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Show VI1AT THE CENSUS COST. The Total Will Not Exceed $7,000,000, About I I Cents per Capita. Wasutnoton", Jan. 4. in a report to tho secretary of the interior, dated December 2, 1801, Superintendent Porter of the census bureau says lie thinks il safe, to estimalo that the cost of printing the eleventh census as at present mapped out, will be, relatively speaking, less, certainly not more, than tho tenth census. Including the amount paid the enumerators and supervisors, the total cost of collecting the data for the eleventh census has been $:i,000,o8o. The superintendent superin-tendent expresses the belief that the census work proper will all be linisbed and ready for the printer by the close of 1 !J. and Grit the cost will not exceed 17,080,080 or a trite over 1 1 cents per capita. The work of the office is well advanced, and fourteen out ot tho twenty-live divisions are completed. The Nebraska Governorship. Wasiiimitox, Jan. 4. The Boyd Thayec case, involving the question of the, citizenship citizen-ship of Boyd, and as a consequence his eligibility eligi-bility to the office of governor of Nebraska to which he was elected, was not decided by the supreme court today. Injuiry into tho matter developed the fact that only eight, justices sat in the bearing of the case. Jus. tice Bradley being absent on account illness. The premature announcement that the court had decided the casein favor of Boyd by a vote of 0 to 3 cannot be. correct therefore so far as respects the majority by which the decision is alleged to have beeu reached. Tin' justices of course would say nothing whatever as to the ease in advance of the announcement from the bench of the decision. A curious coincidence in connection witll the publication in advance of what the de. cision of the court would be, aud the respee. live number of justices in favor of Boyd, and in fnvor of Thayer, was developed in court today. The case of the Northern Pa-citie Pa-citie against Hiram ihtstin, prosecuting at-tome, at-tome, of Yakima county, Wash., was decided de-cided today by a vote which the publication referred to alleged to bo the, decision of the justices in the Boydj Thayer case In this case the court reversed the decision of the state (then ter. ritorial ) court, as would be the result if Boyd wins his suit. In the. Boyd announcement announce-ment two of the members of tho minority were said to be republicans and one demo, erat. In Hie Yokima case today, two jus. tiees are republican, namely. Brewer and Harlan, and one democrat, namely, Justice Field. Whether or not some chance utterance with respect to this ease was ovemeard and mistaken for an expression with regard to the SY. breska governorship contest perhaps will never be known, the justices consider it a, violation of the official proprieties to speak cm such matters, and anyone giving out news which is supposed to ha an Inviolable secret until officially proclhimed from tlm beech will naturally not wish to be known as the aathor. |