The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-05
.LFE IS WORTH living
On Leary's Isle, and That's
About All 1t Is Worth.
NO ICE NOR LAW : BOOKS
Natives Prone to Test the Doc
tor Mans Remedies.

| Washington May 4.-Governor Leary
has sent to the Navy department another
Of his characteristic official reports about
affairs in Guam, including the results of
a thorough census taken under his direc-
ton, and financial statement of the first
six months of his administration, which
shows gratifying and growing surplus
Of Mexican dollars in the island treasury
American money has not yet entered into
circulation in Guam, and the figures in
the balance sheet represent the silver cur
rency left there by the Spaniards. The
amount in the local treasury on July 1.
1899 was 81 III. The receipts from July
to January l, last, We're s., AS, and the
expenditures for the some period were
Sc 767, leaving in the treasury on January
l, 1900 $4S19. The receipts will not be
so large for the remainder of the fiscal
year, as the tax on marriage licenses will
not be so productive, but. the expenses
will be proportionately reduced, as many
of the improvements have been completed.
The governor reports that the evaporat-
ing plant is in excellent condition, but
he is still without an ice machine, with
the hot weather almost at hand. The
steam sawnill has been erected, and was
ready for work. A telephone system has
been installed, and was in successful ope-
ration between Agana, the capital, and
Pitt the port The officers Of the Yo-
semitic were still engaged on the topo-
graphical survey of the island, which
In fact, all was well at Guam, and life
there would be perfect, with a refrigerat-
ing plant and a good library. Governor
,Leary explains to the department that his
request for a library did not contemplate
a circulating affair for fiction. He needed
an encyclopaedia, set Of revised stat
utes, some law books and other refer
ence works Indispensable to his Office.
Some books of this sort were in the Ii
brary of the Yosemite, but that ship was
seven miles from the capital, over a
shadeless road, and 1t was exasperating
to make the trip whenever a question Of
local administration raose.
The tabulated enumeration of the popu-
I:ltion of Guam has been forwarded by the
Sc cretary of the navy to the director of
tire census to be included in the total of
the, United States. 1t shows that Guam
had a population of S,661 persons a jan
uary 1. 1900. Of these 5,249 lived insthe /
canita7 city of Agana-. In the district of |
Agana are five villages. which, with their
are: Amiga, 161; Asan, 255;
Tebungan, 200; Sinahana, IA, and Caro-
linas. 80. The five towns on the island
outside Of the district of Agana, with
tneir totals, are: Agat. IA; Sumay, 566;
TTraatta, 236; MeriZo, 491; Inarahan, 5lS
OF the total population of the island |
B rs are males over seven years of age, |
3 SO are females over seven years, and |
!. s5$ are children under seven years. Gov
ernor Leagy says nothing about the state |
of health on the island, but from his |
reuuisitfons for medicines and surgical |
the natives are evidently pat |
the naval medical officers with /
an astonishing variety OF complaints.