ARIZONA. 



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mi-Hi charged Dr. Alem, as a member of the 

 Senate, wiih suborning tlu army, ami asked Con- 

 in aiithori/.e immediate measures iigainsl 

 him. I'poii assuming command (Jen. K"ca or- 

 dered a vigorous campaign against the insur- 

 gents in all tlu! provinces. The jails were soon 

 filled with the Radical leaders. There was no 

 furl her mutiny among the troops, and the great 

 body of the navy remained loyal to the National 

 Government. The revolting vessels were recap- 

 1 1 1 red. Col. Espina, who was taken prisoner, was 

 tried by court-martial and sentenced to be shot. 

 The force, under Dr. Pellegrini, recaptured Tu- 

 cumaii. and disarmed the forces there, which 

 made but little resistance. The rebels in Santa 

 I'V were defeated after two days of fighting, and 

 the city of Kosario, the headquarters of the revo- 

 lution, was recaptured on Oct. 1 by Gen. Roca. 

 Hr. Alem was found in Rosario, and, the Senate 

 having ordered his arrest, he was taken to jail 

 with a large number of less prominent leaders 

 of the revolution. On Oct. 3 the Minister of 

 Foreign Affairs advised the Argentine minister 

 to the United States of the surrender of Rosario, 

 and added : " The whole province is now pacified, 

 and the entire country is perfectly quiet. Under 

 these circumstances a great movement of con- 

 servative opinion has prevailed, by which the 

 proceedings of the National Government have 

 received the approbation of the people and the 

 army and navy. These have demonstrated their 

 discipline, loyalty, and strength in support of 

 the Constitution and public order." 



ARIZONA, a Territory of the United States, 

 organized Feb. 24, 1863; area, 113,020 square 

 miles. The population, according to each de- 

 cennial census, was 9,658 in 1870; 40,440 in 

 1880 : and 59,620 in 1890. Capital, Phenix. 



Government. The following were the Terri- 

 torial officers during the year : Governor, Nathan 

 0. Murphy, Republican, succeeded in April by 

 Lewis C. Hughes, Democrat ; Secretary, N. A. 

 Morford, succeeded in June by Charles M.. Bruce ; 

 Treasurer, William Christy, succeeded in April 

 by James A. Fleming ; Auditor, Thomas Hughes, 

 succeeded in May by Howard C. Boone ; Attor- 

 ney-General, William Herring, succeeded in 

 April by Francis J. Heney; Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, George W. Chevney, suc- 

 ceeded by F. J. Netherton; Railroad Commis- 

 sioners, II. B. Lighthizer, E. B. Gage, G. W. 

 Beecher, J. S. O'Brien, succeeded by J. J. O'Brien, 

 Charles Leach, George M. Gage, Reese M. Ling ; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Henry C. 

 Gooding, succeeded in May by A. C. Baker; As- 

 sociate Justices, Richard E. Sloan, succeeded in 

 April by Owen T. Rouse, Edward W. Wells, 

 succeeded in April by J. J. Hawkins, Joseph II. 

 Kibbey. 



Finances. The following is a statement of 

 the Territorial debt, bonded and floating, exclu- 

 sive of interest, on Jan. 1, 1893': Old bonds out- 

 standing that can not be funded, $392,000; new 

 5-per-cent. bonds issued for the redemption of 

 bonds of 1883, $202,785; new 5-per-cent. bonds 

 i--ued for the redemption of floating debt in- 

 curred prior to Jan. 1, 1891, $92,330; floating 

 debt incurred since Jan. ], 1891, less cash on 

 hand, $101,400 ; total debt, $788,515. Under the 

 recent act of Congress providing for refunding 

 the whole county debt and a portion of the Ter- 



rilorial debt, new 5-per-cent. bonds have been 

 issued to the amount of $1,227,000, of which 

 $931,**o represents t he county debt and $2!*.'), 1 1 > 

 the Territorial liability. Although the. act of 

 Congress was approved June 25, 1890, the bonds 

 were not finally sold until August, 1892, and the 

 proceeds from their sale were not available until 

 December of the same year, since which time the 

 Treasurer and Auditor have been at work com- 

 plying with the provisions of the act and adjust- 

 ing the Territorial finances. 



During 1891 and 1892 the Territorial expendi- 

 tures exceeded the receipts by $78,013.53. A 

 tax rate of 50 cents on each $100 of valuation 

 for general fund purposes is needed to conduct 

 the Government on a cash basis, but the present 

 rate established by law is only 35 cents. 



Legislative Session. The seventeenth Legis- 

 lative Assembly convened at Phenix on Feb. 13, 

 and adjourned on April 13. For the purpose 

 of encouraging storage of water for irrigation an 

 act was passed giving the owners of storage 

 reservoirs the right to make use of the natural 

 channels of streams in the Territory for con- 

 ducting the waters stored in such reservoirs to 

 the place or places where they desire to use them, 

 and the further right to divert such waters from 

 such natural channels at such places as may be 

 most convenient. By another act any person, 

 company, or corporation was authorized to ap- 

 propriate any of the unappropriated waters or 

 the surplus or flood waters in the Territory for 

 delivery to consumers and for rental, milling, 

 irrigation, mechanical, domestic, stock, or any 

 other beneficial purpose, and to that end was 

 authorized to construct reservoirs, dams, flumes, 

 canals, ditches, and other necessary ways. The 

 first appropriator of water under this act shall 

 always have the better right thereto. 



A Territorial reform school for juvenile of- 

 fenders was established in the county of Coco- 

 nino. A fund f^r the erection of buildings is to 

 be obtained from the proceeds of a special tax of 

 one half mill to be levied in each of the years 

 1893 and 1894. A similar tax of two fifths of a 

 mill is to be levied in each of these years for a 

 normal-school building. 



Other acts of the session were as follow : 



To regulate and prohibit the carrying of deadly 

 weapons concealed. 



Authorizing the boards of supervisors of the sev- 

 eral counties to pay bounties for the destruction of 

 lynxes, wild cats, lovas, timber wolves, bears, pan- 

 thers, and mountain lions. 



Requiring witnesses in criminal cases to enter into 

 written noOgninnoM to appear "and testify at the 

 trial of the cause. 



To provide for keeping barbed-wire fences along 

 the highways in repair. 



To punish cruelty t<> animals. 



Requiring owners and operators of irrigating canals 

 to remove from the hanks of their canals all cockle- 

 burs and sunflowers growing thereon. 



To regulate the practice of dentistry. 



BtteDuahing a Territorial museum for the collec- 

 tion ami pre.M-rvation of the archaeological resources 

 and of specimens of the minerals, flora, and fauna of 

 the Territory. 



I'rovidinir for the inspection and regulating the 

 slaughtering of animals for sale in the Territory. 



K.MaMishimj; a Territorial library. 



Providing for the publication of a second volume 

 of reports of decisions of the Territorial Supreme 

 Court. 



