30 



ARKANSAS. 



were successful for the first time in many years. 

 The vote for Governor, as unofficially announced, 

 was: Murphy. r,.-J7:! ; Ilerndon, 4.210; O'Neill, 

 2,402. F<>r Councilman: Uoran, 5,318; Camp- 

 bell. 4,796 ; Woy, 1,512. 



The Territorial Legislature of 1895 will stand 

 as follows: Council Democrats, 6; Republic- 

 cans, i>. House Democrats, 8; Republicans, 16. 

 ARKANSAS, a Southern State, admitted to 

 t lie I'mon June 15. ls:i(i : area, 53,850 square 

 miles. The population, according to each de- 

 cennial census since admission, was 97,574 in 

 1840: .>'>!>.*'.; in is.->0; 435,450 in 1860; 484,471 

 in ISTII: sii-,>..V,>r> in 1880; and 1,128,179 in 1890. 

 Capital, Little Rock. 



(iovernment. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, William M. 

 Fishback, Democrat; Secretary of State, H. B. 

 Annistead ; Auditor and Insurance Commis- 

 sioner, ('. B. Mills; Treasurer, Richard B. Mor- 

 row ; Attorney-General, James A. Clarke : Land 

 Commissioner, C. B. Myers; Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, Josiah H. Shinn; Commis- 

 sioner of Mines. Manufactures, and Agriculture, 

 George M. Chapline ; Chancellor, D. W. Carroll ; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, H. G. Bunn ; 

 Associate Justices, Burrill B. Battle, Simon P. 

 Hughes, Richard H. Powell, and W. W. Mans- 

 field, who resigned on May 9, and was succeeded 

 by James E. Riddick, appointed by the Governor 

 May 9; Clerk of the Supreme Court, W. P. Car- 

 roll. 



Finances. The treasury receipts for the past 

 two years were as follow : For general revenue 

 from taxes, $71 1, *<!!). 7<> ; liquor licenses, $187,- 

 -(! Us : insurance licenses and taxes, $30,401.75 ; 

 - of lands and books and officers' fees and 

 commissions, x43, 190.78; expenses of inmates 

 in the State charitable institutions, $8,701.59. 

 Sinking fund from taxes, $173.053.04; sales of 

 books XT-J j.-jr, : sales of real-estate bank lands, 

 $4,158.36; Woodruff judgment, $34,840. Re- 

 s for common-school fund from taxes, 

 $670,090.56. Receipts for pension fund from 

 t axes, $82,778.43. The total amount collected for 

 the-e funds is $1,947,083.21, and the amount dis- 

 bursed during the two years out of the general 

 revenue fund is $912,334.29. The cost of State 

 government f ro m Oct. 1, 1892, to Oct. 1, 1894, 

 was $916,30!>.?<;. 



The bonded debt in detail, Oct. 1, 1894, was 

 as fl!.,\vs: State 'hank bonds, 5-per-cent., $3,000, 

 interest $s.r>62.50; State bank bonds. (5-per-cent., 

 *K>!U>oi>, interest $340,080.09; real-estate bank 

 bonds. <i - per - cent., "A," $530,000, interest 

 $1,525,200; real-estate bank bonds, 6-per-cent., 

 "C." $43.000. interest xbifi.TlO; funded bonds, 

 isriii issue, 6-per-cent., $2:ss,ooo, interest $299,- 

 100; funded bonds. 1 870 issue, 6-per-cent, $;{|1 - 

 ODD. inlerot 447.640; LoughboTOUgh bonds. 

 1875, 6-per-cent, $506,000, interest $199,170: 

 ten-year ID-per-cent . bond. $100. Total bonded 

 indebtedness, $4,812,732.50. State scrip is valued 

 at par. 



Railroad Assessment. The railroad assess- 

 ment for 1804 is $19,932,858. The total mileage 

 of the various roads is 2.:!-}:!-9 miles, an increase 

 of 82-02 miles over 1893, and an increase in valua- 

 tion of $626,886. The Iron Mountain heads the 

 list as a corporate taxpayer, and is assessed at 

 $8,966,209, an increase of' $386,061 over 1893. 



Liquor Tax. The annual report for the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1894, shows: Number of 



fallons remaining in bond in district warehouses, 

 4,583 ; number of gallons produced during the 

 year, 82,734 ; total tax on spirits withdrawn from 

 warehouse, $74,023.20. The same items in 1893 

 were as follow : Gallons in bond, 92,102 ; gallons 

 produced, 92,095 ; tax paid, $67,913.10. The in- 

 crease in tax received this year is $6,110.10. 



The Woodruff Defalcation. The case of 

 the State of Arkansas against William E. Wood- 

 ruff, defaulting State Treasurer, and his bonds- 

 men, was decided Feb. 8, 1894, by the Pulaski 

 County Chancery Court. The chancellor con- 

 firmed the master's report except as to the sec- 

 ond bond, which he declared invalid on account 

 of the erasure of the name of one of the sureties, 

 J. H. Anderson, of Howard County. The lia- 

 bility on this bond was $1,809.25, and judgment 

 against Woodruff personally was rendered for 

 the amount. The total amount of the judgment 

 was as follows: Fourth bonds, $1,880.17; fifth 

 bonds, $40,177.47, less $8.72 due the Treasurer 

 on his first term, and $1,500 to $2,000 on account 

 of scrip on hand. The costs and interest will 

 make a total of nearly $50,000 in favor of the 

 State. 



Levee Act. The courts have sustained the 

 constitutionality of the act of the Legislature of 

 1893, authorizing the construction of a levee on 

 Mississippi river from the Missouri line to the 

 mouth of St. Francis river, and on April 6 it was 

 decided that the taxes assessed on the lands in 

 the levee district must be paid. 



Congressional Appropriations. From the 

 river-and-harbor appropriation Arkansas re- 

 ceived $640,000, a little more than was received 

 last year. For the improvement of the custom- 

 house at Little Rock $58,000 was appropriated, 

 and an expenditure of $194,000 for the estab- 

 lishment of a military post at Little Rock was 

 authorized. Of this amount $60,000 was voted 

 by the Fifty-second Congress. 



State Pensions. The amount of pensions 

 this year is $35,116. On account of a deficiency 

 in the funds on hand, a reduction of 15 per 

 cent, has been necessary. The State Board of 

 Pensions granted 195 applications for pensions, 

 and rejected a like number. 



Census Statistics. The second volume of 

 the compendium of the eleventh census was is- 

 sued this year. It gives the following statistics 

 for Arkansas : 



The population of the State is 1,128,179, of whom 

 698 are insane, 1,481 are feeble-minded, 705 are 

 leaf, 082 are deaf and dumb, 1,951 have lost an eye, 

 and 1,025 have lost both eyes. The foreign-born 

 population is 14,264, nearly all of whom are natural- 

 ized citizens, the majority engaged in agricultural 

 pursuits. 



The debt is reported to be $10,828,809, which is 

 $9.60 per capita. The total debt less the sinking 

 fund is *sji7i,7.s-j. 



The total number of pupils enrolled was 239,675, of 

 which 17s.i)L><; were white M.^,336 male) and 61,649 

 colored <1.44ti male. ;;n,^o;; female). 



The nimihcr of prisoners in Arkansas was 1,410, of 

 which 777 were colored and 78 were Indians. There 

 wen- -2-r.', paupers, -in <>f whom were negroes. 



The total value of the mineral products of Arkan- 

 sas was |667,688. The value of the product of the 

 /.me mines was $3,250, and of the lead mines $400. 

 There is $1,215,000 invested in the mining of man- 



