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ILL TRAINING SEEN Number and Inadequateness of Medical Schools Scored. EDUCATOR IS SCATHING Kleiner's Report to Carnegie Foun dation for Advancement of Teach ing Suggests Many Reforms Needed in America. NEW YORK, June 6. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching- issued yesterday a most sig nificant report on medical -education In the United States and Canada. The report was prepared by Abraham Flex ner and contains an Introductory state ment by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, presi dent of the Carnegie Foundation. The significant facts which the re port proves are, in President Prit rhett's Judgment, the following: (1) There has been for a quarter of a century past an enormous over-production of ill-trained doctors; (2) this over-supply of ill-trained men is to be ascribed to the existence of Inde pendent or proprietary schools, com mercially managed and dependent on fees for support; (3) the cheap quality of most of the instruction furnished by medical schools; (4) the fallacy of the Idea that these ineffective schools are justified by the argument that they enable poor boys to get a chance in the medical profession; (5) the necessity for a complete revision of the arrange ments that now hold as between med ical schools and the hospitals in which their clinical Instruction is given. Investigation Is Personal. The report that follows is based on a personal investigation of every medical school In the United States and Canada by its author, Mr. Flexner. Mr. Flexner Is a teacher, not a medical man. He was for many years engaged In sec ondary school teaching in Louisville, subsequently spending several years in this country and abroad In the study of educational problems and in stitutions. The report undertakes to set forth that the country is supporting three or four times as many doctors as It requires, mostly trained In In ferior schools; that our medical schools are still producing between two and three times as many as can be assimilated; that Instead of the 155 chools now existing one-fifth of th number, properly supported and dis tributed, can produce all the physicians required, much better trained than they can now be. Science Training Needed. It is demonstrated that a preliminary traintng in science Is a necessary pre requisite to modern medical training at its best. Nevertheless, In some states, notably Pennsylvania, Illinois. Missouri, California, etc., many medical schools do not require even a high school education. In the South. secondary schools and colleges are' more backward. For though all pretend to enforce a defi nite entrance requirement, scarcely more than 30 of the 155 do so. The teaching facilities are next sur veyed by the author from the same point of view. It develops that out of 155 medical schools only some 30-odd are now fairly equipped with the necessary laboratories, which all claim to possess: fewer than 30 enjoy ac ceptable hospital facilities. Only about a dozen medical schools have the clinical facilities that they need. Schools are found whose graduates go forth without any practical knowledge of ordinary acute diseases or of obstetrics. Some decidedly pretentious Institutions are named which are conducted on the entirely mistaken notion that an abund ance of surgical operations which the stu dent watches at lonff range is a substitute for a close knowledge of medical cases. The Carnegie Foundation in this report takes the position that the training of physicians is not a business; it Is a vital social function. Superfluous schools, op erated directly or indirectly for profit, should be closed; the others should be generously supported. $300,000 DEAL RUMORED 'Spokane Men Said to Control Oregon Coal & Navigation Company. MARSH FIELD, Or., June 6. (Special.) It is reported again that the property of the Oregon Coal & Navigation Com pany, has been sold to Spokane men. Similar reports have been circulated at different times but It is said that the deal this time has been practically closed. The property consists of the steamer M. F. Plant, which plies between this place and San Francisco, the Libby coal mine near this city, and about 3500 acres of valuable land which adjoins Marshfield on the south. The land Includes what would be the only tract of any great ex tent In the city which would be suitable for a railway terminal and it is sus pected that the purchase Is being made for a railway which may intend coming to Coos Bay. The property is valued at about $300,000. MAN RUN DOWN BY TRAIN T. J. Smith, of Hammond, Seriously Injured at Fort Stevens. FORT STEVENS, Or., June . T. J. Smith, of Hammond, was run down by a passenger train backing out of the sta tion tonight at 11:06. and may be fatally injured. His collar bone was broken, his shoulder was dislocated and he received internal- injuries, the result of which could not be determined at the hospital tonight. Smith was picked up by the crew of the train which ran him down. It to supposed he was on his way home and did not hear the train coming. A few was run down and killed In e similar months ago a woman named Krickson manner, near the same place. Smith is 3S years old and single. 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Men From Fort Are Paraded Before VTictim but She Cannot Pick Out One She Would Recognize. SEATTLE, Wash.,. June . Since the attack on Mrs. J. W. Redding, the woman who made her home near Fort Lawton, by an alleged negro soldier Saturday, feeling in the neighborhood Is running high against the negroes. A mass meet ing has been called for tomorrow night, at which It is expected some action will be taken. A movement has already been started to petition Congress to order the removal of the Brownsville battalion from Fort Lawton. This Is as a result of Mrs. Red ding's positive assertion that the man who attacked her wore a. soldier's uni form. So far neither the Seattle police nor the military authorities at Fort Law ton have been able to discover the Identity of the negro who made the attack. Although the Army officers believe the man was not a soldier, they are carefully Investigating the acts of all the men who were absent from the post at the time of the disturbance. Today a number of the negro sol diers at the fort were paraded before Mrs. Redding, but she was unable to Identify anv of them as her assailant-Lieutenant-Colonel S. W. Miller, commanding the Twenty-fifth Infantry, informed the Associated Press tonight that a soldier who Is under suspicion in connection with the attack is con fined In the guardhouse pending fur ther investigation. Colonel Miller said this man was taken before Mrs. Red ding and her two daughters three tiroes today, and that they were un able to identify him as the man who made the attack. The officers at the post are making every effort to apprehend the culprit and will continue the investigation until the man is caught or until all are satisfied that he was- not a soldier. It was Impossible to parade all the soldiers before Mrs. Redding today, for It was necessary to send the battalion to serve as an escort of honor at the fu neral of Major John S- Kulp this after noon. However, the Inspection will be continued tomorrow and Mrs. Redding will have an opportunity to scrutinize every face in the battalion In an effort to pick out her assailant. KELLNER SLAYER CAUGHT? Man Answering; Janitor's Descrip tion Arrested at Bowling Green. LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 6. Dis patches from Bowling Green. Ky., tell of the arreBt there yesterday of a man who answers to the description of Jo seph Wendllng, wanted for the -murder of Alma Kellner. The police declare the man while drunk talked Incoherently of having blood on his hands. NORTHERN PACIFIC BUILDS All Tncertainty Removed by Call lor New Bids. TACOMA. Wash.. June S- (Special.) Rejecting all bids submitted for the construction of the Point Defiance line from Tacoma to Tenino, the Northern Pacific Railway tomorrow will call for a net set of proposals. .Henry C Nutt, fourth, vice-president Its beneficial effect is instantaneous. 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Darling, chief engineer, I am not informed as to particulars fur ther than the fact that all bids have been refused and a new set called." With this announcement the uncertain ty which has been prevalent during the past few weeks is removed. It is certain that the work will be undertaken thte season. The Northern Pacific has al ready secured the money for the con struction of this line so the delay is not a part of any programme to curtail con struction. VANDERBILT TO WED MILLIONAIRE CHARMED BY "GUARDSMAN'S GODDESS." Rumors From Abroad. Say American Is Anxious to Claim Musical Comedy Star as Bride. NEW YORK, June 6. From London come rumors that "The Guardsman's Goddess" and Alfred G. "Vanderbilt are to be wedded soon. "The Guardsman's Goddess" is Miss Lilly Elsie, who is a singer and actress in George Edwardes" musical comedy company in London. She has been on the stage over there for several years and Is now in the full flower of her loveliness. By many she is considered the most beautiful woman in all Eng land. Night after night, it is said. Mr. Van derbilt may be seen in the theater where she appears. He does not attempt to hide his admiration and the story goes that he has showered upon her every thing that his great wealth can pur chase and that he has now offered the crowning proof of his devotion and is urging her to marry him. He keeps her room embowered with the costliest of blossoms. Almost every day she shows her callers some new and superlatively lovely and expensive gift that has been presented to her by the American millionaire. The jewels that he has lavished on her are said to have cost a fortune. GERMS INJECTED TO KILL Russian Doctor Confesses Using Cholera to Murder. ST. PETERSBURG. June 6. (Spe cial.) Dr. Patschenko. who with Count Delyassy waa arrested here about a week ago on suspicion of poisoning Count Bouturlin, heir of a fortune of $3,500,000, has confessed that he killed Count Bouturlin by injecting cholera germs into his system. The police say he also confessed to a series of identical crimes, his vic tims being wealthy persons. During the last cholera epidemic he pretended to inoculate them to prevent - them from contracting the disease. He re ceived $250,000 In each case from the victim's heirs. Dr. Patschenko. is nearly 70 years old. The Count Bouturlin was only 26. He was a son of General Bouturlin and belonged to one of the oldest and wealthiest families In Russia. Count Delyassy, Dr. Patschenko's alleged in stigator, protest his innocence. J REBEL NEWS WORRIES MADRIZ DENIES REPORT OF INSURGENT VICTORIES. Nicaraguan Government in Effort to Crush Revolution Is Redoubling Recruiting Activities. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 6. Re ports of alleged Insurgent victories at Blueflelds and Rama have been filter ing into Managua, and these coupled with the movements of the Nicaraguan forces under General Lara, Godoye and Chacarrias, have occasioned some temporary alarm among adherents of the government. President Madriz today Issued an of ficial denial of these reports, at the same time intimating that if the gov ernment had only the two insurgents to deal with it would have crushed the revolution long ago. In accordance with a determination recently expressed to put down the revolutionary movement. President Madriz has issued orders looking to the recruiting of soldiers in all the western provinces and thus work Is being pushed, forward with the utmost energy with the intention of sending reinforcements to the troops- now at the front. PITT3IAN'S FAMILY RELIEVED State Department Assures Them He Will not Be Court-Martialed. CAMBRIDGE. Mass., June 6. "My mother's anxiety has been relieved by the dispatch received tonight from Act ing Secretary of State Wilson, assuring us that my brother, William P. Plttman, will not be court-martialed in Nicaragua and we hope for fair treatment to be ac corded him," said Edwin F. Plttman here tonight. One of William P. Pittman's last let ters home said he had been offered a position with the rank of Colonel in Gen eral Estrada's army. MADRIZ READY FOR MEDIATION Renewed Proposal of Estrada Finds More Favor. BLUEFIELDS. NIC, June . General Estrada, leader of the provisional gov ernment, has repeated the offer that he made last March to Madriz looking to the establishment of peace. The conditions of his proposal provide for the friendly mediation of the United States, that country to designate the iNicaraguan whom It considers most fit to occupy the presidency provisionally, neither Dr. Madriz nor General Estrada being eligible; the provisional president to convoke elections for a constitutional president. It is believed that Madriz will consider the proposals seriously. MISS MORGAN OBSERVER Daughter of Financier Mingles AVith Aqueduct Laborers. NEW YORK, June S. To see with her own eyes the conditions under which the men who are building the Catskill aque duct to New York City ere working. Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of J. P. Morgan, went 500 feet below the surface of Rondout Valley yesterday and talked for hours with gangs of Italians and negroes. 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