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chanic arts. The School of Mines and Metallurgy 

 is at Holla. The enrolment at Columbia is 1,038, 

 and at Holla 108. 



The enrolment of the Normal School, at Kirks- 

 ville, is 834; at Warrensburg, 803; and at Cape 

 Girardeau, 402. Lincoln Institute is at Jellerson 

 City. It has enrolled 140 males and 131 females. 



State Superintendent Carrington reports 1,900 

 private institutions of learning, as follow: One 

 sectarian university, 1 non-sectarian university, 

 30 sectarian colleges and academies and 17 non- 

 sectarian, 14 professional schools, and 10 each 

 separate male and female academies. Thirty-four 

 private institutions are open to both sexes. 



The enrolment of the School for the Blind at 

 St. Louis in 1900 was: Boys, 01; girls, 04. The 

 school has the largest Braille library in the Uni- 

 ted States. The estimated expenses for 1901-1902 

 were $59,000. In the School for the Deaf and 

 Dumb 350 students are enrolled. The estimated 

 expense for 1901-1902 is $147,000. 



State Institutions. The number of prisoners 

 confined in the Penitentiary at the time of the last 

 official report was 2,051. Number of white males, 

 1,207; white females, 17; colored males, 719; col- 

 ored females, 48; persons of foreign birth, 110; 

 native born, 1,935; serving life terms, 24. All 

 the appropriation of $80,000 made by the State 

 for the support of the Penitentiary was returned, 

 with $50,000 additional saved from its earnings. 



In the Reform School for Boys, at Boonville, 

 there are 339 boys, of whom 110 were sent by 

 the United States Government. Among them are 

 a few Indians. The school biennially costs the 

 State about $45,000. It derives its maintenance 

 from the counties from which the boys are sent. 



The average annual expenditure for the Girls' 

 Industrial School, at Chillicothe, is $14,000. 



There are 4 insane asylums at Fulton, St. 

 Joseph, Nevada, and Farmington and a colony 

 for the feeble-minded at Marshall. The last Leg- 

 islature appropriated $150,000 'for the establish- 

 ment of the Farmington asylum. The State also 

 aids an insane asylum at St. Louis. The esti- 

 mated annual expenses for the care of the insane 

 and feeble-minded is $100,000. 



The estimated cost of the Confederate Home^ at 

 Higginsville, is $40,000, and of the Federal Sol- 

 diers' Home, at St. James, $20,000. 



Agriculture. The acreages and yields of the 

 principal crops were as follow: Corn, acreage 

 0,400,000, yield 193,207,000 bushels; wheat, acre- 

 age 1,040,000, yield 1,000,000 bushels; oats, acre- 

 age 1,000,000, yield 30,000,000 bushels; flax, acre- 

 age 00,000, yield 540,000 bushels; timothy, acre- 

 age 2,218,000, yield 2,884,000 tons; cotton, acre- 

 age 04,200, yield 35,053 bales; tobacco, acreage 

 10,100, yield 758,000 pounds. 



Legislation. No question of purely State in- 

 terest provoked so much discussion during the 

 year as an amendment to the Constitution, which 

 was adopted by the people in 1900, the principle 

 of which was enacted into law by the Legislature 

 in 1901. This law provided that the value of 

 mortgaged property, less the value of the mort- 

 gage, should be taxed against the owner, and that 

 the mortgage should be assessed against the 

 holder. The law did not affect persons living in 

 the State and loaning their money upon property 

 within it, but it practically required those living 

 in other States and loaning their money in Mis- 

 souri to pay taxes on their mortgages twice in 

 the States in which they lived and in Missouri. 

 The adoption of the amendment and the subse- 

 quent passage of the law were followed by the 

 refusal of outside investors to make further loans 

 in the State at the old rates, and by the with- 



drawal of large sum.-; of money. Then- wa.s a 

 practical suspension of ; loncy-louiiing busi- 

 ness, and real-estate value Ain't down, while 

 interest rates advanced i'roin i .; j.cr cent, all 

 over the State. The r.;il< i>! ,.n<i ],,;,,, M ,,. n 

 finally met in Kansas (.it.y, ) 'M^ani/a- 



tion, and prepared to fight In || >V j\ pro- 



posed to attempt to invalidate it <.un<l 



that the preliminary steps for \i>. j,, , ,.,n to 

 the people were not properly taken. Tiii- re; 

 ing applied equally well to the other j a 

 ments adopted at the same time, however, n 

 would have prevented the $5,000,000 appropi 

 tion for the world's fair at St. Louis. A <, 

 was finally taken up from St. Joseph, in which it 

 was contended that the amendment violated the 

 terms of the Federal Constitution prescribing 

 equality of taxation. The Supreme Court upheld 

 the contention, and the amendment was annulled 

 without prejudice to the -others that were adopted 

 with it. 



The Legislature met Jan. 1 and adjourned 

 March 9. Among the other measures passed 

 were: A law creating a State board of arbitra- 

 tion, a law describing a system of registration 

 to be used by party caucuses and conventions, 

 and a law providing for apportionment of dele- 

 gates and fixing other rules for the holding of 

 conventions other than those for elections in 

 cities of fewer than 300,000 inhabitants. 



MONTANA, a Western State, admitted to 

 the Union Nov. 8, 1889; area, 140,080 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since admission, was 132,519 in 1890 

 and 243,329 in 1900. Capital, Helena. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901: Governor, Joseph K. Toole; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, Frank Higgins; Secretary of 

 State, George M. Hays; Auditor, J. H. Calder- 

 head; Treasurer, A. H. Barret; Attorney-General, 

 James Donovan ; Superintendent of Education, W. 

 W. Welch. These officers were elected on a fusion 

 ticket of Democrats and Populists. Other officials 

 were: Commissioner of Agriculture, Judson A. 

 Ferguson; Adjutant-General, Lee McCulloch; 

 Land Register, Thomas D. Long; State Examiner, 

 William Hudnall; Coal-Mine Inspector, Howard 

 Welch ; Game W T arden, W. F. Scott ; Chief Justice 

 of the Supreme Court, Theodore Brantley, Repub- 

 lican; Associate Justices, G. R. Milburn, W. T. 

 Pigott, Democrats; Clerk, Henry G. Rickerts, 

 Democrat. 



The State officers are elected for terms of four 

 years at the time of the presidential elections. 

 The term of justices of the Supreme Court is six 

 years. The Legislature meets biennially in Jan- 

 uary of the odd-numbered years. 



Census Figures. A census bulletin shows 

 that, of the total population of the State, 149,842 

 are males and 93,487 females. This makes the 

 percentage of male population 01.0. Of the popu- 

 lation, 170,202 are native born and 07,007 foreign 

 born. There are 1,523 negroes in the State, 1,738 

 Chinese, 2,441 Japanese, 597 Indians who pay 

 taxes, and 10,740 who do not. There are 39 Chi- 

 nese women in the State, 7 Japanese women, and 

 5,080 squaws. 



Finances. The report of the Treasurer for the 

 year ending Nov. 30 shows receipts from all 

 sources of $1,343,838.75, and disbursements of $1,- 

 303,779.04. The amount on hand was $544,086.87. 



The revenues of the Auditor's office for the 

 same time were $09,797.07, compared with $59,027 

 the previous fiscal year. The insurance compa- 

 nies paid the larger amount of this sum as fol- 

 low: Admission fees of 10 companies, $4.800; 

 of annual statements, $3,150; certificates of 1,833 



