The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-01-14
STATE COMMISSIONERS
4 Few Extracts From Their Forthcoming
Seport.


Report.
Having received the FRS; @SsoN .hecfs'
OF the State Commissioners report. We
give below few extracts from it, commenc-
ing with the Normal .Schooi:
The Normal Schools ct Emporia and
Leavenworth are both in llourishins con-
dition. They both show healthy increase
in number, and higher grade of scholar
ship than heretofore attained. They are
doing a noble work in the educational ecor-
omy Of the State, and the corps OF teachers
labor diligently and faithfully. Il seems
imperative that the force q; instructors at
the Leayenworth Normal b. increased. and
that more room be furnished.
The Leavenworth Normal School possess
es all OF the facilities for normal schoo!
training. We do not see what more could
be desired in this particular. We also find,
contrary to the general opinion, that stu
dents can live cheaper in Leavenwor,h Il an
in most other places. We have taken con-
siderable pains to investigate this matter.
About eighty per cent OF the normal stu
dents board themselves. Several who have
rented room are supplied with provisions
from home, live in Doniphan and johnson
counties. Their friends bring in supplies.
by wagon, about once month Scif-bOarl-
ing Is brought to system. tbout two or
fh
room together. They rent an unfinished
room and furnish it themselves. The fur
niturc is purchased at the secondhand
stores upon u stipulated agreement that
half price will BE- paid for tile .an.e furni-
ture II returned within ten months after
purchasing. Bv this arrangement; the
average outlay for furniture i only five
dollars for each person. The following is
the average expense per month for ans per-
son who desires 10 board himself:
Cost Of room rent, per month. s.
Cost oi washing, per mDni ................ 20
Cost oi provisions. fuel lights etc her lu.,,Itl
Total expenses Including everything, ....----
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Fer several years the Stife Board Of Ag-
ricalttre has been collecting statistics of
various kinds The following returns are
made by the County FOR 1874. Here follows
Il table giving 4 list OF counties in the state.
and the report says;
These returns embrace fortv-tive counties.
with 4 population Of iOl 40. From the
remaining twenty-eight counties no defec-
tivcs at all are reported, but their popula-
ton is given at ~, 3l9, making total popu-
lation OF the State 629, s. These statistics
collected though they are, under the author
ity and BIZ direction Of law, are utterly unre-
liable. The population OF Harper county is
returned at 800. IL has no. FIVE residents
The name OF an idiot Is r4urned from COT
fey county who has not been there for two
or three years, while the name of an insane
woman is omitted. In Sumner county the
assessors returned no idiOtic or insane. but
the clerk happened to know of three terso-
nally; and this is the only county that gives
ages of deaf and dumb and blind. heaven
worth county returned ose insane apd three
hliouc: there retwo in the HONG Friend
less, six in the Jail, AK in st. Johns Hos
pital, SIX IN the eOunty poor-hotse, two in
private families, four In the PenItentiaYy,
and several going round loose Howard
county, population 1882, returns l3 deaf
and dumb. Butler county, population 1876
and Atchi5on county, population Ii, 234, re-
turn none. Davis county, population 5,07y
returns six insane. Doniphan county, pop
ulation 1880, returns none, and Leayen-
worth, 1895, returns but one. Pottawa-
tonne county, population 1904, returns
five blind. Cowley county, population
9,5Sl, returns Fix blind. Riley county,
population 6,137, returns none, and Doni-
phan, population 1889, returns none.
Comparisons of this kind could be extended
to cover pages, but enough has been said to
show that the figures are worthless, and that
the law i. virtually disregarde1. In some
counties idiots are returned as insane, and
insane as idiots.
Section ~, article III, Of the co stitutin,
reads: The Legislature shall provide for
taking an enumeration Of the inhabitssts
OF the State at least once in TIN years The
first enumeration shall be taken A. ID. 1867