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KEAN, CHARLES J. 



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and Galveston road is completed and in opera- 

 tion to Ottawa in Franklin County, and is in 

 process of construction from Ottawa to Gar- 

 nett in Anderson County. The Missouri River, 

 Fort Scott, and Gulf Railroad has been put in 

 operation for a distance of 30 miles, and the 

 work of construction is now going on between 

 Olathe and Paola. The St. Joseph and Denver 

 City Railway Company have completed that 

 portion of their road running from Ellwood 

 to Troy, in Doniphan County, a distance of 

 fifteen miles, and are making arrangements for 

 a further prosecution of the work. The Union 

 Pacific Railroad, Southern Branch, is in process 

 of construction from Junction City to Council 

 Grove, and contracts have been entered into to 

 carry it on to the southern boundary of the 

 State. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe 

 road is also under contract, and the work is 

 going on between Topeka and Burlingame. 

 Arrangements have been made for building a 

 railroad from Leavenworth to Atchison, as 

 also from Atchison to White Cloud. This 

 latter will form a part of the Atchison and 

 Nebraska City Railroad. Besides these, there 

 are several other projected lines, the construc- 

 tion of which will undoubtedly be undertaken 

 within a brief period. Among these may be 

 mentioned the Sedalia, Fort Scott, and Santa 

 Fe Railroad ; the Lawrence and Pleasant Hill 

 road ; the Lawrence, Oscaloosa, and Atchison ; 

 a road from Waterville to Salina; one from 

 Ellsworth to the Arkansas valley, and thence 

 to Mexico ; and a line from Waterville to Hays 

 City. Some of these lines of railway receive 

 aid from the U. S. Government, and all are 

 liberally encouraged by the Legislature of the 

 State. 



Kansas bore the brunt of the Indian war 

 through the summer and fall, and most of the 

 atrocities and outrages committed upon set- 

 tlers occurred in this State. Between 80 and 

 100 persons were murdered by the savages, 

 and the people were thoroughly aroused to a 

 spirit of deadly hostility to the red man. A 

 battalion of militia was called into service by 

 Governor Crawford on the 14th of September, 

 and a regiment of volunteers raised and their 

 services tendered to the commander of the 

 Military Division of the Missouri, ,Most of the 

 engagements with the Indians took place in 

 this State. (See INDIAN WAE.) 



A treaty was made in the latter part of 

 May, which extinguished the title of the nation 

 of Great and Little Osage Indians to all lands 

 heretofore held by them in Kansas, and pro- 

 vided for their removal to reservations in the 

 Indian Territory to the south of the State. 

 These lands had become of little value to the 

 Indians, on account of the exhaustion of the 

 supply of game, while the settlements of the 

 whites were pressing over their boundaries on 

 all sides. The peace commissioners met the 

 chiefs and medicine men of the tribes, and, after 

 along "talk, "induced them to give up their 

 lands and turn their faces to the south. Much 

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dissatisfaction with this treaty was expressed 

 both by the Indians and by whites who spoke 

 in their behalf, and a protest against its ratifi- 

 cation was presented at Washington. It still 

 awaits the action of the Senate, but the re- 

 moval of the Osages to the southern reserva- 

 tion has been begun. 



The Republicans and Democrats held con- 

 ventions, at which the principles of the respec- 

 tive parties were reiterated and the candidates 

 of the National Conventions indorsed. Candi- 

 dates were put into the field for various State 

 offices and for presidential electors. The 

 Democratic Convention met at Topeka oh the 

 29th of July, and nominated George W. Glick 

 for Governor, and Colonel Maxwell McCaslin 

 for Lieutenant-Governor. The Republican 

 Convention assembled on the 8th of September, 

 and nominated J. M. Harvey for Governor, 

 and C. Y. Eskridge for Lieutenant-Governor. 

 There is but one congressional district in Kan- 

 sas, and to represent that the Democrats nom- 

 inated C. W. Blair, while the Republicans put 

 up Sidney Clarke for reelection. The State 

 election occurred on the same day with that 

 for the choice of presidential electors, and re- 

 sulted in the election of Harvey by a majority 

 of 15,590. The whole vote was 40,600; Har- 

 vey received 29,895, and Glick 13,809. The 

 entire vote for President was 43,649, of which 

 Grant received 30,228, and Seymour 13,620. 

 Sidney Clarke was reflected to Congress by a 

 majority of 15,355 out of a vote of 43,293. 



The Legislature of 1869 is constituted as 

 follows : 



Senate. 



Eepublicans 24 



Democrats ... 1 



House. Joint Ballot. 

 84 108 



6 7 



Eepublican majority.. 23 78 101 



KEAN, CHAELES JOHN, F. S. A., F. R. G. S., 

 an English actor and theatrical manager, who 

 was also an accomplished archa3ologist and art 

 connoisseur, born at Waterford, Ireland, Jan- 

 uary 18, 1811 ; died in Chelsea, London, Janu- 

 ary 22, 1868. He was the second but only sur- 

 viving son of the late brilliant but dissolute 

 actor, Edmund Kean, and was not at first des- 

 tined for the stage. After a very thorough 

 early training in preparatory schools, he was 

 sent to Eton in his fourteenth year, where he 

 was an associate of the younger Canning, Dean 

 Alford, and Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the present 

 Prime Minister of England. He remained at 

 Eton nearly three years ; but, the misconduct 

 of his father having led to his mother's sepa- 

 ration from him, young Kean felt it his duty 

 to undertake his mother's support, and, aban- 

 doning for her sake an offer of an East India 

 appointment, he left Eton in July, 1827, and, 

 in October following, accepted an engagement 

 for three years at Drury Lane Theatre. He 

 manifested considerable talent, but did not, at 

 first, give any indications of the possession of 

 his father's genius. He met his father at Glas- 

 gow, in 1828, and they were so far reconciled 

 as to act in the same play. In 1830 he visited 



