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Show PocateSio Believes Her Cei?sas Is SS?orl m. Pocatello. Ida., made a larger pro- tlv-';' portionate gain in population during EKfe the past ton years than any other '.. HifB portant city nr town of the Inter- Rip mountain region whose population B& has so far been announced by the feit- Br oral census bureau. Pocatello. a- Bl9 cording to an announcement made tn 1 t. Washington and received here today, has a population of 14,961, a gain ol 5,861 for the past decade, or 64 2 per Kmil cent. Ten years ago Pocatello's pop- Scr- illation v.ns 9,110 and In 1900 It W8J HElFi 4.016 According to dispatches from the I- Idaho i-lty.th' .n-opb' in genT.l '. nun h disappointed over the census re- BIJS turns which t;ie the C,:r CltJ i I I population of only 14,961 against an 1 5tfP expected 18.000 or possibly 20,000 , Q Chamber of Commerce officials KU0 state that they are certain figures are IB xhy i f' Moms ind. due prislbly to Inefficiency In the early part of tho 1 Ii i ' enumerating campaign. 1 Wjk Several Instances ha.e been found. lift' members of some families were over- WpP looked. U4r - oo i 1 i |