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heavily. Oleh Leh was fortified, and large re-en- 

 forcements were brought from Padang. Lieut.- 

 Gen. J. A. Vetter, the victor of Lombok, took com- 

 mand of the Dutch forces. Toekoe Oemar, when 

 he saw that his plans were discovered, took the 

 field and raised an army among the tribes which he 

 had subdued for the Dutch. He carried on a cruel 

 and savage war, putting to death every wounded 

 man and prisoner who fell into his hands. He 

 showed all his old skill in entrapping and deceiv- 

 ing his enemies, and employed his art with desper- 

 ate energy, having staked everything on the chance 

 of victory. Large numbers of friendly Acheenese 

 joined the rebellion from the Dutch part of Acheen 

 with arms and ammunition furnished by the au- 

 thorities. Gen. Vetter's plan was to attack Toekoe 

 Oemar from the front and drive him by degrees to 

 the west coast, where the Dutch war ships could 

 aid in the final battle. The Dutch army crossed 

 the cordon on May 23, in four columns, two of 

 which marched upon the enemy's headquarters at 

 Lampisang and Boekit Seboen, while the other exe- 

 cuted a flank mana'uvre farther south. The Ma- 

 lays resisted their advance with great courage. In 

 the attack upon Lampisang many of the Dutch 

 officers were killed, but the position was finally cap- 

 tured, Toekoe Oemar's kcinii>m>y was destroyed, and 

 a large number of rebels were slain. On May 24 

 the Dutch took Boekit Seboen, commanding the 

 Beradin pass, after a severe combat. The combined 

 columns proceeded from there directly to t he coast 

 and joined forces with the troops landed by the 

 flotilla at Kroeng Raba. The enemy was dis- 

 persed, but not yet conquered. Toekoe Oemar with 

 the remnant of his army escaped into the fastnesses 

 of the mountains. The troops devastated the pos- 

 sessions of the rebel chiefs and then returned to 

 Kotaradja. Negotiations were entered into with 

 Toekoe Oemar, who acceded to any conditions that 

 were offered, but took care not to place himself in 

 the power of the Dutch, and let no opportunity pass 

 to strike a blow at them. Gen. Vetter resigned his 

 special command to resume his post as commander 

 in chief of the forces in Batavia. and Gen. Moulin 

 went to Acheen as civil and military governor. 

 Flying columns attacked any bodies of insurgents 

 that showed themselves in the accessible parts of the 

 country. Sometimes Dutch patrols were taken by 

 surprise, bands of rebels who were tilling the field 

 when they passed forming suddenly and" attacking 

 them in the rear. Col. Stemfoort temporarily suc- 

 ceeded Gen. Moulin, who died of sunstroke on July 

 11. The campaign was pushed with greater vigor. 

 The troops attacked the rebels on the mountains as 

 well as in the lowlands, and chased Toekoe Oemar 

 and the other chiefs from their places of refuge. 

 Toekoe Baid surrendered after suffering a series of 

 reverses. Gen. Swart, a veteran colonial officer, 

 was appointed to the command of the forces in 

 August. Toekoe Oemar, chased from Lelong, fled 

 to Lambesoi, on the coast. When the plan of burn- 

 ing and devastating the places where rebellion 

 showed its face was found insufficient, the new com- 

 mander reverted to Gen. van der Heiden's system 

 of occupying strategic positions as permanent posts 

 was carried out with the object of completing the 

 subjugation of Acheen. 



NEVADA, a Pacific coast State, admitted to the 

 Union Oct. 31, 1864; area, 110.700 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial census 

 since admission, was 42.491 in 1870: 62,266 in 1880; 

 and 45,761 in 1890. Capital, Carson City. 



(iovernment. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, John E. Jones, 

 until his death, April 10. when Lieut. -Gov. Rein- 

 hold Sadler became Governor; Secretary of State. 

 Eugene Howell ; Treasurer, W. J. Westerfield ; 



Coinptroller. C. A. La Grave; Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, H. C. Cutting; Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, Robert M. Beatty, who died Dec. 10 ; Ad- 

 jutant General, C. H. Galusha; Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court, R. R. Bigelow ; Associate Jus- 

 tices, Charles H. Belknap, M. S. Bloomfield all 

 Silver party except the Chief Justice and the Adju- 

 tant General, who are Republicans. 



Finances. The Comptroller reported that the 

 deficiency on State expenditures for the past two 

 years amounted to $5,084.42. 



The appropriation for the State Prison was $63,- 

 000, and of this $57,779.22 has been expended. 



The asylum cost the State $68,663.38, the weather 

 service $1,200, and the Board of Health $1,000. 



The States owes the military companies $10,462.- 

 50 for rent of armories, and a railroad company 

 $531 for transporting militia for escort duty at the 

 funeral of the late Governor. 



Education. The school population numbers 

 9,089. At the last semiannual apportionment of 

 school funds $77,038.25 was distributed, giving 

 over $8 per capita. The general school fund 

 amounts to $1,240.208.33. 



At the teachers' institute in April, the following 

 resolutions were adopted : 



" Resolved, That we earnestly request the Legis- 

 lature to provide a modern industrial school, which 

 shall be a home, a school, a farm and a workshop in 

 the best sense of all the terms. 



" Resolved, That it is the wish of this institute that 

 all consistent effort be exerted by the several mem- 

 bers of this body, looking to the establishment of 

 county high schools in all the counties of the State 

 where the same can manifestly be maintained." 



The State University, at Reno, has nearly 300 stu- 

 dents. An artillery company was organized among 

 the students in January, and 2 pieces of ordnance 

 were procured for its use. 



Railroads. In February articles of incorpora- 

 tion of the California Eastern Railway Company 

 were filed at San Bernardino. The object of the 

 corporation is to repurchase the Nevada Southern 

 Railway and continue it through to Goode Springs, 

 Nev., making a total length of 75 miles. 



There has been a lively demand for land on Vir- 

 gin river in Lincoln County, made on the expecta- 

 tion that the proposed railroad from Los Angeles 

 to Salt Lake City will traverse that region. 



The suit of the Central Pacific Railway Company 

 vs. the State of Nevada, involving the right of the 

 State to tax the lands of the company, went to the 

 United States Supreme Court on a writ of error 

 sued out by the company. The State courts held 

 that the State was entitled to levy taxes upon pat- 

 ented lands, and also for lands which had not been 

 patented, but which had been surveyed, and on 

 which the cost of surveying had not been paid. 

 The opinion of Justice Brown of the United States 

 Supreme Court affirmed this decision. ' If," he 

 said, "the railroad had a possessory claim to the 

 lands, they are taxable under the statute of Ne- 

 vada." Remarking upon the plea that the land 

 could not be taxed where the Government reserved 

 mineral lands from the grant, he said : " If the road 

 has no possessory claim because the lands are min- 

 eral it certainly can not be injured by a sale of the 

 lands to pay the tax." Justice Field dissented on the 

 ground that the reservation of mineral lands from 

 the grant made it impossible to determine what 

 lands could be properly taxed against the company. 



The Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company was 

 assessed $6.353.50 on its property in Storey County. 

 The company offered to pay $3,724.35. The county 

 sued for the full amount and for a separate judg- 

 ment against the real estate and other property of 

 the company for $6,353.50 ; for 10 per cent, dam- 



