The History of Jackson county, Missouri, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens, Jackson county in the late warhistory of Missouri, map of Jackson county, Part 76

Author: Union Historical Company
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Union historical company
Number of Pages: 1068

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We use here the rate from Kansas City only because that rate has been tol- erably defined by experience, not because we suppose that, with proper improve- ment of the river, the business would be monopolized by Kansas City; for in that event every point on the river would have its share ; and the ascertainment of what the difference would be from Kansas City but illustrates what it would be proportionally from all other points on the river. It must be borne in mind also, that grain is not the only product we export, and, therefore, the saving in that item but serves to illustrate what it would be proportionally on other prod- ucts, such as pork, bacon, lard, mess beef, dairy and barnyard products and field products other than grain. Nor is this all; a like saving would be found in the cost of imported articles, which constitute the staple of our merchandise and the freight charges for which constitute the bulk of present cost. These are too numerous to be enumerated here. With such double saving of such extent, the increased prosperity of the country is not a thing to be estimated. It is some- thing of far more than local importance, for so considerable a portion of our common country could not be thus benefited without all parts feeling its bene- ficial effects. Thus, in what we propose to ask of the General Government, we

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appear not in the attitude of supplicants for a local favor, like the improvement of a harbor, the building of a court house or light station, but we seek an im- provement that will be felt in the remotest parts of the country and that will benefit the whole people.

We feel, however, that the people of the Missouri Valley have a right to such improvement of their river without reference to other considerations than local benefit. The revenues of the Government are derived from internal taxation and from custom duties. Of the former, we pay in proportion to the amount of the business taxed that we have among us. The latter, while paid immediately by the importers, is added to the price of imported articles, and is paid ultimately by the consumers. Thus it happens that we pay our share of this part of the revenues also. Among other expenditures the Government annually pays large sums for improvements of the same class as the one we claim, and as the money thus expended is drawn from the revenues contributed by the whole people we have heretofore paid our proportion of such as have been made. Our river being the only considerable stream in the United States that has heretofore received no attention, we feel, in view of the benefit to be derived from its improvement, that we have a right to claim that it shall now be done at public expense, the same as like improvements have been made elsewhere.

We are induced to present this matter at this time for two reasons. The first is that, with the settlement of political disturbances in the States about the mouth of the Mississippi River and the jetty improvements made thereat, the trade of the Mississippi Valley country is rapidly falling into its old river channel. Two years ago one line of barges on the Mississippi river from St. Louis south, was found adequate, while now two are required. These are over taxed with business and have usually contracts for months ahead, notwithstanding they have so increased their capacity as to have enlarged the tows beyond all precedent, accompanied, of course, with an equally unprecedented increase in the amount of property conveyed, Such being the present tendency of commerce, the Missouri Valley should be prompt to avail itself of it, and take such measures as will secure its share of the benefits. The second reason is that, the peo, le of Kansas City have subscribed nearly all the money required to put a line of barges on the Missouri River and will soon organize a company for that purpose. This line of barges is proposed simply as a pioneer line, and if we can secure the improvement requisite to make it a successful venture the way will be open for similar enterprises from all points, which will fill the entire navigable river and make its advantages equal to all alike.

Accompanying this will be found a call for a convention at Kansas City in September, the purposes of which convention is to bring together people from all parts of the Missouri Valley to discuss the matter, to define and organize public sentiment concerning it, and to provide the means and measures for en- forcing that sentiment upon congressional attention.

Very Respectfully, K. COATES, R. T. VAN HORN,

T. B. BULLENE,

H. J. LATSHAW,

H. M HOLDEN, C. E. KEARNEY,

E. H ALLEN, T. F. OAKES.

S. B ARMOUR,

BENJ. McLEAN,

E. L MARTIN, F. B. NOFSINGER,

J. M. NAVE, C. H. PRESCOTT,

M. MUNFORD, Committee of Commerce.

The convention was largely attended, as the following list of delegates will show :

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MISSOURI.

Merchants' Exchange, St. Louis-E. O. Stanard, A. O. Grubb, W. H. Scud- der, Henry Armstrong, George J. Kinsley, N. G. Larimore, Francis W. Crane, Walter S. Barclay, Capt. T. H. Handbury, A. P. Guibert, John D. Hinds, C. B. Carter, H. B. O'Reilly, Hugh Gilham, F. W. Smith, C. S. Rogers, John D. Rankin, P. F. Shirmer, Fred. Schwartz, H. W. Olmstead, O. M. Edgeley, Thos. Warren, Jr.

Boonville-Jno. S. Elliott, W. Speed Stephens, S. Merstetter.

St. Joseph, City-J. A. Piner, G. W. Belt, Seymour Jenkins, M. M. Clag- gett, E. V. Riley, Wm. Fitzgerald, J. A. Owens, Maurice Hickey, James H. Ringo, C. W. Campbell, Mike Gleason, Stephen Geiger.

St. Joseph Board of Trade -John D. Clue, Hanson Gregg, H. R. W. Heart- wig, W. A. P. McDonald, J. M. Frazier, E. D. Marsh, J. A. Owens, F. S. Som- mers, A. N. Schuster, Isaac Weil.

Buchanan County-Dr. Stringfellow, Judge P. M. McIntire, E. V. Riley. Miller County-J. M. Ullman, T. E. E. Tumber, P. S. Miller, A. Falkerson. Vibbard, Ray County-Thos. R. Grant.

St. Charles-Glover Johns, Hon. A. A. Stonebraker, J. K. McDearmon, T. F. McDearmon.

Eighth Mo. Con. District-Hon. S. L. Sawyer.

Lexington-James Davis, John Reid, George S. Rathbun, W. V. L. McClel- land, John E. Corder, J. Q. Plattenberry.

Moberly-Hon. G. F. Rothwell.

Jefferson City-Dr. J. G. Riddles, J. R. Willis, H. W. Kolkmeyer.

Richmond-C. J. Hughes, E. F. Esteb, S. B. Crispen, L. C. Centwell, J. T. Child, J. D. Bogie.

Saline County-Dr. M. T. Chastian, Hugh Gilliam, Jas. D. Dill, W. L. Ir- vine, Judge S. M. Thompson, W. L. Erwin.

Kansas City Board of Trade-K. Coates, H. J. Latshaw, R. T. Van Horn, Frank Askew, E. H. Allen, S. B. Armour, W. A. M. Vaughan, T. B. Bullene, W. S. Gregory, T. K. Hanna.

Kansas City-J. M. Nave, M. Munford, Geo. J. Keating, John W. Reid, A. L. Mason, B. J. Franklin, C. F. Morse, E. L. Martin.

Washington-T. W. B. Crews.

NEBRASKA.

Arago-Joseph Kitt.

Lincoln Board of Trade-S. G. Owens, L. C. Pace, T. P. Kennard, L. Meyer, H. J. Walsh, J. M. Burk, A. J. Buckstaff.

KANSAS.

Monticello, Johnson County-R. T. Bass.

Abilene-W. R. Dyer.

Severance-A. W. Waters.

Parsons-T. C. Cory, A. G. Cory.

Iola -- J. H. Richards.

Wyandotte City-J. S. Stockton, H. M. Northrop, J. P. Root, B. Judd.

Wyandotte County-V. J. Lane, D. E. Cornell, S. N. Simpson, John Arthur, D. B. Hadley, E. L. Beusche.

Kansas City, Kansas-B. M. Brake, C. H. Van Fossen, S. N. Simpson, W. S. Carroll, L. E. James.

Olathe- . Alfred Taylor, John Hindman, T. J. Kay, Wm. Henry, Hiram P. Mitchell.

Emporia-H. C. Cross, Lewis Lutz, S. B. Warren.

Leavenworth -- Hon. W. M. Fortescue.

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Doniphan County-F. Harpster.

Girard-E. Fanger.

Columbus-Lewis Prell.

Besides the prominent gentlemen embraced in this list of attending delegates, there were a number of letters from others. Among these were Geo. L. Wright and Capt. E. W. Gould, of St. Louis, Senators Saunders, of Nebraska, Cockrell, of Missouri, and Allison of Iowa.

Gov. Stanard, of St. Louis, presided at the convention and W. H. Miller, of Kansas City, was secretary. It continued its session for two days, and adopted the following resolutions :

WHEREAS, The Missouri Valley country, including two-thirds of Missouri, one-third of Iowa, and all of Kansas and Nebraska, but not Dakota and part of Montana, which might be properly added, embraces an area of over 215,000 square miles, contains a population of 4,000,000 people and a taxable wealth of $700,000,000, produces annually nearly 500,000,000 bushels of grain, and is in- creasing in population, wealth and productiveness at a rate not less than five per cent per annum. And

WHEREAS, Water transportation is the cheapest known to commerce, and can be supplied to the commerce of this vast area of country by the Missouri River, which is naturally one of the most easily navigated rivers in the world, for ten months in the year, and was prior to the creation of artificial obstructions, a great highway of commerce, and which with the removal of artificial and acciden- tal obstructions can be made available for economical craft, adequate to the wants of the country, whereby the cost of transportation will be reduced fully one-half, and landed property enhanced in value more than fifty per cent.

WHEREAS, The banks of this river are composed of a rich alluvial soil, inad- equate to withstand the force of its current, whereby thousands of acres of valuable lands are annually swept away ; and

WHEREAS, It has always been the policy of the General Government to ap- propriate money for the improvement of rivers and harbors, and to prevent the property of citizens from destruction by the incursive action of great streams ; having thus expended $200,000,000, of which but $657,500 have been expended on the Missouri River ; therefore,

Resolved, That this convention, representing Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, most respectfully, but most earnestly, demand that Congress bestow upon the Missouri River a consideration commensurate with the magnitude of the interests to be served by its improvement, and immediately provide for a thorough remedy for all artificial obstructions it has permitted to be created by railway bridges, for the thorough removal of all accidental obstructions, such as snags and drifts of floating timber, and for a thorough survey of the river by competent engineers, with a view to determining the speediest and most economical plan of deepening its channel, and protecting the property of the citizens along its banks.

Resolved, That we also demand that when such surveys shall have been made and such plans approved, that Congress shall make such appropriations and take such other action as will secure the speediest, permanent and adequate improve- ment of said river.

Resolved, That in view of the magnitude of the interests to be served by such improvement, the additions thereby to result to the profits of industry and the value of landed property in the Missouri Valley, it is the judgment of this con- vention that devotion to such improvement should be a test of qualification for the offices of senator and representatives in Congress, Governor and members of State Legislatures. And, therefore, we would recommend to all political parties that they refuse to nominate for these offices men not known to be so devoted to this interest, and to the people that they refuse to support at the polls candidates

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who do not stand pledged to the public to hold this interest paramount, and to make all reasonable effort to secure the ends herein sought.

Resolved, That for the purpose of inculcating this last resolution, to see that existing laws relating to bridges be observed, to collect and compile statistical and other information relating to the subject, and to impress upon representatives and senators in Congress the importance of the improvement desired, the convention proceed now to organize a permanent Missouri River Improvement Association, which shall continue to keep alive this interest until the ends sought shall have been obtained.

Resolved, That the president of this convention appoint a committee of three to prepare a memorial to Congress embodying the action of this convention and the policy demanded, to be forwarded when prepared to the officers of the respec- tive Houses of Congress, and to the senators and representatives from the States here represented.

Resolved, That the survey of the Missouri River, now in progress and nearly completed from its mouth to Sioux City, should, in the opinion of this convention, be continued up to Fort Benton, Montana.

Before closing its session the convention organized a permanent association, to be known as the Missouri River Improvement Association, and elected the following list of officers :

PRESIDENT.

Col. Kersey Coates, Kansas City, Mo.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Hon. E. O. Standard, St. Louis, Mo. -

John A. Scudder,

Dr. J. P. Root, Wyandotte, Kan.

W. M. Fortescue, Leavenworth, Kan. John Hinman, Olathe, Kan.

Hon. Charles Robinson, Douglas Co., Kan.

P. B. Maxon, Emporia, Kan.

John A. Martin, Atchson, Kan.

S. J. Crawford, Topeka, Kan.

Geo. W. Belt, St. Joseph, Mo.

Gen. C. W. Blair, Fort Scott, Kan. J. R. Willis, Jefferson City, Mo. John S. Elliott, Boonville, Mo.

Col. John Reid, Lexington, Mo.

Geo. R. Buckner, St. Charles, Mo.

J. J. Hochstetler, Nebraska City, Neb.

T. P. Kennard, Lincoln, Neb.

J. S. Stockton, Wyandotte, Kan. John W. Chapman, Council Bluffs, Ia. Hon. Alvin Saunders, Omaha, Neb. P. P. Elder, Ottawa, Kan.

Hon. T. D. Thacher, Lawrence, Kan.

W. S. Carroll, Kansas City, Kan.

W. R. Dryer, Abilene, Kan.

H. J. Lathshaw, Kansas City, Mo.

R. T. Van Horn,

SECRETARY. William H. Miller, Kansas City, Mo.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Col. Kersey Coates, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. J. P. Root, Wyandotte, Kan.

H. J. Latshaw, 66 W. M. Fortescue, Leavenworth, Kan.

Col. R. T. Van Horn, “ G. W. Belt, St. Joseph, Mo.

E. O. Standard, St. Louis, Mo.

It also appointed as a committee to prepare a memorial to Congress on the subject of the improvement of the river, Messrs. Col. R. T. Van Horn and W. H. Miller, of Kansas City; Dr. John Stringfellow, of St. Joseph; Hon. T. Dwight Thacher, of Lawrence, and George L. Wright, of St. Louis.

THE RECEPTION OF GEN. GRANT.

In May it was ascertained that Gen. Grant would, in July make a long promised visit to Kansas City, and the people began to prepare for an appropriate

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reception for the distinguished soldier and ex-President. Meetings were held and a committee appointed. This committee, which was very large, appointed sub-committees on reception, banquet, finance, decoration, procession, transporta- tion, invitations and music, each of which entered at once on the discharge of its duties. Gen. Grant came on the morning of July 2d, and was met some dis- tance from the city on the Chicago & Alton Railroad by the reception commit- tee, consisting of Mayor C. A. Chace, Gen. John W. Reid, Col. R. T. Van Horn, J. M. Nave, Esq., President of the Board of Trade, Geo. H. Nettleton, L. R. Moore, J. D. S. Cook, Rev. Dr. Bell, Dr. D. P. Bigger, Col. J. H. Day- ton, Rev. Thos. Haggarty, Rev. B. F. Watson and Col. H. Wood, of Kansas City. J. T. Crowder, superintendent of Meriam Park; Maj. A. Pickering, of Olathe; W. S. Chick, of Shawnee; S. N. Simpson, of Riverview; D. B. Hadley, of Wyandotte ; J. B. Albert, of Desota; J. B. Bruner, of Gardiner ; Alexander Davis, of Spring Hill, and Rev. D. P. Mitchell, of Hutchins, Kansas. On the arrival of the party at the Union Depot, they were met by Gov. J. S. Phelps, of Missouri; Gov. J. P. St. John, of Kansas; Mayor Stockton, and Dr. J. P. Root, of Wyandotte; and other distinguished gentlemen from Kansas. The distinguished party, attended by many citizens of Kansas and Kansas City went to Meriam Park, a few miles from Kansas City, on the Fort Scott road, for the afternoon, and on this occasion that park was formally opened to the public. Returning to the city the banquet was attended in the evening, and the next day there was a military and civic parade, which was reviewed by Gen. Grant from a stand erected for that purpose at the junction of Main and Delaware streets. The parade was an extensive and imposing affair. It was led by mounted police, followed by the band of the 19th U. S. infantry. Following this came the carriage drawn by four horses, containing Gen. Grant, Col. Van Horn, of Kansas City, and Gen. C. W. Blair, of Fort Scott, attended by a com- pany of Union veterans. The military companies followed, and there were in the procession, the Craig Rifles, of Kansas City; the Drought Rifles, of Wyan- dotte; Paola Rifles, of Paola; Saxton Rifles, of St. Joseph; Carthage (Mo.) Light Guards; Company K, Kansas Volunteers, from Council Grove; Capital Guards, from Topeka; Ottawa Cadets, a finely drilled company of boys; the Ottawa Rifles, Metropolitan Guards, of Leavenworth; Missouri Guards, of Kan- sas City; St. John Battery, and Winfield Rifles, of Winfield, Kansas; the St. John Guards (colored), of Lawrence, Kansas. The fire departments of Kansas City and Wyandotte and a long line of civic exhibitors, beside numerous bands of music, among which was the Dolby Female Band, of Independence, Kansas. The stands along the line of march were elaborately decorated with flags and flowers.

For two days the people of Kansas City, and the numerous visitors from Kansas and Missouri, gave themselves up to the enjoyment of the occasion, and made it it one of the most notable affairs in the history of the city.

THE CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN.

So far in this history it has not been deemed necessary to refer to the con- flicts or triumphs of political parties, except in a general way to the conflict about slavery in Kansas, and that of 1860 leading to the great war of the rebellion. The contest for member of Congress from this, the Eighth district of Missouri, during the fall of 1880 had more than ordinary significance, and may properly enter into this history. The district contains about 23, 000 voters, of which nearly two-thirds are Democrats. From 1870 to 1878 that party had uniformally elected the member of Congress by large majorities. In 1878, however, a division had arisen in the party, which resulted in a revolt against the regular nominee, Col. John T. Crisp, and the presenting of Judge Samuel L. Sawyer, of Independence, as an independent Democratic candidate. He was more accepable to the Re-

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publicans than Col. Crisp, and as the choice lay between them, the Republicans voted for Judge Sawyer, and he was elected. In 1880 a division again arose, and Col. Crisp, of Independence, and Hon. D. C. Allen, of Liberty, were both presented by the Democratic party under such circumstances that one seemed to be about as much the regular candidate of the party as the other. This situation gave the Republicans hope, and on the 7th of October they nominated Col. R. T. Van Horn, believing that his long and faithful devotion to the commercial interests of Kansas City and the Missouri Valley, would give him greater strength with the people than any other candidate they might nominate. His canvass was made as a business man's canvass against mere politicians, and his election was urged specially on account of his services to this section when in Congress from 1866 to 1870, and on account of his well-known devotion to the improve- ment of the Missouri River. The result was his election by a plurality of seven hundred and thirty-nine, and it has always been construed as the verdict of the business men of Kansas City and the district in favor of a business representative rather than merely a political one. It was the first fruit of the third resolution of the River Improvement Convention in September.

THE PROVIDENT ASSOCIATION.

The idea of a provident association, for the relief of worthy poor, presented itself again in the fall of 1880, and on the 22d of November such an association was organized, with Col. T. S. Case, President ; George H. Nettleton, Vice-Presi- dent; C. S. Wheeler, Secretary; W. P. Allcut, Treasurer, and F. M. Furgason, Superintendent. During the winter it collected and distributed several thousand dollars and relieved much distress.

THE RAILROADS.

Movements in railroad matters affecting Kansas City were very active dur- ing the year 1880, as they had been during 1879. The new roads built were the Lexington & Southern, from Pleasant Hill, on the Missouri Pacific, to Nevada, on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas. It has. since been consolidated with the Mis- souri Pacific, and trains are now run from Kansas City by that route over the M., K. & T. to Texas. The Manhattan, Alma & Burlingame road was built in Kan- sas from Burlingame, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, to Manhattan, on the Union Pacific. The Fort Scott road built a branch from Prescott, Kansas, to Rich Hill, Missouri, to reach the coal fields of Bates county, Missouri. This road also built the long-desired switch from the main line near Turkey Creek into the southern part of the city. The Wabash road built a line into Chicago in July, thus adding a fourth through line between Kansas City and Chicago; and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe extended its main line west, reaching El Paso, New Mexico, soon after the close of the year. In March, 1881, this road connected with the Southern Pacific, of California, making a second trans- continental line by way of Kansas City, but it has not, at this writing, been opened for trans continental business. The Fort Scott road also built part of the line between Fort Scott and Springfield, and decided to extend this line to Mem- phis, Tennessee. There were also some other extensions, but nothing very im- portant.

There were many changes in lines already existing. The Central Branch Union Pacific west from Atchison became a division of the Missouri Pacific, in January, and was afterward, in March, consolidated with the Union Pacific. Later in the year the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs road was sold to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and the Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. And in May the Missouri, Kansas & Texas was leased for ninety-nine years by the Missouri Pacific, and virtually con- solidated with it. In February the general offices of the Union Pacific were con-

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solidated and located at Omaha, and in May the long-contended for through rates to the Pacific Ocean by this line were granted Kansas City.

A number of new enterprises were also inaugurated. The first of these was the revival of the old Memphis road. The Kansas City party by whom this in- terest had been bought, sold it in December, 1879, to Messrs. Lyman and Cross, of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, but they failed to execute the con- tract. It was again contracted in January to Mr. J. I. Brooks and friends, by whom it was re-organized as the Kansas City & Southern, in June. This company was composed of Theodore Welderbald, W. P. Campbell, John E. Young, and John Sidle, of Illinois, Lloyd B. Fuller, of Emporia, Kansas, and E. L. Martin, of Kansas City. Besides a few surveys, nothing was done during the year, but early in 1881 the company was re-organized, a new contract was made for the property, the capital stock of the company increased, and its early continuation provided for. In January, 1880, the Wyandotte, Oskaloosa & Western Narrow Gauge Company was organized in Wyandotte, but it did nothing and soon be- came quiescent. In March the Union Transit Company was organized in Kan- sas City for the purpose of taking charge of and facilitating switching among the various companies operating here. A large amount of land was purchased west of the Kaw River for yards, but they have not yet been put into operation. The Directors of this company were Geo. H. Nettleton, Col. C. F. Morse, J. S. Ford, T. F. Oaks, and Wallace Pratt. In April the Des Moines & Kansas City Railroad Company was organized in Des Moines, Iowa, for the purpose of build- ing a line to Kansas City, and it is now at work making its survey. In Decem- ber the Kansas City Railway Company was organized in Kansas City, with T. B. Bullene, President, and J. N. Finley, Secretary. This company proposes to build a road from Kansas City by way of Baldwin City, Osage City, and Council Grove to Salina, Kansas About the same time the Kansas City, Nebraska, and Northwestern Railroad Company was organized in Kansas City with Col. K. Coates, President, W. H. Miller, Secretary, S. B. Armour, Treasurer, and T. J. Lynde, general manager. It proposes to build a road from Kansas City, by way of Oskaloosa and Valley Falls, Kansas, to Falls City, Nebraska.

This year was not destitute of the annual railway war. This was brought about by the opening of the new Wabash line into Chicago, in July, though hostilities did not break out until October 16th. The fight raged with great fierceness for a few days, when it was temporarily stopped only to break out again in a few weeks with increased violence. It soon involved the roads leading to St. Louis, and before the close of the year the roads east of Chicago and St. Louis, and became far more general than any previous war.

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The History of Jackson county, Missouri, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens, Jackson county in the late warhistory of Missouri, map of Jackson county, Part 76

Author: Union Historical Company Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Union historical company Number of Pages: 1068

Author: Union Historical Company
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Union historical company
Number of Pages: 1068