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Show INFORMATION FOR THE CENSUS UN i i ' MEN. First name. Initial and la.st name. State, territory or foreign country coun-try where horn. Age til last birthday. If foreign born, give name, of mother tongue, the year of arriving arriv-ing In the United Sfates; whether an alien, whether the tirbt papers have been taken out or whether fully naturalized. Give state, territory or foreign country where parents were lorn. Trade or profession, nature of business or establishment where world ng. Whether an employer, worker or working on account ' Whether out of work April lo, 1910, and number of weeka, If any, out of work In 19.19. "Out of work'1 does not mosn vacations or strikes,, but Inability to find employment. If over 60 years, whether a snr- vlvor of tho union or confederate I I army or navy j Singh', married, widowed or dt- , i voreed If married, whether first, second. or subsequent marriage, and how many years of present marriage. Whether able to speak English; whether able to read or write Eng- INh or any other language. Whether white, black, mulatto, I Chinese, Japanese or Indian. If owner Of the hoile lived in, I whether It 1 free or mortgaged. Whether blind in both eyes, or I deaf and dumb. I 1 WOMEN. Same Information as given by men, except citizenship and civil war statements. Also lenve the following: If married, widowed or divorced woman, giv number of children had during lifetime. Give number of these children living on April 11, 1910 Whether children have attended school since September 1, 199. When the clock struck 9 this morning morn-ing thoiiHands of "quljuera'' represent ing the government and located in almost al-most every part ot the United States, begun the tedious task of taking tho government census. Announcement was made this morning morn-ing by Frank W. Eldrcdge, chief clerk to Hugh McMlllln. director of the cen- sub In Utah, that all of tho Utah en- umorators arc ready to begin work There is but one vacancy at present i and that will be filled today. j There l.s a good supply of emergen-1 cy men, ready to step In and take up j the work In case any of the ennmer- ! ators fril to get down to bu.slncHs properly People are not alone to have the distinction of being quizzed by tho enumerators. All kinds of j barnyard inhabltanls. excepting ehle- ; kens, dogs and rats, are also to he reported to Uncle Sam by the enu- ' merators. The work In the city will conilnue for two weeks, while it will be extended extend-ed over thirty days In tho country districts. The enumerators will he armed with plenty of blanks and books of Instructions and also a street book, which will Indicate every move they aro to mako during each day. The street book1 Includes blanks which must be filled Jn. and these will ithow exactly what the enumerator does each minute of the day. His salary sal-ary will be gauged upon hla activity. If he finds a vacant bonce he must record It, or If a family Ic out when he 003 to the house It must be duly-noted, duly-noted, not only the first time he makes the visit, but each time after that il:o. If a place l.s found closed tho enumerator must report to the headquarters head-quarters and a special man Is sent out to investigate. Ful! Reoorts ?lly. At the clooe of each day s work the enumerator muLt make a full report and mall It to headquarters In the Dooly block, where It will be kept on record and checked up. In therouniry dlstrlctfi, where long trips are required, requir-ed, It will be necessary for the enu-meiator enu-meiator to make out a certified report re-port ouch day and mall the slips at his first opportunity. In the. city the enumerator will receive re-ceive 3 cents for each name takeu and 10 cents for each cow, horse, sheep or other head of barnyard stock found in an Inclosnre. If an enuinr-rttor enuinr-rttor runs across u herd of sheep In someone's back yard ho will have mint Mr. Kldredge staled that the govern inent will not observe a state hollday and for that, reason Arbor day will innke no difference with the census takers At least fifty calls were re-ecled re-ecled by Mr. Kblredgp from various parts of I lie state asking if Al itor day would be observed One man stated that he was at the head of a picnic party and another said he was scheduled sched-uled to speak at a public meeting. Neither of these excuses were accepted ac-cepted nor the one offered by a Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove man: that he bad been appointed ap-pointed as one of a committee t' plant trees In a city park, j The enumerators are told iu their I orders from Washington to start on I one corner of the block jind work. 10 j I he left, taking in alleys and other thoroughfares until he arrived at the j point tf beginning One block mut . te finished before another Is started, j Picturesque Indian Scenes, j One of the scenes ol actltlty rath-. rath-. or out of the ordinary will be in the. i Indian reservations In the southern part of tho state .lames K Moore. Jr. of Fort Washakie. Wyo., is pre- purlng to superintend the Indian work I He w-lll have charge of the ennnjera-! ennnjera-! tors and Interpreters who secure the 1 names and other data from the In dlnns. The enumerators and Interpreters I vlll take pack and saddle horses and I camp at nlghl on the plains. They j will cover the entire Indian country, taking not only the information from the Indians, but also from th white fetllers and securing as much data as pocclble on the live stock. The Information secured by the enumerators enu-merators Ic treated In strict confidence confi-dence by the government and everyone every-one connected with the census. It will be unlawful for anyone connected with the bureau to give out any sort I of Information. The results of the enumerator In pgden will be known In ten days after the census work (s I completed, but It will probably not he ! until well along in June before the 1 count is made public. |