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Show I POPULATION OF CITIES. Cheyenne, Wyoming once more in advancing Twenty years ago it was credited with a population of 14,087 Then ten years later, or in 1900, the census gave onlj 11,320. But the returns foi 1920 are more encouraging as thev show an increase in the pasl de cade of 2509 Some doubt is expressed over the accuracy of the census figures fig-ures of twenty years ago Booster organizations existed and in some instances the inflations assumed the proportions of ridTcillouS padding pad-ding of population, Spokane is one of the places returning a loss in the past tell years, and now the boomers in that cit admit they set the figures too high in 1910. This falsifying of census reports should he frowned upon. If is generally accepted that the census of 1920 is more nearlv correct Than an census in thirty years, owing t0 the fact that less effort was put forth to enlarge On the actual figures. |