Show POVLTION OF GUAM s > On January 1st There Were 8661 People on Island a GOV LEARY WAKES REPORT Ono of His Characteristic Official Documents About Affairs in His E alm Has Reached the Navy Department De-partment Financial Statement of of the First Six Months of His Administration Ad-ministration is Given Net Surplus is 4819 Ho Advises the Department Depart-ment of His liecds Washington May 4 Governor Leary has sent to the Navy department another an-other of his characteristic oillclal reports Guam includ ports about affairs in ing the results of a thorough census token under his direction and a llnan i clal statement ofl the llrst six months of his administration which shows a gratifying and growing surplus of Mexican Mex-ican dollars In the Inland treasury American money has not yet entered into circulation in Guam and the figures fig-ures In the balance sheet represent the silver currency left there by the Spaniards Span-iards 0 The amount In the local treasury on July 1st 1S0 was 217L The receipts from July 1st to January 1st last were 9I15 and the expenditures for the same period were 5CTC7 leaving in the treasury on January 1st 1900 1S10 The receipts will not bo so largo for the reminder of the fiscal year as the tax on marriage licenses will not be so productive but the expenses will bo proportionately reduced as many of the Improvements have been completed NEEDS ICE MACHINE The Governor reports that the evaporating evap-orating plant Is in excellent con < ii tlon but he is still without an ice machine ma-chine with the hot weather almost at hand The steam tuiwmlll has been erected and was ready for work A telephone tel-ephone system had ben Installed and was in successful operation between Agana the capital and Pltl the port The officers of the YosemIte were still engaged on the topographical survey sur-vey of the Island which would have been ilnlshed In a few months In fact all was well at Guam and life there would be perfect with a refrigerating refrig-erating plant and a good library LIBRARY IS DESIRED Governor Leary explains to the department de-partment that his request for a library did not contemplate a circulating affair af-fair for fiction He needed an encyclopedia ency-clopedia a sot of revised statutes some law books and other reference works Indespensnble to his office Some books of this sore were in jho library of the Yosemite but that ship was seven miles from the capital over a shadeless road and it was exasperating exasperat-ing to take the trip whenever a question ques-tion arose POPULATION OF ISLAND The tabulated enumeration of the population of Guam has been forwarded forward-ed by the Secretary of the Navy to the Director of the Census to be Included in the total of the United States It shows that Guam had a population of Scot persons on January 1st 1JOO Of these 52ID lived in the capital city of Agana In the district of Agana are five villages which with their populations popula-tions are Anlga 110 Asan 255 Te hungan SCO Slnahana 111 and Caroli nes 90 Tho live towns on the island outside ofHhe district of Agana with their totals are Agat 711 Sumay 5C6 Umatta 230 Morixo 191 Inarahan 18 Of tha total population of the island niUS are males over seven yeais old 3080 are females over seven years and 18M are children under seven years Governor Leary says nothing about the stale of health on the Island but fiom his requisitions for medicines and surgical supplies the natives are evidently evi-dently patronizing the naval medical officers with an astonishing variety of complaints |