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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-12-11

: dalryman S paper that ne want
ed a renter for his land and he
had 40 replies from men living
in Is different states. It pays to
ADVERTISE
Six hundred tulips have been
planted in the park at Kenmare.
The people there will begin en-
joying flowers at the time when
most parks are being seeded.
Only 1850 gallons Of wine
were seized at Hebron and
brought to Mandan by the as
sistant states attorney. This
may make some difference in the
Christmas celebration in that
place.
The moving picture man has
quit showing in Steele as the
attendance was too small. He
had better move here for the
winter. The movies are very
popular here.
The Mandan Mercantile Co. had
a fire at Wing which destroyed
the warehouse, office and some
lumber. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
The people at ParshaM do. not
expect to see a train all winter.
At present they have one freight
a week.
In the governors office is
rug made Of flax straw. 1t is
known as the 'Klearflax Lin
en-" rug. This should prove
quite an industry in this state.
Seven carloads Of Ford autos
were unloaded at Williston last
week. A number of the cars
have already been sold. The
farmers are the buyers.
The December term of court
in Morton county will be a big
one. There will be twelve blind
pig cases heard. No such cases
are ever tried in this county
any more.
The vote in Morton county
will be recounted. Grant county
lost by 13 votes and the tax
payers in the proposed county
want the ballot boxes reopened.
Elevator companies in the
western part Of the state are ad-
vertising for one hundred thou
sand bushels of rye for the Ger
man and Russian governments.
Rye u.s., bringing more money
than was ever known before in
the local markets and the crop
for next year will also bring a
good price, according to all pre-.
dictions.
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ITEMS OF
COUNTY AND STATE

Bismarck may have a commun-
ity Christmas tree like they had,
last year. The citizens in MINI
neapolis also had one last year.
The person who stocked Round
Lake in McHenry county did not
know black bass from suckers
and now the lake will have to be
're-stocbed.
A well digger near Townea
struck vein of coal that is q
little heavier and harder thar
Ignite coal.
"A Williston man advertised in
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Local News

There is a large collection Of
magazines at the Rest Room to
be given away. Anyone living
in the country who wants read
ing matter Cor the winter should
cal. The shelves are needed
fer the new books that are COM
ing in for the library. These
magazines are free and they are
yours for the taking.
Mrs. o. o. Gates, who was
here Friday IS a delegate from
the Suffrage League of Garri-
son, noticed many Improvements
whi.e. here. she made the re-.
mark when seeing an auto go
by, that when she came to this
state it was in vehicle that
did not move as fast as an auto.
She is sister of Chas. Staley
and is one Of the pioneers OF
the state.
Hon. Geo. l.. Robinson came
down from Carson Tuesday
evening on business at the First
National Bank Of which he is
president. Mr.. Robinson has
not been here for three months,
part OF which time was spent
in St. Louis where he was called
during the serious illness of his
wife who had blood ppoisoning.
She is recovering nicely and is
at her home at Garrison.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Neal have
packed their household goods
and leave today for Garrison,
from which point they are going
out to the ranch, where their son
resides, and where they will
take up their residence. Mr.. Neal
however, WI be in the capital
city the greater portion Of the
tine, attending to his duties as
immigration agent. Mrs. Neal
and son Harry havt been here
since October. Palladium.
Mrs. E. p. Quain, president of
the Woman Suffrage league at
Bismarck and secretary Of the
Red Cross Association of North
Dakota, was here Friday eve
ming to meet with the members
If the district league. She gave
a talk on the Red Cross work
and left a number Of seals to
be sold. The money for the
seals is not used for tuberculosis
alone but as in the past, there
are always a number Of places
where it is badly needed.
E. E. Slagg came down from
Cpnklng afte~ he had read the.
Leader and deposited $500 at
the First National Bank towards
the Belgian relief fund. He is
the first man to subscribe cash,
toward this fund. Hans Hultberg
had five bushels Of wheat ready
for the relief fund and has,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-12-11

sent it to the Washburn Milling
TO. to be made into flour. There
are no doubt others who will re-
spond as heartily to relieve the
starving Belgians.
John Rath.fn and j. Weise
have done a kindly deed this
week that al fishermen will
thank them for. There was a
slough near the Rathjen farm
where great many small fish
had become imprisoned. The
water in the slough would freze
to the bottom this winter so a
hole was made in the ice and the
fish were transferred from there
to the creek by means OF q
bucket. 1t was slow job but
tie work was done. These two
men deserve vote of thanks.
invitations have been received
here to banquet to be given
by the Women s League at I'm
derwood in honor of the Mclean
County Legislative delegation on
Tuesday evening, December 18th.
The following men are On the
program: j. +. Williams, r. L.
Fraser, A. II. Yeager, H. r. Frei-
tag, c. w. McGray, +. G. VOCAL,
Simon Jahr, and Hon. Thomas
Hall, seer. tary of state. A numb
er Of musical selections will also
be given. 1t will no doubt be
an enjoyable affair for those who
attend. Arrangements have been
made for sixty. The committee
on arrangements are: Mesdamea
j. T. Hogue, Krist Kjelstrup and
A. H. Yeager. A number are
Planning on going up from here.
Judge Andrew A. Bruce Of the
North Dakota Supreme court
spoke to the members Of the
Parent nt-Teachers' association an
others at the Opera House laste
Friday evening. His address
was on "The First Citizen Of
Chicago" The first citizen, the
person who has done and is do1
ing such great work in the slumsT
of Chicago is Miss Jane Adams
Judge Bruce worked in the Hull
House with her and is intimate
ly acquainted with the pro-
greesive movements accomplished,
through her. Streets and alleys
were cleaned, tenement houses
improved, public Fairgrounds
established and Foreigners made
to feel that this is a free
country and one. where they
could make an honest living.
Judge Bruce gave a scholarly
talk and many points in his
speech will never be forgotten.
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THE BELaIAN QUEEN
THANKS MANY AMERICANS,

Elizabeth. queen Of Belgium
and the dutchees of Vendome,
sister of King Albert Of Belgium,
have written to the Woman g
section Of the American commits,
sion for relief in Belgium, thank
ing them for the good work be-
ing done and telling Of the
deep gratitude felt by the wo-
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Underwood Correspondence


Next week Underwood will hav
q paper Of it's own again.
Krist Kjelstrup was a Bis
marck visitor on Wednesday.
DR.. and Mrs. Cain were capi-
tol city visitors on Friday.
F. "A. Russell returned from q
trip to Fargo and Wahpeton on
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Solen-
berger are spending a few days
at Garrison.
Mrs. L. Carter and daughter
Ethel went to Bismarck return
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men Of Belgium.

men Of Belgium.
In Michigan fifteen carloads
of canned goods and clothing
have been sent to Belgium.
The state fund being collect
ed by Governor Hanna is increas
ing rapidly. The receipts last
Monday were $579.64. Tuesday
moon $500 more had been collect
ed. One man in Bismarck gave
$50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-22

1 made rather hobby IF travel. On my
way to he United States for the first
time al Y jewelry was stolen from my
cabin, and on my arrival at New York
I was met by four detectives, who escort
ed me to my hotel Thanks to them L
am, 1 fancy the only foreign woman
who has entered the United States in
many years without having her luggage
examined.
"On this trip which was in 1900, |
ran down for what proved to be LITERAL!
a weekend visit to Mexico, for ! ar
rived at Vera Cruz Saturday morning
and thsn was recalled to England by
cable, just managing 10 catch the
steamer back Tuesday afternoon. beins
in fact literally rowed out to her. IN
spite of the shortness OF the stay, how
ever. ! really saw a surprising lot ana
You'll notice that l say 'Po-pocatepetl.'
Then 'picknicked on tramp steamer
from Tunis to Tangier-but you know
you are making me tell all this, and u
sounds SO like 'swank I'd much rather
of the best of them Is Maxine Elliott
and to have tea with her at Harris
bourne manor. her house In Bushey. !
have several times flown over from Hen
don with Mr.. Hamel.'
In the past six months Miss Dawes
has been In an areoplane only twice. hav-
ing flown once to Brooklands to see
Pegoud loop the loop. and. the other
day. to Hendon to Go it herself. Asked
how she felt during this then unique
experience for woman, she replied:
II enjoyed it more than any previous
flying experience, in spite OF having
for. perhaps the first time. some sllght
sense of the accompanying risk. You
have read, no doubt, that I was strap
ped in. The truth is that a couple of
straps were placed around my shoulders
but they were quite loose. and, TO make
matters worse, not having been certain
the loop that day. ! was wearing
emooth. ponyskin coat Moreover, for the
first time, We were flying, not in Bleriot.
but in q Morane monoplane. to which
was unaccustomed. Just as we We're
starting. Hamel cried, For heavens
sake hold on to something. and l looked
for something to grip, but found only a.
tangle Of wires. which I knew must
govern the machinery. So l just held
on to my own knees. I might as we'll
have held on to my nose!
But the sensation was glorious. she
went on. Il remember my first thought
as we ascended was, How green the
earth looks considering that 1t is win
ter Then I got quite genuine start.
for as We came up to begin the loop
] suddenly found that there was no
horizon. quite an uncanny thing. Have
you ever seen an earthen pudding
basin, all gray and cracked with agec
That was exactly how the vault of the
sky looked. and all while we were loop
ing 1t seemed to be falling down on
US.
Are you going to do it again I
called to Mr.: Hamel. and he nodded.
Then ind a clear patch of sky [
shouted. for fancy We were In a
cloud that time. and IL we are hidden
they may doubt that we made the
loop"
Then We came fluttering back to
earth" she added. like q whirlinr
bullet in the center Of a vacuum"
Copyright, 1914. BY Curti. Browu)
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beetroot field for about eighteen feet and
acting as a spring, SO that really our
landing was remarkably smooth"
When Ashley, astonished to find himself
age, he found Miss Davies coolly fixing
her camera to take pictures Of the dam
aged machine, and when the peasants,
who had expected" said Miss Davies,
ito find US smashed to bits" came up
munching biscuits and milk and were
vastly impressed by this exhibition OF
phlegm Brittanique."
Three days later Ashley was killed out
right while flying at Belfast. Miss Ire
hawke Davies, who returned with him
from France to London. had crossed the
channel again to buy a new aeroplane.
For a while grief at Astley's end kept
her out Of the air, bur then she yielded to
neux's passenger. when, January IS Of
last year, he broke the then French alti-
tude record. reaching a height Of 11.010
feet. This was at the Villa dorblay
aerodrome, and in the month that fol-
lowed his daring passenger made Nights
with practically all the other well known
French aviators. One of these was Han
ouiell. with whom she few over Paris at
q height of 1900 feet. and for once found
herself unable to record her impressions
81: sert hsa DIARY Bothe1 cold to write she
Returning to England. she dew again
and again with Gustav Hamel, whom SHE
considers the finest pilot in the world.
last great air race held in England,
against Sopwith, and together they made
q whole series of venturssome flights at
Hendon. during many Of which they were
too. at the flying girls request. they
Travelled by air from Dover to Hendon,
and prior to leaving the seacoast town
few half way across the channel to meet
the steamer that was coming from Calais.
and which had friend Of Miss Davies
Ellis Sasson, to wit, on board.
When they sighted the steamer Hamel
planed down from q height OF ]. 500 feet
in a beautiful spiral and then circled
round and round the packet boat" after
which he and Miss Davies few on on
their way back to London.
Probably no other one person knows az
many flying men as this girl, who al
ways has . little ovation on her now
near London. When flying she wears
a brown oilskin coat and hood. and.
surrounded by her masculine chums,
looks. as one writer put 1t, like dove
as Beaumont" is one of her great pals.
Vedrines she knows well and admires
as a fiier. Now that she II Ill her avia-
tor-friends. as they pass her nat In Port
their motor sirens and by their toots
she knows them. Az she talked bla-
tant motor horn gave voice outside.
''Ah," cried the invalid, with a smile.
there goes Valentine on his white Rem
ault."
Il am q real eockney," Miss Davies re-
sumed. answering the inevitable ques-
ton. for l was born within the sound
of Bow Bells. though our family 10 really
Cornish. After the death Of my father.
who was a well known barrister. found
myself with ample means, and to begin
with, having dabbled In languages q bit
(she speaks several uncommonly welD,
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which she has not left since her loop
ing the loop experience, just a snip of
girl, perhaps twenty seven or eight.
rather under the medium height with a
naturally thin, oval "Gioconda" face,
now made thinner still BY illness, large,
dark eyes. and mass of darker hair.
done In an Edna May" couture. Her
pluck is truly amazing, for it proves
that, after performing some of her most
straight home to undergo an operation,
and in addition to the serious illness
from which she has suffered for many
months she still is crippled by the ef
fects of no less than four severe automo-
bile accidents
Il really am quite early Victorian" she
declared, with q quizzicai smile. II am
not Il suffragette nor q philatelist. and
I've never played golf nor tennis in my
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GENTLY DUG FROM THE CHM

for q diary. Lieut.. Beaumont once re-
marked that I was the first woman he
ever had seen making notes in an aero
plane.
Miss Davies now has made eleven trips
across the English channel, her first
having been made with Gustav Hamel
the Sd Of April 1912 The couple left
Hendon at 9:3S in the morning and reach
ed Ambleteuse, near Boulogne, at 11:Oe,
and there descended for lunch and
rest. An hour later they took the air
again and reached Issy-les Moulineau1,
close to Paris. at flve minutes to 6.
Thus the flying girl was the first woman
TO cross the 'Manche," and the second
passenger to do SO, the first, Of course,
having been the mechanic Of ]. B.
Mosant, the Inflated American aviator
What | remember most wildly about
my first channel crossing" remarked
Miss Davies, lis that l had to work the
second pressure pump, and that in mid
we could see neither sea nor sky for
fog. and were numb with cold, Mr..
Hamel suddenly cried Pump, pump. for
Gods sake!' and that I did pump with
has flown from England to France and
back again nine times with Hamel and
once each with Valentine and Ashley. In
the company of the latter she had the
most exciting Of all her aerial adven-
lures.
This experience. the details Of which
probably will be remembered, befell Miss
Davies and her aviator at the end Of q
fight which already had taken them
across three countries, Germany. Holland
and Belgium. 1t happened September
10. 1872, the couple, who in August had
flown from London to Paris and later
on had attempted to fly to Berlin, be-
ing on their way back to England.
During this flight Miss Davies now IA
nous diary received many embellish-
ments. the following being few char
acteristic ones:
Feeling rather like an Eskimo,
she wrote on one page. the explanation
being that the machine was splitting oil.
with which she was covered.
Mr.. Ashley fighting black clouds.
Chilly. but cheerful" is another entry.
Lately" she writes again. Il seem
to have developed an extraordinary
faculty for spotting cemeteries. I seem
to have developed the bump of loquac-
ity at the expense of the bump Of To-
It was near Lille, in France, while
flying from Liege to London. that the
couple SO nearly met their deaths. All
of sudden the machine. which had
been under perfect control. heeled over
ground, and during this descent 1t was
that Miss Trehawke Davies wrote her
now historic entry:
"Plunging madly to earth. Bits Of US
flying now"
The monoplane suddenly made ter
rifle swerve to the left" said Miss Da-
yies. AT the same time the footboard
cracked between Mr.. Astley's left heel,
and his foot was jammed in the crack.
The machine was now out of control.
1 was writing last note in my diary,
az invariably do. Then began q ssriss
of extraordinary plunges and swerves.
and distinctly saw spiinters Ay
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PIER AT PACAsMAYO BUILT BY MEIGGS.

the town swarms with fleas. 1t has had
bubonic plague in the past. and its build
ings are such that they would form
Near the custom house a large ware
house is now going up The building al
ready has the form Of framework of
poles. upon which they are lacking canes
of split bamboo. 1t rests on the ground
and the rats will be able to climb up the
walls as on a ladder. The streets here
are not paved. and the sidewalks are
mostly of wood. However, the air is so
dry that, outside the bubonic plague,
which has now disappeared. the region
is exceedingly healthful, and as far as
know yellow fever has never been known.
x x
During my stay here today l have
tramped through every part OF the town,
visiting the main streets and slums, and
have not had one offensive smell greet
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my nostrils. There are no bad odors in
the desert. In this dry air flesh does not
rot, and you could leave dead chicken
for a week in the street. and II the vul-
lures would let 1t lie there 1t would not
emit an odor.
The air is such that it sucks the
juices out OF anything left out of doors
1t is as healthful as Egypt. 1t will keep
ness of the air that has preserved the
mummies of Peru, like those OF Egypt:
There are many ruined cities OF
the Indians scattered over the desert.
and from some of them mummies
have been dug which look almost
as fresh as when they were buried.
They are quite as fresh as the num-
mics in the museum at Cairo. They
were usually cured in a sitting posture,
wrapped in cloth and tied up with string.
During my last trip to Peru visited
a number Of cities from which such
mummies have been dug, and near them
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enough to cure the worst attack of
nerves. and II the average society
woman would make a point of having a
mornings flight every now and then she
would never complain of the tired feel
ing that usually overcomes her halfway
through the season.
Really, 1t was by the purest accident
that took up aeroplaning." the flying
girl explained. Il mover had seen an
aeroplane. nor thought of flying. when,
in July, 1911. the air race around Britain,
in which Beaumont and Vedrines took
part, was held. On the day of the start
however. it struck me that it would be
rather fun to see it, SO phoned up a girl
friend of mine, and she and and another
friend, Lady Limerick, went out TO Hen
don Grahame White, you may remem-
Der, did not take part in the race. but
when We got out to the aerodroms he
them he took Lady Northcliffe up. All
of a sudden I became bitten with the de-
sire to make flight. and I went straight
off to Grahame White and asked him IL
INJURED at first. but finally gave in. OF
course, ! was not in flying costume. You
can judge what q hasty affair it was
when l tell you that wore an old oil
keep my hair from blowing about
You may not like it. said Grahame
White. Let me know whether you do or
not?'
III want to go higher said I, 4 will
raise one finger
Right said he, then we are off, and
off we went. l was dazed with delight.
Within a minute I had raised, not one
finger, but both arms, and when We de-
scended 1 was confirmed flying
woman.
After that she flew almost daily. and
went from one dangerous feat to another.
Grahame White having given up flying
for the time being. Miss Davies engaged
the services of Herbert Barber. and with
him made lot OF flights in the express
fifty-horsepower Gnome "Valkyrie'' rae
ing monoplane which previously had
killed two aviators. Ever since the be-
ginning OF her flying career, by the way,
Miss Davies has borne all the expenses of
her flights, and must have spent a pot of
money that way.
One fine day In April, 1912, she decided
to be the first woman In England to make
a cross.country flight and engaged Bar
Der to take her from Hendon to Brighton
sational experience, for the journey
through the air to Brighton was made at
an average speed Of ninety-five miles an
hour in wind that was blowing gale.
and was full Of close shaves. Half way
to the fashionable waterin: place the
aviator had to make hasty descent and
flew through a gap In the trees with
only three feet to spare-a fact. however,
that did not disturb his woman passen-
ger. who was too busy scribbling in her
diary to notice particularly Just how
close to a catastrophe they had come,
While making one of my first flights
at Hendon,' Miss Davies explained, IT
scrubbed letter to a Girl friend. and
since then I haye kept up the habit of
noting down my sensations. usually In
the little manuscript book that serves ns