Total deaths.... 1,247 | 1,503 1,604 1,834 1,802 2,018 2,191 2,078 2,812 2,686 19,775

Returns not available.

Twenty-year Record of Fatal Accidents in Coal Mines of North America, 1889-1908.

Compared with European countries, where the industry has been surrounded with governmental safeguards, the loss of life has been excessive. In the coal mines of Belgium the ratio of men killed to every thousand men employed was from 1901-'07 only 1.03. In the coal mines of Prussia the ratio has varied in the period between 1900-'06 from 2.25 to 1.80.

The coal production of the United States is now nearly 500,000,000 tons per annum, while the yearly waste of coal in connection with general mining operations and through mine fires approximates 250,000,000 tons. The general mineral production of the United States aggregates in value $2,000,000,000,000, and in connection with the mining and extraction of these materials the yearly waste approximates $300,000,000. The new bureau will endeavor to lessen this waste by suggesting safer and less costly methods of operation.

THE PATENT OFFICE.

The report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year ended Dec. 31, 1909, shows that there were received at the Patent Office 64,408 applications for mechanical patents, 1,234 applications for design patents, 197 applications for reissues of patents, 7,247 applications for registration of trademarks, 554 applications for registration of labels and 190 applications for registration of prints. There were 37,261 patents issued, including designs, 160 patents reissued and 4,184 trademarks, 492 labels and 148 prints registered. The number of patents that expired was 22.661. The number of allowed applications awaiting the payment of final fees was 12,748, and the number forfeited for non-payment of the final fees 7.699. The total receipts were $2.042,828 14, the expenditures $1,955,151 14 and the surplus of receipts over expenditures $87.677. The total balance to the credit of the Patent Office in the Treasury of the United States on January 1, 1910, was $6,978,402 89.

The patents issued to citizens of the United States in 1909 were distributed by states and territories as follows:

*Not including 160 reissues and 25 patents withdrawn.

The number of patents granted to citizens or subjects of foreign countries was 3,812. The following table presents a comparative statement of the business of the Patent Office from 1871 to 1909:

12.864

703.191 77

691,178 98

12,012 79

738.278 17

1875.

21,638

3,094 14.837

743.453 36

1876.

21,425

2,697

15,595

757.987 60

1878.

20.260

2,755

13,444

725.375 55

174.292 50

1880.

23,012

2.490

13,947

749.685 32

538,865 17

210,820 15

1883.

34,576 2,741

22,383

1,146,240 00

675,234 86

471,005 14

1,075.798 80

1,188,089 15

22,508

1,154.551 40

992,503 45

162.047 95

21.477

1,144.509 60

994,472 22

150,037 38

1888.

35,797 2.251

20,506

1.118.516 10

973,108 78

145,407 32

1889.

40,575

2.481

24.158

1,281.728 05

1,052,955 96

228,772 09

1890.

41.048

2.311

26.292

1,340,372 66

1,099,297 74

241,074 92

1891.

40,552

2.408

23.244

1.271.285 78

1,139,713 35

131.572 43

1892.

40,753

2.290

23.559

1.286.331 88

1,110.739 24

175,592 59

1893.

38.473

2,247

23.769

1,242,871 64

1,141,038 45

101,833 19

1,187.439 58

1,100,047 12

87.392 46

1.245,246 93

1896.

43,982

2.271

23,373

1.324.059 83

252,798 59

1,588 28 113,673 30

26,499

1.350.828 53

1,260.019 62

90.808 91

27.373

1,449.398 16

1,297.385 64

152.012 52

1902.

49.641

1.851 27.886

1,552,859 08

1,393,345 54

159,513 54

193,156 00

1,657,326 53

1,476,000 38

181.326 15

1,806,758 14

1,479.633 22

327,124 92

31,965

1,790,921 38

1,554,891 20

236,030 18

1,910,618 14

1,631,458 36

279,159 78

1,896,847 67

2,042,823 14

1,712,303 42
1,955,151 14

184.544 25

87,677 00

IMMIGRATION STATISTICS.

IMMIGRANT ALIENS ADMITTED, BY COUNTRIES, 1906-'07 TO 1909–’10.

CHINESE SEEKING ADMISSION TO THE UNITED STATES, FISCAL YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 1906-'09, BY CLASSES.

ALIENS DEBARRED AND ALIENS DEPORTED AFTER ENTRY, 1891-'92

NATURALIZATION LAWS.

The naturalization system of the United States was amended and enlarged by an act of Congress, approved June 29, 1906, a full synopsis of which is given in The Tribune Almanac for 1907, under "The Fifty-ninth Congress, Acts and Resolutions of the First Session," pages 99-103.

Persons Eligible. The laws of the United States have never allowed other than "free white persons" and "persons of African nativity or descent" to be naturalized. The naturalization of Chinamen is also expressly prohibited by Section 14, Chapter 126, Laws of 1882.

Anarchists and Polygamists. The law of June 29, 1906, provides, re-enacting the law of March 3, 1903: That no person who disbelieves in or who is opposed to all organized government, or who is a member of or affiliated with any organization entertaining and teaching such disbelief in or opposition to all organized government, or who advocates or teaches the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the government of the United States or of any other organized government, because of his or their official character, or who is a polygamist, shall be naturalized.

Declaration of Intention.-An allen seeking naturalization as a citizen of the United States must declare on oath before a Circuit or District Court of the United States, or a state court of record, having a seal, a clerk, and jurisdiction in actions at law or equity, or law and equity, in which the amount in controversy is unlimited, at least two years before his admission, and after he has reached the age of eighteen years, that it is bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign state or ruler, and particularly to the one of which he may be a citizen or subject. Oath on Application for Admission.-At the time of his application for admission he must also declare on oath, before some one of the courts above specifiled, "that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly by name, to the prince. potentate, state or sovereignty of which he was before a citizen or subject."

Final Petition.-Not less than two years nor more than seven years after an allen has made such declaration of intention he shall make and file, in duplicate, a petition in writing, signed in his own handwriting and duly verified, in which petition he shall state his full name, his place of residence, occupation, and, if possible, the date and place of his birth; the place from which he emigrated and the date and place of his arrival in the United States, and if he entered through a port, the name of the vessel on which he arrived; the time when and the place and name of the court where he declared his intention to become a citizen; if he is married, the name of his wife, the country of her nativity and her place of residence at the time of filing the petition; and if he has children, the name, date and place of birth of each child living.

The petition must set forth whether or not he has been denied admission as a eltizen of the United States, and, if denied, the ground or grounds of such denial, the court or courts in which such decision was rendered, and that the cause for such denial has since been cured or removed.

The petition must also be verified by the affidavits of at least two credible witnesses, citizens of the United States, who shall state in their affidavits that they have personally known the applicant to be a resident of the United States for a period of at least five years continuously, and of the state, territory or district in which the application is made for a period of at least one year immediately preceding the date of the filing of his petition, and that they each have personal knowledge that the petitioner is a person of good moral character, and that he is in every way qualified, in their opinion, to be admitted as a citizen of the United States.

At the time of filing the petition there shall be filed with the clerk of the court a certificate from the Department of Commerce and Labor, if the petitioner arrives in the United States after June 29, 1906, stating the date, place and manner of his arrival in the United States, and the declaration of intention of such petitioner, which certificate and declaration shall be attached to and made a part of said petition.

Conditions of Citizenship.-It must appear to the satisfaction of the court to which the allen has applied for final admission that immediately preceding the date of his application he has resided continuously within the United States for at least five years, and in the state or territory where the court is held at least one year, and that during that time he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same." In addition to the oath of the applicant, the testimony of two witnesses, citizens of the United States, as to the facts of residence, moral character and attachment to the Constitution is required.

Titles of Nobility.-If the applicant bears any hereditary title or belongs to any order of nobility, he must make renunciation at the time of application.

Soldiers. Any alien, twenty-one years of age or over, who has served one year or over in the regular or volunteer army of the United States and has been nonorably discharged, may, upon application to a court as specified above. proof of one year's residence, good moral character and honorable discharge, be admitted a citizen of the United States.

Seamen.-Seamen who have declared their intention to become citizens, and who subsequently to such declaration have served three years on board a merchant vessel of the United States, may be admitted to citizenship.