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of land on the Mandalay Railway line are to 

 be granted on very favorable terms to planters 

 who undertake to cultivate indigo, sugar, or 

 other produce, and bind themselves to employ 

 90 per cent, of natives of India and not more 

 than 10 per cent, of Burraans on their plan- 

 tations. The Indian emigrants are to be 

 brought from Calcutta at greatly reduced 

 rates. The Burmese chief priests at Manda- 

 lay visited many districts and endeavored to 

 restore peace. 



During the rainy season pursuit of the da- 

 coits is impossible, as the whole surface of the 

 country is covered with deep mud. When the 

 cold season approached, the troops and police 

 resumed active operations against the rebels 

 who had defied them during the summer. In 

 October, Tha-Do and Xga-Chak, two notori- 

 ous bos, or bandit chiefs, were killed by the 

 police in the Pakoku district, and Gna-Bo-Ka, 

 another dakoit leader, surrendered. On the 

 25th of the same month the Sekya pretender 

 was driven from a fortified position in Kyoukse 

 after a severe fight. The Government has 

 been accustomed to grant amnesties to dacoits 

 who surrendered themselves, promised to re- 

 main in a particular village, and found securi- 

 ties for their good behavior, and in this way 

 many dangerous marauders were induced to 

 settle down to peaceful occupations. Before 

 the beginning of the winter campaign, Chief- 

 Commissioner Crosthwaite announced his de- 

 termination to grant no more pardons except 

 for special reasons. 



In December an expedition was sent in two 

 divisions, one from Upper and one from Lower 

 Burmah, against the eastern Karennees, who 

 invaded the land of British tributaries. 



Afghanistan. The Government of India an- 

 nounced the intention of sending Henry Du- 

 rand, the Foreign Secretary, on a confidential 

 mission to the Ameer of Cabul in October. 

 1888; but the war between Abdurrahman and 

 his cousin, Ishak Khan, Governor of Afghan 

 Turkistan, interfered with the plan and caused 

 a postponement of the embassy. The war be- 

 tween the two grandsons of Dost Mohammed 

 originated in Ishak's preparations to assert his 

 right to the succession when Abdurrahman 

 was sick and was expected to die. On re- 

 covering, the Ameer summoned Ishak to his 

 court, and the latter, knowing that he had 

 mortally offended his cousin, instead of ac- 

 cepting the invitation and going to Cabul to 

 meet his death, prepared to fight. Gholam 

 Haidar. the Ameer's general, led a powerful 

 army against Ishak. The Ameer's troops had 

 a great advantage in the rifles and artillery 

 furnished by the Indian Government. After 

 preliminary engagements, the two armies met 

 in pitched battle at Tashkurgan. One of the 

 Ameer's divisions, commanded by the Gov- 

 ernor of Badnkshan, was routed in the begin- 

 ning of the fight, but the fortune of the day 

 was retrieved by Gholam Haidar's successful 

 attack on the main body of the enemy, and, 



when it was routed, turned on the division 

 that had driven back a section of his own 

 troops, and made prisoners of the whole of 

 them. Pursuing the broken army to Mazari- 

 Sherif on the following day, Gholam completed 

 his victory, and made a prisoner of Mohammed 

 Hosain, commander-in-chief of the defeated 

 army. Ishak Khan made good his escape into 

 Russian territory. The Ameer went into Tur- 

 kistan to make a final settlement of the country 

 and inquire into the history and instigators of 

 the revolt. 



DTDIAXi. State Government. The following 

 were the State officers during the year: Gov- 

 ernor, Isaac P. Gray, Democrat; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Robert S. Robertson, Republican; 

 Secretary of State, Charles F. Griffin, Repub- 

 lican; Treasurer, Julius A. Lemcke, Republi- 

 can ; Auditor. Bruce Carr, Republican ; Attor- 

 ney-General, Louis T. Michener, Republican ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Harvey 

 M. La Follette ; Judges of the Supreme Court, 

 "William E. Niblack, George V. Howk, Byron 

 K. Elliott, Allen Zollars, Joseph A. S. Mitchell. 



Finances. For the fiscal year ending October 

 81, the receipts of the State treasury were 

 $3,575,091.78; cash on hand at the beginning 

 of the year, $373,941.21 ; total, $3,949,035.99. 

 The disbursements during the same period 

 were $3,621,309.83, leaving a balance of $327,- 

 726.16 on October 31. In his message, in Jan- 

 uary, 1889, the Governor says : 



The last General Assembly failed to pass the gen- 

 eral appropriation bill for the support of the State and 

 its institutions, or to provide for the completion of the 

 State-house, the three additional hospitals for the in- 

 sane, the institution for feeble-minded youth, the 

 Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, and the soldiers' 

 monument. At first it seemed as though the failure 

 to enact such legislation would leave the State in such 

 a financial condition that it would be impossible to 

 meet the current expenses of the State and the addi- 

 tional obligations which the State had incurred by ?o 

 many public improvements, or to complete any of the 

 new'institutions ; but, contrary to the most ^anguine 

 expectation, nearly all the obligations of the State- 

 have been met the interest on the public debt paid 

 under provisions of the act of l^Vj ; the Soldiers' and 

 Sailors' Orphans' Home at Knightstown rebuilt; the 

 land for the institution for feeble-minded youth at 

 Fort Wayne purchased and the construction of the 

 building" commenced ; the Hospital for Insane at Lo- 

 pansport completed, equipped, and opened for recep- 

 tion of patients ; the hospitals at Evansville and Rich- 

 mond completed ready for equipment and furnishing. 



During the past two fiscal years the State 

 debt has been increased by two temporary loans 

 of $340.000 each, bearing date of April 1, 1887. 

 and April 2, 1888, from which the interest on 

 the debt was paid. The total debt is now 

 $6,770,608.34, of which the sum of $3,904.- 

 783.22 is in the form of school-fund bonds held 

 by the State for the benefit of schools, $340,- 

 000 is held by Purdue University, and $144,000 

 for the benefit of the State University by the 

 State Treasurer. The remainder of the debt, 

 $2,381,825.12, is taken by Xew York banks. 



Charities. The superintendent of the Insane 

 Hospital reports that at the beginning of the 



