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KANSAS. 



1883. The pupils enrolled numbered 308,601, 

 an increase of 17,433 over the enrollment of 

 the previous year. The attendance in 1883 

 averaged 168,117; for the year just closed, 

 207,221 an increase of 39,104. Average 

 wages paid teachers per montb, males, $40.70 ; 

 females, $32.85. 



The school buildings and grounds are valued 

 at $5,715,582. There are 6,605 school-houses, 

 of which 417 were built during the past year. 



The State University had 521 students en- 

 rolled during the last fiscal year, and is stead- 

 ily growing. The State Agricultural College 

 is flourishing. Its buildings are substantial 

 and commodious, its grounds attractive, and 

 its attendance has increased 26 per cent., 395 

 students now being enrolled. The new wing 

 of the main college-building is completed. The 

 endowment fund aggregates $475,305.18, all of 

 which, except $8,111, is invested at rates of 

 interest varying from six to ten per cent. The 

 attendance at the State Normal School during 

 the last fiscal year was 534. 



Public Institntions. There are six great public 

 charities : the Insane Asylums at Osawatamie 

 and Topeka, the Institution at Wyandotte for 

 the Education of the Blind, the Institution at 

 Olathe for the Education of the Deaf and 

 Dumb, the State Reform School near Topeka, 

 and the Asylum at Lawrence for Idiotic and 

 Imbecile Youth. 



More than two fifths of the total appropria- 

 tions made by the Legislature for the support 

 of the State government during the current 

 fiscal year $352,984 of a total of $830,946 

 are expended for the maintenance of these 

 charities. The Penitentiary not only continues 

 self-sustaining, but the profits of the coal-mine 

 have made it a source of revenue to the State. 

 Its surplus earnings for the year ended June 

 30, 1884, were $25,717.09. The output of the 

 coal-mine is steadily increasing. 



Sorghum-Sngar Industry. There are three 

 sugar-factories in the State, at Sterling, Hutch- 

 inson, and Ottawa, and they produced during 

 the year 602,000 pounds of sugar and 155,500 

 gallons of sirup. This was made from 19,300 

 tons of sorghum-cane. The quality of the sugar 

 is identical with that of Louisiana sugar. 



Prohibition. Returns received in January 

 from 66 of the 81 organized counties, includ- 

 ing all the populous ones, relative to the work- 

 ing of prohibition, demonstrate, it is claimed, 

 three facts favorable to prohibition: 1. That 

 it has materially decreased the number of 

 saloons. 2. That an unusually large per cent. 

 of the prosecutions under the law have re- 

 sulted in convictions. 3. That the principle 

 of prohibition is growing stronger. The fol- 

 lowing are the figures: 



Number of saloons prior to May 1, 1 8~1 708 



Number of saloons Jan. 1, 1884 313 



Number of saloons, decrease 895 



Number of counties covered by report 66 



Number of counties having no saloons 41 



Number of counties in which there are saloons 25 



Number of cases tried in district courts 460 



Number of convictions in district courts . . . 851 



Number of acquittals in district courts 47 



Number of hung juries 62 



Proportions of convictions in district courts 79 



Number of cases now pending in district courts 218 



Number of cases tried in justice courts 512 



Number of convictions in justice courts 878 



Number of acquittals in justice courts 75 



Number of hung juries in justice courts 59 



Proportion of convictions in justice courts 84 



Total number of cases tried 972 



Total number of convictions 729 



Aggregate of fines imposed $9^,200 



Number of defendants imprisoned 81 



Number of counties in which prohibition is growing 



stronger 51 



Number of counties in which prohibition is growing 



weaker 7 



Number of counties in which prohibition is unchanged 8 



Of the 313 saloons open Jan. 1, 1884, 160, 

 or over one half, were in Leavenworth. The 

 prohibitory law took effect May 1, 1881. 



The State Temperance Union met in annual 

 session in Topeka, near the end of November. 

 The president, in his address, made these 

 claims : 



1. John A. Martin and the entire Republican ticket, 

 upon a platform " demanding the honest enforcement 

 of the prohibitory amendment, that the full effects of 

 prohibition may be realized, that the declared will of 

 the people may be respected, and the majesty of the 

 law vindicated," has been elected by 38,489 majority. 



2. George W. Glick, C. K. Holliday, and the Demo- 

 cratic ticket, upon a platform denouncing prohibition 

 and demanding resuomission, aided and abetted in 

 their efforts by those Kesubmissionists who deserted 

 the Republican party, have been defeated by 38,489 

 majority. 



3. The Legislature elected by the people is two to 

 one against resubmission and in favor of the honest 

 enforcement of the jo-ohibitory amendment in spite of 

 the fusion of Democrats and Rcsubmissionists. 



4. The Republican party of Kansas by this action 

 stands committed to the honest enforcement of the 

 prohibitory amendment, against a Constitutional Con- 

 vention, and against resubmission ; and the people of 

 Kansas have sustained the party's position on these 

 questions by 38,489 majority. 



A State Convention was held in Lawrence, 

 Sept. 2, 1884, and a Prohibition party organ- 

 ized in Kansas, auxiliary to the National Pro- 

 hibition party. A platform was adopted, and 

 an electoral ticket put in the field. This party 

 held a convention in December, and besides 

 passing resolutions demanding prohibition, 

 pronounced in favor of female suerage. 



Political. The following were the Kepublican 

 candidates for State officers : 



For Governor, John A. Martin ; for Lieutenant- 

 Governor, A. P. Riddle ; for Secretary of State, E. 

 B. Allen ; for Auditor, E. P. McCabe ; for Treasurer, 

 S. T. Howe; for Attorney- General, S. B. Bradford; 

 for Superintendent of Public Instruction. J. H. Law- 

 head ; for Chief-Justice, A. H. Horton ; for Associate 

 Justice, W. A. Johnston. 



For Eepresentatives in Congress their candi- 

 dates were : 



First District, E. N. Morrill ; Second District, E. H. 

 Funston ; Third District, B. W. Perkins ; Fourth 

 District, Thomas Ryan; Fifth District, John A. 

 Anderson ; Sixth District, Lewis Hanback ; Seventh 

 District, Samuel R. Peters. 



The following was the Democratic ticket : 

 For Governor, George W. Glick ; for Lieutenant- 

 Governor, C. K. Holliday ; for Secretary of State, 

 Eugene Hagan ; for Auditor, H. V. Gavigan { for 





