Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-02-16

600, assessed at So, 100000.
Doubling the assessed value Of rail-
roads. as was done with other proper
~ above, we have true valuation Of
100000 on railroads.
EDUCATIONAL.
The following shows the progress Of
common schools since 1861: In 1861,
2l7 districts, 1901 children. In 1870.
206S districts, 100,242 children, 1901
school houses, valued at tl,520,O4l.
In 1880. 6.l34 districts, 3i0,647 chill
dren, 5,3l5 school houses, valued at
GAGS, 044.
The common school fund Of the state
amounts to t2,227,602. The annual
income upon which added to the inter
est on school land sales amounts TO
t247.72519.
The state yet owns in trust for the
common school fund 100000 acres of
land, which, when sold and the proceeds
added to the fund on hand, will fur
nish an endowment fund for conmon
schools OF 100000.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
under the control Of the state have not
been neglected. The state university.
at Lawrence, was erected at a cost of
100000, and has capacity for coo
students. The state agricultural col
lege, at Manhattan, erected and eauip-
ped at n cost Of 100000, has a ca
pacity for 500 students. The state nor.
NAL school, at Emporia, cost $4,000
and has a capacity for 500 students.
AL these institutions are endowed
with large Immigrants, and aided bien.
nially by the legislature.
The control and management OF
these institutions are such that they
are a credit TO the state, and afford as
ample facilities for those seeking m
education as like institutions In th,
older states.
CHARITABLE AND REFoRMAToRY IN
STITUTIoNs.
One Of the first duties Of organized
communities, Is TO look 10 the welfar,
or those persons who from natural OF
other causes cannot provide for them
selves. Kansas began this work at ar
early day, and now has two well.regu
lated asylums for the insane. with All
the modern improvements, and with 4
capacity for properly caring for coo
patients; a school for imbecile children
with a capacity for teaching so pupils
an asylum for the blind, providing foI
% pupils; and an asylum for the deaf
and dumb capable Of caring for 12G
pupils.
In the way Of reformstory institu
tons, the state has a reform school
with a capacity for 90 boys, and a pen,
ltentiary with a capacity for 800 con-
victA and with facilities for furnishing
healthtul work for all, Of a character
profitable to the state and beneficial tc
the conVicts.
STATE CAPITOL.
HE east and west wings Of the state
capitol are now completed at a cost OF
about 100000, modern In style. and
with ample accommodations for pres
ent demands.
The main building n commenced
md will be completed In time TO meet
The wants Of the rapidly growing stats
All the foregoing improvements have
boon made and the
STATE DEBT
Is but 81, 165, 900, the greater part OF
which was created for arming and
oquipping troops for the United States
service during the war, and In defend.
Ing the state against rebel and Indian
invasion.
or the total bonded indebtedness OF
the state, the state university fund
owns $500; the normal school fund.
1900; the permanent school fund
VoOt,S25; the sinking fund. S94 Oh
making the total amount OF state bond'
owned BY the several state funds. s7I5.
100, and leaving the total amount ~
oonds owned outside Of the state funds
When the general government "a.
pays the state the amount long sincs
due. Kansas win be able to nav All
bonds not now held In the tressnrS
and have . surplus.
AGRICULTURE AND sroCK-RAIsrSo-
kansal 10 essentially an aericultural
aud stock-raising state, bat a. thea
features are 90 fully and ably exhiSited
~ the quarterly and biennial reporty
81 the state board OF Agriculture
which aye distributed and rvad ~ ove