Show A QUESTION OF or THE CENSUS the cry that has prevailed in this locality against the manner in which tho the census wag was taken ha has been general throughout the country it w would 0 u d ba lard lo 10 name a large city t eliat h a t bag has not recorded ite lie protest I 1 against a alleged frauda fraud or neglect on tho the part of census takers the ambition bionto to appear large on the books baa has grown into a disease with american municipalities they all wan want 9 to be a london or a new york there is not a state capital or commercial distributing point in the nation that has not felt a fenee of c chagrin when the reports failed to make it second or third at the most in the litt of municipalities the most interesting clamor comes from st paul I 1 aul the not notorious orloue kl st baul and minneapolis Minnea polia feud over the figurea of their populations has been on cutting a figure Illa minneapolis neapolis has ties got the start in the census reports she claims her plump two hundred thousand while st paul has succeeded in getting onto the books only very little more than this of course is all wron wrong g in the tile mind of st paul there must have been fr ud in the returns exclaimed the st paul people as soon as the joke became known they had fixed the din er ence of population beforehand at not more than at the utmost while minneapolis was sure it was we a or so anyway and while st paul was growling over the alleged fraud manifested in the report minneapolis has bad a det detachment ac ament of citizens on a still hunt through the st paul depots and similar places looking out for employees residing r out of the city who must have been enrolled in the tile city census of course this sort of neighborly interest seems too foolish to one not interested particularly in the question whether minneapolis is or larger than st paul bat when blood grows so warm over ver it that respectable citizens find a gooler for their loyalty in a bout at fisticuffs uffe or something more dangerous it is no longer a childs dispute |