The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-01-18


of prosperity. 50 rapid an accumula-
ton Of wealth and surrounding
physical comforts has never REALIZED
from a like investment Of money and
labor, in the history of human en-
deavor, as has been accomplished here
in Kansas since her admission into the
union. Then We had scarcely 10000
population, now We have 100000.
Then the total assessed valuation
Of property was s24,744,562, now it is
$685., 5O1, 722. The total taxes of 1861
was only t76,335.53, in 1898 it was s13,-
102, 794. The entire wealth Of the stat6
as shown by the United States census
reports was about s1,eOO,OOOOOO. The
center Of population was at the east
boundary line of Douglas county; now
it is at the vest line of Dickinson
county. Then there was not line of
operated railroad within the state; now
We have S,9O8 miles, only Illinois and
Pennsylvania OF all the states exceed
ing this in mileage.
"On these lines Of transcontinental
and lateral railroads have sprung up
more than 100 csnters Of population
and business, cities, the least of which
contain more than a thousand people,
and il. the aggregate 381, 173, domiciled
in thrift and comfort, with churches,
school houses, court house, water and
light plants, not equalled in towns Of
like population in any of the original
states of this Union. More than two
thirds of these cities have increased in
population during the past year, not
Withstanding the existing depression.
The national land endowment of our
educational institutions has been man
aged by wise legislation and prudent
administration, known in the expert
ence of no other state, until We have
an Understanding common school
fund, in bonds and land contracts, of
S., 1886, 993; an agricultural college fund
of S502,927 80; a state university fund
of s140,731, and a state normal school
fund of s137,211. The state university
has received added endowment, by be-
quest, of a greater sum than that from
the government, but which is not in
Guided in the aggregate amount of in
terest bearing bonds, making a grand
total of all funds, sacred to education,
of s10,467 ,852; the annual income from
which, at per cent, amounts to the
sum of s628,O7L12, as a current fund to
aid in the problem of education.
There have been constructed 9,088
public school houses, at an aggregate
cost of s1O7O3, 7O8, and chiefly by the
sale Of district bonds, about 100000
of which have been paid and cancelled.
In these buildings are employed IL ,888
teachers at a cost of $1,000, 1915 a year;
the total tax levied and collected for
common school purpose being $685.
| 98611 per annum. The total sum paid
for educational purposes for the past
year in the state being about s5,300,000
In 1890 we had 1920 church organize,
tions, with 1854 buildings valued at
87,447,669.
"There have been expended for state
buildings the following sums, nearly
all of which have been paid for from
current levies in cash: State univer-
| sity, $4,000; agricultural college,
| S18O,930; state normal school, S127 $40
school for the blind, $50, 449; school for
the deaf and dumb, s144,2 $50; asylum
for the insane at Topeka, S6l6,378; al
Osawatomis, $4,000; asylum for i'm
beetles, S29078; soldiers orphans home
s39,561; reform school, sll9,S63; peni
Tertiary, 81, 659,7 roo; state house, $4,000,
600; reformatory, $4,000; industrial
school for girls, $4,000; Grand Army
home, $4,000; making a total Of s6,152,
2S4, to which add state expenditure o.
| s779. 89l in construction of university
normal and agriculture college build
ings, and we have grand total of S.,
932, 175, of which but $4,000 was de
rived from state bonds not yet due anc
s6,372,175 paid from the pockets Of tn,
people for the permanent and lasting
use of the generations to follow US.
"There can be no more complies
refutation, no more emphatic condem
nation of the organized and persistenf
assaults upon the fair fame. good nam'
and business credit of the people O
! Kansas than is found in the simple re
cital of facts I have given in your hear
! ing. In the light of this record of phe
nomsnaI progress let every lover Of thr
state, severy one with faith in its future
gather comfort and courage"
STATE OFFICERS SWORN N.
Having concluded his address, tht
new governor and the other state off
GERS we're sworn IN By Chief Justic
Horton.
For Statehood Of Oklahoma.
WASHINGTON, Jan. la delegation
{ of Democrats from Oklahoma IS at th
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