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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
possible. The national government appointed A. H. Reeder governor of the new Territory. He arrived in October, 1854, and took measures for the election of a territorial legislature. With the close of this election (March, 1855), the struggle for supremacy in Kansas between the friends and opponents of the slave system began in dead earnest. The pro-slavery men had an overwhelming majority in the legislature, for Missourians had gone over the border by hundreds and voted. When, in November, 1854, a delegate to Congress for Kansas was elected, of nearly 2,900 votes cast, over 1,700 were put in by Missourians who had no right there. At the election of the legislature, there were only 1,410 legal votes in the Territory of Kansas; but there were 6,218 votes polled, mostly illegal ones by Missourians. Fully 1,000 men came from Missouri, armed with deadly weapons, two cannon, tents, and other paraphernalia of war, led by Claiborne F. Jackson, and encamped around the little town of L
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
igned by Joel Palmer and Samuel H. Culver. By this treaty the Indians sell their lands, comprising the whole Rogue River Valley, to the United States for $60,000......Sept. 8, 1853 Pacific University and Tualatin Academy, at Forest Grove, opened in 1848, is chartered......1854 T. J. Dryer and party ascend Mount Hood, and ascertain that it is an expiring volcano still emitting smoke and ashes......August, 1854 Governor Davis resigns, August, 1854; George Law Curry appointed......November, 1854 Volunteer company under J. A. Lupton attack an Indian camp at the mouth of Butte Creek, killing twenty-three and wounding many, early in the morning. Daylight showed that the dead were mostly old men, women, and children......Oct. 8, 1855 In retaliation, the Indians plunder and massacre settlers in the upper Rogue River Valley......Oct. 9, 1855 Astoria chartered......1855 Governor Curry issues a proclamation calling for five companies of volunteers, Oct. 15, and orders all c