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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (NEVADA.) 



song and insectivorous birds, to restrict the open 

 season during which game may be killed, and to 

 provide for more effective means of enforcing the 

 law. 



A compilation of the appropriation bills passed 

 shows a total appropriation of $2,789,590.01 for 

 the biennium, or $187,334.43 more than was ap- 

 propriated by the former Legislature. Nearly all 

 the State institutions received an increased 

 amount. Some of the institutions received appro- 

 priations for new buildings and for the purchase 

 of land. 



A concurrent resolution was passed requesting 

 Congress to call a convention for the purpose of 

 proposing an amendment to the Constitution of 

 the United States, providing for the election of 

 United States Senators by direct vote of the 

 people. 



A law was passed for the registration and pro- 

 tection of trade-marks. 



An inheritance-tax law was enacted. 



Provision was made for a commission to in- 

 vestigate the Torrens system of registration for 

 better securing title to real estate. 



Another measure provides for traveling li- 

 braries. 



Many new school laws were passed. 



A law was enacted prescribing severe penalties 

 for kidnaping and child-stealing. 



Legal Decisions. In December the Supreme 

 Court of the State revived the law of 1897, which 

 confers power upon the Governor to appoint fire 

 and police commissioners for the city of Omaha. 

 A law passed by the last Legislature empowers 

 county boards to make and enforce quarantine 

 regulations, and the Attorney-General in Novem- 

 ber asserted that reasonable regulations under 

 this act will have the force of laws, and that 

 county boards may detain, without bail, persons 

 having infectious diseases. The boards may also 

 maintain hospitals. 



Lawlessness. A young man, living on a farm 

 near Humboldt, who had been accused of express- 

 ing satisfaction at the assassinatibn of President 

 McKinley but who denied the charge, was, on the 

 night of Sept. 17, decoyed from his home, de- 

 prived of his clothing, and tarred and feathered 

 by a mob. A local paper said, that " after telling 

 the victim to go home, and warning him in future 

 to be more careful of his utterances, the crowd, 

 which numbered about 40, quietly dispersed." 



Penitentiary. The new officers of the Peni- 

 tentiary entered upon their duties at the begin- 

 ning of 1901 under trying circumstances, the in- 

 stitution having then recently suffered from a 

 serious fire. But means were devised for proper 

 care of the convicts, and an appropriation by the 

 Legislature for rebuilding was applied, new steel 

 cells were procured, and the 300 prisoners are 

 reported to have proved tractable during a period 

 when ordinary discipline was a matter of un- 

 usual difficulty. 



State-Fair Grounds. An appropriation of 

 $35,000 was made by the last Legislature for the 

 purchase of permanent grounds for the State Fair, 

 and land was bought at Lincoln. The fair of 1901 

 was unusually successful. 



Banks. The secretary of the State Banking 

 Board made a tabulation showing the condition 

 of State and private banks, including savings- 

 banks, at the close of business March 4,^1901. 

 The total number of banks was 417. A compari- 

 son of the report with that of March 12, 1900, 

 shows an increase in the following items: Loans 

 and discounts, $1,750,935.68; legal reserve, $3,653,- 

 864.95; surplus and profits, $186,083.60; general 

 deposits, $5,851,163.35; and a decrease in redis- 



counts and bills payable of $392,301.10. A com- 

 parison with the report of Dec. 13, 1900, shows 

 an increase in the following items: Loans and 

 discounts, $1,193,234.93; legal reserve, $922,666.18; 

 general deposits, $2,311,992.67. 



Insane Hospital. Sept. 23, 1901, a fire de- 

 stroyed a portion of the hospital for the insane 

 at Norfolk, and 2 patients were burned to death. 



Political. The Republicans were generally 

 successful at the State and county elections last 

 November, electing their candidates for Associate 

 Justice of the Supreme Court and regents of the 

 University of Nebraska. S. H. Sedgwick, for 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, received 98,993 

 votes, against 86,334 for his opponent on the fu- 

 sion ticket. 



NEVADA, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Oct. 31, 1864; area, 110,700 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus since admission, was 42,491 in 1870; 62,266 

 in 1880; 45,761 in 1890; and 42,335 in 1900. Capi- 

 tal, Carson City. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901: Governor, Reinhold Sadler; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, James R. Judge; Secretary of 

 State, Eugene Howell; Treasurer, D. M. Ryan; 

 Comptroller, Samuel P. Davis; Attorney-General, 

 William Woodburn; Surveyor-General, E. D. Kel- 

 ley; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Orvis 

 Ring; Adjutant-General, J. R. Judge, ex officio; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William A. 

 Massey; Associate Justices, Charles H. Belknap, 

 A. L. Fitzgerald; Clerk, Eugene Howell, ex oflicio. 

 All are of the Silver party except Superintendent 

 Ring, who is a Republican. W. D. Jones resigned 

 as Attorney-General, and Gov. Sadler appointed 

 William Woodburn. 



State officers are elected in November, once in 

 four years. The next State election will be in 

 1902. An associate justice of the Supreme Court 

 is elected in the alternate even-numbered years. 



Education. The school population is 9,130. 

 The semiannual apportionment was $69,918.43. 

 The appropriation for the Nevada Indian School, 

 which has 251 pupils, is $33,400. The Govern- 

 ment has allowed for the year 1901 $12,200 for 

 a new water system, $3,500 for light and steam 

 system, and $2,500 for general repairs. 



Finances. The treasury, Dec. 31, 1901, had 

 $270,020.74 in coin. The State fund securities 

 were: Irredeemable State school funds, Nevada 

 4-per-cent., $253,100; Nevada 5-per-cent., $380,- 

 000; United States 4-per-cent., $825,000; total, 

 $1,728,120.74. In 1901 the Bond Commissioners 

 redeemed $25,000 worth of bonds and issued $15,- 

 500. The Nevada war claims against the Govern- 

 ment amount to $462,000. The annual report of 

 the Treasurer shows that the State is better in a 

 financial way than it has been for some years. 



Lands. The grants to the State were' 2,732,- 

 884.70 acres, of which 33,000 acres are still due 

 the State. There are 1,250,000 acres under con- 

 tract at 6 per cent, per annum. The State has 

 400,000 acres of reverted lands, the greater part 

 of which are for sale at $1.25 an acre. The State 

 has issued patents for 825,000 acres. There are 

 approximately 61,250,000 acres of land owned by 

 the General Government in the State. 



Products. The number of cattle in the State 

 is estimated at 50,000, and the sheep from 5,000,- 

 000 to 7,000,000. The wool-clip was estimated at 

 7 pounds a head. 



The latest mining discovery in this State is 

 the Tonopah mines, in Butler, Nye County. The 

 first settlement and work was begun a year ago. 

 By Jan. 1 of this year the population was 80; by 

 May 1, 225; now it is easily 1,000; and it is the 



