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OFFICERS.
MAYOR Hon. James A. Troutman.
ATTORNEY .J. B. Larimer.
POLICE JUDGE S. M. Gardenhire.
CLERK.
D. N. Burdge.
TREASURER
A. Marburg.
MARSHAL.
A. Bunker.
STREET COMMISSIONER.
A. Bunker.
CITY COUNCIL.
The city council meets at the school house in Potwin Place on the evening of the first Monday of each month.
MEMBERS.
C. B. HAMILTON.
J. W. F. HUGHES.
L. A. JOHNSTON.
THOMAS ELY.
ISAAC N. BAKER.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
The meetings of the board of education of Potwin Place are held in the school house.
HIRAM HULSE.
MEMBERS. W. M. FORBES.
WILLIAM HENDERSON.
The alphabetical directory of names of the residents of Potwin Place is included in the directory of Topeka.
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SHAWNEE COUNTY. [ A complete directory of the tax payers will be found following the business directory.]
SHAWNEE COUNTY is situated in the northeastern portion of the State, being in the third tier of counties south from Nebraska, and the same tier west from the Missouri State line.
It was organized in 1855, while Kansas was yet a Territory. It has an area of 558 square miles, and ranks as the first county in the State, both in pop- ulation and assessed valuation. The general surface of the county is a rolling prairie, with a few high hills and bluffs. The bottom lands of the Kansas and Wakarusa rivers are from one to three miles in width, and these, together with the valleys of the creeks, comprise 31 per cent. of the county area. The total value of public-school property in the county is over a half million dollars, di- vided among ninety-four organized school districts, and about the same amount is represented by private educational institutions.
Elections are held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in Novem- ber.
VALUATION OF PROPERTY.
Topeka (real estate and personal).
$41,216,824 00
Shawnee county (real estate and personal ) . 34,650,000 00
Total actual valuation.
$75,866,824 00
ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY.
[ NOTE .- Under the laws of Kansas, all property is assessed for taxation on a basis of 25 to 30 per cent. of its real value.]
Railroad property
$1,202,314 89
Lots.
7,891,080 00
Land.
4,406,255 25
Personal property .
3,514,930 00
Total assessment
$17,014,580 14
REGISTER OF COUNTY OFFICERS.
SALARY.
JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT.
John Guthrie. $2,500
CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT
W. E. Sterne Fees.
ATTORNEY.
. R. B. Welch. $2,000
SHERIFF
. John M. Wilkerson Fees.
JUDGE PROBATE COURT.
A. B. Quinton. Fees.
TREASURER *
Byron Roberts $4,000
*Treasurer-elect A. K. Rodgers's term commences October, 1890.
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CLERK ..
. John M. Brown $2,400
SURVEYOR
B. A. Bailey Fees.
REGISTER OF DEEDS.
S. J. Bear. Fees.
CORONER ..
.Dr. F. W. Bailey Fees.
SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
Josiah Jordan
$1,000
AUDITOR
.J. G. Wood.
1,000
STENOGRAPHER DISTRICT COURT
. S. M. Gardenhire. Fees.
PHYSICIAN.
Dr. W. A. Williams $100
SUPERINTENDENT POOR ASYLUM.
.J. F. Russell. 800
COMMISSIONER OF POOR.
A. C. Hale.
500
BOARD OF EXAMINERS.
Josiah Jordan. J. H. Stevens. J. N. Moodey. I. S. Curtis. E. M. Cockrell.
DEPUTY CLERKS OF THE DISTRICT COURT
ASSISTANT ATTORNEYS.
E. A. Wagener.
UNDER SHERIFF
W. D. Disbrow.
DEPUTY SHERIFFS
Thomas Wilkerson. W. H. Gill.
JAILER ..
Emma W. Wallace.
DEPUTY CLERKS
Ella Spencer.
DEPUTY REGISTER OF DEEDS
. James M. Harr.
BAILIFF DISTRICT COURT
.J. G. Bunker.
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 Oc- tober.
First District- Samuel Kerr. Second District -J. Lee Knight, Third District-Lakin Campbell, )
Salary, $300 each.
JURY COMMISSIONERS.
Albert W. Knowles. Richard Binns. Albert Parker.
JUDICIARY.
Shawnee County District Court. Hon. John Guthrie, judge; R. B. Welch, at- torney; W. E. Sterne, clerk; John M. Wilkerson, sheriff. Regular terms of court are held on the second 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.
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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
In Topeka .- A. F. Chesney; office, 605 Kansas avenue. F. M. Grover; office, 819 North Kansas avenue. M. M. Hale; office, 435 Kansas avenue. W. I. Jamison; office, 515 Kansas avenue.
In Shawnee County .- Auburn township: W. H. H. Fox, Auburn; Wm. Black, Auburn. Dover township: Z. T. Fitzgerald, Dover. Menoken township: S. T. Cromwell, North Topeka; J. W. Priddy, North Topeka. Mission township: P. J. Spring, Topeka. Monmouth township: J. B. Craig, Richland. Rossville township: R. Binns, Rossville; Isaac Larrence, Ross- ville. Silver Lake township: J. H. Dearborn, Silver Lake; H. J. Ash- pole, Silver Lake. Soldier township: Lawrence Johnson, North Topeka; J. W. Ready, North Topeka. Tecumseh township: J. W. Wise, Tecumseh; S. E. Nixon, Tecumseh. Topeka township : J. J. Fisher, Topeka. Williams- port township: J. M. Hutchinson, Wakarusa; J. M. Westgate, Wakarusa.
MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
SENATOR Hon. Thomas A. Osborn.
REPRESENTATIVE 46TH DISTRICT Hon. Harry C. Safford.
REPRESENTATIVE 47TH DISTRICT. Hon. Geo. W. Veale.
REPRESENTATIVE 48TH DISTRICT. Hon. J. B. McAfee.
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STATE GOVERNMENT OF KANSAS.
THE Territory of Kansas remained unorganized and almost unpeopled un- til 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 Constitution." This was ratified by the people in October of the same year, but it was not, however, until January 29, 1861, that President Buchanan signed the act of Congress admitting Kansas under the Wyandotte constitution, and then her existence as a State legally began.
The State of Kansas includes an area of $2,080 square miles, or 52,531,200 acres, and is larger than the whole of the New England States and Delaware and Maryland added; equal to North and South Carolina combined, and is twice as large as Ohio. According to the United States census taken in ISSo, the population was 995,355; in 1885 the official State census showed 1,268,530; and the estimated population at this time (May, 1890) is not less than 1,850,000.
FINANCIAL EXHIBIT.
Amount of State debt, April 19th, 1890, $801,000, of which $536,000 is held by the permanent State school fund, $9,000 by the State University fund, $256,- ooo by individuals and corporations; of which $698,000 bears 7 per cent. interest and $103,000 bears 4 per cent.
Permanent school fund, $5,515,389.86.
Total tax levy for State purposes, 4% mills.
Valuation of all property as fixed by State board, $360,815,073.49.
Amount to be raised on this valuation, $1,515.423.27.
Amount raised by taxation for the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1889, about $1,439,000.
Municipal debt amounted to $31,107,646, June 30, 1888.
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ELECTIONS.
Elections are held on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in No- vember in each year. The Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Members of the House of Rep- resentatives are elected on the even year for a term of two years. State Senators are elected every four years. Judges of the Supreme Court are elected in the even years for a term of six years, one being elected every two years. The State Printer is elected every two years by a joint ballot of the Legislature, and United States Senators are elected in like manner for a term of six years. A State Superintendent of Insurance is appointed by the Governor, by and with the approval of the Senate, once in four years, his term commencing in July after his appointment.
The gubernatorial term commences on the second Monday in January fol- lowing the election, and regular sessions of the Legislature are held biennially, commencing on the second Tuesday in January in the odd years. .
GOVERNORS.
CHARLES ROBINSON 1861 to 1863.
THOMAS CARNEY. IS63 to 1865.
SAMUEL J. CRAWFORD IS65 to October, 1868.
N. GREEN (to fill vacancy) October, 1868, to January, 1869.
JAMES M. HARVEY. 1869 to 1873.
THOMAS A. OSBORN 1873 to 1877.
GEORGE T. ANTHONY 1877 to 1879.
JOHN P. ST. JOHN. 1879 to 1883.
GEORGE W. GLICK. 1883 to IS85.
JOHN A. MARTIN . . 1885 to 1889.
LYMAN U. HUMPHREY 1889 to
JUDICIARY.
SUPREME COURT.
Chief Justice-Albert H. Horton, Topeka; salary, $3,000.
Associate Justice-D. M. Valentine, Topeka; salary, $3,000.
Associate Justice-W. A. Johnston, Minneapolis; salary, $3,000.
Commissioner -Benj. F. Simpson, Paola, Miami county; salary, $3,000.
Commissioner -- J. C. Strang, Larned, Pawnee county; salary, $3,000.
Commissioner-George S. Green, Manhattan, Riley county; salary, $3,000. Clerk-C. J. Brown, Topeka; fees.
Reporter -A. F. M. Randolph, Topeka.
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EXECUTIVE AND DEPARTMENT OFFICERS.
Governor - Lyman U. Humphrey, Independence; salary, $3,000.
Governor's Private Secretary-James Smith, Topeka; salary, $2,000. Lieutenant Governor-Andrew J. Felt, Seneca; salary, $6 per day. Secretary of State-William Higgins, Topeka; salary, $2,000 and fees. Assistant Secretary of State-Theo. F. Orner, Topeka; salary, $1,Soo.
State Tecasurer-William Sims, Topeka; salary, $2,500.
Assistant State Treasurer-R. R. Moore, Topeka; salary, $2,000.
State Auditor-Timothy McCarthy, Larned; salary, $2,000 and fees. Assistant State Auditor-S. S. McFadden, Topeka; salary,$1,Soo.
Superintendent of Public Instruction-George W. Winans, Junction City; salary, $2,000.
Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction-George W. Jones, Mound City; salary, $1,800.
Attorney General-L. B. Kellogg, Emporia; salary, $2,500.
Assistant Attorney General-Mrs. L. B. Kellogg, Emporia; salary, $1,500. State Printer-C. C. Baker, Topeka; salary, legal rates.
State Librarian -H. J. Dennis, Topeka; salary, $1,800.
Adjutant General-J. N. Roberts, Lawrence; salary, $2,000.
Assistant Adjutant General-S. M. Lanham, Topeka; salary, $1,200.
Superintendent of Insurance-D. W. Wilder, Hiawatha; salary, $2,500. .
Assistant Superintendent of Insurance-James A. Billingslea, Huron; salary, $1,500.
Secretary State Board of Agriculture-Martin Mohler, Osborne; salary, $2,000.
Secretary State Historical Society-F. G. Adams, Topeka; salary, $1,500. Secretary State Horticultural Society-G. C. Brackett, Lawrence; salary, $ 1,000.
Secretary Academy of Science-B. B. Smyth, Topeka.
Veterinary Surgeon-G. H. Going, Fort Riley.
Fish Commissioner-J. M. Brumbaugh, Concordia; salary, $1,500. Mine Inspector-J. T. Stewart, Scammonville; salary, $2,000. Coal Oil Inspector-A. H. Carpenter, Wichita; salary, 1,000.
Commissioner of Labor Statistics-Frank H. Betton, Wyandotte; salary, $1,000.
Commissioner of Forestry- Martin Allen, Hays City; salary, $1,200.
Executive Council-Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Treas- urer, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction.
School-Fund Commissioners-Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Attorney General.
State Board of Equalization -Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Treas- urer.
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State Board of Canvassers-Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer, Attorney General.
Fiscal Agency-Fiscal Agency for the State of Kansas in the city of New York, First National Bank.
Agent for the Sale of Kansas State Agricultural College Lands-John B. Gifford, Manhattan.
State Land Office-T. McCarthy, State Auditor, ex officio Register.
Sinking-Fund Commissioners-Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of State.
Board of Railroad Assessors -Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Auditor, Attorney General.
State Board of Agriculture-Officers: President, A. W. Smith, McPherson; vice president, Edwin Snyder, Oskaloosa; secretary, Martin Mohler, Os- borne; treasurer, Sam'l T. Howe, Topeka.
State Claim Agent for Kansas at Washington, D. C .- Samuel J. Crawford, Topeka.
State Board of Pardons-John C. Caldwell, Topeka; Samuel C. Parks, Win- field; Tell W. Walton, Lincoln.
State Board of Health-Frank Swallow, Valley Falls; Rob't C. Musgrave, Grenola; J. W. Jenney, Salina; J. Milton Welch, Wichita; J. H. T. John- son, Atchison; D. C. Jones, Topeka; W. L. Schenck, Osage City; R. A. Williams, Olathe; D. H. Hill, Augusta.
Trustees State Charitable Institutions-Jacob Stotler, Wellington; T. F. Rhodes, Frankfort; W. W. Miller, Osage City; L. K. Kirk, Garnett; R. F. Bond, Sterling.
State Board of Pharmacy -James I. Taylor, Atchison; R. F. Bryant, Lincoln; C. J. Butin, Fredonia; R. S. Drake, Beloit; Joseph B. Allen, Wichita.
State Board of Dentistry -L. C. Wasson, Topeka; A. M. Callaham, Topeka; W. M. Shirley, Hiawatha; S. S. Noble, Wichita.
Railroad Commissioners -- James Humphrey, Junction City; A. R. Greene, Cedarvale; George T. Anthony, Ottawa; salary, each $3,000.
State-House Commissioners-N. A. Adams, Manhattan; W. W. Smith, Lin- coln; E. Baldwin, Lawrence; architect, George Ropes, Topeka.
Live-Stock Sanitary Commission-John P. White, Ada; Chas. Collins, Hutch- inson; Keenan Hurst, Howard.
Silk Commissioners-Chas. Williamson, Washington; J. S. Codding, West- moreland; J. H. C. Brewer, Peabody.
State Industrial Reformatory Commissioners-F. W. Rash, Douglass; J. S. McDowell, Smith Center; T. A. McNeal, Medicine Lodge.
STATE INSTITUTIONS AND COMMISSIONS.
University of Kansas, Lawrence. Board of Regents: Chas. S. Gleed, Topeka; C. R. Mitchell, Geuda Springs; M. P. Simpson, McPherson; Joel Moody, Mound City; W. C. Spangler, Lawrence; D. A. Valentine, Clay Center.
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Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan. Board of Regents: Geo. T. Fair- child, Manhattan, president and ex-officio secretary ; A. P. Forsythe, Liberty ; Joshua Wheeler, Nortonville; T. P. Moore, Holton; John E. Hessin, Man- hattan; R. W. Finley, Oberlin; Morgan Carraway, Great Bend.
State Normal School, Emporia. Board of Regents: H. D. Dickson, Neosho Falls; W. H. Caldwell, Beloit; Rodolph Hatfield, Wichita; Chas. W. Hull, Kirwin; Nelson Case, Oswego; John M. Graybill, Leavenworth; A. R. Taylor, A. M., president of school.
Penitentiary, Leavenworth. Geo. H. Case, warden, Mankato; S. O. McDowell, clerk, Columbus. Directors: Wm. Martindale, Emporia; W. H. McBride, Osborne; D. E. Cornell, Kansas City.
State Soldiers' Home, Dodge City. Board of Managers: Ira F. Collins, Sabetha; J. D. Barker, Girard; Henry Booth, Larned.
STATE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
State Insane Asylum, Osawatomie; superintendent, A. H. Knapp.
Topeka Insane Asylum, Topeka; superintendent, B. D. Eastman.
Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, Olathe; superintendent, S. A. Walker.
Institution for the Education of the Blind, Wyandotte; superintendent, Rev. Allen Buckner.
Reform School, Topeka; superintendent, J. F. Buck.
The Girls' Industrial School, Beloit; superintendent, Mrs. Mary Marshall.
Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile Youth, Winfield; superintendent,
Soldiers' Orphans' Home, Atchison; superintendent, Chas. E. Faulkner.
State Industrial Reformatory, Hutchinson; (unfinished.)
State Soldiers' Home, Dodge City; commandant, D. L. Sweeney.
DELEGATION IN CONGRESS.
Senators are elected at large for a term of six years, by joint ballot of the Legislature. The first ballot is taken by both houses on the second Tuesday after the convening of the Legislature, and joint ballots are taken on every successive day until an election is made.
Congressmen are elected for a term of two years, by direct vote of the peo- ple in their respective congressional districts.
SENATORS.
JOHN J. INGALLS, Atchison, President of the Senate, term expires 1891; salary, $6,000.
PRESTON B. PLUMB, Emporia, term expires 1895; salary, $6,000.
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CONGRESSMEN.
District No. 1-E. N. Morrill, Hiawatha, Brown county; salary, $5,000. District No. 2-E. H. Funston, Carlyle, Allen county; salary, $5,000. District No. 3-B. W. Perkins, Oswego, Labette county; salary, $5,000. District No. 4-Harrison Kelly, Burlington, Coffey county ; salary, $5,000. District No. 5-John A. Anderson, Manhattan, Riley county; salary, $5,000. District No. 6-E. J. Turner, Hoxie, Sheridan county; salary, $5,000. District No. 7-Sam'l R. Peters, Newton, Harvey county, salary, $5,000.
COUNTIES OF KANSAS.
ORIGIN OF THEIR NAMES AND DATE OF 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. He 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.
Anderson. Organized in 1855. County seat, Garnett. Received its name from Jos. C. Anderson, of Missouri, who was a member of the first Kansas Ter- ritorial 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 proposition 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 Sen- ate at the date of the passage of the act for the organization of the Territory of Kansas. He was a pro-slavery Democrat, and zealous partisan leader in the dis- cussions and movements affecting the interests of slavery and its attempted es- tablishment in the new State to be created. He was conspicuous among the mob at the sacking of Lawrence, on the 2 1st 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 Lawrence, December 6, 1855. (The county was originally named in the statute as "Barbour," but was corrected by the Legislature in 1883.)
Barton. Organized in 1872. County seat, Great Bend. In honor of Miss Clara Barton, of Massachusetts, who won great distinction during the war for the Union by her remarkably effective philanthropic career in the sanitary de- partment of the army.
Bourbon. Organized in 1855. County seat, Fort Scott. Received its name from Bourbon county, Kentucky, the latter having been one of the nine counties organized in 1785 by the Virginia Legislature, before Kentucky be- came an independent State. It was so called as a compliment to the Bourbon dynasty of France, a prince of that family (then on the throne ) having rendered the American colonies important aid in men and money in their great struggle for independence. The legend, however, of the Kansas Legislature is, that Col.
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Samuel A. Williams, a member of the House from Fort Scott in 1855, insisted 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, in I873.
Brown. Organized in 1855. County seat, 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 re-elected for six years in 1859, but with- drew with Jefferson Davis on the attenipted secession of the Southern States. The name is properly spelled with an e in the original statute, but on the county seal the e 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. But- ler, who was United States Senator from South Carolina, from 1846 to 1857. He was a bitter partisan, and a zealous advocate of the right of the South to introduce slavery into the Territory of Kansas.
Chase. Organized in 1859. County seat, Cottonwood Falls. Created out 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. In the Senate he was earnest in his opposition to the extension of slavery into Kansas.
Chautauqua. Organized in 1875. County seat, 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, 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. The name originally given (in 1855) to Howard county was "Godfroy," and the name was changed to "Seward" in 1861. In 1867 the Legislature, ignoring former names, created the county of "Howard," which embraced all the territory of Seward and a five-mile strip additional on the west.
Cherokee. Organized in 1866. County seat, Columbus. First named Mc- Gee 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 Kansas Territory 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 a large portion of the "Cherokee Neutral Lands," reservation of that tribe of Indians, was 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.
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. He afterward served in both houses, and was in public
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