Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-29

| million souls; 1900 people are engaged in
| manufacturing within her borders. and the
| number doubles every eight years, while
| the net value Of her aggregated product
more than doubles IN the same period. But
/ $40 Indians now live on Kansas soil; and
Indians twenty years ago disputed posses
sion Of over half the State with the army OF
the United States. Kansas is rapidly seiz-
ing her. opportunity to become the great
sugar State OF the West, and with secrets
Of refining discovered within her boundaries
promises to revolutionize the sugar IL
dustry.
The fact OF chief importance about Kan
sas is her growth. She was admitted as a
State in January, 1861, with population of
1G7,206. In this year of grace there are
OF Kansas Congressman, more than
Arkansas, admitted in 1886; California, adj
mitted in 1850; Louisiana, admitted in 1872;
Maine admitted in 1920; Minnesota admitted
in 1858; Oregon, admitted in 1889, or Mary
land, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island or Vermont that were original States,
to say nothing of Delaware, New Jersey,
Mississippi and South Carolina have the
same number OF Congressman that Kansas
/. has, and the present population Of the State
probably entities her to q larger delegation
than either of these States.
The States making the largest increase of
population from 1870 to 1880 were Colorado,
l54 go; California, $4,000; Nebraska, 329,-
600; Iowa, 430, 600, but Kansas led them all
with 631, COO.
John James ingalls,. the senior Kansas
Senator, and the head of the delegation in
Congress, would deceive the most unerring
guesser Of age. As ne moves about the
Senate chamber or strolls out over the coun-
try roads around Washington, be might be
supposed to be as young as thirty-five; few
would imagine he was over fOrty-tive. The
cold air-tight fact is that he was fifty-four
on the 29th of last December. He is tall,
very spare, and of highly nervous temper
ament. He was born in old Essex County,
Mass, where Caleb Gushing, Rufus Choate,
Judge Story and many other great men first
saw light HIS ancestors and those OF
Judge Endicott. Secretary of War, founded
the city of Lynn. He graduated at Will
Jams College when he was twenty-five, one
year before James 4. Garfield delivered his
valedictory for the class of So 1t is an in
teresting fact that Rufus ingalls,, the Sena-
tors father, and Mehitabel ingalls,, Presi-
dent Garfeld's grandmother, were first
COUSINS. Senator Ingalls, went to Kansas
in 1883, and passing through the exciting
days Of the struggle FOR free soil IN Bleed
ing Kansas. He became John Brown"
Republican, and has remained SO. When
S. G. Pomeroy was retired from the Senate
in 1873 the successor fell on Mr.. Ingalls,,
then in his fortieth year, and looking but
twenty-five. He stepped into the front rank
of wits and orators in Congress. Mrs In
gals was Anna Louisa Chesebrough. daugh-
ter Of prominent merchant of New York
City Ethel, the Oldest daughter, is pref
ty and talented girl Of nineteen, just making
her debut as bright and interesting news
paper cores pondent; Ellsworth, the oldest
son, is law student in Washington. The
other children are carrying on their studies
under their mothers care.
Preston B. Plumb, the junior Senator Of
the Garden of the West" is iustsfour
years younger than his colleague, as he is
four years his junior also in the Senate.
He is q splendid specimen of self-manufac-
ture. He has been farmer, editor, type-set-