184 QUIVIEA IIISTOIUCALc SOCIETY.. 1- erable research has been made; the opening of Indian graves and mounds, and finding therein many stone implements, such as arro-w-heads, knives, scrapers, spear-heads, tomahawks, mill-stones, axes, hammers, etc., all of flhit; also bones of birds, and shell beads, shell ornaments, pottery, bone fish hooks, all of these articles in plenty. Illustrations of these being given in J. V. Brower's book. There are other persons who ought to receive the credit due them for their ear- nestness and devotion in assisting to unravel the his- tory of the early, settlers of the State of Kansas. The Griffin sites on Wild Oat creek in RUey "aounty; Keagy-Schmidt-Palenske siteis on Mill creek, Wabaun- see county; Henderson's, site on Smoky HUl river, also an Udder site; these delving gentlemen with many others too numerous to mention here, and also particularly Professors Mudge and Goodnow of tJie Kansas State Agricultural CoUege, deserve to have their names go down to posterity for banding them- selves together and perfecting the Quivira Historical Society. The people of our State ought to be in- formed of the interest taken by the progressive and scholarly gentlemen of Riley county, who so inter- ested themselves in doing something substantial that they raised funds which to erect a beautiful marble monument to perpetuate the remarkable historical event of the thirty-six Spaniards being where Man- hattan is now located 867 years ago. Stress is put upon the fact of this block of stone as it will impress the reader of the truth of this story. The follow- ing is what is engraved on the tablet: ,'".., .
