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appointed in November, 1898, to study the plague 

 and modes of prevention or cure reported favor- 

 ably on the system of preventive and curative 

 inoculation developed by M. Haffkine. 



The Native Princes. The new press laws and 

 other regulations repressing the free expression of 

 opinion in India have prevented any manifesta- 

 tions of unrest and dissatisfaction such as for- 

 merly were common from reaching the outside 

 world during the last and worst of Indian famines. 

 Even the officers of the civil service have been 

 fettered by a rule forbidding them to utter any 

 criticisms upon the policy or conduct of their 

 superiors. When the English colonies began to 

 send contingents of volunteers to tight in South 

 Africa some of the native princes offered their 

 troops also, calling forth praises from the Indian 

 and British governments. In August, 1900, Lord 

 Cur/on issued a circular forbidding any of the 

 native chiefs to travel abroad without the per- 

 mission, not only of the provincial authorities, 

 but of the Government of India. This spoiled 

 the effect of the previous eulogiums on their 

 loyalty, although the reason was given that the at- 

 tractions of European life and pleasures had a 

 tendency to make them forgetful and neglectful 

 of the welfare of their people. 



INDIANA, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Dec. 11, 1816; area, 30,350 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial census 

 since admission, was 147,178 in 1820; 343,031 in 

 1830; 685,866 in 1840; 988,416 in 1850; 1,350,428 

 in 1860; 1,680,637 in 1870; 1,978,301 in 1880; 

 2,192,404 in 1890; and 2,516,462 in 1900. Capital, 

 Indianapolis. 



Government. The following were the State 

 afficers in 1900: Governor, James A. Mount; Lieu- 

 tenant Governor, W. S. Haggard; Secretary of 

 State, Union B. Hunt; Treasurer, Leopold Levy; 



Luclitor, William H. Hart; Attorney-General, 



William L. Taylor; Superintendent of Instruction, 

 V. L. Jones; Adjutant General, J. K. Gore; Statis- 

 tician, John B. Conner; Geologist, Willis S. Blatch- 



ey; Commissioner of Insurance, C. W. Neal; 

 Commissioner of Public Lands, L. G. Rothschild; 

 ^resident State Board of Agriculture, Aaron Jones ; 

 Labor Commission, B. F. Schmid, L. McCormack; 

 Factory Inspector, D. F. McAbee; Secretary of 

 "State Board of Charities, Amos W. Butler; Fish 

 and Game Commissioner, Z. T. McSweeney; Tax 

 Commissioners, T. B. Buskirk, J. C. Wingate; 

 Supervisor of Natural Gas, J. C. Leach; Mine In- 

 spector, Robert Fisher: Chief Justice of the Su- 

 ircme Court, John V. Hadley; Associate Justices, 

 Fames H. Jordan, Alexander Dowling, Leander J. 



lonks, Francis E. Baker; Clerk, Robert A. Brown 



-all Republicans. 



The Governor's term is four years, his election 

 taking place in the year of the presidential elec- 



ion. Other State offices are held for two years, 

 the elections in even-numbered years. The Legis- 

 lature meets biennially, in January of odd-num- 

 bered years, and consists of 50 Senators and 100 

 Representatives. 

 Population. The population of the State, by 



aunties, according to the census of 1900, was as 

 follows: Adams, 22,232; Allen, 77,270; Bartholo- 

 24,594; Benton, 13,123; Blackford, 17,213; 

 sne, 26,321; Brown, 9,727; Carroll, 19.953; Cass, 

 34,545; Clark, 31,835; Clay, 34,285; Clinton, 28,- 

 202; Crawford, 13,476; Daviess, 29,914; Dearborn, 

 22.104; Decatur, 19,518; DeKalb,25,711 ; Delaware, 

 49,624;Dubois, 20.357; Elkhart, 45,052; Fayette, 

 13.495; Floyd, 30,118; Fountain, 21,446; Franklin, 

 16,388; Fulton. 17,453; Gibson, 30,099; Grant, 54,- 



E593; Greene, 28,530: Hamilton, 29,914; Hancock, 



19,189; Harrison, 21,702; Hendricks, 21,292; 

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Henry, 25,088; Howard, 28,575; Huntington, 28,- 

 <)()! ; Jackson, 26,633; Jasper, 14,292; Jay, 26,818; 

 Jefferson, 22,913; Jennings, 15, 757: Johnson, 20,- 

 223; Knox, 32,746; Kosciusko, 29,109; Lagrange, 

 15,284; Lake, 37,892; Laporte, 38,386; Lawrence, 

 25,729; Madison, 70,470; Marion, 197,227; .Mar 

 shall, 25,119; Martin, 14,711; Miami, 28,344 ; Mon- 

 roe, 20,873 ; Montgomery, 29,388 ; Morgan, 20,457 ; 

 Newton, 10,448; Noble, 23,533; Ohio, 4,724; 

 Orange, 16,854; Owen, 15,149; Parke, 23,000; Per- 

 ry, 18,778; Pike, 20,486; Porter, 19.175; Posey, 22.- 

 333; Pulaski, 14,033; Putnam 21,478; Randolph, 

 28,653; Ripley, 19, 881; Rush, 20,148; St Joseph, 

 58,881 ; Scott, 8,307 ; Shelby, 26,491 ; Spencer, 22,- 

 407; Starke, 10,431; Steuben, 15,219; Sullivan, 26,- 

 005; Switzerland, 11,840; Tippecanoe, 38,659; Tip- 

 ton, 19,116; Union, 6,748; Vanderburg, 71,769; 

 Vermilion, 12,252; Vigo, 62,035; Wabash, 28,235; 

 W T arren, 11,371; Warrick, 22,329; Washington, 19,- 

 409; Wayne, 38,970; Wells, 23,449; White, 19,138; 

 Whitley, 17,328; total, 2,516,462. 



Finances. The report of the Auditor for the 

 year ending Oct. 31 gives the following informa- 

 tion : " The public debt has been reduced during the 

 fiscal year of 1899 $483,000, and for the two years 

 since the Legislature last met $896,000. The 

 amount of the State debt Oct. 31, 1900, was 

 $4,704,615.12. Of this amount a substantial pay- 

 ment can be made Jan. 1, 1901, from the December 

 settlement with the counties on account of the 

 State debt sinking fund tax. The State gave no- 

 tice many years ago of its desire to pay the State 

 stock certificates now amounting to $5,615.12, and 

 since then interest has been stopped. The $340,000 

 due Purdue University is payable April 1, 1901, 

 and can be paid at maturity. The 3-per-cent. re- 

 funders of 1889, now amounting to $3,130,000, are 

 held mostly by savings banks, and the State can 

 pay at its convenience. The State debt sinking 

 fund of 3 cents on each hundred dollars levied 

 for this purpose will amount in round numbers 

 to $400,000 a year, and this, with the probable 

 excess each year from the general fund, will prac- 

 tically pay off all the State debt that can be paid 

 within the next four years. The tax duplicate of 

 the State amounts to $1,335,746,698. The taxes 

 from the duplicate amount to $21,659,295.81. 



" In 1899 there was paid on the claim of the 

 State for equipment of soldiers for the Spanish 

 war $44,382.50. 



" The unusual specific appropriations of the 

 Legislature of 1899, the largest in the history of 

 the State, have been paid so far as due, and the 

 entire amount will be readily met as it matures 

 from the general fund, and in 1899 a surplus of 

 $83,000 was applied from this fund in the payment 

 of the State debt." 



Education. The school enumeration for 1900 

 was 756,004, of whom 15,076 were colored; the 

 enrollment in 1899 was 556,651; the average daily 

 attendance, 424,725. The value of school property 

 is $23,244,600. In the school year 1899-1900 233 

 school buildings were erected, at a cost of $846.800. 

 The number of institutes held was 6,892, and the 

 amount paid teachers for attending institutes was 

 $134,350.88. School trustees were paid for man- 

 aging educational work, etc., $74,374. 



It is reported that the State truant law Avhioh 

 has been enforced the past year has brought 9,000 

 more children into the schools. The board has 

 employed 106 officers. 



The'State Normal School, at Terre Haute, opened 

 in September with an enrollment of 400. The sum- 

 mer term closed Aug. 9, 538 teachers having been 

 in attendance. In the year 1,405 teachers attended 

 and 86 were graduated. 



Rose Polytechnic Institute graduated 15 stu- 



