IDAHO. 



ILLINOIS 



State Land*. The State Land Department 

 hat secured the approval of 888,000 acres of 

 elected land during the past two years, at also 

 the rescinding of an order withdrawing from 

 Mttlement 1?.000 acres of lan.l. chiefly in Koc- 

 ta^i County, heretofore withdrawn as a forest 

 meerrstinn ' The State may now select lands 

 there, and a very valuable tract of agricultural 

 land is made available for settlement under the 

 homestead laws. 



The State has secured the reversal of a uni- 

 form line of decisions of the Interior Depart- 

 ment. holding that double minimum lands that 

 i*. land* within the limits of a railroad ^rant- 

 could not be selected by States in sat 

 grants made to them. 



MirTeya. In the allotment of the appropri- 

 aUoa carried in the sundry civil-service bill for 

 public surreys in 1885. Idaho received $23,000. 

 The grneral appropriation act provides that the 

 survey <>f the agricultural lands thereunder must 

 be on the application of * -i 



Education. The State University began its 

 fourth year in September with an attendance 

 of 108, an increase of nearly 50 per cent, over 

 1804. To it the Legislature made an appropria- 

 tion of $16.230 to reimburse the Mornll fund, 

 and $2,000 for regents' expenses. 



The legislature of 1898 established State nor- 

 mal schools at Lewiston and Albion, but made 

 no financial provision for them. At Albion a 

 building has been erected by the citizens and 

 a flourishing school opened, and in August ar- 

 rangements for a new building were made. This 

 was made possible by the legislative act author- 

 izing the issue of bonds to the amount of $75,- 



000 for the support of the two schools. The en- 

 rollment at Albion for the half year ending July 



1 was 88, the expenses during that period were 

 $5.278.22. At Lewiston the people have laid 

 the foundations for a building. The amount 

 of the semiannual apportionment of the State 

 school fund, made in August, was $9,664.46. 



By act of the legislature the location of the 

 Agricultural College was fixed at Idaho Falls. 



Insane Aftylum. In this institution, for 

 whose support the legislature made an appro- 

 priation of $65,000. there were in December 152 

 patients, of whom 56 were women. 



The issuing of bonds to the amount of $25,- 

 000 for asylum improvements was authorized by 



The same court also decided that women 

 eligible* to practice law in Idaho, tin- Idaho 



Penitentiary. On July 1 there were 115 

 prisoners confined in the penitent iarv, of whom 

 7 were held on account of the United States. 

 To this institution an appropriation of $65,000 

 wa made. 



BoMler** Home. An appropriation of $28,- 

 000 WM made for the support of the hoi, 

 a bill was passed enacting that the board of 

 trustees for the home shall consist of th 

 etaor. Secretarv of State, and Attorney-General, 

 and that they hall serve without compensation. 

 The number of inmates at the end of Septem- 

 |>erwas 87, and the number of officers and em- 



DfclsJoa*. A decision of the Supreme Court 

 afflrmrd the constitutionality of the law provid- 

 ing that water companies shall furnish water 

 free for fire purposes and other great public ne- 



to the contrary notwithstanding. 

 for tin- decision wn> that the Stai> 

 stitutioti provides that "the Legislature ! 

 power t<> deprive the judicial department . 

 power or jurisdiction which rightfully p. 

 to it as a co-ordinate department of the- 

 iiient." and that the admission and coir 

 the attorneys were within the purview of this 

 section of the Constitution. 



IIIINnlv ; Western State, admit ted to tht 

 1'nion Dec. :t. 1818; area, 56,650 wp.ar, 

 The population, according to each dece: ;.] 

 census, was 55,162 in 1820; 157,41 

 I75.ls:{ in ls|i); s:, 1.170 in is:,n : 1,711.{I 

 1860; 2,589,H!H in 1- 

 8,826,851 in 18(K). Capital. Springfield. 



<.o\ eminent. Tim following were the chip 

 officers for the year: (Jnvi-nn-r. .John i' 

 k'eld. Democrat; Lieutenant (iuvernor. . 

 H. (Jill; Secretary of State. William II. Hinrieh- 

 en: Auditor. D"a\id (Jore; Treasu 

 Wulff, who qualified .Ian. 15, 1895, sucoeednv 

 Klijah P. Kamsey ; Attnrney-(;.-neral. M 

 T. Mahoney; Adjutant General. Alfred 

 dorff; Sujerintendent of Public InMi 

 Samuel M. Inglis; Secretary of Labor 1 

 George \. Schilling : l'>h 'Commi 

 Roe,G. W. Langford, and II. Schmidt; I; 

 and Warehouse Con. rs, Isaac N. 



lips, .7. K. Wheeler, and Joimthiu. 

 Secretary Canal Commission. W. A 

 Secretary Live-stock Commission. A. M. I 

 lee; Superintendent of Insurunce. lirad! 

 Durfce; Secretary of State Board of Chu 

 George F. Miner; Secretary of Board of I 

 Dr. .1. W. - retAryof Board of D.-ntul 



Examiners, L. L. Davis; Secretary of B". 

 Pharmacy. Frank Fleury; Factory Inspeolft 

 Florence Kelley: Chief Justice of tl 

 Court, Joseph W. Wilkin : Associate ' 

 David J. Baker, Alfred M. Craig, Benjai 

 Magruder, Jesse J. Phillips, Joseph N. Caftt 

 and Joseph Mea/le Bailey, who died in Octo- 

 ber. 



Finances. The available surplus of the treas- 

 ury was practically exhausted a month before 

 Oct. 1, 1895, the close of the fiscal year, but an 

 advanced payment of $250,000 from the I 

 Central Railroad Company temporarily i 

 the embarrassment. 



The tax rate for 1H{5 was 

 $100 valuation, as equalized by the S 

 Thirteen cents belongs to the school I 

 mainder is the general revenue tax. TheagSJP- 

 gate was estimated 



would be reduced b\ ,o.(KHi from delin- 



pienciex. removals, etc, I 

 were made on the capital stock 

 ii'.n-. and this year on 274. 



The total assessment of railroad : 

 ring!.7:JO mih- of ti 



l.e-isl.it i \ e Sexxjon. The thirty-ninth (J( 

 eral Assembly was convoked Jai 

 newly elected members, and adjourn. 

 17. aft.-r pejsing 66 appropriation and M 

 bills. The bills included one appro! 

 $fHK).000 for the ordinary and contit. 



of th<- State and one making the t 

 for school purposes $1,000,000 per annun 



