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VOL. XVI. NO. 12
POPtIIJIION OF UNITED STAFFS IS 93,402,151
Statistics of the Thirteenth Census Show Remarkable
Gains in Population Throughout the Entire Coun-
try —Southern States Show Large In
creases and Will Possibly Get
More Congressmen.
Washington.—The total population of the United States, according to
the thirteenth census, is 93,402,151.
In the United States and all its possessions the stars and
stripes protect 101,100,000 souls. This enormous number is the official
estimate of the United States bureau of the census, announced in con
nection with the population statistics for the country as enumerated in
the thirteenth decennial census. It includes the Philippines, Samoa,
Guam, Hawaii,. Alaska and The Panama canal zone.
Within its borders on the North American continent, exclusive of Alas
ka, the United States has a population of 91,972,266 inhabitants. Dur
ing the last ten years the states of the Union had an aggregate pop
ulation of 15,977,691, which amounts to 21 per cent, over the 1900 fig
ures. ।
Since the first census was taken in 1790 the country has grown 25
times as large, the population then having been 3,929,214, slightly larger
than the present population of the state of Texas.
The growth of the country was greater than has been expected bp
the expert statisticians who have closely watched the progress of the
country’s popualtion.
The states in their rank, according to population, as given by the
thirteenth census, follows:
1, New York; 2, Pennsylvania; 3, Illinois; 4, Ohio; 5, Texas; 6, Mas
sachusetts; 7, Missouri; 8, Michigan; 9, Indiana; 10, Georgia; 11, New
Jersey; 12, California; 13, Wisconsin; 14, Kentucky; 15, Iowa; 16,
North Carolina; 17, Tennessee; 18, Alabama; 91, Minnesota; 20, Vir
ginia; 21, Mississippi; 2, Kansas; 23, Oklahoma; 24, Louisiana; 25, Ar
kansas; 26, South Carolina; 27, Maryland; 28, West Virginia; 29, Ne
braska; 30, Washington; 31. Porto Rico; 32, Connecticut; 33, Colorado;
34, Florida; 35, Maine; 36, Oregon; 37, South Dakota; 38, North Dakota;
39, Rhode ’island; 40, New Hampshire; 41, Montana; 42, Utah; 43, Ver
mont; 44, District of Columbia; 45, New Mexico; 46, Idaho; 47, Arizona;
48, Delaware; 49, Hawaii; 50 .Wyoming; 51, Nevada; 52, Alaska
Under the 1900 apportionment these states have representatives in
congress as follows: Georgia, 11; Kentucky, 11; North Carolina, 10;
Tennessee, 10; Virginia, 10; Alabama, 9; Mississippi, 8; Louisiana, 7;
South Carolina, 7; Florida, 3.
On the present basis of apportionment, 193,167, or majority fraction,
thfese states would be entitled to the following representatives by the
1910 census: Georgia, 13; Kentucky. 11; North Carolina, 11; Tennessee,
11; Virbinia, 11; Alabama. 10; Mississippi, 9; Louisiana, 8; South Car
olina/ 8; Florida, 4.
The population of the different states and territories in 1900 and 1910,
together with the increase, is shown in the following table:
States. 1910. 1900. Increase.
The United States (inclusive of
Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico) 9 3,40'.’,151 77,256,630 16,.45,521
Alabama 2,138,093 1,828,697 309,396
Arizona 204,354 122,931 81,423
Arkansas 1,574,449 . 1,311,564 262,885
California 2,377,549 1,485,0d3 892,496
Colorado ••••••••••• 799,024 539,700 259,324
Connecticut 1,114,756 908,420 206,336
Delaware .../. 202,322 184,735 17,587
District of Columbia 331,069 278.71 S 52,351
Florida 751,139 528,542 22,597
Georgia " 2,609,121 2,216,331 392,790
T dallo 325,594 161,772 163,822
Illinois " L/ 5,638,591 4,821,550 817,041
Indiana ' 2,700,876 2,516,462 184,414
IOW a ..." 2,224,771 2,231,851 *7,082
Kansas" 1,690,949 1,470,495 220,454
Kentucky 2,289,905 2,147,174 142,731
Louisiana 1,656,388 1,381,625 274,763
Maine 742,371 694,466 47,905
Maryland 1,295,346 1,188,044 107,302
Massachusetts 3,366,416 2,805,346 561,070
Michigan • 2,810,173 2,420,982 389,191
Minnesota 2,075,708 1,751,394 324,314
Mississippi 1,797,114 1,551,270 245,844
MißSOuri 3,293,335 3,106,665 186,670
Montana ........... 376,053 243,329 132,724
Nebraska 1,192,214 1,066,300 125,914
Nevada /""T ’ 81,875 42 > 335 33.540
New Hampshire ■ 430,572 411,588 18,984
New Jersey 2,537,167 1,883,669 653,498
New Mexico 327,301 195,310 131,991
New York 9,113,279 7,268,894 1,844,385
North Carolina I 2,206,287 1,893,810 312,477
North Dakota 577,056 319,146 257,910
Ohio 4,767,121 4,157,545 609,576
Oklahoma 1,657,155 790,391 866,764
Oregoll ; 672,765 413,536 259,229
Pennsylvania 7,665,111 6,302,115 1.362,996
Rhode Island 542,610 428,556 114,054
South Carolina 1,515,400 1,340,316 ~75,084
South Dakota 583,888 401,570 182,318
'Tennessee 2,184,789 2,020,616 164,173
Texas 3,896,542 3,048,710 847,832
uta h 373,351 276,749 96,602
Vermont 355,956 343,641 12,315
Virginia 2,061,612 1,854,184 207,428
Washington 1,141,990 518,103 623,887
West Virginia 1,221,119 958,800 262,319
Wisconsin ...7 2,333,860 1,069,042 264,818
Wyoming 145,955 92,531 53,454
Alaska 64,356 63,592 764
Hawaii 191,909 154,001 37,908
Porto Rico 1,118,012 953,243 164,769
Military and Naval 55,608 91,219
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♦Decrease.
Shake-Up in Diplomatic Service.
Washington.—A general shake-up
in the diplomatic service is sched
uled for February 1. It is stated that
President Taft has decided to leave
all diplomatic selections save one to
Secretary of State Knox and his de
partment advisers, and that a num
ber of important changes have al
ready been determined upon. The
one personal appointment which the
President will make is that of J. G.
Schmidlapp of Cincinnati to be am
bassador to Russia to succeed Wil-
Jiam Woodville Rockhill.
©hr Sulhitn.
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i Rivers Bill Passes House.
i | Washington.—ln record time and
■ spending money at the rate of $7,000,-
; 000 an hour, the house of representa
: tives in about three hours, passed the
i rivers and harbors bill, making ap
■ propriations amounting to $21,864,861
■ for river and harbor work during the
• fiscal year ending June 30, 191 S. No
vote was taken, the bills being passed
by unanimous consent with the ex
ception of a slight typographical er
ror in the printed bill, not a word
■ was changed from the form in which
it was presented.
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16,1910.
'JAILER REPULSED NOB
AT COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
ATTACK ON JAIL AT COLUMBUS,
GA„ SUCCESSFULLY RESISTED
BY JAILER.
( MEMBER OF MOB IS KILLED
.Mob Wanted to Lynch a Negro Who
Was Accused of Heinous Crime.
Several Wounded.
Columbus, Ga. —An Alabamian, Ir
vin Kent, dead, and Jailer A. A.
Phelts dangerously wounded, .but with
a good chance for recovery, are the
insults of the assault made on the
Muscogee county jail, when a mob
tfied to get Henry Taylor, a negro,
arrested two or three days ago on
the charge of criminally assaulting
a young girl. Kent was 22 years old,
a mill operative and unmarried.
In firing on the mob, Jailer Phelts
used only a 38-caliber pistol, and it is
a rather peculiar fact that the piece
of lead which ploughed through Irvin
Kent from hip to hip causing his
death was apparently a large bullet
or rifle ball. The examining surgeon
is unable to state the caliber of. the
ball. It is possible that the bullet
was fired by some member of the
mob. Jailer Phelts was just in tne
act of reaching for his rifle when
struck by a bullet with such force
that he was knocked down. The bul
let entered his chest, in the region
of the lung, but apparently not strik
ing the lun^.
Mr. Phelts is 53 years old and has
been jailer of Muscogee county 15
years. This is the second mob he
has faced, although hitherto no resort
to firearms was made.
HOOKWORM IN ALABAMA.
Appalling Statistics Presented in Re
port of Rockefeller Doctor.
Montgomery, Ala. —Appalling statist
tics are presented in the informal
report of Dr. H. G. Perry, one of
the field workers of the hookworm
commission, who says that about 65
per cent, of the pupils attending the
public school at Dothan, in Houston
. county, are infected with hookworm.
Thy physician announces that exami
nations made by him and by Dr. .1.
K. Orr, another of the field workers
in Alabama, are conclusive <f the
great need that is felt in the state
for a thorough hookworm treatment
in every district.
In submitting an informal report
to Dr. ,W. W. Dinsmore, State Su
pervisor of the Rockefeller hookworm
commission. Doctor Perry says that
all of the counties around Houston
are more than probably as badly in
need of medical attention as the coun
ty of Houston.
Emaciated specimens of individuals
who are possessed of the hookworm
are not common in the county, ac
cording to Doctor Perry, though he
admits that several of the patients
who are .now undergoing treatment
were fast becoming debilitated as a
result of the inroads made by the
disease
400 Lives Lost in Battle.
Rio Janeiro, Brazil.—The govern
ment troops are again in control off
the garrison on Cobra island, and the !
second mutiny of the naval forces
has ended with a heavy casualtv list
but in away that probably will pre
vent further uprisings for some time.
The mutineers who composed a bat
talion of the marine corps numbered
about six hundred men. Os these 200
were either killed or wounded. Two
hundred citizens were either killed
or wounded while watching the bom-'
bardment from the streets of the citv.
Postal Deficit Disappearing.
Washington. — In the space of 12
months a reduction had been made
in the deficit of the postoffice depart- 1
ment of $11,500,000, according to the
annual report of Postmaster General
Frank H. Hitchcock, which has just
been made public. While a year ago
the fiscal records of the postal serv
ice disclosed a deficit of $17,500,000,
the largest in the history of the coun
try, the excess of expenditures over
receipts for the year ended Jure 30
uaat, amounted to only $5,848,566.
No Tariff Activity in Congress.
Washington.—A single week of con-i
gress has not cleared the atmosphere;
as to whether there will be any seri-'
ous effort at the present session to-,
ward tariff tinkering. While many
bills have been introduced in the
house for the repeal of duties on lum
ber. food products, coal and many ot
the raw materials, they have 'come
entirely from the Democratic minor
ity. and are regarded as indicating
the intention of individuals next ses
sion, when the Democrats will be in
the majority in the house.
Back From New
York--Our Buyer
We are pleased to state our buyer has return
ed from New York and other Eastern markets.
He states that this has been his most success
ful trip made in his six years’ experience. The
market on all lines was found to be at alow ebb.
Prices Were as Low as They
Were When Cotton Was
Eight Cents Per Pound.
The reason of this is not known; all seem to
think we will soon have big advances in all lines;
t
but we are protected; have bought the largest
stock ever brought to Milledgeville. Our prices
will be low—lower than you could reasonably ex
pect. We have the goods, not in New York, Phil
adelphia or Boston —but right here in Milledge
ville in our
Two Big Stores
We also wish to announce to the ladies of good old Wilkinson coun
ty, our addition of a “LADIES’ REST ROOM,’’ with toilet and lavatories.
This room we have long needed, and we are pleased to invite you to feel
at home here. We expect in a few days to tell you some very interesting
store nows. YOUR FRIENDS,
W. S. MYRICK & CO.
“The Store Where Shopping is Easy”
SI.OO a Year,
