NOVEMBER 6.—Amos Sanford starts the Workingman's Journal, at Columbus, Cherokee county. NOVEMBER 10.-Noble L. Prentis arrives in Topeka, from Illinois, and takes a position on the Daily Record.-The Fort Scott Monitor appears as a daily.—Our New Home, a Scandinavian paper, is started at Frankfort, Marshall county. -The Kansas City Times says Quantrell was born in Maryland, "where his mother and two sisters now reside:" that while he and his brother were going through Kansas to Pike's Peak, his brother was killed, and Quantrell wounded; that Quantrell "came back to remember and avenge;” that he was shot in a skirmish, in Kentucky, and died at Louisville, in a hospital. NOVEMBER 11.-W. H. Warner and E. A. Wasser establish the Girard Press. July 14, 1871, the office was burned by a mob. The paper reappeared three weeks afterwards. A. P. Riddle bought Dr. Warner's interest, June 16, 1873. Crawford county has had three other short-lived papers. -Ex-Governor Robert J. Walker dies, in Washington, aged sixty-eight. NOVEMBER 15.-The Kansas Farmer publishes the picture called "Droughty Kansas," designed by Henry Worrall, of Topeka, and photographed by J. Lee Knight. NOVEMBER 25.-A. D. Richardson fatally shot in New York City, by Daniel McFarland. NOVEMBER 30.-The Auditor's Report says: "The State of Kansas has, for the protection of her frontiers, already expended an amount of $346,000, and besides this assumed Price Raid claims to the amount of half a million, making a total of $846,000, which ought to be paid by the General Government." NOVEMBER 30.-Expenditures of the State for the year: Total for 1869..... $471,270 99 * *Seventy thousand dollars in bonds were issued, and sold for $66,442.57, which is included in this amount. DECEMBER.-J. W. Foster's new book on the Mississippi Valley gives the annual rainfall in different parts of the country, as follows: Cincinnati, Ohio....... New York City..... Fort Scott, Kansas.. Ann Arbor, Mich... .46.69 | San Francisco, Cal.................................... .42.23 | El Paso, New Mexico...... .28.60 .21.95 ...11.21 3.15 DECEMBER.--The State University has had, during the year, 143 stų dents; the Agricultural College, 173; the Normal School, 198. Prisoners in the Penitentiary, 186; patients in the Insane Asylum, 31; pupils in the Blind Asylum, 20; pupils in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 34. -General Phil. Sheridan makes an official report of his Indian campaign, from October 15, 1868, to March 27, 1869. -Leavenworth county paid school teachers, during the year, $34,506.96; value of school houses in the county, $131,336. DECEMBER 7.-The locomotive arrives in Emporia. DECEMBER 10.-John F. Dillon appointed United States Circuit Judge. DECEMBER 14.- Colonel Hoyt resigns as Mail Agent. A. Low, of Doniphan, appointed. —Adjutant General Moorhouse pays the militia. DECEMBER 14.—Third Annual Meeting of the State Horticultural Society, at Ottawa. Officers elected: President, William Tanner, of Leavenworth; Vice President, C. B. Lines, of Wabaunsee; Secretary, G. C. Brackett, of Lawrence; Treasurer, S. T. Kelsey, of Ottawa. DECEMBER 15.—John W. Delaney retires from the Junction City Union, and George W. Martin becomes sole proprietor. -State House ready for occupancy. DECEMBER 15.—The following is copied from the Report of Superintendent McVicar: "The whole number of school houses reported is 1,213; a gain of 260 over last year. A fine edifice was completed in the city of Atchison during the year, at a cost, including furniture, of about $40,000. This edifice was recently destroyed by fire. It was insured, however, for $30,000, and upon the ruins another edifice will soon stand complete. Wathena, in Doniphan county, has erected a school building at a cost of $10,000. At Troy, an edifice is in process of erection, at a cost of $8,000. Seneca, the county seat of Nemaha county, completed an edifice valued at $15,000. The city of Fort Scott has taken steps to build a house worth about $30,000. Topeka has laid the foundation for an edifice at a cost of $34,000. At Leroy, an edifice has been erected, at a cost of nearly $10,000. School houses have been built at Irving, Manhattan, Neosho Falls, Oswego, Washington, Alma, Olathe, and at many other central points in the State. In addition to these, a greater number of good school houses have been built in rural communities than in any previous year." On "the 500,000-acre case," the Report says the Supreme Court "has declined to give any decision on the main point involved, on the ground of alleged informalities in the presentation of the case." The Report says the school lands lost to the State on the Cherokee Neutral Lands amount to 50,000 acres. DECEMBER 20.-R. S. Stevens receives a patent from the Governor for lands set apart for the Neosho Valley R. R. Trains are running regularly to Emporia. DECEMBER.-The Missouri River, Fort Scott and Gulf road completed to Fort Scott. DECEMBER 25.-The State officers leave the old buildings on Kansas Avenue, and go into the new building on Capitol Square, the east wing of which is completed. DECEMBER 30.—The State House Commissioners report that $417,588.29 has already been expended on the State House. |