The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-13
A MURDER COLLEGE
HOW AND WHERE TO STRIKE
VICTIM VIII KNIFE Is
TAUGHT PUPILS.

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News.
Rome, Jan. 2.-As an instance of
the way secret societies like the Ma
fla are organized in Southern Italy,
it is worth reporting that the Ital-
ian police recently arrested seventy
one persons, all mem bere of secret
organization called the IN alavita,"
10 ths city Of Foggia.
+ It was discovered that this socie.
ty was organized in order 10 com.
mitlall soits Of crimes, from high.
way robbery to kidDapping. Two
schools were founded, one to teach
the way to nse the knife and the
other for pickpocksts. An admis.
sion fee of a few francs was charged
and the members were divided into
three classes and promoted from
one to the other by sort of su-
preme court, with Headquarters at
Barletta. =; -s.sc.s
: The distinctive uniforms of the
members consisted7of q red scarf to
be worn as a belt and a long curl
hanging down the forehead, or a
green scarf for those of a lower de-.
gree in the society. If any one Of
the members was arrested, other
members volunteered to give per-
jured testimony in his behalf,
while few more took kcharge of the
witnesses for the prosecution whom
they, scared by threats into refusing
to testify. A special recruiting de-
partment was also feature Of the
society.
Kalamazoo, Mich, Jan. 3.-Work
has been begun here on a large air
ship designed after the model ofthe
airship invented by James Douglass
a farmer of Texas township, near
kalamazoo, and which proved en-
tirely successful on it's initial trip
in this city a few days ago. The
machine will be completed within
three months, and it is the inten-
ton of the inventor to sail it from
kalamazoo to St. Louis TO compete
in the airship contest at the Expo
sition. 1 aa
The small model tested here last
week proved 80 successful in its op.
erations that the inventor has the
greatest confidence in the new ma.
chine he is having built and has In
terested a number of local capital.
lists to finance the project.
Mr.. Douglass's airship is in reali'
ty a flying machine, as it depends
entirely upon it's winge for raising
Fit from the ground and propellins
it. No. gas is used.
The airship now being built here
is thirty six feet in length and viii
be constructed entirely of thir
sheet steel. The body of the ma
chine is shaped something like {
cigar, the deck or upper side being
fiat, and is about eighteen inches il
diameter and five feet wide In th'
J. widest part. All the mechanism il
. placed on the deck, The machine
will be operated by two small bu
powerful turbine engines, using oi
for fuel. The engines also are al
; invention of Mr.. Douglas.
Tn designing his airship the in
ventor has followed the principle O
q bird in its fight. It is equipped
: with four sets Of double wings
which operate in the same manne
as those Of a bird when flying
When a wing Of one set is takin,
the downward stroke, the othe
| wing takes what is termed a idea,
stroke" and revolves into place t
: take the downward stroke agail
, when the first wing starts on th
"dead stroke" Consequently on
wing in each set is constantly catch
ing the air and propelling the ship
) The wings also revolve rapidly j e
nongh to hold the machine in th