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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-09
CONTROL CHILDREN
THROUGH HYPNOTISM
New York Doctor Says Mothers Can
Learn to Manage Unruly Off,
spring Easily.

NEW YORK, March 9.-Dr. Eugene
r. E1iscu, we'll known local physician
will start school next week to teach
mothers to control their children by
hypnotism when necessary and by
peaceful suggestion at all times. Ac-
cording to her, parental influence will
have great part in the curriculum of
her institution and by it mothers can
determine just what profession the
child will follow when it grows up.
Il would hypnotic young men and
women during their courtship and
honeymoon" she declared, and would
make them think, read and see things
that would develop the best that is in
them, that their offspring might be
better than they.
"They should know long before they
are married just what they expect
their children to be, and they must be
in perfect accord on the subject And
they should not change their minds on
the subject
For instance, if they want to pro-
duce a girl sculptor, they must make
up their minds to it and then they
must awake to a realization that their
own bodies are physically beautiful,
something to admire and study. A
young woman in the privacy of her
bath can get more of the inspiration of
a great sculptor than she can from
gazing at a marble figure if she is of
the sort to be intrusted with the re-
sponsibilities of motherhood. So let
the world begin with the children that
are yet unborn, and if we solve that
part of the problem, it caches mothers
to control the children already on
earth"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-09

shore in deep water, so the airship
would anchor high up in the air and be
reached by special elevators held by
cables fastened to shackles on the
ground.
Based upon observation and calcu-
lations made from results already OBJ
tanned and hence in no sense specula-
tive, it was safe to predict, he said,
that the airship would soon appear
with a length of from $500 to 5000
feet which could easily go with 100
passengers from here to Europe and
return within a week.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-09
REPORT
IS NEARLY READY
PRESIDENT DAVID STARR JOR
DAN SAYS 1T WILL BE DONE
IN JUNE.
Problem on Columbia River q Bad One
Says Washington and Oregon
Are Greedy.

SAN FRANCISCO, March S.-Presi-
dent David Starr Jordan, Of Stanford
university, announces that the full re-
port on the fisheries industry in the
United States will probably be made
to President Taft early in June. DR..
Jordan is the representative Of the
United States on the international
Fisheries commission. In his report
he will assert that the rapid destruc-
ton of fish under the present regula-
tons threaten the destruction of the
industry. He will advocate the for
nation of an Interstate Fisheries COM
mission, with authority similar to that
granted to the Interstate Commerce
commission for the regulation of rail-
road rates. Among the important sug
gestions contained in DR.. Jordna's re-
port to President Taft will be the fol-
lowing:
'"The problems of the Columbia,
with it's magnificent fisheries at the
mercy of the inadequate, greedy and
variant states of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho, is far more difficult and
more hopeless than that Of the Frazer
river and Puget sound. In each state
fishermen try to take all they can get
and the two legislatures can never
agree on joint action of any kind ade-
uuate for the protection of the species
This has gone from bad to worse, un-
til the Columbia fisheries are but a
fraction of what they were in 1880.
"At the present time, under the
referendum laws of Oregon, all fishing
above tidewater is forbidden in Ore
gon, and all gill fishing by night be-
low the tidewater limit is also pro-
hibited. This practically closes al
fishing on the Oregon side, while or
the Washington side and up the river
in Idaho there is no limit of any kind
These statutes may be set aside by the
courts-one or both of them-but
meanwhile very few fishes reach the
spawning grounds, and the fisheries
four years hence will amount to moth
ing.
"The fisheries in the other boundary
rivers, the Mississippi, the Ohio ant
| the Potomac, are all in a similar bai
way. For this there is no remedy ex-
cept for the United States to take con.
troll of all migratory animals of com.
mercial value and to control and legis
late for the interstate fisheries, as i
does for the interstate commerce. Mat
tiers of Importance which no particula,
state can manage, must be taken il
hand by the United States. Problem!
which seesawing legislatures find in
soluable are easy enough to nationa
commission; In this case the ma
chinery for investigation and contro
(and all control must be based upol
scientific investigation) already ex
lists in the United States Bureau O
Fisheries
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-09

The aged banker first met his bride
IS years ago when her husband was a
clerk in his employ. Several years la
died a year ago. Before her death she
had engaged Mrs. Dobler as laund-
ress.
The ceremony took place at the
residence of Mrs. C. J. Schmidt, a
daughter of Geltzelman, who is said
to have been the only one of his four
children present The bridal couple
left today for a trip to Florida. On
their return they will reside at the
home of the banker.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-09
THE POWER OF WATER.

Those who look into the future with
prophetic eyes predict that an age of
water power is dawning They point
wisely towards the great water-power
developments already completed Or in
course of construction all over the
world. from the rivers of Maine to the
canyons of California, from Alaska to
Argentine and from the Kashmir val
lev in India to the outlet of Victoria
Nyanza in Africa. And they back up
their arguments with the statement
that coal will be exhausted early in the
next century and that mineral oil and
natural gas will vanish with the coal.
Amid all this prognosticating and
arguing arises a host of questions
about this water-power which is to
keep us from freezing in the next CEN
fury, to turn the wheels of our indus
tries, to prepare the food and to run
our vehicles.
Every stream of running water,
from the trout brook sporting through
the farr, meadows to the largest riv-
ers, is capable of producing more or
less power A hundred years ago, when
steam power was still in its infancy,
water-power was quite extensively
developed in this country but the
steam engine, with cheap wood and
coal fuel, quickly reached the practi-
cal stage and the old "over- shot" ana
'under-shot water wheels were
abandoned. UP to few years ago it
was not practical to develop most
water-power because this power had
to be utilized on the spot and very
naturally the very best water falls
weee located in the wilderness, scores
of miles away from the seaports, the
railroads and the cities which needed
it. But the invention of the electric
transformer changed all this and made
it possible to transmit this energy for
hundreds of miles without serious loss.
The power of water is greater than
any one without experience can
imagine. For many of us have, when
in swimming, struck the water a sharp
blow with the fiat of the hand, or
when learning to dive, struck the
water fiat instead of head first only to
able resistance.
\ stream from firemans hose will
nozzle in placer mining in the west
eats away a large piece of land in a
day and toys with great boulders as
if they were pebbles.
There is story of an eastern black
smith who went west and made a bet
that he could knock a hole through the
jet of one of these nozzles with a
sledge hammer. He lifted his arms,
swung the sledge and came down on
the ten-inch stream with a force that
would have denied an anvil. But the
jet, never penetrated, whisked the
massive hammer out of the black
smiths hands and tossed it several
hundred feet away into the debris of
gold bearing a gravel beneath a
crumbling cliff
What the development of the COM
ing decade will be, is hard to predict,
when one looks back over the wonder
full inventions Of the past ten years.
But one thing is sure, water will play
a much larger part in civilization
through it's electric aid, than it ever
has before in the history of the world
1t is not too much to predict that every
traveller will go by waters power
every mill of Importance will be
turned by means of water, and near
| ly all the lights will be furnished from
water power plants.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-09
A RICH BANKER OF 70
WEEDS HIS LAUNDRESS
M. C. CeItzelman "Shocks" Elgin, ILL.,.
Society by Making Washerwoman
His Bride.

ELGIN, ILL.,, March an. G. Geltzel-
man, a prominent banker and one Of
the wealthiest citizens, married today
Mrs. Hulda Dobler, his laundress and
woman of all work The bridegroom is
70 years old and is president of the
Elgin National bank, the st. Charles
National bank and the Algonquin Ma
tional bank The bride is As years old,
and Of attractive appearance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-09

There were decreases in the rates
Of six out of the 16 causes listed, the
six being diorrhea and enteritis, diph-
iberia and Group, typhoid fever, old
age, tuberculosis of lungs, and con-
genital debility. The increases in the
rates for influenza, pneumonia and
heart disease were decided.
| OF all the deaths in the registration
area in 1907, 11.2 per cent were caused
| by the various forms Of tuberculosis;
9.S per cent, by pneumonia Gall forms) !;
| S.6 per cent. by heart disease; 7.6 per
cent. by violence; and IL per cent. by
diarrhea and entertis
Deaths by Sex and Age.
OF those dying within the registra-
ton area during the year 1907, 375,990
were males and 311O44 females.
Over one fourth GS3,774, or 26.S per
cent) of the deaths were Of children
under five years of age. Nearly one
fifth Obi, ITO, or 1911 per cent? Of the
total number of deaths were of infants
under one year of age; it is gratifying
however. to know that the proportion
Of deaths at this early age period OF
life was less in 1907 than in 1906. For
youth and early manhood and wom-
anhood (15 to 20 years of age) nearly
one third 1922 FER cent? of all the
F.: deaths were due to tuberculosis in
some of it's forms, and about one
sixth (16.S per cent? were the result
of violence For mature manhood and
womanhood GO to A years Of age)
these two causes were most fatal, al
though tine proportions of deaths were
somewhat lower, being 25.6 per cent
for tuberculosis and 49, per cent for
violence For the period from As to So
years heart disease outranked every
other cause of death, being RESPONSE
BILE for one-eighth CHS per cent? OF
the deaths, while tuberculosis ranked
second, with 12.1 per cent.
| Tuberculosis.
/ Tho total pumhev of deaths renorted
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-09
Consumption Death Rate
Shows Decreased
Percentage.

The bureau of census has just pub
lished its eighth annual report on NOR
tally statistics, which presents the
figures for the calendar year 1907, to-
gether with comparative data for the
years 1903 to 1906 inclusive.
The statistics given in the report do
not cover the entire country, but only
that portion Of the United States that
is known as the registration ares"
This area includes the states in which
the laws requiring the registration of
deaths have been accepted as giving
practically complete mortality returns,
and those cities in nonregistration
states in which satisfactory returns
are required by the local authorities.
The registration area in 1907 included
Is states, the District of Columbia, and
rs other cities. The Is registration
states were California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Mary
land, Massachusetts,, Michigan, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Dakota, and Vermont.
The aggregate population Of the re-
gistration area for the calendar year
|1S07 is estimated ate41,758,0S7, or 49,
per cent Of total estimated popula-
ton Of continental United States for
that year.
The statistics for 1908 will cover two
new registration states. Washington
and Wisconsin, and as result of this
addition the registration area will, ac-
cording to the estimates, include for
the first time majority (51.6 per
cenD of the total population.
1t is hoped that for 1909 the area
will be still further increased. The reg
istration law of Ohio was put into OPP
GRAFTON in December, 1908, and the re-
turns already received by the state Of
flee are SO satisfactory that it is prob
able that Ohio will be included in
the registration area for 1909. Effort
S being made to secure satisfactory
legislation with regard to registration
Of deaths in other states during the
sessions of their legislatures.
Causes Of Death.
The following causes were RESPONSE
BILE for at least 20 deaths per 100000
Of population during the year 1907:
Cause of Death. 1906. 1907.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-09

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE, DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund if it fails
to cure E. w. GROVES signature Is
on each box. Csc.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-09

Wait for the cars at the Book Nook.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-09

The total number of deaths reported
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
POLICE FIND WOMAN
STARVING UNDER BED
Deep Mystery Surrounds
Discovery of Brooklyn
Mans Wife.

NEW YORK. Aug. 9.-Not until Mrs.
II. E H. Benedict. SOS President street,
Brooklyn. RECEIVERS from the mental
daze in which she now lies at the Sony
Hospital will the mystery be solved of
how she came TO remain for at least
FIVE days alone and without food in
her otherwise deserted mansion in the
fashionable Park Slope section. where
she was found with the doors and win
dows open. lying half clad and unoon-
scious under one of the beds.
The mystery of the case is increased
by the absence Of the worpan's hus-
band, music teacher and church or
ganist. who was last seen leaving his
home August :, with a suit case IN his
hand This was the date. also. on
which Mrs. Benedict was last seen. un-
til her plight was discovered by the
police five days later.
The woman was taken Immediately
10 the hospital. but the story was kept
suppressed until today. The evident
desire 10 keep the story from the pub
lie is another mysterious element.
Mrs. Benedict is forty-five years old,
a year younger than her husband. She
is his second wife. having married him
a year ago. When she was taken from
under the bed by the police she bore no
markss of i'll treatment, but was fear
fully emaciated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19

4 tempest IN the teapot has been
caused in the Treasury Department by
the information blanks that Secretary
AIacVeagh had circulated a short time
ago 10 try TO obtain information as TO
some way OF Improving the service and
efficiency OF the clerks.
The impression given the clerks when
these blanks were given 20 them 20 I'll
out was that after they had been filled
In and turned over 20 the chief OF the
divisions that the only persons TO see
them would be certain individuals in the
Office OF the Secretary.
Upon The back OF the blanks asking
for information. there was a spz
where each clerk was invited. and 6z
they supposed in confidence, 10 tell Just
what they thought OF their work. their
superior officers. and to make any com
ment they wished A good many of the
clerks VINO had their own opinions Ot
the chiefs Of their divisions and which
ia some Instances were not Compllmen-
uary, expressed themselves in no uncer-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
DYNAMITE IN COAL
FOR ENGLISH SHIPS
Deliberate Attempt Made to
Destroy Three Big
Fighters.

LONDON, Aug. 19.-Proof Of a de-
liberate attempt 10 destroy at least
three English warships has been found.
it leaked out today, by the men who
are investigating the discovery Of dyna-
mite in the coal that was taken aboard
the battleships Lord Nelson and Vic
torious and the cruiser Duke OF Edin-
burgh.
No verdict has yet been announced,
but It Is known thae the investigators
found the dynamite TO be different from
that used in blasting coat it was
found, too, that the coal came from
different mines, thus dispOsing Of the
theory Of accident,
In the belief that a plot to destroy
ships OF the British navy Is "a opera
ton, the government has issued orders
for a thorough cverhauling of coal sup
plies and 10 Inspect more carefully the
future coallng of warshtps. The three
vessels that have Already been imperil-
ed are valued at S23 250000 and carry a
total OF 3,E6 men.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
POOLE'S GIRL WIDOW
FOUND IN A CONVENT
May Get So, 900 Said to Be
Left by Harris
Victim.

The whereabouts of Mary A. Connen
Poole. the wife of John Henson Poole,
who was killed by ollie Harris a few
days ago. became known today when
it was admitted by her parents that
she is now boarding at the George
town Convent
When she married Poole two years
ago at Rockville she was but four
teen years Of age, and il is under
stood that she could not get the con
sent of her parents and that she
elOped. Poole then was a mOtorman
on the Eleventh street car line A
sum of money, said to be about 50. 000.
is supposed to be to the credit Of
Poole in one OF the local banks, and
If this money can be found the wife
OF Poole. who is now sixteen, VIII be
entitled TO il. upon proving her mar
riage valid.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conneu, the father and
mother OF the girl, live at 224S
Twelfth street northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
PILOT CHART MADE
OF PACIFIC OCEAN
Photographic Office Issues First
of Quarterly
Series.

The photographic Office in the Navy
Department issued for the first time
today the quartely pilot chart OF the
South Pacific ocean. Il IS invaluable
10 mariners sailing in those waters and
prepares the way for the increase IN
shipping in this region that is expected
TO follow the opening OF the Panama
canal With the exception Of the In
disn ocean. the photographic Office now
issues. regularly, charts covering the
entire world. Preparations are now be-
ing made for issuing a chart OF the
Indian ocean.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
TROUBLE IS BREWING
FOR TREASURY CLERKS
Frank Comments Upon Chiefs and Management, Suppos
edIy Written in Confidence on Information Blanks,
May Lead to Transfers and Discharges.

tain terms, the clerks never dreaming
the heads of their bureaus would ever
see the observations they made.
II seems that in some way the
cards with the unfavorable comments
have fallen into the hands Of the chiefs
and that they had the mirror held up to
them in an entirely new light, giving
them an insight Of what others thought
of them IN way that they had no,
suspiciOued before
1t has been asserted by some of the
clerks that the sealed letters addressed
10 the Secretary were not sent TO him
direct bat were opened by the heads OF
the divisions themselves, while Il is said
by others that the cards went 20 the Sec
retary's office direct and that the
charges against the chiefs OF some OF
the divisions were so strenuous that
they were called upon 10 explain, and
in that way they we're given the chance
to see what their subordinnates thought
of them.
That the reading Of the contents or
these cards has caused considera bic
friction In the different rooms and di-
visions Is TO put IL mildly That there
WIFI be some dismissals or many trans
fers over the matter is a foregone con-
clusion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
BOILER EEPLODES
KILLING TWO MEN
Injured When Locomo-
tive Blows Up-Travel-
ing Man Is Hero.

GRAND LEDGE, Mich, Aug. IA
Two men were killed instantly and
many people injured when the boiler
Of a Pere Marquette locomotive, at
tached 10 the fast train between De
troit and Petoskey blew up here early
today.
The dead.
WILLIAM BRADLEY, engineer.
FRED L. GRAVES.
The engine and the baggage and day
coaches were completely wrecked by
the explosion Charles c. Walker, a
salesman, crawled through a hole in
the roof of the day coach and walked
two miles into Grand Ledge TO tell Of
the accident. He was badly cut about
the head In the wreck, and collapsed
after reaching town.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
AGENTS ARE WARNED
TO LOCK THE DOORS
Police Receive Numerous Reports
That Empt} Houses Are Be-
ing Stripped.

Real estate agents and the owners OF
houses that are tenantIess have been
warned by the police 10 examine the
locks on the doors and the fastenings Of
the windows carefully and frequently,
OF much Of the brass work and plumb
ing in the houses are liable to fall into
the hands Of a gang Of thieves that are
now investing the city.
Within the past week more than a
dozen reports have been received from
various sections nf the city showing the
activity of the gentlemen whose con-
sciences. permit them to wrest lead pipe
and gas fixtures from vacant houses.
In a large measure opportunities for
such thefts are made by the
carelessness Of agents and house own
ers. say the police. Warnings are
to such persons TO make them
exercise more care in securing ali the
entrances TO houses, and the warning
that has just been sent out is in the
nature of a renewal Of former warn
fngs
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
MAY HIRE ARCHITECTS.
SAYS r. J. TRACEWELL
Commissioners Are Informed They Are Within Rights
In Contracting With Outsiders for City Buildings.
Conflict in Appropriation Act.

room school building TO replace the Po-
tomac School, the eight room school
building in Cleveland Park. the pubic
convenience station at Ninth ard F
streets northwest, and the engine house
at MinnesotS and Pennsylvania avenues.
be awarded TO private architects.
There is apparently a conflict in the
two clauses il the district appropriation
act as to the duties OF the municipal
architect" says Comptroller Tracewell.
Il am therefore of the opinion that
you are authorized TO contract with out
side architects for the plans and speci-
fications of all municipal buildings pro-
vided for In the District appropriation
act for the present fiscal year, and that
IL is the duty Of the municipal architect
10 prepare the plans and specifications
for all other municipal buildings, and TO
superintend the construction of all mu-
nicipal buildings, under the direction OF
the Engineer Commissioners Of the Dis
tTict."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
ATTORNEY OF HARRIS
QUIETS HIS CLIENT

BALTIMORE, Aug. 19.-Edward e.
Peter, attorney for ollie H. Harris. the
confessed murderer Of Henson Poole,
had a lengthy conference with his Glen
in the jail today. Mr.. Peter was en-,
ployed by the father of the prisoner
this morning.
Mr. Peter feels that his client has al
ready said TOO much for his good, and
has requested that no ono be permitted
TO see the young man without his con-
sent
1t seems probable that on the adlnis
sion Of the Tuesdays confession will
hinge the fate Of Harris. His attorney
viii make every effort to keen this con-
fession from going TO the jury.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
STANDARDIZATION
WINS FIRST EVENT
Car Driven by Wright Lands In
dianapolis Meets Premier
Race.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 19.-The stod-
dard-Dayton Is, driven by Wright. won
the first race-five miles. stripped
Chassis cars. class four.
The time was 5:13 40
standardization, 19. SchWitzer. was
second, and Buick, 90 Dewitt, third.
Eight entries started in Exent 2. ten
miles stripped chassis, cars Of Class g.
Chevrolet, in Buick "a led throughout
with Strang and Burman following
Chevrolet finished first. Time, $50 4-5
Strang second, Burman, third Chevro-
let's time is a record TUr this speedway.