I 72 



POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



population held for homicide is greater than in Massachusetts, the 

 ratio for the former state being 0.57 per one hundred thousand of 

 inhabitants, and for the latter 0.39. In Rhode Island the Italians 

 comprise 11.58 per cent, of the convicts held for homicide, and but 

 2.09 per cent, of the total population. In Massachusetts the Italians 

 form but 1 per cent, of the total population, and 26.1 per cent, of 

 the convicts held for homicide. 



Next to Nevada, Colorado has the highest ratio of deaths from 

 violence of any state or territory in the continental Union. But the 

 ratio of arrests for murder and manslaughter in her chief city, 

 Denver, is comparatively low, the annual average ratio for the three 

 years 1903-05 being 8.21 per one hundred thousand of inhabitants. 

 It is a significant fact that there are but five cities of her class in the 

 United States which have a larger proportion of native white inhabit- 



i : i#j ffi : Eniii55:fgw^ ^ffi##^^ 



m mnm^nTmmTimiittmi<irntrt*w!^Tirrrr:t ?» 



ferwfe' '/Mrieai'- 



I I I H |l i ! l ili uiu:l! ' ii ' u i . mum 

 niumtimrfilfettatiiri u 1 1 1 1 1 1 



Fig. 4. Per cent, which the Total Number of Persons of Both Sexes engaged in 

 Manufacturing and Mechanical Pursuits Proper and in Mining and Quar- 

 rying bears to the Total Number engaged in Gainful Occupations, by 

 States and Territories, 1900. (States and Territories are given in the 

 order of their progressive criminality in respect to homicidal crimes.) 



