Show imports of deadly orvas there Is no mistaking the signoff cance of the comparisons made by the chief of the bureau of statistics 0 P austin of the importation of the chief drugs during the last jaye years of medicinal opium we imported in 1898 72 pounds in 1902 the imp imparts Q arts reached the appalling total of pounds or between seven and eight times as much the importation of morphia and salts rose from 35 59 in value in 1898 to 96 in 1902 those of cocaine and salts in the same period from 59 to and those of opium and morphia from tj om to 2 in the same time |