Kansas readers always, has written the most perfect single verse in Kansas literature: OPPORTUNITY. Master of human destinies am I; Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait. Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by SUMMARY. 1. The printing press first brought to Kansas for Indians. 2. The opening of Kansas Territory was nearly contemporaneous with the advent of the modern daily newspaper. 3. The Territorial period was the subject of remarkable books. 4. Kansas from the first possessed a vigorous, powerful and alert newspaper press. 5. The Kansas Magazine a brilliant literary experiment. 6. Two fountains of Kansas history. 7. The varied efforts of Kansas writers cover largely the field of present interest in poetry and prose, and Kansas and Nature. THE STATE OF KANSAS. ORIGIN OF NAME, LOCATION OF COUNTY SEAT AND DATE OF ORGANIZATION OF EACH COUNTY.* * Kennekuk. Invermay Muscotah MO Effingham Huron Eden Goodinlent Lancaster Shannon TOHISON Monrovia Farmington Arrington Cummings Parnell Daiby Hawthorne Williams R David R. Atchison, a Senator from Missouri, and President of the United States Senate at the date of the passage of the Act for the organization of the Territory of Kansas. He was a Pro-Slavery Democrat, and zealous partisan leader in the discussions and movements affecting the interests of slavery and its attempted establishment in the new State to be created. Atchison. *By permission, from Admire's Political Hand Book of Kansas. Crane & Co., Topeka. Bourbon county, Ky., was a member of the House from Fort Scott in 1855, and it was at his request that the county was so named. He was mustered in as Captain of Company I, Second Kansas Cavalry, November 22, 1861, and resigned March 28, 1862. He died at his old home, Fort Scott, in August, 1873. Brown.-Organized in 1855. County seat, Hiawatha. After Albert G. Browne, of Mississippi, who had been Senator and member of the House of Representatives from that State, was United States Senator at the date of the Act organizing Kansas Territory, was re-elected for six Butler. years in 1859, but withdrew with Jefferson Davis on the secession of the Southern States. The name is properly spelled with an e in the original statute, but on the county seal the e was left off-accidentally, probably. All later statutes present the name without the final e. Butler.-Organized in 1855. County seat, Eldorado. For Andrew P. Butler, who was United States Senator from South Carolina, from 1846 to 1857. Chase.-Organized in 1859. County seat, Cottonwood Falls. Created out of portions of Wise and Butler counties, and named in honor of Salmon P. Chase, successively Governor of Ohio, United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In the Senate he was earnest in his opposition to the extension of slavery into Kansas. Chautauqua.-Organized in 1875. County seat, Sedan. Created out of a portion of what was first Godfrey county, named after "Bill" Godfrey, a noted trader among the Osages; then Howard county, in honor of Major-General O. O. Howard, for his efforts in behalf of the Union. Chautauqua county, N. Y., was the former home of Hon. Edward Jaquins, a member of the Kansas Legislature in 1875 from Howard county, who Cloverdale Leeds Spring Creek Centre Farmersburg. Colfax Grafton Hale. Brown Rogers auneta Elgin Cedar Vale. Hewins. Peru Monett SEDAN Niotaze S Chautauqua Chautauqua. Jonesburg. which embraced all the territory of Seward and a five-mile strip additional on the west. Cherokee. Organized in 1866. County seat, Columbus. First named McGee in 1855, for E. McGee, of Missouri, who was a member of the Territorial Legislature. In 1866 the name Gurney Repu Jaqua FRANCIS Wheeler Bird City Cherokee was adopted, from the fact that a large portion of the "Cherokee neutral lands," reservation of that tribe of Indians, was included in the geographical area of the county. Cheyenne.-Boundaries defined in 1873. Organized April 1, 1886. County seat, St. Francis. Named after the Indian tribe of that name. -Or- guished Kentucky statesman, Henry Clay, who was chosen United States Senator in 1806. He afterwards served in both houses, and was in public life most of the time during a period of forty-six years. He was minister to England and France, and candidate for |