The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-10-31
FACTS ABOUT $50:
80: THE CENSUS.

By a report by the census bureau a
great gain in the number Of newspapers
published in the United States is shown.
and, incidentally, a compliment is paid
to the Western section of the country
The greatest gain in the number of news
papess and publishing plants has beer
made in that section. Massachusetts. ac-
cording to the present census, will have
to yield its place at the head Of the lis,
to Iowa. The Hawkeye State, In pro
portion to its population, has more news
papers than any State in the Union. The
total number Of printing establishments
in the United States, as will be shown
by the forthcoming census report, is 2:j;.-
GIG, a gain Of 1916 during the ten years
ending 1900. The last census showed
only 10000 printing establishments
These establishments include job print
ing, newspaper and book publishing
plants. Census officials point out that
the greatest gain has been made in the
West, and this section is shown TO have
made immense strides. Iowa. in proper
tion to its population. has twice as many
newspapers as Massachusetts. The big
Scst ihCIcdSc III Tue pElutluS CStdDllSA
ments has been in the newspaper fields.
The census bureau has issued a bulle-
tin showing the population Of the United
States by sex, general nativity and color
for 1900. or the total population there
We're 39059. .2i2 males and 1924. 145 fe-
males. The native element numbered
65.S43.3 .302 and the foreign born 1O.46O.-
OS5. or the colored population there was
a total OF 9.312,5S5, divided as follows:
Negro, $50, 1S9: Chinese. 119,0oO; Jap
anese. S5.9S6, and Indians taxed), 49,
242 (untaxed). 129,519.
There has been practically no change in
the proportions of the sexes since 1890.
The foreign born element has increased
since 1890 only per cent, as against 22.5
per cent in the native born gain. There
has been a slight decrease in the decade
in the number Of persons OF negro de-
scent, the proportion now being 11.6 per
cent. In 1890 it was lilo per ceat. The
Chinese show loss and the Indians have
decreased 2.o per cent.
DuAihe thC uSN1NS just NioScu sSNNidi
million white people have doubtless come
to this country as immigrants. and yet
that, added to the increase frcn, births
in the white race does not make a total
which greatly exceeds the relative in
crease from births alone in the cOlored
race. Eight of the eleven census bulle-
tins covering the population Of tho States
in groups by nativity. race. etc, have
been made public. They show that the
decline in the proportion of the colored
to the total population between 1850 and
1890 has not again taken place. Twenty
years ago 13.1 per cent of the popula-
tion of the United States as colored: in
1890 the percentage had dropped To 11.9.
This time, if the ratio for the eight-elev-
enths OF the country already computed
holds good, the colored population will
represent Ill per cent of the total-prac-
tically standoff.
The final census report on the popula
ton of the United States by sex, nativity
and color shows that the males Number
39.059.2I2, or 51.2 per cent of the total
population in 1900. The increase Of 13,-
-OO,pol III totil popuiitlou SiHte lCvO -
made up of 6.144. .1I9 males and 6,iS9. .452
females. an increase of 20.9 of males and
21.1 of females. The foreign born ele
ment has increased only ia per cent and
the native born population 22.5 per cent
since 1890. AS to color and race the
population in 1900 comprises 66.S9o.S .SO2
white persons and 9.312.5S5 colored per-
sons, the latter comprising S.S4O.IS5 per-
sons of negro descent. The colored ele-
ment as n whole shows an Increase Of
lis per cent since 1890.
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A late census bulletin shows thar Chi
cago outclasses all the other large cities
in the number of deaths from railroad
accidents. Its total for the census year
is $50 while the combined total for nine
other big cities is only 4S6.
\ thousand men, exclusive of Indians,
are engaged in hunting and trapping in
the vast extent of fur-bearing country on
the upper Yukon, according to an iuter-
esting report received at the State De
partment from Consul MeCook at naw-
son City.