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To proliil.it tin' editing, pul>li*hin>.', circulating, 



mitiiiir. iiii-l sell'iiii.' of new -paper* or other 



pul'lieutioii* dcM.tcd largely to the |nililicutiii of 



N, intrigues between nii-ii iiinl won, en, and ini- 



luet 

 :dinu' H now law for the regulation, supiM>rt, 



Illlil linlitltelK.il. -i nf till' l-o||||||ii|| school.-, ill i-itics of 



the provision.., of an wt of < '<iii|/resH 

 !o State or Territorial homes for disabled 

 and sailors. 

 lish sur\ ivorsliip in joint tenancy. 



lations and unions of working men 



in tiieir laliels, trade murks, and forms of advertising. 



pting the uet of Congrata ^nuitin^ aid for the 



endowment and support of colleges of ugriculture and 



the mechanic arts. 



In.-rca-ini: tin- salaries of the Secretary of State, 

 r. Auditor, and certain other State otticers, 

 .1 providing for the payment of assistants and clerks 

 State ollices. 



I lie Hot kin Impeachment. Charges of 

 duct iii office against Judge Theodosius 

 >tkin, of the Thirty-secoiul -Indicia! Circuit, 

 iv iv brought to the attention of the Lower House 

 the Legislature during its session this year, 

 :i result of which that body, after investiga- 

 iiui. framed nmnemus articles of impeachment, 

 'harging -Fudge Botkin with intoxication and 

 nth unjudicial conduct on the bench. For the 

 mrposf of trying the case the Senate reassem- 

 led on April 20 as a court of impeachment. 

 Bveral weelcs were occupied in taking testimony 

 id in hearing arguments of counsel. A vote 

 i the several articles was not token till May 

 when the judge was acquitted upon every 

 ticle, although upon the articles charging un- 

 idii-ial conduct in court there was a narrow 

 lajority against him of the Senators voting. 

 Education. The State University continues 

 > show unusual prosperity. At the close of this 

 ir there was an enrollment of about 590 resi- 

 lent students, an increase of more than 100 over 



number enrolled at the same date last year. 

 Mortgage Debts. The Federal Census Bu- 

 au reports that the total number of mortgages 

 >nreal estate recorded in the State during the 

 en years ending in 1889 was 620,049, of which 

 115,622, or 67-03 per cent, of the total, were on 

 eres, and 204,427, or 32'97 per cent., were on 

 >K The yearly totals exhibit the fact that in 

 the amount of recorded mortgages was 

 i.625,284; in 1881. $21,343,449 ; in 1882. $22,- 

 10,810; in 1883. $27,697,409; in 1884. $39.5 7i.- 

 in 1885, $53.203,087; in 1886, $76,259,403; 

 ie amount reached $97,520,069 in 1887; de- 

 clined to $69,977.822 in 1888, and to $56,082.244 

 1889. In 1880 the amount of mortgages re- 

 >rded against acres in the State was $15.425,- 

 775; iti 1881, $17.514,735; in 1882, $17,634,017; 

 in 1883, $21.463.1:5:5: in 1884, $31,241,851: in 

 1885, $42,115.311 : in 1886, $56,724.122 ; and the 

 largest amount, $61.227,479. was in 1887. from 

 which year the amount decreased to $44,865,279 

 in 1888, and to $35,006,542 in 1889. The per 

 capita mortgage debt of the State is $165. 



Coal. The coal measures of Kansas cover 

 about 10,000 square miles, underlying the entire 

 eastern portion of the State. The coals are bi- 

 tuminous, excellent for coking, steam, gas. smelt- 

 ing, and domestic purposes. Lignite deposits 

 have also been worked to some extent along the 

 western limits of the coal areas in Cloud, Re- 



public, Kllsworth, Russell, and Jewell Counties. 

 Regular milling operation* are conducted in but 

 six count ie-. The \<-ins vary from one to five 

 feet in thickness, and are mined by .-haft us well 

 as by " stripping." The scarcity of wood in the 

 western part of the State is stimulating the MI- 

 velopingof the coal-beds as well as t he- construc- 

 tion of branch railroad lines. The output for 

 1889 is reported a.s 2,230,71;:! short tons, valued 

 at $8,294,754, or an average of $1.48 a ton at the 

 mines. The average number of persons em- 

 ployed in 1889 was 5,065, and the amount of 

 wages paid $2,320,591. The State conducts 

 coal-mining operations at Lansing, Ix'avenworth 

 County, where the convicts in the Penitentiary 

 are employed. 



The Prohibitory Law. On May 25 the 

 United States Supreme Court rendered its decis- 

 ion in the case of Wilkerson vs. Hahrer, appealed 

 in 1890 from the Circuit Court for the district 

 of Kansas, in which the chief question at issue 

 was whether the Kansas prohibitory law ought 

 to be re-enacted \before it could operate to pre- 

 vent the sale of imported liquors in the original 

 packages. The court unanimously decided that 

 such re-enactment was not necessary; that by 

 virtue of the previous decision of the court in 

 Leisy vs. Hardin the Kansas law had been made 

 inoperative upon imported liquors only, but that 

 the Wilson law, subsequently enacted by Con 5 

 gress, had placed imported liquors in the same 

 category as liquors already within the State, and 

 had therefore made the State law again opera- 

 tive upon such liquors. 



World's Fair Convention. As the Legisla- 

 ture adjourned without passing an appropriation 

 in aid of the World's Columbian Exposition of 

 1893, a call was issued on March 17, by the Board 

 of Agriculture, for a State convention to meet 

 at Topeka on April 23, to devise means to secure 

 a proper representation of the State at the Ex- 

 position. About 300 delegates from all parts of 

 the State attended the convention. They decided 

 that at least $100,000 ought to be raised in order 

 to insure a creditable exhibit. A committee of 

 21 members was elected and organized as a Bu- 

 reau of Promotion. On April 30 this bureau is- 

 sued an address to " The People of the State," 

 which called upon each county and each railroad 

 company operating lines within the State to 

 contribute such portion of the sum of $100,000 

 as the assessed value of their property for the 

 year 1890 bore to the total assessed value of the 

 property of the State for that year. To raise 

 the allotted sum promptly, the organization of 

 County Columbian Associations was recom- 

 mended, and plans for such associations were 

 submitted. Tne April convention had agreed 

 upon June 16 as the day for assembling another 

 convention composed of delegates representing 

 the subscribers to the fund, for the purpose of 

 electing a permanent board of managers. The 

 Bureau of Promotion; at their meeting on June 

 10, finding that sufficient progress had not been 

 made in securing subscriptions, postponed t Ju- 

 daic for assembling the convention until Sept. 

 16. On this latter date the records showed that 

 counties and railroad companies representing 

 $46,560.56 of the apportionment had paid in the 

 first installment or had assented to the plan and 

 paid in part, and could be relied upon for the re- 



