The History of Kansas City: Together with a Sketch of the Commercial Resources of the Country with which it is SurroundedBirdsall & Miller, 1881 - 264 strani |
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Addition April Atchison August avenue Bank barges became began Blue Mills Bluffs Board of Trade building built bushels cattle cents charter Chicago Chouteau church Colorado commerce committee Congress cost Council Bluffs east elected enterprise established EVENTS OF 1877 Fort Osage Fort Scott free-state freight Galveston grain Hannibal Hannibal & St held hundred improvement increased interest Jackson county January John Joseph Railroad July June Kansas City Kansas Pacific Kansas River Kaw River Kersey Coates land Lawrence Leavenworth located Louis March meeting Messrs Mexico miles Mississippi Missouri Pacific Missouri River Missouri Valley mountains Nebraska officers Olathe Pacific Railroad party pastor population present President quarter Sec R. T. Van Horn railway road route Santa Fe trade Scott Secretary secured settlement soon southern spring Sub-division Texas thousand dollars Topeka town transportation Treasurer Union Pacific western Westport Wyandotte
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Stran 43 - That the Constitution and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Stran 43 - March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate...
Stran 43 - ... measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to revive or put in force any law or regulation which may have existed prior to the act...
Stran 21 - Walnut streets along down on the west side of the deep ravine toward the river, across the public square, to the river at the foot of Grand Avenue; a narrow, difficult path, barely wide enough for a single horseman, running up and down the river under the bluffs, winding its crooked way around fallen timber and deep ravines; an old log house on the river bank, occupied by a lank, cadaverous specimen of humanity named Ellis, with one blind eye and the other on a sharp lookout for stray horses, straggling...
Stran 161 - By 1870, however, production began to exceed the local demand, and that year the railroads took small amounts of grain to the eastern markets. Perceiving this fact, the people, in the latter part of 1870 and the early part of 1871, began to agitate the establishment of a grain market. The spring of the year 1871 gave promises of a good yield of all kinds of grain ; and the press opened on the subject again. Its agitation caused the Board of Trade to take it up and discuss it. THE FIRST ELEVATOR —...
Stran 62 - The business consisted solely of the Santa Fe shipping trade and the like business for the annual trains of the mountain men and Indian traders. The local trade was carried on principally with the Wyandotte Indians, and the people living in the classic shades of
Stran 63 - August a second with like capital; insurance offices that do a larger business than any institution of the kind in the upper country; a city treasury able by the present assessment to pay every dollar held against it ; private bankers that have their drafts honored in any city of the Union or Europe, and a solid and substantial mercantile credit from Boston to New Orleans.
Stran 244 - ... surface has been broken up and holds more of the rains than formerly. During the same period modifying influences have been put in motion in Montana, Utah, and Colorado. Very small areas of timbered land west of the Missouri have been cleared ; not equal, perhaps, to the area of forest, orchard, and vineyards planted.
Stran 244 - Facts such as these seem to sustain the popular persuasion in Kansas, that a climatic change is taking place, promoted by the spread of settlements westwardly ; breaking up portions of the...
Stran 5 - They were a very sociable people — they had their innocent balls and dances, especially in winter. They got up their social assemblies on a novel but simple plan of their own. A select committee waited upon some settler and informed him that a dancing party would visit his place on a certain evening. The party waited upon was reminded that his friends expected that he would have the indispensable pot de Bouillon prepared for his guests ; but what was this pot de Bouillon ? It was a rich, palatable...