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Show CALIFORNIA HAS 1 eras GAIN Passes Indiana and Georgia; 1920 Population Is 3,426,536 WASHINGTON. Sept IS California, Cali-fornia, the 1P-0 population of whi n Waa announced today by the census bureau as 3.4p6.53:1 an increase Ol 1,048,987; or 44.1 per cent in the last 'ten years, has outgrown Indiana .".nd Georgia The states growth la larger both numerically and relatively than that of any state the 1920 population Of whirh has Ihus far been announced, and its numerical Increase exceeds :he combined increase of Massachusetts. Indiana and Georgia allfornia Which ranker as 12th si lie ten years apo will now iauk in i LOth place or above The numerical Increase of the state is the largest in Its history. HISTORY OF GROWTH Califor.11 1 had a population of S -377.T.49 In 1010. ranking it as 12th most populous state In Ihj rnlon It showed an Increase of B92,498, or 80 1 per cent In 'be ten years ending with '1910 having had the largest growth numerically in its history, the number ' being more than double the increase In an previous decade. In area California ranked as seromi largest stair in the Union In 1910 with 1 land area of 1 ..'. '-' square miles.; making Ita population average 15.3 per, square mile. California, was admitted as a state In 1R50 and appears in the Federal' census reports for the first time in : that ear Naturally its more rapid growth waa during the decade imme-j dl itely following the discovery of gold In the slato. which was its first de-( cade of statehood. 1S50-60 The percentage per-centage of Increase for that decade was more than five times the rate Shown for .iiiv BUCI eerllng decide. Although the growth of the state during the sixty years from I860 to, 910 waa much Blower thai during the decade from lS'.n u I860, It was substantial, sub-stantial, the dates of decennial In-erease In-erease ranging from 22.4 per cent for the decade l i'-lt0 to fiO.l per cent for the decade 1900-10. RAPID GROWTH. Comparison of the- ratea of growth' for the state with those for the l'nited States shows that eluring each decade 'from 1850 to 1910 the population of. I California increased more rapidly than 'that of the United States as a whole. The difference between the two rates I during the decade 1950-60 was large: 1 and the differences have been moder-, Italy large during every decade since ; then except from U90 to 1900. when , the two rates approached each other, very closely. The population of the state In 1910 was more than twenty-five times as l;,rge as In 1S50, when the population Of the state was first returned. While j lh DODixUtion of tbS Cruund Stt in Jinio was a little less than four times that of 1850; PIG! HI s BY DE4 UI S j The record growth of California's population follows: !nsus Yr. Pop. Increase Tr Ct l'20 .. 3.426.536 1.0548,987 44.1 , 1 1 0 . ..2,377.549 S92.49C 60.1 11900 ...,1.485,053 271,655 22.41 : 1S90 .-. . .L213.39S 34N.7o4 40 .3 ! 1 gSO 864,694 304.447 54 3 1 S70 .... 680,247 ISO 253 47 4 1880 .... 379,991 267 397 310 4 1S50 .... 92.579 rtr . J I highly respected citizens, who is over WlJtk ninety years old. attempted to kill him- MilD self by stabbing or cutting himself in HUgl the face and on the head In the back fld ysrd of his home in North Covington. IssbSm A physician was called immediately BHHF ai d after an examination stated that IBrRi 'the wounds were not serious and that SjK the aged man would soon be all right. sTrl |