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Willmar tribune., 1909-03-31

Johnson & Larson Lbr. Co.,
fuel for pOor....................... 1855 9
Peterson & Wellin, supplies
for poor...................... 5.23
Town of New London, care
for poor. ..:.-..............:..... 1892 I
Willmar Fuel Co., wood for
poor ................ 1880 ]
Theodore Sanchez. board and
care for inmates of the
County poOrhouse ............. 1880 I
J. 6. Peterson. supplies for
poor .:;...;..;..;; ..;;............... ::... 17.15
Floren & Lindgren, supplies
for poor .......:...........::... 1857 ;
Mary Anderson, supplies for
poor f.................... .............. 1.25
Willmar Fuel Co., wood for
COurthOuse............... $50
| DR.. D. J. Mem ahon, medical
attendance on pOor. $3.50 {
Peterson & Branton, medical
! attendance on poor........... 1000
il. Feifarek, caring for poor
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 4l.66
Carlson Bros & Frost. med
lclne tor poor. ................... 4.25
DR.. E. H. Frost, medical at
tendance on poor.......... 1900 ]
| Geo. E. Negaard, medicine for
| poor ......"............. ........... $50
G. A. Dahlheim, witness fees
in Municipal Court......... 1.12
| Louis F. Dow Co., blanks ..... 31.95
l 4-OAAS ~ ~" w., O4AHAS..... LOO
Free Press Pig. Co., mailing
| Observation-Disclosures. $50
Pioneer Press Co., blanks..... $50
Pioneer Press Co., blanks..... 40
Miller Davis Printing. Co.,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .3S
Miller Davis Printing Co.,
blanks........ ....................... 2.41
w. NJ. Welt II Co., Certificates
for Supt. of fSchools.......... 1916
S. A: Syverson, County Com.
| mileage ............................... 800
J. o. klOster, County Com.
| mileage Observation-Disclosures. 200
G. J: Swenson, County Com.
mileage. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 200
N. B: Johnson, County Com.
mileage. Observation-Disclosures. 800
Thos H. Olson. County Com.
| Observation-Disclosures. 2.4O
Thos II. Olson, services on
Board of Audit. 900
| Free Press Printing Co.,
| DisallOwed d................... 1890
Town of East Lake Lillian,
Willmar tribune., 1909-03-31

AIlDuuc 1IluIluk w., print.
Tribune Printing Co., pub
Tribune Printing Co., pub
fishing. ..:...;:. ...::...:..... 41.oo Az
Board of Audit........... ........ 900 90
H: ]. Ramsett, Clerk of Court
1cSn b xSSIE{, ysiE, services on Board 90 o.,
Isaac Nordstrom, labor MAX
Courthouse: uee.::.......::...........:.. 700 *
city Of Wiiimar. light and 40 ~
water :...........:.:".:. ........: 5000 &C..
election returns..............."... 2.4O 2a
John Thunstedt. Janitor at
teachers meeting. .............. 200 2.(
Olof H. Dale, recording ditch
liens ;..:......:.....::......: 1915 16.1
olof H. Dale, postage for of.
W. r. Hoag. Services as En.
gineer on Green Lake dam. $3.50 22.t
Thos. H. Olson, services on
Board of Audit................... 1900 1s.(
City of Willmar, electric light
materials. ::...::.............:.::... 1910 SOL
Florence H. Parker, marking
teachers examination pa
per.;;:;:: :.........:....."..;::.:...: 1880 TO-:
John Feig. services on Board
of Audit.."":.:.........::.......... 1900 1s.(
H. J. Ramsett, services on
Board of Audit................. 1900 18.(
J. H. Strong, livery laire......... 1900 13.(
Peter Bonde, caring for trans
lent poor person.............. $50 *
Swenson & Broberg, medicine
for acknowledgement. 200 &c
John G. Saboe, caring for
:::::..:::.............:::. 1000 zoo
DIR. Edward H. Frost, medic
al attendance on poor ........ 141 90 141 {
Peter Bonde, board for pris-
oners..... ............................. 1889 14.s
Peter BOnde, board for pris-
oners.......... ....................... 3.51 81
Berkness, Peterson & Co.,
supplies for poor................. 13.42 1874
Peterson & Wellin, supplies
for poor. .............:....:..... 1922 37.2
DR.. G. Johnson. medical at
tendance on po0r.."............ 1900 17.(
Willmar Fuel Co., wood for
poor :..., 400 &C
poor 800 &c
Nelson & Johnson, supplies
tor poor..... .............::.:....:.. 24.ss 24.s
A. F. Hansc0m, supplies for
poor Obs o.
Willmar tribune., 1909-03-31

SA0AA AAAoAA " 0OuuSy OOoAus Nesu-
diyohi County, MINI.
Attest: John Feig. County Au-
ditor, and Ex-Omcio Clerk of
Board. SEAL.
Petition of Alfred J. Gordhamer
and Oscar Gordhamer to be set off
from school district No. 1O4 to dis
trict No.. Sc was presented. read
and considered and on motion the
said petition was accepted and set
for hearing at the regular meeting
Of the Board to be held July l3,
1909, at 2 o'clock p. m., and the
following order was issued and
adopted:
Whereas, A petition signed by
Alfred ]. Gordhamer and Oscar
Gordhamer, freeholders of School
District No. 104 in this County,
with the approval of the County
Superintendent endorsed thereon,
representing that they are the own
ers Of the following described lands
situate in. said District to-wit:
The West half Of the Northwest
quarter (w& Of nwD and Lots Three
and Five e and s. Of section twenty
Willmar tribune., 1909-03-31
Attest: John Feig, County
Auditor. [SEAL.] u

Petition of G. E. Wilson and
others for a county rod in the
Towns Of Green Lake and Irving
was taken up at this time for fur
ther consideration. On motion it
was again decided to defer action
on the said petition until later.
On motion a recess was taken un-
til 1870 O'Clock p. M, March q.
1909.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

pie got tired OF the exposure game she
became a medium again and advertised
seances. All Of her old timers came back
and believed in her Just the same.
Like all magiciuns and coniurers. she
had one special trick peculiarly her own.
II Just happened that a. some people
can snap their fingers and make a loud.
pistol-like report with each, so she could
snap ner toes. She would stand alongside
a door with her arms raised and her hands
in full view, while Just peeping out from
her long dress the client would see her
two slippers, but did not see that she
had slipped one OF her feet out OF its
covering.
Placing this foot behind her against
the panel OF the door. she could strike
with each Of her toes. keeping up a con-
dnual %rlpping. She fooled everybody
Think what a sensation Paladino would
create her II after being heralded the way
she has been she could do something a.
novel as that trick vas when Margaret
Foe first essayed IT,.
Tough On the Indian Faktr.
1T is the power Of the travellers tales
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

for the statement Of the tribe and clan OF
the native population.
In his report to the bureau relative to
conditions in his district as he found them
last September. Chief Special Agent Nc
Kenzie states that the conditions in the
territory. particularly in the interior, differ
very materially from those OF ten years ago.
At that time the people were, for the most
part. located in weil-defined camps easy of
access. comparatively speaking, but now
they are scattered widely over all the
creeks in the territory. Compared with the
work done in the summer. the mining In
the winter Is very much greater and men
who have been idle during the summer will
be scattered far out on the creeks this
winter. Mr.. Mckenzie stated that winter
conditions are more favorable in his dis
trict for mining operations and for travel
than in the summer. He has been besieged
by men seeking appointment. His plan is
70 have local men designated and then he
Will proceed by dog-sled to their homes and
appoint and instruct them.
Chief Special Agent Thompson in a re-
port dated Juneau, October Is last. stated.
Most Of the native people are at hom'
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

lars invitation has not been accepted.
Or. Ellison, treasurer OF the Society of
the American Magicians. was at the first
seanee OF Eusapia Paladino and Is re-
ported by his friends to have said that
he did not see anything that was less
than fifty years old. and though invited
FOR the second seance he was not enough
interested 10 spend the time necessary
for witnessing further manifestations.
One of the Real Ones.
"PaladlnO, to my way of thinking
interpolatss a middle aged member OF the
group. "ain't a patch TO Margaret Fox.
She was the star member Of the celebrated
Fox sisters and / was one Of her assistants
in her halcyon days, She had all the
spiritualists OF her time nailed and would
have kept the Society OF Psychical Re
search. II it had existed then, up all night
every night in the week guessing what
next
After she had taken in all the money
she saw about as a medium, acting as
wireless between the quick and the dead,
she exposed her own tricks and made
a lot OF money that way. AS soon as peo-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

and the desire OF the narrator in print 20
make a good story that is responsible for
the idea that more wonderful tricks and
illusions are performed in India than in
any other country in the world and-that
nothing in the western world compares
with the magic OF tine east. The East
Indian coniurors when they come here
and are deprived OF atmospheric effects
the peculiar native music which accom-
panies their exhibitions and the self
yielding I'm advance which is the usual
attitude Of the stranger there-are ludic-
rous. absolutely iudicrous. in their at
tempts to compare with our magicians.
They simply cannot do it. that is all.
on their native heath. attired in some
strange fabric. with a tom-tom playing,
some incense burning, a crowd Of wide
eyed disciples about. the whole atmos-
phere of that marvellous country to draw
on az aid. an Indian faliir can come along
stick his three sticks in the ground. put
over them a bit of drapery. crouch over
this and presently disclose a flower pot
into the earth OF which ne puts a seed.
"C~rouching stiH lower he manages dex-
terousiy to take a small slip OF a plant
from some Of the folds OF mis- gown and
opening Nllt uIaHFlA va MS AAAiE NHAAA AhaAA
il is found to be where the seed was a
moment before. Wonderful, says tins
American traveller.
Again the fakir crouches, while IN,
tom-toms beat louder and the incens'
fumes are thicker, and. io ami behold Tn,
plant has grown several inches! The hemI
O.. seed trick is known TO every magician. bu.
none Of them has the temerity Co lay IL on
an American audience, for the same reason
that withholds them from other trick.
mentioned, tho fear Of being shot dead II
their tracks.
Effect of Liberty Paint.
MI. Mantinka interrupts the conversation
to show some luminous paint. A small car
Of the paint has been held by him in
strong light for a few moment until il haI
absorbed the radiance desired. In a small
room. made absolutely dark, the pain
gives a faint blush. white light ike tina
OF the moon shining ON a cloud. 1t f
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

Buatier de Kota. now deceased. who by
the unanimous vote Of the society was the
greatest magician who has ever been in
America" he says.
THE bird cage trick was invented by
de Kolta. who would hold il in his hand
so that the audience could see it and the
canary inside on the perch, and while il
was being watched he would cause il TO
disappear so thai the empty hand was all
that met the astonished gaze OF people
Think OF the excitement Paladino could
produce with something Ike that re-
marks one OF the society from a far corner,
where he is showing a novice how to write
the names OF four living people and one
lead one on slips Of paper. and after The
slips. exactly similar In shape and size,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

I'm the home villages during the winter
months. November. December. January and
February, and practically all are at home
during Christmas week, that being their
great week Of festivities. During the fan
and spring months they are in and out
from their work OF hunting, trapping, log
ging. fishing and OF putting up native
foods. Generally speaking. about half the
population are In the villages at that time.
During the summer months. however. the
villages are entirely deserted. with the ex-
ception Of a few old blind and crippled
people. and sometimes a few children. All
able-bodied men, women and children are
then out at work. some fishing for the
canneries. some logging, some mining, some
working in the canneries, while many are
simply camping and hunting and prepar-
ing winter food on their own account"
Mr.. Thompson goes on TO state that he
believes IL safe to say that a typical In
dian village Of 800 people is scattered in
fifty different places during the summer
months. and that IL would be a hard task
and an expensive one to locate the In
dlans in the woods. on the waters and in
the temporary camps. especially in a
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

a ghostiy, weird tint and applied to the
desired surface might easily affect the
nerves Of a believer at a sDiritualistic
seance.
1t is explained how a, filmy fabric like
liberty silk can be covered with this and
then concealed in some place easy Of &C
cess by the medium.
There was one medium says a magi-
clan, who always kept her silk robe I'm the
heel Of her shoe. from which It could De
taken IN a moment and put on. Sometimes
it is hid in the handle OF a banjo or Il
can even be rolled up AMI tucked away
in the c%oiffure.
spirit hands are made Of paper or card
board, and covered with this paint and
exposed against a black surface they will
create a weird effect in = dark room. OF
course the one unfailing help OF the spir-
ltuallstic medium is the darkness; that she
must have
work from, the Cabinet.
Another bit Of very popular apparatus
which Is shown is a slim aluminium rod.
which works on the principle Of the lazy
rongs. and can he heightened from six
inches to five or six feet. At one end OF
this rod is a hook and when the medium is
GdTtlAl4A tea III "A NADlhNA ~ AiAA
ton Of the s~keptics, this rod, either given
TO him by a confederate or concealed in the
cabinet. IS used 10 gather whatever objects
may be within reach.
one Of the magicians who in earlier
DAYS was a medium admitted that his
favorite tool. the rod not having been in
vented then. was a regular fish line sinker
covered with channels TO render il noiseless.
To this were attached fish hooks, and this
he could throw from the cabinet 60 the
STAGE and gather in all sorts Of flotsam
and jetsam.
"It must be realized explains one of
the group, that no matter how closely
the medium is tied and even though the
tapes may be sealed and marked with the
uEmes OF the doubling Thomases, II he
is any kind Of a contortionist. and that is
one REQUESTS OF the medium, he can usu-
aiy manage TO work his hands in some
way or other. II he does not happen e
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

-sr1MATES Of the population and
cost uf the comiug enumeration
uf Alaska have been submitted
- to United States Census niree-
oU tor Durand By W T.. Hunt
- chief stausucian for population
VINO has direct charge ~ the work The
census OF 1899. cost. iu round numbers
FZoo and showed a total population "
'i5sL % In estimated that tire coming
enumeration viii cost cons. derablv less
Than the abov. Figure. ard that the uopu-
'a'fon may not De So large This latter
I7't De- due Geo certain peculiar conditions
existed 800 Alaska Ht The time ot tho
enumeration iu lgo whereas the present
s'.1~ ration VIII BE- -a-en under more
Lc7 r-rnai conditions
DC Cato af the enumeration b. to he De-
g. m''A Fl. 1919. instead Of April Is. 1919.
A.Ch latter BE- The date beginning the
rnrral enumeration Of the United States.
1-sEa has been divided into four dis
c-a Cor census purposes the first being
Charge Of Chief special Agent Andrew
Thompson. headquarters ut Juneau.
g E-utv-savcr rpcciaI agents under
SIN. the second district viii be controlled
tv chief special Agen, Joseph n. Remir.
d. adquartrrs az seward. with twenty spe-
rial agents assisting him; the third. Chief
Special Agent William T. Lopp. h~eadauar-
tors. at Nome with thirteen special agents
under his orders and the fourth. Chief spe-
cial Agent william A. Mckenzie. stationed
at Fairbanks. WITH twenty special agents
detailed to his charge.
With the exception Of Mr.. Mckenzie. tho
other chief special aFsneB are representa-
lives Of the United States Bureau OF Edu-
cation and are the school superintendent
o. their respective districts. They have
spent many years studying the people and
conditions In Alaska Mr.. Mckenzie has
been I'm the employ OF the Census bureau
@ number OF years and Is an expert or
Alaskan matters. In addition 70 there. tn,
services OF the school teachers and OF
others in the territory connected with tn,
Bureau Of Education will be largely utii
izrd I'm the actual work OF enumeration
and when this is not practicable. other,
equally familiar with the conditions vii
be selected.
Director Durand believes that co-opera-
ton on the part Of the Bureau OF Educa
ton in permitting its representatives t,
serve in the census work. together witt
the advanced date OF enumeration, Deem
Der II, next, viii result in a very thorough
census of Alaska
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

country like southeastern Alaska He points
out that. by using the services OF school
teachers during the Christmas vacation.
the cost Of enumerating the native popu-
latiOn will be very nominal and about
One-fifth OF what Il would cost in the
summer. and. at the same time. It will be
more nearly correct.
Mr.. Thompson says further that the con-
diuOns he mentioned concerning the ma
ttves apply, to a less pronounced extent
to the white population also. and he be-
heves. therefore, that the enumeration in
the mid-winter will be comparatively sim
pie. He says. however, that there is one
objection to a census IN January and that
is. that a number of regular residents go
out 90 the states for the Christmas holi-
days and do not return again Until towards
spring, and also that this year a few who
are outside, because of the extra attraction
OF the exposition will remain outside until
spring. This objection, however. can be
obviated by making careful inquiry for all
such bona fide residents who are out
side, and securing their names and ad-
dresses in the states and thus getting them
enumerated here where they belong. 1t
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05
Counting Esquimo Noses a Serious Undertaking for the Census Burea

sr1MArEs Of The population and
cost uf the comiug enumeration
of Alaska have been submitted
to United States Census niree-
tor Du-and by W T.. Hunt
chief atagstfcien f,r ,,rrt,tt,,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

should be said that the work here will he
done largely by such men who know prac-
tically everybody in their districts, and
also to where they are"
The waters Ia Mr.. ThompsOn's district
are open the year around and such OF his
enumerators as might be required TO travel
would. he says. charter gasoline boats, at
about so per day, the average price.
No attempt was made by the United
states government to enumerate the people
Of Alaska at the decennial census OF 1879.
three years after the purchase of the ter
ritorv from Russia. The necessarily in
complete one taken in 1850 disclosed a
population Of S3.426. The census in 1899
showed a total OF 52.O52. The twelfth CEN
sus returns were G.592 During the decade
ending in 1909. the population nearly
doubled. OF this nuna1er 1855 were ma
tive Indians and q, 7e native whites. There
were f5.S72 malee. I7.72O females, O.9Si ma
tive born. 1851 foreign born, Sl49S whites.
Of which II, s94 were natives whites with
native parents. 4.2l5 native whites with
foreign parents and S.7S4 whites. The total
colored was %. O9s. OF which les were ne
groes. SLG Chinese gs Japanese and 29.5Ss
Indians.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

Accordingly. DIT. Romig will make prepa-
rations for their enumeration about the
latter part Of next spring. His district COM
prises TO a large extent outlying territory.
including the Alaska peninsula the Aleu-
tian and Pribilof isuands, and other mac
cessible points along the southwest coast,
where an enumeration in the winter months
is practically impossible. Even in the sum
mer the question Of visiting these points is
a most serious one and would involve the
hiring OF a steamer. il one could be OBJ
tanned. which is doubtful. knowing, how
ever. that the revenue service annually
sends a vessel to cruise in Alaskan waters.
the secretary Of the treasury was appealed
TO and ne has given his consent TO the de-
tail OF a cutter TO convey the special repre-
sentative Of the census bureau to such
points in this district as may be necessary
for the purpose OF enumeration 1t is esti-
mated that the trip will take about a month
and a half. starting from Seward about the
middle of June,
The Alaskan population schedule agrees
in general with that to be used for the
enumeration in the United States, except
that the former has an additional column
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

The last census there was taken as OF
June l. 1900. but it was necessary to send
en1merators into some parts OF Alaska as
early az the middle OF July. 1893. and it
was not until nearly the end Of October.
1900, that their work was completed.
II is expected that the coming
don will be finished in less than half the
time taken before, owing chiefly to the
earlier, mid-winter date Of the work.
Director Durand has made several i'm
portant exceptions regarding the time Of
enumeration In order to meet radical varia-
tons in the conditions i'm certain of the
principal census districts. In the second
district. Chief Special Agent Romig points
out. in a report to the director. that there
are between 5000 and 10000 persons who
would be missed by a winter enumeration.
These persons who, to a great extent rep
resent the mining and canning Industries,
come out OF Alaska during the closed, or
winter season. but return early in the
spring. As a consequence. they would be
missed In the census OF April Is in the
states. Besides, they make their living in
Alaska and should be counted there, IL is
held.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

rave a confederate. which is usually the
case"
De kOlta's Famous Trick.
The proprietor disappears for a moment
70 return from some dark corner holding a
small wire birdcage, the edges bound in
stout leather and the whole encased in
glass covering.
'ThiR is the famous cage used by
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

have been shaken In a hat. how to pick
the name OF the dead person each time
without effort, II is the first lesson Of
fered the amateur. and he learns in a
minute. paying 50 cents for the informs-
ton
The zancigs are members Of the society
and their mind reading act is next Es-
feFred to.
There are al least" explains a ma
gician, "a hundred ways Of doing the mind
reading act; as with slate writing. every
magician has his own method. The
zancigs have one that probably requires
the greatest feat OF memory or the most
complicated system OF signals often a
so-called mind reader. working with .
confederate. viii actually memoriza Q
thousand articles, 50 that when a clue Is
given the medium knows At once whethsr
IL il a handkerchief. a hat. q chair or a
table that is in question.
Making the CIammy Hama.
Spirit hands are very easy 70 make
Sometimes a Kid glove Immersed in ice
water after being stuffed with flour Is held
on the hook Of the aluminium rod and when
a medium is strapped IN a chair inside a
cabinet is brushed against the faces OF the
hreHthless audience. That gives a eharun-
ing sensation, and must convince the most
scepticai that the loved one Ia surely there.
Occasionally "a medium has his hands
closely held by the hands OF the inquirer
into psychic lore aud with his teeth man
ages 10 take a turkey feather from insids
his coat and with this uckles the face or
fingers Of someone nearby, who is sure Ia
be convinced, for, as they truly say. the
hands are closely held. there IL no posi-
bhity OF a trick being played
Bishop was the best OF all muscle read
ers. as that art is known in the profession.
Ills advertised mind reading was really
done by d marvellous power OF telling from
the involuntary contraction and relaxation
OF the muscles, as we'll as from the beat
ing Of the pulse whether he was nearing
the hidden object. Bishop contended that
this slight change In the pulse and muscles
was lust as absolutely beyond the control
as was the knowledge that IL existed. the
subject believing hat he really gave no
evidences OF his thought. Really dead when
the post norton was peTformedg Certainly
not. not any more dead than the young
chap In New Jersey who was hypnotized
He might have remained In that state for
q week, but would have come out q Il
eventually We believe"