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The Washington times., 1908-05-10
Wrights to Beat World Record
With OqUn Aeroplane, They Say

MANTEO. y c.. Nav 9.-1he Wright
brothers said today that the demonsra-
ton OF their flying machine on tee sand
dunes near XIII Devid Hn life-sav-
ing station yesterday developed some
trihing defects in the steering gear
which they are confident can be correct
Cd. They began work on a few minor
changes. and when they are completed
the Wrlshts expect 20 beat the world s
air navigation record.
The Wright brothers made a success
ful flight OF twenty-five miles yesterday.
Their aeroplane rose 10 a height or 300
feet, swung about in the air, rose and
fell. dipped and SCARED with all the ease
and grace Of a great bird on the wing.
No hight OF fancy that has pictured
man controlling the forces OF nature.
overcoming the law OF gravity and lie
coming master or the air ever did more
than the men did today. sailing above
The height OF TIE clouds. going out 10
yea a distance or sight miles, until the
aeropiane was 4 mere speCk.
Fishermen Watch in Wonder.
Looking at the strange heavier-than-
air machine as IL wheeled about. going
now east. now south. then turning and
going north. now dipping like a gun In
its flight until Do was near the sea. Their
appearing 70 skim the water. fishermen
and few slghtseers along the beach
stared IN oDeE-eyed wonder
II there was doubt about the ease
with which a successful flying machine
would be able 10 dEe7 an explosive on
the deck or "A warship that doubt was
.dissip2ted TODAY when the Wright broth
ers moved their machine up and down
The sandspit known as Mays Head
This stretch OF sand is twenty-five
miles long and upon 10 the Wrlghts. al
XIII Devil Hi. have built the encIos-
ure behind which they have worked
free from spying eyes.
Do was nom this point the flight wa
-Il-1oe yesterday. There was 4 whlr OF
The Washington times., 1908-05-10
wind Did Not Trouble Inventors.

A peculiar thing about the flight OF
the aerOplane was the fact that a.
though there was a fair wind IT. did not
III any way appear 10 interfere with the
working or the machine IT sailed with
and azafnst the wind an VIII
The trip 20 sea over the aerOplane de-
Sceuded 10 the point where ir has been
housed and where the workshops Or
the Wrights is situated After the trial
Orviue Wright said.
1--WE are confident Of success. We be-
lieye we have solved aerial navigation
and are going TO prove it, Our past eN-
perfmentS have been all that We could
ask for Anything We attempt iu che
future viii speak Tor itself. just as tie
Iriaz did TO-DAY Our aerOplane WI sail
IN any direction. The velocity OF the
Wind win not affect is progress ma
teTially-
The Washington times., 1908-05-10
THINKS AUDIT CO.
HESITATED To BID
Committee on Printing
HeaTB Letter From w.
M. Rayner.
Supply Business Worth
Half Million Yearly,
He Wrote.

mat there was debate among the Of
hcersf OF The Audit system as 10 the
propriety OF the system and its CON
neeted companies bidding on supplies
Tor the Government Printing Office
while the system was an emplOye of the
pr1Htery. is what the House Committee
ON Printing believes is shown by a
letter put il evidence yesterday after
iioon.
Before the session ended. Chairman
Lands had inserted i'm the record the
carbon copy Of letter which, Mr. Ian
dis explained. had been written by W.
Nj. Rdyncr. general manager of the
system. 10 J. r. Handy, president of
Gle suffolk Distributing Company and
secretary OF the Audit system This
carbon copy. he said. had been found
IN Mr. Rayucr's desk at the Govern
ment Printing Office where Mr. Rayner
had left IL when EC and his system were
summary elected from The prlntery
some months $50.
Worth 100000 a Year.
The part OF the letter pertinent to
The committee investigation Of the op-
eratons Of the system in the Govern
meHt Printing Ofhce, is as follows:
Apparently there seems 10 be some
liea there In New York that we are
ppen-poohirg about our efforts 20 ST.
cure supply orders here in Washington.
don Ike this al all. Unless there is
some good reason why we can NOT this
supply business down here can be work
cd up 10 half million dollars per yeaV
without any trouble If D, is properly
handled. but ] certainly expect some as
Sistance from YOU in New York when !
can for H. VIII YOU kindly take up
this matter and see why d. is thar I
can not get prompt answers 10 these
matters when / send them there.
II do not think IL is good policy 10 let
anybody there decide whether we are
10 bid or not. / am the one 10 de-
eide thar. am no one else My reasons
are good and 1 generally produce. II
certainly makes me sore TO get q letter
Of this kind i don't like go oe SHE
tracked 90
VIII Sue for Pay.
Yesterdays session of the committee
was called 10 enable IL to gather to
gethsr a few bits of evidence It de-
sired regarding the technical opera
tions OF the system while il was work
ing for the Government ar "A big sal
AIRY During the hearing W NJ Ray
ner. WHO was on the stand. announced,
through his attorney. that ne intends TO
she the Government for the money that
would De due him IF ne had been allow
cd 10 finish the time OF his contract
Nh Lands expects 10 have further
meetings In the eudeaTOr to find out
how the original contract for the in
stallatiOu of the system in the print
cry came 20 be made He and the
members 90 his committee are not salts
fed on. this point
The Washington times., 1908-05-10
Ability to Turn Tested.

The inventors seemed 10 desire 10 test
its ability 10 make sharp turns They
circled and turned. made IuEg and sharp
turns. Turns that were an night angles
and turns where In an instant they
were sailing directly opposite frcn their
former direction uere made.
SATISFIED on this point. the nose Of the
aerODlale was Dclnttd out 10 sea The
distance they rose YVES higher and
higher as they Travelled. and 80 was es:i-
mated Ihey were eight miles from land
AT their greatest distance.
When az thelr Creates height they
suddenly shot down. Their fail save
for the fact that the machine GiDDed
and did not turn, was like mat of
uInoIer pigeon Those who saw ne
machine falling thought 81 acc-deDL
had happened Then 81 stopped and
SCARED along on an even keel, then rose
and repeated tlc experiment
Throughout the maueuNerS tne llFeil-
tors bent over az times and az other
times stood erect. At times one was
erect and the other in a stopping posi-
ton Their movements seemed 20 De i1r
the purpose Of balancing the machine In
its turns and fight
The Washington times., 1908-05-10

To the Committee on Prevention OF
Consumption. Gen William II For
wood. treasurer the Joint Finance
Committee has transferred the follow
ing special gifts received FOR the pur-
nose al Si1 G. street northwest.
The Washington times., 1908-05-10

For the Citizens Relief Association.
OF which Milton T. Allies is treasurer.
the Joint Finance Committee has re-
ceived the following contrib utions.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-02-14
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ROUND ABOUTTHE STATE.
Cleaned from Exchanges blythe Shears,
the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
nal. Some Credited, and Some Stolen.
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.

Brookfield's new shoe factory
is now running.
Shelbina is to have a s16, ,00O
canning factory, the stock being
subscribed locally.
Judge H. Scott, recently ap-
pointed to the circuit bench Of
Joplin, had three fistic encount-
ers in seventeen hours this week.
Aurora's police force has been
doubled. The old force is popu-
larl9 known as Big Bill" and
the addition has been dubbed
.'Little Willie"
Bloodhopnds ran down Joe
Lankister, who robbed the Big
Four store at Charleston, and
with difficulty We're prevented
from tearing him to pieces.
James Hinkle, a farmer at
Benton, was found dead, Hink-
les wife and Tom Duvall, 9
neighbor, are in Jail. 1t is
charged that they poisoned
Hinkle. ~
Down in st. Louis last week .
woman jabbed q hat pin several
times into q footpad and put the
fellow to fight. Maybe It would
Be d good idea fer che men folks
70 ass thss .kiAdsai = wsapess.. s.: -.
The total value Of the lead
and zinc ore taken from the
mines Of Newton county In 1907
was s15, ,4t9.S27. No danger Of
panic effecting such q country
as Southwest Missouri very long
at q time.
Mrs. Sallie Harris, sister Of
former United States Senator
Francis Marion Cockrell Of Miss
ouri, died at the home Of her
daughter, Mrs. j. A. Shannon,
in Oklahoma City, Ok, Friday
night. Mrs. Harris was II years
old.
The dog law passed by the
legislature and signed by Coy
Folk, taxing male dogs 81 pei
head and female dogs So pei
head, has been declared uncon.
stitutional by the supreme cour
on the ground that a dog has nc
real value.
Missouri land Is getting TO b
very valuable. On last Friday
the old T. E. B. Sotham farm
four miles north of Chillicothe
cone;atinc of 500 acres, brough
the sum total Of s33, 400. It wal
sold to W. r. Russell Of Friend
Nebraska,
Oliver Perry Bevins, u year
old, . first lieutenant in the con
tsdsrats army under Geners
Sterling Price, and once 4 mem
Der Of the Vigilance COMMITTEE
organized to capture the james
boys in Ksarney, died Frida!
morning 1t bis home No. Il.
West Tenth street, Kansas City
Nathss Rowell's wife was siol
ii .hs point Of death, He fen 4
lore with pretty Cordelia Dunna
way, the hired girl. fifteen year
old. and eloped with her, but va
arrested The vile died an
Powell: snd the girl we're marie
] few days later. 'There2 A
Poplar Bluif, Of course, 70
might know.
&. T. Lee. the wsll know,
Nodaway County horesnar
pulled OF one q ths most ssn
astional s'killingsp q ~ Wink
ssason It New orIesns Tueeds
4hln his-sood sprintsr, B|16|
beoked from odds Of 60 b = D !
carried q ths fourth rsee =
<n1ris6n 6nioh. Il Il probab|
III tbo MIorouri oontin66|
IS - Z s s:'!!ss I; g .'ss $
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-02-14

W. W. Taylor a Son. Of Jack,
son who built the Methodist
church in New Madrid have beer
awarded the contract to build the
new Methodist church at jackson
! The church is to cost $50, 900 and
their contract is nearly $4,000.
| A four.year-old boy near
Charleston, q few days ago, tied
one end of q rope around o calf's
neck and the other end around
his two-year-old brothers. neck.
The calf became scared and ran
and the child was nearly dead
when rescued.
Ben Adams:-Goo bad. Bill
Flentge has notified N, A. Moz-
ley that he will net support him
for the judge Of the 81. Louis
Courto Of Appeals, Now il Mr..
Mozley will get that information
before the people of Southeast
Missouri his election is assured.
4 ~
| Sheriff L, P. Gober, OF Benton,
Scott county, came up to-day
on his way to South Bend, Ind,
with Roy Smith, 10, who recent
ly went insane near Commerce,
where he was working, His par
ents live in Indiana. A wound
in the head brought on his con.
dition. Four men were required
to take him to the jail at Benton
yesterday Cape Girardeau
Republican.
Frank Cauley, q bootlegger,
was shot and killed at James,
Bayou, Mississippi county, one
day last week by deputy sher-
iii. CspIey was charged with
selling booxe without a license
and when the deputy sheriff
started to serve a warrent on him
he responded by drawing his
pistol but he wasn'tquick enough
and the sheriff plugged him.
The coroner said justifiable,-
| Hornet.
/ Sheriff Cupp and a pack OF
| bloodhounds captured Joe Lam
kister who tried to rob the Big
Four store yesterday afternoon,
II was with difficulty that the
dogs were prevented from harm
ing Lankister. When clerk en- /.
cred the store yesterday Lankis.
ter had piled quantity of mer-
, chandise against the back door
preparatory to moving 1t. Lank.
lister escaped, but hounds were
/ soon on his track and after Q
chase Of six miles he was caught
|, l-Ex.
: A letter sent out by j. R. Pool
. postmaster at Cardwall, Mo-, Il
(. the depository in st. Louis, wal
. lost, the letter was registered
and when the mail pouch arrived
. OF Paragould, Ark. the lette
e was missing and slit was dis
q covered cut in the mail pouch
e The government put detective
9 to work on the case, but nothin,
. was ever found Of 1t, and nov
}. the government is calling on tn
bondsmen Of Mr.. Pool to max
eIgood the amount. When th
+ $4,000 disappeared from tn
i sub.treasury in 81. Louis, a bi
r was introduced in congress
4 reimburse the bondsmen Of th
!. sub-tressurer for the shortag
!. they had to make good. Nj
" Pool Is . common country poet
"A master and the sub-reasurer |
u st. Louis is 9 man up in the RI
I. publican party in the state an
lvithst il where the diiferens
= comes in.
It The board Of supervisors Of Il
II Little river drainage district he
m q meeting in the Cape Januar,
+. 20 and took up the matter Of de
htl work. The chief sneinser VI
Id instructed. 70 put four crews
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-02-14

One hundred insane person
we're transferred from the st.
Louis City Asylum to the hos.
lpital at Fulton Monday. There
were 43 men and 81 women.
About 1000 turkeys have been
purchased in Howell county since
the first OF the year for shipment
to Panama for canal employees.
Every day must be Christmas
down there.
Governor Folk has offered
a reward for the capture of
Thomas Keeney. Keeney was
a Morgan county prisoner who
escaped from Jail there some
time since, charged with rape.
A Camden Point young man
has broken his engagement be-
cause in a letter to him his
sweetheart misspelled twenty
words. He argued that il she
couldn't spell she coulden't be o
careful housekeeper.
Monarch store, T. W. Bellows
big mercantile establishment at
Princeton, 10 preparing to quit
business and will close out q
S15s,0O0 stock. Mr.. Bsllew is
Iti,e owher oi tweive or fifteen
'lzu1bey yards sRd has enough
business 10 iocs s.te: S.!sss&s s..s
store.
Judge j. L. Fort OF Dexter will
have opposition as the candidate
for governor on a prohibition
platform. ]. M, McCall,of Adair
county has secured blanks, from
the secretary of state for sigma
lures for his nomination on the
straight prohibition ticket for
governor.
WI. Randall, who lives two
and a half miles south of Craig,
raised one acre of potatoes last
season which he was unable 10
dig at the usual period, owing to
pressure OF other work and soar
city of help. January 10 he ba,
gan to harvest this crop and ID
now at work digging. Every
potato is in perfect condition o.
far as unearthed, not one being
frost bitten or rotted.
| Edward T. Mason, a we'll o-ds
farmer residing six miles nortf
OF Glasgow, was found with hi
throat cut, in his door yard a few
days ago. A Apocket knife lyine
near was the instrument witt
which Mason took his life. HI
made his home with his grand
niece, Mrs. Ben Gains, Whe,
found the body was orouched a
the root Of q tree to which th'
frozen arms Of the dead maj
clung. Mason was . cripple.
Tuesday last 3. w. Browning
'lof Craig bought q stick Of phos'
lphorus, intended to use scraping
loif It with molassess, as . ra
poison. He put it In his Goa
pocket and went up street. Fiji
Itesn minutes later, in front OF tn
postoffice. the phosphorus sud
, denly famed and in an instan
= . e. a q
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-02-14

jackson city council passed .
! curfew ordinance last meeting
i. also an ordinance prohibiting
; boys under IS playing pool.
The Sturdivant estate in Caps
Girardeau was valued at s125, ,00(
and the inheritance tax Of $500
'Igoss to the State University.
The city Of Pennington decid-
ed to bond the city to erect a
} $4,000 municipal light plant, by
q vote Of nearly 4 to 1, last week.
W T. Wilson had his life In
sured for $40, 900, and an adjust
or was here Jan. 21st fixing up
the papers to pay the money on
the policy.-Cape Girardeau
Democrat.
Experts are examining all OF
Wayne county's financial books
and affairs. Several thousand
dollars of withheld funds have
been returned. All the officials
being examined are Republicans.
Col. W. H,Phelps was injured
in an automobile accident at Car
thage Thursday morning when
his machine collided with street
car. Flying glass cut the colon
el about the eyes, and he was
badly shaken up.
w. P. Allison, the De Kalb
liveryman, was kicked in the
face and breast by one Of the
livery horses Wednesday Of this
week. No bones broken but it
makes Allison appear like he is
wearing the other face now.
! Corning boasts Of a baseball
PLAYER who has attained such
proficiency that he has been
drafted by the White Box Of
Chicago and will play with that
team this coming season. His
, name is George Speer, but ID
better known as "Shsy."
A man named Ed Olvis start
ed to pump out Mud Lake, across
from Lsavenworth, in the spring,
, to reclaim thu land, and every
: one laughed at him, But he
kept on pumping, and now has
uncovered 200 acres of rich land
and will pillow it and plant 1t tc
corn.
Wednesday night while at
tempting to get on the Cap,
Girardeau Carruthersville trail
which passes Hayti at 0 p. m
Tom Wilson a man we'll known a
that place was thrown beneatl
the moving train and instantl,
killed. Wilson and several 9th
ers were trying to get on tn
: train as it left Hayti for this city
o Wilson being the last one th
s train was moving at q rapid rat
y as he attempted to swing on tn
I-iplatform OF the second elias
6 coach, and missing his hold 0
i the hand rail, he fell beneath tn
h trucks of the rear coach, th
!, wheels passing diagonally acroi
his body almost severing 1t in tw'
charlottesville Democrat.
ii On the night Of the 31st thrs
Ee men with handkerchief tied ov'
leltheir faces came to the home I
,dlw. H. Gam, Q young farms
Is living near waynesville, ar
70 called him TO the door. On opeI
D. ling the door they seized hi
ae carried him into the yard, thre
= him on the ground, and one
In the number held him while u
l. others vigorously applied q hicl
ne ory withe, cutting him up bad
Ae and after releasing him, rsmarl
oyl cd, "Now, did yeu. supps
m your wife, As soon as N
IN Gam ives able, he came to tos
" and made complaint and satu
I'll day Sheriff A. D. Sutton broue
o. Jesse and Edward Croasland 4
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-02-14
EuHsEn II.

many years. experience and ia
Iconsidered one Of the most re-
liable and accurate men at the
business to be found. II is q big
undertaking the board Of super
visors has 10 look after in the
drainage Of the Little river dis
trict. The work win probably
cost sa.5oo. .OOO--Jackson Cash
Book.
Robbers burglarized the store
of B. F. Earles at Morley Friday
night, January 25, blowing open
the safe and obtaining some
money. jewIery and other arti-
cles. Mr.. Earies has offered q re-
ward OF s100 for theapprehension
Of the bold thieves. A band OF
robbers must be at work in Scott
county, as this makes several
cases OF burglary within its linn
its in a month. .--Sikeston Herald,
The boundary suit between
this county and Pemiscot which
was tried at Poplar Bluff in Jan-
uary, was taken under ADJUSTMENT
by Judge Shepherd until this
week, when he was to have
handed down. a decision. Today
the case was called and passed
until the next term of court.
This is a suit of great interest to
the taxpayers Of this county. for
il Pemiscot county wins this suit.
this county will lose a strip Of
land half a mile wide the entire
length of the county. The coun-
" ooaT IS of D'urikiin and ierf,iScots
'aa1zass had veazz ogo appointed
8 "a q e egs :rsaa TIE sIo 4statiea
to establish the county hhe,
which was done and Dunklin
county sold the land and it was
placed on the. taxsbooE. ofA thA
county. Besides, Dunklin will
have to refund the money it got
for the land to the parties who
purchased it. The money from
the sale Of the land was placed
to the credit Of the school fund
Of Dunklin county and that fund
will be the loser. 1t seems TO US
that this suit is of enough impor-
tance to have the county court
employ someone to look after
Dunklin county's interest. 1t ia
true that the land was patented
to Powell, Mckay, Jones, Hunt
er, Marshall, Baldwin, Petty,
Harrison and others, and they
transferred part of.he land to mons
residents and sold it for two dol
lars and fifty cents per acre, but
if Pemiscot wins, the county will
have to refund the money and
lose the tax for all time to come.
.I-Dunkin County Herald.
William Lovelsss sat on the
edge of his cot at 4 o'clock this
morning and deliberately burned
about s1100 in greenbacks in the
flames OF q coal oil lamp. In the
same manner he destroyed a
deed to 700 acres Of land. He
seemed to be in q delirium that
assumed a destructive tendency,
, The man was sitting on his bed
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-02-14

VAC Jcais JuueO, u0 oaio ~ suits
me this weather"
Linneus. Is going to hold
q special election on February
II, 10 vote on bonding the city
again for $500 with which tc
rebuild their electric light plant,
recently destroyed by IRE.
The state trsasurery now has
more than two million dollars in
ID to the credit OF the state, due
to the December collections from
the different county and state tax
funds for the past year.
Mrs. s. P. Rice of Darksville,
Randolph county, sold 1871 doz-
en- eggs in 1905 for S2S5.03, and
in 1907 sold sold 1895 doz-
en- for s233. 90, besides the dozens
it took for family use and for
setting.
M. Frunck has the distinction
of being the Oldest man in john
son county, his age being 90
years, and we'll along toward o.
He is remarkably preserved and
is still a good hand with the ak
or at work.
To help along the noise of q
charivari near Winsor one cutur
brought along a shotgun. Oh
course the gun was loaded, bui
happily no one was injured ex.
cept the man who brought it.
He win recover,
Herbert prst.yman, scn oi
Obadiah Prettyman, who lives
near Fairfax, took second pre-
MUM Of SO on the best display
of white corn in the boys con-
test, at the Columbia corn show
the first of the month.
Mrs. Elizabeth York, who dice
at Watson last week, was one Of
the oldest persons In the county
Had she lived until February s
she would have been 81 years
old. She was born in Kentucky
in 1911 and was married in 1927
more than 80 years ago.
Information secured this weel
virtually establishes the fact tn
skeleton found in Dale township
twelve years ago and PARTIAL.
Unidentified as the body of Jacol
A. Funk was really that of Eek
hardt, a butcher and sausag'
maker who had lived at Glen
wood, Iowa. st. Joe Observer.
j. D. Yates, a well known rest
dent OF Tracy, and q man VIII
was well known in Weston, wa
shot and killed at Tracy Sunda
evening by Dudley Davis. Ac
cording to reports, the shootin
took place just as the Rook Is
land train from Leavenwort
pulled into the station Of Tracy
l-St. Joe Oberyer.
Missouri had . governo'
Thomas Reynolds, who commit
ed auicids because, as he wroI
lin q note before his death, }
could not stand the SANDER IN
abuse Of his worst enemies. H
suicide was In the exscuti,
Imansion at Jefferson City, Eel
IlruAry 10, 1914. The old hon
built and occupied BY Gov. Re.
|nolds yet stands near Fsgstts, \
Howard county. q splendid spec
/ men OF the architecture Of Il
! long ago. For soma years Il
i Reynolds home was owned
John Burnham and was know
lias ''Burnham's Wood" VIII.
], : protrait was sought some 4
,lyeare ago for reproduction,
! wss after long search that . pr
u trait vss found, and that IN {
i attic Of "Burnhsm'a Wood
Goxernor Reynolds came 10 M'