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WICHITA

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 618 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WICHITA  , a

city and the county-seat of Sedgwick county, Kansas, U.S.A., on the
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Arkansas
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river, at the mouth of the Little Arkansas, 208 m . (by
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rail) S.W. of Kansas City . Pop . (188o) 4911; (189o) 23,853; (1900) 24,671, of whom 1447 were
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foreign-born and 1389 were negroes; (1910 census), 52,450 .
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Area, 18.75 sq. m . Wichita is served by the
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Atchison,
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Topeka &
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Santa Fe, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the
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Missouri Pacific, the St Louis &
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San Francisco, and the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
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railways . The site of the city is level, about 1300 ft. above the sea . The
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principal public buildings are the Federal
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building, the city hall, the county court house, a Y.M.C.A. building, an auditorium and exposition hall and a Masonic Temple . In Wichita are Fairmount College (Congregational; co-educational; organized as a preparatory school in 1892 and as a college in 1895); Friends' University (Society of Friends; co-educational; 1898); and Mount
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Carmel Academy and the
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Pro-
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Cathedral School (both
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Roman Catholic) . Among the city's parks (area in 1909, 325 acres) is one (
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Riverside) of 146 acres . The city is supplied with natural
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gas . Wichita is a transportation centre for the rich agricultural region surrounding it, and is an important market for
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broom-corn .

In 1905 it ranked third among the cities of the

state in value of its factory product ($7,389,844) . The principal industry is slaughtering and
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meat-packing . The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railway has car-shops here . Wichita, named from an
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Indian tribe, was settled in 1870, and was chartered as a city in 1871 . In 1909 the city adopted by popular
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vote government by commission under a 'state law of 1907 providing for a mayor and four commissioners,heads of the executive,
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finance, streets and public improvements, parks, public buildings and
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health, and
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water and lights departments, all elected for two years and nominated by
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primary election or by petition signed by at least 25 voters .

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