The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-11
PLANS COMPLETED
For Division of States Into Enumerators
Districts.
Washington Bureau Of the Standard. I
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Washington, D. c., Sept. 6.-Direc-
tor of the Census Merriam has COM
pleted the plans for the division of
the states into enumerators districts. He
will also hold a conference with the chief
staisticians of the bureau within a day or
two at which will be determined the ex-
act scope of the schedules to be made by
special agents who serve as enumerators
of the manufacturing industries of the
country. The census law authorizes many
inquiries of an inquisitorial character, but
It is the purpose of the director to elmi-
nate such questions as do not promise to
develop valuable information and merely
disclose private business affairs. Further
care will be taken in collating the infor-
fation gathered to arrange 1t in such a
manner as not to make public the details
of individual enterprise. The director be-
lieves it is possible to present all this in
formation in interesting and valuable form
without giving to the public any indvid-
ual business secrets. 1t is announced that
where township has an unusually large
population two enumerators will be as
signed to the work. but in no case will a
single enumerator have parts of two or
more townships in his district. In the
cities the practice will be to constitute
ward lines as the boundaries of enumera-
tors districts, and where the population
Is large, as probably in Butte, to detail
two enumerators to each ward. From
this data it will be possible to calculate
approximately the number of enumerators
to be assigned to each state, although in
such calculation there is an element of
uncertainty, growing out of the various
degrees of density Of population in well
settled rural townships
The civil service commission announces
an examination at Helena Oct. Z. 1t will
be for positions in the mint and assay
service in that city. The places in the
schedule covered by the examination are.
Abstract clerk, assayer,s computation
clerk, assistant bookkAeper. assistant
curator, assistant Inspector, assistant
weigh clerk. bank messenger, bookkeeper,
CASHIERS clerk, clerk, copyist inspector,
medal clerk, pay clerk, registrar clerk.
registrar of accounts registrar of depos-
It's shipping clerk. statistical clerk, store
Keeper time clerk. warrant clerk and
The commission invites attention to the
fact that this examination Is held in or
der to establish eligible registers from
which selections may be made to fill va
cancles winch may occur from time to
time. This examination is open to all cit
liens of the United States who compIv
with the requirements. They will be ex-
amined and graded with entire impartial
ity and wholly without regard to any
consideration other than the average at
tanned by them in the examination, Ger
LITIGATION for appointment will be made
from the register of eligibles established
for the particular office in which the va
cancies exist. Person desiring to compete
should at once apply to the secretary of
the board of examiners for the mint and
assay service for application form, which
should be property executed and promptly
filed with the board No application will
be accepted after the hour of closing
business on Sept. 80.
Miles Taylor. the able secretary of Sem
ator Lee Mantle during his senatorial
term, is now engaged with Senator Lucien
Baker of Kansas. George e. Gilliland,
private secretary to Senator w A.
Clark, has entirely recovered from his re-.
cent Illness. HOSFORD.