Show TAKING COUNT OF MEXICAN CENSUS Tabulation of 1900 Is Believed to Have Been oo V Short DIAZ WILL AID IN COUNT PRESIDENT WILL ENUMERATE B PERSONS IN m HIS BLOCK City Ity of otY Mexico f xico May 22 The first complete census c ns of the population of ot I Mexico ever taken Is to be made mads in October r of this year The Te preliminary plans plane for the th work w rk are already v ell eil i I advanced and the arrangements will trill provide tor for making the entire 0 count during a period of ot three days Free President dent Diaz Dias i Is deeply ply Interested in hav hay having havIng haying ing a complete completo and accurate i naus taken and as an encouragement along this line he has bas volunteered to make I the count of ot the people residing In the block where here his city residence Is 15 situ situated situated situated Prominent men all over ove the country are arc being urged to give the matter their personal attention The census of ot 1900 gave gae Mexico a 1 population of ot It Is believed that this count is nearly short of the actual number of people who make their home in Mexico As an evi evidence evidence dence of or the tho Incompleteness Inc of that and former censuses it is pointed out that there are arc great areas of at populous territory in the remote sections of ot the country where census enumerators tors were not appointed and further that the department of the Interior ot of the federal government discovered In IIi the cour e of ot a 8 recent Investigation that there are a number of ot towns and anil vii vil villages fi lages In the recesses of the Sierra Madres Madrea some same of ot them having haIng a population population tion of ot to people of whose existence there was wat no previous official l knowledge Natives Feared Enumerators Not only were the people of these in inaccessible Inaccessible inaccessible accessible communities not counted In Inthe Inthe V the census but they were not In any ano anyway anyway way subject to any federal or state jurisdiction In most Instances even 1 the state authorities had no knowledge of the existence nce of such villages and towns Far removed from the ordinary I routes of ot travel the natives composing these communities lived in little worlds to themselves In most instances they I Iare are of almost pure Indian blood and their primitive customs and ways of It t living liIng are practically the same as they were at the time of ot the Spanish con conquest conquest conquest quest Another thing that added to the in inefficiency Inefficiency efficiency of ot the last and all aU previous censuses In Mexico was the suspicion of or the ignorant I natives s to the purpose pur purpose pose of or the enumerators In taking their names Thousands of or there these natives be believed believed believed that the object of or the govern goern government government ment officials was to obtain this In Information formation so as to draft them Into the army or levy taxes against them The fear of the enumerators was so widespread widespread wide widespread spread that whole villages were desert deserted ed cd by b the inhabitants when one on of ot these government representatives made his appearance in their locality 1 o call It is known that even in the city of Mexico thousands of omitted from the th census in Seek to Allay lIly Fears The government has been carrying on ona ona ona a campaign of education among the people in all parts of ot the country In regard to the coming census taking for several months and It Is believed that I the fears of the ignorant natives as asto asto I to the purpose of the count will have been allayed 1 before the enumerators begin their work V It Is confidently expected by y the higher authorities that the new census will wUI show Mexico to have hae a population Of ot nearly people In connection with the census h por I I tant statistics will be gathered as to I the various kinds of ot Industries of the country 1 |