VOTE CAST FOR JUDGES OF THE DISTRICT COURTS, FOR THE SIXTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH AND NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

NOVEMBER 5.-Ross, Steele & Co. bring suit against the U. P. R. R., E. D. They were the contractors before the road was sold to Hallett and Fremont. -On negro suffrage, the State followed the saying of a well-known politician: "Talk for it; vote agin it."

-The L. L. & G. done one mile south of Lawrence.

-A coal company is formed at Burlingame.

-The Hays City Advance issued, by Joseph Clarke, W. H. Bisbee and Willis Emery.

NOVEMBER 6.-O. H. Browning, Secretary of the Interior, writes to Geo. A. Crawford that James F. Joy has bought the Cherokee Neutral Lands. They have been appraised by Wm. A. Phillips and John T. Cox. Mr. Joy represents the Border Tier railroad.

-Woodson county voted against railroad bonds.

NOVEMBER 22.-Completion of the Kansas City and Cameron railroad. NOVEMBER 30.

In obedience to your orders [Gov. Crawford's], I have had duplicate copies of all pay-rolls made, which are now ready for binding. The claims arising out of the Price Raid are as follows:

Amount justly due the State of Kansas from the U. S. Government:

Claims for expenditures for 1861 and 1862..

Allowed on the above claim...

Balance due the State..

Military bonds of 1864......

Military bonds of 1866....

Interest on the above, about....

Miscellaneous claims, about.

Arising out of Price Raid..

Aggregate

-Report of Adjutant General McAfee.

NOVEMBER 30.-Expenditures of the State for the year:

$467, 293 37

$12, 351 04 9,360 82

$2,990 22 $100, 000 00 40,000 00 30, 000 00 12,000 00

467,293 37

$652, 283 59

*Of State Capitol expenditure, $89,513.01 is from the sale of $100,000 in bonds. † Of Penitentiary expenditure, $89,329.16 is from the sale of $100,000 in bonds.

NOVEMBER 30.-The following facts in regard to Lincoln College—afterwards changed to Washburn are copied from a statement of S. D. Bowker to Superintendent McVicar:

"The purpose of founding an institution of learning of a high literary and religious character early took possession of the minds of the people of Kansas. The project first came up for general discussion in 1857, at which time measures were adopted to secure a fitting location for such an enterprise. Unforeseen difficulties, however, attended the settlement of the Territory and the formation of a State Government. Repeated hostile invasions, the hardships of the year of famine, and the tumult arising from the war, compelled the suspension, for a time, of all active effort for the establishment of the College. On the return of peace, the interest hitherto manifested took a tangible

form, and on the 6th of February, 1865, an act of incorporation was secured under the name of 'Lincoln College.'

"Lincoln College is located at Topeka, Kansas. Topeka, the Capital of the State, is situated on the Kansas river, about sixty miles from its junction with the Missouri, at a point on the Pacific Railroad, 350 miles west of St. Louis. The city is built on elevated prairie ground, about one mile south of the river.

"An elegant stone edifice for the Preparatory Department was completed in the autumn of 1865. The building is located at the southeast corner of the Capitol Square, one of the most sightly positions in the city. Its rooms for recitations and general exercises will accommodate some 150 students; besides these it has rooms for library and cabinet. The first term of the College opened January, 1866, with five teachers and over thirty students; among the latter were representatives from six or seven different counties of the State."

DECEMBER.-Report of the Codifying Commissioners. It fills an octavo volume of 1021 pages.

DECEMBER 6.—Topeka Daily Tribune re-issued, under the management of J. P. Greer and A. L. Williams.

-Lawrence is made headquarters of the K. P. road. George Noble is Division Superintendent.

DECEMBER 10.-Geo. T. Anthony becomes editor of the Conservative. -The Smoky Hill is bridged at Salina.

DECEMBER 10.-First annual meeting of the State Horticultural Society, at Lawrence. President, Wm. Tanner; Vice President, Charles B. Lines; Secretary, G. C. Brackett; Treasurer, S. T. Kelsey.

DECEMBER 18.-Last payments made, at Paola, to the confederated tribes, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea and other Indians. They number 204 persons. When they came to Kansas, in 1846, they numbered about 800. They go to the Indian Territory.

-The K. P. done to the 335th mile-post.

DECEMBER 20.- Completion of the Republican river bridge, at Junction City.

- John Severance is to receive $55,000 for completing the St. Jo. & D. R. R. to Troy.

DECEMBER 21.-Stock books opened of the Kansas and Missouri Bridge Co., at Leavenworth, and $59,100 subscribed.

DECEMBER 23.-Gov. Hayes appoints Ed. F. Schneider Adjutant General of Ohio. He had been Major of the Eighth Kansas, and editor of the Leavenworth Times.

DECEMBER 29.-Last rail laid on the 100th mile of the Central Branch. DECEMBER 30.-There are 523 miles of railroad in the State. The K. P. is within 35 miles of the western boundary-main line completed, 335 miles; Leavenworth branch, 33 miles. The Central Branch is operating 90 miles. The L. L. & G. is done to Ottawa, 27 miles.

-A book appears with this title: "History of Kansas, from the First Exploration of the Mississippi Valley to its Admission into the Union. By J. N. Holloway, A. M. Lafayette, Ind. James, Emmons & Co., Journal Buildings." pp. 584. This is the most bulky of the books on Kansas, but probably contains less reading matter than Mrs. Robinson's. Like the other histories, it has no index; the important facts published in it are badly arranged, and it is not easy to find any special subject in regard to which the

reader may want information. The opinions, the grammar, and the spelling, especially of proper names, might be criticised. The author was a non-resident, and it is really surprising that the book is so complete. It ends with the admission of the State into the Union. The book had a large sale, but Mr. Holloway has not received the credit which his industry justly entitled him to.