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of guard duty. He took occasion to declare that 

 the State authorities were not in conflict with 

 organized labor, as such, in any manner what- 

 ever. 



A " story illustrating the viciousness of the 

 Shoshone County dynamiters " was published by 

 the Idaho Statesman, of which the following is 

 a summary : Soon after Gov. Steunenberg entered 

 upon his official duties, in 1897, he was confronted 

 by the Coeur d'Alene question. Under the pre- 

 ceding administration some militia companies had 

 been organized in that section in order that a 

 force might be at hand with which the State 

 could preserve order. These companies were re- 

 cruited from among the ranks of nonunion men, 

 and their presence greatly disturbed the miners' 

 unions. As soon as Gov. Steunenberg had been 

 installed in office a movement was begun to have 

 these military organizations disbanded, and one 

 of the first steps in this movement was taken by 

 the Shoshone County delegation in the Legisla- 

 ture, all the members of which were elected on 

 the miners' union ticket. This delegation re- 

 quested the Governor to disband the militia, but 

 the request was not then acceded to. 



Only two lives were lost during the Co3ur 

 d'Alene riots of April. In November 10 of the 

 prisoners were convicted of destroying mining 

 property, and each was sentenced to serve twenty- 

 two months in the Government prison at San 

 Quentin, Cal. 



Legislative Session. The General Assembly, 

 which met at the beginning of the year, was 

 composed of 9 Republicans, 3 straight Democrats, 

 2 straight Populists, 2 fusion Democrats, and 5 

 fusion Silver Republicans in the Senate, and 12 

 Republicans, 14 straight Democrats, 6 straight 

 Populists, 7 fusion Democrats, 7 fusion Silver Re- 

 publicans, and 3 fusion Populists in the House. 

 Two of the members of the House were women. 



Among the acts passed by the General Assem- 

 bly were the following: 



Authorizing an issue of $49,000 of State bonds 

 for the purpose of finishing the university and 

 improving other buildings. Of the money raised 

 by sale of the bonds, $14,000 is to go to the uni- 

 versity improvement fund, $26,000 to the Peni- 

 tentiary fund, $3,000 to the Soldiers' Home fund, 

 and $6,000 to the Capitol building fund. If the 

 bonds sell above par, the premium is to be di- 

 vided pro rata. 



Establishing a bureau of immigration, labor, 

 and statistics. The salary provided for the com- 

 missioner is $1,800 a year, with traveling ex- 

 penses of $600 a year, and he is also allowed not 

 to exceed $2,000 a year for printing. 



Providing for an enlarged system of irrigation. 



Providing that lands acquired by the State by 

 escheat, foreclosure, or relinquishment shall be 

 school lands. 



To suppress gambling. 



To provide free text-books for the schools. 



Requiring kindness to animals to be taught in 

 the public schools. 



Decisions. The Supreme Court reversed the 

 judgment of the lower court in favor of the 

 plaintiff in the case of Bingliam County vs. W. A. 

 Woodin, treasurer, and his bondsmen, for money 

 lost in the Bunting Bank failure. In this case the 

 complaint alleged as the first cause of action 

 that the assessor Crowley had called and sought 

 to pay to the treasurer the sum of $48,719.03; 

 that Woodin did not demand the money, but did 

 receive worthless checks and credits on the Bunt- 

 ing Bank. For a second cause of action it was 

 alleged that Woodin received from Crowley money 

 belonging to Bingham County in the sum of $48,- 



ILLINOIS. 



719.03; that he failed to keep it safely, depositing 

 it in general deposit in the Bunting Bank. 



ILLINOIS, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Dec. 3, 1818; area, 56,650 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus, was 55,162 in 1820; 157,445 in 1830; 476,183 

 in 1840; 851,470 in 1850; 1,711,951 in 1860; 2,539,- 

 891 in 1870; 3,077,871 in 1880; and 3,826,351 in 

 1890. Capital, Springfield. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, John R. Tan- 

 ner; Lieutenant Governor, William A. Northcott; 

 Secretary of State, James A. Rose; Auditor, 

 James S. McCullough; Treasurer, Floyd K. 

 W T hittemore; Attorney-General, Edward C. Akin; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Alfred Bay- 

 liss; Adjutant General, J. N. Reece; Superintend- 

 ent of Insurance, James R. B. Van Cleave; Print- 

 er Expert, John H. Barton; Chief Justice, James 

 H. Cartwright all Republicans; President of 

 Board of Agriculture, W T . H. Fulkerson ; Board 

 of Arbitration, H. R. Calef, D. J. Keefe, and 

 W. S. Forman; President of Board of Health, 

 C. B. Johnson; Justices of Supreme Court, C. C. 

 Boggs, J. J. Phillips, J. W. Wilkin, J. N. Carter, 

 A. M. Craig, J. H. Cartwright, and B. D. Ma- 

 gruder. The following additional State officers 

 were created by act of April 24, 1899: Food Com- 

 missioner, A. H. Jones; Game Commissioner, 

 Henry W. Loveday; Supervising Architect, R. 

 Bruce Watson; Board of Inspectors of Commis- 

 sion Merchants, W. H. Whitcomb, J. W. Stanton, 

 A. M. Crawford, Joseph Newman, and A. M. 

 Smith. 



Finances. The rate of taxation for 1899 was 

 much lower than for several years previous, being 

 3.08 mills on the dollar for revenue fund or gen- 

 eral State purposes, and 1.12 mill for State school 

 fund or State school purposes, thus aggregating 

 4.2 mills on each dollar of taxable property, 

 against 5.6 last year and 6.6 two years ago. 



The total assessment for the counties of the 

 State for 1899, as given by the Auditor, was $895,- 

 869,090, an increase of $202,425,384 over 1898. 

 The total assessment on 395 corporations was 

 $2,348,203, against $2,433,425 on 320 corporations 

 last year. The total equalized value of the tan- 

 gible property of the corporations was computed 

 at $26,575,125, against $14,694,000 in 1898. 



The total amount of appropriations passed by 

 the forty-first General Assembly was $12,557,- 

 655.27, of which $93,341.33 was appropriated to 

 the courts, $4,418,461.12 to charitable institutions, 

 $21,480 to libraries, $106,700 to Lincoln home- 

 stead and monument, $2,114,000 to the school 

 fund, $1,027,898 to the military, etc. 



Banks. The records of the State Banking De- 

 partment in the Auditor's office show 17 State 

 banks organized since Dec. 12, 1898, 2 consoli- 

 dated, 5 gone into voluntary liquidation, and 1 

 State bank organized as a national bank. There 

 were 142 State banks in operation Dec. 12, 1898, 

 and there are now 152. The total resources are 

 shown to be: Loans and discounts, $117,674,- 

 519.79; gold coin, $5,159,508.55; gold-coin Treas- 

 ury certificates, $5,416,120; silver coin, $355,' 

 050.04; silver Treasury certificates, $903,657; na- 

 tional bank currency, $4,051,624; legal tender and 

 Treasury notes, $3,135,252; fractional currency, 

 $82,439.99. Liabilities: Time deposits (savings), 

 $55,370,508.43; certificates, $12,969,561.30; de- 

 mand deposits (individual), $74,559.354.04; de- 

 mand certificates, $5,400,937.33; certified checks, 

 $658,042.63; cashier's checks, $635,830.10. The re- 

 port on building and loan associations showed 

 receipts for examinations and filing fees as $22,- 

 975, and expenses as $22,817. During the year 



