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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (MISSOURI.) 



mob at Erwin in July. The Italian vice-consul 

 at Vicksburg brought the matter before the State 

 Department at Washington, and strenuous efforts 

 were made to discover the murderers, but without 

 success. The Governor expressed his belief that 

 the killing may have been an assassination, the 

 result of a tribal quarrel. In December the mat- 

 ter came up before the Italian Senate, when the 

 Foreign Minister is reported to have said that the 

 Government would ask for no indemnities as the 

 price of the blood of its subjects, but it would not 

 object if indemnities were given to the relatives 

 of the deceased. 



Political. An election was held Nov. 5 to fill 

 vacancies in two State offices. On Aug. 28 the 

 Governor suspended the State Treasurer for viola- 

 tion of the law requiring that all the State funds 

 shall be kept in the treasury. The Governor had 

 found by a count of the funds, Aug. 15, that there 

 was a shortage of $107,621.44 in the amount on 

 hand; on Aug. 20 the full amount was found in 

 the treasury. The explanation given was that on 

 account of the crowded condition of the safe, 

 some of the funds had been deposited in banks 

 on good security. The Governor appointed G. 

 W. Carlisle to fill the office temporarily, and Sept. 

 6 the Treasurer resigned. The law says that the 

 State Treasurer shall not " loan any portion of the 

 public moneys, securities, stocks, or other public 

 property entrusted to him for any purpose what- 

 ever." 



The vacancy in the office of Secretary of State 

 was caused by the death of the Secretary, Hon. 

 J. L. Power, Sept. 24. The Governor appointed 

 his son, Joseph W. Power, to be acting secretary. 



At the election, Nov. 5, there were 5 candidates 

 for the office of Secretary of State. Joseph W. 

 Power was elected by a majority of 1,475. There 

 were 2 candidates to fill the vacancy in the office 

 of Treasurer, and G. W. Carlisle was elected 

 by a majority of 3,508. 



MISSOURI, a Western Mississippi valley 

 State, admitted to the Union Aug. 10, 1821 ; area, 

 69,415 square miles. The population, according to 

 each decennial census since admission, was 140,455 

 in 1830; 383,702 in 1840; 682,044 in 1850; 1,182,- 

 012 in 1860; 1,721,295 in 1870; 2,168,380 in 1880; 

 2,679,184 in 1890; and 3,106,665 in 1900. This is 

 an increase since 1890 of 15.9 per cent. The city 

 of St. Louis had in 1900 a population of 575,238. 

 Capital, Jefferson City. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Alexander 

 Monroe Dockery; Lieutenant-Governor, John 

 Adams Lee; Secretary of State, Samuel B. Cook; 

 Auditor, Albert O. Allen; Treasurer, Robert P. 

 Williams; Attorney-General, Edward C. Crow; 

 Superintendent of Schools, William T. Carring- 

 ton; Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, 

 Joseph P. Rice, Timothy J. Hennessey, W. E. 

 McCully; Superintendent of Insurance, Thomas 

 H. Wagner; State Geologist, Ernest Robertson; 

 Supervisor Building and Loan Associations, Lu- 

 ther S. Hickman; Commissioner of Labor Statis- 

 tics and Inspection, William Anderson; Inspector 

 of Coal-Mines, Charles Evans; Inspector of other 

 mines than coal, George K. Williams; Warden of 

 Penitentiary, Frank M. Woolridge; Beer Inspector, 

 Gyles Y. Crenshaw ; Special License Commission- 

 er, Thomas J. Martin; Adjutant-General, William 

 T. Dameron; Factory Inspector, Clement J. Nord- 

 meyer; Judges of the Supreme Court Gavon D. 

 Burgess, Chief Justice; Theodore Brace, Waltour 

 M. Robinson, William Champs Marshall, Leroy B. 

 Valliant, Thomas A. Sherwood, James D. Gantt. 

 The only Republican State officer is Waltour 

 M. Robinson, justice of the Supreme Court. 



ALEXANDER M. DOCKERY, 

 GOVERNOR OF MISSOURI. 



The Legislature holds biennial sessions. The 

 Senate is composed of 25 Democrats and 8 Re- 

 publicans. The House is composed of 88 Demo- 

 crats, 31 Republicans, and 1 Populist. James H. 

 Whitecotton, Paris, is Speaker. 



Finances. The bonded debt of the State on 

 Jan. 1, 1901, was $1,887,000, showing a reduction 

 during the preceding two years of $1.755,000. It 

 is in the form of 3|-per-cent. refunding bonds 

 dated Jan. 1, 1888, 

 due Jan. 1, 1908, r 

 and redeemable at 

 the pleasure of the 

 State after Jan. 1, 

 1893. The bonded 

 debt of cities and 

 towns on Jan. 1, 

 1900, was $26,- 

 055,192. This has 

 been increased $5,- 

 000,000 as a result 

 of the adoption of 

 an amendment to 

 the Constitution 

 for the benefit of 

 the Louisiana Pur- 

 chase Exposition. 

 County and town- 

 ship bonds to the 

 amount of $9,003,- 

 158.60 have been 

 issued in 53 coun- 

 ties, while 68 counties have no bonded indebted- 

 ness. The State certificates of indebtedness 

 amounted on Jan. 1, 1901, to $3,158,000. 



Valuation. The assessed valuation of real 

 and personal property is $1,093,091,264. The val- 

 uation of St. Louis property is $355,396,387, on a 

 rate of 66 of the actual value. The farm areas 

 are 41,479,159 acres, and the average assessed 

 valuation is $7.89. 



Railroads. The mileage of steam roads is 

 6,762 miles; increase since 1897, 113.26 miles; 

 total valuation for taxation (1901), $76,857,661. 

 The mileage of street roads is 551 miles; valuation 

 for taxation, $21,171,431. 



Insurance. There are doing business in the 

 State 135 stock fire insurance companies, 14 mu- 

 tual fire, 39 stock miscellaneous, 3 assessment life, 

 7 stipulated premium, 4 association casualty, 82 

 fraternal, and 45 regular life. Life policies in 

 force, 81,453; industrial, 358,456; issued during 

 year, 22,075 and 156,745; claims paid, $2,672,794 

 and $532,131; premiums collected, $6,653,099 and 

 $1,780,052. Stipulated premium life companies 

 policies in force Dec. 31, 1900, 3,804; amount, 

 $151,303; claims paid in 1900, $135,200. Assess- 

 ment life associations certificates in force Dec. 

 31, 1900, 8,103; amount, $15,752,600; assessments 

 collected in 1900, $126,206.04; claims paid, $118,- 

 446.75. Assessment casualty associations cer- 

 tificates in force, 1,848; amount, $4,805,000: as- 

 sessments collected in 1900, $22,324,454; claims 

 paid, $10,247. Fraternal insurance in force D v ec. 

 31, 1900, $285,960,943.79; claims paid in 1900, 

 $2,464,924. 



Education. The State school fund amounts 

 to $3,158,973, the seminary fund to $1,238,194.78, 

 and the county, township, and district school 

 funds to $8,151,815.30. The State school system 

 embraces the university, Agricultural College, 

 School of Mines,. 3 normal schools, 1 institute 

 for colored teachers, 10,326 public schools, and 

 181 high schools and seminaries. 



The State University, at Columbia, has 7 de- 

 partments academic, normal, law, medicine, mili- 

 tary science and tactics, agriculture, and me- 



