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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
Flying Age and
Significant Features and Effect of
Louis Bleriot's Flight From Calais to
Dover. Across the English Channel,
b Moaoplano. :: :: :: ::
By JAMES A. EDcERToN.

As the nineteenth century earned
n the name Of the age of steam
~ and electricity, SO the twentieth
promises to win the title Of the
flying age. Already man has flown
across the English channel, which may
be as much Of milepost in its way
as M0rcOnrs achievement of sending
wireless message across the same
turbulent neck of water a few years
ago. Marconi's feat was the first
marked success that called the worlds
attention to the fact that telegraph
Ing without wires was an accomplish
ed fact, a triumph that was speedily
followed by the greater victory of
flashing the messages of the air across
the Atlantic. 1t was but yesterday
that these things happened, yet so
swiftly do we move in this era Of SCI
entific enchantment that today wire
less telegraphy is in commercial use
in all parts Of the earth.
Louis Bleriot's feat Of flying across
the English channel is an even greater
accomplishment than that Of MarcOni,
yet it is not so startling, since the
Wright brothers and others had al
ready conducted longer flights. For
example, only few days before the
crossing Of the channel, Henry Far
man, an Englishman, had flown from
Chalons to Suippes, France, a distance
Of forty miles, thus breaking Bleriot's
own previous record Of twenty-five
miles from Etampes to Orleans, the
longest cross country flight of an aero
plane up to that time. The Wrights
and most other aviators have never at
tempted cross country hikes, but have
confined themselves to prescribed
courses, returning to the place of start
ing.
The flight across the channel is a
striking and dramatic thing in itself.
even If longer flights above land had
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11

already been made, and it is made
more strikin: and dramatic because Of
a few attendant incidents. One Of
these was that Bleriot at the time was
crippled from a previous fight and
left behind him pair of crutches as
he mounted his machine to fly into
fame. If cannot walk, will show
them l can fly" he said. He showed
them. Another thing that made this
event remarkable is that it was done
with monoplane weighing only GOO
pounds and having wings that fold
up until the machine is no larger than
an automobile. The Wright machines
and most Of the other successful ones
are biplanes. The popularity of the
monoplane, which is almost exclusive
ly French development, is that it has
greater speed than the biplane. but less
stability, that is, it is more easily over
balanced by unexpected air currents.
Yet another significant feature of NJ.
Bleriot's achievement is the speed with
which the flight was made. From
Calais to Dover, where the crossing
was made, the English channel is
| twenty-one miles wide, making about
twenty-three miles from landing place
to landing place. Yet the entire trip
was made in a half hour, making an
average rate Of over forty-fve miles
an hour. which at times was said to
have been sixty miles. Yet further
circumstance that adds to the pic
| turesqueness Of this first aeroplane
! trip from France to England is the
character of the aviator Bleriot is
known as daredevil Of the air. He
| seemingly fears nothing.
His Nerve Unshaken.
All sorts Of hairbreadth escapes have
| not shaken his nerve. In the past he
has had innunerable accidents and his
friends have always predicted that he
would kill himself as surely as the
sparks fly upward. Tumbles with him
have become a habit. One Of his prac-
tees is to throw himself on wing Of
his machine as he falls. This breaks
| the wing but saves the man. An oper-
ator with that audacity and cool cour-
age should fly far. and that is just
what Bleriot has done. And final
attendant happening. or rather pair of
happenings, that sets OF this daring
Frenchman's feat is the fact that lust
before and just after Bleriot's remark
able flight another French aviator, HUI
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STATE MONUMENT AT
SCENE OF MASSACRE
Private Letter Which Speaks oil
Coming Reunion Of Old
Indian Fighters.

Minneapolis, Minn., August 2,
'O9.
A. H. Sperry. ESQ.,.
Willmar, MINI.
Dear Sir
As you probably know there is to
be placed on the 22d inst. a monu-
ment at the Baker place at Acton.
have interested myself in these
Indian war matters ever since |
started my newspaper at Atwater
in '95, and am now working with
several survivors of Capt. Strout's
Co. "B' to get up crowd to be
present on this occasion. | wrote
Senator Wright what I was trying
to do and he said to be sure and
write you. Now it may be super
huous for me to assume the posi-
tion of inviting you, but l want to
urge you to be there as | expect
that A. H. Rose, Allen. and Ser
geant Getchell and j. C. Higgins of
the old Co. "B" will be on hand
and would be pleased to see you
again. Also | understand that
Jesse V. Branham will speak on the
occasion. am sorry that Holmes
is so far away california; that he
cannot come. One thing which
hope from this meeting on the old
camp grounds is that while there
you comrades Of the old times will
locate to certainty the spot of the
battle field, where three of our
brave Minneapolis boys met their
end. There will be a monument
TO them soon | hope. Hoping to
meet you at Acton the 22d, | re-
main,
Respectfully Yours,
M. P. Satterlee.
22l First St. North.
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Air Co1lquerors
PhCky French Aviator Who Is Known
as Daredevil Of the Alr-AckIeye.
ments Of the Wright Brothers and
Other Aeronauts. :: :: :: ::

bert Latham, plunged into the sea In
trying to make the same crossing. So
take it all in all the first fight across
the English channel is sufficiently
notable despite the previous triumphs
OF the flying Wrights, Farman, Santos
Dumont and all the rest.
Ten Years From Marconi to Bleriot.
Returning to the initial comparison
with Marconi in sending his first wire.
less across the channel, the query nat
urally suggests itself: Will aerial nav
1gation go forward by the same leaps
and bounds in the next ten years that
aerial telegraphy has experienced in
the ten years that have passed since
the first message was flashed from
England to the continent? And by the
way, 1t is not without interest that it
was exactly a decade which passed be-
tween the two triumphs, Marconi scor-
Ing his success in 1899 and Bleriot in
1909. Was ever any age in the history
OF the world so packed with marvels?
Either of these deeds in former time
would have been sufficient alone to
have made whole age illustrious. yet
In this day, when the drivers of the car
of Progress could be arrested any time
for overspeeding. we jam both Of them
into ten years Of time and prepare our
selves for the next wonder that our
inventors may perform!
Only few days after the channel
passage Orville Wright in America
broke all records for two man flight
by remaining in the air over one hour
and twenty minutes in his govern.
ment trials at Fort Myer. Our Ameri.
can pioneers of the aeroplane are not
yet outclassed. They it was who first
made fight in a heavier than air ma.
chine a practical success, they it was
who have been copied by the French
and other inventors. and so it is but
poetic justice that whatever triumphs
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CANCER CURED.

Appleton, Mimi, June 7, 1909.
This is to certify that | have beer
treated for a very serious case OF
cancer in my neck, by Mr.. J. P.
Carlson of Willmar, MINI. l have
been treated by other doctors many
times, and have been operated up.
on. but without avail, until tried
the remedy used by Mr.. Carlson
l commenced his treatment in Feb.
ruary, 1909, and am happy to say
that l am now entirely cured.
have been examined recently by
physicians. and they say the cancer
is entirely gone.
| am very grateful to Mr.. Carl.
son, and recommend him to anyone
who is suffering from that dread
disease, cancer. | may say, also,
that | have been cured of rheuma.
tism by the use of Mr.. Carlson s
remedies.
John Radtke.
Appleton, Minn., K. +. D. No. l.
23-46
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The Andaman islands.

In the eastern part of the bay Of
Bengal is group Of islands called the
Andaman islands. They are profuseiy
covered with vegetation. nearly every
kind Of tree growing there. The seen
cry, too, is very grand, but the islands
are unhealthy and on this account are
not thickly populated. In fact. the
natives are gradually dying off. They
are quite uncivilizcd and once had an
evil name for cannibalism, but live
now chiefly on fish. Squatting on
rocks or standing on rudely shaped
boats, they shoot at the fishes with ar
rows, although some employ long
spears. The islands are used by the
Indian government as a settlement for
prisoners of the worst type, and it was
while engaged in a tour of inspection
in 1872 that Lord Mayo, the governor
general of India. was stabbed to death
by desperate convict.-London Opin-
ion
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Navigating the Fogs.


and score the record triumphs.
Navigating the Fogs.
1t has long been suggested that the
fogs across the English channel are
heavy enough to navigate, and perhaps
Bleriot's feat may be taken as proof of
this. On the same theory the vicinity
of London should be ideal for biplanes,
monoplanes and any other sort of a
plane that could sail around. in or on q
fog. With such meaty, ponderous and
substantial fogs as those of London It
would be impossible for anything so
light as an airship to fall through.
The channel is historic body of
water that has been the graveyard Of
more ships than any equal stretch Of
sea on the planet. Perhaps it's tur-
bulence has done more than British
Notifications to protect John Bull from
Invasion. William the Conqueror man.
aged to break across 1t. but Napoleon
could never send over anything more
formidable than a large scare.
Relying on the diabolical disposition
OF the English channel, j. Bull has
grown chesty and shaken his fist at
the world. Now that people are learn
Ing to fly and can thus ignore his old
channel the portly gentleman has sud-
denly lost his cocky air and has grown
t1abby from fear The mere mention
OF an airship is sufficient to give the
whole English press spasm and to
cause the ministerial benches of par
lament to fairly reek with gloom. A
few weeks ago the British were scared
to death of the Zeppelin dirigible bal.
boon that had been flying about to
anuse people at the German fairs, and
now the panic shifts the cause of its
being to Bleriot's monoplane. That
British Dreadnought should be afraid
of monoplane of the Bleriot type is
like an elephant throwing at at sight
Of butterfly.
English Channel Out Of Commission.
The thing that really disturbs our
British friends in all this is that they
no longer have the natural depravity
of the English channel to fall back on.
They had counted on that as q shield
and defense forever. Now that a
vehicle has been found that can dy
above the raging, churning, uncertain
and treacherous neck Of water, heed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
New Dosses q ne Library.

New DOo3CG at NE library.
The following new books have
just been placed on the shelves at
the public library:
Miss Minerva and William Green
Hill, France B. Calhoun; The Ro-
nance Of q Plain Man, Ellen Glas-
gov; Old Lady Number IL, Louise
Forsslund: Mr.. Opp, Alice H. Rice;
"A History of Egypt, J. H. Breast
ed; A History of China, s. w.
Williams; The Servant in the
House, C. R. Kennedy.
Rental Shelf: The White Sister,
F. Marion Crawford; The White
Mice, R. H. Davis; Elusive ISABEL,
Jacques Futrelle; Simeon Letlow's
Shadow. Jennette Lee; The Glass
House. Florence M. Kingsley; The
Man in Lower Ten, Mary r. Rine-
hart; The Home Bell. Louise j.
Vance; Much Ado about Peter, Jean
Webster.
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Real Estate Trane1erS.
Town Of Roseland.

Aug. 4 Timothy O'Connor to
Perry Bryant. sw4, sec. 20. 100 a.,
$1,000.
Town of Willmar.
July 81 David N. Tallman to Lars
0. Thorpe, Govt. lot 2. sec. 2, 81.
Town Of Dovre.
Aug. 4 Probate Court to Axel
Gustafson, e3 of nw4, sw4 of mel,
part nw4 of mel, part nw4 of mel,
sec. 80, 1873 q.
Town of New London.
Aug. 4 Probate Court to Axel
Gustafson, part of lot 2 of lot 2.
sec. 80, 8.30a
Town of Burbank.
Aug. 5 Peder S. Roe (Ex.) to
Hans Halvorson, und. J interest in
and to the mel of sw4. sec. IL, and
to the sci of sell, sec H.. $5O5.
Aug. 5 Peder S. Roe (Ex.) to
George johnson. und. interest in
and to 1896 a. of lot 2 of sci of sw4,
sec. %, $40.
Aug. 6 Hans Havlorson to George
johnson, und. J interest in and to
1886 a. of lot 2 of sci of sw4, sec.
22,$1O.
Village of New London.
July 81 New London Milling Co.
to Andrew P. Berglund, part of bl.
g, $500.
Village of Raymond.
Aug. 4 Adolph lobe to Annie
Knott, lots II. IL and l3, bl. 3,
$500.
Aug. 6 A. w. Foote to Earl
Clough, lots II and IL, bl. l, Leigh
tons End add. $3.50.
City of Willmar.
Aug John Aim to Henry C.
johnson, n. Is #. of lot 6, bl. 81,
$50.
Aug. &C. A. Ostlund to Anna
Faulk, part of lot of lot l, sec.
Is, unplatted parts, $500.
Aug 3. w. C. Hawkins to Paul
E. Anderson, lots Is and II, bl. 6,
Glarum's add, $3.50.
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Overseas ~ BALBOA.

Shall we 60 to Europe by balloon?
Yes, say the Wrights, the most
daring and successful navigators of
the air which the world has yet
produced. Yes, says H. Helm Clay
ton, Americas distinguished met
eorologist, who has for sixteen
years made y careful study of upper
air currents. Not only may we go,
taking advantage of what has be-
come known to meteorologists as
1.-THE great highway Of the air,
but we may return, for this high
way is not one way route but is
sues return tickets to all who will
study its schedules and take advan-
tage of them with the proper equip
iment. The rails of this vast cir
cult road of the upper air are laid,
so to speak; even the motive power
is provided; the knowledge of the
schedule has been furnished US by
Professor Clayton and other careful
scientific observers; the only re-
naming need is the safe and sure
equipment for reaching this upper
air current and staying in it until
the desired point is reached, and
men daring enough to trust their
lives to the first voyage and thus
point the way to thousands of eager
followers.
In other words, a balloon several
miles high at the latitude of Bos-
ton finds wind blowing from west
to east which is as dependable as
the motion of the earth itself,
which will whisk it across 1900
miles of sea at a rate of speed far
exceeding that of the swiftest ocean
liner. At point near the equator
it would find an equally steady re-
turn current which would watt it
an equal speed back to America.
With dirigible, capable of seek
ing favorable local winds or pro-
ceeding against moderately unfa.
vorable ones to traverse the space
from England to the Canary Islands
or from Key West to Boston, it can
be seen that a circuit would be
established which would have great
possibilities, even to the revolu.
tionizing of the passenger service
between this country and Europe. -
From ITO Europe by Balloon" in
September Technical World Maya.
zine.
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MOROCCO WAR.
Cause Of the Trouble With Moors
at Me|iIla.
KABYLE TRIBES TO BLAME
Their Attack on Some spanish Mines
Near MeIiIIa Before the spaniards
Were Ready Precipitated the Crisis.
Spain's Foes Are Born Soldiers.


The immediate cause Of the trouble
at Melilla, Morocco, which has cost
Spain so dear, occurred on July s,
when some Moors laid an ambush at
the Spanish mines on the railroad near
Melilla for the purpose Of making some
prisoners in order to exchange them
for MOOrs who had recently been ar.
rested for an assault on policeman
-Four OF the miners were killed. There.
upon detachment of the Melilla gar.
rison went out under General Marina
and routed the Moors, though not
without difficulty, as the bayonet had
to be used, and the Spaniards lost
Twenty-Five killed and wounded.
Spanish Mines Raided.
The remote cause of the Melilla trou.
bic dates back about year and half
when two Spanish mining companies
one of them operated with French cap
ital, began work at a point about fif
teen miles from Melilla under the pro
lection Of Roghi Kaid. who then was
supreme in that region. In October OF
last year the tribes revolted, defeated
Roghi and raided the mines, which
then ceased work. The Spanish gov
eminent proceeded to protect them
but, although sorse Of the tribes did
not object, others were hostile, and the
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~OAdA aax1Ol 0OAIAN MOkOCCUs
whole district became much disturbed,
SO that it was not till last June that
the miners were able to resume work.
Under the treaty of 1860 between
Morocco and Spain the sultan is under
| obligation to furnish regular troops for
the protection of the Spanish posses.
sions of Ceuta and Melilla against the
always more or less unruly Riff tribes.
But he has never done this, and when
Spain recently sent Minister Merry del
Val to Fez to call Mulai Hatid's atten-
ton to this fact the sultan not only
refused to listen. but insulted the min
lister. He refused to acknowledge the
| mining concessions at Melilla and also
demanded that the Spaniards with
draw from points where they had
posted troops to prevent contraband
traffic in arms as a condition prior to
any discussion of the matter Then
| the Spanish government voted $780,
600 for the strengthening of the garri-
sons of Melilla and Ceuta and no
doubt would have soon been much bet
ter prepared to deal with a Moorish
attack. but the incident above related
precipitated crisis before the Span
iards We're ready for it.
Born Soldiers.
The Kabyle tribes, which are of Ber-
| Der origin, are the people with whom
the soldiers Of Spain are contending
for supremacy on the Riff coast of
Morocco. These tribesmen. who are
Sunni Moslems, are born soldiers.
Those Of the plains have been recently
engaged in carrying out public works
connected with Spain's mining inter-
| ests on the coast. while those of the
mountains by sudden raids have pc
riodically undone the work of their
! brothers of the plains.
The present revolt is due to the in
spiration Of the new sultan of Moroc-
co, who recently, it ds said, ordered
the Spaniards to evacuate the Riff
coast. The Kabyles. in carrying on
the revolt, are using some Mauser RI
des which were sold to them for his
personal profit by General Margaollo,
governor or Melllla, VINO recently was
killed in a sortie.
Spanish Forts In Ruins.
The Riff coast came into possession
of Spain after the Moors had been
driven out Of Europe in the fifteenth
century and were pursued into Africa.
To prevent a second Moorish invasion,
Spain began at once to fortify this
coast, and by the middle of the sew
enteenth century from Ceuta to Me-
lila and eastward as far as the Al.
gerian frontier was a strong line of
Notifications. Most Of the forts are
now far advanced in ruin, and all are
obsolete. Some had been evacuated
even as early as the beginning Of the
nineteenth century and, with the con-
nivance of successive Spanish govern.
ors, became the stronghold Of pirates
until the latter were swept from the
sea by the combined efforts Of France,
England and the United States
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11

MARIA. do YOU remember that f;no
dinner you got up all by yourself on
the day asked you to be mine:"
Eyes. indeed, George"
"Everything was splendid" :
II am sure it was.'
Ah' wish your mother was living
with us now, Maria. "--Puck.
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IMPROVEMENT
in 6. N. TRAIN
New lnOVatiOnS i'm The Service OF
The ''Oriental Limited
Coast Train.

The Great Northern Railway has
introduced another innovation on
it's transcontinental train between
St. Paul and the Pacific Coast.
Vacuum cleaning machines are now
used to keep the cars spick and
span. The time honored broom has
been relegated to dark corner of
the porter's locker and it's functions
thereafter will be performed by a
machine in charge of a skilled oper-
ator. The apparatus comprises a
vacuum pump driven by an electric
m otor, and metallic reservoir for
receiving the dirt. The machine is
mounted on wheels and is taken
from car to car. There are special
attachments for taking the dust out
of upholstery, curtains and draper
les, as we'll as from the carpets.
The machine is a part of the train
equipment and uniformed opera
tor has been added to the train
crew, his only duties being to keep
the cars neat and clean.
In addition to the vacuum
Cleaners on the Oriental Limited,
there has been established "Tele-
graphic News Bulletin service on
both the Oriental Limited and Fast
Mail. These news bulletins are
telegraphed from the General office
in St. Paul and Seattle. These
news bulletins are sent out three
times a day and contain the latest
news, furnished by the St. Paul
Dispatch. 1t has been running for
some time and has proved of great
value and interest to the public.
In addition thereto, the Oriental
Limited now carries in the Com
partment Observation car a tele-
phone, with which telephone con.
nections can be had with the cities
of Chicago and St. Paul. 1t is in
tended that the service. shall be in
stalled at Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma
and possibly other points along the
line.
A very pleasing and unique Gus.
tom has been established in the
luxurious new Observation cars.
which are running on the Oriental
Limited. 1t is an "Afternoon Tea
Service for all the passengers in
the Compartment Observation cal
and the Standard Sleeper. Between
four and five o'clock every after.
noon of each day, tea will be served
by the porter of the Compartment
Observation car free to all those de.
string same. If the passengers
wish to avail themselves of this
privilege, all that is required OF
them is to call the porter and ex.
press their desire. 1t is anticipat.
ed that this feature will be particu.
larly attractive to the ladies in the
Standard Sleeper and the Compart.
ment car. and it is bound to prove
a strong drawing card on this pop.
ular train.
How Much Gold Can a Man Carry?
II man Of average muscular
strength, a strong man and a very
strong man were told they might have
as much gold as they could carry Q
mile
The average man might carry Ion
pounds Of gold mile. He would have
over $4,000 If he succeeded
The strong man could perhaps get tt
the end Of his mile with $50 pounds OF
gold. He would have about $39,75O.
The very strong man could possibly
struggle to the end Of his mile with
200 pounds That would give him
about $4,000.
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Breaking It Gently.

She stood in the doorway. one hand
on the knob.
"T'apa. DEAR" she lisped, do you
know what Pm going to buy you thith
year for birthday prethent?"
mo. darling" said papa. looking up
from his papers. "What?"
"Pleathe, papa" answered the little
maid, "a pwetty new china thaving
mug with gold tlowerth on it,"
But" said the fond parent, papa
has nice one like that already, dear.
a very handsome one"
"Oh. no, he hathn't," replied the lit
tie girl; 1--WE jutht dwopped ity'
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11

There Is song with this refrain:
Il don't know why love you, but /
DO" We would suggest that no one
try to find out. Trying to find out
why one loves another has the same
tragic result as punching hole In a
drum to see what makes the noise
AtchisOn Globe.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
JOneS-Is Brown ontimistic9

Jones-1s Brown optimistic?
Jacks-1 should say so. I have
known him tn go into restaurant
without penny in his pocket. order a
dozen oysters and feel sure that he
would he able to pay for his bill With
pearl which he would find In one Of
the oysters. London Express.