Treasury, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, on accounts and vouchers duly approved by said governor and the Secretary of the Interior." The Thlingihs regard an insane person as one possessed of a spirit, and stand in awe of him; and he is not often treated harshly, but is left to do his will so long as he is not dangerous. While these people were addicted to the manufacture of "Hoo-chi-noo," or rum from molasses, many lost their eyesight from its effects. In the Sitka village there are several men totally blind. They are good fishermen, and earn their living for the most part by fishing. Old people are sadly neglected, unless one should be a woman who is high caste, and who has a number of children. Such are well taken care of. Orphan children were formerly made slaves, but the Christian missions have largely done away with this cruelty. The United States jail in Sitka is the principal one for the district. It is located in the lower part of a large blockhouse which was built by the Russians, and which is known as the "Barracks." It is overcrowded by the number of prisoners upon the marshal's hands. The physician in charge has reported that the place is unhealthy and unfit for a prison. The marshal has the care and feeding of the prisoners, and this is so well done that there is no complaint. Prisoners sentenced to imprisonment for a longer term than one year are sent to San Quentin at the expense of the United States. By the present ruling the marshal has no authority to make sentenced prisoners work outside. This defect is sought to be remedied by an amendment to the criminal code, which has been revised by the commission organized for that purpose. The court-house and jail at Juneau burned last winter. Alaska is badly in need of a penitentiary and jails, for a very large class of evildoers are drifting that way.

ARIZONA.

BY DR. IRA B. HAMBLIN, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

The legislature of a year ago appropriated $17,000 for the completion of the Reform School located at Flagstaff.

A Rescue Home has been established in the city of Phoenix for women and girls; and, since its opening, a great deal of good has been accomplished. At the State Insane Asylum at Phoenix a con

gregate dining hall is just being completed, which will accommodate about 300 patients, thereby permitting the transformation of the ward dining-rooms into dormitories, thus increasing the capacity of the institution very materially. The asylum is run on a nonpartisan basis, the attendants and persons in authority, from the superintendent down, being chosen for their fitness only.

A. GROUP OF DELINQUENTS.

Class 1.- Criminals. 200 confined in the Territorial Prison at Yuma.

B.

GROUP OF Destitutes.

Class 1.- The Poor. Are cared for in county hospitals.

Class 3. The Sick and Injured. Are cared for in county hospitals.

C. GROUP OF DEFECTIVES.

Classes 1 and 2.- The Blind and Deaf-mutes.

Sent to a blind

asylum in an Eastern State, and expense paid by the Territory.

Class 3. Feeble-minded Children. No provision made.

Class 4- The Insane. 168 patients maintained entirely by the Territory in the asylum at Phoenix.

ARKANSAS.

No report received.

CALIFORNIA.

BY MRS. AGNES W. FLINT, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

Our

We have as yet no State Board of Charities and Correction. legislature meets biennially, and bills to establish such a board have been repeatedly presented to that body without success, either failing to pass or, as in 1897, not being reached before the adjournment of the legislature. An "Act to authorize, empower, and direct the California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-minded Children to admit idiots, epileptics, and mentally enfeebled paralytics into said institution," and to provide for the support of all inmates therein, was approved March 31, 1897.

The Masonic order has started building a home for the widows and orphans of Masons, to cost about $75,000. In the city of San Francisco the Associated Charities has established a local conference of charities that is very popular and doing good work in expounding organized charity methods, promoting co-operation, and sending out printed matter pertinent to this subject.

A. GROUP OF DELINQUENTS.

Class 1.- Criminals.. Are confined in two State prisons at Folsom and San Quentin. The more dangerous class of offenders are confined at Folsom. Number of prisoners during the year, 1,483. Jan. 1, 1898, there were 900 prisoners. At San Quentin the greatest number of prisoners at any one time was 1,358. 1,327 remained in confinement Jan. 1, 1898. Total number for State Jan. 1, 1898, 2,227.

Class 2.- The Vicious. Information was received from thirty counties only out of fifty-four with regard to this class. These report that 16,263 persons were confined in their various jails and workhouses for minor offences. San Francisco County led with 3,583.

Class 3.- Insubordinates. We have two State Reform Schools, the Preston School of Industry and Whittier. The Preston School is a reformatory for boys only, and had 107 pupils in all. Whittier receives both boys and girls. Its inmates number 245 boys and 45 girls.

B. GROUP OF DESTITUTES.

Class 1. Aged and Infirm Poor (Sane). The aged and infirm poor are maintained by their respective counties in county hospitals, infirmaries, poor-farms, and almshouses. As a rule, they are not maintained separately from the sick and injured poor. 9,582 are reported of these two classes from the thirty counties responding.

Class 2.1 Destitute Children. Very few children are kept in almshouses, but they are maintained at State expense in various orphanages. Number supported last year was: orphans, 1,517; half-orphans, 7,509; abandoned children, 937; foundlings, 389. Cost to the State, $333,411.45.

Class 1.- - The Insane. We have five State insane asylums, at Napa, Stockton, Agnew, Ukiah, and San Bernardino. In these were confined 5,063 insane patients. An effort is being made to establish a State hospital for insane criminals, heretofore kept with other patients in the insane asylums. The next legislature is to be petitioned urgently to construct a building within the walls of Folsom prison for the care and custody of insane criminals exclusively.

Class 2.- Idiotic and Feeble-minded Persons. At the home at Eldridge 525 are cared for. The before-mentioned act approved by our last legislature will allow of the establishment of an epileptic colony or village of from twenty to thirty cottages, wherein will be accommodated some 500 epileptics to be transferred from various asylums of the State.

Class 3.- The Blind. Many of this class of defectives are maintained in county infirmaries and almshouses or by outdoor relief. The two State institutions are the Home for Adult Blind in Oakland, having 100 inmates, and the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum at Berkeley, with 67 blind inmates.

Class 4.- Deaf-mutes. No separate institution for deaf-mutes is maintained. There are 178 pupils in the home at Berkeley for the deaf, dumb, and blind.

COLORADO.

BY DR. MINNIE C. T. LOVE, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

There has been no meeting of the legislature.

Victor Woman's Club established a free library; also Cripple Creek Club, a free library and miners' reading-room. Pingree garden work was maintained by Denver Woman's Club, about four hundred families being helped. A cooking school was established by Denver Woman's Club, and kitchen garden work.

Pingree garden work was carried on in Pueblo.

A Prisoners' Aid Society was formed through the efforts of the State Board of Charities and Correction.

Dr. Work's Home for Feeble-minded at Pueblo is a private institution, accommodating about 30 patients.

The City Improvement Society are going to equip a playground for poor children, with covered sheds for the mothers, and sand piles, swings, etc., for the children, a matron to watch them.

The Seventh Day Adventists have established a lodging-house in Denver, with eighty-five beds, free meals, and free baths.

A. GROUP OF DELINQUENTS.

Class 1.- Criminals. In penitentiary, 617; in reformatory, 95; in jails and lockups, about 200.

Class 3.— Insubordinates. Golden Industrial School for Boys, 113 inmates; Girls' Industrial School at Denver, 50 inmates.

B. GROUP OF DESTITUTES.

Class 1.- The Poor. In Relief Home, 35; poorhouses, about

300.

Class 2.- Destitute Children. In State Home for Dependent Children, 50; in private institutions, about 150. Class 3.- The Sick and Injured. About 250.

C. GROUP OF DEFECTIVES.

Classes 1 and 2.- The Blind and Deaf-mutes.

133.

In State schools,

Class 3.- Feeble-minded Children. No home. Estimated number in State, 150. Dr. Work's private institution cares for a few. Class 4.- The Insane. In hospital, 431; none in jails. institutions (Dr. Work's institution at Pueblo), 50.

Private

CONNECTICUT.

BY CHARLES P. KELLOGG, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

There has been no session of the legislature held during the past year; and no new charitable organizations or institutions have been established within the past year.

Class 1.

A. GROUP OF DELINQUENTS.

Criminals. The State prison at Wethersfield has been enlarged by the addition of thirty-two cells in the department for pris