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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (KANSAS.) 



033.45. The individual deposits in the nrtional 

 banks aggregate $3(3,557,008.01; in the -State 

 banks, $39,541,407.80. While there are more than 

 three times as many State as national banks,_the 

 capital stock of the former aggregates but $7,751,- 

 000, compared with $9,235,500 for the latter.^ As 

 to surplus funds the State banks have $1,769,- 

 701.86; the national, $1,675,958.56. It was ex- 

 pected that the November statement would show 

 a decrease in deposits over the statement of the 

 preceding September, but there was an increase 

 in the State banks amounting to $75,885.61, and 

 in the national banks $186,576.99. In the year 

 65 State banks were incorporated, and 10 national 

 banks began business. The report of the Bank 

 Commissioner shows that 85 State and 13 private 

 banks have an unimpaired surplus equal to or 

 greater than 50 per cent, of their capital. With 

 but few exceptions these are in small towns, with 

 good agricultural surroundings, their capital 

 ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. There were no 

 bank failures in 1902. 



Insurance. On Dec. 20, 1902, there were au- 

 thorized to do business in Kansas 209 insurance 

 companies: 70 life, 42 fire, 21 casualty, 20 mu- 

 tual, 56 fraternal beneficiary. Four companies 

 retired in the year: 2 fire, 1 mutual, 1 fraternal. 

 Sixteen new ones were admitted: 4 life, 11 fra- 

 ternal, 1 mutual. The department issued to 

 agents 10,265 licenses. Up to Dec. 20, 1902, the 

 fees collected amounted to $255,461.95, of which 

 $132,900 went to the general fund and $22,561,- 

 95 to the fund for distribution among the fire 

 departments of the State, this fund being raised 

 by a tax on the companies doing business in the 

 State. The Insurance Department nets the treas- 

 ury more than any -other department of State 

 work. 



Education. Kansas has a school population 

 of 506,820 between the ages of five and twenty- 

 one; total enrolment, 389,272. There are 9,106 

 schoolhouses and 11,709 teachers. The value of 

 all school property is $18,603,324. The amount 

 expended for education in 1902 was $6,171,205. 

 Of this amount, $4,804,562.55 represents the total 

 expense of the public schools. There was collect- 

 ed for the public schools for the year $5,505,240.- 

 11, leaving a balance of $700,677.56. The perma- 

 nent school fund amounts to $7,500,000, and the 

 interest of this amount is distributed semian- 

 nually. The permanent fund of the State Univer- 

 sity is about $145,000, and the yearly interest 

 amounts to $7,500. The State Normal school has 

 a fund of $200,000, the yearly interest amounting 

 to $10,000. The fund of the State Agricultural 

 College aggregates $500,000, and the interest is 

 $26,500. These funds are increasing yearly as the 

 result of the sale of land held in trust by the 

 State for the schools. More than 500,000 acres 

 of school land remain unsold. Compromises were 

 effected with four of the far western counties 

 whose delinquent bonds are held in the perma- 

 nent school fund. A portion of the interest was 

 remitted, and the rate lowered. The demand for 

 school land is increasing. The Auditor's records 

 show that in 1902 the land sales aggregated $178,- 

 427, and most of it was for the permanent school 

 fund. The rentals for unsold school land for 

 the year amounted to $20,790. A detailed state- 

 ment of money paid out for education for the 

 past year shows: Public schools, $4,804,562; coun- 

 ty high schools, $60,763; business colleges, $50,- 

 975; shorthand and schools of telegraphy, $10,- 

 685; manual training-schools, $6,155; medical 

 schools, $8,000; Soldiers' Orphans' Home, $4,000; 

 Industrial School for Boys, $25,732; Swedish Or- 

 phans' Home, $2,000; denominational schools 



(academies and colleges), $495,219; private nor- 

 mals, $6,500; State educational institutions, $314,- 

 432; federal educational institutions, $319,000; 

 Young Men's Christian Associations (doing edu- 

 cational work), $19,645; total, $6,171,205. A 

 statement of the value of all school property is: 

 Public schools, $11,669,470; county high schools, 

 $214,799; business colleges, $52,000; shorthand 

 and schools of telegraphy, $25,000; manual 

 training-schools, $19,296; medical schools, $60,- 

 000; Industrial School for Boys, $175,800; Indus- 

 trial School for Girls, $116,300; denominational 

 schools (academies and colleges), $2,768,100; pri- 

 vate normals, $50,000; elocution and oratorical r 

 $2,500; State educational institutions, $3,176,959; 

 federal institutions, $282,100; total, $18,603,324. 



There are but $3,101,899 in school bonds out- 

 standing, of which $249,740 were issued in the 

 past two years. During the same period 137 new 

 schoolhouses were erected at a cost of $263,319. 

 There are 8,323 women teachers and 3,386 men. 

 The men receive an average monthly salary of 

 $44.24; the women, $36.55. The average length 

 of the school term is 25.15 weeks. The average 

 levy of taxes for school purposes is 11.05 mills. 

 Wyandotte ranks first in value of school prop- 

 erty, $685,000. Haskell is the other extreme, 

 $2,150. One county (Gove) has no bonded school 

 indebtedness whatever. In proportion to school 

 population Kansas has a school enrolment larger 

 than that of any other State in the Union. There 

 are 25 counties in which women are superintend- 

 ents of public instruction. Kansas ranks fifth 

 among the States in percentage of persons who 

 can read and write 99.48. Ten years ago it 

 ranked fourth. Seventeen per cent, of the school- 

 children enter high schools; only 6 per cent, go 

 to college. 



Kansas has 5 manual training-schools; 12 coun- 

 ty high schools ; 106 city high schools that prepare 

 students for entrance to the State University; 

 schools of telegraphy, 2; oratory and elocution, 

 2; music, 10; business colleges, 23 (in addition, 

 some denominational and private schools also 

 support business departments) ; medical colleges, 

 2; private normals, 3; denominational schools, 30; 

 colleges and universities, 26; State educational 

 institutions, 5; federal institutions (Indian), 2; 

 Young Men's Christian Association schools, 7. 



The State University, at Lawrence, has 80 in- 

 structors; enrolment. 1.233; graduates last com- 

 mencement, 199; value of buildings and appa- 

 ratus, $1,000,000; endowment, about $145,000; 

 total expenditures for current year. $165,000; 

 tuition, per annum, $10; for non-residents, $25; 

 average total annual expense per student, $133; 

 volumes in library, 37.764. The State Normal 

 School, at Emporia, has 44 instructors; enrol- 

 ment, 2,034; value of buildings and apparatu-. 

 $248,000; volumes in library, 15,000; expenditures 

 for current year, $65.965.37. The Western Branch 

 of the State Normal School, at Hays City, found- 

 ed in 1902, has 3 instructors; enrolment, 70; land 

 owned, 4,100 acres, valued at $80.000; value of 

 buildings and apparatus, $6,990.78. The Slate 

 Agricultural College, at Manhattan, has 63 in- 

 structors; enrolment, 1,396; land owned. 323 

 acres; value of buildings and apparatus, $484,- 

 708; endowment, $491.181.36; volumes in library, 

 23,168; pamphlets, 20,000; value, $53,625: total 

 receipts for year, $73,747.35; total expenditures, 

 $73,467.10; the Fort Hays branch experiment sta- 

 tion of the Agricultural College, founded in 1901, 

 has 3,700 acres; value of buildings, $2,000; appa- 

 ratus, $500; expenditures for the current year, 

 $3,000. The first steps in experimental work 

 have been entered upon at this station. Arrange- 



