Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-06-02
A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF KANSAS.
All Important Events Territorial State Life from May
1854 to May &c. 1904

Quantrell with 800 men dashes into
the streets Of Lawrence ut daylight
and kills about 200 men. August q
1868.
Massacre at Baxter Springs. Kan.
Of so men, the cavalry escort OF Gen.
Blunt, by Quantrell and 600 guerrillas
October G, 1869.
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, 1920; colored, H.
527: Indian, 3S2; May, 1865.
Kansas furnishes for the war 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 100000
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 l. 1861 located at Olathe, Febru-
airy 10. 1866.
State university opened for instruc-
ton. Lawrence. September -. 1866.
| Nnrtbaru Kansas n,arr,,y, nth
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 30, 1867.
Eighteenth Kansas cavalry raised
for the protection of the frontier, mus
tered into United States service, July
10. 1867.
Vote upon amending constitution:
For striking out the word white"
1O,4S3; against. 1921: for striking
out male" 900; against, 1887, No
vember 5, 1867
Indian raids in Solomon valley and
along the Republican and Saline
rivers, August, 1868.
Gov. Crawford calls for the organl-
cation of a 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. 1863.
Eight million acres of the Usage d.
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 S73,S63.47
in cash. 265 car loads and 1.049 pack
ages. the last two items valued at
$751; 45 in cash, June "a. 1875.
Incorporation of the state historical
society, December Is. 1876.
Kansas fruit awarded the first pre-
MUM at the Centennial exposition.
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 80. 1880.
Greenback labor party in conven-
ion at Topeka dominates II. V. Vroo-
nan for governor. July IS. 1880.
State election: Vote upon adding to
he constitution "the manufacture and
'ale of intoxicating liquors shall be
brewer prohibited in the state except
or medical. scientific and mechanical
purposes 1902 votes for S4,3Of
gainst. and the decision was left to I
he supreme court. November. $780,
immigration of colored people con-
inues through the year: at it's close
here were 10000 colored immigrants
n Kansas, 1880.
Supreme court decides the prohibit
DRY amendment valid; legislature at
empts to strengthen it by additional
egislation. February, 1881.
State reform school for boys, To- 9
eka. opened June /, 1881.
State asylum for idiotic and imbe- '
lie youth. opened at Lawrence (re- {
moved TO Winfield March. 1881, Sep I
amber 1, 1881.
Col. N. S. Goss ships his collection J
I birds from Neosho Falls to the cap
ol. August. 1882. b
George w. Click, democrat, elected
overnor; remaining state officers and s