Show 1 CENSUS OF ALASKA r SCHEDULES NOW BEING TABULATED TABU-LATED IN BUREAU Indians Enumerated are Erobably ftho Most Destitute People on the North I American Continent i Washington Nov HTho Census bureau recently completed the enumeration enumer-ation of the district of Alaska The schedules have been received at the offlcc and are now In process of tabulation tabula-tion The Director of the Census today to-day gave out the following statement with reference to the worlc In the Territory Ter-ritory rllorThe The native and mixed population of the northern district of Alaska is 12G2 Tho moat populous district with respect re-spect to the native population is the country lying between the mouth ofthc Yukon and the KUskoqulm rivers and extending back from the coast 100 J miles Maurice Johnson the agent for this district traveled over two thousand 1 thou-sand miles with a dog team during the winter and enumerated 3013 persons all of whom were Indians al The Indians in this region are probably = prob-ably the most destitute people on the North American continent Mr Johnson John-son reports thai from December 1st to March 15th he visited ccnl > four Interior In-terior villages and during the time saw but three Ire burning in the shacks The poor creatures huddle to gelhcr In their miserable dwellings during the Ions wInter and subsist on during flolen fish and a llllle seal oil which they secure on the coast during the summer The furbearing animals which formerly furnished them with J natural clothing are nearly extinct and they have been forced to adopt the while mans garb and as theIr poverty prevents them from scpurln enough urlnq Lo cover Ihelr nakedness thC is greats great-s re lns from the cold The spfrlt 1 condition of those natives Is no better condllon the missionaries than their physical as misslonare devote tholr attention to the more at tractlvc fields In the gold regions and traclYc along the river where their work maybe may-be seen The Nome district is the most populous popu-lous in northern Alaska The cnumcra llon showed a permanenl white population popu-lation on June lat of 0704 During the summer about 1SOCO people landed at Nome about 200 of those coming from Dawaon About 12000 have returned DC to their homes 1n the States leaving about 0000 people In the region contiguous con-tiguous to Nome I is probable that the population of the town of Nome during the winter will be between 1000 and 5000 |