Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-09-01

than half as prevalent in the cities n,
It Is IN the rest of the United States
according to a report made public TO
DAY by the census office giving the re
suit OF the enumeration In 1900.
The difference. the report says. is
due largely to the fact that the urban
population of the country is massed
in the northern and western states
and illiterncy Is less prevalent thore
than in other parts of the country.
The report includes under the term
"nliterate.' those who can neither
read nor write, and also a small nun.
ber who can read, but cannot write,
In the United States as a whole
excluding Alaska and Hawaii the male
population, at least q years of ace.
and living in cities having al least
$4,000 inhabitants. was 5.SS56it. OF
whom 3S9.223. or 6 per cent were re.
ported as illiterate. In the rest of the
country the number of men of voting
age was IS 24S,655. of whom igig2t7
or 10 per cent, were reported as init
crate.
Illiteracy among the adults the re-
port says is found in the large cities
| less frequently than elsewhere In all
the states and territories. except New
Hampshire New York, Eqvsas and
Oregon. The report coHt.nre=.
'As the difference batwaau the
large cities and the rest of the coun.
try in the northern states is affected
| by the presence in these cities OF large
numbers Of illiterate immigrants so
in the southern states tho same dit
| ference may he affected hv the pres.
ence Of the negro population.
The report concludes as follows
Among the native whites the differ.
auce between the population of large
cities in the north and I'm the south
in the matter of illiteracy are compat-
atively slight hut in the smaller cit.
les and rural districts of the south a
considerable per cent Of the adult pop.
ulation have not acquired the element
of book education.
AS rule a population living in
large cities is likely to include a smal.
Ter proportion Of illteracy than a non
ulation scattered over a spurseIy set.
tied area and more dimolt TO reach
by an effective system of public
schools"
SPOKANE. Wash, Aug 29.-MaslJ-
ed robbers held up an electric car last
night here and robbed thine conduc-
tor. and all the passengers including
Chief Of Police Roddv
BAY CITY. Mich. Aus a9-Ftre de.
stroyed the Woods Opera house here
today. aud Eugene zaramba was kin.
ed. Property loss is $tOo00oO.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. Aug 60
Some anxiety is felt here for the trans.
port Buford, which left Japan AUGUST
5th with 56S men of tuu Eighth and
Fwenty-6fth Infantry
BURLINGTON. VI. Aug 2Q.-Rev.
sam Small. the Georgia EVANGELIST is
Jumping the state for tbc prohibition
ticket who collapsed Monday from in
tozication has again fallen from grace
I'm Morrisyjllo last night the curtain
was ung down while he was speak.
ing owing TO his condition. He was
carried to his hotel where his physi-
clans found him suffering from a dose
of morphine
SAN FRANCISCO Cal, Aug. "a
t is positively known this morning
that instead of getting over $500 600.
the three relatives Of the late Mrs
Fair. Mrs. Nelson her mother, Charles
smith Of Boulder Colo, her brother.
and Abraham Folsom. another broth
ar got over million dollars or near.
ly four hundred thousand dollars each
Today Herman Oarich paid to Mrs
Nelson three hundred thousand dol
lars in gold, and the balance Of nearly
eight hundred thousand dollars is to
be paid within a month
OMAHA, Ncb Aug. ga hundred
brick layers. carpenters and painters
mployod by the Union Pacific in con
tructing its huge hops here struck
today because the road refused to dis
charge three nouuuiun men
NEWPORT Il. l.. Aug. 29.-W. K.
vanderbilt, Jr., considered one Of the
most expert automobilists in the
world has given up the sport on ac-
count Of the general dissatisfaction
throughout the country with automo
billsts
BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 29.-The adj
vance guard OF delegates is already
putting in an appearance for the in
.euational mining congress which Is
to begin its sessions in Butte next
Monday. Headquarters were estab
lished today by Secretary Mahon and
the delegates as soon as they arrive
are provided with badges and assign
ed to quarters. No set program will
he prepared in advance of assembling
Of the congress, il being thought best
10 leave the arrangements Tor each
DAYS proceedings to Che pleasure oil
| .he body
The list Of speakers and their sub.
iects so far as arranged includes the
following Water Resources or the
Het' ~. H. G9Er.. Of tile
StaJl a=aia.ie.l aU.,.,; "Un.l4..-
bic Mining, w. n. Fraser OF Muuau
Idaho, The Great ExposIuous as Fac
tors in the Promotion of the Mining
interests oil the Country" Prof. j. A.
Holbes, Of the University OF North
Carolina.
STOCKHOLM. Aug 2o.-Drlyen
irom thelr homes by the nnprecedent
ed hard times and the stringent con
scrption laws in Sweden. an unusual
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