610 ONTARIO, PROVINCE OF. 



OREGON. 



sioners to apportion the Territory into 13 coun- 

 cil and 26 representative districts, provided for 

 the holding of an election on the first Tuesday 

 after the first Monday of November and for 

 canvassing the returns thereof, and prohibited 

 the Legislature so chosen from considering any 

 proposition or passing any bill to remove the 

 capital from its existing location. The clause 

 last mentioned was designed to prevent a repe- 

 tition of the scenes that disgraced the first Ter- 

 ritorial Legislature. 



Early in the year each political party held a 

 Territorial convention and selected delegates to 

 the national convention of the party. Subse- 

 quently conventions were held for the purpose 

 of nominating candidates for Delegate to Con- 

 gress. The Republican Convention met at 

 Guthrie on July 14 and nominated Dennis T. 

 Flynn. 



At a Democratic convention, held in August, 

 Oliver H. Travers was made the party candidate 

 for Delegate ; and at a convention of the People's 

 party at Oklahoma City, on Aug. 16, N. H. 

 Ward was nominated for the same office. The 

 November election resulted in a complete vic- 

 tory for the Republican candidate, the vote 

 being: Flynn, 9,478; Travers, 7,390; Ward, 

 4,348. The second Territorial Legislature, which 

 was chosen at the same election, will be divided 



B)litically as follows : Council, Republicans 7, 

 emocrats 5, People's party 1 ; House, Repub- 

 licans 12, Democrats 10, People's party 4. 



At this election the people of County A voted 

 to adopt Lincoln as the permanent county 

 name. In like manner the people of County B 

 adopted the name Pottawattomie ; of County E, 

 the name Day ; of County C. the name Elaine ; 

 and of County H, the name Washita. In counties 

 D and G no names were voted for. 



ONTARIO, PROVINCE OP. His Honor 

 Sir Alexander Campbell, Lieutenant-Governor, 

 having become seriously and. as it proved, hope- 

 lessly ill, Chief-Justice Hagerty was appointed 

 temporarily as Administrator of the Govern- 

 ment, and as such he, on Feb. 11, opened the 

 legislative session with the customary speech. 

 Therein he said : " A commission has been ap- 

 pointed to report upon the desirability of estab- 

 lishing a forest reservation and park in part of 

 the Nipissing district, south of the river Mat- 

 tawa, and upon the methods and expense of 

 maintaining and managing the same, thus fol- 

 lowing the wise example set by the United States 

 in several recent instances." "Higher-class edu- 

 cational expansion is commented upon in the 

 same speech : and among others in preparation 

 is announced " a bill for the assessment of col- 

 lateral or remote inheritances in certain cases" 

 suggestive of a Quebec contemporaneous act en- 

 joining direct taxation (which see) : and " a bill 

 adopting in substance the recent modifications 

 by the British Parliament of the laws relating 

 to mortmain." This act, providing " for the 

 payment of succession duties," was duly passed ; 

 and important and radical changes were made 

 in the provincial mining laws, necessitated by the 

 recent discoveries of immense deposits of valu- 

 able minerals in the Laurentides mountains, es- 

 pecially in silver, nickel, plumbago, apatite 

 (mineral fertilizer), iron, and others. Indeed, the 

 hitherto rather rare mineral asbestos has there 



ceased to be a rarity, and it is found in such 

 quantity and such tenuity of fiber as to render 

 it readily available even to be spun and woven 

 into fireproof dresses. Of more than a hundred 

 acts passed by the provincial Legislature during 

 that session, by far the most were private or 

 local. 



Ontario claims somehow to be the " Premier 

 Province of Canada." It has undoubtedly the 

 largest population. According to the official 

 census returns of 1891 (which nobody seems to 

 rely upon, however), the total population of On- 

 tario province is 2,114,321, showing an increase 

 of 9-93 per cent, within the decade. This is out 

 of a total assumed population of 4,832,679 for 

 the whole Dominion. The figures for Ontario 

 are probably not wide of the mark. Meanwhile 

 Toronto, the provincial capital of Ontario, 

 claims a population by last census of 181,220, 

 making her the second city of the Dominion, 

 and next to Montreal. 



On May 30, 1892, Hon. George A. Kirkpatrick, 

 M. P., was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of 

 Ontario, vice Sir Alexander Campbell, deceased. 

 Hon. Oliver Mowatt still holds the office of Pre- 

 mier of the provincial administration, with no 

 noteworthy changes in his Cabinet within the 

 year. 



OREGON, a Pacific coast State, admitted to 

 the Union Feb. 14, 1859; area, 96,030 square 

 miles. The population was 13,294 in 1850 : 52,- 

 465 in 1860; 90,923 in 1870; 174,768 ini880; 

 and 313,767 in 1890. Capital, Salem. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Sylvester 

 Pennoyer, Democrat : Secretary of State, Audi- 

 tor, and Insurance Commissioner, George W. 

 McBride, Republican ; Treasurer, Philip Met- 

 schau ; Attorney-General, George E. Chamber- 

 lain ; Superintendent of Public Instruction. E. B. 

 McElroy ; Railroad Commissioners, J. H. Faull, 

 George W. Colvig, and Rooert Clow ; Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court, Reuben S. Strahan ; 

 Associates, William P. Lord, Robert S. Bean. 



Finances. The following is from the Treas- 

 urer's report for the biennial term ending Dec. 

 31, 1892 : The total amount of taxable property 

 for 1890 from which the revenue of the State for 

 1891 was derived was $114,077,988. Upon this 

 was levied a tax of 4 mills to meet the current 

 expenses of the State for 1891, and in addition 

 thereto there was levied a special tax of one 

 seventh of a mill for the support of the State 

 University at Eugene, and one fifth of a mill for 

 the support of the National Guard. There is 

 also a 5-mill tax for the support of the common 

 schools, the latter being collected and distrib- 

 uted by the several counties. Under this levy 

 the following sums were assessed, viz. : 



Current expenses. 4 mills $456,811 15- 



Support of National Guard, 4 mill 22.815 55 



Support of State University, $ mill 16,296 82 



Total $595,423 52 



Under the assessment as returned by the 

 county officers for 1891, from which the State 

 revenue for 1892 was to be derived, the total 

 amount of taxable property was fixed at $128,- 

 132,560. As the result of its labors and find- 

 ings, however, the State Board of Equalization 

 increased this amount to $151,700,206, upon 



