WYOMING. 



lican candidates. 



1 he Governor, who was the only Finances.- According to the Treasurers reuort 

 d, fell behind his ticket about the receipts for the war endin tf si|,t"w75SflC 

 7,000 The vote for Governor stood: Scofield, all sources amounted to $7:^ V; 

 Republican 173,137; Sawyer Democrat, 135,335; disbursements were |2680OH The lit 

 Wnrw Populist, 8 577^ Chapin, Prohibitionist, the troarary Oct. 1. I-.;. was%^. 



80,1898, it was $103,785.69. 



t Th L 1 n^ C nr items of n ' vpnu e "ere: Secretary 

 SfSJKl!? 12 ' 90 ; careof I'Hti'-nt* at State J| 



Sd VfiM li'l *., .in_ 



8,078; Tuttle, Socialist- Democrat, 2,544; Kie- . 

 Socialist-Labor, 1,473. All the Republican candi- 

 dates for Congress were elected, and Republicans 

 have a majority of 91 in the Legislature. 



An act to revise the laws authorizing the busi- 

 ness of banking, passed by the Legislature of 1897 

 with the provision that it should be submitted to 

 popular vote, was rejected at the election. It pro- 

 vided for important changes in the banking laws, 

 with a view to greater protection against loss and 

 misappropriation of funds, and for the creation of 

 the office of Commissioner of Banks. 



Judicial. The constitutionality of the election 

 law providing that n6 name shall appear more than 

 once on the official ballot was attacked, but was 

 upheld by a decision of the Supreme Court in Sep- 

 tember. 



$6,260.69 ; com- 

 mon school land 

 income fund, $13,- 

 140.83; State char- 

 itable, education- 

 al, penal, and re- 

 formatory institu- 

 tions land income 

 fund, $9,624.92 ; 

 and Agricultural 

 College land in- 

 come fund, $3,572. 

 The chief items of 

 expenditure were : 

 The law providing for additional restrictions re-. General f u n d 

 garding preferences, etc., in cases of insolvency $119,127.82 ; uni- 

 was declared by the same court unconstitutional in 

 so far as it was made applicable to notes and war- 

 rants of attorney, and judgments and executions 

 to enforce the same, given more than sixty days be- 

 fore an assignment for the benefit of creditors. 



The law requiring examination for plumbers was 

 declared unconstitutional, in February, in the Mil- 

 waukee Superior Court. A plumber to whom a 

 license was refused assailed in court the reason- 

 ableness of the requirement that journeyman 

 plumbers must be experts in house drainage and 

 plumbing ventilation. The court pronounced this 

 requirement unreasonable. It also held that the 

 provision that any member of a firm or corporation, 

 by passing the examination, shall satisfy the re- 

 quirement of the law as to such firm or corpora- 

 tion, is not in accordance with the principle that 

 legislation of this sort shall treat all persons alike 

 under like circumstances and conditions. 



Semicentennial Celebration. Wisconsin 

 celebrated this year the fiftieth anniversary of its 

 admission to the Union. Local celebrations took 

 place at the county seats, May 28. The official cele- 

 bration was held in Madison, June 7 to 9 inclusive. 

 The principal events were a parade of the univer- 

 sity faculty and students, orations and addresses at 

 the armory, reunions of veterans, former members of 

 the Legislature, State officials, and members of con- 

 stitutional conventions, a procession of veterans, 

 meetings of bar and press associations and women's 

 organizations, displays of fireworks, band concerts 

 in Capitol Park, conventions of pioneers, historical 

 societies, and others, and, on the closing afternoon, 

 a war-song concert, by a chorus of 400 adult voices 

 and 500 school children with a military band. 



Milwaukee held a carnival in the week from 

 June 27 to July 3. The programme was arranged 

 so that the successive days were known as recep- 



DE FOREST RICHARD*. 

 GOVERNOR OF WYOMING. 



versity income tax, 

 $7,043.69; State 

 bond tax, $19,140 ; 

 fund for the in- 

 sane, $15,486.29 ; 

 Rawlins Peniten- 

 tiary Building tax, $3,075.2:5 : hospital maintenance 

 tax, $9,696.82; charitable institutions t;t\.xi;.:-.>:!.-ji : 

 common school land income fund. $12.6 17.55 : State 

 Hospital insurance fund, $14.(>!ii.:54 : common school 

 land income fund, $12,144.64; common school per- 

 manent land fund, $5,768.35. The total bonded in- 

 debtedness of the State was $320.000. The Audi- 

 tor's statement showing the valuation for State reve- 

 nue as made to the several counties by the State 

 Board of Equalization gives for the year 1898 the 

 following figures : The County of Albany," $3.941,- 

 635.07 ; Big Horn, $1,006.872.25 ; Carbon, $3,508,- 

 478.05; Crook, $1,443.242.84; Converse, $1,540,- 

 608.75; Fremont, $1.242.661 ; Johnson. $1.152,983; 

 Lararaie, $5,595,281.0:5: Natrona, $1,161.308.50; 

 Sheridan, $1,917,353.51 ; Sweet water. $3.750,118.03 ; 

 Uinta, $3,420,704.26; Weston, $1,107.444.55 ; total, 

 $30,789,291.74. 



Insurance. In the year ending Dec. 31, 1897, 

 there were 44 insurance companies doing business 

 in the State. Their total amount of written insur- 

 ance was $5,738,940.40 ; premiums received, $121.- 

 773.27; losses paid, $34,242.53; losses incurred. 

 $35,169.04. There were 10 life insurance companies 

 doing business in the State in 1897. The amount of 

 insurance in force at the beginning of that year 

 was $4,189,412.94; the amount issued was $ 

 786; that terminated amounted to $611,592; that 

 in force Dec. 31, 1897, $4,130.6(Hi.!M. Amount of 

 claims paid during the year, $2:5.*1 1.70. Premiums 

 collected, $126,731.11. ' The accident and miscel- 

 laneous insurance companies number 10. Their 



tion day, military day, municipal, industrial, car- claims paid in 1897 amounted to $l,8ttJO; pre- 

 nival, and naval day. " iniums collected to $3.930.10. Six assessment life 



WYOMING, a Northwestern State, admitted to insurance companies did business to the amount of. 

 the Union July 10, 1890; area, 97,890 square miles, claims paid, $1.7!i-'.!M : claims incurred, $1.7ft 

 Population in 1890, 60.705. Capital, Cheyenne. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, W. A. Rich- 

 ards ; Secretary of State, Charles W. Burdick ; 

 Treasurer, Henry G. Hay ; Auditor, William O. 

 Owen; Adjutant General, Frank A. Stitzer; At- 

 torney-General, B. F. Fowler; Superintendent of 



Education, Estelle Reel all Republicans. Supreme 

 Court Chief Justice, A. B. Conaway, Republican : 

 Associate Justices, Samuel T. Corn, Democrat, and 

 C. N. Potter, Republican; Clerk, R. II. Repath. 



Three building and loan MMMbtiOM had 8,151 



shares in force. 



Education. The number of public schools taught 

 during the year ending Sei>i. 30, 1898, were 495. 

 Pupils enrolled, 1:5.040 : of these 6.643 were males, 

 6,;5!i!> females. The average cost of tuition per 

 month amounted to $8.07. The total number of 

 teachers for the year, 536 434 being females and 10-J 

 males: the average oompcnsnt ion to the Liter was 

 00.40. to the former *4'J.Sf>. There ar. 

 buildings in the State, the cost of these for the year 



