Show I COUNTING UTAD NOSES ot I Vk Lt Census Bureau Will Announce the Population Popula-tion of the State by Counties Within I a Few Days 1 I I 8ERu Nevad and Other Western States Also Will Soon be Completed Mention of f Willis Van Devantcr of Wyoming to Succeed At torneyGeneral Griggs is WelJ Received in WashingtonHe Has I a Served With Distinction in the Interior Department POOLip YOT OTEL TRIBUNE BUREAU t 3 501 Fourteenth Street V Washington D C Nov 19 1000 Director of the Census Merriam will announce the population of Utah and 1r Nevada and other Western States by counties within the next fl tosn days iii Mi Mtrrlam Issued orders today to I have the count of all the States of the I T Union completed as quickly as possible orrcit iit lorjs In order that the llgures for the various rc Slates shall be available for use by the 1 1 cr legislatures during the coming winter win-ter Many of them meet In January and will use the figures furnished by I itij the Census bureau In framing reappor Uonmcnt bills for the Legislative districts cont Lonmenl cU d it tricts After the county populations 0 are announced the population division iIi again resume the count of the cities EPAIBIlj cit-ies with less than 2o000 population ALL LIKE VAN DEVENTER The mention of Willis Van Dcventer Wlls AKTEE of Wyoming Assistant Attorney General nplf g Gen-eral VyomlnS Interior department for the ofiico of Attorney General to suc ccctl Mr Grlggs who wIil retire on ROOHi MI Griggs wI Ictre Wash larch 4th is well received in i c vwN i Ington Mr Van Dcventer has served VND EOUi with distinction in the Interior deportment deport-ment having had many complex questions ques-tions oC law relative to the I public lands to decide nil of which have been disposed dis-posed of In a way that IB generally recognized rec-ognized by attorneys as being eminently emi-nently fair and just In onc case in particular in which he ruled that marble mar-ble and other products recognized by the standard works as mineral were mineral within the meaning of the law has had the effect to quicken Industry In the Went a It opened lands within railroad grants to entry under the min eral laws which would otherwise have been tied up WOULD ACCEPT PORTFOLIO Mr Van Deventer Is modest about his I friends efforts to make him Attorney General and woud not discuss the mutter today but there Is no doubt that ho would accept If the portfolio were tendered him Mr Van Dcventer will have the backing of many men of National reputation who have had dealings with his office during the past four years yearsLANDS LANDS FOR UTAH Secretary Hitchcock today approved selection by the State of Utah of 10156 aires of land In the Salt Lake City district dis-trict for a deaf and dumb asylum |