Evening Ledger Chronicles Kansas Politics and Notables
The Kansas political scene features reappointment news from Topeka and Topeka’s Cooperatives, with Senatorial and State official outcomes. appointments include General Blair as Missouri Insurance Superintendent, Col Anthony as US Attorney, and Caleb Cushing considered Chief Justice. Legislature faces session shifts, officers elected, and gubernatorial recommendations urge constitutional revision and immigration support.
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Caleb Cushing
Senate
Williams
Cushing
Spain
House appoints assistants amid protest over favoritism
The assembly elected six assistants including B B Kennedy as Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms and Miss E Bristol as Snrolling Clerk after debate over a perceived undue advantage. The move followed a motion withdrawn by Mr Anthony, with the House informing the Senate it was ready for business.
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J.C. Mosley
Matheny
Me. Matheny
Col
D. B. Anthony
Tlork
Funston
Anthony
B. B. Kennedy
Bristol
Humboldt
Snrolling
Fowler
Qatrander
Brown
McWirter
Flia
Salary Bill Sparks Congressional Reform Tinkering
A long dispute over a salary bill prompts both houses to push amendments. Senator Conkling’s substitute passes in both chambers, repealing increased pay for public officers except the President and Supreme Court Justices and restoring pay rules as of the old act. The measure now goes to the President for approval.
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Congress
Conkling
Senate
House
United States
Supreme Court
Local drive urged to start manufacturing to keep wealth home
The author urges residents to form stock companies and start local manufacturing of plows wheels and farming equipment. He argues this would keep hundreds of thousands of dollars from leaving the state, benefiting Allen county. A small Yola factory could grow in five years, if farmers sustain it, embodying the idea that every tub should stand on its own bottom.
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Illinois
Yola
Allen County
The Coal Question in Iola and County Prospects
The article argues for tapping eastern county coal deposits to fuel local industry. It notes abundant, often inferior surface coal but potential to upgrade with investment. It urges building a two horse railroad, promoting public spirit, and predicts a prospering, bustling town if fuel and rail access are developed.
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Fort Scott
Thayer
Iola
Anti
Keep It At Home and Build Local Manufacturing
The article argues for limiting railroads and common carriers to reasonable rates and stresses that cheap transportation benefits consumers but may not solve West needs alone. It urges keeping money at home by developing domestic manufacture, reducing East imports, and using local raw materials where possible to boost regional wealth and independence.
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Seaboard
Congress
Register
New York
Boston
Minstrel notes from Port Lasp 1874 travel diary
Meusho Valley Register chronicles a Portland to Puget Sound journey via Kalama and Tacoma. The writer recalls springlike weather, returns to Albany, and sketches the North Pacific Railroad terminus debate in Washington Territory. The piece notes travel details and early rail plans through Puget Sound.
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Port Lasp
Oregon
Meusho Valley Register
Iola
Portland
Newberry
Albany
Washington Territory
North Pacific Railroad
Puget Sound
Kalama
Mount Via
P. BR
Sound
Tacoma
Pioneer's Observations on Washington Territory and Oregon
The writer catalogs Tacoma Seattle and Olympia growth, rail prospects, and climate. He notes crooked town plats around Tacoma, Seattle as the best Sound town, Oregon wheat yields, Portland living costs, and a cautious outlook on Washington Territory’s development including lumber, farming, and misgivings about rapid growth. He comments on weather from November to December and signs off from Portland with a weather note and address.
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Boston
Lota
Cacuma
Chicago
St. Louis
Seattle
Tacoma
Anchorage
Commencement Bay
Olympia
Sound
Oregon
California
Washington Territory
Kalama
Cascade Mountains
Walla-Walla Country
Columbia
Cascades
Upper
Lower
Linn County
Peesee
Portland
Bills Introduced by the Kansas Delegation in Congress
Col Cobb pushes a bill to restore weekly newspapers to free transmission in county walls and adjust postal laws. Col Phillips files three bills on Osage improvements compensation, railroad land taxation, and settlers’ titles against railroad claims. Judge Lowe seeks to invalidate preemption on railroad grant lands in Kansas for routes located before withdrawal from market.
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Col. Cobb
Col. Phillips
United States
Kansas
Judge Lowe
Congress
State of
Interior
Provisions on Patents and Pacific Railway Freight Rules
The act quotes provision for payments due after proper time elapses and requires a year's grace from passage for payment. In Senate, Mr In galls introduced a resolution on carrying freights and passengers on the Pacific KR E and its branches, Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific. The measure mandates joint carriage at same rates as similar traffic between Omaha and other points.
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Senate
Ingalls
Ehosh
Pacific KR. E
Kansas Pacific
Denver Pacific
Sale Notice in Allen County Kansas Foreclosure
State of Kansas Allen County. By virtue of an executive issued by the Clerk of the court on January 10 1874 I levied on January 10 1874 upon lot number one in block number fifty nine appraised at five hundred dollars in the city of Tule Allen County Kansas property of William Buchanan defendant. On February 17 1874 at public auction I will offer the described real estate for sale to satisfy the debt of William Buchanan to the plaintiff in cash. Dated January 12 1874.
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Kansas
Allens
G. W. Apple
Pins
William Buchapan
E. A. Howes
Buchsung & Howes
Asia Uurt
Tule
Reviel
Ewid
Lule
Lesbuve
Aucius
Subellali Tuerigo Tile Sud
Hhe
Willem Lucuanan
Defendeuj
Suid Res
Raven
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