SALINA  , a

city and the county-seat of Saline county, Kansas, U.S.A., on the Smoky Hill river, near the mouth of the Saline river, about loo m . W. of Topeka . Pop . (1905) 7829; (1910) 9688 . It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Missouri Pacific and the Union Pacific railways . Salina has a Carnegie library, and isthe seat of Kansas Wesleyan University (Methodist Episcopal; chartered in 1885, opened in 1886) and of St John's Military School (Protestant Episcopal) . The city is the see of a Protestant Episcopal bishop . Salina is the central market of a fertile farming region . Power is furnished by the river, and among the manufactures are flour, agricultural implements, foundry products and carriages . The first settlement on the site of Salina was made in 1857 . Its first railway, the Union Pacific, came through in 1867 . Salina was first chartered as a city in 187o .