The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-06-03
) A cHRoNoL0G HISTORY OF KANSAS,
Important Territorial State Life from May
1854, May 80, 1904.

| congressman being republican, Novem-
Der, 1882.
Prohibition party organized in state
| convention at Lawrence, September
2, 1884.
Population 1,26S,5 62, March 1, 1885.
State bureau of labor created, March,
1885.
State reformatory located at Hutch
inson, July 2, 1885.
l." Legislature grants women in Kan
sas municipalities votes for city and
school officers and on the issuing of
bonds for school purposes, February
Is, 1887.
Liquor law to suppress the so-called
drugstore Saloons" 1887.
Soldiers orphans home opened at
Atchison, July 1, 1887.
State soldiers home, Dodge City,
opened in former Fort Dodge build
ings, January 1. 1890.
Peoples party, an outgrowth of the
Farmers alliance and state grange,
convenes at Topeka and dominates
John F. Willis for governor, August
10, 1890.
Industrial school for girls, Beloit,
| organized by the w. C. T. U. of Kan
sas, February 1, 1888, moves into quar-
tiers provided by the state, October TO-.
1890.
At state election the vote for gov
ernor stood: Humphrey, republican.
| 115,025; Willis, 106,972. November 4.
1890.
w. A. PETER (alliance) elected
United States senator, January %.
1891.
Shooting Of COL Sam Wood, pioneer
free-state man, in county seat fight
in Stevens county, June %. 1891.
United States Senator Plumb dies at
Washington of apoplexy, December.
1891 =
Bishop W. Perkins appointed United
States senator by the governor in
place of Plumb, qualities January
1892
L. D. Lewelling elected governor b;
the >populists and democrats, Novem-
her, 1892
Republicans and populists each claim
the speakership in the house, January
10, 1893.
|
| Republicans take forcible possession
of representative hall, Topeka, Febru;
! airy Is. 1898.
| militia called out by the governor.)
A peace agreement signed, Febru.
airy II, 1893.
Supreme court of Kansas decides
| that the republican house was the le4
| gally constituted body, February 25,
1893.
Republican state ticket elected, E
N. Morrill,, governor, November 6
1894
| Amendment to the constitution Civ
ing women full suffrage defeated, No
vember 6, 1894.
| State industrial reformatory. Hutch
inson, first inmates admitted, August
| 20, 1885.
Populists carry the state, John w.
Leedy, governor, November 8, 1896
Act providing for uniformity and
maximum charges for school text
books in Kansas, March 10, 1897.
Twentieth Kansas volunteer in
fantry mustered into United States
service at Topeka, Frederick Funston,
colonel, May 9-13, and sails for Ma
| Mia, October-November, 1898.
Twentieth Kansas does valiant serv-
ice in the Philippines, 1S98-99; returns
in the Tartar, by way of Hong Kong,
| to San Francisco, where it is mustered
| out and is received at Topeka, No
vember 2, 1899.
Death of ex-senator John ]. ingalls,
at Las Vegas, N. NJ, August 16, 1900.
Republicans gain full control of the
state in 1898 with William E. Stanley
| for governor, who is reelected No.
vember 6, 1900.
| Site of third state insane asylum To-
Gated at Parsons, after long litiga-
ton, August, 1901.
j. R. Burton elected United States
senator January %, 1901.
Willis J. Bailey, republican, elected
governor November 4, 1902.
| Oil and gas field developed in south
eastern Kansas, 1923.
Chester 1. Long elected United Statea
senator January Is, 1908.
| Western Branch state normal school
| established on Fort Hays military res
ervation March 6, 1903.
Louisiana Purchase Centennial ex.
position, state appropriates 100000
for, March Is, 1903.
| John ]. ingalls,, state appropriates
! $4,000 for statue of to be placed in
Statuary hall, Washington, March is.
1903
| President Roosevelt visits Topeks
and other Kansas points May 1, 1903.
| Flood in the Kansas and Neoshe
| valleys; water stood six feet deep il
the Union Pacific depot, North To-
| peka, ILay-June, 1903.
E. W. Hoch nominated for governor
March 9, 1904.
J. R Burton convicted for misusina