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The Kansas adjutant general at Parsons sends a telegram to Governor John Martin of Topeka asking the governor for permission to furnish the mayor of Parsons with one hundred guns to preserve peace in the city. A strike of railroad workers on the Missouri Pacific Railroad at Parsons led company and city officials to ask the governor to arm citizens and for call out the militia.
Creator: Campbell, A. B.
Date: April 4, 1886
Item Number: 211993
Call Number: Governor's Office, Martin, Correspondence, Box 29, Folder 6
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211993
Business and Industry - Labor - Strikes
Business and Industry - Labor - Unions
Business and Industry - Railroad
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Martin, John Alexander
Community Life - Community services - Police and other law enforcement
Date - 1880s - 1886
Government and Politics - Local Government - County
Government and Politics - Local Government - Municipal - Mayor
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Martin, John Alexander
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Adjutant General
Military - Service - Militias
People - Notable Kansans - Martin, John Alexander, 1839-1889
Places - Cities and towns - Parsons
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Labette
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Railroads
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Telegrams
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