Winslow, 817. Jones, Winfield Scott, 818. Jordan, J. M., 922. Jorgensen, 818. Jupiter vs. the Bull, 152. Kaffir Corn, 648.
"Kansas Commoner," 489. Kansas Crop Figures, 671. "Kansas Farmer Star," 489. "Kansas Magazine," 489. Kansas Masonic Home and Chapel, 411.
Kansas Midland Railway, 585. Kautz, Worth, 819. Kechi, 633.
Keene, John W., 820.
Kelehner, William H., 821.
Kemp, W. C., 822.
Kennedy, Patrick, 822.
Keno Room Described, 267.
Kernan, Samuel B., 823.
Killed Buffalo for Game, 553.
Kimball, Ellwood D., 824.
Kingman Trail, 507.
Kimel, Harvey O., 825.
Kirk, O. D., 825.
Kirkpatrick, R. F., 826.
Knights of Pythias, 414.
Kockel, Samuel, 827.
Ladd, Frederick Otis, 828.
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Sons of Vet- erans, 542.
Ladies' Auxiliary, Peerless Princess Lodge, No. 349, B. of R. T., 413.
Ladies of Security, 414.
Largest Receipts in One Day, 690.
Largest Receipts in One Week, 690.
Largest Receipts in One Month, 690.
Largest Receipts in One Year, 690.
Largest Receipts of Stock in One Year, 683.
Last Indian Scare in Sedgwick Ccun- ty, 505.
Laurie, John, 829.
Law of the Plains, 119.
Leahy, D. D., 485.
Leasure, C. A., 56.
Leasure, Ezra D., 829.
Left Their Names, 530. Legend of John Farmer, 273.
Lincoln Street Presbyterian Church, 377.
Little Arkansas, 121.
Little Arkansas River, 432.
Little Reminiscence of the Days When Wichita was Young-Inspired by Looking at the Beacon Building, 435.
Live Stock, 20. Live Stock on Hand, 503.
Live Stock Interests of the Interior West, 681.
Local Conditions, 448. Logsdon, William T., M. D., 830. Longenecker, Nathaniel W., 831. Laudenslager, Henry H., 832.
Loyal to the Union, 531.
Lumber and Building Materials, 56.
Lumber Trade of Wichita, 25.
Magill, Charles A., 832. Mahin, Dr. Francis Milton, 833. Main, D. M., 834.
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Main North and South Street Wichita, 441.
Maize, 634.
Major, J. C., 634.
Marble, A. S., 835.
Marple Theater, 458.
Martin, Clarence J., 366.
Martin, Fred W., 836.
Martinson, Ola, 837.
William Mathewson-Buffalo Bill- Last of the Old Scouts, 239, 276, 314.
Mathewson's Pasture, 466.
Matson, LeRoy, 839.
Matteson, William E., 838.
McClallen, John E., 890.
McCallum, Charles, 839.
McCollister, Charles C., 840.
McCollister Madison M., 840.
Mccullough, W. F., 48.
McCune, Fred G., 841.
McCurley, George F., 842.
McKnight Land, 442.
McLean's, Ben, Administration, 243.
Mc Vicker, Archibald E., 843. Mead, James R., 111, 113, 115, 121, 522, 525, 534, 550.
Mead, Mrs. James R., 279, 534.
Meaning of the Word "Wichita, "' 111.
Medical Profession of Wichita, 415.
Meeker, Hildreth C., 843.
Meyer, John F. W., 844.
Miles, Charles M., 845.
Millison, D. G., 468.
Miscellaneous Manufacturers, 22. "Missionary Messenger, "' 490. Mitchell, Frank M., 846. Modern Woodmen, 414.
Monuments to the past, 366.
Morey, George A., 847.
Morgan, George O., 847.
Morton-Simmons Hardware Company, 63.
Mount Carmel Academy, 327, 359, Mount Hope, 636.
Mount Olivet Commandery, 402.
Mueller, Alfred G., 848.
Mueller, Charles P., 849.
Mulvane, Kansas, 637.
Muller, George, 849.
Murdock, Col. Marshall M., 485.
Mystic Circle, 414.
Mystic Shrine, 410.
Naftzger, L. S., 95.
Native Forest Trees of the State of Kansas, 675.
Nelson, Hans M., 850.
Nessly, William Riley, 850. New Auditorium, 458.
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New Buildings Worth $2,000,000 in the First Fourth Months of 1910, 310.
New Country South of Us, 555.
Nichols, Benjamin F., 851.
Nicholson, J. M., 853.
Ninnescah Valley, 615.
Nolan, Samuel L., 853.
Northcutt, Odon, 854.
Northwest Corner, 430.
Not Exact Quotation, 269.
Oatville, 640. Odd Fellows, 414.
Officers, 381.
Ohmer, Edward J., 855.
The Oklahoma Boom, 225.
Oldest Mail Carrier in Wichita, 301.
Old Munger House-First House in Wichita, 443.
Old New York Block-Schweiter Cor- ner-A Narrative of Early Wichita, 264.
Old-Time Law Firms, 270.
Order of Railway Conductors, Wichita Division, No. 338, 413.
Orient Brings in Trains of Stock, 581.
Orient Railway Company, 578.
Orpheum Theater, 458.
Osages, 525.
Other Secret Societies, 414. Outlook, 18.
Owen, Yank, 297.
Owens, Thomas J., 856.
Palmer, Hattie, 369.
Park City and Wichita and Their As- tonishing Contest, 420.
Parker, Branson William, 857.
Parker, Frederick, 857.
Parker, William B., 858.
Payne's Dream Came True, 554.
Peck, 641.
Peerless Princess Division, No. 221,
Ladies' Auxiliary to O. R. C., 413. Phillips, Edgar Willard, 859.
Pierce, Clifford, 378.
Pioneer Real Estate Dealers, 426.
Pioneer Rural Mail Carrier, 300.
Population of a Great County, 498.
Population of Wichita, Sedgwick County and the State of Kansas, 449.
Porter, Frank L., 860.
Postoffice, 108.
Postoffice Records Proof of Growth, 106. Practical Uses of the Forecasts, 599. Pratt, George L., 861. Pratt, Mrs. George L., 416. Press, 468.
"Price Current, '' 490. Price, Will G., 861.
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"Primitive Christianity," 490.
Property Values in Wichita, 43. Public Schools of Sedgwick County, 328.
Quantity of Moisture, 609. Railroads, 558.
Army of Mechanics Building the Shops, 583.
Early Railroads Had to Struggle for an Existence, 565. First Train on the Santa Fe, 563.
Making Railroads in the Early Days, 561.
Million and a Half in Terminals, 569. Missouri Pacific Begins Rebuilding of All Its Lines, 571.
Personnel of the Friseo in Wichita, 577.
Proposed Railway Lines, 558.
Railroads of Sedgwick County, 558.
Railway Mail Service, 109.
Rock Island Railway, 584.
Santa Fe in Wichita, 567.
Santa Fe Railroad, 565.
Santa Fe Tonnage, 568. Santa Fe Trail, 526.
.St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Rail- road, 574.
St. Louis & San Francisco, 577.
St. Louis, Wichita & Western Rail- way, 578.
Street Railway-A. D., 1883, 194.
Wichita, Anthony & Salt Plains Rail- road, 575.
Wichita & Colorado Railway Company, 573.
Wichita & Western Railway, 576.
Raising of Alfalfa, 650.
Razing of Webster School Building, 337.
Rankin, Charles E., 862.
Ransom Frank T., 863.
Ravages of Cholera, 533.
Real Barbarians, 528.
Recapitulation, 226.
Record Growth in Live Stock Busi- ness, 690.
Reece, Virgil A., 864.
Reed, Arthur B., 865. Reeder, Harry, 865.
Redmen, 414.
Reminiscences of a Briefless Bar- rister, 249.
Reorganized Board of Trade, 200.
Research Observatory, 601. Reservation Indians, 527. Resing, Dale, 276.
Retrospection and Prognostication, 227.
Review of City, 230. Richardson, True B., 866.
Rickard, Perry G., 865.
Riley, George T., 867.
Robinson, William C., 868.
Ross', Finlay, Administration, 242. Roster of City Officers of Wichita, Kansas, 1910, 66.
Roster of County Officers, Sedgwick County, 499.
Rural Schools Are Growing, 329.
Russell, Adolphus D., 869.
Sargent, Thornton W., 870.
Sash and Door Industry in Wichita, 54. Saur, August J., 870.
Seheetz, Levi G., 872.
15,225 School Kids in County, 330.
Sedgwick
School Superintendent 's Report, 328. Schulte, 641.
Schulte, Peter, 872.
Schwartz, Edward J., 871.
Schweiter Corner, 264.
Sehweiter Block, 320.
Scope of the National Weather Serv- ice, 595.
Scottish Rite Masonry, 404.
Scottish Rite in Wichita, 398.
Scott, Garrison, 873.
Scott, Le Roye W., 874.
Scraps of Local History, 418.
Sedgwick, 642. Sedgwick County, 491, 501.
The Sedgwick County Bar in the Early '80s, 509.
The Sedgwick County Court House, 514.
Sedgwick County, Its Organization, 493.
Sedgwick County Pays Its Full Share of Taxes, 461.
Sedgwick Has an Entomology Station, 668.
Sedgwick Home Lumber Hauled from Emporia, 460. Sellers, J. Ira, 874.
Sence, William, 875.
Sessions of the U. S. Court Are Con- vened in Wichita, 512.
Shafer, William W., 875.
Shannon Thomas H., 876.
Shaw, S. D., 877. Shelly, Dr. S. T., 877.
Shelley Drug Company, 60.
Shew, Aaron L., 878.
Shreve, Charles E., 880.
Shuler, Frank W., 880.
Silknitter, Hiram W., 881.
Simmons, Charles W., 881.
Simmons, James M., 883.
Sluss, Henry C., 143. Smith, J. Giles, 398-412.
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Review of Wichita Bodies, 398.
Smyth, Charles H., 79.
Snyder, Henry H., 883.
So-Called Change of Climate, 605.
Solandt, Andrew P., 351.
Some Pioneer Traders, 116.
Some Prominent Buildings in Wichita, 309. Some Well-Known People, 295.
Southwestern Marble & Tile Company, 63.
"Southwestern Grain & Flour Jour- nal,"' 490.
South Side Delvers, 387.
Sowers, Fred A., 6.
Spencer, Edwin I., 884.
Spurious Forecasts, 597.
Stage Coach Period of Wichita, 455. Stanley, Edmund, 340.
Stanley, John E., 885.
Steiert, Joseph W., 886 ..
Stevens, Zachary H., 886.
Stewart, James, 887.
Stewart, Joe, 887.
St. Mark, 642.
Stilwell, Arthur E., 582.
Stock Market That Satisfies, 694.
Stoner, Aaron W., 888.
Story of the Peerless Princess, 427.
Stringer, William O., 888.
Stubbs, W. R., 304.
Sullivan, Cyrus, 892.
Sullivan, Thomas A., 893.
Sullivan, Richard H., 594-894.
Sunflower Lodge, No. 86, A. F. & A. M., 393.
Sunnydale, 643.
Superiority of Scientific Records Over Memory in Matters of Climate, 606. Surveying a New Route to Wichita, 588.
Tableaux, 169.
Tallman, Charles W., 895.
Taylor, Houston Lee, 896.
Taylor, William Stewart, 897.
The Tax Rolls of Sedgwick County for 1909, 496.
Taxable Property Shows Large In- crease, 499.
Temperature, 611.
Temple, Thomas H., 898.
"The Beacon" Is Thirty-Eight, 475. "The Democrat, "' 489.
"The Mathewson," 313.
Theaters in Wichita, 458. The Novelty Theater, 458. The Princess Theater, 458. Then It Snowed, 533. Thirteen Mayors in Thirty-nine Years, 15. Thompson, L. W., 899.
Thoughts of Helping Wichita, 438. Tjaden, J. H., 900.
Total Property Values, 503.
Total Receipts of Stock for Seven Years, 683.
Total Shipments of Stock for Seven Years, 684.
Towns and Villages of Sedgwick County, 615.
Town of Bentley, 619.
Town of Hatfield, 631.
Town of Marshall, 635.
Townsdin, Sammis T., 901.
Township of Afton, 616.
Trades and Labor Organization in Wichita, 413.
Traders Credit Unlimited, 118.
Trading Post on the Arkansas, 551.
Trend of Business, 460.
Trouble of '67, 532.
Turner, J. H., 296.
Twentieth Century Club, 386.
United Brethren, Kriebel Chapel, 377.
United States District and Circuit Courts, 514.
United States Weather Bureau, 594.
Urges Growing of Onions Here, 668. Valley Center, 643.
Valuation of Stock Handled at These Yards in Twenty Years, 685.
Van Arsdale, William O., 901.
Van Dusen, Nathan S., 902.
Versatile Preacher of Pioneer Days, 453.
Veterans of Sedgwick County, 540. Viola, 644.
Visited by Wild Tribes, 530.
Waco, 644.
Waddell, Albert J., 903.
Walden, Albert G., 904.
Wall, Edward, 906.
Wall, Jesse D., 907.
Wallenstein, Henry, 404.
Walnut Grove, 119. Walton, J. F., 907. Ward, Ulysses E., 909.
Warren, James Francis, 909.
Watson, William O., 912.
Watts, Francis M., 910.
Weather Bureau, 613.
Wells, Bert C., 913.
Welsh, S. A., 913.
Western Sedgwick County, 646.
West Wichita Commercial League, 83.
Whitehead, W. L., 914.
Whitelaw, James E., 914.
Whitty, J. A., 637.
Why of Wichita's Greatness as a Railway and Jobbing Center, 42. Wise, Albert W., 918. Williams, David O., 915.
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Willis, Albert P., 916. Willis, William F., 917.
Wichita, 65, 425, 447. Wichitas, 527.
The Wichita Abstract & Land Com- pany, 64.
Vichita an Important Educational Center, 325.
Wichita: A Masonic Town, 410.
Wichita as a Commercial and Manu- facturing Center, 16.
Wichita as a Home, 23. Wichita's Arrival, 117.
Wichita as the Manufacturing City of the Great Southwest, 30.
Wichita Bank Taxes in 1910, 39.
Wichita Boom, 433.
Wichita Chamber of Commerce, 67-72.
Wichita City Schools 331.
Wichita: City of the New West, 423. Wichita College of Music, 59.
"Wichita Daily Beacon,"' 490.
"Wichita Daily Pointer, " 490.
Wichita Does Things-Hence It's
Progress, 42.
"Wichita Eagle, " 490. Wichita Egotism, 225.
Wichita Fire Department, 66.
Wichita's First Circus, 266.
Wichita's First Daily Newspaper, 453.
Wichita's Flour Production, 24.
Wichita's Forum, 321.
Wichita Grain Market, 48.
Wichita Hay Man Has Become "Hay King of Kansas," 296. Wichita Heights, 645.
"Wichita Herald," 490.
Wichita Horse Market, 463.
Wichita Hospital Needed Every Day, 416.
Wichita's Industrial History-In the Beginning, 115.
Wichita Is First as Railway Center, 590.
Wichita Jobbing Business Totals Forty Millions a Year, 25.
The Wichita Land Office, 90. Wichita Lodge, No. 99, A. F. & A. M., 392.
Wichita's Mayor, 295.
Wichita Musical Club, 387.
Wichita Newspapers, 489.
Wichita Presbyterianism and Its
Amenities, 172.
Wichita 's Prominence as a Stock and Feeder Market, 693.
Wichita Postoffice, 105.
Wichita Public Schools, 327.
Wichita Railroad & Light Company, 53.
"Wichita Searchlight," 490. Wichita Sees Her Vision and Smiles. 450.
Wichita Trunk Company, 62.
Wichita Water Company, 86.
Wilson, Hollis N., 917.
Woman's Relief Corps, No. 40, 541.
Woods, D. P., 919.
Woodmen of the World, 414.
Woolf, Charles H., 919.
Worrall, Doc, 299.
Yale Theater, 458.
Yaw, Frank, 656.
Yearly Shipments by the Railroads, 692.
Fraternal Orders, 390.
York Rite Masonry, 390. Young, George L., 922.
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