Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-04-23
PROSPEROUS KANSAS.

tho Census Bureau M to the Growth and
Prosperity OF Kansas.
The census returns furnish some in.
teresting facts as to the growth and
prosperity of Kansas, which the To
pelSa Capital sums up as follows:
The total population of Kansas, 1890,
Is ], 427, 096, the increase since 1880 be-
ing 49,, 900, or 1927 per cent. The pop
ulation, 1880, was 906, 006. The state
stands nineteenth in population among
the states and territories and eighth
among the states comprising the north
central division. Among the counties,
Wyandotte stands first (54, 400, Shaw
nee second (49,172) and Sedgwick third
(4S,O36). Morton county has the small
est population (424). The colored pop
ulation, 1890, is returned as 5l,351; 1880,
3.107; increase, S,:44, or 1880 per cent.
The total land surface of Kansas is
81, ZOO square miles. The water area is
shown as $50 square miles, making q
gross area of S2,0s0 square miles. The
largest county is Butler (1,49s square
miles, and the smallest Wyandotte goo
square miles.) Kansas ranks thirteenth
among the states and territories in land
area.
According to returns received in and
completed Mt the census Office, the num-
Der of pupils enrolled in public schools
in Kansas, 1890, was 300, 322, including
200, $3.50 males and 1876, 317 females, white,
and 4,611 males and 5,O0S females, col
ored. In 1880 the number was stated to
be 246,1 1923. This shows an increase OF
1853, 1914 or 02.24 per cent. The gain in
population during the same period was
1927 per cent.
The aggregate of teachers in public
schools June 80, 1890, is reported as H.
200, including 4,S52 males and 1898 fe-
males, white, and 80 males and A fe-
males, colored. The aggregate of pu-
pills on the same date is given rs 800, S22.
1t is said in the tabular statement that
there were June l, 1891, 525 teachers and
1882 pupils in private schools. For
parochial schools the returns show 24S
teachers and 9,Ols pupils
From the statistical abstract, 1890, re-
Gently issued it is ascertained that there
we're in 1889, SO6,O33 children from six
to fourteen years Of age. The average
daily attendance Of pupils for that year
was 944,697; the average duration OF
school in days being 19S. For 1889 the
estimated total of salaries and superin-
tendents and teachers was S2,9S6, 9O4.
The total expenditures for public
schools, 1889, is given as IS, 49,, 461.
The total state debt of Kansas con-
sidering the state as unit distinct from
counties, cities, towns, villages and
other minor civil divisions is reported
as being Qess sinking fund.- 1890, 81, 49,
79l. Kansas ranks eighth among the
tates comprising the north central di-
vision. The increase in state debt since
1880 is given as S104, 291. The bonded
debt of the state as unit, 1890, is placed
Mt $500, 900; floating debt, 1918, 791. Ac-
cording to the foregoing figures the
state debt (less sinking fund per capita,
1880, was s1.O2 and in 1890, sO.Ts.
The aggregate bonded debt of the
counties as units, distinct from cities
and other minor civil divisions, 1890, is
shown as s14, 1853, 1853; floating debt, $780,
4OS; sinking fund, S124,S15. The total
debt of the counties, less sinking fund,
is therefore S14, 1903, ISL, as against 81
,921 in 1880. The county debt, less
sinking fund, per capita, 1880, was S1.0S;
1890, S10.23.
The aggregate municipal debt OF
twentv-seven cities and towns in 1890 is
recorded as g, 2O7, ITO, being an increase
for the same twenty-seven cities and
towns since 1880 of 500, 400. The bond
ed debt in 1890 gives total of 81, 130, 622.
An increase is shown since 1880 in bond
ed debt of SS77, 346; in floating debt,
$67, 4SS; increase since 1880 of $33, IA.
The aggregate sinking fund for the
above municipalities, 1890, Is returned
as 81, 1884, showing an increase of e6,974
since 1880. The total available resources
of these twenty-seven cities and towns,
including cash in treasury, 1890, APP
pears as 1856, 1851, the increase since 1880
being $444,0
In one of the summaries issued from
the census Office a statement is made
showing the public school finances OF
Kansas, 1890. Under ordinary re-
ceipts" the following figures are given:
Taxation, 1878, O42; funds and rents,
500, SOB; miscellaneous, S169, 40; total,
s4,245,O15. Ordinary expenditures for
the same year, 1890, are given as under
teachers wages, SS,O21, O00; construc-
ton and care of buildings, SsT4,2s1;
libraries and apparatus, S77,O77; miscel-
laneous, s1,OOO,6 sos; total ordinary ex-
penditures, s4,972, 967. The value of
buildings and other property is reported
as being $40, 6l7, ISL, debt, less sinking
fund, S5,610,4ss.
The total assessed valuation of real
and personal property in the state of
Kansas, 1890, according to the census
office reports, is soc, 500, Ill, being an
increase since 1880 of e129, ZOE, O22. Cal
culatinR on the basis of the figures just