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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13
Case of Pellagra
Is Found in Kansas

TOPEKA, Kan. April 13.-What is
believed to be the first real case of
pellagra in Kansas has been reported
to the state board of health by the
superintendent of the Parsons State
hospital. The board will investigate.
Pellagra is the mysterious disease
which has been charged to eating
products of rotten corn.
A magazine writer, discussing the
subject from national standpoint last
winter. stated that there were 10 cases
in Kansas. DR. Crumbine and Secre-
tary F. D. Coburn of the state board
of agriculture, Immediately jumped
to the defense of Kansas. DR. Crum-
5ine denied that there had even been
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13
KISSING BUG is
LOVER OF OTHERS

ITHACA, N. Y, April 12.-That this
is the age OF bugs. more than 100000
900 species now being known to science
was the statement of Professor A. D..
McGillivray of the State College of Ag-
riculture, in an address on insects and
the transmission of disease He said:
1.-THE number of species of insects
known to science at the present time
is estimated at 1OO,O00,000. Some of
these are very rare, but man yof them
occur in quantities as to make estima
ton difficult
"There aro probably more different
kinds of insects to be found in ana
around Ithaca than there are differ
ent varieties of flowers in the United
States.
Among the insects found in great
numbers are locusts and grasshoppers.
In 1889 on the shores of the Red Sea
these pests covered 1000 square miles
Of land, and in spite of the fact that a
single insect would weight but about
one-sixteenth of an ounce, the entire
mass of locusts was estimated TO
weigh 42,S5O,OO0,O0O tons and this was
not exceptional. for the next year there
was worse scourge.
knowledge of the place of insects
in disease is of recent acquisition. Not
until 1880 was it known that malaria
was produced by a parasite, and not
until Is wears later was the part that
MOSQUITOES played in its spread dis
covered. Not until 1890 was yellow
fever known to be an insect carried
disease.
"The kissing bug is real, and was
so called because it bit persons on the
face. usually when they were asleep.
The insect formerly fed on bedougs
and this is the reason given for its at
lacking persons while asleep Probab-
w largo percentage of the bites
which are laid to spiders came from
the kissing bugs.
"The spider is comparatively harm
less. and none of the kinds to be found
in the northern United States is pols'
onous. Even if they were, the insect
would be unable to penetrate the hu-
man skin to introduce its poison The
bite of a tarantula is no more danger
GUS than the sting of a bee. although
some of the varieties in California and
other warm parts of the country prob
ably are poisonous.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13

spirit world, as she declares, Mrs.
Field produces drawings with an ordi-
nary pencil which have attracted the
attention Of some of the art experts of
New York. and one publication has
asked .'lot she submit examples of her
W .rk
.'hr ughout al! Eer work is appar-
emily the influence of Egyptian art. In
practically every representation of an
cient Egyptians, male or female, the
peculiarit.es of the headdress are
marked Mrs. Field has carried out
every detail thereof with great faith
fufness Into the dress upon every
head she has drawn appear all the dis
tinctive features which make that part
Of Egyptian art SO much a feature in
itself
Hidden away in these headdresses at
all angles are tiny faces, usually Of
women. A casual glance does not al
ways reveal them. Careful study
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13
FREEWATER NEWS NOTES.
April 12.-(Spe

FREEWATER, April 12.-(SpeciaD
Mr.. Kit, pastor of the Congrega-
tional church. is in Spokane attending
the Missionary convention. Mr..
Mathews preached in his place at the
morning service and Mr.. Cook, OF
Walla filled the pulpit in the evening
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Cummins visited
at the home of VIM. HoOn Sunday.
William Lloyd and family have NOV
c from North Milton into the Evans
residence on Grant street.
The Ladies' Missionary society will
hold an all day meeting at the home of
Mrs. Henry Broth on Thursday.
The Lady Maccabees held their first
meeting in the new l. o. 0. f. hall
last Thursday afternoon and elected
delegates to grand lodge at Portland.
Mrs. J. G.. Cummins was elected dele
gate and Mrs. F. E. Wilcox, of Mil
ton, alternate.
Mrs Nelson has returned from a
several days visit with her daughter,
Mrs. Jack Lampke, of Walla Walla.
The local camp of the M. w. A. re-
ceived an invitation to social to be
given by the Walla Walla lodge on
April 26 1t is thought a good many
members and their wives will accept.
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In some drawings of other figures, some
brings them out in surprising number.
of them almost weird and some even
Of the goblin type the tiny faces ap-
pear again. every one having an indi-
viduality OF expression that makes
great impression
One of the finest of the drawings is
that of a great bird as large proper
tionately as the tabled roc. Close IN
spection shows the form to hold
giant figure and the apparent plumage
Of the bird is a robe enfolding the
figure. While all of the pictures shown
by Mrs. Field show a wealth of detail
this one shows almost a genius in its
conception.
The impulse-the call of the spirits
to draw may come upon her at any
time, she says, though usually it comes
at night at s o'clock. Sometimes she
works through until o'clock in the
morning. Three nights week, are as
a rule, devoted to drawing. Sometimes
she will complete a figure at one sit
ting, other times two or three are ne
cessary to finish the object.
Mrs. Fields does not call these sit
tings frances, though it is fact it
is said, that every outward physical
sign indicates that she is enthralled by
Severian.
1.-TWO and a half years ago." Mrs.
Field said II knew no more about
drawing than does any one who has
never had any instruction or never
drew anything, even as a child, or VINO
felt no interest whatever in drawing
or art / began to feel penchant for
writing 1t seemed that my hand
wanted TO write something. My arm
would begin to move and the fingers
would seek to grasp a pen or pencil.
1 would take up a pencil and would
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13
SPEAKERS ARE NOTED
Roosevelt, Taft and Pinchot Will
Make Addresses at Conservation

KANSAS CITY, April 12.-With
former President Roosevelt, President
Taft and Clifford Pinchot deposed
chief forester of the state department
of agriculture, as speakers, the Ma
tional Conservation congress will con-
vene in convention hall here early in
September.
This announcement was made here
tonight by J. B. White, chairman Oh
the executive committee of the con-
eress, following a meeting of the Kan
sas City Commercial club.
The date of the congress was hxed
to accommodate Colonel Roosevelt,
who has accepted an invitation to be
present Colonel Roosevelt will speak
at OsaWatomie Kas., August 29, ana
at Cheyenne, WyO., August 81.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13

an authentic case in Kansas and
Secretary Coburn denied emphatically
that there was any rotten corn in
Kansas, and therefore that it was
impossible to have 10 cases of pellagra
in the state.
When looking for cases of pellagra
physicians always go to the insane
asylums or hospitals. In the last
stages of the disease the patient be-
comes insane and finds his way to an
asylum 1t is said that there is no
known cure for the disease. 1t is
even more of a mystery than the in
fantie paralysis which swept in a
wave over Kansas last summer and
fall
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13
write, but the spirits preferred that
draw. and so draw / did,

write, but the spirits preferred that
draw, and so draw l did.
Eat first the pictures were crude and
not always discernible as to definite
meaning, but as time went on and /
drew more and more, and I was able
to produce through the direction or
the spirits, pictures that had form and
expression, a sort of subconscious
knowledge OF Egyptian art began to
come to me- But even now l can not
explain how it has come about
Il only know that when I retire to
my studio all by myself the spirits di-
rect me and talk to- me. and that i
draw forms and faces. Very often l
can not tell what the figure is to be
until ysome sudden turn the identity
of the picture is revealed.
1.-THE spirits control me absolutely,
though 1 can talk very often of other
things during that period.
81 draw for my own qualification; l
have not thus far drawn for financial
remuneration.
Il have joined the Spirituallst
church. and of course, all its mem
bers are familiar with my work and
how l happened to come into the
church.
"Severian, the Egyptian spirit, who
controls me at these times, l know
little of except that he rules me and
that he has promised to some time
show himself to me. When these spirits
come to me l feel as light as feather
and could easily float away AT such
times / am conscious very often OF
what is going on around me, and at
other times the spirits under Severian's
lead come so strong that l lose myself
and am held under their domination
absolutely"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13

Europe no more for the student of
the talent in the United States where
opportunities are better" This is the
slogan raised by an organization of
60 Chicago women, the Amateur Mu-
steal club. The club has found that
EurOpe's pitfalls and obstacles more
than offset its advantages to a student,
particularly for young women. This
organization has discovered that the
young women sent from home to a
strange city, Paris, Leipzig, London or
anywhere else, was subjected to a Sc
we're test, such as only the best ball
anced characters could withstand
There are loneliness, the dlffiC ulties
with an alien language in a strange
land, the temptations of youth and
the considerable expense of board and
lessons, many times greater than if
the student had remained in America.
While saving the student from for
elgn temptations ana the ecOnOmlZlnS
of means are important the club, as
well as Frank Damrosch, who was
called in from New York for counsel,
realizes that America is rising to
higher levels in its music schools.
Every accredited institution has
thoroughly trained foreign talent
among it's teachers of piano, the voice,
the violin and in other instruments,
as we'll as successful composers on the
staffs of teachers of theory and COM
position Moreover the large cities
support Orchestras the university
towns have choruses musical festivals
and orchestral tours. The club there
fore has given up sending students
abroad It's scholarship fund is made
to do double service and give more to
a struggling genius. The talented stu
dent is being aided by fees for concert
work in institutions which cannot pay
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13

toms dry and arid streets last even
ing, and was taken under the wing OF
Marshall George Dorr on a charge
of drunkenness after he had caused
more or less excitement. When
brought before Judge Holamn Monkey
deposited Sc with the magistrate for
appearance later, but failing to ap-
pear the case went by default The
LIQUOR is said to nave been obtained
in Walla Walla. Last evenings tram
from Walla Walla. according to an
officer, carried several passengers more
or less under the influence of intoX-
cants. but arrests were made.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13
Parker as Supply.

ATHENA, Ore, April 12.-(Speclap
The Rev. DIR. Parker Of Portland
corresponding secretary for the Bapust
state convention for the state OF Ore
gon, occupied the pulpit. both morning
and evening of the Baptlst cnuIcn
Sunday. DR.. Parker is very strons
and convincing speak,, and ms meet
ings were we'll attend considering tle
weather. The Baptis' church OF thlS
city is at the preseni time Wltnou. "
pastor. The late rfs'or. Mr.. hyuei,
withdrew from the R2Dtlst church anu
joined the Christian church. soon ai'''
leaving the city.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13
OLD COLLEGES DEBAR GIRLS
Tufts Institution Will Teach the Fair
Sex No More-Say Trustees.

MEDFORD, Mass, April 12-By a
vote of it's trustees today Tufts college
ceased to be a oo-educational insti-
tuition. AS soon as the new changes
can be made in the charter of the in
stitut:on a new college to be known
as the Jackson college for women will
be established. Until the necessary
charter changes can be brought about
the women will be taken care of as a
separate department of Tufts college.
A committee appointed to investigate
the question of segregating the sexes
recommended that such segregation be
made
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13
CHICAGO CHATTER {,
ON LIVE MATTER

er. c. F.. Ross; who is familiar with
postal banking in the Dominion, said:
Il had IA years experience with the
system and can see only great benefit,
not only to the people but to banks,
from them. have travelled over a great
deal of territory and met great many
bankers and l have yet to find one who
had an argument against postal savings
banks that was worthy of the name. In
the first place the bankers know that
there is great amount of money
bearded up by people who have not the
confidence in banking as the conditions
are today, or as they think the condi-
tons are. They know that if this
money was brought into circulation 1t
would be a powerful benefit to the
country generally. 1t is therefore easy
to see that by educating the class of
people who are now boarding up their
money to open an account with postal
savings bank that it opens up a chan
mel for the banks to obtain deposits
that could not be done under any other
conditions There is a claEs of people
in this country who deposit money in
banks that should not have the privi-
lege: Many, runs on good institutions
have been caused by these people and
the bankers of this country should be
very willing to be relieved from doing
business with them"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13

bleached flour shipped by the Shawnee
Milling company of Topeka, Kas He
will hear arguments on the demurrer
filed by District Attorney NJ L. Temple.
The court stated that he probably
would withhold decision on the demur-
rer until he heard from Attorney
Smith at Omaha, but added that If con-
WINGED that arguments favored the
millers he would pass on the demur-
rer at once.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13
Will Hunt Quake Territory.

WASHINGTON. April 12.-The SEN
ate committee on geological surveys
today approved a proposed amend
ment to the sundry civil bill providing
for the establishment Of seismolog-
ical laboratory under the Smithson-
ian Institution. The laboratory is de-
sired that the government may make
a study of earthquake regions IN
North American and organize special
narties for the investigation of earth
quake in any part of the world.
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for their music.

The elevated loop which circles and
throttles to some extent Chicago's
business center is found to carry daily
nearly half million passengers on ell
evated trains and yearly nearly 100000
900 passengers. A check for the city's
share of the earnings of the loop struc-
ture. $4,000 for six-months' period,
has disclosed the earnings of the loop
structure which Charles T. Yerkes
contributed to the disfiguring land
marks of his traction regime. The loop
is owned by a separate corporation
which is paid one-half cent for every
passenger carried by all of the elevated
roads, and the city gets Is per cent of
the loop company's earnings. The city
has a number of revenue incomes now
which were unknown five years ago,
the biggest being from the rehabilitated
surface street car companies. They
pay the city over a million dollars each
year. The Illinois Tunnel Co, for it's
network of bores under tire city recent
ly sent a check for s22,255, which is
five per cent of the Tunnel Company's
business, which last year totaled $445,-
los but now is rapidly on the increase.
The Tunnel compan Y operates
freight delivery service forty feet be-
low the surface of the streets and al
though in January, 1909, its earnings
were only $4,000, in December they
had increased to ISL 900.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13

The havoc of springtime joy riding
of automobiles has reacher such a
point that drastic action has been rec
commended to the city authorities by
several influential organizations. Only
rigid enforcement of police laws is
likely to prevent mob violence, for
there have been number of demons
tratiors of late from which scorching
chauffeurs and their passengers escaped
summary punishment only by making
a quick getaway under protection of
the police. The trial of a case against
a chauffeur who ran down a little girl
has done much to advance the senti-
ment favoring rigid discipline for mo-
torsts, for this cheuffeGr was found
to have a record of reckless driving
and accidents which has shown how
dangerous the aggregate of autos will
become if his individual case is an ex-
ample of the rest. Even the disaster at
the Jackson boulevard bridge, when
chauffeur carried his passengers to
death in the Chicago river by dashlng
full tilt into the open draw, has not
served to slow down the speed of the
cars The increase of heavy motor
trucks has developed a new danger TO
the pedestrian, for enormous vans go
at high speed through the streets, and
make sharp corners menacing not only
a man on foot, but the smaller autos
and wagons The loop district, now
the most congested district in the
world, offers a thousand dangers daily
to the throngs upon the streets. They
mus beware not only Of street cars,
trucks, carriages, autos and auto trucks
coming from one direction, but at some
corners from three-even four. Ran
dolph street and Fifth avenue now is
the show danger spot of the city, for
street car tracks intersect there in
four directions and overhead the ele-
waited trains add to the distractions and
uproar which serve to confuse people.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13
WALKS WITH STRONG STICKS
Columbus County Mountaineer Uses
Souvenir to Good ADVANTAGE


DAYTON Wash, April 12.-(Spec-
ial.)-"Uncle Ed Maloney, a hunter
and trapper of the Blue mountains,
walked to Dayton this morning lean
ing on a unique walking stick pre-
scented by a friend of his. ]. P. Nc
Larry, who recently returned from a
sojourn in Mexico. The cane is made
from the branch of a pepper wood tree
and is attracting much notice and
comment here. Uncle Ed has had
the cane vanished and tipped. The
aged mountaineer carries a souvenir
of the wood in his pocket with which
ne satisfied the more curious in the
way of allowing them to taste Of the
bark, which has the flavor and
strength of ordinary black pepper.
The wood is yellow and of the same
tenacity as pine. The bark resembles
the back of an old toad in appear
ance and cOlOring.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-13

Inventored at cost Chicago's babies
have a value of $4,000, 900, according to
the figures of Prof. f. H. Arnold Of
Yale who put SIS as the average money
price paid. There are $4,000 Chicago
babies-very tiny ones, not more than
q year old. What valuation the parents
would place on those babies is a verJ
different thing. What Their potential
value to society may be also is differ
ent matter They are about equally dl-
Vided between boys and girls but the
cost of either is the same. When they
are Is years of age these same babies
would go on the cost sheet at $120.000,-
o00, again using the figures OF Profess
sor Arnold of $1,000 each at that age.
There are about 225, 900 children in the
city between Is and 10 years of age,
each of whom owes the world about
$500, or a total of 1921, 500, 600. There
are 2S4 900 children between and 10
wears each of whom owes the world
about $500 or total of $142, 100000.
There are $4,000 children between one
and five years, each of whom has cost
about $175, or a total of 40075, 900. To
these add the babies of one year and
under, at SIS each, $4,5O0,OOO, and the
grand total of children who have cost
and have not yet begun to pay back
amounts to the tidy sum of $92S.175, 600.
The postal savings bank bill, now
pigeOn-holed in a subcommittee of the
hostile postoffice committee of the
house, will not pass at this session of
congress- according to a bulletin of the
Postal Savings Bank League, unless
the public wakes up and demands ac-
ton. The league is urging newspapers
TO call upon their readers to write TO
their members of congress to demand
that the postoffice committee report the
bill which the senate has passed. The
opposition to the measure has proceed
ed from the American Bankers Asso-
cations postal savings bank commit
tee in a report to the Postal Savings
Bank league. a former Canadian bank
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roots, herbs and barks. and are CIV
ing the benefits of their years OF re-
search of the people both home and
abroad. 1t is simple remedies that they
tarrh, Lung, Stomach, Consumption,
Liver and Kidney troubles, also all pri-
Vate diseases of men and women.
Consultation and pulse diagnosis free.
People who live out of town write for
symptom blank and circular
YORK & YORK. CHINESE MEDICINE
COMPANY.
21o w. Main ST, Walla WaIla, WasI
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Contributors Will Get Money Back

WASHINGTON April ia bill
appropriating SCI 900 for repayment
to private citizens of that sum adj
vanced for the ransom of Miss Ellen
M. Stone, the American Missionary
who was abducted by Bulgarian bril-
gands in 1901, passed the senate to-
day
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Yale Professor Dead.

ENGLEWOOD, N. j., April 12-
Professor William G. Sumner of Yale
died today at the residence of his son,
Graham Sumner, here.
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York and York

York and York
the we'll known
Chinese doctors
have made a lite
study of the Gu.
rative powers OF
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Woman Will Help Count.

DAYTON, Wash, April 12.-(Spec-
ial under direction of Supervisor j..
NJ Storch of Spokane. enumerators
appointed to take the census in Co
lumbia county held a meeting at
Hotel Dayton yesterday to arrange
for active work which commences
Friday. Enumerators in this county
will receive from IS to Sc a day in
the rural districts and 8 cents for
each person listed in Dayton. Upon
the following ten people will devolve
the task of enumerating the popula-
ton in this county: Mae Crawford,
F. w Guernsey. Frank Porter, How
ard Romaine, George Wood, G. B.
Motsinger, John Jones. Charles H.
Creig. c. B. Leatherman and j. j.
Stoddard.
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ST. Louis Wool.

ST. LOUIS. April 12.-Wool steady
Medium grades combing and clothing
20 a 25c; light fine Is a 24c; heavy
IA a zoe; tub washed 10 a 36c.
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GOVERNMENT is ENJOlNED
Iowa judge Issues Restraining Order
Against Representatives of Uncle

KEOKUK, Iowa, April 12.-Judge
Mcpherson in the federal court is
sued a restraining order this afternoon
which will prevent United States Off
Gals in this district from Selling any
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Will Help Argentina Celebrate.

PANAMA, April 12.-The armOred
cruisers Tennessee and South Dakota
sailed today for Buenos Ayres, where
they will participate in the celebration
of the centenary of the Argentine
republic