Population Of Alaska

öan írancisco, Aug. 31. - Census Agent Petroff has returned from Alaska, haring completed the census of that territory. The follcwing figures closely represent the population in 1890: Aleuts, 900; Indians, 5,000; Esquimaux, 18,000; Chinese, '2,300; whites, 4,800; total, 31,000. This is a decrease Of 3,000 in ten years, but as during that time the whites and Chinese population has increased largely this really represents a decrease of 8,000 in native population.