Show C FIGURES FIGURS THIS WEEK YEEK Population of Entire Entre Country Cout Wi Will Be Announced Washington Oct Oct 27 The work of counting the inhabitants of the te United States was wa practically completed by bythe bythe bythe the census bureau today and next net week Director Merriam wil will announce the population of the te country countr His Hi statement however ho eer will il be subject to some slight revision All Al the returns from Alaska Aaka are not yet in and the re returns returns turns from the American soldiers and ad sailors serving in the Philippines and elsewhere abroad are ae not no complete These Thee figures will wil be estimated The figures for the states and territories will wi be official The work of the present census has proceeded upon a system materially different from that of oC the last lat census The first frt enumeration of the population under the last census was a hand ham count and was completed Thanksgiving ing lag day 1890 The Tho work of punching the individual cards containing individual individual ual statistics was not begun until March Mach 1891 1891 and was not completed un until Ill til ti September 1891 The present count has ha proceeded as each card has been punched so S that now with wih the com completion completion of the te count the individual statistics complete as punched in the he cards are The other ather statistics cannot be ground gound out mechanically from the punched cards After the total total population am and the population by states and territories are arc announced next nex week the bulletins showing the he population of states anc and territories by minor civil evl divisions will wil wil be issued as a soon as a tabulated |