Show WASHINGTON TERRITORY which has been putting on airs quite freely of late in the matter of population and demanding admission into the Union as a right by reason of her large number of people docs not 4 pan out so well under the cold 1 facts elicited by the census enumer j ators The total population of the Jf territory is given exactly at 74753 or about half as many people as are I listed in Utah Washington is among the oldest of the territories having I been organized only two and a half i years after Utah and New Mexico were given governments Notwithstanding Notwith-standing her sea coast advantages her boasted climate and her fertile soil she does not seem to bars pro greseed very rapidly in the twenty t I seven years that she has been a territory ter-ritory Those people who are talking talk-ing so much about Utahs backwardness I backward-ness about her discouragement of immigration and about her old fogy ideas that keep her in the background back-ground should look at the other territories ter-ritories and then keep quiet |