The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-22

| Ninety Days-Jail Break at Oklahoms
City.
l Guthrie, o. T., Aug. 21@The Oklaho-
ma City Journal has the following: Mr.
B. r Harrington, who clerks for Street
er & Blankinship, has, he claims, in
vented new and practical flying ma
chine He is an inventor and has been
studying the question Of aerial navi-
cation for thirteen years. He says that
the problem of aerial navigation is and
has been already solved by the birds.
bees and bugs that fit majestically
through the atmosphere and that we can
! just as easily construct a machine On
the same principal as that on which our
feathered friends operate to keep their
bodies in the air.. Acting upon this prin-
ciple Mr.. Harrington has invented a
machine which is in the shape Of a tri-
angle with wings which strike the air
| much in the same manner that a bird
strikes the air with its wings. The ma
| chrine has sixteen pinions and part Of
| them are at all times striking the air
and propelling the machine.
The machine win De propelled by a
bicycle pedal arrangement attached to a.
very light steel frame, or by a powerful
but light engine manufactured and pa
tented in this city and called the Nap
tina engine.
The secret of the success Of this ma
chine is in the speed of the pinions and
the manner in which they are thrown,
TO alternately catch the air and then
fold or turn sideways and cut through
|.
when flying.
The machine Mr.. Harrington Is now
working on Is twenty-four feet and six
inches dong and will weigh only about
100 pounds 1t is made with a tubular
steel frame and will be very strong,
much stronger in comparison to its
weight than a bird is in comparison to
its weight
He hopes to have his machine COM
pleted in sixty or ninety days.
PRISONERS GET OUT.
Last night all of the prisoners, three
in number, made their escape from the
Oklahoma City jail An old man by the
name Of Jim Anderson and two colored
men whose names are Blake and Steve
Brown made good their escape and are
still at large. Brown and Blake were
just put into the jail yesterday. They
broke off an arm from the iron cot and
used it to pry the brick out of the wall.
They made an opening about two feet
square near the window on the north
side of the wall and crawled out and
dropped down to the ground. distance
of about ten feet. Anderson was found
guilty several days ago and sentenced
to a number of days in the city Jail for
stealing a number of articles, enough
nearly TO start a small second hand
store. He had ten or fifteen days yet
TO serve and had served most of his time.
Brown and Blake were sentenced to
twenty-five and ninety-five days re-
spectively for stealing a pair of pants
and s13 belonging to the engineer Of the
ice plant. They have all laid them
selves liable TO the penitentiary for a
term of two years and will if caught be
sent over the road.
JUMPS HIS BOND.
The Oklahoma City Oklahoman says:
E. w. Hunter, or better known as Bill
Hunter, has jumped his bond and has
hied himself to pastures new.
He is under indictment for obtaining
money under false pretenses from Win
ow Brown. in which case he was asso-
ciated with the notorious ]. c. Dean.
ne was indicted for subordination of per-
jury and was put in JAN, failing to give
bond. Monday morning the bond was
approved and Hunter was released |
He left Immediately and has not been |
heard from since. c. +. Jones was his |
principal bondsman.
1t now develops that Hunter was i'm |
plicated in some shady horse deals that |
would have landed him in the peniten- /
tiary forgong terms had the information |
turned I'D a day or so sooner.
Some time ago Hunter, having his |
horses mortgaged, run them out of the
At the same time a bunch of
ten horses were stolen from farmer liv-
nb ten miles west of FL Reno, and it is
claimed by the officers that the ten
horses were driven off with the Hunter
herd.
WHERE WILL 1T STRIKE.
The Manchester Journal has the fol-
lowing: The Hutchinson and Southern
train arrived yesterday
Wednesday, noon with an outfit of forty
men and have gone TO work grading for
he extension OF the road southeast from
The grade stakes have been set
through to Wakita and 1t will not take
many days 10 get the road bed ready
hat far 1t is not definitely known yet
whether the road viii go to Medford or
North Pond Creek, but 1t IS sure to
,trike the Rock Island at one of these
.wo points. North Pond Creek seems
o have decidedly the best OF the situa-
ion for securing the road SO far as wa
er, location, Tight-of-way and an uot-
ct for getting out of the town is con-
but the Medford people are
working like beavers and are not going
% let the opportunity OF a lifetime to
make that town pass them IL there rs any
possible way TO avoid IT,
An implement built on the pfan of a
arge road grader will be used to throw
IN the grade over all the level country,
and as there Is no heavy grading to do
We may reasonably expect trains 10 be
running from Manchester TO a cennec-
ion with the Rock Island road by the
first of December
1t is not known when the work Of
rack laying VII commence, but prob
ably not until the road bed is CON-
1leted 10 Wakita, and possibly not until
[ - finished TO the Rock Island
BULL WITH HYDRoPHORIA-
The same paper Manchester JournaD
says: Some months ago a strange dog
which exhibited strong symptoms %
lydrophooia was seen in the vicinity Of
Hank Lewis and went on the east side
II Mr.. LEWIS place to where ne had /:
OF of cattle in large coras. one az 1.
he boys secured gun and followed the
mad dog. which he came unon at the
lorth side Of the coral and killed II.
Nothing more wSis though % the above
occurrence until Sunday iast when Mr.. |
sewis and several OF his men were ont
n the big Harrington pasture eight miles
ast Of here in the state. where he :, {