La Junta tribune., 1913-09-06


ting 1t in tin plate
or pie pan and roasting II good and
black They make the coffee good
and strong aud though the weather
was hot all the time ! was there. /
drank two cups Of coffee every meal
And. by the way. It gets HOT down
in that country. not Just warm. 1t
gets good and hot The nights are
hot too. At Maytorena where the
main camp was. the altitude Was ~
meters or about 1876 feet. practical.
y sea level.
Didicr Mason. the French aviator
who Is flying the aeroplaue "Sono
IA, for the state Troops. gets his
work done early In the morning and
tncn doesn't have anything TO do
the rest of the day. II. generally
goes up At half past five or a guar.
ter Of six. a. there is generally no
wind early in the morning got a
number Of pictures Of him and the
plane before and after he went up
re mases pg circle around tnv
camp travelling ter tp fifteen miles
climbing all the time so as TO get
an altitude Of about $500 feet and
then starts for Gunymaa by the
time hr gets IN the bay he has got
up 10 5000 feet where De- considers
he h safe from the shots Of the
"aIeUtis There Is general misun-
d"rsiardins about Maaanu ANA his
arrupiaus. a- most people apparent.
b think that ho drops tIr bombs
himself Boa mr attempts ru blow up
tho Federal EuHboals Tamplco aud
Guerrero lie Is simply hired by
the State OF sUnrol Co Gy HnIr
machine over the bay. He l. paid
monthly salary and besides gets
d certain amount every time be- goes
up 10 scout and certain amount
eaen time he makes a flight With
bombs Capt Joaquin iiauohe Meal.
de- has been going up with him and
r leasing The bombs when they
ny over the bay thcy nrr going nt
tlr rate 90 % 20 20 miles an hour
and are at nn altitude OF 5000 feet
There is an Instrument by which
tho bomb drupper can take sight A.
the vessel. and aI the psychological
moment be- pulls ih, string aairb e..
leases the r"rr taty 'H"m~,C
that The bomb is rel 4s,d wnrn they
are Ia a position 1909 flet back OF
tho vessel That is. when they ira.
Nvl 1900 fr't after dropping the
bomb tu,y arr directly over the
b1at Tlry have dropped bombs so
ciusH rn t4- boats taat tlr explosion
has thrown water on the decks. bat
have not get rlt either of the boat.
On" ni tGr gHbsats is 100 feet
louE aud flv other about Ig0 feet
Ions so they AZ, not very big
marx 10 shoot a. distance Of t~o.
thirds 0f mile and travelling some
thins over sixty miles an hour
Hut Mason b. dragging dosn from
three 20 four thousand dollars gold
a month according 60 The uumb.r
a, niEhts De- makcs. - b.. should MOI,
worry After Mason went up Sat.
urday morning. / walked down the
track half a mile with Tommy Dean.
the merhanie. and his helper. To hear
The F"drrsls shoot at N. plane We
had 10 set asay from the locomotive,
At the camp a. the noise Of their
exhaust would drown IA. noise of
the fed"r.lH guns As soon A. Mas.
@ou ~; close enough - that be
could b. seen from the bay they
started shooting first with their biz
guns and after nt,le with rifles
When hsy first began shooting b.
Naa probably ten siiomctcrs from
them and they could not possibly
reach him but tina, did no, stop
them from wasting a fev hundred
dollars worth Of ammunition. Al
hong a. he " IN aizht they plus
away At kilomctrc - vi s-r,
about sixteen kiiom-tcr~ from the
guns or ten miles. but W could hear
even th. rifle nfe II sounded like
popping corn 10 u. ami expect II
sounded a good deal worse than tha,
To the men In III. plane. Their en-.
sine makes 20 much noi.. thn, they
cannot hear the bullets whisus
around them. but Ma~-on said that
they can hear the sounds OF the bis
suns that arr fired at them asl co
ser the puff of smoke. Tho bipianc
hAs never secs hit y~< By bullets or
shrapncl - they examine Il after
eorA S1ight and have never YET found