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Show OKLAHOMA'S GROWTH SHOWN BY CENSUS WASHINGTON. July 29 The total population of the state of Oklahoma, lacking three enumeration districts, was announced tonight by the census bureau as 1.651,951, as compared with 1.114.177, according to the special census of 1907. showing an increase since 1907 of 1G.8 per cent. The population of the state was made public because of the fact that there is to be held in the state next month an election in which the question of negro suffrage Is paramount. The figures show the total negro population popu-lation of the state to be 13S,t5"5, as compared com-pared with 112.160 In .1907. The population of the territory now recognized as the state of Oklahoma was, according to the census of 1900. 700,391. the population of 1910 representing an Increase of 109 per cent. Under this computation Oklahoma would be entitled to one more congressman, congress-man, nnd probably two. the exact number num-ber depending entirely upon the basis of apportionment. At present 'there are five members of the house from Oklahoma, Okla-homa, but this number was arbitrarily fixed when Oklahoma entered the union. |