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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
DAREDEV|LS Of NIAGARA
Settling Rapids the Scene OF
Many Thrilling Feats.
IN AND OVER THE WATER
Beachey's Flight in Aeroplane
Through Gorge Recalls Other
Daring Acts.

Niagara Falls. itself most wonderful
sight. has been the scene OF some OF the
most marvellous acts-especially of daring
ever known to man, but never was so
unique a conquering OF nature by man as
took place at the falls on June n. when
Lincoln Beachey circled over the Horse
shoe. swooped under the arches OF the up
per steel bridge and down the gorge TO the
whirlpool in the latest continuance Of
science, a bplane.
Beachey IS no amateur flyer. Some Of
his flights have been hair-rsising. Yet. 1T
was the most exciting trip Of my life ne
said after landing at Niagara Falls. ont.
Two hundred thousand persons were
gathered at the falls to see the birdman
in a heretofore untried feat. The occasion
reminded many Of the days when fool
hardy Adventures tempted fate by going
over the falls, by trying TO swim the rap
ids or through the Whirlpool; or, In
years way back in time. men and women
walked. ran danced and skipped across the
open mouthed chasm on a ughtrope. The
interest shown by the crowd was the same;
the palpitatioHs lest the daring aviator be
sucked downward by treacherous and I'M
known air currents we're as throbbing as
when thousands of eyes watched an IN
trepid swimmer battering head and body
against the raging waves of the whirlpool.
The American and Canadian shores were
packed with persons, as were the Three
Sisters islands and the bridge. when. with
the whir and buzz OF his motor drowned
by the eternal roar Of the waters. Beachey
rose 10 a height OF about two thousand
feet. Twice he circled the cataract. then
with n long swoop. he rushed for the mar
row passage under the bridge. So low was
his machine as he went over the Ho. Sc
shoe Falls that he was lost 10 view in the
mist and spray. Then he was seen TO be
Swimming Just above the later He glided
like a daring demon bird over the roaring
foam and made the bridge passage mid
way between the two abutInents and
about seventy-hve feet below the lowest
steel girdcrs OF the structure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
NAVIGATING THE WHIRLPOOL

While these feats we're taking p.aCe--or
-a,bar 0,,rinr intervals-a now feature
VA. added. IT has been generally heheNed
that tho lower river is Unnavigable. Yet
on June s 1851 Captain Joel Robinson
Of tho Maid Of tho Mist. in company with
two associates. drove his boat downward.
The Maid was heavily mortgsged at the
tirc. and Captain Robinson did not see
an,. va 10 relief but one This one he
chose. Instead 81 turning her in tho direc-
.ior Of the Falls. he pointed her 10 the
rapids. end started. Under full steam she
plunged into tho waters going through the
vbiteraps with a rush. she lost her
snCkns.ack Soon she was in the whirl-
pool. rocking and humping But she
ohevcd her rudder and Robinson soon had
her on her way toward peaceful waters
The feat remained the solitary wonder Of
its kind for quarter Of a century
Cartain Matthew Webb, a swimmer fam
Gus in England. left his home in 1888 an
nouncinC h. would give battle 90 the cur
rents o. tho Niagara gorge. He entered
small boat on July a. 1883. and started
down The river. With nothing on but
a pair Of rcd trunks he leept into the river
while vet several hundred feet from the
raridg As ho PASSED under the suspension
bridge no swan strongly, his own strong
strokes hurting him right irto the thickest
Of the waves For a short time he could
bc seen battling with tho waves, and then
he disappeared Four days later his BODY
was recovered.
Ills failure inspired other men 10 take
the chance. There was in success the
IL.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
DIVING INTO THE RIVER.

At home Sam Patch used TO battle with
and engage in high jumping
First he dove from a bridge into a deep
bool: then. rot satisfied with such daring.
bought greater heights. on the roofs 81
ilearby mills. In this manner Patch de-
jeloped ability and ambition. Noticing the
Enormous crowd which the destruction OF
| he Michigan took 10 the falls, he re-
olved to profit by the excitement. He
built n wooden tower, ninety feet high at
he waters edge. at the foot Of the Biddle
Staircase on Goat Island From a plat
3orm on top Of this he leaped into the
waters Of the lower Niagara River His
CT was safely performed but he lost his
.ife soon afterwaTd by "A high dive in Roch-
$ster.
. History does lot show that amy one
hought of Niagara Falls as a scene Of
3otoriety or advert sement for thirty years
fter Patch made mis- dive. Then, i'm June,
[S9. NJ. Blondn. q Frenchman. appeared
Eith his business manager. Harry Colcord.
Ind arranged for the falls as back
yround-or underground IS II were
or his special line OF ondeaVor. He
nnounced his intention Of stretching a
|shtrope across the gorge from Goat
sland TO the Canadian bank. At first
De found few believers in his feat IT
Fas said he would never do IL. But he
hspired confidence by daily walking up
nd down the guys Of the old railway sus-
3tnsion bridge. smoking cigar. In June
e stretched his rope at place known as
Mites Pleasure Grounds His cable was
bout 1870 feet long, and with IL came
billy 5000 feet OF rope for guys. At first
seven-eighths inch rope was carried
jcross the gorge, and II was thought, when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
SWIMMING THE RAPIDS.

\ Boston policeman named w. L. Ken
dali grded himself with q life preserver
and swan through the rapids as far rs the
whirlnool AT a later day. However, his
success was not emulatcd. and The barrel
idea came into vogue In 1886 a woman
sought nCtoriety by such means. Miss
Sadie Allen in company with George Ilaz
lett (wno had once before made the trip
with William Potts.. successfully encount-
cred the -apids in a barrel.
Then came the era of boats destined 10
taunt Nature and make her yield 10 vic
tory In a seventeen-foot boat, air-cush-
Toned. Charles a. Percy, of Niagara Falls,
made three trips in 1857 on the last trip
he lost his boat Il. W. Flack, Of SYRIA
cuse who thought he had invented life
saving boat tied ii out i'm July, 1855 lie
fixed a harness about his waist. and the
boat turning, he was held prisoner 10
the waves End rocks. For an hour the
boat tossed in the whirlpool. Percy, who
vas TO have had race with Flack II this
trip had been successful, recovered the
fragments Of the boat and Flack's body.
W. g. Campbell made an open nat-bot-
toned boat. i'm which he started to make
the trip. II capsized. however. before the
NillllOcl WIS ltd'Iitu anu NdllpLtll SN Il III
10 shore. His beat was smashed.
Ten years later came Peter Nilsson. Of
Chicago. with a covered boat, in which he
safely made the voyage. 1t was his in
tention he said. 10 start a boat service
through the rapids. He weighted his boat
with tons OF iron and went TO take sound
ings near the Horseshoe Falls. he had
many escapes. and his soundings amount
ed 10 nothing at all but notoriety. with
a companion he made many trips about
the river. the gorge. the falls and the
whirlpool. Finally came the day when his
boat was smashed and he lost his life
Barrels came into vogue again in 1901,
when Martha r. Wagenfuhrer essayed a
trip by herself The occasion was the first
time a woman had attempted the trip
alone, and is recorded as the only time a
woman successfully made il alone. After
being I'm the rapids an hour she was resus-
citated ON July Il. OF the same year.
Miss Maud Willard and dog were set
adrift in a barrel The barrel was imme-
d,ately sucked in by the whirlpool and
then shot into the air returning 10 the
whirlpool. Late that night the barrel was
recovered. When II was opened the dog
leaped out. 1t was said that had the dog
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
Illustrated London NeH

Mrs. Taylor II is vet 70 br learned That
success has crowned ans endcaIor Of this
kind.
Not much attention mas been given TO the
falls I'm the last decade. Couples have
gone TO view them on their honeymoonS
and. with open cars and open mouths.
have listened To- the stories Of what has
taken place there. They have wondered at
the dcaferinc Noise Or tho swirlinG wat
crs. thcy have been spattored 10y the ny
iug spray. they have admired tho scenic
ssttiug
Sow comes a man-brd With new Turn
10 the old game aud tending To create the
same thoughts ~ OF yore. What would
have happened To- him had he fallen? "
his motor had gone wrong he might have
heon able 10 make a slide on his planes for
safety but what n plane had broken
while DO lowered over the falls? What
4
II WAS the most exciting trip Of my
ne" Boachry said. Those who heard
him had one other thought: II might have
been his last.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
CARING FOR BRAZIL S WOPKMEN
A National Scheme for Providing
Cheaper Homes for Them.

Recently enacted legislation favoring the
construction and maintenance Of cheap
homes Tor wofkiuemcu 100 Rio do Janero
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
NEW TRAP FOR INCONSISTENCIES
a Veteran Revenue oiiieeF Uses .
Camera to Get evidence Against
Oklahoma Law vIoIaters.

Muskogee, Ok, May 2O.-Bud Kell,
who has hunted moonshiners for 80
years, is now using q camera instead
Of winchester in his efforts to wipe
out the Illicit stills in oklahoma. Kell
Is in the internal revenue service. For
50 years he has been almost constant
" IN the government service, most
Of the time as a deputy United statea
marshal
Whenever Kell looks for moonshin-
ers now he takes q camera along and
whenever a still Il found, whether
Il Il ralded or not, he makes . picture
Of II These pictures are valuable
later when q raid Is planned. It At
lords q complete Identification Of the
place and the surroundings, and later.
il the moonshiners ever come to thai
these same photographs are good evi-
dence.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
WILL ABILENE GROCEae
ADOPT THE NEW PLANT

A new system OF delivery for
groceries and meats which Il said 70
be In excellent working order q. OF
.tawa and other cities In Kansas, -
contemplated BY the grccsrs and
meat markets in salIna, and tho sys-
tenn, IL adopted would. II II claimed
save money to the merchants and
give just as good or better satisfae-
ton than the present individual syg-
tenn in Salina and many other cities
Of the same size and somewhat small
or.
The plan is for q common delivery
system for all the merchants who
would care to 60 into the new plan,
and If 1t is adopted the salina mer-
chants will be able to do away with
the expense OF maintaining their
own delivery wagons and horses.
The merchants are negotiating with
a man who was in salina today for
the general delivery system. and the
new plan would be to divide the
city probably into five districts. For
the first, second, third and fourth
wards, II each ward Is called q dis
trict, it would probably require two
wagons. and one wagon would suf-
flee for the fifth ward.
The grocers and markets would
separate their goods to be delivered
in each Of the districts, and the
wagon or wagons would collect from
all the stores the deliveries for the
district by each concern at the same
time. This would save NO end Of
doubling on ono territory While
the goods sold in one district by all
the stores would oe delivered by one
wagon or two as the case may be-,
other wagons would DO making the
rounds for all the merchants In the
ether dlstricts.-Salina Journal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
DAWSON BRlvGs OYSTER SUIT
Asks Kansas Supreme Court TO Ap'
point = Receiver for Holding Com
pany for Hrewery interests.

Topeka, May 2O.--John 8. Dawson,
attorney general, brought an custer
suit in the supreme court against the
Regal Realty and Investment company
Of st. Louis, q holding company for
the brewing interests. The company
owns $50 warehouses and saloon prop
critics in Crawford and Cherokee coun-
ties, all used either retail or IS ware
houses for the storage Of beer.
The company has no charter TO
transact business in Kansas and 1t
could not get one as corporations to
handle real estate cannot be incor-
porated in this state. The company
also could not be given a charter be-
cause Of the purposes for which It
uses the $50 tracts Of land which It
holds In the state.
The attorney general found on his
recent raids that practically all o.
the buildings used by the jointists
and the wholesale liquor dealers were
owned BY this company. The attor-
ney general asked for . receiver fcr
ali the property and also foor . receiv-
er for much personal property in the
two counties. This includes wagons,
teams, ..arness. bar fixtures and other
property used in connection with the
operation Of the joints In southeast
Kansas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
TEACHERS HAVE SOME NEW
RULES ON CERTIFICATES

County Superintendent Steen has
received from the state suDerintend-
ent the new rules on teachers GER
tiflcates. Among them are these:
First, the present holders Of pro-
fessional certificates may at the ex-
ipiration Of the same have such GER
tificates exchanged for a new re-
Movable first grade certificate with
out any further examination in any
subject whatsoever; provided, that
said holder of a professional certi-
ficate shall have complied with all
of the conditions of the law relat-
ing to a renewal of a professional
certificate.
Second, all grades Of 80 or better
on present first grade certificate
may be carried toward a new first
grade certificate, provided, that an
examination be taken in all subjects
in which the present grades are less
than 30, and also in modern history
and agriculture.
Third, present holders Of second
grade certificates may have an grades
Of 30 or better that have been al
ready accumulated toward a profess
sional certificate applied on q new
first grade certificate. The restrlc-
ton limiting the retaining Of grades
of 80 or better to four examinations,
will not apply as to any SOS OBJ
tained on a second grade certificate
in the past. In other words, the
limiting to four examinations begins
with the June examination.
Fourth, without regard to the
number Of third grade certificates
held by any person in the past, two
more such certificates may be held
and two only, under the new law.
Further no grades OF any kind may
be carried from a third grade GER
tificate to any other grade Of certi-
ficate.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
SHIFTING SON..

Real Estate Transfers Reported b.
J. p. Keel, AbstraCtOr.
Isaac Page and wife to Patrick Reilly
ne v 1S-11-S, $4,000.
Mary W. wetsel, to T. B. Bower
lot IS, blk 10, Manchester, %25
Fred Trickle to Josephine Under
wood, lots IS and IA, blk 26, Man
chester. $3.50.
Frederick Neaderhiser and wife t.
Josie Underwood, lots Q and 10
blk 2S, Manchester, $40.
J. r. Young, sheriff, TO G. A. Bacon
lots IA, 10, blk 16s, Luce q VIII
sons add Harrington, $5O5.5O.
Heirs OF Richard Brown to Lille
Fisk ct al, part Of Tot 2. blk 8,
Hope, 2OxSO IT,, 81.
Barbara Foster ct al to Theresa Gels
lot S3, Fifth st., Solomon, SIS.
Stella @. o'Brien ct al to There's
Gels, 81.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
CORPORATIONS GET CHARTERS
Western Union Telegraph and Pull
man Companies Comply With
New Kansas Law.

Topeka, May 2O.--The long litiga-
ton over the right Of the Western
Union Telegraph company and the
Pullman company to DO business in
Kansas has been settled finally. The
Pullman company paid it, charter fee
some time ago and the Western Union
has Just obl4insd ita charter. SIX
years ago an effort Waa made 70 Dust
both companies from Kanaas e. Meth
or had charters. ne companies ~
lnssSd % pay charter Zee o. their
sntifo capital stock snd ne euprsme
cbnrt knocked out the law tiovidlng
for this Ths 1911 legislature passed
q law rsauirinE foreign corporations
10 pay Z charter iee o. the actual
amount q capital uDsd IN Kansas and
~ tWo companies accoptaA he new
law.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
NOTICED BALD SPOT
COMING ON HEAD
Interesting StOryof COnsultatlOnwith
DermatOlogist and Successful Use
ofCutlcura. Also Case Of Severe
Ivy Poisoning, Relief Of Which by
Cuticura was Permanent.

"Nlne years ago / noticed bald spot
coming on my head and, Is was only
ninetsen years old, Il did not seem
natural, as it was on the side q my
head instead 81 90 top. My mother
advised my seeing 4 dermatologiBt and
1 did 90, ono d the best In Boston, and
be said Il was due 70 q germ / must
have rot AZ the hnrbers He couldn't
assure cure, but by treating each hair
separately By electricity, be said, the
hair might come out white or gray, Il
u came out % AL he propoged giving
mo-a treatment every month for SIX
nluntha nf Ten inllarE . treatment
When 4 told my mother she advised
u1ina Cutici1ra and thh did, using
Cutlcura Soap and Ointmenl every day.
In two months my hair commenced 70
grow. and in six lionth1 one would
never have known there had been any
trouble, TIE hair coming out being black.
never had any trouble since. and ielI
I can't say hal enough Tor CulIcur1.
Another member 81 our family va
.e'y ., Po.e'ss os pos PS'e' ~ ~ go sae
came. bursting and c1urlne nlu1f 11.Icls
Ing. We tied cyerTfhinf r1couueude1
b th1 hl1t phYIIcI1nr, bul With no
sod r1rnIt. Finally ~ tied Cu,ir1la
ard obtained raII1f N q VIZ gtcTt tine
Which wE1 rEfunrrlA ne Ell nlT1f
had 1nT irOuh'1 GInct. 80 CuI.crr1 }
InVnIu1hI1 q ne, Fou 80. OF, El1U11,
I n.1inr.o1 s.. DornA4,ll. Aa1l. tan.
fli1 iai,.r , ~ e., q huu,. -
"a rr1tl 81 ~ lrc11 q ~ or1IlIrs
.|a. = |.Ir1 I's m. AID cab.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
l(Eirst published IN Abilene Weekly
Reflector May II. i9il)
PUBLICATION NOTICE.

IN the Probate Court OF Dickinson
county, state OF Kansas.
In the matter Of the estate Of Henry
i g. Sexton. Insane.
Notice Is hereby given that on tho
guardian Of the person and estate Of
the above named Henry c. Sexton, filed
in the probate court OF Dickinson cOun-
ty. state Of Kansas, his petition for
an order authorizing him to lease the
following described real estate sit.
uated IN Dickinson county state Of
Beginning at the southwest corner
Of the southeast Y Of section 40;
thence north 33.l6 chai1s; east 1851
chains: south 1915 chains, thence west
on section line 14,b1 chains to begin.
ming, containing 4s.lo acres, and being
part Of the west X Of southeast Y
2 east OF the eth p. M.
Also beginning at point in center
line OF section 20, y33.16 chains north
of southwest corner OF the southeast
X Of section 20; thence due east to g
point in section 2s, 6.lS chains. east
due north to a point In north line Of
south " Of the northwest X Of sec-
tion 2s, 0.43 chains, east Of northwest
corner Of south X Of the northwest X
Of section rs, thence due west to north
west corner Of south OF northeast X
ginning, containing 1873 acres and being
part OF sections % and 29-13-2. Also
lots one ~ and two az In section
thirty-two (a2l township thirteen (13l
range two (2) east OF the 9Th p. M.
for the period Of five years at an am
nual rental Of eight hundred dollars
(SS00.OO) per year, payable 10000 on
the first day Of March and 100000
on the first, day Of September Of each
year. Said petition will be for hear
ing at the, Probate Court In the city
Of Ahtle1e% Dickinson county, Kansas,
on the Slsts day Of May, 1911, at
o'clock a m.
Hurd & Hurd, Attorneys. Sc
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
B0OTlEGeER WORE 4 H0BBlE
AND IT PROVED A. BAD THING
FOR OKLAHOMA WOMAN.
Il Revealed the Flask In Her Stocking
and Caused Her
Arrest.

Guthrie, Ok, May 2O.--The hobble
skirt is not good thing for woman
bootlegger to wear, the Rev. O. Q.
Brannon Of Rockwell, Ok, prohibit
tion enforcement ofilcer for the fed
eraI government to keep separate the
reservation Indians and tirewater, be-
Iieves. The wearing Of hobble gown
recently caused the arrest Of one Of
the most persistent woman bootleg.
gers in the southwest,
1--WE had been suspecting her for
some time" Mr.. Brannon said in tell
ing how they caught het, "but we
were unable to catch her with any
liquor. It was evident that che was
selling to the Usage Indians. getting
her supplies at Pawhuska.
"She laughed at US when we en-
tered her room, but invited US to DO
seated. At the same time she took @
chair herself. just opposite me. She
was telling how innocent she was Of
the charge, when my eyes caught the
shape Of Q half-pint dash imprinted
through her hobble skirt where Y
was drawn tight Just below her left
knee.
"She knew the Jig was up the min
ute she caught the direction Of my
eyes for she could see a. plainly -
I did the imprint Of the fash. We
called In q woman operative and had
the bootlegger searched. In each
stocking the woman carried a~haif-
pint Of whisky"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
ABILENEITEs VISIT AT LONDON.
Are Now on Their Way to British
East Africa.

1--WE arrived here a week Ago on
the White Star Oceanic" says A. 4.
Martin in a letter. to the Reflector,
dated London, land have spent a
very busy week IN London, purchas-
ing necessary outfits and equipment.
we sail again from South
hampton on the German East Africa
line for MombRsa, British East Afri-
ca. The voyage will take four
weeks and our course lies around the
coasts Of Spain and Portugal. touch
ing or stopping at Llsbong thence
via Gibralter through the Mediter-
ranean. We stop again at MAraeilles
and Naples. then we touch At Port
Said and stop from one to two days
there, after which We proceed through
the suez canal on down through the
Red Sea, the Gulf Of Alden. and the
1HdIan Ocean to Mombasa.
ARRIVING there We sim have q
journey By railway. believe nearly
three dayA before We reach Kiiabe,
the headquarters Of the Africa In
land Mission.
THE weather n England. though
cool. has been bright and Vtry pleas.
ant during our slay-a kind Of YEA.
ther / have not found IN Ensland On
ny thres prsvious vista here
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
PRISON PENALTY FOR TRUST


Washington, May 1S-Jail sentences
Of from two to ton years for those
found guilty Of contracts or combina,
tons in restraint Of trade are pro
vlded in an amendment Of the sher-
man antitrust law proposed BY sena.
tor Gore Of Oklahoma. The proposed
amendment was called out by the rul.
ing OF the supreme court in the Stand
ard OIL case. The amendment also
would narrow the law 50 as to make
1t hold that no contract or combina-
ton Of whatever kind Of character"
should be adjudged to be reason
able" It was referred to the commit
tee on interstate commerce.