The Destitution In Kansas

Atchison, Ks., Nov. 21. - The Daily Champion publishes from an advance sheet of the official reporta made to the State Board of Agriculture soms statiatics showing the destitution existing in several frontier countiea ofthe State. Seventeen counties, in whioh an aggregate of 158,000 acres had been planted in corn, produoed not a bushei of thia cereal. Five of these counties produced an average erop of wheat, rye, oata, barley and buckwheat, and are abundantly able to relieve any individual cases of destitution in their midst. Other twelve counties, having an aggregate population of 23,887, as shown by the State census tak en laat June, are all on the remóte frontier, and the settlnnienta in them have all been made within the last three yeara. The eight countiea in which the greateat destitution prevaila have all been populated within the past year or two, and in the greater part of theae the population settled within their limita either last spring or the preceding fall. These eight have an aggregate population of 17,496 settlers and had expended all of their mean8 in building their homes and getting in their crops. The drouth and grasshoppers wrought the total destruction of everything they had planted, loaving them totally destitute. They are without food, clothing or fuel to sustain them until they can produce aometbing on which tolive, and must be sustained by charitable contributions of the people in other sections of the State and the country at large. The Champion computes the nutnber of destitute at from 20,000 to 25,000, but of these tnany are located in the older counties, where the oropa, with the exception of corn, are fair. The more fortúnate citizens are able and willing to help thoir destitute neighbors, but in eight counties the destitution is very general. Almost the whole population will need more or lesa assistance. At least 15,000 people must be assiRted during the winter and until another erop is grown.