UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (KENTUCKY.) 



was made for a library for the Normal School, 

 at Emporia, to cost $60,000. The Agricultural 

 College, at Manhattan, was allowed $70,000 with 

 which to build a physics and chemistry building 

 to replace one destroyed by fire. The Quindaro 

 Industrial School, at Wyandotte, for negro 

 youth, was given $13,000 for new buildings. Pro- 

 vision was made for a new cell-room at the State 

 Penitentiary, to cost $2,000, and for a new cell- 

 block for the Boys' Reformatory, at Hutchinson, 

 to cost $15,000. Five thousand dollars was ap- 

 propriated to erect an engine-house and laundry 

 building at the State Industrial School for Girls, 

 at Beloit, to replace one burned down. For the 

 Topeka Insane Asylum $10,000 was appropriated 

 to finish the work on the new administration 

 building, and the asylum at Osawatomie was 

 given $25,000 with which to complete and equip 

 the new hospital. A third asylum for the insane 

 is to be built at Parsons at a cost of $150,000, 

 for which a reappropriation was made. 



Following are some of the more important 

 measures that became laws: 



For the appointment of cattle-brand inspectors. 



Allowing cities of the second class to issue 

 bonds to pay their floating indebtedness. 



Making train-robbing punishable by life im- 

 prisonment. 



Creating a State board of railroad commission- 

 ers, to take the place of the 'old Court of Visita- 

 tion, the bill creating the court having been de- 

 clared unconstitutional. 



Enabling railroad employees to vote wherever 

 they may happen to be, when in line of duty, 

 on Election Day. 



An amendment to the libel law, making it less 

 easy to " hold up " newspapers. 



Prohibiting prize-fights. 



To prefer the wages of employees of defunct 

 corporations. 



Providing for the care of dependent children. 



To establish an experiment station and a 

 branch of the State Normal School on the Fort 

 Hays reservation. 



For a park at Pike's Pawnee village, in Re- 

 public, where Gen. Zebulon Pike, on his pioneer 

 trip through the West, found a Spanish flag fly- 

 ing over an Indian village, took it down, and ran 

 up the Stars and Stripes. 



Prohibiting the sale of opiates except on pre- 

 scription of physicians. 



Providing for the reorganization of the Kansas 

 National Guard. 



A bill known as the " Hurrell law " was passed 

 for the purpose of strengthening prohibition leg- 

 islation by providing for search and seizure of 

 contraband liquor. Many actions were brought 

 under it and convictions secured, particularly in 

 Topeka, where about 100 cases were pending, when 

 Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee district court, de- 

 cided, in December, that the law was unconsti- 

 tutional. 



Provision was made for biennial elections. 



Another election bill that passed is known as 

 the " antifusion " law. It prohibits the appear- 

 ance of any one name in more than one column 

 on the ballot. 



Political. No party conventions were held 

 this year, and the passage of the biennial election 

 law resulted in no general election in the autumn. 

 Elections were held for county commissioner in 

 one district in each county, the result being that 

 the Republicans elected 04 out of the 105. 



In order to determine the legal make-up of the 

 election boards the Secretary of State made an 

 analysis of the vote cast at the general election 

 in 1900, and for the first time it was demonstrated 



to a certainty that the Populist party was the 

 third in numbers in the State. The count showed 

 votes cast by Republicans, 181,893; by Demo- 

 crats, 83,388; by Populists, 81,220. In seven 

 years the Republicans gained 33,190 votes and 

 the Democrats 54,966, while the Populists lost 

 37,904. 



KENTUCKY, a Southern State, admitted to 

 the Union June 1, 1792; area, 44,400 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus since admission, was 220,955 in 1800; 406,511 

 in 1810; 564,135 in 1820; 687,917 in 1830; 779,828 

 in 1840; 982,405 in 1850; 1,155,684 in 1860; 1,321,- 

 011 in 1870; 1,648,690 in 1880; 1,858,635 in 1890; 

 and 2,147,174 in 1900. Capital, Frankfort. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901 : Governor, J. C. W. Beckham ; 

 Secretary of State, C. B. Hill; Treasurer, S. W. 

 Hager; Auditor, G. C. Coulter; Adjutant-General, 

 David R. Murray; Attorney-General, R. C. Breck- 

 inridge, adjudged by the Court of Appeals, Nov. 

 20, not to be entitled to the office by a decision 

 in favor of the contestant, Clifton J. Pratt; Super- 

 intendent of Education, H. V. McChesney; Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture, I. B. Nail; Commis- 

 sioner of Insurance, J. B. Chenault; Chairman 

 of the Railroad Commission, C. C. McChord all 

 Republicans but Pratt; State Inspector, Henry 

 B. Hines; Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, 

 B. L. D. Guffy; Associate Justices, J. D. White, 

 George Du Relle, A. Rollins Burnam, T. H. Payn- 

 ter, J. P. Hobson, Ed. C. O'Rear; Clerk, Samuel 

 J. Shackelford. The clerk and Justices White, 

 Paynter, and Hobson are Democrats; the other 

 justices are Republicans. 



Elections of State officers are held in November 

 of the years next preceding presidential elections. 

 The term of office is four years. The Legislature 

 consists of 38 Senators and 100 Representatives, 

 and meets biennially, the first Tuesday after the 

 first Monday of January in even-numbered years. 



Census Figures. A census bulletin giving the 

 population of the State by sex, nativity, and 

 color shows that there are 1,003,697 males and 

 1,033,228 females, of whom there were foreign 

 born 26,530 males and 23,719 females, and natives- 

 of foreign parentage 67,600 males and 71,157 fe- 

 males. The total negro population was 142,073 

 males and 142,633 females, the native whites of 

 native parents amounting to 854,002 males and 

 819,411 females. 



In Kentucky there were only 54 male Chinese 

 and 3 females, no Japanese, and 52 male and 50 

 female Indians. 



The percentage of the urban population is given 

 as 19.7. 



Finances. The Auditor's report covers the 

 two years ending June 30, 1901. The amount of 

 cash in the Treasury July 1, 1899, was $385,- 

 148.70; on July 1, 1900, it was $570,347.69. The 

 total receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1901, was $4,447,474.51. Of this amount, $1,404,- 

 465.63 Avas placed in the general expenditure fund. 

 This fund, to which 15 cents tax on each $100 

 worth of property goes to defray ordinary ex- 

 penses, is, the Auditor says, inadequate to defray 

 such expenses. The amount paid out during the 

 last fiscal year under the head of general expen- 

 ditures was $2,862,829.94, leaving a deficit in this 

 fund of $1,458,364.31. 



The Auditor estimated the amount that would 

 be on hand Jan. 1, 1902, at about $1,000,000, but 

 that not one dollar of this amount will be in the 

 general expenditure fund under the present law. 



The State paid out during the year for criminal 

 prosecutions $595,692.30; for salaries to circuit 

 judges and attorneys, $123,821.08; for charity, the 



