Show T i 1 Confessions ConfessIon of a Census You see It was this way from the Atchison Globe Atchison lost population population lation latton heavily ly in the last ten years according to the census returns just Dade public When Atchison's popl pop- pop l tIon was returned as ten tenye ye years rs ago it was part of a scheme to to throw l arow the count county population above thirty thousand and rebr Increase the pay pa Vf Wt f count cou l officials ial And it 1 Availed ai d the county officials nothing tor for D. D M. M Cain blocked the scheme Being on record as having in 1905 Atchison annually thereafter refused re- re fused to make a a. new census and in spite of ot protests by state officials kept Bending In the 1905 report Weary Weary- tag tog of ot the continual p pressure it was decided last summer to take the loss toss and let the population go in at what It really was That was as Actually of ot course there has hns been I gain in population in ten years Hun Hun- reds of ot dwellings have been built in that time the building permits in 1916 1915 lone Liono amounting to over one-fourth one of ot I million dollars |