various banks was increased $750,000, making the total $1,450,000. On Oct. 1, 1887, a free postaldelivery system went into effect. A few weeks later Seattle was made the terminus and center of distribution of the mails for the Puget Sound country. The number of items of mail matter delivered and collected during November, 1889, was 333,190. The carriage of the mails has increased the number of steamboats leaving the port, of which there are more than 150, many of which were built at Seattle. The real estate transfers for 1889 aggregated $15,055,794. But one railroad, the Northern Pacific, runs its trains directly into Seattle.

WEST INDIES. For the British West Indies, see article GREAT BRITAIN, p. 403.

French.-Guadeloupe and its dependenciesDésirade, Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, and St. Martin-have an area of 1,870 square kilometres; population in 1887, 188,188. The Governor is M. Le Boucher. The American consul is Charles Bartlett. The public indebtedness is 1,001,000 francs. The import in 1887 was valued at 20,600,000 francs; the export at 21,500,000 francs.

Martinique covers 988 square kilometres; in 1887 the population was 77.078. The Governor is Germain Casse. The American consul is William A. Garesché. The public debt is reduced to 435,000 francs. The import in 1887 was valued at 23,500,000 francs, and the export at 21,500,000 francs.

French Guiana, in South America, still being a penal colony, continues to suffer from the strong prejudices entertained against it in the mother country. The area is 121,413 square kilometres, and the population_25,796. The Governor is Gerville-Réache. The American Vice-Consul at Cayenne is Léon Wacongne. A border dispute with Holland about Dutch Guiana is to be settled by arbitration of the Emperor of Russia. The import in 1887 was valued at 8,600,000 francs; the export at 5,200,000 francs. Spanish.--Porto Rico is the lesser of the Spanish Antilles, has an area of 9,315 square kilometres; population, 810,394. The Governor and Captain-General is D. P. Ruiz Dana. The American Vice-Consul at St. Johns is Andres Crosas. In consequence of the remunerative prices that the products of the island have been bringing abroad, its prosperity has increased. The building of the railroad that is to encircle the island along the coast has proceeded steadily. The imports in 1887 were valued at $11,012,964, against $11,116,543 the previous year; the exports at $10,994,913, against $10,293.544. The chief articles exported in 1887 were: Sugar, 80,792 tons; coffee, 12,551 tons; molasses, 29,112 tons; tobacco, 3,462 tons. The American trade with Porto Rico in 1889 was: Exports to the United States, $3,707,373; imports from the United States, $2,175,458.

WEST VIRGINIA, a Southern State, admitted to the Union in 1863; area, 24,780 square miles; population, according to the last decennial census (1880), 618,457; capital, Charleston. Government. The following were the State officers during the year: Governor, E. Willis Wilson, Democrat (holding over by reason of an undetermined contest between A. B. Fleming, Democrat, and Nathan Goff, Republican, gubernatorial candidates in the election of 1888); Secretary of

State, Henry S. Walker; Treasurer, William G. Thompson; Auditor, Patrick F. Duffey; Attorney-General, Alfred Caldwell; Superintendent of Free Schools, Benjamin S. Morgan; President of the Supreme Court of Appeals, Adam C. Snyder; Judges, Henry Brannon, J. W. English, and Thomas C. Green, who died on Dec. 4 and was succeeded by Daniel B. Lucas.

The Gubernatorial Contest.-Under the State Constitution it became the duty of the Legislative Assembly that met on Jan. 9 to count the returns of votes for State officers cast in the preceding November election, and to declare the result. On the face of the returns as transmitted to the Secretary of State by the commissioners of the counties, Nathan Goff, the Republican candidate for Governor, had 78,714 votes, and A. B. Fleming, the Democratic candidate, 78,604, a majority of 110 votes for Gen. Goff. By the same returns it appeared that the Democratic candidates for Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Free Schools had been elected over the Republican candidates by majorities varying from 650 to 850 votes. On Jan. 9 the Secretary of State transmitted to the Legislature the returns from all the counties except Kanawha, declaring that he was unable to deliver the returns from that county on account of an injunction issued by one of the circuit courts. This injunction, obtained at the instance of Judge Fleming. the Democratic candidate for Governor, marked the beginning of a contest to prevent the seating of Gen. Goff, on the ground that his apparent majority had been secured by frauds at the polls. The question whether the circuit court had authority to receive such an injunction, or any other similar process to prevent the delivery of the returns to the Legislature, was speedily brought before the State Supreme Court, which, on Jan. 12, declared the injunction was invalid because issued by the court without authority. On Jan. 14 the Secretary of State, accordingly, sent the Kanawha returns to the Assembly. Had these returns been held back, the remaining counties would have shown a small majority for Fleming, but, in the ordinary course of procedure, it now became the duty of the Legislature to declare the election of Gen. Goff. As Judge Fleming had notified the Legislature that he should contest the correctness of the vote for Governor, the returns for the other offices were opened and counted and the election of the Democratic candidates declared, but the returns for Governor were referred to a joint committee of the two Houses consisting of five members, two to be chosen by the Senate and three by the House. This committee was instructed to take testimony and to report its findings at a special session of the Legislature to be called by the Governor. The Senate elected Senators P. W. Morris and Edward Maxwell, both Republicans, and the House Delegates Lively. Kee, and Sprigg, all Democrats. This action of the Legislature was not accepted by the Republicans without a vigorous protest, and was claimed by them to be in direct violation of the State Constitution, which provides explicitly that the Legislature after its organization, shall at once open the returns and declare the result. The Legislature adjourned on Feb. 21 without having made any declaration of the result. On March 4, the term

expired for which Gov. Wilson was elected, but he claimed the right to retain the office until his successor should be determined. This right was disputed by Gen. Goff, who on that day qualified by taking the oath and demanded the office, but was refused. The President of the State Senate, Robert S. Carr, also, laid claim to the office, and, having qualified, made a demand, which was refused. Mandamus proceedings in the State Supreme Court were at once begun against Gov. Wilson by the other two claimants. The case of Gen. Goff was decided on March 12. The Court held that the joint legislative convention of the Legislature alone had power to determine and declare the result of an election; that, until it should do so, no candidate had any right to assume the office for which he was a candidate, and that Gen. Goff was not the legal Governor. The case of President Carr was decided on March 14, the court, in effect, declaring that no such vacancy existed in the office of Governor as, under Article VII section 16 of the Constitution, would authorize the President of the Senate to succeed to the duties of Governor; and that under Article IV section 6 Gov. Wilson was entitled to hold the office "until his successor was elected and qualified."

On April 25 the joint legislative committee met at Charleston for the purpose of hearing testimony regarding the contest, but adjourned from time to time until May 8, before entering upon its labors. It visited various parts of the State, and did not complete the hearing until the middle of September, after which considerable time was taken for the preparation of the report. This was not completed until December, and showed a wide difference of opinion between the Republican and the Democratic members of the committee. The majority report, signed by the three Democratic members, declared that, upon the evidence submitted, the committee had discovered fraudulent and illegal voting sufficient to change the result of the election, and that of the votes legally cast, 78,697 were for Fleming and 78.460 for Goff, a plurality of 237 for Fleming. The minority report, signed by the two Republican members, found no such frauds as were claimed by the majority, and gave the following as the corrected vote: Goff, 78.792; Fleming, 78,652; plurality for Goff, 140. The result reached by the majority was obtained by counting out 70 votes in Brooke County, 28 in Kanawha, and 202 in Mercer and McDowell counties. In the other counties the gains and losses of the two candidates nearly balanced each other.

On Dec. 18, Gov. Wilson issued his proclamation, calling an extra session of the Legislature on Jan. 15. At this session the majority report of the committee was accepted, and Judge Fleming, by a strict party vote, was declared elected to the office of governor.

Legislative Session.-The regular biennial session of the Legislative Assembly began on Jan. 9, and adjourned on Feb. 21. As the Democrats controlled 34 of the 65 members in the Lower House (the remaining 31 members being Republicans), an organization of that body was easily effected; but in the Senate neither party had a majority, and the choice of a presiding officer was not made until Jan. 21, after 126 ballots. Of the 26 Senators, 12 were Democrats,

13 Republicans, and 1 a Union-Labor man, elected by the aid of Republican votes. Under these circumstances, the Union-Labor Senator, Robert S. Carr, aspired to be president, and was supported in this endeavor by one of the Republican Senators, named Minear, who refused to enter the Republican caucus or to support its nominee. The Republican strength was, therefore, reduced to 12 votes, the exact number controlled by the Democrats, while the two independent members, held the balance of power. All efforts of the Republicans to induce Minear or Carr to abandon their purpose were unavailing, and the deadlock was not broken until the Democratic members decided to support Carr. On the final ballot, Jan. 21, he received 9 Democratic and 7 Republican votes. Both Houses being now organized, a joint session was held for the purpose of declaring the result of the November election. The action taken upon this matter is recorded above. The choice of a successor to United States Senator John E. Kenna occasioned another prolonged contest. The Republican caucus nominated Nathan Goff, the gubernatorial candidate of the party in the last election. In the Democratic caucus no nomination was made until Jan. 28, when Senator Kenna was renominated, receiving 31 votes, the exact number necessary for a choice. The first ballot in the Assembly was taken on Jan. 22, before a nomination had been made by the Democratic caucus, and resulted as follows: Senate-Goff 12, Kenna 5. William L. Wilson 2, scattering 5; HouseGoff 28, Kenna 21, Wilson 6, scattering 9. On the sixth ballot, which was the first taken in joint convention after the renomination of Senator Kenna by the Democratic caucus, the vote stood: Goff 40, Kenna 39, scattering 7. The full Democratic strength in joint convention was 46 votes, a majority of 1 over all opponents. Forty-four ballots were taken, in which the highest number of votes received by Senator Kenna was 42. At this point the bolting Democratic members, finding that they were unable to induce Kenna's friends to abandon him and unite with them upon a new candidate, and seeing that but one day of the session remained, withdrew their opposition, and on the forty-fifth ballot Senator Kenna was re-elected by 46 to 45 for Goff.

The time of the Assembly was so far consumed by the contest over the Senate organization, and by the gubernatorial and senatorial contests, that legislation received little attention and, except the regular appropriation bills, few measures of importance were adopted. A resolution was passed refusing to consider a proposition in relation to the so-called West Virginia certificates of debt. This proposition was from New York holders of Virginia deferred certificates, amounting to $8,000,000, which they offered to sell to West Virginia for $2,500,000 of West Virginia bonds, in compromise of the supposed share of West Virginia in the debt of Virginia. The following acts were also passed :

Creating a State Bureau of Labor, and providing for the inspection of industrial establishments. cultural experiment stations. Assenting to the act of Congress establishing agri

Establishing a State Reform School.

Reorganizing the State militia, and providing for annual encampments.

Penitentiary.-At the State Penitentiary at Moundsville there were 266 prisoners on Oct. 1, of whom 6 were women. Of this number, 167 were employed under contract, 54 were unassigned, and 45 were cooks and laborers about the Penitentiary. A contract was made later in the year, which will give employment to about thirty.

Tobacco.-During the year ending June 30, 1889, 46,928,300 cigars were manufactured in the State, being the product of 114 factories. The number of pounds of tobacco consumed in their manufacture was 836,095. Wheeling manufactures more cigars than all the other towns in the State combined. The number of tobacco factories was 11, and they consumed 2,479,003 pounds of material; 5,725 pounds of plug and 2,267,270 pounds of smoking tobacco were manufactured, and the tax paid to the Government amounted to $182,100.16.

WISCONSIN, a Western State, admitted to the Union in 1848; area, 56,040 square miles; population, according to the last decennial census (1880), 1,315,497; capital, Madison.

Government.-The following were the State officers during the year: Governor, William D. Hoard, Republican; Lieutenant-Governor, George W. Ryland; Secretary of State, Ernst G. Timme; Treasurer, Henry B. Harshaw; Attorney-General, Charles E. Estabrook; Superintendent of Public Schools, Jesse B. Thayer; Railroad Commissioner, Atley Peterson; Insurance Commissioner, Philip Cheek, Jr.; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Orsamus Cole: Associate Justices, Harlow S. Orton, John B. Cassoday, William P. Lyon, and David Taylor.

Finances. Owing to large special appropriations made by the Legislature of this year, there was not sufficient money in the treasury at the adjournment of the session to meet those appropriations and the current expenses. The Treasurer therefore refused to pay the special appropriations until the semi-annual payment of railroad, telegraph, and telephone taxes in August provided the treasury with funds. On Oct. 1 there was a balance of $271,542.63 in the general fund, against $304,139.09 in October, 1888. No general State tax was levied on property during the year, except the one-mill tax for educational purposes, The revenue for general purposes was derived chiefly from taxation of railroad, telegraph, and telephone companies.

Legislative Session.-The regular biennial session of the Legislature began on Jan. 7, and adjourned on April 19. Two acts designed to secure a secret ballot at elections was passed. The first applies to cities having 50,000 inhabitants or more, which at present includes Milwaukee only. It requires that every such city shall provide each voting precinct with two rooms adjoining each other, one of which shall be known as the inspectors' and voting room, and the other as the ticket room.

All windows shall be so screened as to prevent any person outside from looking into the interior of any Every voting room shall be provided ticket room. with a swinging window, which may be used by the challengers in challenging persons offering to vote, and shall also be provided with a hall or passage way, into which voters may enter through a door from the ticket room to cast their votes; such hall or passage way may be provided with such barriers or railings as

may be deemed necessary to protect the inspectors from annoyance and the voter from molestation while he is voting. In the ticket room shall be kept a table or tables having compartments conveniently arranged, so that the voter after entering the ticket room may be enabled conveniently to select his ballot. Upon such table shall be deposited and kept tickets which may be prepared for the use of voters by any political party. Each voter when in said ticket room shall be at liberty to select from the ballots kept there such as he may wish. Only one voter shall be allowed in the voting room at the same time. All voters shall be adrior of the building into the ticket room, and shall mitted singly through a door leading from the extepass thence through a door into the voting room, and thence, after voting, shall pass by a door to the outside. The door last mentioned shall have a gong or bell in such a manner that such gong or bell will sound by opening said door, so that the policeman at in the ticket room may know that a voter has left the or near the entrance to the ticket room and the voters voting room. No crowd or crowds of persons shall be permitted to collect or remain within one hundred feet of the voting room or ticket room during the holding of any election in any such city.

All interference of any kind with a voter in either of these rooms is forbidden. All ballots must be printed upon white paper of a stated quality and of a size fixed by this act. The second act, known as the Cooper law, applies to all elections occurring outside of the above-named cities and the counties to which they belong, except elections for town and village officers. All ballots for such elections shall be prepared and distributed by the county clerk at the expense of the county, except that, in municipal elections, the expense shall be born by the city. Candidates shall be nominated by nomination papers, filed with the Secretary of State or with the county clerk. The nomination papers of candidates nominated by a party convention or caucus shall be signed by the president and secretary of such convention or caucus. The nomination papers of any other candidate shall be signed, if he is to be voted for throughout the State, by 1,000 voters; if in a district smaller than the State, by at least one voter for every hundred who voted at the preceding election in the distriet in which the candidate is to be voted for, but in no case shall the signatures be fewer than 50. The county clerk shall print the names of all candidates on each general ballot, arranging them under the names of the respective offices to be filled, except that the presidential electors of each party may be placed in separate groups. Blank spaces shall be left at the end of the list of candidates for each office. On the back of every ballot shall be printed "official ballot for," followed by the designation of the polling place for which the ballot is prepared and the date of the election. All ballots shall be printed with black ink upon white paper of a designated size and quality. Each polling place shall be provided at public expense with at least one voting shelf or compartment for every 50 voters in the district, in which voters may mark their ballots screened from observation, and a guard rail shall rail can approach within five feet of the ballot be so constructed that only persons within such boxes, or the shelves, or compartments.

Before delivering any ballot to an elector, the two ballot clerks shall write their names or initials on the back of the ballot immediately under the printed indorsement.

On receipt of his ballot the elector shall forthwith retire alone to one of the booths or compartments and shall prepare his ballot by marking a cross after the name of the person or persons for whom he intends

to vote.

Any elector shall be at liberty to use or copy any unofficial sample ballot which he may choose to mark or to have had marked in advance of entering the polling place or booth to assist him in marking the official ballot, but such unofficial sample ballot shall be printed on paper of a different color and quality from the official ballots. After preparing his ballot, the elector shall fold it so that the face of the ballot will be concealed, and so that the printed indorsement and the signatures or initials of the ballot clerks thereon may be scen. He shall then vote forthwith; provided, however, that any elector who desires to vote for an entire group may mark a cross as above described against the political designation of such group and shall then be deemed to have voted for all the persons named in such group, whose name shall not have been erased. Not more than one person shall be permitted to occupy any one shelf or compartment at one time; and no person shall remain in or occupy a shelf or compartiment longer than five minutes, provided the other shelves or compartments are occupied. No ballot which has not the names or initials of the ballot clerks shall be received or counted. No person shall solicit votes for any candidate or party or do any electioneering whatever on election day within any polling place, or within one hundred feet of any polling place. No person shall remove any ballot from any polling place before the closing of the polls. No person shall show his ballot after it is marked to any person in such a way as to reveal

the contents thereof.

A new local-option law provides that, on petition of 10 per cent. of the voters, an election may be held in any town, village, or city on the first Tuesday of April in any year to determine whether liquor licenses shall be granted. The result of such election shall be in force until changed by a subsequent election. An act for the relief of indigent Union soldiers and sailors and their indigent wives, widows, and children, requires that in each county an annual tax of not less than one fifth, and not over two fifths of a mill shall be levied, and directs that the proceeds shall be distributed by a county relief commission appointed by the county judge.

The constitutional amendment making the oldest member of the Supreme Court in point of service ex officio Chief Justice, which was proposed by the Legislature of 1887, was again adopted, and provision was made for its submission to the people at the April election. Two other constitutional amendments were proposed for the first time, one forbidding the passage of special laws to incorporate cities, the other providing that the compensation, duties, and mode of election of the State Superintendent of Schools shall be prescribed by law. The Constitution now fixes the salary of this officer, and directs that he shall be elected by the people. Other acts of the session were as follow:

Changing the day for meeting of presidential electors from the first Wednesday in December to the second Monday in January next following their election. Appropriating $15,000 as a contingent fund to be set apart and used in emergencies to prevent or suppress Asiatic cholera, small-pox, and other contagious diseases.

Appropriating $5,000 for the purchase and equipment of a permanent camp for the State militia in Juneau County.

Authorizing a compilation of the public statutes of the State by Berryman and Sanborn. Authorizing the construction of sewers and drains by village authorities.

Authorizing school boards to purchase United States flags for the schools.

To prevent persons unlawfully wearing the insignia of the Loyal Legion.

Regulating the proceedure for the discharge of insolvent debtors who have made a voluntary assignment.

Authorizing the Governor to designate and set apart one day in the year to be observed as "Arbor Day."

Prohibiting the manufacture and sale of any substance or compound as being pure butter or cheese which is not such.

Creating the office of dairy and food commissioner. Providing that wages shall be paid weekly or biweekly, unless there is a written contract to the contrary.

Providing a penalty for any person who keeps or is in any way interested in or connected with any house or place used for baiting or fighting any bird or animal.

Providing a general law for the incorporation and government of cities.

Authorizing the formation of six new companies of infantry, to form a part of the National Guard.

Providing that any person who shall perform any services in cutting, felling, hauling, running, driving, rafting, booming, cribbing, towing, sawing, peeling, or manufacturing into lumber any logs or timber shall have a lien upon such lumber for the amount due for such services.

Revising and amending the game laws.

Providing that the registration law shall apply to the annual municipal and judicial eicctions in all places where registration is now required at general elections.

Regulating building and loan associations. To authorize the formation of druggist mutual insurance companies.

The Bennett School Law.-The chief provisions of this law, which was the subject of much discussion in the State during the year, are as follow:

Every person having under his control a child between the ages of seven and fourteen years shall annually cause such child to attend some day school for a period not less than twelve weeks; provided that any such child shall be excused from attendance on its being shown that the person so neglecting is not able to send such child to school, or that instruction has otherwise been given for a like period in the elementary branches commonly taught in the public schools. No school shall be regarded as a school under this act unless there shall be taught therein, as part of the elementary education of children, reading, writing, arithmetic, and United States history in the English language. No child under thirteen years of age shall be employed or allowed to work by any person, company, firm, or corporation at labor or service in any shop, factory, mine, store, place of manufacture, business, or amusement, except that the judge of the ten years to be so employed, on proof that such child county court may grant a permit for any child over can read and write the English language, and that its parents are needy and its labor is necessary for the support of the family.

This act had no sooner been passed than it was vigorously attacked by the foreign elements of the population, especially by the German Lutherans and the Catholics. It was denounced as an attempt to control the parochial schools, and also as an infringement of private rights. The Catholic bishop issued a manifesto in which

he declared that "it interfered with the rights of the Church and of parents." All the provisions of the new law, except those requiring teaching in the English language, have in substance been the law of the State for years.

Charities. On Dec. 31 the number of insane patients at the State Hospital was 495, at the Northern State Hospital 627, and at the Milwaukee Hospital 249. There was paid out by the State to county asylums for the year ending Sept. 30 the sum of $149,889.66, under the law giving State aid to such asylums, at the rate of $1.50 per week for each inmate. On Dec. 31 the State School for the Deaf contained 184 pupils, and the School for the Blind 81.

Prisons. At the State Prison, on Dec. 31, there were 521 convicts, 16 of whom were women. The Industrial School for Boys contained on that date 474 boys, and the State Public School cared for 256 children.

Farm Products.-The following figures for 1888 were published this year by the Secretary of State: Yield of wheat, 9,786,983 bushels; corn, 29,058,857 bushels; oats, 41,733,682 bushels; barley, 10,502,443 bushels; rye, 4,049,784 bushels; potatoes, 11,492,108 bushels. There were grown 1,134,227 bushels of root crops, 189,145 bushels of cranberries, and 1,103,699 bushels of apples. There were 1,667,364 pounds of flax harvested, and 261,525 pounds of hops. The total yield of tobacco was 14,293,865 pounds. The butter product of the State was 31,619,926 pounds, and the cheese 38,538,472 pounds.

Political.- A State election was held on April 2, for the purpose of choosing a justice of the Supreme Court to succeed Justice J. B. Cassoday. In response to a call signed by the State officials and by many lawyers, Justice Cassoday became a candidate for re-election, and no party nomination being made, he received substantially the entire vote cast. The constitutional amendment making the oldest member of the Supreme Court in point of service ex officio Chief Justice, which was submitted to the people at this time, was adopted with but few dissenting votes.

WYOMING, a Territory of the United States, organized in 1868; area, 97,890 square miles; population, according to the last decennial census (1880), 20,789; capital, Cheyenne.

Government.-The following were the Territorial officers during the year: Governor, Thomas Moonlight, succeeded by Francis E. Warren; Secretary, Samuel D. Shannon, succeeded by John W. Meldrum; Treasurer, Luke Voorhees; Auditor, Mortimer N. Grant; Attorney-General, Hugo Donzelman; Superintendent of Education, John Slaughter; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William L. Maginnis, succeeded by Willis Van Devanter; Associate Justices, Samuel T. Corn and M. C. Sanfley.

Finances.-On Jan. 1, 1886, there was a cash balance of $31,175.45 in the treasury, and no outstanding obligations. Since that time several public buildings have been constructed, or are now in course of construction, in payment for which issues of Territorial bonds have been authorized amounting to $320,000. This amount of bonds was outstanding on Oct. 1, when the balance in the treasury was $47,752.76.

The assessed valuation of property for 1889 was approximately $31,431,495. There were as

sessed 5,868,370 acres of agricultural land, valued at $5,866,174; town lots, valued at $4,622,005; railroads, valued at $6,062,597; 632,583 neat cattle, valued at $7,014,661; 81,779 horses, valued at $2,387,369; and 459,991 sheep, valued at $749,557.

Education. The census of 1880 reports less illiteracy in Wyoming than in any other State or Territory in the Union. Education is compulsory, and a high standard in the management of the public schools has been maintained. There were 256 teachers employed, exclusive of those in the university, convent, church, and private schools, during the last school year, at an average monthly salary of $58.71. The increase in number of pupils in the public schools in 1888 over 1887 was 1,260.

Insane Asylum.-An asylum for the support and care of the insane was provided for by the Legislative Assembly of 1886, and by appropriations of over $60,000 a building has been erected at Evanston, Uintah County. In April, 1889, the hospital was opened; in October, the institution had between 15 and 20 inmates.

Penitentiary.-A Penitentiary is in process of construction at Rawlins, an appropriation of $30,000 therefor having been made by the last Legislature. The prisoners are at present confined almost entirely at the State prison in Joliet, Ill. On Sept. 25 there were 80 at this institution, 1 at Lincoln, Neb., 2 insane prisoners at Jacksonville, Ill., and 7 juvenile delinquents at the Reformatory at Golden, Col.

Indians.-The Shoshone Indian reservation, 1,520,000 acres, is in Fremont County, and is the only one within the Territory. There are at this agency 841 Shoshones, and 978 Arapahoes. They retain their tribal relations, but are peaceably disposed.

Constitutional Convention.-The desire of the people of the Territory for Statehood has been increasing during the past few years. The tenth Legislative Assembly, in February, 1888, memorialized Congress on this subject, and in May, 1889, a majority of the counties, through their commissioners, requested Gov. Warren, with the aid of the Chief Justice and the Secretary, to apportion the delegates, and to do such other things as would be necessary for convening a constitutional convention. An apportionment was made on June 3, 1889, and a proclamation issued designating the second Monday in July, 1889, for an election of delegates to a constitutional convention at Cheyenne, on the first Monday in September. At this election 55 delegates were chosen, the majority being Republicans. They assembled at Cheyenne, and were in session from Sept. 3 to Sept. 30, inclusive. The result of their labor is embodied in a Constitution and an address to the people and to Congress. The main features of the Constitution are as follow:

The rights of citizens of the State of Wyoming to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. Both male and female citizens of this State shall equally enjoy all civil, political, and religious rights and privileges.

The legislative power shall be vested in a Senate and House of Representatives which shall be designated "The Legislature of the State of Wyoming."

Senators shall be elected for four years and Representatives for two years.

Each county shall have at least one Senator and one