Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-11-01
AN ARMY STATEMENT
Adjt. Gen. Corbin Gives a Statis-
tical Record Of Our Troops.
POPULATION OF The UNITED STATES
The Ofacisl Announcement Of the Director
Of the Census Gives II M 78,205,-
22O for 1900 Against $780,
1855 In 1890.

Washington, Oct. 3l.-1he annual
report of Adjt Gen. Corbin to the
secretary of war for the year ended
June 80, 1900, is complete statistical
record Of the army of the United
States. 1t shows that the regular
army consists OF 2,535 officers and 3d.
S61 enlisted men, and the volunteer
army consists Of l,54S officers and
1909 enlisted men, n grand total OF
9S,79O, not including the hospital
corps, which is not counted as part
of the effective strength of the army.
The regular and volunteer army at
present is distributed as follows:
United States, 9gs officers, of whom 70
are volunteer officers, and 1888 en-
listed men, all regulars; Alaska, Al
officers, 1,0SS enlisted men; Porto
Rico, 9S officers, 2,4O6 enlisted men;
Cuba, 260 officers, 5,46s enlisted men;
Philippine islands, 1857 officers, Co.,
161 enlisted men; Hawaiian islands,
officers, 219 enlisted men; China,
so officers, 1000 enlisted men.
There are $40 volunteer enlisted
men in Porto Rico and 10000 in the
Philippines. These are the only
places where volunteer enlisted men
are serving. Some staff officers are
serving in nearly all of the places
named.
The deaths reported in the army,
both regular and volunteer, by the
same division, are: United States,
IA officers, 264 men; Alaska, 3 men;
Cuba, officers, 146 men; Porto Rico,
So men; Hawaii, one officer and 4
men; Philippine islands, 40 officers,
1893 men, at sea, officers, "a men.
Total "A officers, 1890 men. In seven
instances, owing to an error, officers
dying have been counted twice, once
a. regulars and then as volunteers,
the actual total icing 81 officers dead.
During the year there were dis
charged from service 22,502 men; de-
serted, 1893.
The casualties In the Chinese cam
paign between July I and October l.,
were nine officers and 200 enlisted
men.
Gen. Corbin commends highly NE
operation Of post exchanges and the
canteen, saying that the reports from
the Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico
"indicate that the post exchange has
become an absolute necessity" He
says that the total amount received
from the exchanges so far as reports
show amounted to $l,Ol5,s62 with a
net profit Of $464,5o4.
Discussing the recruiting service for
the regular army, Gen. Corbin says:
A0f the 1880 accepted applicants,
16,54S were native-horn and 1901 of
foreign birth; 1s,64B were white, $40
colored, and 30 Indians. The enlist
ments numbered 1883 and the re-
enlistments 1861. Excluding re-en-
llstments, the percentage of native
born among the original enlstments
was 81 10. The reports show that
The recruiting officers making the
1907 enlistments embraced in the
first two items of the foregoing list
rejected 60,604 applicants-about rs
per cent. of the number seeking en-
1istment-as lacking in either legal,
mental, moral or physical qualifca-
lions; 9S7 Of these were rejected as
aliens, and s,O3s for illiteracy."
In the statistics given is table
showing the chronological list of ac-
tions in the Philippine islands from
February 4, 1899, to June 30, 1900, to-
gether with the losses in killed and
wounded. The totals show 80 officers
and l76 men killed, and 147 officers
and 2,076 men wounded.
Population Of the United States.
Washington, Get. 3l.-'rhe official
announcement OF the total population
of the United States for 1900 is TO-
205,220, of which 7i,627,901 are con-
tained in the Is states representing
approximately the population to be
used for appoitonment purposes,
There is a total of l34, 1853 Indians not
taxed. The total population in 1890,
with which the aggregate population
of the present census should be COM
pared, was 63,069,756. Taking the 1890
population as a basis, there has been
gain in population of 13,225,l64 dur
ing the past ten years, representing
an increase of nearly II per cent
The population of Kansas for 1900
is given as l,469,406; for 1890, 1,427,-
096. Of Missouri. for 1900, 3,101ll7;
for 1890, s,679,1s4. OF Oklahoma, for
1900, 39S,9ij; for 1890, 6l,s3i, OF the
Indian territory, for 1900, 3o1, 900; for
1890, ls0,ls2,
The director of the census, in an
nouncing the population of the United
States, made the following statement:
The figures of the population are the
result of a careful computation by
means Of the latest tabulating ma
chimes. The early completion of the
tabulation of the population of the
states enables the census Office to sub
nit the figures to congress as soon as
II convenss in December; thus giving
that boey the information necessary
to dispose OF the question of the reap