ARKANSAS. 



County forms the southern boundary of Graham 

 Count v, juul has a Mormon colony. Mancopa 

 County is Immediately south of Yavapai, and 



ha>a larger Mm-iimn population than any county 

 \pache. Gihi County also lies south of 

 Yaviipui, and has a Dumber of these people. 

 Pinal and Pinui Counties have comparatively 

 iV\v. The number of Mormons in the Territory 

 is placed at r.'.iMM).- 



bonstitutional Convention. By an act 



it i he legislative session of 1889 the Gov- 

 ernor was empowered to call a special election 

 ,,,i \,,v. ~> ..f that year for the choice of dele- 



to a constitutional convention which 

 should meet in the January following. Soon 

 after a-uininir office, Gov. Wolfley sought an 

 opinion on the legal right of a Territorial Legis- 

 lature to pass such an act, and in June received 

 an ailirmaiive reply from United States Attor- 



-,.-ral Miller." In March the latter had 

 irivi-n an opinion that acts passed by the Legis- 

 lature after sixty consecutive days from its as- 

 sfinhling were void. The Governor then brought 

 to hi- attention the fact that the Convention act 

 nnd many other important laws of the Territory 

 had l>een passed after the sixty-day limit, and 

 that his opinion would bring the entire legal 

 Mstem into confusion, and asked for further ad- 

 vice; but in July the Attorney-General replied 

 by ivallinninic hi's former opinion. Acting un- 

 der this advice, the Governor refused to issue a 

 call for the election of delegates on the ground 

 that t he Convention act was void. This course 

 wa- not g.-n.-rally approved by the people, and 

 in Maricopa County the committees of both the 

 Republican and Democratic parties united in 

 urging that the election be held. But the effort 

 ire united action in all the counties failed, 

 and no election or convention was held. 



Political. A Territorial Convention of the 

 Republican party met at Phenix on Aug. 26. It 

 nominated for delegate to Congress, George W. 

 Cheyney, the Territorial Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Instruction, and for Members-at-Large of 



Jslative Council, J. M. W. Moore in the 

 northern district and W. F. Nichols in the 

 southern district. The following is a portion 

 of the platform adopted : 



Tin- irrmvth of the Territory of Arizona, the wealth 

 uives, as well as the necessities of our citizens, 

 require tin- early recognition of our Territory as aState. 

 The history of the Mormon Church in the United 

 .ails an ecclesiastical control that has ever 

 , exacting, and tyranical, and whose 

 t>o;u>t lias ever been that the Mormon Church and 

 people do not and will not assimilate with the peo- 

 r country; and therefore we do hereby de- 

 mand ofCongreM that it pass the bill now pending 

 hci'ore it known aa an Act for the Purification of Elec- 

 tions in Arizona. 



We direct the attention of -the tax payers and the 

 people at lar_rc to the deficit of $5,700 in the accounts 

 atie, commissioners of the Territorial 

 j'rison ; to the large unadjusted balance due to the 

 from this liih-. Secretary Bayard in the ad- 

 ministration of his office; ;ind to the* appalling defi- 

 ciency i n the accounts of Frederick W. Smith, late 

 receiver in the United States Land Office at Tucson, 

 an. I to the serious injuries and embarrassments result- 

 iron, to tint settlers upon our land, all occur- 

 ring under Democratic administration. 



The Democrat i< Territorial Convention met 

 at I'hcnix on Sept. 15, and renominated Delegate 



Marcus A. Smith for Congress. For Members- 

 at-Large of the Legislative Council its nominees 

 were Harris Baldwin in the northern district 

 and Peter R. Brady in the southern district. 

 The platform demands admission of the Terri- 

 tory to the Union, denounces the Federal Elec- 

 tion bill pending in Congress, favors free coin- 

 age of silver 'and reduction of the tariff, and con- 

 tains the following declarations : 



Of our own Legislature we demand the abolition of 

 all useless offices, particularly the office of Attorney- 

 General, Commissioner of Immigration, Superintend- 

 ent of Schools, and the Territorial Geologist, and a 

 reduction of salaries and emoluments of the rest 

 wherever practicable. 



And we demand a consolidation of county offices. 



We oppose any legislation to disfranchise any citi- 

 zen except it be on conviction of crime. 



At the November election the Democratic ticket 

 was elected by a majority of a few hundred votes. 



ARKANSAS, a Southern State, admitted to 

 the Union June 15, 1836; area, 52,198 square 

 miles; population, according to each decennial 

 census since admission, 97,574 in 1840 ; 209,897 in 

 1850 ; 435,450 in 1860 ; 484,471 in 1870 ; 802,525 

 in 1880 ; 1,125,385 in 1890. Capital, Little Rock. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, James P. 

 Eagle, Democrat ; Secretary of State, B. B. 

 Chism ; Auditor, W. S. Dunlop ; Treasurer, Will- 

 iam E. Woodruff ; Attorney-General, William E. 

 Atkinson ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Wood E. Thompson ; State Land Commissioner, 

 Paul M. Cobbs, who died on Feb. 12, and was 

 succeeded by C. B. Myers ; Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, Sterling R. Cockrill ; Associate 

 Justices, Burrill B. Battle, M. H. Sandels,* Simon 

 P. Hughes, and William E. Hemingway. 



Valuation. The total assessed valuation of 

 the State for 1888 was $156,954,602; for 1889 

 (three counties estimated), it was $172,241,726, 

 an increase of $15,287,124. Only two counties. 

 Franklin and Union, have an assessment less 

 than that of 1888, which indicates that nearly 

 all sections of the State have shared in the pre- 

 vailing prosperity. The assessment for 1890 

 shows a corresponding increase. The tax rate 

 for State purposes in 1890 was 5 mills. 



Education. For the year ending June 30, 

 1889, the school population was 404,873, against 

 388,129 for the year preceding. The number of 

 pupils enrolled 'in the public schools was 216.152, 

 against 202,754 in 1888. The teachers employed 

 numbered 5,945. 



Charities. On Nov. 30, 1889, the number of 

 patients at the State Lunatic Asylum was 410, of 

 whom 201 were males and 209 females. ' During 

 the year preceding, 95 new patients were admit- 

 ted, and 96 inmates died or were discharged. In 

 February of this year the asylum suffered a loss 

 of over $25,000 from afire that destroyed the 

 boiler-room, kitchen, and laundry. 



Penitentiary. The State convicts are now 

 worked by the lessee in ten localities in the State, 

 some at the Penitentiary buildings, others on 

 farms, turnpikes, railroads, or at wood camps 

 and brick yards. There has been a marked in- 

 crease in their number in recent years, exceeding 

 the ratio of the growth of the population, as 



* Died on November 12. 



