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Show CENSUS FIGURES READY IHOGTOBER WASHINGTON. Aug. 7. It sill be .bout Iho middle of October before 1 uc people of tho United States learn their truo number aa revealed by tbo count of the thirteenth census. It Is generally believed that the number num-ber villi be about i0.000.000; and cen-mis cen-mis officials are known to share this belie. About three hundred of more than 1 .Stii.i clerks in the census office are compiling population figures only, hife the others are working on oth-tr oth-tr statistics. Contrary to the gener nl opiulon, all tho counting of th- oople Is done by hand, the tabulating tabulat-ing machines being used only in classification as to face, sex and other oth-er conditions. Enumeration figures will continue in 1)0 given out clay by day for the noxt two months or more, while the s-oclologlcal and industrial figures will come later. All enumeration figures fig-ures are counted, three to four tinier, and an Investigation is ordered 1 (here is any suggestion of an .error. In two cities where evidence of fijuul bos been discovered and In one, Great Falls, Mont., a prosecution ha Pern undertaken for fraudulent enumeration. enu-meration. The intention of Director Durand Is lo tabulate Urst the population of tho irge cities, after which the figures for the stateR will be given out as iliey are ascertained, the returns for counties In the state being announced at the same time as the figures for 1 he state. |