| Show the story of our states by JONATHAN BRACE XV KANSAS WAY W AY in back 1541 coronado nado dothe tho spanish explorer ar Is I 1 reputed to have penetrated to a n a a a in t search earch of a mythical wealthy in linn dinn tribe it was not again vis via I 1 ted however by white men until iii nearly arly one hundred and seventy lo live 10 years later when the franch in louisiana sent out an expedition to investigate the remote portions of what was then their territory most of the present state of kansa was wax a part of the louisiana purchase and 0 o passed from french hands to tho the united states in 1803 A email small additional part was later inter added in 1850 being ceded by texas the tile lewis and claric clark party traversed this region in 1804 a and id lieutenant pike passed through kansas kanum two years later kensas history really becomes interesting in the middle of tho the century when hen the slavery agitation gave it the name of bleeding kansas it hau been an unorganized territory since 1821 2821 at aich time it had been considered a portion of the territory 1 0 of f missouri wurl according to tho the missouri compromise if kansas hansas became a state it could not he be a slavery state the opposition of the south was so 80 strong the kansas kensa nebraska braska hill bill was uns paused passed in 1854 making this thu vital question optional with the inhabitants in each proposed state with this law in force the two factions actively started colonizing kansas immigrants from the slave states of arkansas and missouri immediately founded leavenworth Lea renworth the massachusetts emigrant aid society sent out antislavery anti slavery settlers who ulio founded lawrence topeka and other towns Conff conflict lct be these two parties broke out at once and it was only put down donn by the intervention of federal troops tho the northern settlers came in such numbers that they soon were in the majority and in 1861 1801 an antislavery anti antl slavery constitution ution was adopted so kansas was admitted to the union in that year the pol political lUcal dispute over kansas was the cause of the formation of the present republican party Q bt mcclum 6 0 drunkenness Is decreasing rapidly in the tho country the lade lads nut having gone entirely crazy refuse to pay good money for bad liquor A man wae was fined recently for daiv ing 1 hie his unlighted car while ho he was intoxicated lie had it all wrong it ie Is the automobile not the driver that should be lit up the tile silly age Is the time when thoy they think thov they know the moat most some people just drift through life and out at the other end winter and summer aro are passing 1 eaph other on the tile way |
