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the claims of the State against the Federal Govern- 

 ment for expenses incurred in raising troops for the 

 war with Spain had been allowed to the amount of 

 $36,681.19. The claims aggregated $37,787.84. 



Final payments to the Indians of the Ottawa 

 reservation have been made by the Federal Govern- 

 ment, the amount paid being $42,000, or $491.48 

 per capita. 



Banks. According to the biennial report of the 

 State Bank Commissioner, Dec. 13, there were 334 

 State and 55 private banks in Kansas, 59 banks 

 having been organized during the year. Eleven 

 private banks were reorganized as State banks and 

 1 1 State and private banks reorganized as national 

 banks. Twelve State and 5 private banks went 

 into voluntary liquidation, while 5 were closed. 

 In the last two years the capital stock of the 

 State and private banks in the State had increased 

 $100,023, and the surplus $468,160. While the 

 deposits in the same length of time increased 

 $9,000,000, yet the cash on hand was only $178,099 

 greater. The total number of depositors was 

 111,132. 



Building and Loan Associations. By the 

 Legislature of 1899 building and loan associations 

 were placed under the control of the State Bank 

 Commissioner, who in June submitted a report 

 showing the cost of management of local associa- 

 tions to be 1.31 to 8 per cent, of the total re- 

 ceipts from stock sold, and of Kansas national 

 (or "general ") associations to be from 18.3 to 80 

 per cent. Regarding foreign associations, the 

 commissioner says : " The losses sustained by 

 Kansas investors in foreign loan associations in 

 the past aggregate millions of doljars. Eighty 

 per cent, of the foreign associations that were 

 doing business in Kansas five years ago have 

 failed." During the year, when the number of 

 building and loan associations doing active busi- 

 ness in the State increased to more than 50, several 

 associations went into voluntary liquidation, and 

 some were closed by the Bank Commissioner. 



Education. At the State University the gradu- 

 ates in 1900 numbered 200, with the following 

 distribution among the various schools: Art, 91; 

 law, 73; engineering, 15; graduate school, 13; fine 

 arts, 6; medicine, 2. In all, the university has 

 graduated 1,745 students. The formal dedication 

 of the Fowler Shops building occurred on June 5. 



The graduating class at the Agricultural College 

 had 59 members. The degree of M. S. was con- 

 ferred upon 3 post-graduates. At the end of the 

 second week of the winter term the increase of 

 attendance over that of the same week in 1899 

 was 32.1 per cent., the number of students being 

 888. The agricultural department now has per- 

 manent quarters in the fine hall completed in 1900. 

 The chemical building was destroyed by fire in 

 May. In March Congress granted to Kansas the 

 old Fort Hays military reservation in Ellis County 

 for educational pin-poses. The bill provides for 

 an experiment station of the Agricultural Col- 

 lege on this tract. 



At the State Normal School the enrollment for 

 the year was 1,983, representing 93 counties in" 

 Kansas, and also 14 other States and Territories. 

 The graduating class numbered 109. The Fort 

 Hays grant makes provision for a western branch 

 of this school. 



The College of Liberal Arts, Baker University, 

 conferred degrees upon 14 graduates. During the 

 year the university built a new gymnasium. 



At Washbum College 27 students wore gradu- 

 ated. The thirty-fifth anniversary of the founding 

 of the college was celebrated Feb. 6. 



Ottawa University had 500 students during the 

 year, and graduated 7. 



The graduates of McPherson College, in all de- 

 partments, numbered 31. During the year the 

 college debt was liquidated. 



The school population of the State in 1900 was 

 504,130 white persons, 487,953 (males 247,330, 

 females 240,623) ; colored persons, 16,177 (males 

 7,895, females 8,282). 



Kansas has $11,665,511 invested in school build- 

 ings, of which there are 9,297 in the State. The 

 number of teachers in 1900 was 11,428. The money 

 paid in wages to teachers for the year ending June 

 30, 1899, amounted to $3,033,248.40. For the same 

 period the total expenditure for school purposes 

 was $4,360,472.94. The semiannual distribution of 

 the State school fund in August, 1900, divided 

 among the counties $221,836.68 about 44 cents 

 per capita for the school population. 



According to the statistics of the Federal Depart- 

 ment of Education, Kansas has the largest per- 

 centage of ^school children enrolled among the 

 States of the Union. 



Charities and Corrections. In March, 1900. 

 the number of inmates in each of the 8 charitable 

 institutions of Kansas was as follows: School for 

 the Blind, at Kansas City, 84; Imbecile and Idiotic 

 Asylum, at Winfield,182; Reform School, at To- 

 peka, 171; Deaf and Dumb School, at Olathe, 246; 

 Girls' Industrial School, at Beloit, 112; Soldiers' 

 Orphans' Home, at Atchison, 139; Topeka Insane 

 Asylum, 850; Osawatomie Insane Asylum, 1,025. 



Seventy-seven counties own their poor farms. 

 Their total number of inmates, according to the 

 latest report of the Labor Commissioner, was 1,595, 

 and their aggregate expense in 1899, $135,403.02. 

 Revenues from them amounted to $32,618.22. 



The State Board of Charities in its last report 

 commends the work of the 16 independent char- 

 ities which receive State aid. The value of their 

 real estate and equipment is about $500,000. In 

 ten years they have given relief to more than 

 37,000 persons. 



The number of inmates at the State Industrial 

 Reformatory, at Hutchinson, July 1, 1900, was 227. 

 During the first year of the fiscal period 97 inmates 

 were paroled, and during the second year 110. 



In the State Penitentiary the prisoners in May 

 numbered 1,000, of whom 215 were from Okla- 

 homa, which has no prison. 



The present Governor has made experiments in 

 the matter of conditional pardons for criminals, 

 with results of practical interest. In March, 1900, 

 ten months after his plans were put in operation, 

 he was able to make known that 18 prisoners of 

 the Penitentiary had been conditionally pardoned. 

 " All of them," he says, " are now employed, and 

 their monthly reports show that they have fulfilled 

 the strict letter of their conditions, are caring for 

 those dependent upon them, and are leading in- 

 dustrious and honest lives." 



Military. According to the annual report of 

 the Adjutant General's Office at Washington, is- 

 sued in July, the organized militia force of Kansas 

 was 1,244. The number of men in the State avail- 

 able for military duty, but unorganized, docs not 

 appear in this report. 



The twelfth biennial report of the Adjutant 

 General of the State, issued Oct. 8, in addition 

 to other information regarding the department. 

 contains the complete roster and histories of the 

 4 regiments put in the field by Kansas during tho 

 Spanish-American war. At the date of the report 

 there were 1,295 Kansas soldiers in the Philippines. 

 All but 43 of them were in the infantry service. 



In May an organization, to be known as the 

 Twentieth Kansas, was formed by the election 

 of officers. Its membership is designed to includi 

 all honorably discharged soldiers of the Twentieth 



