Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-22
|tfflCIfNT OFFICIALS STATIONED IN DOUGLAS
The Immigration Office and Custom Office in Eff
 CieDt Hands
Douglas, Ariz.. Dec. 21.-(special.l =

Douglas is one of the supports of the district of Arizona, the collector of the district being the Hon Edwin Baker, whose headquarters are at No gales, the port of entry for the dis trict.
 Judge Dee Reese, deputy collector. has had charge of the customs serv- ice at Douglas for the past three years, and has discharged the duties of the position with signal ability, em- inent fairness and courtesy to all hay ing business relations with him, and by his conduct and courtly bearing has established himself as a man of irreproachable character.
 Judge Reese is assisted in the office by Clarence C. Thomson, clerk of the customs service, a man of high character and integrity and most eff cient and proficient in the line of his duty. and who by his always affable. polite and courteous manner has ren- dered himself one of the most pOpu- lar officers on the line.
 John Morgan Miller, one of the old est officers in the service in the dis trict, having been a mounted in spector for some ten or twelve years. and Edwin Arcus Reddock, are the mounted inspectors, or, more famil- iarly known as line riders, perma- nently stationed at Douglas. These men are uniformly courteous and po- lite. are capable officers and utterly fearless in the discharge of duty.
 The business of the sub-port of Douglas is constantly increasing. and among men best informed i1 the gus toms service there seems 10 be no I fyn fxr-n hn npf f-zy port will be moved from Nogales to Douglas, when the government will erect a fine building for the accom- mediation of the customs, postal and internal revenue officers. There were imported during the fiscal year ending June 90, 1905, free goods, non-duty paying goods to the amount of S1,573. .093. and of duty paying goods to the amount of S10.OO0, and for the five months of the next fiscal year, ending June 30. 1906, the free goods amount to $634,0i7 and the dutiable goods to S5290.
 The great bulk of the free goods consist of nonlead> bearing ores.
 Immigration Service.
 Two inspectors of the United States immigration service are stationed at Douglas. being of the district of Ari- zona and New Mexico. under the direc- ton of George W. Webb, with head quarters at Tucson. AriZ.
 At this port are Charles T. Cornell. Chinese insepctor, an old resident of the territory and John L. Hodgman, former resident of Lincoln, Neb., also Chinese inspector Both of these officers are ex-officio immigrant in spectors, MT. Hodgman looking after immigrants at the border, and MT. Cornell particularly looking alGer the Chinese in the vicinity. The duties of the inspectors are varied, and out side of the rigid vigilance exercised for the exclusion of the Chinese. it is their duty to examine all aliens who seek entrance into the United States at this port Mexicans, while subject to examination, are not subject to a head tax, but all other aliens who are passed by the inspectors are required to pay head tax of $2 each.
 A special board of inquiry has lately been established at this port consist ing of Inspectors Hodgman and Con nell and Deputy Collector Reese. All aliens who require examination to de termine their admissability are taken before this board. A marine hospital surgeon will no doubt be added to this force for the examination of aliens for physical and mental con ldition, together with an official inter preter. The work of this branch of the United States service at this port has increased during the past year and commodiOus office facilities have been established at the corner of Rail road avenue and Eighth street by the government for the use of the inspect ors, where the American flag and the department of commerce and labor coat of arms, with the bureau in- sigma U. s. I. s. United States Immi- grafton Service) can be seen daily floating to the breeze.