Kansas entered the union on Jan. 29, 1861, without a satisfactory liquor law and temperance advocates were not happy that the liquor problem was left unsolved by the new state constitution. Civil War soldiers were coming into Kansas and new settlers were arriving daily, along with the saloon keeper, the gambler, and the prostitute.
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