Ala«kan Gutsiness
Gains in Volume
The records of the Alaska customs district for the year 1904 show a
substaiiti.il gain in the volume of Alaskan business in the last year, and
a remarkable gun in the output of gold in the territory.
A summary of the record for 1904, compared with that for 1903, pre
pared and signed by 1) H. Jarvis, is as follows:
19°3
Domestic gold shipped to U. S.S 6,302,273
Domestic gold exported from Alaska 251,205
('.old imported from fortign countries.11,449,475
Foreign gold shipped to U S. ,3,557,078
Domestic exports fu>m Alaska. 1,593,211
Shipments ot domestic merchandise to U. S. 9,957,132
Merchandise imported direct from foreign
countries free. . . 207,202
Merchandise imported direct from foreign
countries dutiable. 297,078
Duty on merchandise imported direct from
foreign countries 37,614
A comparative statement of the last quarter and that
quarter of the previous tear is as follows:
1903
Domestic gold s tipped to 1". S . .>2,289,296
Domestic gold exported from Alaska 249,755
Cold imported trom foreign countries 3,942,661
Foreign gold shipped to lT S . 2,085,978
Shipments of domestic merchandise to 11. S. 6,320,393
Domestic exports from Alaska. 611,293
Merchandise impoited direct from foreign conn
tries free . . . . ('8,445
Merchandise imported direct from foreign coun
tries (ill tia trie. 118,465
Duty on merchandise imported direct from for
eign countries 23,244
1904
S 9.082.581
613,781
10,791,243
10.010,520
1,141,569
10,586,060
752,658
508,298 |
109,424 I
of the last 1
1904
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138.502
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3.934.517
6,031,580
357.298
546,560
I79.b34
41.380 I
CiEKM OF LIFIC
HFVOXI) SCIENCE
From time to time statements are
made in lire press that some one
has produced living elements out of
inorganic matter Lord Kelvin in
a recent address made this state
ment:
“The modern medical man must
he a scientific man, and, what is
more, he must lie a philosopher.
The fundamental studies of medi
cine are of a strictly materialistic
kind, hut they belong to a different
world from the world which con
stitutes their main subject— the
world of lite. Eet it not be imag
ined that any hocus-pocus ol elec
tricity’ or viscous fluids will make a
living cell. Splendid and interest
ing work has recently been done in
what was formerly called organic
chemistry, a great French chemist
taking the lead. This is not the
occasion tor a F ctttreon the border
land between w hat is called organic
and what is railed inorganic; but it
is interesting to know that maten
its belonging to the general class of
toodstuffs. stub as sugar, and what
might also lie called a foodstuff, al
cohol, can l>e made out of tb* chem
ical elements Hut let not youthful
minds tic da/zled by the imaginings
of the newspu|>«-rs that Iweausc
Berthclot and others have thus
ina<le foodstuffs they can make liv
ing things, or that there ia anv
prospect of a process taring found in
any laboratory for making 4 living
thing, whether the minutest germ
bacteriology or anything smaller or j
greater. There is an absolute dis
tinction between crystals and cells
Anything that cr/stalizes may be
made by the chemist. Nothing ap
proaching the cell of a living crea
'ure lias ever vet been made. The
general result of an enormous
amount of exceedingly intricate
and thorough-going investigation
by Huxley and Hooker and others
of the present age, and by some ol
their pretlecessors in both the nine
teenth and eighteenth centuries, is
that no artificial process whatever
can make living matter out of dead.
This is vastly beyond the subject ol
the chemical laboratorc , vastly l»e- j
yond my own subject of physics or j
of electricity beyond it in depth of j
scientific significance and in human
interest."
Opliir Creek C'iihvh
Agpiiii I’oHtjioned
Nome Gold I rigger. Jan. iK: The
big Ophir creek mining cases, in
volving the title to fabulously rkh
claims located on Ophir creek, and
brought by W f, (Hatchford, Louis
Sloss and J I, Wilson against the
Wild Goose Mining Co., have again
liecn postpnied until the July term
ol court. This |M>Ht|*>iiemrnt v> s
agreed to by the various attor s
in the cases
Yukon territory baa an irea oi
iJ square wiles and .or csli
mated population of la.oso.
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FIRST DIVISION
COURT MATTERS
Skagway Alaskan, Jan 12.
Judge (lUnnison luis fixed the
spring term ut court in Skagway for
May this year, instead of Apris, as;
it has been heretofore. It will be
gin here on the second Monday in
the month, May S, and he has al
lowed It'S than two weeks for tiie 1
term, as the spring term for Juneau
begins May 22. just two weeks after
the beginning of the term at Skag-i
way. The term at Ketchikan has ;
also been advanced for a month,
and will begin tbe first Monday in
April, instead of March, as hereto
fore.
The terms of court will begin in j
the different places in the division!
as follows:
Spring Terms- Ketchikan, April
24: Skagway, May S; Juneau, May
22.
Fall Terms Ketchikan, Octolier
2; Skagway, November 6: Juneau,
Itecember g.
Court Clrrk Resigns.
The Alaskan says W. J. Hills re
signed as lerk of the 1’nited States
district court Jan. 9, and Judge
Gunnison appointed John J. Clarke,
formerly chief deput) clerk, to the
vacancy to serve temi>orarily. Mr.
Hills has tunned a partnership with
W. K. Crews and wilt practice law
at Juneau.
It is believed by many who are
watching the situation that the
priruanent clerk uf the district cwnrt
will he ar. eastern man. and that
Judge Hun it isoit will hr tig him not
west when be shall raturn in April
with Mrs Gunnison
ADAMS SEATED
IN COLORADO
Denver, Jan. 10.— The legisla
ture, as organized by the republi
cans, declared Alva Adams, the
democratic nominee, elected gov
ernor, Saturday, and his certificate
of election will be issued today,
when he will take the oath of offic;
and assume the reins of govern
ment. The legislature, as organ
ized by the republicans, concluded
its investigations yesterday and
announced the result. After throw
ing out all the democratic precincts
where fraud was alleged Adams
still had a majority over Peabody of
3,000. The charges tiled by Pea
body, claiming the seat, were dis
missed, and Adams declared to be
entitled to the certificate of election.
The democrats claim the election of
Adams by 11,000 majority on a fair
count. The legislature followed the
decisions of the supreme court in its
action. The control of the legisla
ture. which was democratic on the
face ol the returns, is now in the
hands of the republicans in both
branches
The resolution naming the com
mittee of fifteen to investigate the
election and canvass the returns
was passed amidst the greatest con
fusion There were twelve repub
licans and three democrats on the
committee, and there was almost a
riot tiefore it was chosen. The ac
tions of tbc members were those nl
a faml of hoodlums
Just one more mouth of winter,
but about three mouths of ice.