"Congress passed the enabling act to make Washington a state on February 22, 1889. The territory held its constitutional convention July 4 that year and on November 11 was admitted to the Union. The above men were elected to the state's first legislature that met in November, 1889." -- on newspaper article attached to verso.

The members are numbered:

1. John W. Feighan, Spokane county, speaker of house
2. John McReavy, Mason
3. S.C. Herren, Lewis
4. A.K. Clark, Spokane
5. C.H. Flummerfelt, Franklin
6. George H. Stevenson, Skamania
7. W.J. Meade, Pierce
8. P.K. Spencer, Lincoln
9. C.T. Blackfan, Lincoln
10. Francis J. Rotch, Thurston
11. J.S. Brown, Spokane
12. George Bothell, King
13. E.R. Pickerell, Whitman
14. George W. Morse, Island
15. L.A. Kuhn, Jefferson
16. W.C. Rutter, King
17. Olif Peterson, Pierce
18. F.W. Bird, King
19. Alf A. Plummer, Jefferson
20. A.R. Lull, Clallam
21. J.C. Turner, Whitman
22. H.B. Day, Columbia
23. B.R. Ostrander, Whitman
24. L.N. Power, Kittitas
25. George Browne, Pierce
26. Alex Allen, King
27. F.D. Nash, Douglas
28. George B. Kandle, Pierce
29. John T. Blackburn, King
30. J.E. Gandy, Spokane
31. J.M. Coswell, Walla Walla
32. John Clemen, Yakima
33. A.H. Weatherford, Columbia
34. J.D. Geoghegan, Clarke
35. S.S. Cook, Clarke
36. J.P. Sharp, Kittitas
37. M.H. Randall, Stevens
38. W.S. Oliphant, Garfield
39. W.J. Shinn, King
40. H. Blair, Klickitat
41. Unknown
42. W.R. Maultray, Whatcom
43. G.H. Judson, Whatcom
44. William Farrish, Asotin
45. Charles Gilchrist, Lewis
46. Alex, Robertson, Snohomish
47. A.H. Eddy, Snohomish
48. J.J. Edens, Skagit
49. S. G. Grubbe, Spokane
50. J.C. Painter, Walla Walla
51. C.B. Dean, Spokane
52. W.O. Bush, Thurston
53. S. Judson, Pierce
54. J.E. Tucker, San Juan
55. L.B. Nims, Chehalis
56. R.H. Hutchinson, Whatcom
57. J.T. Medcalf, Chehalis
58. Z.K. Straight, Walla Walla
59. B.D. Minkler, Skagit
60. G. Negler, Wahkiakum