The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-24
SPOKANE MEN INVENT NEW FLYING MACHINE
Will Garry Very High Power s, Engines
FINDS THE OLDEST TREE
Wealthy Girl Settles on Homestead and Lives By HerseIf--wilI Improve
 It and Make a Beautiful Place

Spokane, Wash, January 23.-Tc Spokane men will go the credit of orig mating a new idea in aeroplane con struction according to experiments and the forecasts made by many flying ma chine men who have seen the models al work here.
 The airship Is known as the Coynt Helicopter and 1t Is the invention oi Dr. w E. S. Coyne and George Foster both of Spokane. The declared possi- bilities of the machine are such as to startle those who are not familiar with the plans.
 Instead of a little six-cylinder en- zine the Helicopter will be equipped with four 100-horsepower motors to work the planes above the machine which rotate at a rapid rate and give the airship a lifting power of 12S,o0O pounds. An addition motor of great power is installed to run the pro- peller which drives the ship ahead. - The car is built on the idea of a plum bob. It cannot turn turtle" for 1t will always hold its poise and is designed in such manner as to enable 1t to land on the top of d roof. It re- Quires no flying start, but once the machine is set in motion it can rise immediately into the air.
 The two sets of planes are miniature biplanes and the upper and lower sets rotate in opposite directions. They are Installed at an angle and the speedy rotation gives 1t the tremendous lift ing power. It Is estimated the car will have a speed of from 75 to 150 miles an hour According to the com
 IL l. able to carry from 35 to 40 passengers.
 A company has been formed under the name of the Coyne Helicopter Air yohip company and has miniature models on exhibition here. The company is now planning the erection of full oized aeroplane.
 A. A Quarnberg, district fruit in- Dpector. discovered and identified the oldest apple tree on the Pacific coast recently and Colonel McGunnegie of Vancouver Barracks, Wash. comman- der of the post, has ordered that a fence be constructed around the aged fruit bearer. In the near future a tablet bearing it's history will be erected near the tree. The tree was planted years ago by early officers of the Hudson Bay company from seeds carried in their pockets from Eng land. MT. Quarnberg believes the tree to be about 85 years old. A passage In a history of the early settlers has the following to say concerning the origin of the tree: .At a lunch party in London about 1925, given in honor of some yoAng gentlemen who were about to embark for Fort Vancouver in the employ of the Hudson Bay com pany, seeds of the fruit eaten were slyly slipped by some young ladies into the Waistcoat pockets of the young men and, upon their arrival at their destina- tion the young men, in overh aulins their wardrobes. discovered the seeds and gave them to Bruce, the gardener at the fort"
 About 14 months of Isolated life on . homestead near Prosser, Wash, Anna E. Haines, daughter of wealthy south ern California parents, is preparing to commute on her property As soon as this is done she will depart for her parents home near San Diego. Miss Haines has been steady and persistent in gaining for herself a homestead in what is known as the Rattlesnake hills country, for during the time spent on the property she has not been away from it a single night. Being born with a silver spoon in her mouth has apparently not hurt her persistency. Miss Haines' property is under the proposed high-line irrigation ditch. She will return to her southern California home until there Is water on the land when she proposes to make it a beauti- full place. Don't call 1t 'Rattlesnake e. D she says, referring to the district in which her homestead is located T Just hate that word. My homestead is not far enough up the hill to belong to that district and if it were I believe 1 should have left 1t long ago"