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Blancos and the people generally. A state of 

 siege was declared and the national guard called 

 out. After two days of fighting, in which 60 

 persons were killed and 150 wounded, the revolu- 

 tionists capitulated on condition of an amnesty 

 being granted. Many of the higher officers were 

 implicated in the conspiracy. r lhe day after the 

 surrender the ringleaders and their active accom- 

 plices were deported to Buenos Ayres, and subse- 

 quently a large number of military officers were 

 degraded for signing a manifesto justifying the at- 

 tempted revolution and accusing the Government 

 of suppressing the liberty of the press and com- 

 mitting various acts of oppression. Several persons 

 were arrested on July 20 for plotting against the 

 provisional President. Later the exiled generals 

 endeavored to raise a force for the invasion of the 

 frontier from Argentine and Brazilian territory. 

 In August the Cabinet was reconstructed, Dr. Men- 

 dilharzu assuming the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

 in place of Dr. Saltiraia, while Gen. Nicomedes 

 Castro succeeded Gen. Gregorio Castro as Minister 

 of War. The young man who shot President Idi- 

 arte Borda was tried a year after the deed was 

 committed, and though sentenced to thirteen years' 

 imprisonment, he was applauded by the public as a 

 hero. The case was appealed, and a second jury 

 absolved him from guilt because he acted under 

 the influence of political effervescence. An inva- 

 sion of rebels from Brazil in November was easily 

 defeated by troops sent to the frontier. 



UTAH, a Western State, admitted to the Union 

 Jan. 4, 1896 ; area, 84,970 square miles. The popu- 

 lation in 1890 was 207,905 ; the estimated popula- 

 tion in 1895 was 247,324. Capital, Salt Lake City. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Heber M. 

 Wells ; Secretary of State, James T. Hammond ; 

 Treasurer, James Chipman ; Auditor, Morgan 

 Richards, Jr. ; Attorney-General, A. C. Bishop ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, John R. 

 Park all Republicans; Adjutant General, John 

 <J. Cannon ; Coal-Mine Inspector, Gomer Thomas ; 

 Surveyor General, J. B. Blair; State Engineer, 

 Willard Young; Pish and Game Warden, John 

 Sharp; Regents of University, Rebecca E. Little, 

 T. R. Cutler, James Sharp; Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, George W. Bartch ; Clerk, L. P. 

 Palmer; State Bank Examiner, Robert R, Ander- 

 son; State Board of Medical Examiners, E. S. 

 Wright, John P. Critchlow. 



Finances. The State Treasurer reports that for 

 the two years ending Dec. 31, 1898, the money re- 

 ceived into the treasury from all sources was $ 2,- 

 025,409.10 ; balance on hand Dec. 31, 1896, $420,- 

 950.38 ; total, $2,446,359.48. The amount received 

 from county taxes was $1,601,543.08; from sale of 

 State bonds, $150,000; from sale of State lands, 

 $97,252.59; from sale of State school lands, $47,- 

 517.15. The disbursements for the same period 

 were $1,961,343.90, leaving a balance on Jan. 1, 

 1899, of $485,015.58. The amount paid on State 

 district school account was $623,781.08; for the 

 Agricultural College, $47,000 ; State land account, 

 $143,787.06; State school lands, $9,197; amount 

 of State bonds redeemed, $150,000. The report of 

 the State Auditor shows the balance in treasury 

 Dec. 31, 1898, $485,031.54 ; due from taxes for 1898, 

 $ 135,315.09; due from taxes prior to 1898, $18,000; 

 total resources, $1,342,032.53. The liabilities Jan. 

 1, 1898, were: Bonded indebtedness, $900,000; out- 

 standing warrants, $32,085.73 ; balance in favor of 

 State school fund, $246,061.46; due various land 

 funds, $61,855.38 ; total liabilities from all sources, 

 $1,342,032.53. 



The total bonded indebtedness of the Nate 

 given as $900,000, of which $300,000, issued in 189 

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at 5 per cent., is payable in 1910 ; $250,000. Issued 

 in 1892 at 5 per cent., payable in 1912; $200,000. 

 issued in 1896 at 4 per cerit., payable in 1916 ; and 

 $150,000, issued in 1888 at 31 per cent, payable in 

 1918. 



Valuation. The Auditor shows that the property 

 assessed for taxation in the respective counties of 

 Utah by the county assessors and State Board >{ 

 Equalization for 1898 amounted to $100,241 .331, as 

 against $102,435,714 for 1897. The Stab- ^.-neral- 

 fund tax of 4i mills on the dollar and tin- S 

 school levy of 3 mills will yield $751,135.31. Tin- 

 total amount of assessment on railroads, telephone, 

 telegraph, and car companies, as reported, was 

 $11,464,592. against $12,932,547 last year. Sheep 

 were assessed at $1.50 a head in 1897 and at $2 in 

 1898, while cattle were assessed at $10 both years. 



Hanks. The total resources of the 11 national 

 banks of Utah on Oct. 27 were $7.337,955; loans 

 and discounts. $2.734.275 ; reserve, $1,386,271 ; gold 

 holdings, $653,770; deposits, $4,063,805. 



Railroads. On Aug. 21 articles of incorporation 

 of the Utah and Pacific Railroad Company, with a 

 capital of $825,000, were filed with the Secretary of 

 State, and the railroad from the Nevada terminus 

 to Los Angeles, about 200 miles, is being built as 

 rapidly as possible. The Ogden Short Line Rail- 

 road, which was sold in 1897 under foreclosure, has 

 been absorbed by the Union Pacific ; though the 

 headquarters of the Short Line will still remain in 

 Salt Lake and the road will continue to be operated 

 practically on an independent basis. The year has 

 been one of unprecedented prosperity in railroad 

 matters in Utah. Though tnere has been no in- 

 crease of mileage in the Rio Grande Western, y.-t 

 the whole system has been greatly improved. In 

 the year a bridge was built at Lamb's Cafion on 

 the Park City line, additional machine shops were 

 constructed, and handsome depots erected. 



Education. The business department of the 

 Latter-Day Saints' College has grown within three 

 years from 36 students and 1 teacher in one room to 

 240 students with a faculty of 9 instructors in am- 

 ple quarters in the Templeton. A new normal 

 school building has been erected at Cedar City, and 

 equipped with every modern sanitary device. A 

 tract of 15 acres surrounds the structure, and both 

 building and grounds are the gift to the State by 

 the people of Iron County. Already 94 pupils have 

 been enrolled. The State district school tax fund 

 in the treasury on March 31 was $44.962.07, which 

 gave 54 cents per capita to the 81,812 children of 

 school age in the State. The Fort Hall Indian 

 School has had a very large attendance, there being 

 100 boys and 80 girls. The number of books in the 

 State law library was 8,219. 



Agricultural College. The workshops have 

 been moved from the main building, as it was 

 feared that the constant jarring of the machinery 

 might weaken the walls. The new structure 

 $7,560 and contains a chemical laboratory. A line 

 of poultry experiments required suitable equipment 

 at a cost of $1,000. The running expenses, salaries, 

 etc.. necessitate an appropriation of about $1.000 a 

 month. An appropriation of $42,305 is asked for 

 the coming two years. 



Industrial School. During the biennial ix-riod 

 the title deeds to the new site of the State Indus- 

 trial School at Ogden were secured and a tract of 

 18 acres was purchased for farmimr. The grounds 

 have been fenced, walks and drives laid on 

 put in, and a complete water-pipe system const ruet- 

 ed. The total number of inmate- retried - 

 the openini; of tin- new school. Oct. 31 1898. 

 JOli of whom liiti wen- IH>VS and 30 girls. The num- 

 ber of boys in the school on Dec. 31. was -J4. with 

 1 girl. The requirements fur the next biennial 



