KONGO 



3275 KOOTENAY RIVER AND DISTRICT 



Kokomo is a commercial and industrial city; 

 it has a number of public playgrounds and a 

 large park covering sixty acres. There are 

 twenty-eight churches, a $175,000 high school 

 building, a $125,000 Y. M. C. A. building, a 

 $100,000 Federal building, erected in 1912, a 

 $60,000 city building, a $55,000 hospital and a 

 Carnegie Library. 



Kokomo's leading products are flint, opales- 

 cent and plate glass, the output of the last 

 named being most extensive; its opalescent 

 glass is about half of the world's product. 

 There are manufactories of automobiles, rub- 

 ber tires, furnaces, stoves, nails, pottery, paper, 

 pulp, aluminum castings and electrical appli- 

 ances. The first gasoline automobile made in 

 the United States was constructed and oper- 

 ated in Kokomo, by Elwood Haynes, assisted 

 by Apperson Brothers, in 1893. The city 

 claims the further distinction of being the first 

 in the United States to make aluminum crank 

 cases for automobiles. W.H.A. 



KONGO, a form of the word CONGO (which 

 see) ;> 



KONIGSBERG, koe'niKsberK, a town and 

 fortress of East Prussia, Germany, about 366 

 miles northeast of Berlin. Although founded 

 in 1255, it is a strictly modern town, since 

 very few of its old buildings are now in exist- 

 ence. It is one of the chief continental cen- 

 ters for the tea trade and the center of the 

 Prussian amber trade, and it also exports im- 

 mense quantities of corn. It prepares over 

 175 tons of meerschaum annually. Its manu- 

 factures include pianos, thread, tobacco, cigars 

 and machinery. The commercial importance 

 of the city has been enhanced by the construc- 

 tion of the Konigsberg Ship Canal, extending 

 to the city of Pillau, on the Bay of Danzig. 

 Chief among the buildings of historical inter- 

 est is the Schlosskirche (Castle Church), where 

 Frederick I and William I were crowned. The 

 university, founded in 1544, is attended by 

 1,700 students, and in addition to its library of 

 about 318,000 volumes there are a zoological 

 museum, an observatory and a bontanical gar- 

 den. Near the great Gothic cathedral is the 

 grave of Kant, who was born in the city. 

 Konigsberg was first fortified in 1626, but was 

 converted into a modern fortress of the highest 

 rank in 1843. Population, 1910, 246,000. 



KOO'DOO, or KU'DU, the South African 

 name of an animal about four feet high and 

 eight feet long that belongs to the antelope 

 family. It ranges from Cape Colony to Somali- 

 land, in the east-central part of the continent. 



The body is of a grayish-brown color and is 

 marked in both sexes with white vertical lines 

 on the sides and a narrow white stripe along 

 the back. The male has fine, screwlike horns 

 about four feet in length, but the female is 



THE KOODOO 

 Male at right; female at left. 



hornless. A smaller species is also found in 

 Northeast Africa, but is distinguished by having 

 no fringe on the throat. 



KOOTENAY, KUTENAI, or KOOTENAI, 

 koo'tenay, a small group of North American 

 Indians, constituting the distinct stock of 

 Kitunahan. Their former home was in the 

 valleys along the Kootenay River and the 

 Arrow Lakes, north and south of the boundary 

 between British Columbia and Montana. They 

 now live on reservations in the same regions. 

 The Kootenay have long been noted for their 

 honesty and their friendliness to the white 

 people. There are about 550 in British Colum- 

 bia, and about 600 on the Flathead Reservation 

 in Montana (1916). They are devout Roman 

 Catholics. See KOOTENAY RIVER AND DISTRICT. 



KOOTENAY RIVER AND DISTRICT, an 

 important Canadian river and the region 

 drained by it. 



The River. Like the Columbia, of which it 

 is one of the largest tributaries, the Kootenay 

 rises in the southeast part of British Colum- 

 bia, on the western slope of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. The Columbia first flows north, makes 

 a sharp bend, and then flows south, whereas 

 the Kootenay first flows south for about 200 

 miles and then turns north to meet the Colum- 

 bia. In traversing this figure U, from its 

 source to its mouth, the Kootenay flows about 

 450 miles, but the distance in a straight line 

 is no more than 140 miles. The base of the 

 V, an irregular semicircle about 125 miles 

 long, lies in the state of Idaho. Reentering 

 British Columbia, the river forms what is 

 known as the South Arm of Kootenay Lake, 



