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said county for an order enjoining the receiver 

 from tearing up the road, and the court granted 

 the application. The special master, upon at- 

 tempting to tear up the road, was met by the 

 sheriff of Bayfleld County with the injunction, 

 and prevented from dismantling the road. The 

 sheriff, district attorney, and six other citizens of 

 Bayfield County were then brought before the 

 federal Circuit Court upon contempt proceedings, 

 and were adjudged guilty of contempt of court, 

 the sheriff and district attorney being punished 

 by imprisonment in the county jail for sixty days 

 and the other 6 fined $250 each. 



On March 14 Judge Siebecker rendered a deci- 

 sion in the case of The State of Wisconsin ex rel. 

 Peter Batz et al. vs. C. A. Lewis, village clerk, 

 etc. The relators, as owners of the Farmers' and 

 Merchants' Bank of Sun Prairie, were assessed 

 $25,000 on their personal property under the head 

 of " Money, notes, mortgages, etc." They asked 

 to have their assessment reduced to about $3,000. 

 The board of review released them entirely from 

 the assessment on moneys, notes, bonds, mort- 

 gages, etc., and assessed them $25,000 on the cap- 

 ital stock of the bank. They immediately brought 

 certiorari proceedings in the Circuit Court to set 

 aside this assessment, declaring that they had 

 had no capital stock of the bank, except real 

 estate, and were not liable to taxation again 

 upon this property. It was contended on the 

 part of the village that the law makes capital 

 stock of a bank personal property, and that 

 under the statute it must be assessed as such in 

 municipality where the bank is located. Judge 

 Siebecker sustained the contention of the attor- 

 neys for the village. 



Oneida Indians at Green Bay. The Secre- 

 tary of the Interior, Oct. 16, reversed his ruling, 

 made a year previously, in connection with the 

 claim of the Wisconsin Oneida Indians to par- 

 ticipate in the judgment rendered in favor of the 

 New York Indians against the United States 

 Government by the Supreme Court. By this ru- 

 ling the Indians living at Green Bay will receive 

 about $300,000. 



Political. The platform of the Prohibitionists 

 in convention in Milwaukee, June 19, declared 

 that " annihilation and complete overthrow of 

 the legalized saloon system, and the absolute pro- 

 hibition of manufacture, sale, importation, ex- 

 portation, and transportation of intoxicating 

 liquors is the one paramount political issue be- 

 fore the American people." 



The Socialist platform reaffirmed the allegiance 

 of the party to the principles of international 

 socialism, and its adherence to the national plat- 

 form adopted at Indianapolis, and pledged itself 

 to such changes as the nationalization of all 

 trusts, national ownership of railroads, telegraph, 

 telephone, express and steamship lines, and grant- 

 ing every wage-worker over sixty years of age 

 who has earned less than $1,000 a year a pension 

 of not less than $12 a month. 



The Republican State Convention met in Mad- 

 ison, July 18, and nominated: For Governor, 

 Robert M. La Follette; Lieutenant-Go vernor, 

 James 0. Davidson; Secretary of State, Walter 

 L. Howser ; State Treasurer, John J. Kempf ; At- 

 torney-General, L. M. Sturdevent; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction. Charles P. Gary; In- 

 surance Commissioner, Zeno M. Host; Railway 

 Commissioner, John W. Thomas; Register of 

 Deeds, George W. Stover; Surveyor, W. L. 

 Marcy. The platform adopted the last Repub- 

 lican State platform, and reaffirmed its princi- 

 ples ; approved the administration of Gov. La Fol- 

 lette; regretted "the failure of the last Legisla- 



ture to enact those laws pledged to the public by 

 demands of the Republican party through the 

 platform in its last State convention"; con- 

 demned " the pernicious activity of federal offi- 

 cials in this State, in flagrant disregard of civil- 

 service laws, in attempts to forestall and control 

 the convention action of the party to which they 

 owe their preferment, and in assisting profes- 

 sional lobbyists before the Legislature and else- 

 where in the work of defeating legislation in re- 

 pudiation of party pledges." Its approved the 

 work of the Tax Commission. 



The Democratic State Convention met in Mil- 

 waukee, Sept. 3, and nominated: For Governor, 

 David S. Rose; Lieutenant-Governor, John Wat- 

 tawa; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Karl 

 A. Mathie. Regarding trusts, the platform said: 

 " We believe that the State should not grant 

 of its sovereign power to corporations to be ex- 

 ercised in the unlawful oppression of the people, 

 and we hereby pledge ourselves to cause to be 

 instituted and prosecuted with vigor such pro- 

 ceedings in the courts by information, quo war- 

 ranto, or otherwise, as shall be necessary to for- 

 feit and annul the franchises of any corporation 

 created under the laws of the State, which shall 

 violate the law by unlawfully destroying compe- 

 tition or controlling the price of material or of 

 business in this State." 



All the Republican candidates for State offices 

 were elected. The returns for Governor were: La 

 Follette, Republican, 193,420; Rose, Democrat, 

 145,818; Seidel, Socialist - Democrat, 15,957; 

 Drake, Prohibitionist, 9,657; Puck, Social-Labor, 

 787. The Republicans elected to the Senate num- 

 bered 30; the Democrats, 3. The Republicans 

 elected to the Assembly numbered 75; the Demo- 

 crats, 24. 



WYOMING, a Northwestern State, admitted 

 to the Union July 10, 1890; area, 97,800 square 

 miles. Population in 1890, 60,705; in 1900, 92,- 

 531. Capital, Cheyenne. 



Government. The following were the State of- 

 ficers during the year: Governor, De Forest Rich- 

 ards; Secretary of State, Fennimore Chatterton; 

 Treasurer, Henry G. Hay ; Auditor, Le Roy Grant ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, T. T. Ty- 

 nan; Attorney-General, J. A. Van Orsdel; Adju- 

 'tant-General, Frank A. Stitzer; Supreme Court 

 Chief Justice, Samuel T. Corn, Democrat; Asso- 

 ciate Justices, Jesse Knight and Charles N. Pot- 

 ter, Republicans; Clerk, William H. Kelley, 

 Democrat. 



The term of State officers is four years, and 

 they are elected in November of the second year 

 following presidential elections. The Legislature 

 meets in January of the odd-numbered years; the 

 session is limited to forty days. 



At the November, 1902, election all the State 

 officers, except the Treasurer, who, under the Wyo- 

 ming law, can not serve two consecutive terms, 

 were reelected, being the first State officials to 

 succeed themselves. All are Republicans, except- 

 ing the two named Democrats. 



Finances. The Treasurer's statement of Sept. 

 30, 1902, shows a net balance in the general fund, 

 after allowing for outstanding warrants, of $86,- 

 122.89, a net gain of $54,552.18 over 1901. The 

 Treasurer's cash statement is as follows: Cash 

 balance Oct. 1, 1902, $253.037.96; receipts from all 

 sources, $477,893.12; disbursements. $388.636.53. 

 This shows an increase in cash balance of $34,- 

 331.56 over the cash balance of 1901 ; also a net 

 gain in disbursements of $1,759.70 during the year. 



Every department of State, county, municipal, 

 and school government in the State is on a cash 

 basis. The bank deposits amount to $8,385,426.27, 



