Kahoka.-The judicial seat of Clark County, a city of the fourth class, located near the center of the county, on the Keokuk & Western Railroad, twenty miles west of Keokuk, Iowa, and 203 miles from St. Louis. It was laid out in 1851, by W. W. Johnson, Moses Clawson and Miller C. Duer. It is a delightfully located town, has well graded streets, which are lighted by electric lights, a fine courthouse, built in 1872, at a cost of $21,000, an opera hall, Masonic hall, Baptist, Christian, Catholic, Congregational, German Evangelical, Cumberland Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal (North and South), and Presbyterian Churches. It also has a high school, college, three banks, three newspapers, the "Review," "Gazette Herald" and "Courier," a flouring mill, canning factory, two grain elevators, brick yard, three hotels and about seventy business houses, including lumber and coal yards, marble shops, well stocked stores in the various lines of trade, and shops, large and small. Fire has visited Kahoka at three different times, one of the most disastrous being on March 15, 1900, when a loss of $25,000 was caused. Population in 1899 (estimated), 2,500.

Kain, John Joseph, Roman Catholic archbishop, was born May 31, 1841, in Martinsburg, in what is now the State of West Virginia. His early education was obtained at Martinsburg Academy. In 1857 he matriculated in St. Charles College, and graduated in 1862. He then completed a course of philosophical and theological study at St. Mary's Seminary, of Baltimore, and July 2, 1866, was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Spalding. Soon after, he was assigned to the pastorate of the Catholic Church at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, and remained there nine years. During a portion of this time he was also engaged in missionary work, in four counties of Virginia and eight counties of West Virginia. In 1875 he was nominated bishop of Wheeling, and May 23d following he was consecrated by Archbishop James R. Bayley, the sermon being preached by Right Rev. James Gib

bons. The diocese of which Bishop Kain took charge extended from the southern boundary of Pennsylvania, to the northern boundary of Tennessee, and during the eighteen years that he filled this episcopate, he traveled over the diocese many times, ministering to a Roman Catholic population of more than twenty thousand souls. In 1893 he was raised to the dignity of an archiepiscopate and transferred to St. Louis as coadjutor to Archbishop Kenrick. A few months after, Rome made him administrator of the archdiocese, and in 1895 he was made archbishop of St. Louis. Since then he has held a diocesan synod, at which was enacted ecclesiastical legislation in harmony with that of the plenary council of Baltimore. Long disputed questions of parish boundaries in St. Louis have been settled under his supervision, and in his administration of the affairs of the archdiocese he has proven himself an eminently capable church official. He purchased the site for the new cathedral in St. Louis, and has already erected a chapel and a residence for the clergy. This purchase includes four acres of ground and the site is a most eligible one for the projected edifice.

Kane, William B., banker and mineoperator, was born August 19, 1852, in Rockland County, New York, of Irish ancestry. He came to Missouri in 1868, and was occupied for several years in various railway positions. His first service was as train dispatcher on the Missouri Pacific road, which he left to enter the employ of the old Atlantic & Pacific road, now the St. Louis & San Francisco road. His most important railway engagement was with the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, where he developed qualities of the highest order. He filled the various positions of cashier, traindispatcher, superintendent of telegraphs, superintendent, purchasing agent, and paymaster. During the contest with the Santa Fe Railway for the possession of the Royal Gorge, he commanded the force of employes of his line, and secured the location. Upon