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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
NEW AIR SHIP b
How Lew renee Dare Expects to
Operate His Machine In Flight.


A new air Slip was recently exhibit
ed i'll the yard OF Hunters hotel at
Coney Island boulevard. Brooklyn,
says the New York Times. Only a
small number Of people saw the ma
chine, which as yet is only IL model
O%ne-fourth The projected size and esti-
mated to carry forty pounds weight.
The gas bag, which is twelve feet
fng. is shaped like a turtle back. or,
more exactly. since it is divided fore
and aft by a partition. like half the
kernel of a pecan nut. At each side are
large wings, stern fins, and at the back
q sail shaped like a birds tail to con-
troll the upward and downward motion.
A large rudderlike sail provides the
means of changing the horizontal di-
%rection. and the motive machinery is
furnished by two propcliors rHn by a
gasoline engine. The ~frlIl"wclts IS Of
aluminium. the sail work. wuisA - vo-
luminous. of silk.
The popularity of the new model,
which is the invention Of Lawrence o..
Dare. is the fiat under surface of the
gas bag and the number of aeroplanes
which lie below the gas bag and inter-
vene between the engine and the gas.
The %aeroplanes are Of fireproof mate
rial and are expected to arrest any
sparks which may fly from the engine.
Mr.. Dare says that the use Of propel-
lers with eight blades will enable him
to use shorter blades than those Of the
ships heretofore built with two bladed
propellers and at the same time makes
it possible to run the engine at one
fourth the speed which has been nee
essary in other cases, thus reducing the
heat and danger Of sparks. The gas
used in the balloon is hydrogen.
The prov is to be protected by an
aluminium cap. The operators seat
swings from a bar in the upper frame
work beneath the gas bag. Beneath all
Is a truck with wheels for running on
the ground.
Mr.. Dare was born in Harrisburg,
Pa, and has been a theatrical man
ager. He thinks he has made an ad-
vance in air ship construction. n he
has fitted his machine SO with a shift
ing gear that the engine first starts the
wheeled truck forward on the ground
and when sufficient momentum has
been developed turns on the air pro-
pellers. o
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
USE FOR ALEUTlAN ISLES.
PLAN to Them Into Ranges
For Cattle and Sheep.

PLAN to Them Into Range
For Cattle. and Sheep.
Washington stock growers are plan
ming to convert the Aleutian islands
into cattle and sheep ranges which will
rival the rapidly diminishing ranges of
Montana and Texas. says a Tacoma
(Wash.) dispatch to the New York
World.
One company will ship 25.OOO sheep
and 5000 head of cattle to n of the
Aleutian islands this summer.
The steamship Melville Dollar has
recently been loading its first consign-
ment of 5000 sheep at San Francisco.
This company has demonstrated that
sheep will thrive on the Aleutians. hav-
ing landed 1000 head on one Of the is
lands eighteen months ago. The flock
has not increased because of ravages
by wolves, but the experiment has dem
onstrated that animals can live on the
Aleutians throughout winter solely on
the grass of the islands. Enough keep
ers will accompany the flock to protect
them from wild animals.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
ROYALTY DANCE CAKE WALK
Afro-A Entertain Queen
AlexanLra's Grandchildren.

Afro-A mericans Entertain Queen
A~lexandrn's Grandchildren.
The New York Herald's European
edition publishes the following from it's
London correspondent:
For the first time in its history the
sacred precincts of Buckingham palace
were recently Il scene of Il real crap
game-that form of sport so dear to the
heart of the American negro.
At least such is the story told by
members of the Williams s. Walker
company. who performed at the chill
dren's party given by Queen Alexandra
the other afternoon for the friends Of
her grandchildren. the children of the
Prince and Princess of Wales.
Mr.. Norman ]. Norman. manager of
the Shaftesbury theater. where the COL
ored comedians We're playing. says that
| King Edward as we'll as his consort
attended the performance. for which
the whole company of eighty persons
and the theater orchestra were mobi-
iized, and that his majesty particularly
enioyed 1.-THE Jonah Man." sung by
| Mr.. Williams.
AS for the "crap" story. here it is:
While the performance was going on
two men Of the chorus stole off on one
side. and one produced n set of dice.
Soon Come seven. come eleven!" was
in order. and a siXpcnce quickly
changed hands. lust then they were
discovered by II of the managers. but
1--WE jes' had our game in de royal pal
ace yard" remarked one. with a grin.
describing the incident.
According to the story told by n of
the performers to the London Daily
Mail: AT the end of our cake walk the
orchestra struck mp the tune again. and
the little lords and ladies caught the
infection and started a cake walk them
selves, the royal children of course
joining in. They mac. II worry tolcrahle
performance of it too"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
MRS. JAMES G. BLAINE DEAD.
Passes Away at the Homestead in Au-
qusta, Me.

Augusta, Me-, July 16.-Mrs. James
G.. Blaine died at the Blaine home
stead here during the day.
Mrs. Blaine vas seventy-siX years
of age. She came from Washington a
short time 6 to the old family resi-
dence on State street. She was in an
enfeebled condition and had been I'M
der almost constant medical attention
since. During the week she failed rap
idly, her condition being due to a gen.
eral breakdown of the system. Mrs.
Blaine's maiden name was Harriet
Stanwood, the daughter of a leading
$~eitizen of Maine. She met her hus-
band while both of them e teachers
in a school in Kentucky. They were
married in Pittsburg and later came
to Augusta, where Mr.. Blaine became
editor of the Kennebec Journal. She
leaves one son, James G. Blaine, and
two daughters, Mrs. Harriet Beale and
Mrs. Walter Damrosch of New York,
who were at her bedside during her
last sickness.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
DESPERATE FIGHTING TAKES
PLACE BETWEEN sTRIkERS
AND POLICE.
SEVERAL MEN ARE INJURED
OFFICERS USE THEIR FISTS AND
CLUBS WHEN ATTACKED cY
ANGRY MOB.

Chicago, July 16.-Desperate fight
ers of the Kellogg Switchboard com
pany took place yesterday afternoon
and evening, when the company at
tempted to send freight to some of the
railroad depots. In n instance the
police opened fire with r%evolvers, and
although the fusillade was continued
for several minutes, nobody was in
jured. Later there was a fight In
which no revolvers were used. and the
police beat down a number of men,
some of whom were left in the street
until their friends came back to pick
them up
The first fight occurred when a truck
loaded with freight escorted by po-
lice bound for the Burlington depot
was passing an unfinished building at
the corner of Harrison and Peoria
streets. A bowling mob of 1000 men
and boys was following close upon the
police and pelting them with stones
and sticks.
The police were trying to break a
blockade caused bv sympathizing
tesmsters, when workmen on an un-
finished building showerea them with
bricks. The officers at once drew
their revolvers and fired at the work
men, who hastily fed to the interior
Of the building. The police kept up
their fire through the windows and
drove nearly all the workmen from the
place.
Police Pursued BY a Mob.
The second fight occurred when the
police were escorting a wagon on its
return trip from a warehouse. A mob
of about 1000 pursued the police,
pelting them with missiles, but in.
juriog nobody.
The climax Gene at Congress street
and Ogden avenue when a private
Waterman who had no particular cal
to mix in the trouble on either side
fired at one of the mob. The shot
went wild. but it infamed the mob tc
the hiehest degree. and with shouts
srd ye'ls they charged on the police
who met them with fists and clubs
The patrolmen were greatly outnum
berea. hut they fought we'll together
and in less than three minutes every
member of the mob who could use his
feet was doing so to the best of hi
ability. Fully a dozen men will
broken heads were left lying in the
street where they had been knocked
by the clubs of the officers. Some O
them were loaded into the wagon ant
taken to the police station. as were {
number who were not quick enough il
beginning their retreat. About twenty
arrests were made during the day.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
s7ook MARKET pEMoRALIzED.
Wednesday Was One Of the Most Dis
astrous Days Since Panic of 1901.

CSS S0y0 SbbhSS . ~
Tow York, July decentralization
ruled in the stock market Wednesday,
making it up to the time of the clos
ing rally one Of the most disastrous
days since the memorable panic OF
May 8, 1901. New low records for the
year were made In the trading on a
heavy volume of business. Some Of
the declines in high grade investment
stocks for the day ran all the way
from four to twenty points.
In the early dealings there was a
rush Ia sell. Prices dropped sharply.
and in some cases precipitately, with
active stocks down two and three
points each, and with an extreme
break of over fifty points reported in
the st. Paul and San Fra~cisco, and
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois GER
~tifcates. The. decline was especially
noteworthy. however. in such stocks
as st. Paul, New York Central. Union
Pacific, Canadian Pacific, Missouri
Tactic. United States Steel and Gen.
eral Electric.
In the last half hour covering OF
shorts and investments bv bargain
hunters were responsible for partial
r%ecoveries, in many issues, and com
p!ete recoveries in a few.
Traders were naturally disposed to
view the selling of high grade invest
ment issues with considerable uneasi'
ness on the theory that it represented
forced selling by important interests
who We're compelled to part With their
securities to raise funds to protect
speculative accounts elsewhere in the
market.
A distinctly unfavorable impression
was created by the announcement 81
an issue of short-time notes by the
Union Pacific to the amount Of $40.
600, 900: also smaller loans by several
other railroad companies.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
SENATOR ALeER REPLIES.
Knew Nothing Of Alleged Corruption
in War Department.


Detroit. Mich, July 16.-United
the following interview last night in
regard to an editorial published in the
current issue of Harper's Weekly
charging practically that during the
time Senator Alger was secretary of
war, the government was defrauded
out of millions of dollars on army
contracts:
"If there was any corruption in the
wal department during the time when
I was secretary, or if there was any
reason for thinking there might be
such corruption, l knew nothing of it,
and l do not believe there was any
such corruption.
"The assertion made here is a very
broad one and the man who made the
charges and the paper that publishes
them will be held to the ~strictest ac.
countability.
81 hope that the matter will be in,
vestigated to the very bottom, in or
der that the facts may be fully demon
strated.
81 did not even know that any glove
contracts had been made. Matters of
detail of that kind were left to subor-
dinate officials and | suppose that
many minor contracts were made with
out being submitted to the head of the
department during the time when the
army was being modified and when
there was a great mas of business to
be attended to.
However. l believe that the men
who purchased the supplies during my
administration were as honest, con
scientious and efficient as any set of
officials who ever served in the war
department."
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
eoiIermakers Return to Work.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 16.-After All
idleness of two and one-half months,
over 1000 striking boilelmakers en-
ployed in the shops of the Manufac-
turing association of Pittsburg settled
their differences and will return to
work at once on a compromise wage
scale.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
Neoroes Dedicate a Hall.

Washington, July ia large hall
recently erected by the United Order
oil True Reformers, a fraternal and
beneficial organization composed n
tirely of negroes, was dedicated here
Wednesday with elaborate ceremonies.
President Roosevelt sent a letter re-
GREETING that he could not be present
and sympathizing with the efforts OF
the negroes to elevate their race.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
The Senator worked Hi. Passage.

Vhe senator worked MS FAsSaSc.
Senator Burton went to Salina, Kan.
on a hand car during the recent floods,
says the Kansas City Journal. When
he boarded the car at Abilene he said,
"Where shall l sit:' you'll stand and
pump at these handle bars like blazes!"
responded the section foreman. And
the senator stood and presumably
pumped like blazes.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
monocle Fad For Women.

Wearing monocles. the latest fashion
for ladies. a craze recently started in
Paris by ladies of the Servian colony,
Is extending to London.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
LAUNCH cAPslzEs.
Two Women Drowned in the Mississip-
ri River.

Davenport, Ia, July 16.-Clara LIGHT
and Elsie Morey were drowned last
night by the capsizing of a launch in
the Mississippi river. Four young
men we're thrown into the river from
the overturning boat, but saved them
selves
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17

Pasadena, Cal. July 16.-As the re-
SUI Of q wound inflicted on the Fourth
of July from a toy pistol, a boy died
here Wednesday of lockjaw.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
Dies From Lockjaw.

Portland, Ore. July 16.-A boy shot
on the Fourth of July with a toy PTS
tol died Wednesday of lockjaw.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17

Topeka, Kan, July 16.-Paul Forbes,
a boy, died of lockjaw caused by the
premature discharge of a toy pistol
on July 4.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17
MANY DIE FROM LockJAw.

vania Alone.
Philadelphia. July 16.-Forty-one
deaths from lcckjaw as a result of In
dependence day celebrations have been
reported in Pennsylvania up to last
night, seven of the deaths occurring in
Philadelphia. Four deaths occurred
Wednesday.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-17

Rome, July 1910 a. m.-The fol-
lowing medical bulletin has just been
issued:
"The night was little tranquil n
s!eepless. The general condition OF
his holiness presents no other modlfi-
cation, except greater frequency Of
breathing, due to an augmentation OF
the pieuric fluid. Pulse, SO; temporal
ture, 36.3 %centigrate; respiration, So.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-11-07
IDAHO SQUlBS.

Roy r. Loughran, II years old, was
electrocuteG at the substation of the
American Falls Power, Light & Wat
er company in Pocatello recently. His
body was consumed almost to a crisp.
The fun current OF 10000 volts passed
through him.
Mrs. Barnett Sinclair has received
a cablegram from her husband in Ma
Mia, stating that he has been exon
Grated of all blame for embezzlement
in his office by federal investigation.
He has resigned his position, and will
sail for home, reaching Rathdrum
about November Is. Bartlett Sin
clair is on3 of the best known men
in Northern Idaho, having been es-
pecially prominent because of his Off
cial position during the Occur d'Alene
trouble in 1899.
The Northern Pacific party which
has been surveying a line up the Pa
louse-PotlatCh divide and is working
southeasterly down one of the trib-
utaries of the Potlatch towards the
Elk creek timber belt.
1t is reported that the Blackhawk
mine at Nardner, which has been
closed for month, will resume OPP
erations. The mine works about 20
men.
Claude Dech, who was a partner of
Frank X. Gooding, chairman of the
state repul lican central committee,
in the sheep business, has left the
country, ana Is said to have given
out numerous checks which have been
returned to the holders as worthless
Articles of incorporation of the
Idaho Water company have been filed
at Wallace, the purpose Of which is
to build a railroad from Orofino to
Pierce City and across the Nez Perez
Indian reservation to Nez Perez City.
1t is stated that the organization has
also been effected to build water
power plants and sell power in Sho-
shone, Idaho, Nez Perez and Latah
counties.
A reward of $1,100 has been posted
for the capture and delivery Of Will
liam I. Rookie, who, while under arrest
in Idaho county for horse stealing,
made his escape. The Idaho County
Stock association offers $1,000 of this
amount and Idaho County the bal
ance. The headquarters of the stock
association are at Whitebird.
The Lewiston Interstate fair asso-
citation officers say the total attend
ance for six days was nearly $4,000,
fully double that of any previous year.
Moscow is on the line of the pro-
posed Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul extension to the Pacific coast,
according to eastern neWsnaners
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-11-07
OREGON NOTES.

The supreme court has affirmed
the decision Of the circuit court OF
Multnomah county in the case of
Flanders VS.. the county clerk, thus
holding that tax levy can not be
made under existing laws next jan
uary. This means that a special ses-
sion of the legislature must be held
before January to pass a law which
will authorize such levy, or that the
state, county, city and school dis
trict warrants must be Endorsed for
want of funds. Governor Chamber
lain has said that he will not call a
sepcial session until the public finan-
ces require it,
Judge Thurston, president of the
Grant County Bar association, has
not regained his mental faculties since
his awful fall from a buggy in run
away last month. He will be taken
to Portland for treatment. He is one
of the leading criminal lawyers of
Southern Oregon.
Albert Olson, young man II years
of age, was shot and killed by his
stepfather, Matt Olson, on the Ne
halem river, Saturday afternoon. They
were in boat, when flock of ducks
flew over them. Matt Olson reached
for his gun and, in putting it down, it
was discharged, killing the young
man.
There is a scarcity of wood in Pen
dleton. Fir is selling at 81 per cord
and pine at $3.50.
Deputy Sheriff Blakely has served
injunction papers on the management
of the Milton, Freewater & Hudson
Bay Irrigation company, preventing 1t
from taking water from the Little
Walla Walla river until the case could
be tried.
James McCombe, a prospector, fatal
ly shot Deputy Marshal Walter Smith
in row at Joseph recently. McCombe
in the fight also shot Charles Finn,
a business man Of Portland, through
the leg. The wound is not serious.
McCombe had been drinking heavily.
A fire at East Portland Sunday night
destroyed the plant of the Standard
Box company, together with a large
quantity Of lumber. Loss $4,000.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-11-07
Good for Hogs.

Take six bushels of cob charcoal or
three bushels of common charcoal,
eight pounds of salt and one pound Of
EPSON salts, two quarts Of air-slack
lime, one bushel of wood ashes. Break
the charcoal into small pieces and
thoroughly mix the other ingredients
with it. Then take one pound of cop
peras and dissolve In hot water, and
with an ordinary watering not sprin-
kle over the whole mass and again
mix thoroughly. This mixture should
be kept dry. Feeding a portion of it
twice week furnishes something that
the hogs demand and assists in taking
of the gases of the stomach, expelling
worms and regulating their conditions.
Winchester Qnd) Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-11-07


Fruit growers are quite interested in
the formula composing the new in
secticide, lime and sulphur, but have
found the labor Of making it consid-
cradle because Of the necessity for boil
ing the mixture. Recent experiments
have shown that If potash or caustic
soda Is used there will be no neces-
slty for boiling. The formula for max
ing In this way is this: Take twenty
pounds Of sulphur, forty pounds Of
lime, five pounds Of caustic soda and
sixty gallons of water. Make a thin
paste of the sulphur and dissolve the
caustic soda In water.
In shaking the lime, use only enough
water to make it boil rapidly. During
the process of shaking, pour into the
lime the sulphur paste, and then the
caustic soda solution, adding water If
necessary, and stirring rapidly until
all bubbling stops, when dilute with
water to the consistency and strength
needed for the spraying. The use of
this material in spraying is not only
a decided check on scale, but very eff
fective against various insects. APP
plications may be made in the late
fall, in midwinter and in the early
spring.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-11-07

The Purdue Experiment Station has
oeen conducting a number of expert
ments with corn, using different kinds
OF fertilizer. The tests show that
kainit is valuable as compared with
straw or lime. The corn was planted
the second week in June. The corn
on the plats to which kainit or straw
was applied made continuous growth.
ana after the middle OF July these
plats could readily be distinguished
from distance by darker color than
mat shown on the plats on which no
fertilizer was used. The treated plats
uld not ripen as early as the others,
and the fodder was slightly damaged
oy frost on September q, although no
injury was done to the ears. The corn
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-11-07
OPERATORS CONTEST.
Some Fast Records Made by TeIea.
raphers-MedaIs Awarded.

Philadelphia.-William Gibson of
New York. formerly of the Associated
Press and now with a broker firm,
won the Carnegie medal and the
worlds championship as the best
all around telegraph operator" at the
tournament of the American Teleg-
raphers' association, held in the Ma
tional Export Association building.
E. f. Brucker of the Postal Tele-
graph company, Chicago, won the sec
ond prize. Gibson's victory was bril-
liant one, as he had for opponents
some of the best telegraphers in the
country, including F. NJ. McCIintic OF
the Associated Press, Dallas, Texas,
who won the championship last year.
Harvey Williams of Philadelphia
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-11-07
TWO CARS DYNAMITE EXPLODE.
crestIine, Ohio, in Midst Of Panic
Stricken People.

Crestline. Ohio, Nov. 3.-Crestline
and vicinity was turned into a panic
sunday night by terrible explosion
at o'clock. Many buildings were
shaken and in some instances the
walls fell. Church congregations were
thrown into screaming masses OF hui
mainly People who were at home
were terrified by the fearful roar that
was heard. Two cars of dynamite,
which exploded in the Pennsylvania
yards, was the cause Of the excite
ment. Hundreds of Pennsylvania rail-
road employees are at work searching
for the dead or injured.
The entire west yard of the road is
a complete wreck. Officials of the
railroad have said the loss is about As
cars. Where the explosion occurred,
a hole about 20 feet wide and twice
as long was torn in the ground. Men
at work mile away were thrown from
the track.