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UNITED STATES : — KANSAS
Of the total population in 1910, 135,190 were foreign-born : 34,506 German, 13,309 Swedish, 11,256 English, 8,100 Irish, 15,311 Russian, and 7,140 Canadian.
The cities of the State with estimated population in 1 920 are : —
-
Pop.
101,177
72,128 50,022 23,298
Pop.
Pop.
Kansas City . Wichita Topeka(Capital) Hutchinson .
Leavenworth Pittsburg Coffeyviile . Atchison
16,901 18,052 13,452 12,630
Parsons Independence Lawrence Salina .
16,023 11,920 12,456 15,085
Of the total population in 1910, 29 2 per cent, was urban.
The most numerous religious bodies are Method ist, or various denomina- tions, others (in order of rank) being Roman Catholic, Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Presbyterian, and Friends.
In 1920 the 8,707 public elementary schools had 10,000 teachers, 348,154 enrolled pupils; 650 public high schools had 4,000 teachers and 58,729 pupils. Teachers are trained in three public normal schools, which in 1920 had 232 teachers and 7,314 students. Expenditure in 1918, 17,102,644 dollars.
For higher instruction are (1919): —
Founded
Institution
Control
Professors
Students
1866 1863 1858 1896 1865 1S65
University of Kansas, Lawrence Agricultural College, Manhattan Baker University, Baldwin . . Kansas City University ....
Ottawa University
Washburn College, Topeka
State .
M.'k. .
M. Prot. .
Bapt. Con*.
292
212
"30
15
22
40
8,915
2,171
411
175 186 840
On January 1, 1910, the number of persons in almshouses was 735, being 43 "5 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal institutions 1,537, being 909 per 100,000 of the population.
Finance-— For the year ending June and disbursements were : —
Cash Balance, July 1, 1918 . Receipts, 1918-19 .
Total .
Disbursements, 1918-19
80, 1919, the total receipts
Dollars 175,615 5,784,683
5,960,298 5,605,707
454,591
Balance, July 1, 1919
The State had no bonded debt in 1919 ; the assessed valuation of real and personal property was 3,437,541,808 dollais.
Production and Industry— Kansas is pre-eminently agricultural, but uffers from lack ot rainfall in the west. In 1910 there were 177,841 farms
