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The United States enjoys 26 '2 per cent, of 

 the total foreign trade of Japan, amounting to 

 $16,434,954, or 11*4 per cent, of the import 

 trade, amounting to $3,187,114. In receiving 

 exports from Japan, the United States leads 

 with 38-1 per cent. ; France coming next, with 

 28-0 per cent. Our imports into Japan last year, 



1884, were: Kerosene-oil, $2,456,260 ; provis- 

 ions, $159,659 ; clocks and watches, $138,T63 ; 

 machinery, $31,521 ; leather, $56,652 ; canvas 

 and duck, $22,921. Thirty-nine firms and 478 

 residents in Japan are American. Ninety-tw:) 

 American ships entered Japanese ports in 1883. 

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KAIRINE. See DRUGS, NEW. 



KANSAS. State GovernmentThe State offi- 

 cers during the year were the following : Gov- 

 ernor, George W. Glick, Democrat ; Lieuten- 

 ant - Governor, D. W. Finney; Secretary of 

 State, James Smith; Treasurer, Samuel T. 

 Howe ; Auditor, E. P. McCabe ; Attorney- 

 General, W. A. Johnston ; Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, H. 0. Speer; Insurance 

 Commissioner, R. B. Morris; Railroad Com- 

 missioners, Henry Hopkins, James Humphrey, 

 and L. L. Turner. Judiciary, Supreme Court : 

 Chief- Justice, Albert H. Horton ; Associate 

 Justices, Daniel M. Valentine and David J. 

 Brewer, the latter succeeded by T. A. Hurd. 



Growth and Present Condition. Reviewing the 

 history of the State since its admission, the 

 Governor, in his message to the Legislature of 

 1885, gives some statistics that indicate its 

 growth. The thirty-one counties organized 

 at the date of its admission have increased 

 to eighty-two, and the population of the State, 

 then but little in excess of 100,000, is now 

 fully a million and a quarter. Then, only 406,- 

 468 acres of its area of productive soil were 

 under cultivation, and the leading crop-prod- 

 ucts of the State aggregated only 194,173 bush- 

 els of wheat and 6,150,727 bushels of corn. 

 During the year just closed, 9,458,737 acres 

 were under cultivation, and the leading cereal 

 products of the State aggregated 48,050,431 

 bushels of wheat and 190,870,686 bushels of 

 corn. In January, 1861, the assessed value of 

 the property of the State aggregated only 

 $24,774,333; now it aggregates $237,020,391. 

 Then, there was not a mile of railway within 

 the boundaries of Kansas; now, there are 

 4,486-50 miles in operation ; the assessed value 

 of these roads is $28,455,906.86 ; and sixty- 

 nine of the eighty-two organized and four of 

 the thirteen unorganized counties of the State 

 are traversed by one or more lines of railway. 

 In 1861 the live-stock of the State comprised 

 only 20,344 horses, 1,496 mules, 93,463 cattle, 

 138,294 swine, and 17,569 sheep a total of 

 271,166 head. Now, there are in Kansas 461,- 

 136 horses, 64,889 mules, 1,858,825 cattle, 

 1,953,144 swine, and 1,206,297 sheep a total 

 of 5,544,391 head. 



Finances. The total bonded debt of the State 

 on Jan. 1, 1885, was $935,500. Of this amount, 

 the permanent school fund held $544,500 ; the 

 university fund, $9,000, and the sinking fund, 

 $61,000 a total of $614,500. Only $321,000 

 of the bonds remain in the hands of individu- 



als or corporations. The cash in the treasury 

 belonging to the sinking fund is $13,203.58. 

 During the two years covered by the fourth 

 biennial report of the State Treasurer, viz., 

 from July 1, 1882, to June 30, 1884, the re- 

 ceipts of the treasury (including a balance of 

 $644,323.76 on hand July 1, 1882) aggre- 

 gated $4,588,460.50. The disbursements dur- 

 ing the same period were $3,833,948.43, leav- 

 ing a balance in the treasury, June 30, 1884, 

 of $754,512.07. From July 1 to Dec. 31, 1884, 

 the receipts of the State treasury were as fol- 

 low : From tax, $298,733.98 ; from principal 

 of school lands, $118,811.29; from permanent 

 school-fund bonds paid, $33,552.35 ; from in- 

 terest on sales of school land, $67,985.80; from 

 interest on permanent fund bonds, $58,268.68 ; 

 from other sources, $164,949.44. Making an 

 aggregate of $742,301.54, which, added to the 

 balance on hand June 30, 1884, makes a total 

 of $1,496,813.61. The disbursements during 

 the same six months aggregated $1,118,469.96, 

 leaving in the treasury, December 31, the sum 

 of $308,343.65. 



" The indebtedness of the State," says the 

 Governor, "is so small that the contrast pre- 

 sented by the enormous aggregate of local 

 debts is startling. The bonds issued by the 

 several counties of Kansas, and outstanding 

 on the 1st of July last, aggregated $7/44,- 

 741.90, and the county warrants outstanding 

 at the same date aggregated $621,006.39, mak- 

 ing a total county indebtedness of $8,065,- 

 748.29. The township bonds outstanding at 

 the same time aggregated $2,625,243.55, and 

 the township warrants outstanding, $24,787.35 

 making a total township indebtedness of $2,- 

 350,060.90. The city bonds thus outstanding 

 aggregated $2,287,125.90 ; and the city war- 

 rants due and unpaid, $200,310.27 making a 

 total city indebtedness of $2,487,436.17. The 

 school-district bonds outstanding at the same 

 date aggregated $2,734,788.31, and the school- 

 district warrants $13,926.19 making a total 

 school-district indebtedness of $2,748,714.50. 

 Grand total of municipal indebtedness, county, 

 township, etc., $15,951,929.86." 



Public Education. The school system of Kan- 

 sas embraces the common schools, the Univer- 

 sity, the Agricultural College, and the Normal 

 School. The expenditures of the State for 

 public education exceed the aggregate of all 

 its other expenditures. The school population 

 between che ages of five fond twenty-one 

 numbers 411,250, an increase of 28,981 over 



