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by a circuitous route to Ampenan to seek the 

 protection of the gunboats. The losses of the 

 two columns were 14 officers, including Gen. van 

 Ham, and 163 men killed, 12 officers and 153 

 men wounded, and G officers and 148 men miss- 

 ing. After the routed" columns reached Ampe- 

 nan, where 200 marines and guns were landed, 

 all that survived of another column that had 

 been sent into the interior under Col. Lawick 

 van Pabst to occupy certain points and see that 

 the engagements entered into by the chiefs were 

 duly carried out fell back on the main body. Col. 

 Lawick had entered Tjakra Negara, supposing it 

 to be occupied by Gen. van Ham, and was caught 

 in an ambush and his force was cut to pieces by 

 the sudden fire that was opened upon the unsus- 

 pecting troops from loopholes on every side. Col. 

 Lawick was among the killed. There was an- 

 other detachment in the interior commanded by 

 Capt. Lindgreen, which was besieged in a Hindu 

 temple and finally surrendered. The insurgents 

 threatened to kill these troops unless the Dutch 

 Government agreed to make peace, but they were 

 eventually released on parole at the command of 

 the old Rajah. The treacherous attack on the 

 Dutch garrisons had been preconcerted and car- 

 ried out without his connivance. The terms of 

 settlement to which he and his chiefs agreed 

 were that he should pay 1,000,000 guilders trib- 

 ute and should be recognized as ruler of the Sas- 

 saks, who live in the eastern and central parts of 

 the island, but that the latter should have their 

 own local chiefs. Some of the Balinese chiefs 

 who had imposed their rule on the inhabitants 

 entered into a conspiracy with the Rajah's min- 

 isters and obtained the aid of their country- 

 men in the island of Bali, while English and 

 Chinese merchants supplied them with arms. 

 The Dutch authorities sent 500 troops to re-en- 

 force the disabled expedition and sought the aid 

 of the Sassaks and Kampongs of Lombock, who 

 willingly entered into an alliance to fight the 

 Balinese. The Dutch advanced against the forti- 

 fications of the Balinese in the vicinity of Mata- 

 rarn, while the Sassaks marched down from the 

 interior. The coast places were bombarded and 

 all trade was stopped. Mataram was besieged by 

 the allies and almost destroyed by shells. Tjakra 

 Negara was also invested. On Sept. 29 Mataram 

 was taken, with a loss of 12 killed and 49 wound- 

 ed on the Dutch side, after eight hours of fierce 

 fighting. The war was continued until after the 

 Rajah and his son and grandson had been sur- 

 rendered in November. The expedition was dis- 

 banded late in December, but two battalions were 

 kept to garrison the island. 



NEVADA, a Pacific coast State, admitted to 

 the Union Oct. 31, 18G4; area, 110,700 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census, was 42,491 in 1870; 62,266 in 1880; 

 and 45,761 in 1890. Capital, Carson City. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Roswell K. 

 Colcord; Lieutenant-Governor, Joseph Poujade; 

 Secretary of State, Olin 11. Grey; Comptroller, 

 R. L. Horton; Treasurer, John F. Egan. till 

 April, when he died, and was succeeded by 

 George Richards ; Attorney-General, J. D. Tor- 

 reyson; Adjutant General, J. Poujade; Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, Orvis Ring; 

 Surveyor General, John K. Jones; Chief Justice 



of the Supreme Court, Michael A. Murphy; 

 Associate Justices, R. R. Bigelow, Charles H. 

 Belknap all Republicans, except Belknap. 



Finances. The total receipts from real estate 

 and personal property tax in 1893 were $22N,- 

 864.77. The tax on the net proceeds of mines 

 was $1,289.32. The revenue from escheated es- 

 tates was $14.28; from possessory claims, !.">; 

 from tolls, $65.86; from court fines, $76!).!><>; 

 from gaming licenses, $4,793.74 ; from poll tax, 

 $12,636. The gross collections of State revenue 

 were $248,448.87; net amount paid into the 

 treasury, $218,654.13. 



The total expenditures were $452,014.21, from 

 the following sources: From funds applicable 

 for general purposes, $208,260.48; from State 

 school funds, $121,060.53; from State Univer- 

 sity funds, $18,098,65 ; from district judges' 

 salary fund, $24,744.66 ; actual disbursements 

 from State treasury, $372,164.21. 



Of the expenditures, $31,614.95 was for the 

 Legislature ; $108,897 for support of schools ; 

 $10,000 for the World's Fair exhibit; $20,392 

 for the judicial department ; $15,479 for the 

 State University; purchase of State bonds, 

 $30,000; redemption of State bonds, $24,000; 

 interest, on State bonds, $25,850. 



The appropriation for the State prison, 1893- 

 '94, was $65,000. The prison receipts for 1893 

 amounted to $9,393.23. 



The assessed value of property in 1893 was: 

 Real estate, $18,029,819.65; personal property, 

 $8,148.241.24; total, $26,178,060.89. The State 

 tax of 90 cents amounted to $235,602.53. of 

 which $9,438.47 was delinquent ; the county 

 tax amounted to $416,772.32, of which $23,- 

 116.37 was delinquent. 



The value of the mining product for 1893 is 

 given by the Comptroller at $2.501,169.99, which 

 is $1,001,882 less than reported by Wells, Fargo 

 & Co.'s Express, whose statement is made up 

 from the value of gold and silver bullion 

 shipped out of the State, while that of the 

 Comptroller is from the report of county 

 assessors. 



The State debt, exclusive of the $380.000 irre- 

 deemable bond, is $189,000; accrued interest, 

 $12,946.67; total, $201,946.67: and the cash in 

 the treasury applicable to the payment of the 

 debt, $190,305.98. On Jan. 4 the Comptroller 

 redeemed $24,000 of outstanding State bonds, 

 and paid all accrued interest. 



The amount of bonds with accrued interest 

 and cash held by the State in trust for the edu- 

 cational funds is $1,290,999.94. 



The State made an exhibit at the Midwinter 

 Fair, for which $11,748 was raised by subscrip- 

 tion. The building and grounds cost $G,:!(>7, 

 and the building was sold for $200. The total 

 cost was $13,985.24 ; the total receipts, includ- 

 ing subscriptions, $12,432.85. 



Education. The statistics for 1892-'93 give 

 the number of pupils enrolled in the common 

 schools as 7,514; the average daily attendance, 

 5,192; the whole number of teachers, 277; the 

 average length of school term, one hundred and 

 fifty-four days. The whole school population 

 in 1894 was 9,454: the apportionment of school 

 moneys for the first half of 1894 was $70,560. 



President Jones, of the State University, re- 

 signed in May, and President J. E. Stubbs, of 



