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Show (CENSUS GIVES OUT 1 I FACTS ON POPULATION WASHINGTON. March 4. The third announcement of population statistics sta-tistics of the fourteenth census issued iod'f included: Peoria. 111., 7G, 121. Cedar Rapids, la., 45.566, inciea.so 12,755, or 38.1) per cent, Beaumont, Tex., 35,351, increaso 14,-711, 14,-711, or 71.3 per cent. Of the group of cities whose population popu-lation for 1920 was announced today, Beaumont, Tex., showedt the largest growth during tho decade from 1900 to 1910 and also for the previous leu years from 1890 to 1900, the percentage percent-age of increase being 118.S and 187.7 respectively. Cedar Rapids' increase In the thirteenth census was 27.9 per ceni and in the twelfth census 42.1 por cent. |