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Show INDIANA GAINS LITTLE BY NEW CENSUS REPORT I I WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 Indiana, , ninth r.tate of tho union in point of' population ten years ago. now has 2,-1 'l30.S44 people within her borders, thel 'census bureau announced today. nil the ten years sinco 1910 there was an! I Increase of 229.668 In her population,! 'making her growth h 5 per cent over I ! the population ten vears ago, which v.as 2.700.876. Indiana, organized as a territory In !lS00, held 21st rank among the states1 land territories In the census that year' ;wth G641. The growth In the early decades was very rapid, the rate hav- ling been 600. 1 per cent from lSin to lv-'fi Since then the rate declined gradually until 1910 when the rate was 7 3 per cent, the smallest in the history of the state. j The largest municipal growth In population was In the decade 1S50-. :160 when the Increase was 362." 12 j and the .state passed the million mark. I Tho two million mark was passed In (the decade 18S0-1890. I oo r- |