Polk Topeka, Kansas, city directory, 1905, Part 16

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Track-laying of first railroad in Kan- sas begun on the Elwood & Marysville Railroad. March 20 .1860


House of Representatives votes to ad-


mit Kansas under the Wyandotte Con- stitution. April 11 1860


First Pony Express arrives at St. Joseph. Mo .. 11 days and 12 hours from Sacramento. April 1860


Breaking ground for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, at Atchi- son. occurred .Time 13. . 1860


George M. Beebe, Secretary, becomes acting Governor on Governor Medary's resignation, December 17 ... .. 1860 Quantrill leads three young anti-slav- ery men of Pardee, Atchison county, in a raid to free the slaves of Morgan Walker, of Jackson county, Mo., be- trays them. and assists in their destruc- tion, December. .1860


Population of the Territory, 107,204, 1860 Last Territorial Legislature meets at Lecompton January 7 and adjourns to Lawrence January 8 . . 1861


Act to admit Kansas under Wvan- dotte Constitution passes Senate, Jan- uary 21; House, January 28; approved January 29. .1861


Charles Robinson assumes office as Governor of the State. February 9. . .. 1861 Meeting of first State Legislature at Topeka, March 26. .. 1861


James H. Lane and Samuel C. Pom- eroy elected U. S. Senators, April 4, 1861 Steamboat New Sam Gaty arrives at Leavenworth from St. Louis, under Confederate flag. The captain is com- pelled by the people to substitute the stars and stripes, April 18. .1861


First Confederate flag captured by Kansas troops at latan. Mo., brought into Leavenworth June 3 .... . . 1861


Organization of the First Kansas Regiment at Fort Leavenworth, June 4, 1861 First daily overland mail coach ar- rives, seventeen days from Sacramento, July 18 .1861


Battle of Wilson's Creek, which saved Missouri to the Union; Gen. Nathaniel Lyon killed; August 10. .. 1861


Battle with Confederates at Dry


Wood, September 2.


. . 1861


First annual meeting of State Tem-


perance Society at Topeka, October 9, 1861 Vote for State capital stood : Topeka, 7,996; Lawrence, 5,291; scattering, 1,184, November 5. .1861


Commissioners purchase a site for the Penitentiary near Leavenworth.


November 25.


. 1861


State Agricultural Society


formed


March 5 ..


. 1862


Confederate guerilla chief Quantrill makes a raid into Johnson county. burn-


ing Shawneetown. October 17 ...


. ...


.1862


Legislature locates State University


at Lawrence, February 20.


.1863


Establishes a State Normal School at


Emporia. March 3 ..


.1863


State Insane Asylum at Osawatomie


established


. 1863


State Agricultural College, in Riley county (late the Bluemont Central Col- lege. established 1858) founded July 27. 1$63


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Quantrill, with 300 men, dashes into the streets of Lawrence at daylight and kills about 200 men, August 21. . ... 1863 Massacre at Baxter Springs, Kansas, of 80 men, the cavalry escort of Gen. Blunt, by Quantrill and 600 guerrillas, October 6. . .. 1863


A wagon-train loaded with Fort Scott coal arrives in Leavenworth, Jan. 30 .. .1864


Confederate Gen. Sterling Price ad- vances with troops towards Kansas October 1, and enters Linn county Oc- tober 24 .. . 1864


Battles near Mound City, Little Osage, and Charlotte October 25 .... 1864 Appointment of commissioners to lo- cate Blind Asylum in Wyandotte county, February 27 .1864 State Normal School opened, Em-


poria, February 15 .. 1865 Census : white, 127,270; colored, 12,527; Indian, 382. May ...... .1865 Osage Indians sell to the United States a tract of land 30x50 miles square, and cede to the government a strip 20 miles in width, off the north side of the remainder of their reserva- tion, September 29. . 1865


Kansas furnishes for the war a total of 23,000 men, a larger proportion of the population than any other State, 1861-65 Institution for Deaf and Dumb estab- lished at Olathe .1865


Colored men in convention at To- peka memorialize the Legislature to strike the word "white" from the Con- stitution, January . 1866


Legislature authorizes sale of· 500 - 000 acres of State land for the benefit of railroads, February 23 .. .1866


State Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb (first. opened at Lawrence by Philip A. Emery, De- cember 1, 1861), located at Olathe, Feb- ruary 15. 1866


State University opens for instruc- tion, Lawrence, September 12 ... ... .1866 Northern Kansas overrun with grass- hoppers, which breed in spring of 1867. September .. . 1866


Treaty made with many Indian tribes for removal to Indian Territory, February 23. .1867 Gen. Hancock treats with and Custer marches against Indians in western Kansas. April. 1867


Eighteenth Kansas Cavalry raised for the protection of the frontier, mus- tered into U. S. service. July 15. . . . . . 1867 Cherokee Neutral Lands sold to Jas. F. Joy, October 9. . 1867


Indian Peace Commission visit plains Indians of western Kansas; Henry M. Stanley accompanies it as newspaper correspondent; October .. . ... 1867 Heavy Texas cattle trade at Abilene, October .. 1867


Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Mrs. C. I. H. Nichols and George Francis Train, with the Hutchinson family of singers, advocate woman suffrage ... 1867


Vote upon amending Constitution: For striking out the word "white," 10 .- 483; against, 19,421. For striking out "male." 9.070; against, 19,857, Novem- ber 5. .1867


Indian raids in Solomon valley and along the Republican and Saline rivers, August .1868


Academy of Science founded at To- peka under the name of Kansas Natural History Society, September 11 ...... .1868


Gov. Crawford calls for the organiza- tion of a cavalry regiment. the Nine- teenth Kansas, for Indian service,


October 10. . 1868


Col. George A. Forsyth engages in an eight-days fight with Indians on the north fork of the Republican river. September 17 1868


Woman suffrage convention at To- peka, February 4 ... 1869


Eight million acres of the Osage Di- ininished Reserve lands opened by Con- gress to settlement. April 10. .1869


Indian raids oll the Republican


river, May 21 ..


.1869


State convention of colored people at Topeka ask the Legislature to memo- rialize Congress for negro suffrage, January 20. .1869


Fifteenth amendment to the consti- tution of the United States ratified by Kansas, January 19 .1870


Legislature adjourns after ratifying the fifteenth amendment to the consti- tution of the United States, March 3. . 1870 Kansas fruit obtains highest award at the American Institute, New York city, October .1871


Congress provides for removal of Osage Indians and the sale of their lands, July 15 .1871 First number of Kansas Magazine issued, January 1 .. .1872


Liberal Republican convention at To- peka; organized to "rebuke the corrup- tions and usurpations which have char- acterized our state and national poli- tics," April 10 .1872


Act of Congress for removal of the Kansas Indians, May S. 1872


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Session of farmers' State convention at Topeka; constitution of the Farmers' Cooperative Association formed, Mareh 26 .1873


Rieh discoveries of lead near Bax- ter Springs, September 8. .1873 Indian raids on the frontier, June. . 1874 Drouth and grasshoppers cause great destitution in portions of Kansas, July and August .1874


One thousand five hundred Mennon- ite immigrants come to Topeka in September. and purchase 100,000 acres of land in Marion, Harvey and Reno counties, from the A. T. & S. F. R. R. Co., October 14. . 1874


Buffalo produets shipped over Kansas railways: bones, 10,074,950 pounds; hides, 1,314,300 pounds; meat, 632,800 pounds .1874


Eighty barrels of salt made at Alma,


Kansas, sold in Denver, May 13 .. . . . 1875 Great injury to crops by grasshop- pers, May 15 .. 1875


State Relief Committee report that they had received from all sources and distributed in Kansas, $73,863.47 in cash, 265 ear-loads and 1,149 paekages, the last two items valued at $161,245 in cash, June 24 1875


Thirty thousand pounds of flour shipped from Arkansas City to Arkan- sas, by flatboat down the Arkansas river, August 20 . 1875


" The Annals of Kansas." by Daniel W. Wilder, first edition, published November .1875


Incorporation of the State Histori- eal Society, December 15 ... . . . 1875


Kansas fruit is awarded the first premium at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, and her agricultural prod- uets attraet national attention. Oetober, 1876 Discovery of lead deposits in Chero- kee county; Galena and Empire City spring into existence . . . 1877


Monument to John Brown dedicated at Osawatomie, August 30. .1877


Large temperance meetings in various parts of the State; the best known citi- zens take part in them, April 2. ...... 1878


Files of the first weekly newspaper published in the State. the Kansas Herald. Leavenworth. 1854-1859, become the property of the State Historical Society, April 2. 1878


Strike of engineers and firemen on the A. T. & S. F. R. R .; Governor Anthony ealls out the State militia, April 6. . .. 1878 The State has its largest immigration this. year ; April 7. .1878 Floyd P. Baker appointed Kansas


Commissioner to the Paris Exposition by President Hayes, April 13. . . . . . . . 1878 Raid of Northern Cheyennes through western Kansas, from the Indian Ter- ritory to Nebraska, in which about forty men were murdered, many women mistreated, and much property de- stroyed, September and October ... . . . 1878


Richard Realf, an early Kansas newspaper correspondent and friend of John Brown, commits suicide at Oak- land, California, October 28 .. .1878 Legislature submits the prohibition amendment, March S. .1879


First refugees to Kansas. vanguard of a great migration of colored peo- ple from slave States on the Mississippi, arrive at Wyandotte, April. .. 1879 State Insane Asylum, Topeka, opened June 1. . . .1879


Kansas Pacific Railroad seizes the telegraph along its line; a step in the American Union and Western Union telegraph war, February ....... 1880 David L. Payne and followers have crowded into the Indian Territory in an attempt to form a settlement, May 11, 1880 Site, purchased for State Reform Sehool, Topeka, Kansas, June 30. .... 1880 Greenback Labor party in conven- tion at Topeka nominates H. B. Vroo- man for Governor, July 28. ... .1880


State election; vote upon adding to the constitution, "The manufacture and sale of intoxieating liquors shall be forever prohibited in the State, except for medical, seientifie and mechanical purposes"; 92,302 votes for, 84,304 against; and the decision was left to the Supreme Court, November ..... . . . 1880


Immigration of colored people con- tinues through the year; at its elose there were 40,000 colored immigrants in Kansas. . .1880


Supreme Court decides the prohib- itory amendment valid. Legislature at- tempts to strengthen it by additional legislation, February. .. 1881


State Reform School for Boys, To- peka, opened June 1. .1881


State Asylum for Idiotic and Imbe- cile Youth opened at Lawrenee (re- moved to Winfield. March, 1887), Sep- tember 1 .. .1881


Meeting of Farmers' Alliance at To-


peka. September 14 .. . 1881 Col. N. S. Goss ships his collection of birds from Neosho Falls to the eap- itol. August. ... 1882


George W. Glick. Democrat, elected Governor. remaining State officers and Congressmen heing Republican. No-


vember .1882


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Law creating a railroad commission and regulating passenger and freight 1883 charges


Organization of Kansas


Woman's


Suffrage Association. June 25 ... . . 1884 Prohibition party organized in State convention at Lawrence, September 2, 1884 Population 1.268,562, March 1 ...... 1885 State Bureau of Labor created.


March


.1885


Immigration to Kansas very large,


July 2 1885 State Reformatory located at Hutch- inson. July 2. 1885


Kansas National Guard fully organ-


· ized under militia law of 1885 .. . . 1886 Legislature grants women in Kansas municipalities, votes for city and school officers and on the issuing of bonds for school purposes, February 15. . .. 1887 Passage of act providing for the po- lice government of cities of the first class through a board of police com- missioners appointed by the executive council, and also for a similar govern- ment for cities of the second class in certain contingencies, March 1 ....... 1887


Act providing for the redemption of railroad bonds by Kansas municipal- ities. It has resulted in the redemption and funding of many million dollars of such bonds. March 5 1887


Liquor law to suppress the so-called " drug-store saloons " .1887 Soldiers' Orphans' Home opened at Atchison, July 1. .1887


Governor stations Second Regiment in Stevens county to preserve peace. Sheriff John Cross having been mur- dered by an armed faction; result of a county-seat contest. July .1887


National Farmers' Congress and Farmers' Trust Association at Topeka ; delegates from all sections of the Union. November 4 .. . 1887


Explosion of dynamite bomb at Cof-


feyville. in an express package. The object has remained a mystery, though supposed by some to have been po- litical. October 18 .. .1888


Joe Patchen. pacer at 2:0114. born at Peabody, and John R. Gentry, pacer at 2:001%, born. at Wichita. May . . .. . . 1889 Convention of delegates from fifteen States and Territories at Topeka. to de- vise means for seenring a deep harbor on the coast of Texas, October 1. . .. 1889 Legislature appropriates $9,700 for the establishment and maintenance of a silk station and to promote the cul- ture of silk in the State, March . . . . .. 1889 State Soldiers' Home, Dodge City,


opened, in former Fort Dodge build- ings, January 1 .. .1890


State Resubmission Republican league in convention at Wichita demand a re- submission of the prohibitory amend- ment, January 15. .. 1890


State convention of over 3,000 dele- gates at Topeka to protest against the " Missouri whisky invasion " and the " original package shops " June 23. . .. 1890


Wilson bill, overruling the "orig- inal package decision." passes Congress, receives the President's signature. and the "original package shops" are closed, August 8. .1890


People's party, an outgrowth of the Farmers' Alliance and State Grange, convenes at Topeka and nominates Jolın F. Willits for Governor, August 13. . .. 1890


Industrial School for Girls, Beloit, organized by the W. C. T. U. of Kan- sas, February 1, 1888, moves into quarters provided by the State, Octo- ber 10 .. .1890


At State election the vote for Gov- ernor stood: Humphrey, Republican, 115,025; Willits, 106,972, November 4, 1890 IV. A. Peffer (Alliance) elected U. S. Senator, January 28 .. .1891


Shooting of Col. Samuel N. Wood, pioneer Free-State man, in a county-seat fight in Stevens county, June 23. . .... 1891 William Ferrel, meteorologist, born 1817, died at Maywood, September 18, 1891 U. S. Senator Plumb dies at Wash- ington, D. C., of apoplexy, December 20 .1891


Bishop W. Perkins, appointed U. S. Senator by the Governor in place of Plumb, qualifies January 5. .. . . 1892


Bob and Emmett Dalton, Joseph Evans, and "Texas . Jack " shot and killed while attempting to rob the First National and Condon's banks in Coffeyville; four citizens are killed in


the affray, morning of October 5. . . . .. 1892 L. D. Lewelling elected Governor by the Populists and Democrats, Novem- ber · .1892 Republicans and Populists each claim the speakership in the House, January 10 .1893


[Separate organizations effected.] Republicans take forcible possession of Representatives hall. Topcka, Febru- ary 15. . . 1893 [Militia called out by the Governor.] A peace agreement signed, Febru- ary 17 .. .1893 Supreme Court of Kansas decides that the Republican Honse was the legally constituted body, February 25, 1893


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Republican State ticket elected, E. N. Morrill, Governor. November 6. . . . . . . . 1894 Amendment to the constitution. giv- ing to women full suffrage. defeated November 6. .1894


State Industrial Reformatory, Hutch- inson, first inmates admitted August 29 .1895


Cyclone in Cloud. Clay. and Wash- ington counties. is destructive to lives and property. April 25. 1896


Natural gas was discovered in quan- tities sufficient for manufacturing pur- poses at Iola, Christmas day. 1895. and was first used for manufacturing pur- poses November 1. . 1896


Populists carry the State. John W. Leedy Governor, November 3. .1896


The book "In His Steps." by Rev. Charles M. Sheldon. published ; has the largest sale of any story in America . . . 1896 Act providing for uniformity and maximum charges for school text-books in Kansas. March 13 .. 1897


Twentieth Kansas Volunteer Infan- try mustered into the U. S. service at Topeka. Frederick Funston. Colonel, May 9-13, and sails for Manila Oc- tober-November 1898


Twenty-first Kansas Volunteer Infan- try mustered into U. S. service at Topeka, Thomas G. Fitch. colonel, May 12-14 1898


Twenty-second Kansas Volunteer In- fantry mustered into U. S. service at Topeka, Henry C. Lindsey. Colonel, May 11-17 IS98


Twenty-third Kansas Volunteer In- fantry. composed entirely of colored men, mustered into the U. S. service at Topeka. James Beck,


Lieutenant- Colonel. July 2-19. 1898


Twenty-second Kansas stationed at Camp Alger. Thoroughfare Gap, Va., and Camp Meade. near Middletown. Pa .. May 28-September 9; mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, November 3 .... 1898 Twenty-first Kansas stationed at Camp George H. Thomas. Lysle, Ga., and Camp Hamilton. Ky .. May 20-Sep- tember 25: mustered out at Fort Leav- enworth. December 10 .1898 Repeal of police commissioner law. January 4. .1899


Creation of Kansas Traveling Li- braries Commission in connection with the State Library (14.700 volmnes cir- enlated by September. 1901). March 4. 1899 Twenty-third Kansas sails from New York, August 25. arrives at Santiago. Cuba for guard duty at San Inis. Au- gust 31. 1898: returns to Fort Leaven- worth. and is mustered out April 10. . 1899


Twentieth Kansas does valiant ser- vice in the Philippines, 189S-99; re- turns in the Tartar. by the way of Hong Kong. to San Francisco, where it is mustered out, and is received at Topeka November 2. .1899


India Famine Relief Committee or- ganized at Topeka; 41,483 bushels of corn and $S.700 in cash was contributed through the committee. which also re- ported over $25.000 raised previously. mostly through the churches, April 5. . 1900 Portland Cement Company at Iola be- gin the manufacture of cement June 1, 1900 Death of ex-Senator John J. Ingalls at Las Vegas. N. M .. August 16. . . . .. 1900 Republicans gain full control of the State in 189S, with William E. Stanley for Governor, who is reelected Novem- ber 6 .. .1900


Adoption of constitutional amend- ment making the Supreme Court con- sist of seven members. November 6. ... 1900 Kansas Library Association organ- ized. December 27 .. . 1900 J. R. Burton elected United States Senator, January 23 .1901


Site of third State Insane Asylum located at Parsons. after long litiga- tion. September 2. 1901


Willis J. Bailey, Republican, elected


Governor. November 4. .1902 Oil and gas field developed in south- eastern Kansas .1902-3


Chester I. Long elected United States Senator. January 2S .. 1903


Pittsburg Manual Training School adopted by the State as a branch Normal School. February 26. ....... 1903 Western Branch State Normal School established on Fort Hays Mili- tary Reservation. March 6 .. . . 1903 Louisiana Purchase Centennial Ex- position, State appropriates $100,000 for. March 13. .1903


John J. Ingalls. State appropriates $6.000 for statue of, to be placed in Statuary Hall. Washington, March 18, 1903 President Roosevelt visits Topeka and other Kansas points, May 1. . . . . . . 1903 Flood in the Kansas and Neosho val- leys; all business honses and nearly every dwelling in North Topeka invaded by the flood; water stood six feet deep in the Union Pacific depot, North To- peka. May-June ... 1903 Chauncey Dewey and two cowboys shoot and kill Daniel Berry and two sons. trouble growing out of cattle- range controversy. in Cheyenne county. June 3. .1903 E. W. Hoch nominated for Governor. March 9. 1904


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J. R. Burton convicted for misusing his influence. March 27. .1904 Kansas prepares to celebrate the semi-centennial, May 29. . . . 1904 Heavy and general rains throughout the State do more damage by the de- struetion of crops than in the previous year; in North Topeka, on July 7, the back-water reached Gordon street, and


ran in rivulets nearly the full length of Quincy; the Neosho and Verdigris rivers overflow three separate times, damaging crops and greatly delaying work in the oil-fields, May, June, July, 1904 Kansas Day at the Louisiana Pur- chase Exposition, St. Louis, September 24 . 1904


Counties of Kansas. Origin of their Names and Date of Organization.


Allen. Organized in 1855. County seat, Iola. Named in honor of William 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 Joseph 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 proposition to march under the " black flag " to Lawrenee.


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 pas- sage of the aet for the organization of the Territory of Kansas. He was a pro-slavery Democrat, and zealons partisan leader in the discussions and movements affecting the in- terests 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 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 department of the army.


Bourbon. Organized in 1855. County seat, Fort Scott. Received its name from Bourbon county, Kentucky.


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.


Butler. Organized in 1855. County seat, El Dorado. For Andrew P. Butler, 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 scat, Cottonwood Falls. Created 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. Named for Chautauqua, N. Y. Was created from a portion of what was originally Howard county, which was divided in 1875 into Chautauqua and Elk counties.


Cherokee. Organized in 1866. County seat, Columbus. 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.


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