761 





WYOMING, 



Declarinjr meandered lakr public water*. 



nun* on and across 

 all inmiw In the - 



rx.vide a continirrnt fund to be used for pre- 



x,,.: r. ' .,..- . oeMK 

 To attthoruo fr 



ino atfoiiut hail, tornadoes, 03 

 hurricane*. 



To prevent unjust dbcriminution by insurance com- 

 ; ..' 



.mote the ecUMihim-ni and efficiency of froo 

 j.uM.,- librarian it. 



. nt at fourteen jean 



Finance*. Fnm the re|>ort of the Treasurer 



. f,,l. 



taken : 'I'll.- amount <.u 



1m nl in I he general fund nt hist >ett lenient, 

 Sept. 80. 1894, WHS $077,8 15. 71 ; tin- receipt* <lur- 



>car from all sources were $1.78*.- 

 The dtsbursementa were $2,729,506. 7.J. ami the 

 balaix : at the rinse of the fiscal year 



was JUM.618.50. the item-. ..f disburse- 



.re the following: Salaries and permanent 

 appropriations, $200,6 4 l.'.M: 1 -^i-lati-. 

 $161.4 i.-pital for Insane. $11.V 



702.79: Northern Hospital for Inline. 1187,- 

 604. Vi M, $87,399.97; School for 



Deaf, $41.050.58; School for Blind. $30,978.84; 

 Industrial School for Boys, $74,161 ; State pnl- 

 lic schools, $47,036.47: Herk hire, $66.594.16; 

 labor about the Capitol. $.|M,s2i.:{s : transient 

 laborers, $11,2(14.11: militia. $93,684.55: five 

 nhools, $47,600.08; maintaining chronic 

 insane in county asylums, 301,796.80. 



1 fond amounted to $3.:{7i. ;.-,:. '.M : 

 the u: fund to ^'Jl-'.-JiM: the agrirul- 



tural fund to $271.270.06; the Normal School 

 fund to $1.819,421. 'JO; the total investment of 

 trust ' 



iMi'-unt paid I') railroad companies dur- 

 '.e fiscal rear was $1.17:..7.VJ..VJ ; l,y tele- 

 graph companies, $9,999.45 ; by telephone com- 

 panies, $9338.99; by sleeping-car companies, 

 950&80. Insurance licenses amounted to $131,- 

 11. rs' licenses to $19,663.38. 

 r 1895 amounted to $1.37 

 was divided as follows: One-mill tax. 

 ates of Indebtedness to school 

 fund. $l."i7..*,7(i : university Ux, $256,476: n<>r- 

 roal-chool tax, * l"ree higb schooli 



000 ; fifth normal school, $10,0(H); manual-train- 

 ing schools, $2.500; l-'.-.-l-l.-min-led School, 

 $100,000; special f.r normal s<-l ..... Is. $72.000. 



The report of the Kailnmd CommiasioneT for 

 1W4 says that the in State il "7s 



mi\f*> an increase of 21J) mile,. The capital 

 rtork of the companies amounts to $1 12.394.000 : 

 funded debt, $160,400.000; nnfiind.-d d.-l.t. 

 -"I <-f railway j.r In the 



8tat^|aOjOOO.OOO; cost per mile, $40.000. Th- 

 amotini r^. ...1 fn.m the companies for 1894 

 ~ t.-VW.i:: Th.re were 116 persons 



-1 and *<l injurt^l ..ri the tracks. 

 Kdnratlon. The aprK.rtif.nment of the 



fund inrome for 1895, amounting to > 

 ,4H. w9 m/l< on the bairi^ --f x!i-4:si cent* 

 or c*rh ? -r^,n of *>hool a^' in th- > 

 lest IxvUnm- fiuthorijUHi i^hmetit of 



a>4at home for the 8.000 fwl.le-mind.-d p. -r- 

 and appropriated $100/KK) 

 t was lorale<l al Chip- 

 t decided up<,n in July 



Falls. 



' t- 

 Sii r -.n 



I normal school, contingent 

 on the paving liy the town of the s-tivi-: 

 rounilinu' the >ch""l. 



Mate Pri-on. PI I ., -i<lat ivc Commiiteo 

 appointed l.\(i,.\. 1',-,-k to visit the charitaMe 

 and penal institutions oftiu- Statt- reporl 

 the I^egislaturc 'nil-!iiniiiL r t h< 



Pn-on at NVanpnn. mi account ..f it- 

 and ivercrowded condition, as wholly unfit fV 

 ;.<! advising the erect ion 



Intermediate priaon in a central county. 



( DBMS, iiHistaken thi- 



licial population a.s l.'.i::7.'.'l.'.. aii i: 



nice the taking ,.f the SI 



in 18*"' jx-nditure from tin- ^'-m-nil fund 



for this work this year was ( 



iture provided that as .soi.n a- the 

 of th> A a>- known an n\<\ 



committee >hoiild prepare a oil I district in: 

 the ineinl'.T- -f the S.-nate an. I A - 

 cording t<i the numlx-r of inhaoitant>. 'I 

 portioiiment was made in Novrml" r. 



I he i.nl.l ( ure. A la 

 Li-u'islalurc provided for compulsory -'ul. 

 of ineliriates )< this cun-. Statistics gath' 

 net idier sh..w that in only 2"> of th ; 

 have judges availed themselves (l f th,- ]., 

 these the liiimlier of treatments \\as ]:;, 



Objection to the law is ma.le 

 hy many n MIK! of tli. 



expense involved, as well as a ln-lief that it is 

 unconstitutional. 



Immigration. In pursuance of tin- 

 to secure settlement of th 

 unoceiipied land in \\"iscon>in. an imnii_ 

 commis-inn vi-ited New York t< make 

 sonal investigation of the character of the im- 

 migrants ami other matters conneeteil 

 with, ami to provide for the circulation among 

 i'le immigrants of literature giving facts 

 relative to the lands they .h-in- to s.-ttl. 

 this purpurse a handbook of was prepareil. 



h.iir\ Indnstn. \Viseonsj,, has *H;<> 

 000 invested in the dairy industry, and the milk 

 products of L894 



Treasury CnsoH. AS stated in the - Annual 

 Cyclopa-.lia'- for 1898 

 under obligation to repay to the tr- . 

 est collected and used liy them accruing from the 

 deposit of puMic fumls. with inter. 

 The I,, ure passed an art r- 



/ and Kuchii from jmlgn 

 the treasury cases, and ex-Treasurer .M- 1 

 fn.m the balance over jirincipal and 



t. It was elaimed that this act \\ 

 trary totheConstitution ; Imt the Atturm ; 

 eral decided that it was constitutional, and 



Decision. The Supreni' '1 the, 



validity of the law which pn.vj.les that lil 



Mient works aboolate divorce without fur- 

 ther lei:a! 



U ^ 0>1 I M,. rthwestern 



to the fnion July 10. IH1K) 

 miles. Population in Ife 

 ( heyenne. 



(,..\,-rnment. -The following were tin 

 officers daring the year : '.venior. \\". .\. lii'-h- 

 ards. Republican ; 'Secretary of state. Charles 

 \V. P.unlick: Treasurer. Henry G. Hay; Audi- 

 tor. William 0. Owen ; Attorney-General, U. F- 



