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UNITED STATES : — KANSAS

Of the total population in 1910, 135,190 were foreign-born : 34,506 German, 13,309 Swedish, 11,256 English, 8,100 Irish, 15,311 Russian, and 7,140 Canadian.

The cities of the State with estimated population in 1 920 are : —

-

Pop.

101,177

72,128 50,022 23,298

Pop.

Pop.

Kansas City. Wichita Topeka(Capital) Hutchinson.

Leavenworth Pittsburg Coffeyviile. Atchison

16,901 18,052 13,452 12,630

Parsons Independence Lawrence Salina.

16,023 11,920 12,456 15,085

Of the total population in 1910, 29 2 per cent, was urban.

The most numerous religious bodies are Method ist, or various denomina- tions, others (in order of rank) being Roman Catholic, Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Presbyterian, and Friends.

In 1920 the 8,707 public elementary schools had 10,000 teachers, 348,154 enrolled pupils; 650 public high schools had 4,000 teachers and 58,729 pupils. Teachers are trained in three public normal schools, which in 1920 had 232 teachers and 7,314 students. Expenditure in 1918, 17,102,644 dollars.

For higher instruction are (1919): —

Founded

Institution

Control

Professors

Students

1866 1863 1858 1896 1865 1S65

University of Kansas, Lawrence Agricultural College, Manhattan Baker University, Baldwin. . Kansas City University ....

Ottawa University

Washburn College, Topeka

State.

M.'k..

M. Prot. .

Bapt. Con*.

292

212

"30

15

22

40

8,915

2,171

411

175 186 840

On January 1, 1910, the number of persons in almshouses was 735, being 43 "5 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal institutions 1,537, being 909 per 100,000 of the population.

Finance-— For the year ending June and disbursements were : —

Cash Balance, July 1, 1918. Receipts, 1918-19.

Total.

Disbursements, 1918-19

80, 1919, the total receipts

Dollars 175,615 5,784,683

5,960,298 5,605,707

454,591

Balance, July 1, 1919

The State had no bonded debt in 1919 ; the assessed valuation of real and personal property was 3,437,541,808 dollais.

Production and Industry— Kansas is pre-eminently agricultural, but uffers from lack ot rainfall in the west. In 1910 there were 177,841 farms