JANUARY 13.-Ex-Gov. Thos. Carney says he is not a candidate for the Senate.

JANUARY 16.- Episcopal Convention at Atchison-the first of the Diocese of Kansas.

-C. B. Lines reappointed United States Pension Agent.

JANUARY 17.—Election of State Printer. First ballot: S. S. Prouty 41, Sol. Miller 31, F. P. Baker 27, George F. Prescott 13. Joseph Clarke 9, C. G. Patterson 1: Second ballot: Prouty 46, Miller 32, Baker 28, Prescott 11, Clarke 5. Third ballot: Prouty 67, Miller 25, Baker 24, Prescott 4, Clarke 2. Necessary to a choice, 62.

-Meeting of the State Temperance Society. Mr. Jenkins, President; Peter McVicar, Secretary.

- Meeting of the Editors' and Publishers' Association. Officers elected: President, Milton W. Reynolds, of the Lawrence Journal; Vice President, M. M. Murdock, of the Burlingame Chronicle; Treasurer, S. S. Prouty, of the Topeka Commonwealth; Secretary, S. D. Macdonald, of the Topeka Record; Orator, Henry King; Alternate, George A. Crawford. The Annual Address delivered by Ward Burlingame, of the Commonwealth. Speeches made by Col. John C. Vaughan, Sidney Clarke, S. O. Thacher, T. P. Fenlon, John Guthrie, and Gov. Harvey.

JANUARY 21.-Legislative excursion to Kansas City.

- The Commonwealth publishes a history of Topeka churches. -The Columbus Independent claims that Cherokee county coal is the best in the State for manufacturing purposes.

JANUARY 24.-Meeting of the Society of Michigan in Lawrence. Address by W. C. Ransom; speeches by James D. Snoddy, M. W. Reynolds, and James M. Spencer.

- Incorporation of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State. Incorporators: S. K. Huson, R. Huson, H. F. Klemp, J. N. Rubicon, John * J. Edie.

JANUARY 24.-Vote of the Senate for a United States Senator, for the term beginning March 4, 1871: Alexander Caldwell, of Leavenworth county, 8 votes; Sidney Clarke, of Douglas, 6; S. J. Crawford, of Lyon, 5; E. G. Ross, of Douglas, 1; W. R. Laughlin, of Crawford, 1; T. H. Walker, of Shawnee, 1; W. A. Phillips, of Saline, 1; Jas. D. Snoddy, of Linn, 1; W. Shannon, of Douglas, 1.

Vote of the House: Mr. Caldwell received 30 votes, Mr. Crawford 22, Mr. Clarke 21, Mr. Ross 7, Mr. Snoddy 11, Mr. Fenlon 2, Mr. Vaughan 1, Mr. Laughlin 1, Mr. McVicar 1, Mr. Bennett 1, Mr. Sells 1.

JANUARY 25.-Election of U. S. Senator. Alexander Caldwell 87, Samue J. Crawford 34, Wilson Shannon 2.

JANUARY 26.- Meeting of the soldiers of the Army of the Frontier, at Topeka. President, Nathan Price; Secretary, David Whittaker. Voted to hold a reunion, at Emporia, December 7th. Committee of Arrangements : P. B. Plumb, Wm. A. Phillips, Mathew Quigg, Josiah E. Hayes, Owen A. Bassett, H. H. Williams, Geo. W. Veale.

JANUARY 26.-Reception of Senator Caldwell, in Leavenworth. Speeches by ex-Governor Carney, Senator Ross, Thos. P. Fenlon, Jas. F. Legate, and others.

FEBRUARY 1.- Peter McVicar elected President of Washburn College. FEBRUARY 2.-Congress passes a bill to provide for auditing the Price Raid claims.

FEBRUARY 3.-Caldwell Senatorial Banquet at Leavenworth, to the Legislature.

-Atchison county has fifty-six school-houses.

-John Speer retires from the Lawrence Tribune. He says he has been connected with the Kansas press most of the time for sixteen years.

FEBRUARY 9.-Congress passes a bill to sell a part of the Fort Leavenworth Reserve to the Fair Association.

FEBRUARY 10.-L. J. Perry buys half of the Ottawa Journal.

FEBRUARY 14.— Crane & Byron, of Topeka, publish a book called "The Science of Evil," by Joel Moody, of Mound City.

-The Committee to investigate the State Treasurer report:

"From the above exhibit it is shown that over $200,000 of the revenue of the State is virtually deposited in banks in Kansas City, Missouri, or in Topeka, Kansas, in open violation of law.

"A disregard of the law for the custody and safe-keeping of the revenue of the State by the officer who is made the custodian of the people's money, raised by taxation for the payment of the expenses of the State Government, is an act of bad faith that demands the enforcement of the penalties prescribed.

"If the law had no moral power to restrain the officer sworn to its support, then security is gone, and the funds of the State have but little protection.

"This pernicious system of pretending to deal in drafts and certificates of deposit, to evade the law which prohibits depositing in a bank or other place, is one fraught with evil and danger. The certificates and drafts are held by the State Treasurer for an indefinite period, thereby releasing the drawer for want of diligence-a practice that no business man would adopt for himself-and if the banks in New York should fail, the State would be the loser for the amount drawn."-House Journal, pp. 416 to 419. FEBRUARY 14.—

"Responsive to my letter of the 17th of October, 1870 (published in last Annual Message), I have been officially informed that the Secretary of the Interior has decided, in accordance with the claim asserted in the letter, that the State is entitled, for school purposes, to the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections within the Osage Trust Lands, and their Diminished Reservation; the length of the correspondence precludes its insertion here; but it will be laid before you. The decision is dated February 14th, 1871, and was received at this office March 8th, 1871."-Gov. Harvey's Message, January 9, 1872.

FEBRUARY 15.-Henry King retires from the Topeka Record. FEBRUARY 16.-Ward Burlingame retires from the Commonwealth, to become the Secretary of Senator Caldwell.

FEBRUARY 20.-The Chicago and Southwestern Railroad is completed to Leavenworth.

-The Atchison Champion begins its fourteenth year.

FEBRUARY 28.-Report of the Special Committee on Insurance Money received by the Auditor:

"From the law it will be seen that the Auditor had no authority whatever to receive this money from insurance companies, and much less to hold a large amount of it in his hands for a period of from six to eighteen months. From the law it will also appear that the payment into the Treasury, by the corporation seeking the certificate, of the sum of fifty dollars is a condition precedent to its right to demand and the Auditor's right to issue a certificate of authority. The facts show that all the certificates issued by Mr. Thoman have been issued without and prior to such payment, in nearly all cases many months."

MARCH 1.—John M. Crowell, of Atchison, appointed Special Agent of the Post Office Department, at large.

MARCH 3.-Adjournment of the Legislature. Among its acts are these: Apportioning the State for Senators and Representatives; Authorizing the School Commissioners to buy $50,000 of Lawrence bonds; Creating the Twelfth Judicial District; Establishing an Insurance Department; Providing for the settlement of losses on the frontier; Appropriating $6,000 for seed wheat and corn, for western counties; For the election of a Board of Railroad Assessors; To restrain State, County and City Treasurers from speculating in their offices. Nineteen acts were passed authorizing municipal bonds.

MARCH 6.-W. A. Morgan establishes the Chase County Leader, at Cottonwood Falls.

-Geo. C. Hume leaves the Leavenworth Commercial for the St. Louis Journal of Commerce, and changes it from a Weekly to a Daily.

MARCH 7.-W. H. Rossington succeeds Hume as editor of the Leavenworth Commercial, and remains till the fall of '72.

-The Tribune is established at Independence, by Humphrey & Yoe.
-The King bridge shops nearly completed, at Iola.

-John McReynolds removes from Paola to Emporia.
MARCH 14.-

"On the 14th of March, 1871, I proceeded to Leavenworth, and met James A. Hardee, Inspector General, U. S. A., J. D. Bingham, Quartermaster, U. S. A., and T. H. Stanton, Paymaster, U. S. A., members of the Commission appointed by the Secretary of War to examine and audit the Price Raid claims, pursuant to Act of Congress, approved February 2, 1871. The Commission, having been organized and qualified according to law, at Fort Leavenworth, was invited to meet at Topeka, for convenience of access to the necessary papers; and it accordingly met here on the 17th of March. It was afforded every possible facility for the discharge of the duty, and after a number of days of assiduous labor, went to Washington to report the result to the Secretary of War, to be by him communicated to Congress as a basis for an appropriation for the payment of the claims."-Gov. Harvey's Message, Jan. 9, 1872.

MARCH 19.-Wm. C. Webb appointed Superintendent of Insurance. MARCH 19.-Andrew S. Wilson appointed Judge of the Twelfth District. MARCH 20.-Joseph Logan distributes seed wheat in the northwest. - George Merrill succeeds Col. Huntoon as Receiver in the Topeka Land Office.

-The Junction City Land Office is to be moved to Salina.

-Conference of the M. E. Church at Paola. Number of local preach

ers, 243; value of church property, $288,783; Sunday school children, 10,683.

MARCH 24.-The Governor appoints the following Railroad Assessors: Ed. Russell, George Graham, J. C. Bailey, John Walruff, H. N. Bent, C. W. Libby, F. M. Power, J. M. Allen, F. B. Hunt, H. H. Williams, R. W. Wright, Jacob Weisbach.

-M. W. Coulter becomes sole owner of the Baxter Springs Sentinel.

MARCH 28.-Incorporation of the Eclectic Medical Association of the State. Incorporators: George H. Field, Samuel E. Martin, Caleb D. Ward, Ansell M. Eidson, David Surber, Daniel B. Crouse.

APRIL 4.-T. Dwight Thacher becomes the sole owner of the Lawrence Republican Journal.

-The type on which the White Cloud Chief is printed has been in constant use sixteen years.

-A "Hand-Book of Progressive Philosophy," by Edward Schiller, of Fort Scott, is published by Redfield, New York.

-Frank H. Drenning becomes sole owner of the Wathena Reporter. APRIL 27.-Isaac M. Ruth, business manager of the Lawrence Tribune, found dead in his bed. Mrs. Ruth was in Leavenworth. A dying statement by Mr. Ruth led to the arrest of Dr. Medlicott. May 5th the coroner's jury brings in a verdict that Mr. Ruth came to his death from the effects of a narcotic poison, administered by Dr. J. J. Medlicott. MAY.-John A. Banfield edits the Educational Journal. MAY 11.-Episcopal Convention at Fort Scott.

- The Congregational Association holds its fifteenth Annual Session at Emporia.

-The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway reaches Cabin Creek, Indian Territory.

MAY 15.-Appointment of D. D. Colley, Leavenworth, David Heller, Clyde, and Thomas W. Bown, Marion Centre, Commissioners to audit losses from Indian raids between the years 1861 and 1871.

MAY 16.-D. B. Emmert confirmed as Receiver of the Humboldt Land Office.

MAY 23.-The civil and criminal suits against John Speer are withdrawn:

"DEPARTMENT of Justice, WASHINGTON, May 15th, 1871.

"Albert H. Horton, Esq., United States Attorney, Atchison, Kansas:

"SIR: I am directed by the Attorney General to inform you, in relation to the criminal cases of the United States vs. Speer and others, that you are authorized to enter a nolle prosequi in them. This direction is given you, as there is some doubt whether they are cases which came within the internal revenue act, and thus are under the control of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, or whether directions in respect to them should come from this Department. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

"CLEMENT HUGH HILL, Assistant Attorney General." JUNE 3.-The Emporia Ledger established. H. W. McCune, the present (1875) publisher, has been connected with the paper since March 20, 1873. JUNE.-The Educational Journal publishes a catalogue of plants, native and naturalized, found in Kansas, by J. H. Carruth, with additions by F. H. Snow and E. Hall.