The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-02

and his early education was such as
he secured in the public schools. Later
he taught school for three or four
years and read law during spare mo-
ments in the Office of Lewis Chamber
lain. He was admitted TO the Indiana
bar in 1851, and was soon thereafter
elected district attorney Of Miami and
I Cas- counties.
When President Lincoln called for
volunteers in 1851 he raised and re-
cruited company D. Forty sixth Indi-
ana infantry volunteers. and was APP
/ pointed captain OF his company by
| Governor Morton He served along
! the Mississippi river states until he
was honorably discha rged in 1862 on
account of disability contracted in the
service. This did not end his war
/ career, however. When Morgan in
Ivaded Indiana in 1864 Governor Nor
4 ton telegraphed him to raise such vol
unteers as he could for the defense Of
the state Thirteen hours after he re-
ceived the dispatch Captain Guthrie
had mustered 1876 men and had them
/ on board cars and five hours later re-
ported to Governor Morton al In
dianapolis
In 1865 he was unanimously nominal
ted by the Cass county Republican con-
vention for the legislature. Governor
Morton and Schuyler Colfax were can
didates on the same ticket. respective
/ ". for governor and member of con-
gress It was in the days when politi-
/ cal contests we're bitterly waged by the
parties of tIs~r day. Morton and Colfax
carried the state after q hard cam
paign but Captain Guthrie was defeat
ed in his county.
Judge Guthrie was professor in medi-
! cal jurisprudence of the Kansas Medt-
cal college for three years.
Shortly after he came to Kansas be
/ became associated with c. X Holiday.
Judge Stafford. D. L. Lakin and 9TH
ers in building the Santa Fe railroad
| to Kansas City and in the southwest.
Guthrie, Ok, was so named in his
homer
In 1876 Judge Guthrie served on the
commission appointed to select a site
for the federal building in Topeka In
1896. or 20 years after. he was ap-
pointed to be postmaster in the build
ing he had helped to locate
Judge Guthrie crossed the Kansas
river and came into Topeka on a bron-
| co pony and his first Introduction to the
town was al the Capital hotel which
was formerly located on Sixth avenue
on the site of the present Colum bian
building He says:
This frontier caravansary was kept
by John Wilson. q splendid type of
western hospitality and courage. The
stage coaches left the n0tel every morn
ing about o'clock with the mail and
passengers for Kansas City. Leaven-
| worth, Atchisen, Fort Riley. Holton,
Council Grove and Emporia. and in the
evening other coaches arrived at To-
Deka from THESE NaIlOuS pOltlto
The hotel was full to overlooking and I
slept the first night on a cot in the sitting
room of the hotel I had come from my
Indiana home for the purpose of seeing
what could see in Kansas. My journey
from LoganspoTt by railway and stage
coach required I'VE days time. On my
journey from my home to Topeka l cross
ed the Mississippi river at Quincy on a
ferry boat and took passage on the Hanni-
bal and St. Joseph railroad for St. Joseph,
Mo. The ravaRes and waste of war made
wreck of the railroad. I crossed the
Missouri river at Atchison on the ferry
/ boat s. c. PomeroFs My mind was then
| filled with the scenes OF the heroic strug-
giles of the people of Kansas for their
/ homes with the border ruffians for 1--WE
long years before the war and four years
more OF border warfare. AS I stepped on.
/ to the consecrated soil OF Kansas on the
evening Of that day. T felt a thrill OF
pleasure that only belongs to ambitious
youth I had learned the story " Johr
Brown. James H Lane, s c. Pomeroy
James Montgomery. General Blunt, Col
one1 Jennison and others and to my mind
Kansas was the cradle Of new and bet
ter civilization.