The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-06-03


and kills about 200 men, August 81
1863.
Massacre at Baxter Springs, Kan.
of 80 men, the cavalry escort of Gen.
Blunt, by QuaitreIl and 600 guerrillas
October 6, 1868.
Battles near Mound City, Little
Usage and Charlotte, October 25, 1864
Appointment of commissioners to
locate blind asylum in Wyandotte
county, February 81, 1864.
State normal school opened at EN-
poria February Is, 1865.
Census: White, 127, 270; colored, 12,-
SGT; Indian, 1892; May, 1865.
Kansas furnishes for the war a to-
tai of $4,000 men, a larger proportion
of the population than any other state
1865.
Institution for deaf and dumb es-
tablished at Olathe, 1865.
Legislature authorizes sale of 500 ,00C
acres of state land for the benefit OF
railroads, January, 1866.
State institution for the education
of the deaf and dumb first opened at
Lawrence by Philip A. Emery, Deem
Der 1, 1861 located at Olathe, Febru-
airy Is, 1866.
State university opened for instruc-
ton, Lawrence, September IL, 1866.
Northern Kansas overrun with
grasshoppers which breed in the spring
of 1867, September, 1866.
Treaty made with many Indian
tribes for removal to Indian territory
February, %, 1867.
Gems. Hancock and Custer march
against the Indians in western Kan
sas, April 80, 1867.
Eighteenth Kansas cavalry raised
for the protection of the frontier, mus
tered into United States service, July
Is, 1867.
Vote upon amending constitution:
For striking out the word white, -
10,4S3; against, 1921; for striking
out male" 800; against, 1857, No
vember 5, 1867.
Indian raids in Solomon valley and
along the Republican and Saline
rivers, August, 1863
Gov. Crawford calls for the organi-
zation of cavalry regiment, the
Nineteenth Kansas, for Indian serv-
ice, October 10, 1868.
Col. George A. Forsyth engages in
an eight-day fight with Indians on the
north fork of the Republican river,
September II, 1868.
Eight million acres of the Usage di-
minished reserve lands opened by
congress to settlement, April 10, 1869.
Indian raids on the Republican
river, May 81, 1869.
Fifteenth amendment to the consti-
tuition of the United States ratified by
Kansas, January 10, 1870.
Legislature adjourns after ratifying
the Fifteenth amendment to the con-
stitution of the United States, March
3, 1870.
Drought and grasshoppers cause
great destruction in portions of Kan
sas, July and August, 1874
Great injury to crops by grasshop-
pers, May Is, 1875.
State relief committee report that
they had received from all sources
and distributed in Kansas $73, S63.47
in cash, 265 car loads and II ,049 pack
ages, the last two items valued at
$751; PAS in cash, June "a, 1875.
Incorporation of the state historical
society, December Is, 1875.
Kansas fruit awarded the first pre-
MUM at the Centennial exposition
Philadelphia, and her agricultural
products attract national attention
October, 1876.
Monument of John Brown dedicated
at Osawatomie, August 80. 1877.
State insane asylum, Topeka, opened
June 1, 1879.
Site purchased for state reform
school, Topeka, Kan, June so, 1880.
.Greenback labor party in conven-
ton at Topeka dominates H. v. Vroo-
man for governor, July %, 1880.
State election: Vote upon adding to
the constitution ''the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors shall be
forever prohibited in the state except
for medical, scientific and mechanical
purposes" ,302 votes for. 84,304
against, and the decision was left to
the supreme court. November, 1880.
immigration of colored people con-
tinues through the year: at its close
there were 10000 colored immigrants
in Kansas, 1880.
Supreme court decides the prohibit
tory amendment valid; legislature at
tempts to strengthen it by additional
legislation, February, 1881.
State reform school for boys, To-
peka, opened June 1, 1881.
State asylum for idiotic and imbe-
cile youth, opened at Lawrence IRE
moved to Winfield March, 1850, Sep
TENDER 1, 1881.
Col. N. S. Goss ships his collection
of birds from Neosho Falls to the cap
itol, August, 1882.
George w. Click, democrat, elected
! governor; remaining state officers and
400 Homeleas ut Ottawa.