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were empowered to select and secure for the State 

 tin- hinds thus granted. The act. of 1K91 expressly 

 |.i..\ i.lnl that it should not take effect until the rules 

 ami regulations referred to should he promulgated 

 hy the secretary of the interior. The i-Mianec of 

 these regulations was long delayed. When they 

 uerc received and the land commission organized it 

 was ascertained that no appropriation had been 

 made by the last legislature for the compensation of 

 the agents nor for the payment of the fees which 

 would become due at the United States land offices 

 when application was made to enter the selected 

 lands. Hy an airaiineinent made with the agents, 

 payment for their services was postponed until the 

 legislature should convene and make appropriation 

 therefor. The land office fees, amounting to $4,000, 

 have been advanced by two State officers. 



On January 7, 1893, there had been selected 

 816,575 acres, of the appraised value of $3,701,960. 



Knilronds. On Jan. 6, 1893, the last spike 

 was driven which completed the connection, by 

 way of the Great Northern Railroad, between St. 

 Paul and Seattle. This road, after entering the 

 State, runs southwesterly by way of Chattaroy 

 to Spokane and passes through that city over the 

 tracks of the Spokane Falls & Northern and 

 Union Pacific roads. Then it starts west paral- 

 lel with the Seattle. Lake Shore & Eastern across 

 the rolling wheat lands, and runs through the 

 Big Bend of Columbia River along the valley of 

 Crab Creek, where the growing of wheat is rap- 

 idly increasing, around thefootof Badger Moun- 

 tain and the lower end of Moses' Coulee to Co- 

 lumbia River at Rock Island. There a great steel 

 cantilever bridge is to span the river, and is being 

 erected, trains temporarily crossing by a ferry 

 after running a few miles along the bluffs. From 

 VVenatchee it ascends the river of the same name 

 and turns up Nason Creek to the summit of the 

 Cascades, which it crosses by a switchback 10.2 

 miles long at Stevens pass. This is to be re- 

 placed by a tunnel 3.3 miles long. After cross- 

 ing the mountains the road runs down the Sky- 

 komish Valley, where it taps a rich and untouched 

 timber and mineral belt, and down Snohomish 

 River to Everett, where it joins the Coast lines. 

 The number of miles of new railroad constructed 

 in the State in 1892 was 420. No other State or 

 Territory approaches this record. 



Political. At a Republican State Convention, 

 held at Seattle on April 14. delegates to the Min- 

 neapolis National Convention were selected, and 

 on May 25, at a similar convention at Vancouver, 

 the Democrats elected delegates to their National 

 Convention at Chicago. The first State ticket in 

 the field was nominated at Ellensburgh on July 

 25, by a State convention of the People's party. 

 It contained the following names : For Governor, 

 C. W. Young ; Lieutenant-Governor, C. ?. 

 Twiss ; Secretary of State, Lyman Wood ; Treas- 

 urer, W. P. C. Adams; Auditor, Charles Ru- 

 dolph ; Attorney-General, Guvnor Teats : Jus- 

 tices of the Supreme Court, E. W. Carner, Frank 

 P. Reid ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 J. M. Smith ; Commissioner of Public Lands, T. 

 M. Callowav ; State Printer. A. J. Murphy ; Con- 

 gressmen, J". C. Van Patten, M. Knox. Presi- 

 dential electors and delegates to the Omaha Na- 

 tional Convention were selected. A platform was 

 adopted in harmony with the principles of the 

 National Farmers' Alliance. 



On August 10 a second Republican State con- 



vent ion met at Olympia, and nominated John II. 

 McGraw for (Jovernor on the first ballot, by a 

 vote of 252. to 119 for George V. Calhoun. For 

 Lieutenant-Governor, F. M. Luce was nomi- 

 nated ; for Secretary of State, James H. l'i i< -. 

 Treasurer, 0. A. Bowen ; Auditor, L. R. Grimes; 

 Attorney-General, W. C. Jones ; Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, C. W. Bean ; Commis- 

 sioner of Public Lands, W. T. Forrest ; State 

 Printer, 0. C. White ; Justices of the Supreme 

 Court, T. J. Anders, Elmon Scott ; Congress- 

 men John L. Wilson. William H. Doolittle. 

 Candidates for Presidential electors were nomi- 

 nated, and a platform was adopted, of which the 

 following is a portion : 



We favor the remonetization of silver upon a rec- 

 ognized parity with gold, and its restoration to the 

 dignified place it has occupied for forty centuries as 

 money. 



We recognize the importance to our people of 

 the improvement of our rivers and harbors, and we 

 especially commend as worthy of the attention of 

 Congress the Columbia River, the harbors of our 

 Pacific coast and of Puget Sound and of the ship 

 canal connecting Puget Sound with Lake Washing- 

 ton ; we condemn the action of the Democratic 

 House of Representatives in refusing an appropria- 

 tion for the opening of the Columbia River and the 

 Lake Washington ship canal, and we most heartily 

 approve the course of Senators Allen and Squire, 

 and of Representative Wilson, in their advocacy of 

 those measures ; we are heartily in favor of the 

 speedy opening to settlement of the Puyallup and 

 other Indian reservations within this State. 



We call for the allotment of lands in severally to 

 the wards of the Government, and the throwing 

 open thereafter of the Indian reservations in this 

 State to the American farmer and producer. 



We demand a prompt settlement of all harbor 

 lines, tidelauds, and other questions in which a large 

 portion of our State is so vitally interested, and 

 promise all needed legislation to promote the irri- 

 gation of our arid lands and regulate the use of 

 water for irrigation so that the greatest good may 

 be done to the greatest number. 



We believe that the betterment of the condition 

 of our industrial and producing classes should be 

 the first care of this State, and promise such legisla- 

 tion as will insure a reasonable reduction in charges 

 made by those engaged in transporting passengers 

 or freight, whenever such rates are proven to be 

 excessive or exorbitant. 



We are in favor of a law making eight hours a 

 day's labor on all public works. 



The Second Democratic State convention met 

 at Olympia on Aug. 24, and nominated H. J. 

 Snively for Governor ; II. C. Willison for 

 Lieutenant-Governor ; John McReavy for Secre- 

 tary of State : Harrison Clothier for Treasurer ; 

 Samuel Bass for Auditor ; R. W. Starr for Attor- 

 ney-General ; J. B. Morgan for Superintendent 

 of 'Public Instruction ; F. S. Lewis for Commis- 

 sioner of Public Lands; E. H. Uorden for State 

 Printer ; W. II. Brinker and Eugene K. II anna 

 for Justices of the Supreme Court ; Thomas rni - 

 roll and James A. Munday for Conirn-s.-inen. 

 The platform adopted favors free silver coinage, 

 the survey and opening of public lands, the elec- 

 tion of President, Vice-President , and United 

 States Senators bv direct vote of the people, and 

 the speedy completion of the Nicaragua Canal. 

 It contains also the following it-solutions, the 

 first of which was adopted only after prolonged 

 and heated discussions : 



