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DEPUTY SHERIFF
A. Kuykendall
JAILOR Wm. H. Gill
JUDGE PROBATE COURT.
A. B. Quinton. Fees.
TREASURER
Byron Roberts. $4,000
DEPUTY TREASURER. Emma W. Wallace
CLERK
D. N. Burdge. 2,400
DEPUTY CLERK.
Ella Spencer
SURVEYOR.
A. H. Wetherbee.
REGISTER OF DEEDS.
James Burgess. Fees.
DEPUTY REGISTER OF DEEDS. R. Whitmer.
CORONER J. B. Hibben. Fees.
SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. John MacDonald. $1,000
AUDITOR. J. G. Wood. 1,000
PHYSICIAN Wm. A. Williamson. 100
SUPERINTENDENT POOR ASYLUM J. F. Russell. 800
COMMISSIONER OF POOR.
Willis Rigdon
500
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Regular sessions of the board are held in the county clerk's office, in the court house, commencing on the first Monday in January, April, July and October.
Second District-Henry C. Lindsey, Third District-Bradford Miller, Salary, $300 each. First District-John M. Wilkerson,
JURY COMMISSIONERS.
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MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
SENATOR Hon. Silas E. Sheldon.
REPRESENTATIVE 46TII DISTRICT. Hon. C. P. Bolmar.
REPRESENTATIVE 47TH DISTRICT. Hon. Geo. W. Veale.
REPRESENTATIVE 48TH DISTRICT. Hon. J. B. Me Afce.
JUDICIARY.
SHAWNEE COUNTY DISTRICT COURT. Hon. John Guthrie, judge; Charles Curtis, attorney; W. E. Sterne, clerk; A. M. Fuller, sheriff. Regular terms of this court are held on the first Monday in January, April and September.
PROBATE COURT. Hon. A. B. Quinton, judge. Regular terms of this court are held on the first Monday in January, April, July and October in each year.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
R. H. C. Searle. A. F. Chesney. M. M. Hale. W. I. Jamison.
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STATE GOVERNMENT OF KANSAS.
The Territory of Kansas remained unorganized and almost unpco- pled until the 30th of May, 1854, when President Pierce signed the famous Kansas-Nebraska bill, organizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. In July, 1859, the Constitutional Convention met in Wyandotte, and on the 29th of July signed the " Wyandotte Consti- tution." This was ratified by the people in October of the same year, but it was not, however, until January 29, 1861, that President Bu- chanan signed the act of Congress admitting Kansas under the Wyan- dotte Constitution, and then her existence as a State legally began.
The State of Kansas includes an area of 80,000 square miles, or 52,042,520 acres, and is larger than the whole of the New England 14
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States, equal to North and South Carolina combined, and is twice as large as Ohio. According to the United States census taken in 1880, the population was 995,355; in 1885 the official State census showed 1,268,530; and the estimated population at this time (May, 1888) is not less than 1,850,000.
Amount of State debt, April 25, 1888, $815,000, of which $538,000 is held by the permanent State school fund, $12,000 by the State sink- ing fund, $9,000 by the State University fund, $256,000 by individuals and corporations, bearing 7 per cent interest.
Permanent school fund, $4,634,175.86.
Total tax levy for State purposes, 41 mills.
Valuation of all property as fixed by State board, $310,871,446.64; amount to be raised on this valuation, $1,274,572.92.
Amount raised by taxation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, $1,136,164.39.
Municipal debt amounts to about $14,500,000.
Elections are held on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Mon- day in November.
The Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Members of the House of Representatives are elected for a term of two years. State Senators are elected every four years. The State Printer is elected for two years, by a joint ballot of the Legislature, and the Superintendent of Insurance is appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate.
The gubernatorial term commences on the second Monday in Jan- uary following the election; and regular sessions of the Legislature are held biennially.
Legal holidays: Sundays, July 4th, May 30th, December 25th, Thanksgiving, January 1st.
COUNTIES OF KANSAS.
ORIGIN OF THEIR NAMES AND THE DATE OF THEIR ORGANIZATION.
Allen. Organized in 1855. County seat, Iola. Named in honor of Wm. Allen, of Ohio, who was for many years a member of the United States Senate from that commonwealth, and also its Governor. IIe favored the doctrine of popular sovereignty, on the opening of the Territory of Kansas to settlement, and the most ultra measures for the perpetuation of slavery.
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Anderson. ' Organized in 1855. County seat, Garnett. Received its name from Jos. C. Anderson, of Missouri, who was a member of the first Kansas Territorial Legislature, and Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. He figured in the "Wakarusa war" in December, 1855, and his name appears in connection with a proposi- tion to march under the "black flag" to Lawrence.
Atchison. Organized in 1855. County seat, Atchison. Named for David R. Atchison, a Senator from Missouri, and President of the United States Senate at the date of the passage of the act for the or- ganization of the Territory of Kansas. He was a zealous partisan leader in the discussions and movements affecting the interests of slavery and its attempted establishment in the new State to be created. He was conspicuous among the mob at the sacking of Lawrence, on the 21st of May, 1856.
Barber. Organized in 1873. County seat, Medicine Lodge. In honor of Thomas W. Barber, a Free-State settler of Douglas county, who was killed in consequence of the political troubles, near Law- rence, December 6, 1855.
Barton. Organized in 1872. County seat, Great Bend. In honor of Miss Clara Barton, of Massachusetts, who won great distinction dur- ing the war for the Union by her remarkably effective philanthropic career in the sanitary department of the army.
Bourbon. Organized in 1855. County scat, Fort Scott. Re- ceived its name from Bourbon county, Kentucky, the latter having been one of the nine counties organized in 1785, by the Virginia Leg- islature, before Kentucky became an independent State. It was so called as a compliment to the Bourbon dynasty of France, a prince of that family, then upon the throne, having rendered the American col- onies important aid, in men and money, in their great struggle for in- dependence. The legend, however, of the Kansas Legislature is, that Col. Samuel Williams, a member of the House from Fort Scott, in- sisted that at least so much was due to the name of the beverage which the party in power drew so largely from for its courage and zeal in pushing its measures in Kansas. He was a colonel in the rebel army, and died at his old home, Fort Scott.
Brown. Organized in 1855. County scat, Hiawatha. After Albert G. Browne, of Mississippi, who had been Senator and Member of the House of Representatives from that State, was United States Senator at the date of the act organizing Kansas Territory, was reelected for six years in 1859, but withdrew with Jefferson Davis on the attempted
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secession of the Southern States. The name is properly spelled with an e in the original statute, but on the county seal was left off- accidentally, probably. All later statutes present the name without the final e.
Butler. Organized in 1855. County seat, Eldorado. For Andrew P. Butler, who was twelve years a United States Senator from South Carolina, from 1857 to 1869. He was a bitter partisan, and a zealous advocate of the right of the South to introduce slavery into the Ter- ritory of Kansas.
Chase. Organized in 1859. County seat, Cottonwood Falls. Cre- ated out of portions of Wise and Butler counties, and named in honor of Salmon P. Chase, successively Governor of Ohio, United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was earnest in his opposition, when Senator, to the exten- sion of slavery into Kansas.
Chautauqua. Organized in 1875. County scat, Sedan. Created out of a portion of what was first Godfrey county, named after "Bill Godfrey," a noted trader among the Osages; then Howard county, in honor of Major General O. O. Howard, for his efforts in behalf of the colored race. Chautauqua county, New York, was the former home of Hon. Edward Jacquins, who was a member of the Kansas Legislature in 1875 from Howard county, who introduced the bill which divided Howard into Chautauqua and Elk; hence from his native place this county derives its name. Godfrey county was changed to Seward in 1861.
Cherokee. Organized in 1866. County seat, Columbus. First named McGee in 1855, for E. McGee, who was a member of the Territorial Legislature, and held to the doctrine that the term "inhabitant," as employed in the organic act creating the Territory of Kansas, was meant to designate any person who might reside in, or have an existence in, or happened to be in on election day, or during the sitting of a Legislature. So he voted in Kansas, helped to make laws for Kansas, but never lived in Kansas, always persistently adhering to his citizenship of Missouri. In 1866 the name Cherokee was adopted, from the fact that the reservation of that tribe of Indians was partially included in the geographical area of the county.
Cheyenne. Boundaries defined in 1873. Organized April 1st, 1886. County seat, Bird City. Named after the celebrated Indian tribe of that name.
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Clay. Organized in 1866. County seat, Clay Center. Named in honor of the distinguished Kentucky statesman, Henry Clay, who was chosen United States Senator in 1806, and served most of the time during a period of forty-six years. He had been minister to England and France, and candidate for President in opposition to Polk. He lived in Washington in 1852.
Clark. Organized in 1885. County seat, Ashland. Originally and correctly Clarke, with a final e, in memory of Charles F. Clarke, Captain and Adjutant General, United States Volunteers, who died at Memphis, December 10, 1862. The Legislature of 1873 dropped the final e under a misapprehension, as the legend goes, that the county was named for another, and to many of them, an obnoxious individual, whose name was spelled with an e.
Cloud. Organized in 1860. County seat, Concordia. The name of Cloud county, Kansas, was originally Shirley county, named after, Governor William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts from 1741 to 1756. The name of Shirley county was changed to Cloud in the year 1867, in honor of Col. William F. Cloud, of the Second Regi- ment Kansas Volunteers. This change was made at the suggestion of Hon. J. B. Rupe, then representing the county in the Legislature.
Coffey. Organized in 1859. County seat, Burlington. Named in honor of Colonel A. M. Coffey, a member of the first Territorial Legislative Council. Colonel Coffey died at Dodge City in 1879.
Comanche. Organized in 1885. County seat, Coldwater. Named from the Indian tribe of that name.
Cowley. Organized in 1870. County seat, Winfield. Named in honor of Matthew Cowley, First Lieutenant of Company I, Ninth Kan- sas Cavalry, who died in the service, October 7, 1864, at Little Rock, Arkansas.
Crawford. Organized in 1867. County seat, Girard. This county was by an act of the Legislature of 1867 created out of the northern half of Cherokee, which prior to that date reached to Bourbon. It was named in honor of Samuel J. Crawford, who was Colonel of the Second Regiment Colored Volunteers, (infantry,) also Colonel of the Nineteenth Kansas Infantry, specially raised for the Indian war of 1868-9. He was elected Governor of Kansas in 1864, and served four years. The Legislature thus named the county in obedience to a reso- lution of its inhabitants, passed in a convention held to petition for its organization. Ex-Governor Crawford is now State Agent at the seat of government; his residence is Topeka.
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Davis. Organized in 1855. County seat, Junction City. For Jefferson Davis, a graduate of West Point, officer of the army, United States Senator and Secretary of War, successively. He was President of the so-called Southern Confederacy. He still lives.
Decatur. Organized in 1879. County seat, Oberlin. Boundaries defined by legislative enactment in 1873. Named in honor of Com- modore Stephen Y. Decatur, a distinguished American naval officer. He fell in a ducl with Commodore Barron, U. S. N., in 1808.
Dickinson. Organized in 1857. County seat, Abilene. In honor of Daniel S. Dickinson, who, as a Senator from the State of New York, was the first to introduce, 1847, in the United States Senate, resolutions respecting territorial government embodying the doctrine of popular sovereignty, afterwards incorporated on the bill for the or- ganization of Kansas Territory. He died in 1866.
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Doniphan. Organized in 1885. County seat, Troy. In honor of Colonel A. W. Doniphan, of Missouri. He commanded a regi- ment of cavalry during the Mexican war, marching across the plains, and taking a very prominent part in the conquest of New Mexico. He was a zealous partisan in the effort made to extend slavery into Kansas.
Douglas. Organized in 1855. County seat, Lawrence. In honor of Stephen A. Douglass, United States Senator from Illinois, and a can- didate for the presidency in 1860. It was in this county that the first Legislature located the capital of the Territory. As a Senator, Doug- lass, in 1854, took a leading part in securing the adoption of the "pop- ular sovereignty" principle, in the act organizing Kansas Territory, which gave the particular form of the issue involved in the Kansas struggle.
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Edwards. Organized in 1874. County seat, Kinsley. Named in honor of John H. Edwards, of Ellis, State Senator. Colonel Edwards now lives in New Mexico.
Elk. Organized in 1875. County seat, Howard City. Created out of the northern portion of what had been Howard county. Named for the Elk river, which traverses its area from northwest to southeast.
Ellis. Organized in 1867. County seat, Hays City. Named in memory of George Ellis, First Lieutenant of Company I, Twelfth Kansas Infantry, killed in battle April 30th, 1864, at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas.
Ellsworth. Organized in 1867. County scat, Ellsworth. . Named after Fort Ellsworth, a military post built on the bank of the Smoky
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Hill, in 1864. This fort was so called by General Curtis in honor of the officer who constructed it, Allen Ellsworth, Second Lieutenant of Company H, Seventh Iowa Cavalry. When the name was adopted for the county, it was supposed that the fort had been named in mem- ory of Colonel E. E. Ellsworth, of national fame.
Ford. Organized in 1873. County seat, Dodge City. Named in honor of Colonel James H. Ford, of the Second Colorado Cavalry, and Brevet Brigadier General U. S. Volunteers.
Franklin. Organized in 1855. County seat, Ottawa. Named in honor of the illustrious Benjamin Franklin.
Finney. Organized in 1854. County seat, Garden City. Orig- inally Sequoyah, from the celebrated Cherokee Indian of that name, the inventor of the alphabet of his language, and a most remarkable man. Changed in 1883 to Finney, in honor of D. W. Finney, then Lieutenant Governor of the State.
Garfield. Organized in 1887. County seat, Ravanna. Bounda- ries were defined in 1873. Named in honor of President James A. Garfield.
Gove. Organized September 2, 1886. County seat, Gove City. In honor of Captain Grenville L. Gove, Captain Eleventh Kansas Cav- alry, who died in 1864.
Graham. Organized in 1880. County seat, Millbrook. In honor of Captain John L. Graham, of the Eighth Regiment Kansas Infantry -killed in action at Chickamauga, Tenn., September 19, 1863, before he was mustered in.
Gray. Organized in 1887. County seat, Ingalls. Named in honor of Alfred Gray, late secretary of the State Board of Agriculture.
Greenwood. Organized in 1862. County seat, Eureka. This county received its name as a compliment to Alfred B. Greenwood, who, about the time of the organization of the Territory, was Com- missioner of Indian Affairs. He negotiated treaties, on the part of the United States, with the Sac and Fox and other tribes in Southern Kansas.
Hamilton. Organized January 29, 1886. County seat, Syracuse. In honor of General Alexander Hamilton, the great American states- man; he was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr, July 11, 1804.
Harper. Organized in 1873. County seat, Anthony. The organ- ization of this county was one of the most glaring frauds ever per- petrated in the State. Attorney General Williams, in his official report, says: "It is not pretended that Harper county ever had an inhabitant."
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The form of its organization was legal, and that is all, and in 1878 was decided to be an actual organization. It was named in memory of Marion Harper, first sergeant of Company E, Second Regiment of Kansas Cavalry. He was mortally wounded at Waldron, Arkansas, December 29, 1863, and died the following day. His comrades say he took his death coolly. Being a sportive man, when brought in wounded, he proposed a wager that in so many hours he would be dead; the bet was taken, and Marion Harper won.
Harvey. Organized in 1872. County seat, Newton. Named for James M. Harvey, Captain of Company G, Tenth Regiment of Kan- sas Infantry. He was Governor of the State from 1869 to 1873, and elected United States Senator to fill an unexpired term in 1877. Ex- Governor Harvey now resides in Virginia.
Haskell. Organized in 1887. County seat, Santa Fe. Named in honor of Dudley C. Haskell, of Lawrence, who died while serving the State as Congressman.
Hodgeman. Organized in 1879. County seat, Jetmore. Named in honor of Amos Hodgman, Captain of Company H, Seventh Kan- sas Cavalry. He died October 16, 1863, near Oxford, Mississippi, of wounds received in action at Wyatt, Mississippi, October 10, 1863. The name should be spelled Hodgman, as above, without the e-it was so, correctly, in the original statute of 1868, which created the county, but by accident-probably-in the statute which redefined its boundaries in 1873 the e was added. Of course it is legally Hodgeman, and must remain orthographically incorrect until changed by legisla- tive enactment.
Jackson. Organized in 1857. County seat, Holton. Originally Calhoun, in honor of John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina; changed in 1859 to Jackson, after Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States.
Jefferson. Organized in 1855. County seat, Oskaloosa. In honor of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States-reputed author of the " Declaration of Independence." It came very near being called Sauterelle, (French for grasshopper,) Colonel Tibbs, the local member, having strenuously contended for it; he was overruled in the committee. The legend goes that the colonel accepted his defeat with good grace, and supplied the customary beverage of those times, used when anything notable occurred in or about that remarkable body.
Jewell. Organized in 1870. County seat, Mankato. . Named in memory of Lewis R. Jewell, Lieutenant Colonel Sixth Kansas Cavalry, 15
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who died November 30, 1862, of wounds received at the battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas, November 28, 1862.
Johnson. Organized in 1855. County seat, Olathe. For Rev. Thos. Johnson, a Methodist minister, who in 1829 established a mission among the Shawnee Indians, about eight miles southwest of Kansas City. Mr. Johnson took the Pro-Slavery side of politics and was a member of the first Territorial Council .. He was, when the war came on, a faithful Union man. He then lived in Missouri, and becoming obnoxious to the bushwhackers, his house was attacked by them, and he was shot and killed in January, 1865.
Kearney. Organized March 28, 1888. County seat, Lakin. Named after General Kearney, who commanded United States troops in the West during the Indian troubles.
Kingman. Organized in 1874. County seat, Kingman. Named in honor of Samuel A. Kingman, who was then Chief Justice of Kan- sas. Judge Kingman resides in Topeka.
Kiowa. Organized March 23, 1886. County seat, Greensburg. Named after the tribe of Indians bearing that named.
Labette. Organized in 1867. County seat, Oswego. Originally part of Dorn county, after Colonel Earl Van Dorn, of the regular army. He was also a rebel officer. Changed to Labette, from the river of that name, a tributary to the Neosho. Labette is French, and signifies "the beet."
Lane. Organized June 3, 1886. Boundaries defined in 1873. County seat, Dighton. In honor of Senator "Jim " Lane, of Kansas fame.
Leavenworth. Organized in 1855. County seat, Leavenworth. From Fort Leavenworth, the most important military post in the West. It was established in 1827, and was named after General Leavenworth, of the United States army.
Lincoln. Organized in 1870. County seat, Lincoln Center. In honor of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, and author of the emancipation proclamation. Assassinated April 14, 1865.
Linn. Organized in 1855. County seat, Mound City. Named for Lewis F. Linn, a distinguished United States Senator from Mis- souri, who died in 1843, in office. He was a colleague of Hon. Thomas H. Benton.
Logan. County seat, Russell Springs. By an act of the Legisla-
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ture in 1887, the county of St. John was changed to Logan, in honor of the late General John A. Logan.
Lyon. Organized in 1858. County seat, Emporia. Named by the first Legislature Breckenridge, in honor of John C. Breckenridge, Vice President of the United States in 1856-60. Changed in 1862 to Lyon, in honor of General Nathaniel Lyon, who was killed while in command of the Union army at the battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, August 10, 1861.
Marion. Organized in 1865. County seat, Marion. Named for Marion county, Ohio, which was so called in memory of General Francis Marion, of revolutionary fame.
Marshall. Organized in 1855. County seat, Marysville. After General Frank J. Marshall, who established a ferry on the Big Blue at the crossing of the old Independence-California road in 1849. He was a prominent member of the first Legislature, and had his own name applied to the county. Marysville is named for his wife.
McPherson. Organized in 1870. County seat, McPherson. In honor of Major General James B. McPherson, U. S. Volunteers, who was killed in battle at Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864.
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