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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26
FLYING MACHINE.
Wandsworth Mans Really NoveI In
vention.

A remarkable contrivance Q! bam-
boo and wire on four little wheels,
with a man sitting hunched up over
a steering wheel in the front, cs,asted
down West Hill, Wandsworth, shortly
after sunrise.
1t was the working portion of Mr.. A.
v. Roe's flying machine. with which
he hopes to carry off number of
prizes that are still on offer to the
first man to accomplish a flight in a
steerable machine.
Mr.. Roe was the winner of the sec
ond prize at the trial of model aero
planes at the Alexandra palace last
spring, when his model covered a
flight of more than 100 feet.
MY full size machine" he said the
other day, :. is now all ready for a
flight. but the difficulty is to find a
suitable place. 1 do not mean to be-
gin by circling ST. Paul's or anything
sensational like that. If 1 can cover a
mile few feet from the ground and
swerve, turn. drop and rise as I want
to I shall be quite satisfied.
The full-sized machine is built on
the same lines as the model that won
at the Alexandra palace. 1t is on the
superposed plane system, small fore
plane acting as steering rudder, with
two large back planes.
From tip to tip the machine meas
ures SO feet, and the fore and aft
measurement is 20 feet Altogether
the plane surface is sc square feet.
and it will weigh, with myself on
board, $50 pounds.
1T has been built almost entirely
by myself, except for the engine, a
Jap six-horse power motor, and the
steering wheels. All the other metal
work, including the four little pneu-
matte wheels, l made in my own anna
teur way. Wheels, of course, are nee
essary for carrying the aeroplane
along the ground in starting an ascent
and in landing again.
The propellers, which are four
bladed, will make about 1000 revolu-
lions to the minute, giving me a speed
of about so miles an hour. The driv-
er's seat is forward, and will be in
closed in a cigar-shaped canvas shell
ter. There are two brakes on the
back wheels, and by pressing his feet
on an iron plate just under the seat
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26

saw the larger snake. three feet long.
gliding up the sleeve Of the presi-
dents son. In the most gingerly man.
ner they took hold of the collar of the
boys coat and gently removed the
garment, taking care to keep out Of
range of the snake. Disdaining rescue,
Quentin seized his coat, and while he
toyed with the squirming reptiles
skated outside, where party of
women visitors were thrown into hys-
terics at sight of the snakes.
Quentin brought three snakes from
Oyster Bay with him. He found that
he could not take care of them prop,
erly and turned them over to an ami
NAL fancier. But Quentin got lone
some without his snakes, and the fan
cier loaned him king snake and a
smaller reptile. Quentin went to the
executive offices to show his new
treasures to his father, who observed
that the king snake was about to
make a meal of the little one, and
warned his son to be careful to pre-
vent such calamity.
Quentin finally left the White House
to the great joy of everybody there
His father remarked to a caller that.
Quentin's taste was inherited, for he
not only liked snakes, but had scotch
ed few in his time.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26
MAY USE STREET CARS TO
IMPROVE POSTAL SERVICE

mail box and the people patronize
them literally. The cars stop to re-
ceive a letter, the same as a passen-
ger. If the scheme works well where
it has been tested, Mr.. McCleary can't
see why it will not work well on all
street car lines. At first the system
may be installed only on the main
street car lines of the various cities,
but will be extended gradually to take
in all the lines.
The cost of the service is to be
Investigated. Officials at the depart
ment are of the opinion the expense
will not be great, as the street car
companies will no doubt furnish the
necessary letter boxes and permit
their conductors to handle the mail.
In many cities street cars are now
used to transfer mail from one postal
station to another and the postal au-
thorities believe the system for the
collection of mail can be successfully
developed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26

man has helped, but has accounted for
but small percentage of the eggs put
out of business.
Trees of which the foliage has been
injured or even totally destroyed by
these marauders may be seen on al
most any street of Washington, the
caterpillars attacking by, preference
poplars, soft NAPLES, elms, alders,
birches and willows. But other trees
by no means escape their depreda-
ticns, though the gingko and tulip are
almost immune. Besides destroying
the foliage, the caterpfllars are often
siveIy intrusive, invading the homes
of the residents and otherwise becom-
ing a nuisance
AS usually seen, the tussock cater
pillar has two big. hairy protuberances
like horns sticking out of where his
forehead would be If he had one, and
another one-really two close togeth-
er-projecting like the rudder of an
airship. He is excessively hairy and
ugly, and his hairs are stuck in loose
ly and are apt to fall out on any per-
son upon whom he drops, causing in
fammation and swelling These hairs
are finally tangled up in the silk as
the caterpillar weaves his cocoon, and
become part of the egg receptacle.
leaving the caterpillar a smooth
worm,'' not a ''woolly one." and look
ing far unlike his original hirsute self.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26
QUENTIN HAS FUN WITH
SNAKES IN WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON-Q Roosevelt
W caused chills to chase up and
Town the spinal columns of Attorney
General Bonaparte, Representative
Hepburn, and ex-Representative Lac
sy. of Iowa, the other day when he APP
peared in the presidents office with
two live snakes coi1ed about him.
Quentin is somewhat impetuouS, es-
pecially when on roller skates, and he
5kated into the Office of his father,
who was having conference with At
torney General Bonaparte. AS Quen-
tin approached, the snakes Missed and
the attorney general side-stepped with
great agility. President Roosevelt
suggested to Quentin that he disap-
pear. Quentin fastened into the cab
met room where Representative Hep
burn and Mr.. Lacey were waiting to
see the president They thought the
snakes were harmless wooden affairs
and began to admire them. Then the
larger snake began to wriggle and
wrap itself around the arm of QUEEN
tin and the distinguished Iowans in
their terror made frantic efforts to
walk up the walls.
Regaining their composure 1t oc-
CURED to them that Quentin might be
in danger, and that they should rush
to the rescue, especially when they
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ler's body had been removed to the
morgue it disappeared most mysterf-
ously and that night prisoners in muir
derers' row declared that they saw
Ruminski's ghost walking along the
corridor and making CHASTITY faces at
the occupants of the cells Several
months later the murderer's body was
found in a stable on Carson street,
South side, and buried in potter's field.
The ears and fingers had been re-
moved. presumably to be kept as SOU
venirS.
The BiddIe Brothers.
The two BiddIe brothers did not die
in murderers' row, but other prisoners
confined there have often declared
that they saw their ghosts on many
nights since the two young despera-
does broke jail and fed with the war
denis wife, only to be run down and
killed few hours later The sensa-
tional case of the Biddle brothers is
too well known and has been drama
tized too much to need recalling to
the memory of readers 1t was merely
one of many cases which have served
to give the Allegheny county jail a
spooky reputation and to make the old
murderefs. row no longer habitable-
The nerves OF condemned prisoners
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26
ARMY OF CATERPILLARS
is DEVOURING FOLIAGE

FOLIAGE on Washington's trees is
i being deyoured wholesale by an
army of tussock caterpillars. the
larvae of the tussock moth, and ap-
parently nothing can be done to check
the ravages of those now doing the
damage, though precautions can be
taken against a repetition of the pest
next year. Aiding and abetting the
tussock caterpillars are the cohorts of
the fall web worms, which are by no
means SO numerous, but which, never
theiess, are doing an immense amount
of damage.
For many years the tussock cater
pillar has been the most serious of the
shade-tree pests in Philadelphia, New
York, Brooklyn and Boston, but it was
not until 1895 that It appeared in
Washington in sufficient numbers to
be regarded as a menace to the foil
age. In that year also the fall web
worm was more abundant in this city
than it had been since 1886. In 1901
the pests of both kinds again appeared
in great numbers, and now there is
another invasion, giving a period of
six years between each great attack
Hitherto the chief check upon the
insects has been the parasites that
come in great numbers in the same
years that the caterpillars abound and
destroy most of the multitude of eggs
laid by the pests. Destruction by
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26
origin of Sedan Chair.

Perhaps some expert in the Siamese
language will tell us what is its word
for sedan chair" When the King of
Slams ministers, protesting against
his majesty's favor toward motoring,
suggested recently that the royal Sc
dan" chair was always at his disposal
it is improbable that they used word
reminiscent of the French town.
For 1t is from the scene of Napoleon
Ills collapse that the sedan chair
takes its name, and perhaps remote
posterity win suppose that it had
some connection with that event But
Sedan first produced these convey
ances centuries ago, and they were
seen in England In 1851 One used by
James LIS Buckingham provoked great
popular cutlery against the employ
ment of men as beasts of burden. Sir
s. Duncombe is credited with having
introduced them to London in 1884
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26

noises ceased, but the jafrs reputation
for being haunted spread amazingly,
even beyond the granite walls of the
prison, and still clings to it.
The Case of Ruminski.
Mike Ruminsh was one OF the
shrewdest prisoners ever placed in
murderers' row On the morning he
was sentenced to death for strangling
his wife, Touring kerosene over the
body and setting fire to the house, he
declared that the sheriff would never
get a chance to hang him. The evil
dence produced against Ruminski at
his trial tended to show that he was
professional stranger and robber-
Several months before he killed his
wife be had strangled his own baby to
death, but this was not known until
the authorities made an investigation
following the death of his wife.
On account of the threat of the con-
demned man that he would cheat the
gallows, an extra close watch was kept
on him in his cell, a guard being sta
toned outside the door day and night
to prevent him from taking his own
life.
One night Ruminski went to bed as
usual. The light outside his cell door
shone directly on the cot, and the
guard outside could see him quite
plainly. But Ruminski, while pretend
ing to be asleep, reached down with
his right hand between the edge of his
iron cot and the wall and united one of
the thin cord laces fastened across
the framework of his cot and support
ing the mattress. Still working with
one hand, he twisted the short length
of cord, tied it and slipped it over his
head and around his neck. The handle
of a tin cup, which he managed to get
possession of, was passed through the
loop, and then Ruminski carefully and
quietly proceeded to choke himself ito
death. So cautiously did he kill him
self that the guard outside the door,
although keeping one eye on Ruminski
all the time, imagined that the con-
demned man was sound asleep.
When Ruminski had choked himself
until he lost consciousness, his hand
released the handle of the tin cup. 1t
may be supposed that the tin handle
would spin around a few times and fly
from the loop and that the cord, being
released would enable Ruminski to
breathe again. But the crafty stranger
had anticipated that very thing and
had made provision to guard against
his plans being thwarted in that way.
The handle of the tin cup had been
Strengthened out and then hooked at
the end in such a way that the mo-
ment Rumfnski's hand released it it
caught in the collar of his shirt and
held fast. Ruminski had been dead
several hours when the guard attempt
ed to arouse him next morning.
Then a few hours after the strang-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26

EVERY street car in this country
L may be made a travelling postof
flee before long. Such plan is now
under consideration by Second Assist
ant Postmaster General McCleary,
with the object of still further improv-
ing the mail service.
Mr.. McCleary's idea is that when
person writes letter the sooner it is
on it's way the better it suits him.
If mail facilities are still further i'm
proved the man will write two let
tiers where he now writes one and
the government will receive just that
much more revenue. Postofh ces on
street cars, he believes, will place the
writing public in close touch with the
postal department and the convent
ence will add materially to the gov
ernment's income.
The system has been tried on the
line between Minneapolis and st.
Paul and has proved successful. Every.
car on that line is equipped with
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26
STATE DEPARTMENT TO
TEACH GREEN CONSUIS

A room in the department has been
equipped as a complete working Amer
lean consulate, suitable to transact the
business of any part of the world. civil
lied or uncivilized-
Appointees are no longer permitted
to spend that 30 days period IN their
own way, but are required to report
every day at the state department for
duty and to spend a certain number
OF hours in this model consular once.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26

NO MORE green consuls are to be
~ sent abroad to represent America
4 the plans of the state department,
which have just been put in practice.
realize expectations
Ever since the establishment OF the
consular service it has been customary
to permit newly appointed consul so
days with pay before leaving America
for his post.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26

occupying cells there were recently
wrought up to such a pitch by hearing
the noise made by carpenters erecting
the wooden gallows in the jail yard
that Warden Lewis has ordered steel
scaffoid which can be put together al
most noiselessly with the aid OF {. few
screws and a wrench.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-26

the driver can check the way of the
machine on the ground as quickly as
a motor car can be stopped
Il have been experimenting with a
spring drive, but I have come to the
conclusion that clutch drive is bet
ter."-Daily News.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
The Homemaker.

1t must be taken into consideration
that every successful homemaker is
necessarily housekeeper-one who
keeps the house in the hollow of her
hand, SO to speak. One whose eye
guards every detail Of expenditure;
one whose heart and mind are cen.
tered in the beautifying, guidance and
maintenance of her stronghold. II
would be foolish to insist that every
housekeeper possess the rare and
beautiful gift Of creating and evolving
a home. says Margaret Anglin in Pic.
torial Review. The housekeeper works
for her wages. oftentimes grudgingly;
the homemaker takes up her daily
tasks with inspiration. Her labor is
performed with love: and as / believe
some poet has remarked. even the
sweeping of room may become a
beautiful action.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
Assassin Stays General earillas.

City of Mexico.-General Lizadro
Barillas. ex-President of Guatemala,
was assassinated here Sunday evening
as he sat in street car. AS the car
stopped, young man, seventeen years
OF age, climbed aboard and. rushing to
the general. stabbed him twice, the
first blow severing the jugular vein,
the second cutting his face. The gen.
eral died instantly.
The assassin was captured. He gave
his name as Jose Estrada and his
home as Ocos, Guatemala.
Ex-President Barillas was generally
considered as strongly opposed to the
present government of Guatemala He
was sixty-two years old and was a
strong possibility for the next presi-
dency OF the country.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
Big Reservoir for Irrigation.

Florence, Colo.-Oak Creek canon
three miles south of Rockvale. is to be
made one of the largest reservoirs in
this part of the state. Flood and win
ter waters have just been filed on by
]. w. Bergdorf, engineer of the Flor
ence & Cripple Creek railroad, and A.
b. McFall of Florence They are inter-
esting capital in heavy irrigation
project, which has for its purpose the
reclamation of 10000 acres lying west,
east and south OF Florence.
A dam several hundred feet long
and 2S5 feet high, capable of backing
water nearly three miles, is to be built
at a cost OF 100000. The deal is well
under way and it may not be long be-
fore the actual work of construction is
begun.
A system of water conduits is to be
built along the arid section lying be-
tween Florence and the foothills of the
Greenhorl range. No less than five
irrigation projects are now under way
in this section of the state.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
Wyoming Postmaster Arrested.

Sheridan, wyo.-w F. Britain, who
was recently appointed register of the
land Office at Buffalo, Wyoming, has
been placed under arrest by United
States Marshal l.. B. Davis, who came
from Cheyenne for that purpose. Brit
tain was recently indicted by the fed
eral grand jury at Cheyenne for Grim
inal negligence in handling United
States mail at Sheridan, the technical
charge being that he unlawfully de-
layed the mail.
Britain was taken before Justice of
the Peace JEFF Foster and his bond
fixed at $1,000, the amount designated
by Judge Riner at Cheyenne. A num-
ber OF friends went on the ex-postmas-
ter's bond. The date for his trial has
not yet been fixed.
The penalty for unlawfully delay
ing Of OBTAINING United States mail Is
a fine of $500 or six to twelve months
imprisonment, or both.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
COMMISSION AT SCHOOL OF
MINES.
Every Man In Sophomore Class Gowns
Up' to President

Golden, Colo.-Through the inhu-
ences of six prominent citizens OF
Golden, including one trustee of the in
stitution, the threatened strike of the
students st the State School OF Mines
is on, AMI, with the exception of the
six men who were expelled from the
school for hazing. the entire student
body will return to their studies.
While the men have taken this action
without exacting any promise from the
faculty, it is expected that the six ex-
PEELED students will have their SEN
tence changed to suspension.
Forty members of the Sophomore
class appeared before President Alder
son Sunday, confessing that they were
as guilty as their classmates, and
asked that the sentence of expulsion
be pronounced upon them
Although President Anderson has
been quored as saying that as fast as
the culprIts wer found out, he would
expel them, he accepted an apology
from the class, and told them to return
to school, and that no further action
would be taken against them
Upon This action of the president.
the men base their hopes that their
classmates will be called before the
faculty once more, and that their pre-
vious sentence will be recalled.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
Built Fir.. nou.. in 0enver.

Denver.-Andrew c. Wright, one of
the seven men who built the first
house in Denver in the year 1858. and
marked out the site for the city, is
dead. With eleven ox-teams Wright
headed a party Of forty-seven men and
women who left Lawrence. Kansas. in
1858. and when they struck the Platte
river Wright, in company with Dad
Clark, James Cochran, Jack Palmer
and four "squaw" men. built house on
the present site of Denver.
1t was located where the Denver &
Rio Grande freight depot now stands
and the cutting of the logs Of which
it was constructed was done on the
site Of the Union passenger station.
The men built the log cabin on the CO
operative plan and in a short time a
fiourishing settlement grew up.
During his long residence in Denver
Wright held severel city Offices and at
the time of his death he was the owner
Of much real estate in the city. He
leaves a wife and two children. one OF
whom Is the wife of John H. Routt, son
of former Governor Routt, and son.
Hiram c. Wright, who is connected
with the c. s. Morey Mercantile Com
pany.
Mr.. Wright was a prominent men,
ber Of the Pioneers Society. as is Mrs.
Wright. who came to Denver in 1860.
Mrs. Wright was formerly Miss Cor
della E. Kicker of Lawrence. Kansas.
and it was while on visit to his old
home that Wright was married.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
Tornado on Atlantic Coast.

New 1ork.-Nearly every vessel
that has arrived from southern ports
during the past week has brought
some story of marine disaster wrought
by the tornado off Hatteras during the
last ten days of March. The Bluecher.
arriving from West Indian ports, was
no exception. Standing in disconsolate
groups about her decks were thirteen
people whom the liner had saved from
their laundering bark, the Gulf Port,
as the vessel was on the verge of 60
ing down. The rescue was witnessed
by Speaker Joseph G. Cannon and
others Of the congressional party on
board the Bluecher.
Ihose taken by the lifeboat from the
water-logged wreck were near starva-
ton, as for nearly a week they had
had nothing to live on except a few
water-soaked biscuits.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
A Cure for Sin.

st. Louis, Mo-"There is no ques.
tion that po1gamy is the true and only
means of redeeming the world from
the terrible wickedness which now pre-
vails," said Elder j. T. Garrard at the
Mormon mission here Sunday.
"Ninety-five per cent. of the women
and ninety-seven per cent. of the men
of to-day are not virtuous," he con-
tinued. ITO every million men there
are Two million women; which means
that this extra million women who
were put in the world for purpose are
unable to fill the part which God in
tended they should-that of reproduc
tion. Race suicide is the result and
vicious lives are encouraged"