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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-08-29
LIVES IN FOREST
IN ADAMS GARB.
Boston Artist Makes Woods
Furnish Food and Shelter.

Boston, Mass.-Joseph Knowles, q
Boston artist, is In the middle Of an
experiment to prove that he can live
in the Maine forests, twenty miles
from settlement. just as did prehis-
toric man. He discarded all clothing.
made the woodland furnish his food
and shelter and defends himself from
animals or other foes only with the aid
of his bare hands or with such weap-
Ons as he may fashion with them.
For two months he will make his
home in the depths of the virgin forest
that surrounds Big Sencer lake. Twice
a week he goes to the borders Of the
forest to leave communications, in
scribed on birch bark, for his friends
Knowles is fortyfour years of age,
has never married and has always
lived life Of adventure. He Is one
Of the few white men who have mas
tered the art of making fire by rub
bling sticks. The accomplishment, he
says, is all that is needed for a life in
the open by man of his robust health.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-08-29
NO HOLIDAY FOR GOV. cRUcE,
Finds Convicts Pardoned and Con-
tracts Signed In His Absence,

Finds convcts Pardoned and Con-
tracts Signed In His Absence.
Oklahoma City, Okla.-I will never
leave the state again as long as 1 am
governor" declared Governor Lee
Cruce who, upon being Informed Of
the action of Lieutenant Governor Nc
Alester in granting pardons to four
prisoners and signing school bonds to
which the governor was opposed, rush
ed post haste back to the capital 81
have Cancelled all engagements l have
out of the state, including the COVER
nor's conference at Denver, and shall
make no others henceforth. l intend
to stay strictly on the job"
Lieutenant Governor McAlester, who
is perhaps seventy-five years old, is In
the race for governor at the next cleo
ton.
Among the prisoners the acting gov
ernor pardoned was B. II. Updike, a
nephew Of former Governor Haskell,
sentenced to life Imprisonment for
murder.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-08-29
DEATH REVEALS
LOVE TRAGEDY
Pretty Trained Nurse Accused
Of Causing Doctors Death.
ROMANCE OF JEALOUS LOVE

Mise Emma z. krill Accused of Ad-
ninisterine Poison to Dr.. Stanley E.
kron, Young Italian Physician-She
Denies That She Caused His Death.
Utica, N. Y.-The love tragedy of
two young lives may be barred as
warning to other girls by develop
ments which are expected to follow
the mysterious death Of DR.. Stanley e.
Kron, handsome young Italian physi-
clan, and the subsequent accusation
against Miss Emma E. Krill, an at
tractive trained nurse, employed at
the same hospital with the doctor.
Was this strange death the result Of
drug administered by the nurse?
Was it case of suicide? Or was 1t
case of accidental poison? These
are the three leading questions, one
of which will have to be accepted as
the solution by the authorities.
After taking poison is a manner
which has not been yet explained, the
physician died without making any
statement. His alleged fiancee was
suspected from the first, as she was
alone in the room with the doctor
when he took the drug. She is stanch
in the statement that she was sum-
moned to the bedside of the physician
and on her arrival found him suffer
ing greatly. He ordered some medi
cine. she continues in her explanation,
and. thinking it would relieve his suf-
ferings. she obtained 1t and prepared
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-08-29
SOUTHERN COLLEGES GOOD.
Entrance Standards, Faculties and
Equipment Of Highest Order.


Equipment Of Highest Order.
Washington.-Southern colleges since
1900 have made remarkable advance
ment not only in entrance REQUIRE
ments, but in libraries, laboratories.
buildings and equipment, according to
a statement of the bureau of educa-
ton. Miss Elizabeth Avery Coulton.
secretary of the Southern Association
OF Colored Women, who reported on
conditions, declared that in 1900 only
three southern colleges had standard
requirements for entrance, while this
year 100 institutions had adopted such
standards.
Miss Coulton attributed the improve
ment to various philanthropic organ
1zations which co-operated to better
the educational system In the south
With the betterment in entrance re-
qu1rements, she declared, had come a
decided increase also in the amount of
college work represented by the de-
gree. while in the personnel of the
faculties marked Improvements were
shown
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-08-29
COLONEL COCKTAILS.


the cut handle only 100000 cubic yards
of earth and rock per month, which
output will be greatly reduced as the
depth of the cut increases and the
available room for shoyeling Is re-
duced. Colonel Goethals has now as
sembled fifteen dredges, with a month
~ capacity Of 100000 cubic yards,
and these will be fioated into the cut
as soon as the dixie is destroyed.
Meanwhile, not content with digging
away at the base of the cliffs, the en-
gineers. in their haste to open up the
waterway, have begun to tear away
the top of the hills with great jets of
water under high pressure. sluicing the
earth into the bed of the canal, whence
1t is being swept up by pneumatic
dredges and pumps and discharged
into ravines and valleys so far away
that it can never wash back.
The status of the canal work, accord
ing to the understanding among Off
Gals here, on the basis of the reports
from the isthmus. is as follows:
June q, l9l3.-The last gate of Gatun
splllway was closed. and since that time
Gatun lake has been steadily rising
through the impounding of water from
the ChagreS river and other streams.
oralnlng 1870 square miles Of territory.
Oct. l, 1913-The water in Gatun lake Is
expected to reach seventy-one feet above
sea level
Oct. 10. 1g3.-The great Gamboa dixie,
which keeps the water Of Gatun lake from
moving Into Culebra cut during dredging
operations. Is to be blown up with dyna-
mite and water admitted into the cut.
The top Of this dixie is 1872 feet above sea
level
Dec. l, 19l3.-The level of the water in
Gatun lake and Culebra cut Is expected
to reach its final limit Of eighty-flve feet
above sea level
December, 1913.-vessels drawing prob
ably twenty to twenty-five feet of water
may be put through the canal, while giant
oredges will be completing the deepening
OF the submerged channel through Guile
bra cut
Jan. l, 1915.-The canal will be ready for
ships Of the navies of the world to pass
through both sets of locks, and vessels
VIII be able to use the canal to its full
oeptn. going in opposite directions at the
same time
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-08-29
LIFTS TUG OUT OF SEA.

Defiance Endangered by Eighty Foo,
Whale, Captain Smith Says.
Baltimore.-Captain l.. NJ. Smith OF
the sea going tug Defiance reported
that when between Cape Henry and
False cape, off the Virginia coast, an
eighty foot whale lifted the tug, which
dropped with plunge and terrific
roll. Mate Rose had difficulty in steady.
Ing the vessel.
Immediately afterward the whale
arose alongside and sent forth a
stream of water which deluged the
Defiance. 1t followed the tug about
a half mile.
At one time the whale lifted itself
almost twO-thirds out of the water, he
said. The captain. who is an old tar
says it was the largest whale he has
ever seen.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-08-29
lNVENTS TIPPING SYSTEM.
Opens Bank Account For Waitress
Oenasifa EollnNu Gaad SarNicA

Opens Bank Account For Waitress.
Deposits Follow Good Service.
st Louis.-Lee Moser, a banker, has
convinced himself that he has worked
nut the ideal tipping system.
MP. Moser. who is young and good
-ooklng. thought he was so well taken
care OF by young woman who waited
on MIN in his favorite lunch room that
ne obtained her name and went to the
savings department of a trust COM
pany and opened dollar account in
her name. He kept patronizing the
cafe. and none but the girl with the
savings account could wait on him.
lie never affronts her with a tip, but
"hen he feels that the service is es-
peclally good a deposit goes to the
credit Of the waitress.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-08-29
CANAL TO Be USED
next DECEMBER
final Completion Expected
Jan. I, 1915, However.
oREDeEs IN CULEBRA CUT.
e...r shoveIs Displaced by Thirty
sour Modern Appliances With a
Mon.hIy Excavatins Capacity Of
100000 Cubic Yards.

Washington.-All reports from the
ponoma canal zone indicate that Colo
no, George W. Goethals will be ready
70 allow shallow draft ships to pass
through the canal by next December.
This has been the understanding ever
since Colonel Goethals testified before
the house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce in December, 1911,
but he and his associates do not expect
the canal to be ready for the navies
Of the world until Jan. l, 1915. No
official time has been fixed for the &C.
tual opening, but that is the date when
Colonel Goethals expects to complete
the work.
Dredges are to replace steam shovels
in the excavation of the Culebra Cut.
The thirty-four steam shovels used in
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-08-29

Seventy year old Convict Back In Jail.
Mobile. Ala.-William Kennedy, sew
enty years old. the convict who es-
caped from the Wetumpka peniten-
tiary. was captured after two weeks
of freedom in Calhoun county near
his old home Kennedy was serving
a life sentence for Implication In the
Kennedy Pearce feud. In which twelve
people were killed.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-08-29
WOMAN, A LAND AGENT.
Mrs. Caukin's Political Activity u
California Rewarded.

Mrs. Caukin's Political Activity In
California Rewarded.
San FranciscO.-Witht the aff1xing of
President Wilson's signature, Mrs.
Grace Caukin of SOnoma, CAL. will
receive a $4,000 Democratic plum and
at the same time become the first wO-
man land agent in the United States.
Mrs Caukin. who was an active
member of the wOmen's committee OF
the Democratic state central commit
tee during the last presidential cam
paign. has received word from Wash
ilgton that the appointment has been
confirmed by the senate.
The position which she will receive
is held at present by John ]. Dean,
and the official title is receiver of the
United States land office.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-08-29
Smothered to Death In Bed.

Middletown. y. Y.-Miss Martha Fail
of New York city. patient at the
state hospital here. was smothered to
death in the pillows Of her bed. She
was subject to epileptic fits and in
convulsion buried her head in the pill
lows.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-01
CRAWLS MILE
THROUGH SEWER. ESCAPES

LEAVENWOETH KANS- April l.
CLYDE Slraltou. serving d nve-vear
sentence iu the Federal Prison at Fort
LeayenworJh for rhe robbery Of the
IcCopl 'iudb pestoIfi.e. escaped 10y
arawliuE "a mile through THE prison
sewer
F" ar.-r prisoners vino made rna
attempt with ~tIaltuG were captured.
Tines w--. overcome ar s.-..f- ans
sr5 --fr t.rf---.. ...rr unconscious
Evening star., 1913-12-03

Francis W. Clements, assistant attor-
ney, Interior Department. has resigned
to engage in the practice of law In this
city. Mr.. Clements is native of Wash
ington. He attended the public schools
and graduated from the then newly Or
ganized high school with the class OF
1s7S-SO. He entered upon the study OF
law in the National University Law
School, receiving degrees as bachelor
and master of law from that institution
and was admitted to the bar in 1854. IL
August. 1880. he received an appoint
ment as tallyist in the census of that
year He was promoted and, upon the
completion of the census, was in April
1855, transferred to the general land
office. where he was employed in differ
ent capacities until in 1891 he was trans
ferred to the Office of the assistant at
torney general of the Interior Depart
ment, where he has since served, having
been appointed to the position of first as
sistant attorney in 1907.
Evening star., 1913-12-03
FLOODS IN TEXAS RIVERS;
EAST WACO UNDER WATER
Railroads Tied Up, Cattle Drowned,
But No Loss of Human Life
Reported.

WACO, Tex. December :;.-Water ten
feet deep flowed through the principal
streets of East Waco today. while the
Brazos river flood passed all previous
stages and continued TO rise The East
Waco section began flooding last night
when a. levee gave way. There was no
life loss.
DALLAS Tex. December :;.-Swollen
by heavy rains. creeks and rivers reached
a dangerous stage today in central Texas.
much of west Texas and south Oklahoma.
Waco was the only city of consequence
in serious Hood trouble. but Dallas eN-
pected rise in Trinity river.
The flood had receded at Austin and
Fort Worth. Interurban trolley service
was stopped by numerous washouts i'll
north Texas. On the Denver and Rio
Grande. international and Great North
ern and the Houston and Texas Central
lines train service was interrupted. Near
Cleburne many cattle were drowned.
Evening star., 1913-12-03
NEW OFFICERS IN CHARGE.
County Commissioners and Others
Qualify in Prince Georges County.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, December 3, 1913
Democratic election officials chosen last
month took the oath of office here yester-
day and entered upon the discharge of
their duties. George w Hardy of Sur
rats district, who was elected sheriff,
gave bond In the sum of $4,000. He will
serve for two years. He appointed Otho
S. Pumphrey of Spauldings district to be
chief deputy. Mr.. Pumphrey gave bond
In the sum of 5000.
George P. Hickey OF Hyattsviile dis
trict, register of wills. gave bond in the
sum of $1,000. He serves for six years
He will retain Deputy Suit temporarily.
George A. GUIDE of Chillum and Jackson
A. Smith of Kent district were sworn III
as county commissioners. No bond Is
| required of them. The board of county
! commissioners organized late this after
| noon, DIR. Harry Nj. Bowen of Aquasco
/ district being elected president and Henry
| St l.. Briscoe of Brandywine clerk. The
other officers to be appointed by the
board will be named next May.
Evening star., 1913-12-03
Early School Life for Child Urged.

That strong and sure foundations on
which all vocational work must rest
should be begun early in school life was
the assertion Of DR.. c. H. Lane Of the di-
vision of education. Department of Agri-
culture, in an address at a meeting of
the Home Economics Association held at
the Public Library last evening. The
child is social and biological creature
as well as an animal that can learn,
said DR.. Lane. therefore all his interests.
powers and instincts should be utilized
in the process Of education.
Evening star., 1913-12-03
Runaway Restored to His Parents

Donald Underwood Emmert. eighteen
years old, a resident of Martinsburg, W.
Va. was arrested yesterday afternoon
by Detectives Hewlett and Vermlllion on
suspicion of being a runaway boy from
Philadelphia. Emmert was in custody
some time before he told the detectives
that he had run away from home. He
was restored to his parents today.
Evening star., 1913-12-03
TELLS HOW TO GET
AID OF CONGRESS
Secretary RedfieId's Advice
Regarding Legislation Gov
ering Needs of District.
SUGGESTION OF METHODS
TO INSURE RECOGNITION
Address at Annual Meeting of As
sociated Charities
Speakers Heard.

After telling, from the congressional
viewpoint. the difficulties experienced
by congressman in ruling the District.
Secretary Redfield of the Department
of Commerce, at the annual meeting of
the Associated Charities at Rauscher's g
last night, told those present the
methods to use in placing their wants
before Congress. Commissioner Oliver
+. Newman and Mrs. Archibald Hop
kins. chairman of the District of Co
lumbia section. womans department,
National Civic Federation, also spoke.
The meeting was called to order by
corcoran Thorn. president of the AS
sociated Charities, who outlined the
work that is being done by the organi-
zation, and declared that there now
was no criticism of the payment of
salaries to those who are doing the
work. Walter S. Ufford, secretary Of the
organization, told of it's needs, of the
work 1T was doing, and declared that
instead of 5000 contributors, as at
present. the organization should have
5000. and instead of eight women to do
said there should be one attendance
officer in each school division, and a
school nurse. This city is very back
ward in promoting hygiene, he added
but better things are coming. The Pres
ident, his wife and his family he said,
are back of the organization, the
churches and other philanthropic or
ganizations are helping and the slogan
should be Cooperation"
Evening star., 1913-12-03

ton numbered 1854. or IS per cent Of
the total.
The central states. Ohio. Indiana, HI
nois Michigan. Wisconsin and West Fr-
ginia came next with 1,52l. or Il pei
cent. and in order came the far western
states. Colorado. Utah, Idaho. Montana,
Washington, Oregon and California, with
], ,l79. or l6 per cent. the middle western
states. Minnesota. Iowa. Missouri, North
Dakota. South Dakota Nebraska anu
Kansas. with az. or 10 per cent and
finally the New England district with eN
enlistments, or Sis per cent
Evening star., 1913-12-03

disease, and that the idea of having
the proposed asylum near the Wash
ington Asylum Hospital had been re-
placed by one placing it on the grounds
OF the Tuberculosis Hospital and hav-
ing it run in connection with that in
stitntion.,
conference Tuesday evening in regard
to the creation of a recreation board
in the District for all Fairgrounds was
reported by the associations president.
william III. Saunders. and the plans in
dorSed
Evening star., 1913-12-03

Office declared Senator Gallinger. land
would make bribery an easy weapon. AS
a progressive conservative. l express my
sincerest hopes that no such law will be
enacted"
Opposes Obliteration Of State Lines.
Il do not believe in obliterating state
lines" declared Senator Sherman OF
Illinois, las this plan for presidential
primaries would do. The fathers did not
create this government pure democ-
racy, as this proposed law would make
it. but a proper union of states, ! be-
lieve that my democratic colleagues
will Join me in opposing it
Senator sherman discussed at length
a bill offered by himself which he de,
clared would be happy medium, and
would prevent the national committees
of the two parties from practically
making up the national conventions.
"If this plan of the Presidents is
adopted along with other such plans IS
the initiative and referendum. the
country will go to the everlastin bow
vows shouted Senator Sherman.
Evening star., 1913-12-03
LEAD IN THE ENLISTMENTS.
Middle Eastern States and the Dis
trict Supplying Navy Recruits.

The middle eastern states-New York.
Pennsylvania, Maryland. Delaware-and
the District of Columbia, contributed
more recruits to the navy in the last five
months than any other section of ahe
country. The enlistments from that sec
Evening star., 1913-12-03
Annual Report Read.

The annual report of the organiz.,;or
asks for better equipped Juvenile Cour,
and indorses the statement of Judge rati-
ncr that the prime need OF the c,,,r, -
more probation officers. The inadem,.c.
of the present child labor and school a.
tendance laws are pointed ont and -,
difficulties IN the enforcement az ,ia
present school attendance laws arc aI,ua.
cd to. attention being especially calI.a =,
the fact that there are but three schoo
attendance officers for over et9uy childrc.,
eligible for the schools. Need is also -
pressed for more nurses for tuberculosis
case and more visitors for the board =
children'S qua ardians.
Attention Is also called 10 tn, iro.nt
need u some provision for the feeble
minded
a st1dy of the immediate causes -,
distress which bring families 10 the Asso.
ciated Ch5ities is sufficient 10 show how
Evening star., 1913-12-03
District Man for Recorder.

George c. Gertman, secretary of the
association, presented a resolution recon-
mending to Congress that the existing
law be so changed that following the ex-
piration Of the term of the present re-
corder of deeds the appointment shall be
made by the District Commissioners. and
that no person be appointed who has not
been a resident of the District for three
successive years.
The committee on public health in Its
report deplored the recent wave of bi-
chloride of mercury poisoning and recon-
mended that the sale Of poisonous drugs
be legally restricted and that newspapers
in dealing with cases of self administered
poisons should be ultra-circumspect. Ac-
ton on the report was postponed.
When Dr. j. K p Gleason reported
that the Commissioners in their esti-
mates had recommended that Congress
apprpriate $4,000 for an inebriate asy-
lum for the District. following the eff
forts of special committee Of the
association, Of which he is the chair
man, much enthusiasm was shown.
Treatment as a Disease.
Inebriates, he said. will be treated al
this asylum as people suffering from q
Evening star., 1913-12-03
Commissioners Newman Hopeful.

Commissioner Newman declared that he
came to the meeting to learn and not to
teach. lie said he felt encouraged to be-
Heve that the District was going to see
enacted large portion of the projects
Tor which those interested in the welfare
OF the city have been striving. He said
ne had talked to members of Congress
and he felt confident that the District
was going to see some substantial prog
ress In getting through the projects
Wlthin Few days. he said, he expected
that the Dill for eliminating alley habi-
tations would be completed and would be
sent to Congress.
AS commissioner he said, he had a
Keen appreciation of what Secretary Red
neid had said about the difficulties fac
ing the city from governmental point
oi view We must find out what the
people want and ] want to say that I
snail try 10 find out what such orcani-
.a.lons ~ as this want. and will try to in
terpret those desires to Congress to the
eno that the people of the District will
get what they want and what they ought
to have"
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins traced ,he sapi
tafy history OF the District from times
before the civil war until the present day
and told of the campaign to eliminate the
inhabited alleys OF the city We are 90
ing To keep fighting against the alleys
until there Is not an alley in the District
me alleys nave got to die The speak
er told or IN" vital need OF AN inebriate
asylum and the indeterninate sentence
Resolutions of thanks to the speakers
To the press OF the city for it's s,,nnort
during the year and 10 the owner ~ tha
hall where the meeting was be,d ls,
night were adopted
Evening star., 1913-12-03
Receipts and Expenditures.

John Joy Edison presented his report as
treasurer.
The report shows that the total amount
expended during the year in relief work
was SIS, 222S4. The total receipts for all
departments for the year ended Septem-
ber 20, 1918. were S49.5I103
The following officers We're elected for
the ensuing year: President, Corcoran
Thorn: vice presidents. Hennen Jennings
Rev. Roland Cotton Smith. Mgr William
/. Russell and /. l.. Blout; members OF
the board of managers for the term ex-
pirinS November, 1916. Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, Mrs. Gist Blair. Miss Mabel I.
Boardman. j. Philip Hermann. Prof. E.
T. Janney, Dr. William C. Rives Commits
sioner Frederick l.. Siddons Dr. Willard
:. Small George s. Wilson and $ W
Woodward