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NORTHCRAFT LODGE No. 228 meets every Friday evening at Lincoln Post ITall, No. 118 Sixth avenue cast. John Armstrong, N. G .; John Congdon, secretary.
ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN.
CAPITOL LODGE No. 3, organized October 1, 1877, meets every Thursday evening at A. O. U. W. Hall, No. 418 Kansas avenue. Of- ficers: U. M. Petitt, M. W .; E. Mueller, recorder; George A. Evarts, financier.
TOPEKA LODGE No. 11, organized January 10, 1879, meets every Friday evening at A. O. U. W. Hall, No. 413 Kansas avenue. Offi- cers: G. Greenwald, M. W .; D. II. Lowrie, recorder; E. H. Shum- way, financier.
KAW VALLEY LODGE No. 20, organized September 26, 1879, meets every Wednesday evening at A. O. U. W. Hall, No. 808 Kansas ave- nue, North Topeka. Officers: Jno. Bryan, M. W .; M. S. Evans, re- corder; S. N. Bergen, financier.
UPCHURCH LODGE No. 130, organized April 30, 1883, meets every Monday evening at A. O. U. W. Hall, No. 418 Kansas avenue. Offi- cers: John H. Robinson, M. W .: Hugh Carfrae, recorder; G. M. Claudy, financier.
APOLLO LODGE No. 188, organized February 15, 1886, meets every Friday evening at A. O. U. W. Hall, No. 418 Kansas avenue. Officers : M. T. Wolfe. M. W .; C. C. Lavery, recorder; Edward Potts, financier.
CAPITOL LODGE No. 7, DEGREE OF HONOR, organized November 3, 1883, meets every Wednesday evening at A. O. U. W. Hall, No. 418 Kansas avenue. Officers: Miss V. Loveland, C. of II .; Geo. W. Hop- kins, recorder; Mrs. F. Ladd, financier.
CHARITY LODGE NO. 26, DEGREE OF HONOR, organized May 13, 1886, meets every Saturday evening at A. O. U. W. Hall, No. 808 Kansas -10
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avenue, North Topeka. Officers: Mrs. A. C. Hale. C. of HI .; Mrs. Carrie E. Jones, recorder; Mrs. L. Stair, financier.
CAPITAL LEGION No. 1, SELECT KNIGHTS, organized March 26, 1880, meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month at A. O. U. W. Hall, No. 418 Kansas avenne. Officers: D. C. Naylor. commander; Jos. Ost, recording secretary; E. Mueller, recording treasurer.
WASHINGTON LEGION NO. 26, SELECT KNIGHTS, organized August 10, 1883, meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month at A. O. U. W. Hall, No. 413 Kansas avenue. Officers: G. Greenwald, commander: Hugh Carfrae, recording secretary; A. H. Welch, re- cording treasurer.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
LINCOLN POST NO. 1. Headquarters No. 118 Sixth avenue cast; regular encampment on the first and third Saturday evenings in each month. A. McGregor, post commander; N. D. MeGinley, adjutant.
GENERAL RICE POST NO. 71. Headquarters of Rice Post, hall No. 715 Kansas avenue; regular encampment on the first and third Friday evenings of each month. A. R. Wilkin, post commander; R. A. Randlett, adjutant.
BLUE POST NO. 250. Headquarters at A. O. U. W. hall, North Topeka: regular encampment on the first and third Monday evenings in each month. George R. Lugdon, post commander; F. II. Traver, adjutant.
FORT PILLOW POST NO. 321. Headquarters at Knights of Labor Hall, No. 711 Kansas avenue; regular encampment on the first and third Friday evenings of each month. Stephen Paskers, post com- mander: W. O. Kelley, adjutant.
LINCOLN POST FLAMBEAU CLUB. Headquarters No. 118 Sixth ave- nue east. A. M. Fuller, captain; N. D. McGinley, adjutant.
OLD ABE. CAMP SONS OF VETERANS meets at Lincoln Post Hall, No. 118 Sixth avenue east, every second and fourth Thursday evenings. O. L. McIntosh, captain: W. II. Waters, first sergeant.
LINCOLN POST DRUM CORPS meets at Lincoln Post Hall, No. 118 Sixth avenue east, second and fourth Saturdays. Jesse Langston, drum major.
WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS NO. 94 meets at Rice Post Hall, No. 715 Kansas avenue, on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Mrs. Belle Ball, president; Miss Minnie Randlett, secretary.
LADIES OF THE G. A. R., DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS. Permanent headquarters are located at Lincoln Post headquarters, Topeka, Kas.
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This is the Kansas branch of an organization composed of the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of all honorably discharged Union soldiers in the Nation. The platform is purity, patriotism and the honor of the Grand Army of the Republic. The objects of the order are, the loyalty and love of each member to the others: to honor the memory of those fallen, and to perpetuate and keep for ever sacred " Memorial Day; " to assist the Grand Army in their noble work of charity; to encourage and aid the love and honor of patriotism in the young of our public schools: and to look after and help, in womanly ways, the Soldiers' Home and Soldiers' Orphans' Home. The aim is to thus become the grandest organization of women the world has ever known. The officers for 1887 are as follows: President, Mrs. F. N. Wood, Topeka: treasurer, Mrs. A. Brussman, Topeka; secretary, Mrs. N. MeGregor, Topeka: inspector, Mrs. S. L. Bowen, Topeka: counsellor, Mrs. L. A. Milliken, Topeka; council of administration, Mrs. M. A. Huron, chairman, Topeka, Mrs. Swearinger, Topeka, Mrs. S. A. Rench, Topeka.
LINCOLN CIRCLE NO. 1 OF THE LADIES OF THE G. A. R., organized April 1, 1887, meets at Lincoln Post headquarters on every alternate Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Officers are: Mrs. F. N. Wood, president; Mrs. L. A. Milliken, senior vice president; Mrs. Nellie McGregor, junior vice president; Miss Ella Wade, secretary; Mrs. P. Finley, treasurer.
UNION VETERANS' UNION.
U. S. GRANT COMMAND NO. 1. Headquarters at A. O. U. W. Hall, No. 418 Kansas avenue; meets first and third Tuesday evenings of each month. F. S. Stumbaugh, colonel; W. M. Hess, adjutant.
THE NATIONAL UNION.
CAPITAL CITY COUNCIL No. 258 meets at Rice Post Hall, No. 715 Kansas avenue, every Tuesday evening. G. W. Hanson, president : L. R. McCoy, secretary.
KANSAS COUNCIL No. 265 meets at Rice Post Hall, No. 715 Kansas avenue, every Thursday evening. Geo. Tauber, president: G. W. Hopkins, secretary.
VETERANS' RIGHTS UNION.
Organized February, 1885, at Wichita, Kansas.
STATE ORGANIZATION. O. H. Coulter, president, Council Grove, Kas .: J. W. Mercer, secretary, Council Grove, Kas .; David Taylor, treasurer, Emporia, Kas .; P. II. Coney, chairman of state executive committee, Topeka, Kas.
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TOPEKA BRANCH V. R. U. G. N. Elliott, president: Ed. F. Vaughn, secretary: J. W. Kaskel, treasurer. Meets every fourth Saturday evening at A. O. U. W. Hall, No. 130 Kansas avenue.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
TOPEKA LODGE No. 38, K. of P., meets at hall over 415 Kansas avenne on the first and third Monday evening of each month. J. W. Wehe, C. C .; O. Badders, K. of R. & S.
HOME LODGE NO. 155, K. of P., meets at hall over 809 Kansas av- enue semi-monthly. B. G. Brown, C. C .; II. A. Jetmore, K. of R. &S.
GEORGE S. BROWN DIVISION NO. 8, UNIFORM RANK, meets at hall over 809 Kansas avenue, in regular convention, on the second and fourth Thursday of each month. C. F. Chase, commander.
SECTION 356 OF THE ENDOWMENT RANK was organized October, 1879, for the insurance of the members of this order. Regular meet- ings are held at hall over 415 Kansas avenue, on the second and fourth Monday of each month. J. W. Wehe, president; E. Whipple, secre- tary and treasurer.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
WASHINGTON LODGE No. 787. Organized under charter from Superior Lodge in November, 1877. Meet in Lincoln Post Hall, 118 East Sixth avenue, the second and fourth Thursday evening in each month. W. E. Golding, director; M. O. Frost, reporter; Willis Ed- son, financial reporter; Wm. R. Fish, treasurer.
HIBERNIANS.
. A society of this order meets on Tuesday evening of each week in hall over 529 Kansas avenue. The officers are, Rev. James O'Reilly, president; W. H. Polard, secretary, and Robert Halahan, treasurer.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
TOPEKA ASSEMBLY No. 1800 meets Saturday evening at K. of L. HIall. A. II. Wetherbee, M. W .: C. W. Marsh, R. S.
HARMONY ASSEMBLY No. 2325 meets Wednesday evening at K. of L. Hall, 319 East Fourth street. W. E. Henderson, M. W .; Wm. Reynolds, R. S. Box 29.
SHAWNEE ASSEMBLY No. 4102 meets Monday evening at K. of L. Hall. J. E. Bunday, M. W .; J. N. Davis, R. S. Box 12.
PRINTERS' ASSEMBLY No. 6787 meets Fourth Sunday afternoon at K. of L. Hall. Frank A. Barnes, M. W .; Frank C. Scott, R. S.
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LABOR UNIONS.
BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS NO. 159 meets Wed- nesday evening. W. II. Wilson, R. S.
TOPEKA TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION NO. 121 meets first Sunday in every month. W. R. Goodenough, president: John T. Anderson, re- cording secretary.
STONEMASONS' UNION NO. 1, meets Saturday evening. S. S. Shref. fler, president.
IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE OF KANSAS.
Donatus O'Brien, State executive committee, Topeka, Kansas; Patrick II. Coney, State secretary. Topeka, Kansas.
TOPEKA BRANCH I. N. L. T. F. Lanan, president; Michael Heery, secretary; Rev. J. O'Reilly, treasurer.
COLORED ORGANIZATIONS.
LINCOLN CHAPTER No. 2, ( Masonic,) meets on the first and third Thursday evenings of each month, over 534 Kansas avenue.
COMMANDERY meets in hall over 534 Kansas avenue.
EUCLID LODGE No. 2, A. F. & A. M. Time of meetings, first and third Monday evenings of each month, at hall 534 Kansas avenue.
MOUNT MORIAH LODGE NO. 5, A. F. & A. M., meets the first and third Tuesday evenings in each month, in hall over 534 Kansas ave.
SHAWNEE LODGE No. 1923, G. U. O. O. F., meets on the first and second Wednesday evenings in each month, in hall over 332 Kansas avenue.
F. G. I. B. SOCIETY No. 3 meets on Friday evening of each week, in hall over 534 Kansas avenue.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF IMMACULATES meets in hall over 709 Kan- sas avenue; George W. Todd, commander.
GOOD SAMARITANS, GREAT WESTERN LODGE NO. 3, meets on Mon- day evening in each week, in hall over 534 Kansas avenue. David Ware. chief: G. Williams, secretary.
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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 now ranks as the first county in the State, both in population and in assessed valuation. The total value of public-school property in the county is over a half million dollars, divided among ninety-one organized school districts, and about the same amount is represented by private educational institu- tions. The assessor's returns for the past year (1886) gives the follow- ing official statistics :
Valuation of land
$3,542,735 00
Valuation of lots.
5,145,550 00
Valuation of personal property
2,429,836 00
Valuation of railroad property
892,031 00
Total taxable property $12,010,152 00
Number of horses, 10,205, value.
$913,450 00
Number of cattle, 35,672, value.
769,184 00
Number of sheep, 2,361, value. 4,722 00
Number of hogs, 28,489, value.
170,934 00
TAXES COLLECTED.
State tax
840,000 00
County tax
144,447 00
City tax.
131,701 64
Township tax
18,280 78
School district tax
109,199 17
Total tax
$450,209 83
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REGISTER OF COUNTY OFFICERS.
SALARY.
JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT. John Guthrie. $2,500
CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT. W. E. Sterne. Fees.
DEPUTY CLERKS OF THE DIST. COURT ..
W. E. Brubaker. -
STENOGRAPHER DISTRICT COURT. Sam. Gardenhire Fees.
ATTORNEY Charles Curtis 2,000
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY
J. G. Wood
SHERIFF
A. M. Fuller Fees.
UNDER SHERIFF
W. D. Disbrow
DEPUTY SHERIFF
A. Kuykendall
JAILOR
Wm. II. Gill
JUDGE PROBATE COURT
A. B. Quinton Fees.
TREASURER.
Byron Roberts 4,000
DEPUTY TREASURER
Emma W. Wallace.
CLERK .
D. N. Burge
2,400
DEPUTY CLERK
Ella Spencer
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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 J. P. Lewis 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.
First District-John M. Wilkerson.
Second District-Henry C. Lindsay, Salary, $300 each.
Third District-Bradford Miller,
JURY COMMISSIONERS.
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MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
SENATOR. Hon. Silas E. Sheldon.
REPRESENTATIVE 46TH DISTRICT. Hon. C. P. Bolmar.
REPRESENTATIVE 47TH DISTRICT. IIon. Geo. W. Vealc.
REPRESENTATIVE 48TH DISTRICT. Hon. J. B. MeAfec.
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. II. C. Searle. M. M. Hale. W. I. Jamison.
STATE GOVERNMENT OF KANSAS.
The Territory of Kansas remained unorganized and almost unpeo- 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 aeres, and is larger than the whole of the New England 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, 1887) is not less than 1,750,000.
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Elections are held on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Mon- day in November, and biennial sessions of the Legislature are held at the State capital.
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 Insur- ance is appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate.
The gubernatorial term commences on the second Monday in JJan- uary following the election: and regular sessions of the Legislature are held biennially.
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. HIe 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. Re- ceived its name from Jos. C. Anderson, of Missouri, who was a mem- ber 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 propo- sition 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 U. S. Senate at the date of the passage of the act for the organization of the Territory of Kansas. He was a zealous partisan leader in the discussions and movements affecting the interests of slavery and its at- tempted establishment in the new State to be created. He was con- spicuous 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,
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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 distinc- tion during the war for the Union by her remarkably effective philan- thropie career in the sanitary department of the army.
Bourbon. Organized in 1855. County seat, Fort Seott. 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 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 withdrew with Jefferson Davis on the attempted 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 c.
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 Territory of Kansas.
Chase. Organized in 1859. County seat, 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. He was earnest in his opposition, when Senator, to the extension of slavery into Kansas.
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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, 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 MeGee 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 persist- ently 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.
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 c.
Cloud. Organized in 1860. County seat, Concordia. The name of Cloud county, Kansas, was originally Shirley county, named after
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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 Regiment Kansas Volunteers. This change was made at the sugges- tion 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 Mathew Cowley, First Lieutenant of Company I, Ninth Kansas 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 resolution 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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