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

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

In 1905 it ranked third among the cities of the See also:

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

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