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WASHINGTON. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



Cheney Normal School, which had 25 pupils at 

 the close of the year, has been opened. 



Charities. At the Steilacoom Insane Asylum 

 there were 303 patients on Oct. 1, 1889 ; 258 pa- 

 tients were admitted during the year following, 

 and 183 discharged, leaving 378 "patients in the 

 asylum on Sept. 30, 1890. The total cost of main- 

 taining the institution for the year was $64, 

 018.87, including improvements. The Insane 

 Asylum at Medical Lake, in eastern Washing- 

 ton, is not yet ready for patients, but the build- 

 ings will be completed early in 1891. Buildings 

 for the State School for Defective Youth were 

 also in course of construction. Under the act 

 of the first State Legislature approved March 

 26, the trustees of the State Soldiers' Home, es- 

 tablished by that act, have located the institu- 

 tion at Orting, in Pierce County, and accepted a 

 gift of 185 acres of land therefor. 



Prisons. On Sept. 30 there were 262 prison- 

 ers in the State Penitentiary at Walla Walla. 

 Although about half of these were regularly em- 

 ployed, and the profits from their labor were con- 

 siderable, especially in brick making, the cost to 

 the State for the year was over 41 cents a day for 

 each convict in excess of his earnings. 



Under the act of the first State Legislature 

 establishing a State reform school, the trustees 

 have purchased 50 acres near Chehalis, in Lewis 

 County, and procured the erection of build- 

 ings that will accommodate 100 inmates. These 

 buildings were completed by the end of the year 

 at a cost of $23,904.78, the appropriation being 

 $25,000. 



Coal. The coal output of Washington for 

 1890 is estimated at 1,349,773 tons, against 911,- 

 527 tons in 1889. 



Political. On Aug. 28 a State convention 

 of the Democratic party met at Seattle and nom- 

 inated Thomas Carroll for member of Congress. 

 A platform was adopted which demands the free 

 coinage of silver, the continuation of the Chi- 

 nese exclusion acts, preference for citizens of the 

 United States in giving employment in public 

 works, eight hours as a day's labor on such 

 works, the setting aside as Labor Day of the first 

 Monday in September; opposes laws that dis- 

 courage agriculture, asks for legislation against 

 trusts, and demands that all Government officers 

 be elected by a direct vote of the people. 



The Republican State Convention was held at 

 Seattle on Sept. 5. It renominated Congress- 

 man John L. Wilson, and adopted a platform 

 containing the following: 



We recommend that a liberal portion of the income 

 from the public lands deeded to the State for educa- 

 tional purposes be devoted to the better instruction 

 of the pupils in the public schools in the useful arts, 

 and that a free school of technology be established as 

 soon as may be. 



We demand the forfeit-are of all unearned land 

 grants and their restoration to the public domain 

 for homestead only. 



We demand that all Indians to whom the Govern- 

 ment has patented lands in severalty shall be enabled 

 to dispose of them at will. 



We insist that the equitable claims of old settlers 

 on account of Indian depredations be adjusted and 

 promptly paid. 



We favor the enactment of laws for the compilation, 

 printing, and free distribution by the State of text- 

 books for our public schools. 



We protest against the indiscriminate immigration 

 or importation of ignorant, pauper, or criminal classes 

 from any country, and we demand the enactment and 

 enforcement not only of restrictive Chinese immigra- 

 tion laws, but of laws which will exclude all who come 

 to lessen the dignity of labor, or are by nature, edu- 

 cation, or inclination undeserving of the rights we 

 ourselves enjoy. 



We favor the amendment of the Constitution of the 

 United States so as to permit the selection of United 

 States Senators by direct vote of the electors of the 

 State. 



The Prohibition party in State convention 

 nominated Robert Abefnathy as its congres- 

 sional candidate. At the election in November 

 the Republican nominee was elected by a re- 

 duced majority, the vote being as follows : Wil- 

 son, 29,153 ; Carroll, 22,831 ; Abernathy, 2,819. 

 At this election the people also voted for a per- 

 manent location of the State capital, their choice 

 being restricted to the cities of Olympia, Ellens- 

 burgh, and North Yakima. Olympia received 

 37,413 votes, Ellensburgh 7,722, and North Ya- 

 kima 6,276. A majority of the votes cast be- 

 ing in favor of Olympia, that city became the 

 permanent capital. Seventeen members of the 

 State Senate and the entire Lower House of the 

 Legislature were chosen at the same time. Of 

 the Senators, the Republicans elected 14, and the 

 Democrats 3. To the Lower House 61 Republi- 

 cans and 17 Democrats were elected. 



WEST INDIES. See CUBA, HAYTI, SANTO 

 DOMINGO, and under Colonies in DKNMARK, 

 PRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN, and NETHERLANDS. 



WEST VIRGINIA, a Southern State, ad- 

 mitted to the Union June 19, 1863 ; area, 24.780 

 square miles. The population, according to each 

 decennial census since admission, was 442,014 in 

 1870; 618,457 in 1880; and 762,794 in 1890. 

 Capital, Charleston. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, A. B. Flem- 

 ing, Democrat ; Secretary of State, Henry S. 

 Walker, succeeded by William A. Ohley ; Treas- 

 urer, William G. Thompson ; Auditor, Patrick 

 F. Duffey ; Attorney-General, Alfred Caldwell ; 

 Superintendent of Free Schools, Benjamin S. 

 Morgan; President of the Supreme Court of 

 Appeals, Adam C. Snyder, succeeded by Daniel 

 B. Lucas ; Judges, Henry Brannon, J. W. Eng- 

 lish, and H. A. Holt. 



Finances. For the fiscal year ending Sept. 

 30, 1889, the State treasury statement is as fol- 

 lows : Balance in all funds on Oct. 1, 1888, $337,- 

 737.56: receipts from all sources during the 

 year ensuing, $1,158,537.60; expenditures for all 

 purposes during the year, $1,210,568.94; balance 

 in all funds on Sept. 30, 1889, $285,705.22. The 

 balance in the State fund was $41,731.22, in the 

 general school fund $240,928.15, and in the 

 school fund $3,045.85. For the year ending 

 Sept. 30, 1890, the corresponding statement is as 

 follows: Balance in all funds on Oct. 1, 1889, 

 $285,705.22 ; total receipts for the year ensuing, 

 $1,206,418.36; total expenditures for the year, 

 $1,040,542.75; balance in all funds on Sept, 30, 

 1890, $451,580.83. The balance in the State fund 

 was $127,532.13, in the general school fund 

 $292.476.39, and in the school fund $31,572.31. 



There is no permanent State debt, but the 

 State has borrowed from time to time various 

 sums from its irreducible school fund to meet 



