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Counting Esquimo Noses a Serious Undertaking" for the Census Bureau
T1IE OMAITA SUNDAY BKE: DECEMHKTl 3.
TI M AT I7 of ihe imnula'lnn end
V I t the mmns enumeration
j I of Alaska rave her, submitted
to 1 nlle.1 iatr. Census ptr
ior Pit-and by W C. Hunt,
chief statistician for population
we.v h rl,r-rt rhirir of tn. ,(,. The
iMiH uf li, cost, i ii -r,,,.id nnmlwu.
".!.. ami l. on t a i.iia: ix.nuaiion of
I' '"ilmn'f I Hum i imm
erunii t a, ion will it .de-ahiv less
i'-an the ahm f ignr. . - ;hat the n-'Pi-i.ti
mav n..i h- .i lorgc. This latter
f l d e to c iih.'i (. ili.ir conditions
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i --inn -i ,n :i . w .,-! the present
"""'rnl.c'i v t h- a en under mfirn
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'--, , f tit" r-nii!:!"! n t ion is to be re
' Ti : lay., instead of April 15. V1.
' ' It lar.er Itt the date b-1nnln the
Ti.tl rntimerniion nf tit" United Statei.
'-i-l-i ltn: he-n divith d Into four dlr
' cf: f r een mr; w the fl-t b1nir
"'ttr-t of Clilf . 'a Agent Andrew
Tlurr '-mm. .id'iunrter it .Tune-ail.
' -i ;..i".Tr tprriul agents under
:: tl" second district will ho controlled
! ' !.! f Special 'n. .Joseph H. Ttemis;,
It ariquat tt at reward, with twenty spe
agents nsstin:; him: the third. Chief
-erinl Ai'-nt William T. Lopp, headquar
ters, at Noma with thirteen special agents
inder his orders ami the fourth. Chief Spe
ri.il Agent William V. McKenrJe. stationed
at Fairbarki. wltr twesrty special agent a
detailed to hia chaiga.
With the exception of Mr. VcKenaia. tho
other chief special mints a,re represent a
tlvta of the United State Bureau of Edu
cation and are tha school superintendents
of their reepectlva districts. They havat
spent many yean studying- tha paople and
conditions In Alaska. Mr. McKanmia haa
b-cn In th employ of the Census bureau
:i number of years and Is an expert on
Alaskan matters. In addition to thse, tha
services of the school teacher and of
otlteis In the territory connected with the
rorau of Education will be larylv util
ized In the actual work of enumeration,
and .when this Is not practicable, others
equally familiar with the conditions wilt
be selected.
Director Durand believes that co-operation
on tha part of the Bureau of Educa
tion In permitting; its representatives to
serve In tha census work, together with
tho advanced data of enumeration, Decem
ber B, next, will result In a very thorough
cenaus of Alaska.
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E.SQUIMO WOMEN ON
Tha last census there was taken aa of
June I, 190, but It wna necessary to nd
enumerators Intn soma parts of Alaska as
early aa the middle of July. H, and It
was not until nearly the end of October.
1900, that their work was completed.
It la expected that the coming- enumera
tion 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 Im
portant exceptions regard I na; the time of
enumeration In order to meet radical varia
tions In the conditions in certain of the
principal census districts. In the second
district. Chief 8pecial Agent Romig points
out In a report to the director, that there
are between 9.000 and 10.000 persona who
would be mlBaed by a winter enumeration.
These persona 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. Aa a consequence, they would be
missed In the census of April 15 in the
states. Besidts, they make their llrlng In
Alaska and should bo counted there, it Is
held.
BOARD THB BEAR.
Accordingly. Dr. 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 Prtbllof lsuands, and other Inac
cenaible 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 la
a most serious one and would Involve the
hiring of a steamer, if one could be ob
tained, which is doubtful. Knowing, how
ever, that the revenue service annually
sends a vessel to cruise in Alaskan waters,
the secretary of the treasury n appealed
to and he has given hia 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. It 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 achedula agrees
In general with that to be used for the
enumeration In the United States, except
that the former has an additional coiumn
E?QUlMOS IN WALRUS SKIN BOATS
ESQUIMO FA MIL. Y AT POINT BARROW.
for the statement of the tribe and clan of
the native population.
In his report to the bureau relative to
conditions In his district aa he found them
last September. Chief Special Agent Mc
Kenxie 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 well-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. McKeniie slated that winter
conditlona are more favorable In hla dis
trict for mining operations and for travel
than In the summer. He has been besieged
by men seeking appointment. Hia plan Is
U have local men deslxr.ated 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 1ft latt. slated:
Most of the native people are at home
In the home villages during the winter
months, November. December. January and
February, and practlca ly all are at home
during Christmas week, that being their
great week of festivities. During the fall
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 flBhlng 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 Ihelr own account."
Mr. Thompson goes on to state Unit he
believes it safe to say that a typical In
dian village of 300 people is scattered lit
fifty different places during the summer
months, and that It would be a hard task
and an expensive one to locate the In
dians In the woods, on the waters and in
the temporary camps, especially In a
country like southeastern Alaska. He points
out that, by using the services of school
teachers during the Christmas vacation,
tho cost of enumerating the native popu
lation will be very nominal and about
one-fifth of what It would cost in the
summer, and. at the same time, it will be
more nearly correct.
Mr. Thompson says further tha; the con
ditions he mentioned concerning the na
tives apply, to a less pronounced entent
to the white population also, and he be
lieves, therefore, that the enumeration in
the mid-winter will b comparatively sim
ple. He says, however, that "there is one
objection to a cenaus In January and that
is. that a number of regular residents go
out to the states for the Christmas holi
days and do not re-tirn again Until towards
spring, and also that this year a few who
are outside, because of the extra attraction
of the exposition will remain outsidu until
spring. This objection, however, can be
obviated by making careful Inquiry for ail
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. It
should be said that the work here will ha
done largely by such men who know prac
tically everybody in their districts, and
also to where they are."
The waters In Mr. Thompson's district
are open the year around and such of his
enumerators aa might be required to travel
would, he says, charter gasoline boats, at
about J0 per day. the average price.
No attempt was made bv the United
Slates government to enumerate the people
of Alaska at the decennial census of 1870,
three years after the purchase of the ter
ritory from Russta. The necessarily In
complete one taken in IS disclosed a
population of i3.4JS. The census In lvf
showed a total of 02.0fC The twelfth cen
sus returns were SS."!2. ruring the decade
ending In 1!XI. the p.niiilation nearly
doubled. Of this nuiii ter 3.1.1 were na
tive Indians and iil.TOP native whites. There
were 45.ST2 malee. 17.70 females. &0.9S1 na
tive bom. 12.S'1 foreign born. .10.493 whites,
of which 17.4P4 were natives whites with
native parents. 4.215 native whites with
foreign parents and 8.7M whites. The total
colored was XI, 09. of which lft8 were ne
groes. 3. 11C Chinese, 79 Japanese and D.i'l
Indians.
PAIADINO NOT UP TO DATE
Magicians Say She Has Lost One Great
Opportunity.
EXP EST OPEJION OS "MEDIUM"
Keats mt Spooks Met l to Mtaatdard
of rontsnerrlol Maalc Table Tilt
ing; aael Legerdemain that
ts Really Great.
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NEW YORK. Dec. 4. If you want to
know Just what the magicians think of
Kusapla Palad.no you ought to drop around
to their headquarters on Sixth avenue.
Once a month the club, known as the So
ciety of American Magicians, meets in a
hull at the back of the small shop In which
Is sold everything In the way of conjuring.
A grinning skull greets you from Its posi
tion on a counter and along tha walla are
framed autographs of Herrman. Houdlnl
and other masters of the art, with souve
nirs of their triumphs.
Herrman was onoe himself an officer of
the society, and today It boasts a vary dis
tinguished membership Kellar, the dean
of magicians; Dr. Sargent, an ex-prsldent ,
Carter, who Is described as the oomlng
magician, for though one of tha youngest
members, ha haa already shown great
promise as an Inventor; Downs, Thurston,
Leon Herrman. nephew of the great Herr
man; Carl Oermalne. inventor and ma
gician, who haa. It Is sadly acknowledged,
left the profession for one "he mlatakabiy
considers more practical, that of law;"
Elmer Ransom, known aa Uia maginlan for
the Four Hundred, who went to tho White
House to entertain Ruth Cleveland and
her little friends and who, aa ha expresses
It. "used to make the eyes of Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney start from bar head whan
( waa a little one. and Is now doing the
same tricks for her children. Than there
in Matlnka. the proprietor, who haa delved
In maglo properties for some twenty-four
years a Uta same place.
Talk. Petes Proprietor.
It waa to this shop that one of the
Paladlne entourage went to buy luminous
paint soma time t f ore the medium's ar
rival. Tha purchase was recently admitted.
Mr. Matlnka was quite pettish about this
avowal and said frankly that there was
no earthly reason why Mrs. Here ward
t.'arrtngton or her husband should have
spoken of the matter at all.
"We certainly wouldn't," he said. "Oh.
yes. of course, they had a plausible reason
for buying it. Mediums always have a
liliiisible reason for buying luminous
pulnt ar.d other conjuring apparatus."
It is the pievailiug opinion among the
t'lumeijus that Paladinu has too many
timple about her who could help her and
.hit trick apparatus is too easy of acceaa.
.nt that we say she resorts to our tricks"
it r.. in an emphasiB on the "our"), "but
c do say that ao far ae have heard of
tier doing nothing that hasn't been done
by loiids of other people and that evety
member of this elub hasn't been famillttr
with for so long that he would be afraid
f Uting shut dead If as a magician he ad
vertised anything o nude and raw."
Simply in the way of supplying general
it. formation the proprietor shoves across
the table toward yuu at (hia point of the
conversation a pair of senii-cuffs lined
with chamois each uf which lerminatea in
a hook. They are show ii In action, strapped
auoiit the wrist under the real cuff and
: v their i-elp any tahle can he tilted and
it:-.-d wnh ease.
Makes Ike Table Donre.
oiu. times a magician ran attach them
!wv:n- f. ' explains the oaner; "sometime
the. V' to be put on by a onfederaia,
MHiutn.iig easily accomplished in the dark,
i.-.d om fastened a table can be lifted aa
easily as a blotter laps up Ink. Naturally
when you see the mediums s handa fiat on
i he surface of the table and the table
t..k flying leaps and tilt like a caiboat In
.1 hurricane you are inclined to believe
there must be something after all in the
theory uf departed spirits coming back ta
Hie guise of latie comrades to tip tables
!u lieu of better employment."
Mr. Kellar offered Paladiuo itr.a if she
would cuiae ta his rooms In the Hotel
vtur and give a seance there. She aa
to have any companions aha deslrad to
...ii. but eould not do any refurnishing
ui the way of cabin eta. trunka, cans of
Pctuinoue paint or anything also that
would aerioualy interfere with tha existing
... iluuicalic at rangemenia. to far lar. k.i-
MATINKA. T'UC HAi'-N T OK GOOD SPIRITS.
lat a invltatlun has not been accepted.
Dr. Ellison, treasurer of the Society of
the American Magicians, waa at the first
aeanca of Euaapta Paladino and Is re
ported by his friends to have said that
ha did not see anything that waa less
than fifty yars old, and though Invited
for the second seance he waa not enough
Interested to spend the time necessary
for witnessing further manlfestationa
One of tke Real Ones.
"Paladino, to my way of thinking"
interpolates a middle aged member of the
group, "ain't a patch to Margaret Fox.
She waa the star member of the celebrated
Fox sisters and I 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, if it had existed then, up all night
every night In the week guessing what
next . I
After she had taken In all the money
alifa saw about aa a medium, acting aa
wireless between the quick and the dead,
alia exposed her own tricks and made
a lot of money that way. As soon as peo
ple got tired of the exposure game she
became a medium attain and advertised
seances. All of her old timers came back
and believed In her Just the same.
"Like all magicians and conjurers, she
had one special trick pwullarly her own.
It Just happened timt as some people
can snap their fingers and make a loud.
piBtol-Uke report with each, ho she could
snap ncr toes. She would stand alongside
a door with her arms raised and hr hands
in full view, while Just peeping out from
her long dress the client would sea her
two allpptrs, but did not see that she
had slipped one of her feet out of Its
covering.
"Placing this foot behind her against
tha panel of the door, she could strike
with each of her toes, keeping up -j. con
tinual ripping. She fooled everybody.
Think what a sensation Paladino would
create her - if after being heralded the way
ihe haa been she could do something
novel as that trick was wUrn Margaret
Foe first essayed it..
Tousk on tke Indian Fakir.
"It Is the power of the travelers tales
and the desire of the narrator In print to
make a good story that is responsible for
tha idea, that more wonderful tricks and
Illusions are performed in India than In
any other country lu the world and that
nothing in the western world compares
with the magic of tiie east. The East
Indian conjurors when they come here
and are deprived of atmospheric effects
the peculiar native music which accom
panies their exhibitions and Uie self
yielding in advance which is the usual
attitude of the stronger thete are ludic
rous, absolutely ludicrous. In their at
tempts to compare with our magicians.
"They simply cannot du it. thit is all.
On their native heath, attired in some
strange fabric, with a tom-tom playlne.
some Incense urnlng, a crowd of wide
eyed disciples about, the whole atmos
phere of that marvelous country to draw
on as aid. an Indiaji f.iUir can come alons,
stick his three stirka in the ground, put
over them a bit of drapery, crouch over
this and p.csently disclose a flower pot.
into the earth of which he puis a seed.
"Crouching still lower he manages dex
terously to tali - a small slip of a plant
from some of the folds of his gown and
opening the drapery of his little tent again
it is found to be whre the c"d was a
moment before. Wonderful,' says the
American traveler.
"Again the fakir crouches, while the
tom-toms b.at ioudi r and the incense
fumes are thicktr. a:tii. lo ami b hold tile
plant haa grown eeial inches; The hemp
seed trick is known to every musician, but
none of the in ha. tin- temerity to luy it on
an American audienc, tor the same reason
that withholds tln-ni from other tricks
mentioned., tho fear of being shot deaU in
their tracks."
Effect of Liberty Paint.
Mr. Mantinka Interrupts the converat.on
to show some luminous paint. A small can
of the paint has been held by him In a
strong light for a f-w moments until it has
absorbed the radiance desired. In a small
room, made absolutely dark, the paint
gives a faint bluish, white l.yht like thut
of the moon shining on a cloud. It la
a shostly, weird tint and applied to the
desired surface might easily affect the
nerves of a believer at a spiritualistic
seance.
It is explained how a, filmy fabric like
liberty silk can be ouvered with this and
then concealed ill some place easy of ac
cess oy the medium.
"There was one medium," says a magi
cian, "who always kept her silk robe In the
heel of her shoe, from which It could be
takun in a moment and put on. Sometimes
it is hid in the handle of a banjo or It
can even be rolled up and tucked away
in the coiffure.
"Spirit hands are made of paper or card
board, and covered with this paint and
exposed against a black surface they will
create a wtild effect in a dark room. Of
course the one unfailing help of the spir
itualistic medium is the darkness: that she
must have."
Work Iron- tke t'akiart.
Another bit of very popular apparatus
which is shown is a slim aluminum rod.
v. Inch works on thtr principle of the laxy
l.mi,s. and can be lengthened from six
Inchi.-i to f.vc or six feet. At one end of
this rod Is a lioori ami when the medium is
carci'ully u-d in a cabinet to the satisfac
tion of the skeptics, this rod. either given
to him by a confederate or concealed lit the
cuolni-t. is used to anther whatever objects
may be within reach.
One of the magicians who in earlier
da . s w as a medium admitted that h.s
favorite tool, the rod not having been in
vented then, was a regular fish line sinker,
cover-d w ith chamois lo n nder it noiseless.
To this were attached fish hooks, and this
he could throw from the cabinet to the
stao and gather in all sorts of flotsam
and j' tsam.
"It must be realized." expla.ns one of
the group, "that no matter how closely
the medium is tied and even though the
tupea may be sealed and marked with the
Kitines of the doubting Thomuses. if he
is any kind of a contortionist, and that is
ono rtquiaitH of the medium, he can usu
ally manage to work his hands in some
way or other, if he does not happen to
have a confederate, which is usually the
vase.
De Kolta'a Fatnnas Trlek.
The proprietor disappears for a moment,
to return from some dark corner holding a
small wire birdcage, the edges bound in
stout leather and the whole encased in a
glasn covering.
"This is the famous cage used by
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TUB SPIRIT AS IT WOULD APPEAR IN THE LIGHT.
ADJUSTING TliK TABLE LIFTER.
Bustler de Ko la. nuw deceased, who by
the unanimous vote of the society was the
gratest magician who has ever been In
America." he says.
"The bird cage trick was Invented by
de Kolta. who would hold it in his hand
so that the audience cuuld sec it and the
canary inside on the perch, and while it
was being watched he would cause it to
disappear so that the empty hand was all
that met the astonished gase of people."
"Think of the excitement Paladino could
produce with something like 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
i ad one on slips nf paper, and after 'lie
slips, exactly similar In shape and size.
Where Many Thousands of Horses and Mules Are Annually Sold
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-TIIE UNION aTOCJC TAULd. SOUTH HCENK AT THE HO Rao: MARKolT AT OMJLUA.
have been shakrn In a hat, how to pick
the name nf tha dead person each time
without v effort. It Is the first lesson of
fered the amateur, snd he learns In. a
minute, paying 50 cents for the informa
tion." The Zancigs are members of the society
and their mind reading act la next (e
ferred to.
"There are at least," explains a ma
giclnn, "a hundred ways nf doing the mind
reading act: as with slate writing, every
magician has his own method. Tha
Zauclgs have one that probably requires
the greatest feat of memory or Uta most
complicated avstem of signals. Often a
so-called mind reauer. working with a
confederate, will actually memoriie ft
thousand articles, sn that when a clue Is
given the medium knows at once wbeihir
It In a handkerchief, a hat, a chair er a
table that is in question.
Maklna- tke (lamaay Hand.
"Spirit hands are verv easy to make.
Sometimes a kid glove Imuieiaed In Ice
wat-r after being stuffed with flour Is held
on the hook of the aluminum rod and when
a medium Is strapped In a chair inside a
cabinet is brushed against the faces of tha
breathless audience. That gtve a charm
ing sensation, and must convince tha must
sceptical that the loved one Is surely there.
"Occasionally 'a Biedium has hia hsuds
closely held by the hands of the Inquirer
Into psychic lore and with his teeth man
ages to take a turkey feather from Inside
his coat and with this tickles the far or
fingers of someone nearby, who Is sure to
be convinced, for, aa they truly say. -the
hands are closely held, thsra la no possi
bility of a trick being played '
"Utshop was tha beat of ail muscle read
ers, as that art is known in the profession.
His advertised mind reading waa really
done by a marvelous power of telling from
the Involuntary contraction and relaxation
of the musctes. as well as from the beat
ing of the pulse whether he waa Hearing
the hidden object. Hishop contended that
this alight change in the pulse and musclaa
was Just as absolutely beyond the control
aa was the knowledge that It existed, the
subject believing that he eslly gave no
evidence of his thought. Itrall dead wheu
tha post mortem waa performed? Certainly
not. not any mure dead than tha young
i-liap in New Jetsey who was hypnotised,
lie might have remained in that s:ale for
a week, but would have coma out af It
eventually, wa aullevo.