Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 27

». THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER »opulatior the coming enume: askn bave Been submitted ted Statos Census DNiree- Dusand by W. C. Hant hief statisticlan for population charge of ¢ work. The 115, 1990, beginning the United State nto four dle- fieiy: Hilig Tuneau, agents under be controlied *ph H. Remig, h twenty spe agents assistin m: the third. Chiet sl Agent Willlam T. Lopp, headquar- Nome with thirteen special agents ESQUIMO WOMEN ON BOARD THE BEAR. e g e Mg v e T g under his orders and the fourth, Chiet Spe- | Agent Willlam \. MoKensle, stationod _The last census there was taken as of Aceordi it Falrbanks, witt twemty special agents June 1 1908, but it was necessary to send ion. ietailed to his charge. enumerators intn some parts of Alaska a8 jaeeer part of next spring. His district com- In his report to the bureau relative to February, and practicaly all are at home !eachers during the Christmas vacation ‘_”,” L “‘,,\ are g e With the exoeption of Mr. McKensie, the **1'Y &% the middle of July. 189, and It prises to a large extent outlying territory, conditions in his district as he found them during Christmas week. that being their 'he cost of enumerating the native popu- T (B 00l P “nompeon's district sther chief special agests &re representa- W28 70t until neariy the end of October. inejuding the Alaska peninsula, the Aleu- last September, Chief Special Agent Mc- great week of festivities. During the fall ‘H-fl:”“ P v st > PG oht: araunlt alill Rk 48 ‘i tives of the United States Bureau of Edu. /0% that their work was compieted tian and Pribilof isuands, and other inac- Kensle states that the conditions in the and spring months they are in and out One-ffih of what It would cost in the L & Aiphe Do FoQuiNs® 4o vt and are the school superintendents It 18 expected that the coming enumera- cessibie points along the southwest coast, territory, particularly in the interior. differ from their work of hunting, frapping, log- Summer, and. at the same time, it will be 0T FC UL Bl o casoline boats, at their respestive districts. They have U0 Will be finished in less than half the whers an enumeration in the winter months very materially from thase of ten years ago. ging, fishing and of putting up nauve WO 04" ¥ ¢ t sbout $35 per €ny,: the Svedhge pries spent miany rs studying the people ang ime taken befors, owing chiefly to the s practically impossible. Even in the sum- At that tme the people were, for the most foods. Generally, ipeaking, about Balf e, . Thbwlouec shvs purth n ooy b e e e Ao g oy R \itions In Alaska. Mr. McKensie has ®Srlier, mid-winter date of the work mer the question of visiting these points is Part. located in weil-defined camps easy of population are In the villages at that time. ditions he mentioned concerning Wt Pgroensoncsc Sobrg Mg by, Apropr been in the employ of the Census bures Difector Durand has made several im most serious one and would involve the Sccess. comparatively speaking, but new During the summer months however. the fives apply 10 & less pronounced cxtent of jska at the deconni i of 18 mber of years and s an expert on DOFIANt exceptions regarding the time of of & steamer. if one could be ob- they are scaitered widely over all the villages are entirely deseried. with the ex- {0 the whie population aiso. and he be- 1 UL Lrier (e purchase of the tor Alaskan matters. In addition to these, the "MUMeration in order to meet radical var . which is doubtful. Knowing, how- creeks in the territory. Compared with the cepiion of a f ld, blind and crippled lieves, therefore, tha um i Dol The' it 1 - hes S sty fn' the . conditions in eertsin of the ¢ that th je service annually work done in the summer, the mining in pecple, and sometimes a fow children. All the mid-winter will be comparati - complete one taken in 188 disclosed a Ses (of the school teschers and of Loy cemsus districts. In'the second sen vessel to cruise in Alaskan waters, the winter is very much greater and men gapic-bodied men, women and children are ple. He s owever, that “there ealatics of AL Tha ceatin' M S0 Bureau of Education will be largaly utfl- ou0 1n'g report to the director, that there to and he has given his consent to the de- be scattered far out on the creeks this are between 9,000 and 10000 persons who ‘ail of a cutter to the special repre- winter. Mr. McKensle stated that winter would be missed by @ winter enumeration. sentative of the census bureau to such conditions are more favorable In his di%- simpiy camping and hunting and prepar- days and do not return again until t Goubled: OF this Duinrer I, Wele B8 These persons who, to a great extent, fep- points in thie district as may be necessary trict for mining operations and for travel ing winter food on thelr own account spring, and also that this vear a few who yive Indi nd 21,709 native whites. There resent the mining and canning industries, for the purpose of enumerstion. It is esti- than in the summer. He has been besieged ;. Thompson goes on to state that he are outside, because of the extra s g i Vg i s Director Durand believes that co-opera- come out of Alaska during the closed, or mated that the trip will take about a h by men seeking appointment. His DIan 18 peijeves it safe to say that a typical In- of the exposition will remain outside on on the part of the Bureau of Educa- winter season, but return early in the and & half, starting trom Seward about the (o have local men designated and then he g, village of 300 people is scattersd in spring. This objection, hows tion in permitting its representatfves to spring. As a consequence, they would be middie of June, will proceed by dog-sled to their homes and gir¢, gifferent places during the summer obviated by making careful serve In the census work, together with missed in the census of April 15 in th The Alaskan ‘population schedule agrees 3Ppoint and Instruct them. months, and that it would be a hard task such bona fide residents who the advanced date of enumeration, Decem- states. Besides, they make thelr living in in general with that to be used for the Chlef Special Agent Thompson in a re- and an expensive one (o locate the In- side’ and securing their ber 31, next, will result in a very thorough Alaska and should be counted there, it is enumeration In the United States, except port dated Juneau, October If last. siated: dians in the woods. gly, Dr. Romig will make prepa- for the statsment of the tribe and clan of in the home villages during the winter country like southeastern Alaska. He points should be said that the work here will he . " tone largely by such men who know pra rations for (heir enumeration about the the native population. months, November, December, January and out that, by using the services of sc sne some fishing for the objectic ans. anuary and that 4 the actual work of enumeration, "l .when this is not practicable. others equally familiar with the conditions wiil lected Anneries, some logging, some mining. some I8, that a number of esidents €0 44 retur . 62 aring the Secide o in' the canne while many are out to the states for hristmas ho working in' the canner while many ar ma ol ending in 1900, t spulation: _nearly vards action 10t jve born, 12,681 foreign born, 30,498 whites, t er, can be " 17494 were natives whites with nquiry for all pgiqve parents, 4216 native whites with toreign parents and 8,78 whites. The total colored was 33,089, of which 188 were ne- groes, 3,116 Chinese, 219 Japanese and 29,53 Indians are ‘out names and ad on the waters in dresses in the states and th sus of Alaska. held. that the former has an additionsi coiumn Most of the native people are at home the temporary camps, pecially 1S getting them enumerated here where they belong. It and the desire of the narrator in print to a ghostly, weird tint and applied to the have a confederate, which is usually I A 4 £ the idea that m wonderful tricks and nerves believer at piritualistic De Kolta's Famous Trie llusions are performed in Indla than in . J - i 3 . “ The proprietgr disappears for a moment . any other country in the world and—tha § « how a\ filmy fabric like Magicians Say She Has Lost One Great to return from some dark c corner holding a . lothing in the estern world compares jiberty silk can be covered with this and emall ® birdcage, the edges boun l‘ 7o 5 i g~ g ust. The East then concealed in some place easy of 8¢ stout leather and the K in o Indian conjurors n they come here % ‘the thediur Firysadieim *; 2 . and are deprived of atmospheric effects There was one medium.” says & magi EXPERT OPINION ON “MEDIUM s the peculfar ~ musfc which accom- S panfes theit bit and the Self- peaj of her shoe. fr hich it could be Feats of Spooks Not Up to Standard o 3 vielding in advance whi s the usual taken in a moment and put on. Sometimes (8 4 attitude of th tranger the are ludic st - rreapRt o ous, absolutely ludicrous in heir at- whole e Thig is the famous cag cian, “who always kept her silk robe in the hid in the handle of a banjo or it can even be rolled up and tucked awa tempts to compare with our magicians, n the colffure They simply cannot do it. that is all On their native heath, attired In some NEW YORK, Dec. 4—If you want to strange fabric, with a tom-tom ]:Ll\‘llw.. know just what the magiclans think of ;‘:"“d" “""“'1‘:'; ":"“’“‘“(‘5 i ]":\ "M‘:X:“\_ to their headquarters on Sixth avenu N | gl Nicuralammdi dy iRy oy n as aid, an Indi i & Onee a month the club, known as the So- P e ey b gl g Sy, of Mener e SRGNTSIL Sagpte 8 » over them a bit ¢ drapery puch ov hall at the back of the small shop in which H VR iid: esaare £88usk 3 Poves nok ¥ oty poplae-appateliis is s0ld everything In the way of comjuring. e e i E - o groliogsagar | A grinning skull greets you from its posi- octiielitl o thie. ey tion on a counter and along the walls are 7 ‘Crouching stil lower he manages dex- ' . g < oA e ol framed autographs of Herrman. Houdini terousiy to tak: a small slip of a plant Rorordizy sepfrpnd i and other masters of the art, with souve- from som ot _th fold his gown and § 8 olé Al Whed: the Shesiiimte nirs of their triumphs. | Moy the Qrigpey & fF6ID. JenF gt d in a cabinet to the satisfac Herrman was once himselt an officer of - t is found to b secd was a ; o thie vag Wi pide the society, and today it boasts a very dis- 4 | moment says the it Al B A B il tinguished membership—Keillar, the dean & 7 American traveler 3 2 1o gaitibe whateder oliiicts of magicians; Dr. Sargent. an ex-president . ‘Again the faki ps, whil s Carter, who is described as the comink 4 / tom-toms beat o magician, for though one of the youngest 1 fumes members, he has already shown great piant has grov promise as an Inventor; Downs, Thurston, seed trick is h g ooyt Leon Herrman, nephew of the great Herr. L e of bt himad it man; Carl Germatne, inventor and ma » e e sician, who has, It is sadly acknowledged . a . . v s iyl T left the profession for one ‘he mistakabiy it the e s g g byl oo st considers more practical, that of law tracks Elmer Ransom, known as the magiolan for T T Y - : RGN SIS L the Four Hundred, who went to the White 1 R House to entertain Ruth Cleveland and e Mr. Mantinka {nterrupts the conve " T her little friends and who, as he expresses MATINKA, THE p 300D SPIRITS ta/ghew somé Tuminous pefiit. A smal) sag” the MO I AR SO T L e & "WASE % Who Wi 2pew R By By | nvitation has not been accepted tired of the exposure game she Uf fhe paint has beer s v et Payne Whitney start from her head when 1, pyon treasurer of the Society of bec a medium again and advertisea °'OU% UEh ) i g g ool R T A (G st was 8 little one. and is now dolug the n, smerican Magiclans, was at the first All of her old timers came back ADeorbed the radiance deswed. [W int one requisite of the medium, he can usu same tricks for her children. Then there yeance of Eusapia Paladino and 18 re- and belleved in her Just the same. room, made absolutely dark, the paini is Matinka, the proprietor, who has delved ves min pluish, whit ght like that i work his hands n some ported by his friends to have said that “Like all magictans 1 conjurers. she & & faint bluish. w in. magic properties for some twenty-four years as the same place. Spirit hands are made af paper or card board, and covered with this paint and xposed against a black surface they will weird effect in & dark room. Of course the one unfailing help of the spir silstic medium is the darkness; that she must hase Waork frow the Cabinet. magleians who in eariler dium admitted that his ot having been in ght for a few moments untii it ha ames of ¢ doubting Thomases, if he t v m. Of the moon shining on a cloud. It is it he does not happen to he did not see anything that was less had one special trick pecullarly her own Sk i i S than fifty years old, and though invited It just huppe that as some people Talk Peeos Prop . for the second seance he Was not enough can snap their fingers and make a loud It was to this shop that one of the !nterested to spend the time necessary pistol-like report with each, so she could Buati de Ko'ta, now deceased. who 1t ave been shaken In a hat, how te :‘“d aladine entourage went to buy luminous 7 “"M"*:':‘nr':‘.h:f"m;""*‘:"""' snap ner toes. She would stand .,.lunnm» & unanimous vote of the society b nu" the name of the dead person each time paint seme time before the medium's ar- o € O¥ CHO B T i & VRSO Dy SR PO A W syestest magiolan whs has ever Belm in witheut(ettoet, 1t le M firet Ioee o The purchase was recently admitted. » R W n full view, while just peeping out from Ameriea.” he says fered the amateur. and he learns in. & Madis. wag quite petthull eheut thi 'TIUNNE o middle aged member of the: her ‘Tong drem the SRt Would ses her - The bird cage trick was Invented by minute, paying 50 cents for the informa- s group. “ain’t a patch to Margaret FOox. two slippers, but did not ses that she le Kolta. who would hold it in his ha ttom.* avowal and sald frakly that there was g, ., (he star member of the celebrated had siipped ome of her feet out of it o that the audience could see it and the Fox sisters and | was one of her assistants covering in ber haloyon days. She had all the “Placing this foot behind her against spiritualists of her time nailed and would tne panel of the door. she could strike have kept the Society of Psychical Re- with each of her toes, keeping up @ con. . Ofcourse, they had a plausible reason segrch, if it had existed then, up all night wnual rapping. She fooled everybody B for buving it. Mediums always have & every night in the week gueesing WAt Tmiok what & sensation Palading wound KRk of the-cusivmbet. PRGOS cout BSOS rengtn ONe- Dugie: . B St create her: if after being heralded the way ¢ b g 4 syl pt—and other conjuring apparatus After she had taken in all the money gne has been she could do something as marks one of the soclety (rom & far “OM" Zancigs have one that probably requires s the prevailing opinion amopg the she saw about &8 a medium, actng A% povel as that triek was when Margaret whers he is showing & novies how to write [T TR 8 HRC B et that Paladino has teo many wireless between the quick and the dead. oo first essayed it e ""'; P ,“:; D ey b complicated system of signale Often = ut her who could help her and ehe exposed her own tricks and made ‘ cad one on slips of pepe d afte pagassicr g ailoos « Moo Apparatus is 100 easy of access. & lot of money that Wway. As soon as peo ;:v:r""{"::"'”':_"‘l" ADJUSTING THE TABLE LIFTER siips, exactly similar in shape and size, CCLS AT eedeh ":‘:monh : st that we say she resorts to our tricks & thousand artie A e e o he given the medium knows at once whethar o’ Sy ERDE 56 Shv we. have: he it in a handkerchief, & hat, & chalr or & doing mothing that hasn't R e oads of other peopie and that every ne earthly reason why Mrs. Hereward Carrington her husband should have spoken of the matter at all ‘We certainly wouldn't he said Oh The Zancigs are members of the soeicty and their mind reading act I8 next ye- terre canary inside on the perch, and while it vas bel watched he would cause it to disappear so that the empty hand was all Phave i AR ki T that met the astonished gaze of people. T gl osnlpratca ol o gl eading act; as w slate writing, every magician ha own method The is an emphasis on 1uestion mber of this elub hasn't been familiar with for so long that he would be afraid Spirit hands are very easy to maks & shot dead If s & magiclan he ad / Sometimes a kid glove Immersed in loe Brown- e b sl a7 g water after being stuffed with flour is heid By e s oF Rt . o b n the hook of the aluminum rod and when uformation the proprietor shoves across . % Making the Clammy Hand. s - 2 me s strapped In a chair inside & he table toward al this peint eof the » P, 2 ~ abinet is bru d against the faces of the nversation 4 palr of semi-cuffs lined 3 = . breath audience. That gives a charme Namets ch af which te ....,::,:D:; 25 4 ::.p;«».‘ fios. a4 m:;:‘ o ‘:,,'.“.fi(l,;.l;um hey are shown el ? » — e -y on here. s inde: cuff and 3 » - Oceasionall A medium his hands elp any table can tted and e . H losely held the hands of the inquirer with ease ‘4 - nto psychic * and with his teeth man- Makes the Table Dance. s B ake a turkey feather from inside explains the owner; “sometimes fingers of someone nearby, who is sure. to be convinced. for, as they truly . to be put on by 3 confeder N B it 2 I o s o0 ':‘l“.;,{: g wands are closely held, there is no poss! ol b i e bility of & trick being played stened a table can be as 4 s% & blotter laps up ink. Naturally 3 Bishop was the best of all muscle read. R Rk Mashelty < i ers, as that art is known in the profession 2% SOt Ay, Nite e o His advertived mind reading was reall SrPReLSt. the JaNk. at, e tnil s £ done by & marvelous power of telling from Surlag eve MR om0, muchont the involuntary contraction and reiaxation o A b e : Mapore : the musctes, us well as from the beat after all in the 3 { . ng of the pulse whether he was nearin ot d apirits coming bac s o . departed apirits coming back in J the hidden object. Bishop contended thac in slight change in the pulse and museles was just as absolutely beyond u see the med! the guise of little comrades 1o Up tabies tieu of better employment.™ Mr. Kellar offered Paladino 3600 if she vould come to his rooms In the Hotel \stor and give & seance there. She was 0 huve any companions she desired to e, but dould not do any refurnishing [, but douid Set 4u" e Tefermiing chap In New Jersey who was hypnotized B wer o qbiiei, St o o€ MHe might have remained in that s:ate for weould n:n:u-lr interfere :‘umh‘:.m ¥HE UNION $TOCK YARDS, SOUTH SCENE AT THE HORSE MARKET ey "o NN SOV (N . o ; sventually, we belleve the contro! as was the knowledge that it existed, the subject belleving that he Iy gave no evidence of his thought. Really dead when the post mortem was performed? Certainly not, not any more dead than the young