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tains no word for any number above three ; 

 they are unable to distinguish one color from 

 another ; they have no religion and no funeral 

 rites ; and they possess neither chiefs nor slaves. 

 Their only weapons are bone-pointed spears ; 

 they gro\v neither fruit nor vegetables; and 

 as their country is naturally barren, they are 

 obliged to live entirely on animal food; but 

 they are not cannibals ; they ill-treat neither 

 their women nor their old people, and they are 

 monogamous. 



Railroads* There were in operation in the 

 province of Buenos Ayres, in 1884, 799 kilo- 

 metres of railway, the gross earnings of which 

 were $3,128,995, and the net earnings $1,175,- 

 272. In 1883 the net earnings had been, for 

 557 kilometres in running order, only $892,107. 

 There were forwarded in the same year 1,620,- 

 891 passengers, and 48,245,589 tons of mer- 

 chandise. In 1885 there were thrown open to 

 traffic 264 kilometres of new lines. Forty-two 

 new locomotives were received from the United 

 States and England; so that, together with 

 one built on the spot, there were 90 running 

 altogether. The rolling-stock consisted of 101 

 passenger and 2,502 freight cars. Of the lat- 

 ter, 50 were turned out by Argentine car- 

 works. The Tolosa Railroad construction-s>hops 

 were being built in 1885. The number of loco- 

 motives shipped from the United States to the 

 Argentine Republic in the fiscal year 1883-'84 

 was 65, worth $906,U3. 



Telegraphs. The length of lines in the prov- 

 ince of Buenos Ayres in 1885 was 4,395 kilo- 

 metres, 758 having been added during the year, 

 and twenty new offices having been opened. 

 The increase of new lines in 1884 throughout 

 the republic was 3,200 kilometres, and the ag- 

 gregate income from this source was $288,450, 

 being $15,000 in excess of 1883. 



Education. Out of 503,591 children of school 

 age, 146,325 attended school in 1884. Of the 

 35,741 pupils in school in Buenos Ayres, 24,351 

 attend the public schools. In the colonies and 

 national territories of the republic there were, 

 in 1885, twenty-six schools, and new ones are 

 being built in Formosa, Viedma, Yictorica, and 

 Acha. 



ARIZONA. Territorial Government The fol- 

 lowing were the Territorial officers at the be- 

 ginning of the year : Governor, F. A. Tritle ; 

 Secretary, H. M. Van Arman; Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, Clark Churchill; Auditor, E. P. Clark; 

 Treasurer, T. J. Butler. Supreme Court : Chief- 

 Justice, Sunnier Howard; Associate Justices, 

 Daniel H. Pinney and W. G. Fitzgerald. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature met in 

 January, and adjourned in March, having passed 

 123 acts and adopted 4 joint resolutions and 15 

 memorials to Congress. Among the acts are 

 the following: 



Providing that the rents and profits of the husband's 

 separate property shall be his separate property, and 

 the rents and profits of the wife's separate property 

 shall be her separate property ; an act to prohibit the 

 use of obscene or abusive language ; to prevent ob- 

 structions or impediments to travel or transportation 



upon the public roads of the Territory ; to regulate 

 unincorporated acequias on the south side of Salt river 

 in Maricopa County ; to punish the unlawful disposal 

 and sale of mortgaged personal property 5 for the pro- 

 tection of live-stock growers ; authorizing aliens to 

 hold and transmit lands for mining purposes and pur 

 poses incidental to mining, and (not more than 320 

 acres at any one time) for manufacturing, commercial, 

 agricultural, or grazing purposes ; to prevent -the in- 

 troduction of diseased cattle into the Territory ; to 

 regulate the sale and transportation of dynamite and 

 other explosives ; to prevent the sale of intoxicating 

 beverages on election-day ; providing means for the 

 Territorial exhibit at the IXew Orleans Exposition ; 

 providing for a Commissioner of Immigration, to be 

 appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the 

 Council ; for two years, with an annual salary t of $2,000 ; 

 to provide for the drainage of mines, and to regulate 

 the liabilities of miners and mine-owners in certain 

 cases ; to punish bribery and other corrupt influences 

 at elections ; to promote live-stock breeding ; for the 

 prevention of fraud, and the better protection of min- 

 ers in the sale and purchase of ores and the working 

 or reduction thereof; to establish and maintain a Ter- 

 ritorial Insane Asylum at or near Phoenix, Maricopa 

 County ; for the protection of children from intoxicating 

 liquors to encourage the destruction of wild animals ; 

 an insolvent act ; a mechanics' lien law ; establishing a 

 Territorial Normal School at Tempe, Maricopa County. 

 An act to establish a public-school system, and to pro- 

 vide for the maintenance and supervision of puplic 

 schools in the Territory, creates a Board of Education, 

 consistingof the Governor, Treasurer, and Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction. It makes the probate judge 

 of each county superintendent of public schools for 

 the same, and creates a board of trustees for each dis- 

 trict. 



An act was also passed establishing the University 

 of Arizona, at or near Tucson, to include, besides the 

 ordinary collegiate department, normal, agricultural, 

 and mining departments. 



Another act provides that " no polygamist or biga- 

 mist, or any person practicing polygamy or bigamy, or 

 what is known as " 'celestial 'orplural ' marriage,' " 

 shall be entitled to vote or hold office in the Territory. 

 The statute against bigamy was amended to meet 

 more effectually the case of Mormons. 



Finances. The bonded indebtedness of the 

 Territory amounted on the 1st of January to 

 $350,000, of which $90,000 was incurred prior 

 to 1883, and bears 10 per cent, interest, pay- 

 able annually. Under the Funding Act of 1883 

 $260,000 in bonds were issued, bearing inter- 

 est at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum. 



"It will be seen by comparison with my 

 last report," says the Auditor in his report for 

 1883 and 1884, "that the expenses very ma- 

 terially increased. An explanation of the rea- 

 sons for this increase is very easily made and 

 understood. In the first place, our Territory 

 is increasing in population and business inter- 

 ests, requiring more attention and causing more 

 criminal litigation and expense. And the care 

 of our insane has swelled in expense. The 

 expense of our Territorial prison for the past 

 two years has nearly doubled, amounting to 

 the sum of $87,658.68, as against two previous 

 years, of $44,866.33, actually increasing in the 

 amount of $42,792.35. Care of our insane 

 costs us $30,562.45, as against that of two pre- 

 vious years, $20,567.89, actually increasing in 

 the amount of $9,994.56. Aside from these 

 items of expense, there was made an appropria- 

 tion from the general fund, for the purpose of 



