BULGARIA. 



CALIFORNIA. 



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that the Bulgarian Government seemed disposed to 

 screen. Political assassination has been practiced 

 in every stage of Bulgarian history, but never with 

 such frequency and impunity as under the rule of 

 Prince Ferdinand. Prof. Mihaileano was a Mace- 

 donian by birth, the son of Roumanian parents. 

 He had taken a prominent part in the press dis- 

 cussion of the future of Macedonia, boldly con- 

 troverting the Bulgarian claim to ascendency and 

 counseling the Wallachs to make the best of Otto- 

 man rule. After his murder the Roumanian Gov- 

 ernment sent a second note, accompanied by a 

 threat to appeal to Turkey as the suzerain power 

 over the principality to put an end to the intoler- 

 able reign of lawlessness by suppressing the Revo- 

 lutionary Committee. This extorted a more con- 

 ciliatory reply from Sofia. The Bulgarian Gov- 

 ernment, however, demanded proofs before pro- 

 ceeding against any of the persons suspected of 

 the crime. The judicial investigation at Bucharest 

 brought out facts tending to show that Dimitroff, 

 the assassin, had 7 accomplices, one of whom was 

 Saratoff, the president of the secret committee in 

 Sofia. Most of the accused were in Bulgaria or 

 elsewhere, safe over the border. Nevertheless, 

 their trial was ordered to take place in Bucharest. 

 One was a Roumanian by birth, although of Bul- 

 garian race, and his extradition was requested. 

 The Roumanian Government collected evidence 

 also concerning acts of extortion and incitements 

 to murder which it connected with the Macedonian 

 Revolutionary Committee, and this evidence, to- 

 gether with the correspondence that had passed 

 between the two Cabinets, was submitted to all the 

 great powers. It was ascertained that in the pre- 

 vious winter a loan had been raised by the Mace- 

 donian committee to which Bulgarians residing in 

 Bucharest were subscribers, and that not only 

 Saratoff and other officers of the committee were 

 concerned in this, but probably Gen. Nikolaieff, 

 Prince Ferdinand's aid-de-camp. Threatening let- 

 ters were received from Bulgaria predicting the 

 assassination of the judge conducting the inquiry 

 in Bucharest, the Roumanian Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs, and even of King Carol. The Austrian, 

 German, and Italian Cabinets, in response to the 

 Roumanian request, addressed representations to 

 the Bulgarian Government, and the Russian Gov- 

 ernment probably gave similar advice, in accord- 

 ance with which the Bulgarian Cabinet, while com- 

 plaining of the sharp tone of the Roumanian notes, 

 promised to investigate the charges of blackmail 

 and intimidation. The murder of a Roumanian 

 named Karadjoff in Sofia the Bulgarian Govern- 

 ment ascribed to private revenge, and not to polit- 

 ical motives. This explanation the Roumanian 

 Government refused to accept. Before the incident 

 was closed by the commencement of judicial pro- 

 ceedings military preparations were begun in Bul- 

 garia and mobilization of the Roumanian forces 

 was threatened. On the border of Macedonia revo- 

 lutionary bands were drilled by Bulgarian officers. 

 Still no fear was felt in Europe of a Macedonian 

 rising so long as the Ottoman Government main- 

 tained a strong and alert garrison in Macedonia. 

 Following the example of Roumania, Servia placed 

 before the powers a list of crimes attributed to the 

 Macedonian Revolutionary Committee of which 

 Servians were the victims. 



In the beginning of May the authorities had 

 difficulty in quelling a riot which broke out among 

 the peasantry in the vicinity of Rustchuk, the 

 cause of which was the oppressive action of the 

 police. The first soldiers who were sent to the 

 scene were disarmed by the rioters, as the police 

 had been before them, and a concourse of two or 

 three thousand peasants had gathered to march 



upon Rustchuk, .when they were dispersed by sev- 

 eral battalions of soldiers. 



CALIFORNIA, a Pacific coast State, admitted 

 to the Union Sept. 9, 1850; area, 158,360 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since admission, was 92,597 in 1850; 

 379,994 in 1860; 560,247 in 1870; 864,694 in 1880; 

 1,208,130 in 1890; and 1,485,053 in 1900. Capital, 

 Sacramento. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Henry T. Gage; 

 Lieutenant Governor, Jacob H. Neff; Secretary of 

 State, Charles F. Curry; Comptroller, Edward P. 

 Colgan; Treasurer, Truman Reeves; Attorney- 

 General, Tirey L. Ford; Surveyor General, Martin 

 J. Wright; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Thomas J. Kirk; Superintendent of Printing, Al- 

 fred J. Johnston; Adjutant General, W. H. Sea- 

 man; Commissioner of Labor, F. V. Meyers; Rail- 

 road Commissioners, E. B. Edson, C. S. Laumeister, 

 N. Blackstock; Board of Equalization, Alexander 

 Brown, R. H. Beamer, Thomas O. Toland, Lewis 

 H. Brown; Commissioners of the Supreme Court, 

 Wheaton A. Gray, James A. Cooper, E. W. Britt, 

 who resigned in April; Building and Loan Com- 

 missioner, Frank H. Gould; Bank Commissioners, 

 John Markley, A. W. Barrett, B. D. Murphy; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, W. H. Beatty ; 

 Associate Justices, T. B. McFarland, C. H. Ga- 

 routte, R. C. Harrison, Walter Van Dyke, F. W. 

 Henshaw, Jackson Temple ; Clerk, George W. Root. 

 The officers elected in 1898 were candidates on the 

 Republican ticket except T. O. Toland and W. 

 Van Dyke, who were candidates of the Fusionists. 

 Justice Temple is a Democrat. 



Population. The population of the State has 

 increased since 1890 by 276,923, or 22.9 per cent. 

 A small portion of this increase is due to the fact 

 that there were 5,107 Indians and 161 other per- 

 sons, on Indian reservations, etc., in California, 

 who were specially enumerated in 1890 under the 

 provisions of the census act, but were not included 

 in the general population of the State. 



Of the 57 counties, all but 11 have increased dur- 

 ing the decade. The population by counties is as 

 f ollows : 



There are 116 incorporated towns and cities 

 in California, for which the population in 1900 is 

 separately returned. Of these 46 have a popula- 





