WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 



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Railroad at Tenino. There are in all 660 miles 

 of railroad in the Territory, of which about 

 800 miles are now operated. A company has 

 been formed, and the work begun, to construct 

 a ship-canal from Lake Washington, by way of 

 Lake Union, to Puget Sound. 



Territorial Institutions. The Hospital for the 

 Insane is at Fort Steilacoom. This post baring 

 been abandoned as a garrison by the United 

 States, the buildings and 600 acres of land were 

 transferred to the Territory, at a nominal price, 

 for an insane asylum. It was first occupied for 

 this purpose in 1871. The number of patients, 

 June 30, 1884, was 136. The hospital is free 

 to all the insane in the Territory. The last 

 Legislature appropriated $32,500 a year for it. 



The Territory has a Penitentiary building, 36 

 by 150 feet in area, containing thirty-six cells, 

 on twenty acres of land at Seatco, near the 

 Northern Pacific Railroad. The number of 

 prisoners received during the year ending June 

 30, 1884, is 31 ; discharged, 25 ; escaped, 2. A 

 large establishment for the manufacture of 

 doors and blinds has recently been erected 

 near the Penitentiary, and convict-labor is em- 

 ployed therein. 



Educational. The following is a report of 

 statistics of the puhlic schools of Washington 

 Territory for the year beginning July 1, 1883, 

 and ending June 30, 1884. 



Paid for teachers' wages $152,142 



Paid for rent of school-room 558 



Paid for repair of school-house 5,403 



Paid for school furniture 15081 



Paid for fuel and other expenses 16,559 



Paid for school-house sites 16,077 



Paid for school-buildings 62.653 



Total amount during the year 287.590 



School funds at close of year 84,201 



Value of houses and grounds 481,706 



Value of furniture 36,803 



Value of apparatus 3,202 



Average salary of male teachers a month 43 



Average salary of female teachers a month 



Children enrolled during year 22,341 



Not attending school 9,253 



Total. 



31,599 



Average number of months public school has been 



taught 4 



School-houses built during year 87 



County teachers' institutes held 10 



School districts in the Territory 787 



School-houses in the Territory 652 



Houses having school (some rented) C63 



Graded schools in the Territory . 21 



The University of Washington Territory is 

 at Seattle, on a campus of ten acres. It has 

 four courses of study. There are 157 students 

 in attendance, 87 male and 70 female. Its 

 revenues are derived from a small biennial ap- 

 propriation by the Legislature and tuition fees. 

 There are nine instructors. 



Chnrehes. The Methodists have 42 church 

 organizations; Baptists, 33; Congregation al- 

 ists, 40; Presbyterians, 33 (4 Indian); Epis- 

 copalians, 13 (also 10 missionary stations); 

 Roman Catholics, 26 (also 6 chapels and 55 

 mission stations). 



Newspapers. There are fifty-three newspa- 

 pers published in the Territory, of which eight 

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are daily, one is an educational monthly, one 

 is a real-estate and trades monthly, one a semi- 

 weekly, and the remainder weekly journals 

 devoted principally to local interests. 



Indians. There are fifteen reservations in the 

 Territory, of which the total Indian population 

 is 10,635. The total amount of land within 

 these reservations is 6,332,885 acres, of which 

 6,290,964 acres have been surveyed and esti- 

 mated. The number of acres allotted in sever- 

 ally to the Indians is 30,631. The number of 

 Indian children attending the schools is report- 

 ed to be 481. Patents for all the lands on the 

 Nisqually and the Squaksin Reservations have 

 just been granted to the Indians residing there- 

 on. The land occupied by these reservations 

 consists largely of the best agricultural, graz- 

 ing, timber, and mineral lands. In many cases 

 the Indians cultivate the soil. 



Political. On November 4, the delegate to 

 Congress, militia officers, and members of the 

 Legislature were elected. The Republican can- 

 didate for delegate was J. M. Armstrong; 

 Democratic candidate, Charles S. Voorhees. 

 The campaign between these candidates was 

 fought on the question of the Northern Pacific 

 Railroad land-grant. The Democratic platform 

 pronounced unconditionally for the forfeiture 

 of all unearned lands, while the Republican 

 platform declared for the absolute forfeiture of 

 the unearned lands on the Columbia river 

 branch and against the forfeiture of those on 

 the Cascade branch, provided the company 

 shall complete the same by Jan. 1, 1888, and 

 hold its lands subject to certain stated condi- 

 tions. The result was the election of Voor- 

 hees, who received 20,995 votes, to 20,847 for 

 Armstrong; Democratic majority, 148; total 

 vote, 41,842, of which 10,000 to 12,000, it is 

 estimated, were cast by women. For militia offi- 

 cers, the Republican majority was about 7,000. 

 The Legislature of 1885 consists of 8 Republi- 

 cans and 4 Democrats in the Council, and 16 

 Republicans and 8 Democrats in the House. 



WEST INDIES. British. Jamaica. The area 

 of Jamaica is 4,193 square miles; population, 

 580,804, of whom 444,186 are negroes, and 

 fewer than 15,000 whites. The average tem- 

 perature on the coast, from June to November, 

 is 80, and from November to June, 75. In 

 the mountains, 4,000 feet above sea-level, the 

 average is 65 the year round. The mercury 

 has never been known to go higher than 95, 

 nor below 60. 



The Cap tain -General and Governor-in-Chief 

 of the island is Gen. Sir Henry Wylie Horman. 

 The American Consul at Kingston is G. E. lios- 

 kinson. 



The Governor draws a salary of $30,000, 

 with $2,500 allowance for traveling expenses. 

 There is a Colonial Secretary at $6,500 a year, 

 with a staff of assistants, in all costing $30,000 

 a year for salaries ; a Department of Public 

 Works, with a pay-roll of about $66,000 year- 

 ly ; an Audit Office, $19,825 ; a Treasury, $17,- 

 800; Stamp Department, $6,355; Collector- 





