Population of Minnesota, in 1849, 90; increase of, in Gorman’s administration, 120; in 1860, 175; in 1865, 252; in 1870, 269; in 1875 and 1880, 307; in 1880 and 1885, 333; in 1905, 364; 1850 to 1905, 365; of the Twin Cities, 1905, 364. Porter, Edward A., conceives school of agriculture, 354. Prairie du Chien supply station, 32; garrisoned, 55. Presbyterian church at Fort Snelling, 67. Prescott, Philander, teaches in agricultural school at Lake Calhoun (1839), 67. Primary elections, 342. Prohibitory liquor law, 91. Public examiner, office created (1878), 314. Public lands, grants of, 135; grants for railroads, 143. Public Library Commission, 363. Quebec act, the, 37. Quinn, Peter, killed by Sioux, 201. Radisson, _see_ Groseilliers. Radisson manuscript discovered, 9. “Ragnarök,” by Ignatius Donnelly, 318. Railroad excursion of 1854, 121. Railroads, land grant of 1857, 143; four companies chartered (1857), 143; five million loan for, 155; the four land grant companies of 1857, 161; loan of credit to the four companies, 162; special Minnesota state railroad bonds, 162; work stops, 164; work of the four companies, 165; special bonds not regarded as state obligations, 164; banking on special bonds, 166; special bonds repudiated, 173; the four companies revived, 173; they default, 173; they give up, 174; four new companies chartered, 174; mileage, 174, 175, 271, 307, 360; beginnings of construction, 175; extension in late ’60’s, 255; extensions in ’70’s, 270; extend cultivation, 272; welcomed, 276; multiply new towns, 272; extortion and discrimination, 276; ignore legislation, 280; state commissioner appointed, 280; debts of 1873, 281; evade taxes, 281; reports of slight service, 281; slight construction, 282; finances in 1873, 282; failure of companies (1873), 282; litigate right to regulate, 282; state board of commissioners created (1874), 283; elective commissioner (1875), 284; grants and gifts, 291; law of 1885, 335; competition of Canadian, 362.