DECEMBER 17.-A. M. Campbell confirmed as Postmaster at Salina, and Luther M. Eggers as Register of the Hays City Land Office. DECEMBER 21.-Edward Russell resigns as Superintendent of Insurance, and Henry Clarkson is appointed. -The Blue Rapids Woollen Mills manufacture cloth to clothe the convicts in the Penitentiaries of Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. DECEMBER 28.-Death of Gerrit Smith, in New York City. -M. M. Murdock appointed Postmaster at Wichita. The dam has cost $100,000, and furnishes between two and three thousand horsepower. It has been under construction since 1872. DECEMBER 31.-The Report of Charles A. Morris, Adjutant General, gives a detailed account of Indian raids and military operations during the year. The following is copied from pages 33, 34, and 36 : "The total number of persons known to have been murdered within the State, by Indians, since the 16th of June last, is twenty-seven, inclusive of the four citizens of Kansas, killed July 3d, on the Fort Sill trail, while engaged in transporting Indian supplies. The following shows the force and term of service of the militia called into service during the present year to repel Indian invasion: 21 July 10, 1874 60 60 Aug. 7, 1874 Aug. 24, 1874 18 days. 50 40 Aug. 21, 1874 * Before reorganization. Second organization. Ordered into service again, December 23, 1874, and still on duty. "The State has heretofore paid, for defence against Indians, $206,000, under the following acts, to wit: An act to provide for the issuance and sale of the bonds of the State for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Kansas militia; approved March 3, 1868 An act to provide for the issuance and sale of bonds of the State of Kansas for the purpose of liquidating the indebtedness of the State, incurred for military purposes during the year 1868, in defending the citizens of the State against the ravages of hostile Indians on the frontier of Kansas; approved February 9, 1869...... $30,000 75,000 89,000 An act to provide for the issuance and sale of bonds for defraying the expenses in raising the Nineteenth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry; approved March 3, 1869.. An act to provide for the issuance and sale of bonds of the State of Kansas to provide a military contingent fund for the protection of the frontier against hostile Indians; approved February 26, 1869 12,000 "There was also paid by the State $140,000, in addition to the above, for defensive purposes, under acts of February 22, 1864, and March 6, 1866, a portion of which was for defence against Indians. "So much of this amount as has been paid to protect the State against Indian depredations, together with the military expenses of the present year, should be assumed by the General Government, and refunded to the State." DECEMBER 31.-The following is copied from Superintendent McCarty's Report: TABLE SHOWING THE GROWTH OF FREE SCHOOLS IN KANSAS. 217 114 4,901 534 304 705 506 823 640 37,979 22, 667 847 721 45, 441 26,409 986 54,725 31,528 40, 246 35,904 56,988 63, 218 73, 248 165, 982 66,620 135, 598 CENSUS TAKEN MARCH 1, 1875. The following figures have been furnished by Alfred Gray, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. They are not official, but will not vary 500from the official result: The counties of Comanche and Ness polled 535 votes at the general election in 1873. The counties of Kingman, Pratt and Wallace polled 571 votes in 1874. Allowing four inhabitants to the voter, it will give to these counties, at the periods named, a population of 4,424. Returns of 1874. Estimated. Adams, Daniel M.. ..260, 309, 313, 345, 595 Arapahoes, The... ..22, 30, 257, 428, 467 18 Arny, W. F. M.........134, 168, 182, 189, 235 Arms issued to the State Arrasmith, Abner.. 239, 253, 261, 265 599 426 493 .489, 501 207 Arrickaree Fork, Battle of..... 580 Ashbaugh, H. C.......... 653 Adams, Moses S........266, 271, 309, 313, 331 241, 248, 261, 268, 462, 508, 520, 521, 543 469, 494, 502, 527 Atchison and Nebraska R. R...461, 466, 544 Agricultural College.... ...320, 345, 347, 355 Agricultural Society, State......314, 344, 369 Akers, Benjamín F Akin, Andrew. Akin, Eugene L.... Alabama.... Albin, U. A.... Aldrich, C. J. Allen, Asaph... Allen, John M.... Allen, Norman. Allen, Lyman......... ..527, 646 657 Alvord, Theodore... 599 Auld, David C.... BABCOCK, CARMI W...43, 51, 72, 98, 109, 134 Baker, F. P........251, 270, 314, 321, 344, 349 Appropriations, State.......312, 330, 355, 431 452, 472, 497, 513, 541, 562, 599, 629, 669 ...551, 563, 620 ..594, 602, 611, 653 440 Books relating to Kansas......5, 6, 7, 8, 10 42 163 Boynton, H. V 42 .617, 627, 640, 655 Botkin, Owen D.. 401 Barker, E..... 593 Bourbon county.. 459 Barker, Rev. Francis. 24 Bowles, John. .301, 340 Barry, Abraham Bartlett, Thomas. .495, 574, 609 .436, 550, 575, 642 Bardwell, F. W. 620 Bonds to railroads.. ...424, 427 524 Bonds, Territorial claim.... .224, 257 182 Barstow, William A.. 480, 505, 506 447 453 458 549, 597 Bassett, Owen A.......149, 281, 492, 501, 524 489 Baughn, Melvin.. 349 Baxter Springs Massacre. Beates, G. E...... Bear, W. L... ..506, 582 Beam, John A..... 240, 242, 246, 253 453, 642 Bowker, William E......182, 235, 250, 378 ..524, 610 620 Brown, George W. Brown, Ansel D... Brown, John H... Brown, Robert J. Beatty, Archibald.. ..558, 653, 654, 665 Brown, L...... Bell, Peter....... ..485, 491, 609 .435, 456, 471, 501 521, 597, 653, 668 Brown, John S...... .384, 385, 422, 432 440, 464 Bent, H. N. .182, 228 Brown, R. P., killed. .90, 91, 94 Bettis, F. A.. 560 Brown, Abram. 328 Bethany, College of Sisters of...257, 501, 553 582 ..256, 308, 529 Brown, Rev. Olympia. 464 Brandley, Henry.............301, 451, 566, 575 576 Blood, N. C..... Blunt, James G.......207, 305, 309, 316, 321 Blind Asylum...374, 459, 466, 478, 497, 514 Blue Rapids woollen mill.. Booth, Henry....334, 451, 481, 628, 650, 653 Bloss, William C.. 190 39 Bloss, William W. Blood, James.. .374, 380 ..94, 198, 203, 207, 494 207 392, 440 518, 632 Brooks, Paul R..... ...230, 397, 579, 606 311 ....612, 613, 615, 624, 641 290 94 672 32 ..355, 426 Butler, Gen. Benj. F.. Blair, Francis P.. Black Jack. Black, Jeremiah S.. .182, 235, 244 ..263, 484, 486 Bridges, C. G... Brackett, George C......... Branson, Jacob.. 412, 442, 581, 609 .473, 514, 541 600, 671 .70, 123 .34, 101, 248 .234, 258, 306, 312 314, 329, 343, 381, 388, 493, 654 483, 488, 528, 535 .524, 662 92 469 .250, 352, 378, 384, 385 |