The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-08-23
HAS GAINED $3.50
The Population of Kansas Has In
creased That Much in the
Last Year.
HAS NOW L,65l,33l PEOPLE
Greatest Growth Has Been in Western
Counties and Cities of Eastern
Part-kansas City
- Leads.

Topeka, Aug. 15.-Kansas gained
B9,540 in population in the last year
according to the figures of the sworr
returns of the county assessors com
piled by the state board of agricul
ture. The population March l was
1851 ,331, or gain of "a per cent
over the population of last year, &C
cording to the returns. This is the
largest population ever reported for
the state.
by far the larger percentages of in
crease are in the western counties.
Seventy-four counties show an aggre-
gate gain of 4S,S36, and a loss alto
gether of 9,269
AS the officials in Atchison county
again ignored and nullified the law
and made only such partial returns
as suited their convenience giving the
county only 5,5S2 population, the fig
ures returned for 1905 have been used
in this years computations.
The rank of the five counties lead
ing in population this year is, with
two notable exceptions, the same as
last Shawnee county has dropped
from second to third place and Mont
gomery has advanced from third
place to second The leading five
counties in 1907 are Wyandotte,
Montgomery, Shawnee, Sedgwick and
Crawford in the order named.
Cheyenne, Wallace, Hamilton,
Greeley, Stanton, Sherman and Nor
ton, the seven extreme western coun-
ties bordering Colorado, show an ag-
gregate gain of 26 per cent. The
largest increase reported is in Mont
gomery county, which has gained 81
$40, followed by Wyandotte with s.
$40, Crawford with 2,757, Finney with
2,441, and Leavenworth with 2,096.
The smallest increase is in Osborne
county, which gained two. The larg-
est decrease is in Usage county,
whose officials certify a falling off of
1889. Neosho, Johnson, Jackson and
Chautauqua, as named, show the next
largest decrease.
A comparison of the population sta
'tistics for 1907 with those of ten years
previous shows some very remarkable
increases. There were 2S4, 542, or
EOS per cent more inhabitants this
year than in 1897 lightweight coun-
ties show increases in the ten years
and seventeen counties (all in the
eastern half of the state) show de-
creases. In the decade Montgomery
county has gained more than 1856 per
cent; Wyandotte, "a per cent; Fin
ney, 10 per cent; Allen, 112 per cent;
Comanche, GO per cent; Edwards, 100
per cent Ford, 81 per cent; Cove,
119 per cent; Grant, 9S per cent and
Gray, 156 per cent
Ninety-three municipalities show
an aggregate gain Of 29,564, and thir-
ty-seven a decrease of 4,575. Yates
Center neither gained nor lost, and
Atchison failed to make complete re-
turns, necessitating the use of the
1905 population figures for that city.
Kansas City, as in the year preceding,
shows the largest increase, 2,610, fol
lowed by independence with gain of
1881; Leavenworth, 1880; Garden
City, 1,441; Pittsburg, 1873; Wichita,
1857 and Hutchinson, 1,O44. Clay
Center shows the smallest increase, 1.
The largest decrease is $50, in Sedan.
There are now fourteen, as against
thirteen cities last year. having 10000
or more inhabitants each, Emporia
entering the list. Their combined
population represents 20 per cent of
the population of the state.
With some few exceptions the rank
of the thirty leading cities is the same.
Kansas City, of course, continues
with a wide margin the states me-
tropolls, having well toward twice as
many inhabitants as Topeka, its
closest competitor.