UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (KANSAS.) 



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ments have been made by the Government to 

 cooperate with the State in experimental irriga- 

 tion. The Normal School, at Emporia, and the 

 Agricultural College at Manhattan are the lar- 

 gest institutions of their kind in the world. 



The Kansas Medical College, in Topeka, has 33 

 instructors; enrolment, 98; value of buildings 

 and apparatus, $25,000; expenditures for year, 



Washburn College, Topeka, has 25 instructors; 

 enrolment, 238; value of buildings and appa- 

 ratus, $198,000; endowment, $75,000; volumes in 

 library, 10,000; expenditures for year, $30,107.60. 

 A well-equipped observatory, which will cost 

 about $75,000, is in process of construction at 

 Washburn. 



Western University (industrial school for 

 negro youth), at Kansas City, has 10 instructors; 

 4 lecturers; enrolment, 103; value of buildings 

 and apparatus, $40,000; expenditures for year, 

 $7,000. 



Topeka Industrial and Educational Institute 

 (for negro youth) has 9 instructors; 2 lectur- 

 ers; enrolment, 134; value of buildings and ap- 

 paratus, $10,325; expenditures for year, $3,655.36; 

 supported by donations. 



Haskell Indian School, at Lawrence (federal), 

 has 66 instructors; enrolment, 891; land owned, 

 1,000 acres; value of buildings, $250,000; expend- 

 itures for year, $152,000. 



Traveling Libraries. The traveling-library 

 department of the State Library contains more 

 than 10,000 books, having doubled the number 

 in the past two years. Libraries to the number 

 of 225 are in actual use. Each library contains 

 50 books, made up in any manner to conform 

 to the orders sent in. The majority of them are 

 sent out to schools, both in cities and rural dis- 

 tricts. In many instances these traveling li- 

 braries lead to the establishment of permanent 

 ones in the communities that use them. The 

 heartiest reports in their favor come from coun- 

 try districts and small towns. The State appro- 

 priation is $4,000 annually, $3,000 of which is to 

 be used in the purchase of new books. Frequent 

 calls are made for these libraries from study clubs. 



Charitable Institutions. Besides the 8 insti- 

 tutions directly under the control of the Board 

 of Trustees of State Charities and Corrections, 

 there are 28 independent charities that receive 

 State aid, the appropriations ranging from $300 

 to $2,000 a year. One, the Kansas Children's 

 Home Society, receives $2,000; another, the Kan- 

 sas Industrial and Educational Institute for Col- 

 ored Youth, receives $1,500; 15 receive $700, and 

 the others from $300 to $2,000 per year. Reports 

 maMe by 25 of these concerns show 1,138 inmates 

 and patients, and buildings and property valued 

 at $498.300. 



The Topeka State (insane) Hospital has 1,258 

 inmates; expenditures for fiscal year ending June 

 30, 1902, $169,717.04. 



The Osawatomie State (insane) Hospital has 

 inmates, 1,094; officers and employees, 172; ex- 

 penditures for the fiscal year, $150.217.99. 



The School for the Deaf, at Olathe, has in- 

 mates, 250; officers and employees, 42; expend- 

 itures for the fiscal year, $47,790.31. 



The School for the Blind, at Kansas City, has 

 inmates, 105; officers and employees, 21; expend- 

 iture for the fiscal year, $22,086.59. 



The Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Atchison, has 

 inmates, 257; officers and employees, 41; expend-, 

 itures for the fiscal year, $32,429.20. 



The Boys' Industrial (reform) School, at To- 

 peka, has inmates, 198; officers and employees, 

 35; expenditures for the fiscal year, $41,887.20. 



The Girls' Industrial (reform) School, at Be- 

 loit, has inmates, 123; officers and employees, 20 j 

 expenditures for the fiscal year, $25,730. 



The School for Feeble-Minded Youth, at Win- 

 field, has inmates, 288; expenditures for the fiscal 

 year, $48,503.54. 



The School for the Feeble-Minded and the 

 asylums at Topeka and Osawatomie are sadly 

 overcrowded, unable to receive patients that are 

 held in private asylums. At Parsons a third 

 asylum is in course of construction. It is being 

 built with especial reference to the care of epilep- 

 tics. All patients of this kind will be assem- 

 bled there. Provision was made by the last Leg- 

 islature for inspection of the poorhouses, jails, 

 and lock-ups of the State by members of the 

 Board of Charities and Corrections. Reports 

 made by the inspectors show that in nearly all 

 instances the inmates of the poorhouses are com- 

 fortably clothed and well fed, but in many in- 

 stances the quarters are poor and the conditions 

 unsanitary in the extreme. Many buildings were 

 found unfit for use, but the law gives the in- 

 spectors no power to condemn. Some of the 

 oldest and wealthiest counties in the State have 

 the meanest and worst-kept poorhouses. In a 

 general way, the inspectors report, the jails of 

 the State " are a disgrace to civilization," many 

 of them being both unsanitary and unsafe. 



The Stalo Industrial Reformatory (for boys), 

 at Hutchinson, has 301 inmates; 43 officers and 

 employees; total value of all property, $503,- 

 491.22; total expense for the fiscal year, $90,- 

 379.93. 



The State Penitentiary has 1,089 inmates; 85 

 officers and employees; the appropriation for the 

 last fiscal year was $179,300; balance of appro- 

 priation unexpended, $10.91 ; total cash earnings, 

 $50,949.76; cash expenditures over cash receipts, 

 $128,350.24. Against this excess of cash expended 

 over cash received are set earnings to the amount 

 of $110,280.11, for which no cash was remitted, 

 leaving a debit balance against the Penitentiary 

 of $17,070.13. In 1902 the Penitentiary mine 

 furnished the various State institutions with $70,- 

 315.05 worth of coal and $13,231.84 worth of 

 brick. The Penitentiary plant is furnishing all 

 the brick that w r ill be needed for the new Par- 

 sons asylum at a cost of a trifle more than 

 $2 a thousand. In the warden's judgment it has 

 been demonstrated that the prison binding-twine 

 plant has been successful. In the year the plant 

 turned out 1,101,660 pounds of twine; cash sales 

 amounting to $106,521.58. In September the plant 

 paid the State the $112,000 due on the revolving 

 fund, the $150,000 which was appropriated to 

 start the plant, making said fund whole, the bal- 

 ance then on hand being $22,713.41, in cash and 

 raw material. Aside from the financial success, 

 the plant is considered as of special value in keep- 

 ing the price of twine made by the trust below 

 an exorbitant figure. 



Less than 6 per cent, of the prisoners released 

 under the terms of the parole law violated the 

 conditions under which they received liberty. 



Products. In 1902 Kansas, in common with 

 other States of the West, suffered considerably 

 from long-continued dry weather. In 1902 the 

 farmers' principal trouble was caused by floods 

 in Kansas streams that were greater than any 

 that had occurred in many years. One result 

 was that the yield of wheat was cut down mate- 

 rially, and the quality of what was raised was 

 injured in great degree, but the yield of corn was 

 the greatest in the State's history. 



The yield of winter wheat was 54,323,839 bush- 

 els. Its home value is given as $28,983,943.60. 



