The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-06
HISTORIANS DAY.
State Historical Society in Session This
Afternoon.

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| The annual meeting of the State
Historical society is being held in
Representative hall in the state house
this afternoon and evening. 1t is the
twenty-ninth annual meeting.
The present officers of the society
i are: President, Judge John Martin.
of Topeka; first vice president. Rob
ert NJ. Wright, of Dodge City; second
vice president, Horace L. Moore. of
Lawrence; treasurer, Judge John
Guthrie, of Topeka; secretary, Geo.
w. Martin, of Topeka.
The first thing this afternoon a
meeting of the directors of the society
was held for the transaction of bust
ness The meetings of the society are
open to the pubic. The programme
for the afternoon and evening sessions
is as follows:
AFTERNOON MEETING.
General business.
1.-The Alliance Movement in Kansas
with Relation to the Origin of the
Peoples Party" w. F. Rightmire, of
Topeka.
"PonzigIione." S. w. Brewster. of
Chanute.
''The Saline River Country in 1852"
]. R. Mead, of Wichita
1.-THE Victory of the Plow," w. D.
Street, of Oberlin-
EVENING MEETING, 1880.
Invocation, Rev. H. D. Fisher, D. D.
Election of SO members of the
board of directors.
Early Navigation of the Missouri
River-Rise and Fall of Steamboat
ing Phil E. Chappell, of Kansas City,
Mo.
twas the English Bill a Bribe?"
Charles Harker Rhodes, of yelling
ton.
Samuel "A Kingman," Joseph G.
Waters, of Topeka.
On the adjournment of the annual
meeting, the board or directors will
pn n officers
the ensuing year.
Secretary Martin either has on hand
the following historical papers or they
have been promised him:
The Administration of John P. St
John, by I. o. Pickering.
The Administration CT George w.
Click.
The administration of John w.
Leedy, by Ed c. Little.
Navigation of the Kansas River, by
Albert R. Greene.
The Railroad Convention of 1860, by
George w. Click.
Twentieth Kansas Boys Killed in
Battle, by Joseph G. Waters Of To-
peka.
The Story of a Wheat Field in 1875.
by 7. c. Henry.
Oregon Emigration Through Kansas
Sixty Years Ago.
The Story of the Eleventh Kansas
Regiment, by S. II. Fairfield.
Border War-When, Where? by H.
E. Palmer of Omaha.
Fort Zarah, by Julia A. Chase.
"Reminiscences of the Indian War
of 1868, by Ben Jenness.
Bushwhacker Raids on Gardner. by
Stephen ]. Wilson.
Voting for Lincoln in Missouri in
1860. by d. P. Hougland of Olathe.
A Southerner at the Battle of Frank
lin, Kan, 1856, by F. H. Sapp.
Battle of Shiloh, by Leander Still
well of Erie.
A Trip to Santa Fe seventy-seven
Years Ago, by Milton E. Bryan.
Kaw and Kansas Monograph, by
Robert Hay.
Experience in 1855 and 1856 in
Kansas. by r. NJ. Ainsworth.
The Drought of 1860. by George w.
Click.
Pioneer City Observation-Disclosures
James Smith and Thomas Allen Gull
Imam.
The Cheyenne Raid Of 1868, by John
Madden.
John Brown Never in Breckinridge
County, Kansas Territory, by w. E.
Connelley.
E. A Ogden's Letter to Joseph Lane
in 1853, Suggesting Present Lines of
Road to Oregon.
Semicentennial Addresses of Will
liam H. Taft. secretary of war; Willis
Peck and George w. Martin, at To-
peka and Lawrence.
Incidents of the Retreat of QUAINT
rill from Lawrence, by Albert r.
Greene.
Samuel ]. Crawford, third governor
ised a paper on the claims of Kansas
against the general government, and
also a general historical paper of a |
military and political nature.