Temperature at Leavenworth: summer, 74° to 79°; winter, 25° to 35°: rainfall, 81 inches.

Metropolis, Leavenworth; population, 29,268. Capital, Topeka; population, 23,499. State University at Lawrence; State asylums for insane and feeble-minded at Topeka and Osawatomie; institution for education of the blind, Wyandotte; for deaf-mutes, Olathe.

First railroad built, 1865; length, 40 miles. Railroad mileage, 1875, 2,150; Jan. 1, 1886, 4,888.

Number farms, 1860, 10,400; 1880, 138,561. Average value per acre, cultivated land, $11.82; woodland, $19.12. Peculiarly adapted for stock raising. Gain, per cent., in horses, for ten years, 138; cows, 149; mules, 1,040; other cattle, 203; sheep, 210; hogs, 132.

Salaries of State Officers.
Governor $3,000
Secretary of State 2,000
Treasurer 2,500
Auditor 2,000
Attorney Gen. 1,500
Supt. Pub. Inst. 2,000
Sec. Bd. of Agr. 2,000
Insurance Com. 2,500
3 R. R. Coms. 3,000
State Librarian 1,500
Chief Justice 3,000
2 Asso. Justices 3,000
Senators,
Representatives

 $3 pr. day
mileage 15 cents.
District Judge 3,500
Pension Agent 4,000
Col. Int. Rev. 2,750
9 Deputy Collectors $1,650 to 400
Indian Agent 1,000

Presidential P. O.
Atchison $2,700
Emporia 2,500
Fort Scott 2,400
Lawrence 2,600
Leavenworth 2,800
Newton 2,000
Ottawa 2,100
Parsons 2,100
Salina 2,000
Topeka 3,100
Wellington 2,000
Wichita 2,400
Winfield 2,100
Wyandotte 2,400
78 Offices 1,900 to 1,000

Latest reported crop: castor beans, 765,143 bu.; cotton, 33,589 lbs.; flax, 622,256 bu.; hemp, 557,879 bu.; corn, 1884, 168,500,000 bu.; wheat, 34,990,000 bu.; oats, 27,419,000 bu.

Number hands employed in manufactories, 1860, 1,735; in 1870, 6,844; in 1880, 12,064. Net value of manufactured products increased 67 per cent. in first period, 95 per cent. in second.

Ranks fifth in cattle, corn and rye; seventh in hay, and ninth in hogs, horses, wheat and coal. Coal area, 17,500 square miles.

Population, 996,096: male, 536,667; female, 459,429; native, 886,010; foreign, 110,086; white, 952,155; colored, 43,107; Chinese, 19; Indians, 815. State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday after first Monday in Nov.; Senators, 40; Representatives, 125; sessions biennial, meeting second Tuesday in January in odd-numbered years; limit of session, 50 days; term of Senators, 4 years; of Representatives, 2 years.

Number electoral votes, 9; number voters, 265,714. Idiots, insane, convicts and rebels excluded from voting.