The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-03-15
since 1899.

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! 1S45 1131S4 322 106 040, Ill 7,144,Nl
1S4o " 141 206 199 14O 351 172 855,0z7
| 1872 263 TT 265 2O3, ,4S9, ,2S2 60,287, ,9S3
| 1877 248 428' '342 293 823 76O 81, ,6N, ,582
! 1S6i 28931O'542 219, ,553, ,833 SO, 756, ,709
| 1S65 238 745580 1866 O29, 1903 72716,277
| 1863 All, ,5O6,379 286117, ,697 131, 1888, ,682
1873 642, ,I36,2l0 522, 1892 119,656,2SS
III 451 323'126 6O2, ,475, ,22O *151, ,152, ,OO4
1881 49,. 642, ,664, SIS 9O2,377, ,346 *259, al2, 7lS M
| 1885 577, ,527, ,329 TAP, 1S9, 1855 *164, 662, 426
1889 =. -. 745, ,131, ,652 az 4O1 $75 27S0z5 295
1888 - S66, ,4OO,922 847, 665,194 *18, 7S5, ,72S
1897 " 80. 764, ,730 Az 1O5O,99 556 *2S6, ,26S IA
1900 (c) 80 S29,O19337 1,477, ,949 666 *64S, $50 32S
| a. Figures Of 1880; b. Fractional year.
due, to change Of fl fiscal year n from sep sep
+ Exports.
Over 10000 persons in the state
Of Mississippi are delinquent in the
payment of their poll taxes. This is
the estimate made by Auditor Cole.
The figures are, Of course, not Off
cial, as the sheriff is not required to
send to the auditor list of the de-
linquents, but they are compiled
from data obtained largely by special
request. Of the total number it is
estimated that 116,0OO are Negroes
and $4,000 are white Following is
the table prepared by the auditor:
Polls assessed ........284, ,787
Polls collected ...... .130,SOO
Polls delinquent ........ 146,587
Whites delinquent ........ 29,73l
|Colored delinquent ...... 1856
Paper was first made by the Chi
.nese IN the first century A. d. Pre-
vious to that time they used thin
slips Of bamboo; the instrument en-
ployed in writing was not pen or
brush, but a pointed tool. Later on
it was found better to pound the
bamboo to a paste in mortar to-
gether with water, and then spread it
out to dry. This in fact was the first
paper in the modern acceptance Of
the term, though the Egyptian
papyrus antedated it several centu-
rles.
Most people are generally agreed
that Amerca was named after
Amerigo Vespucci. But now comes
Ia historian in the person Of Ricardo
Palma, director of the National Lii
brary Of Lima, Peru, who has Just
published a book in which he main
tains that America was not named
after the noble Amerigo, but vice
versa. Senor Palma says he has
given years to the study Of the sub
IJect One after another Of our IA
vorite, long cherished ideals falls to
the ground.
Beltrami county, Minnesota, is
bankrupt. Not dollar is in the
treasury, and the judge and jurors
have refused longer to serve. Unless
the legislature gives immediate re-
lief the county will be depopulated.
The City Park extension Of the
Seattle Electric Company from
Eighth avenue to Lake View ceme-
terry was opened up last Sunday and
now gives a ten-minute service from
Second and Yesler way to Lake
View cemetery without change Of
cars.
In view of the constitutional pro-
vision DISTINGUISHING all deinquents,
it is question whether there are
within the entire state 10000 citi-
zens who are qualified to vote in
general election.
Mississippi appears to have solved
the lynch law problem. A legislative
enactment has been passed giving to
the relatives Of person lynched the
right to recover $4,000 from the
county where the lynching occurred,
and vacating the office of sheriff
when that officer permits a prisoner
to be taken from him.
The state Of Georgia pays $780,
600 annually to the widows Of Con-
federate veterans in pensions. Most
Of the Southern states pay pensions
to Confederate soldiers.
Prof. Shaler, the Harvard geolo-
gist, says that in the next thirty
years the United States alone will
produce thirty thousand millions of
dollars in gold.