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The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-06-05
LISBON GREETS PLANE
AMERICAN MACHINE SETS NEW
WORLD ACHIEVEMENT
FLYING TIME Is TWENTY-sIx
HOURS AND FoRTY-oNE
MINUTES.
w..,... Newspaper u,,o. New Service.

Western Newspaper Union New esrvies
Lisbon, May 2S.-When the Ameri-
can seaplane NC4 came up the Tagus
river the populace. crowding all places
OF vantage, gave full expression to
their enthusiasm by cheers OF well
come. the booming Of guns and the
ringing Of bells.
For days the people of Lisbon had
been awaiting the completion OF this
momentous voyage over the Atlantic
and, though disappointed from day to
day because Of the inability OF Com
mander Reeds craft to continue its
flight because of unfavorable weather
conditions, yet each day they looked
hopefully towards the west for the
coming Of the Americans.
Early In the day word was flashed
that the NC4 had started and at In
tervals there were bulletins Of the
progress made. The whole city was
en- fete and during the latter hours
virtually all business was abandoned
by those who crowded everywhere to
witness the arrival.
Guided by skillful hands the Ameri-
can plane, which had covered the dis
lance between the protecting destroy
ers along the route with clOck-like
regularity, swept In over Lisbon and
settled down gracefully near the crui-
ser Rochester.
Ponta Del Gada.-The arrival of the
NC4 At Lisbon marks the completion
Of the first transatlantic flight in his
tory, with the coveted honor going TO
machine designed. built and manned
by Americana.
Flotilla Commander Workman at
message relayed from the plane, say
ing: I'VE are safely on the other side
OF the pond" Later messages report
ed the crew all well, and gave brief
details Of the arrival in Portugal. The
engines worked splendidly. and ap-
parently there was no untoward Incl
dent of any kind.
News of the triumph was greeted by
the cheers Of great crowds on the
and the ringing Of bells. The plane
covered the distance ut a speed OF
more than eighty miles an hour.
As soon as the news was received
here Admiral Jackson ordered all the
war craft In the harbor to blow their
whistles and sirens. This was kept
up for five minutes, the sailors and
officers meanwhile cheering the great
American triumph. The total elapsed
flying time from Newfoundland to Lis
bon was twenty-six hours and forty
one minutes.
Washington.-The NC4 flew the
last leg Of her transatlantic flight on
almost exactly the Tooth anniversary
of the first crossing of the ocean by
steam-driven vessel One hundred
years ago May % the steamer Savan;
nah, which also flew the American
flag, put In at Liverpool. having COM
pleted the trip across the Atlantic in
twenty-five days. The Savannah was
only 100 feet long-only four feet
more than the wing spread of the
NC4.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-06-05
liberate Hostages,

Copenhagen.-An official communi-
cation received from Budapest says
that the soviet, having triumphed over
its enemies, the liberation Of HOSTAGES
has been ordered.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-06-05
NEW BRITISH VOLUNTEER ARMY
REPLACE AMERICANA IN
RUSSIA.
TROOPS COMING HOME
SIBERIAN TROOPS STORM ANAR-
cHIsTs' STRONGHOLD AT
oRENBURo.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

w....rn Nevspaper Union News Service
Archangel, May 30.-The American
cruiser Des Moines arrived here stimuli
taneously with transports bringing
new British volunteer army units to
relieve the American and other troops
who have been fighting since last
August.
Rear Admiral McCully, commander
of the American naval force in Rus
sian waters, is on board the Dies
MOines. The gunbOat Yankton IL ex-
pected to arrive here within a Few
days.
The ships on which the new forces
arrived will transport the first unit
of American infantry, which 1t Ii ex-
pected will be homeward bound In
one week.
The last American infantry on the
vologda railway front has just been
relieved after nearly eight months
service. The Americans received
rousing farewell from the British and
Russian command at OboEerskaya.
American Memorial Day services
were observed at the Archangel GENE
terry, where are inferred many Of the
200 Americans who have been killed
in action or died Of disease in north
Russia.
London.-Siberian troops Of the Kol-
chak government were storming Oren-
burg, one of the last Bolshevist strong
holds in southeastern Russia, and an
important railway junction, on May q,
according to a telegram received here
from Omsk.
The Bolsheviki are faced by further
internal troubles and the official
statement received here by wireless
from Moscow refers to the internal
front" where ian advance against
vinnitsa has been stopped"
There has also been an uprising
against the soviet in the district of
Shunga around Lake Omega, northwest
Of Petrograd.
According to a telegram received
here from KEN, the Bolshevist COM
missioners in the Shunga district
were killed and the Red Guards dis
persed.
The Bolshevist statement also ad-
mits that the Bolshevist troops con-
tinue to retire in the Petrograd region
before the Ukranians.
A Russian wireless message denies
the report that explosions had oc-
Cured In Petrograd due to Its ap-
preaching evacuation. The dispatch
declares there is no intention of
abandoning the city, and that rein
fOrcements already sent to the Cat
china front, south Of Petrograd, are
succeeding In driving back the enemy.
The American and British minister
at Warsaw have protested against the
Polish offensive in east Galicia. &C.
cording to dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph from Vienna by way Of
Copenhagen.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-06-05

dnO bfeCkenr1uGe, Win ROO0 prospects
that the task will be completed
shortly.
Friends and relatives Of T. h. Col
man, "a, who Is missing at Colorado
Springs, hold out fear for his safety,
as no trace of the missing man has
been discovered. Colman escaped from
st. Francis hospital, where he was to
have undergone an operation. The po-
lice have been unable to find trace
and believe he went to the mountains
where he may have died of exposure
William T. Smith. 20. who drove
from Chicago to Denver in 1859 with
an OK team and later settled in Pueblo
county, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart at Rye. His
daughter. Mrs Cora Meredith, commit
ted suicide at the same place four
years ago. Smith had been In Ill health
for a long time.
A farm tractor 10 not a motor vehi-
Gle in the strict sense of the term and
for that reason gasoline used In pro-
polling the farm horse" is not sub
ject to the 1 cent per gallon tax fixed
by the last Legislature, according to
an opinion given by Attorney General
Victor f. Keyes.
After celebrating nearly seventy
two hours without being able to reach
verdict, the jury in the case Of Ed
ward Ping and his three associates.
charged with the murder Of Samuel
Hunt in cattle feud last December.
was discharged at Colorado Spring.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
One Of TwaIn's Heroes.

One Of Mark Twain's famous bad
men, wasn't bad at all, according to
those who were well acquainted with
the character. Tn the book "TOm Saw
yer" "Injm Joe" is haTf-breed rene
gade who murdered Doe Robinson
while helping to rob grave 70 get
a body for the dissecting table.
But the old people of Hannibal de-
elared ''Tnjm Joe" was kind-hearted
negro who had been a slave, and that
he had never done a real mean thing
in his life except to aid and abet Mark
Twain and his pals when they played
hockey from school and went to the
river. says an exchange. Then 'Injun
Joe'' would row the boat for them and
take them TO some good fishing
holes" But bad he was not.
When someone told him Sam Glenn
ems had 'put you in a book" and
showed him the ferOciOus picture la
beled ''Injun Joe" the real character
"grinned from ear to carr and was
proud of ii.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
Remarkable eIpsx Funeral.

Jazz funeral music and three MOURN
ers signalized, the funeral procession
Of gypsy at Adelaide, Australia, re-
Gently. In front Of photographers
the cOrtege halted while the body was
snapped in its coffin. Then the march
was resumed with a crowd supple
menting the three fearful ones. The
high cost Of wines prevented the
sprinkling Of champagne and wines
into the grave, but perfume was SUBJ
stituted to conform, as nearly as pos
slble, with the gypsy custom. Fingers
OF the body were literally covered
with diamond rings, and several hun
bred dollars in coins and bills was
tossed into the coffin.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
Preparation.

These twelve-year-old twins are in
the seventh grade of a Terre Haute
school. Both have paper routes and
with the proceeds from them buy their
own clothes and Thrift stamps. 1t
takes self-denial often to buy the
stamps, but still they always buy ev-
cry Monday morning.
When the bond sale began recently
their teacher taught them the song:
For your boy and my boy, and all the
boys out there,
Let's get together for the U. S. A. and
do our share.
She noticed that Clinton and Fred
did not sing with enthusiasm and Won
dered. But at noon she learned the
reason. Clinton. brought her crump-
led five-dOllar bill. ITS for bond for
Fred and me-" he explained. at will
keep us humping to pay it ont, but
we're goin' to do it so we can sing that
bond song and not feel like slackers
when we're doing lt.-Indianapolls
News.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
Witches Burned in Mexico.

The days when the Spanish Iniqui-
sition executed men and women as
magicians and witches are recalled
by piece of news from Mexico to
the effect that two old women were
burned alive on the charge that they
were guilty of spreading Spanish in
fiuenza. The item in question was
sent recently to the Revista de Yucan
tan, published in Merida, Mexico, by
correspondent in San Luis Potosi-
city in the same republic. It read:
"A ccuntryman who was a prisoner
of the rebels headed by the terrible
chief CediIlo tells awful tales Of the
horrors caused by the superstition Of
Cedillo's men.
''The ravages of the Spanish infiu-
enza, he says caused these men to
believe that they were due to the ac-
tivities of witches, for which reason
they arrested three unfortunate old
women who lived in the hills among
which the said rebels travel on their
pIundering expeditions.
"After their arrest the poor old
women were subjected to horrible
torture until, finally, the were forced
to confess that they were indeed
witches. They were then condemned
to be burned ard were forthwith con-
signed alive to the flames"
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05

.,rrI always and waterways can
attain their fullest efficiency I'M
I IS e bul6 Efficient highways"
b yeuild the rad to carry the load.
Nsks che eighvay feed the railway.
rTrapsf rtaton should touch ev-
cry nan's door, Build roads NOW. .
Reads are the tools of industry.
BailQ shen that industry may furnish
employment
-ihe railway, the waterway, the
highway. arc the trinity of transpor-
ation and these three are one.p
Build now the National, State and
County roacs needed and prosperity
VIII ride t. every Americans gate. ;,
"Build now good roads where they
are needed 50 that Good Times can
rome to every Americans home with
sut delay"
Build now-money spent wisely
for good roads will come back be-
cause the roads will bring it back. I"
'HBuild now good roads and see
how quickly Good Times will roll
down those roads,"
Build WON can notice the
earmarhs Of Prosperity along good
noads
W. B. WILSON, U. S. Dept, Of Labor
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
FiIipiao Youths Like Club Work.

Children in the PHILIPPINE Islands
are taking up with enthusiasm club
work similar to that organized by
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture. 1t is reported that 28,467
boys and girls in the Province of
Pangas;nan alone; last year, were in
the various boys and girls clubs.
Various kinds of club work are rep
resented in the Islands, but the clubs
which have the largest enrolment
are those devote dto gardening, cook
ing and Sewing. The work has been
growing steadily since it was start
ed several years ago. Efforts are be-
ing made to make 1919 the banner
year.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
olIino The wbeela.

No one can afford to let another per-
nn exceed them in politeness, and
here is nothing in the world that will
il the wheels of life like the lubri-
eant Of courtesy. Try it in your daily
afe and see. No one win chide you
sor not being in good form, even if
Squ. should slip in a few obscure terms.
For in :his busy age each one is an
Irhtter of fashion oneself. It would
se o refreshing thing to introduce a
few OF the old-fashioned variety of
social amenities-at least it would be
'eshing to the elders of some of
boys and girls of the period.-Ex-
|nge.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
WEARY OF ROUTINE
Eternal Protest Against Same
o ness Of Things.
Act Of Man Who Died Rather Than
Submit to the Wearisore Common
pIaceness of life Causes Inter-
esting Comment.

A newspaper item reports the sui
eide Of man who declared that he
WAS tired of everlastingly lacing his
shoes and then unlacing them again.
Petty enough the act appears in the
grist of the days news. but the report
Of 1t (be it fact or fiction) fingers in
the mind till against a larger backs
ground of time 1t begins to take on
Significance, even to find a place be-
side immortal acts of legend and IA.
miliar attitudes of art. Here was a
man who found the master knot of his
fate in his shoe lacings. Was he a
fool or hero? Alexander has fame
for an act which as a symbol might
have much the same significance,
resolute blow Of the sword through
the Gordian knot, which disposes of
the difficulty without solving the prob,
lem. For himself the suicide had dis,
missed routine with suave gesture,
and with superb hnality, but he leaves
mankind in the attitude Of LAGOON,
agonizingly entangled in shoe lacings,
the serpent routine, huge, insensate,
unrelaxing. In its grip man writhes
forever, hopeless Of escape To this
group the suicide waves a jaunty fare
well-"The best Of luck to you,r he
says. "rm out of it, anyway
Whatever our scorn for him, we
must admit that he voices uninIstak-
ably the eternal human protest against
that 1t is really only In the.
suavity of his gesture and the supreme
inality of the rejection that he goes
beyond The rest of us. The feeling
hat commanded his act is nearly the |
most universal of human. impulses.
We all rebel bitterly in the days when
heaven lies about us, and the later
hades of the prison house are nothing
more than the creeping paralysis of |
opeiess submission. Only those of Us
vho have trodden the mill so long |
hat we are almost irreelaimably sub
ued to what we work in prefer, in |
uch times as these when we have the
hoice, counters and ledgers to
renches and barbed wire. The lad
Tho with whOop of joy filings behind
i'm his columns of figures or vaults
ne counter in his eagerness to rush
ito poison gas and machine-gun fire,
Tough his gesture is one of bravery
lther than Suavlty, is that of Alan
reck, rather than of Reau RI.,,mn,pl
axes his rejection Of routine no whit
IS final than does the hero of the
ewSpaper item. And he is not the
lie in million who makes the Ma
Dnal army Robert p. Utter in Har-
RS Magazine.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
wen Known II the Eraternltx.

One OF the first men a young SER
geant ran into after having been trans
ferred from one camp to another was
a fraternity brother from his home
town. During the conversation the
sergeant spoke of having met another
fraternity brother at his former camp
and asked his friend if he knew him.
'Know him Well, should say l do
He owes me SIPS" Another soldier
standing near whom neither of them
knew said: II know him better than
that He owes me $780,"
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
"lndustrious YOUTH

An Industrious youngster has been
busy at Palo Alto, CAL, during the
past season with a war garden, Itsis
about 20 feet square On that patch
of ground he planted "a variety OF gar
den truck, cared for it all summer long
and did the selling. He realized some
thing like 500, which he invested in
Liberty bonds and War Savings
stamps. Besides this he stored away
In the cellar fair quantity of squash
and other vegetables for winter use.
The youngster is Rev. e. ]. Gillespie,
retired, eighty-three years old.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05

People Of Villages Of the Ulsralns Hold
Peculiar Celebration on Resur-
rection Sunday.


The Ukraine is the richest and
most thlckly settled district OF Rus
STA. Travellers win remember 1t as
plain Of never-endlng wheat fields, a
land Of silent, friendly peasants, Of
eolorful dress and curious folk GUS
toms. Large cities are few, but there
Is village every rev miles.
The people of the villages, and even
the more enlightened folk Of the cit
les, have retained some traditional OBJ
servanees peculiar 10 the land. One
of the most curious Of these was q part
Of the celebration Of the Greek church
holiday, Resurrection Sunday. This
date was up to a few years ago the
occasion for a municipal free-for-all
fight In many Ukralnian cities.
The people Of the city were divided
into two camps. Sometimes the city
was divided into halves; more often
the division was made into the true
urban jewellers on the one hand, and
the suburbanltes ON the other. All the
able-bodied men. and still more en-
Enthusiastically, all the small boys,
poured into the streets for battle. No
weapons Of any kind were used; even
sticks and clubs were barred. Fists
were employed freely, however, and
any man could get literally all the
light he wanted.
The combat sometimes ragged all
lay. Any time some combatant had
enough" be needed only to indicate
IS much, and the crowd was bound TO
part and let him through. He was
hen barred from further participation.
rhe battle sometimes ended with onei
,arty or the other driven from the
ield, but usually the decision was
lraw and nothing hut collection OF
'rtised knnckles and sore heads re-
NAMED to show for 1t.
The origin Of this custom has given
Use to considerable speculation. It is
probably due to the fact that the Ok
ainians were for centuries fighting /
'eople. In the middle ages they were |
involved in petty warfare
With the Cossacks and the fartaFs-
When the balance of power" peace
descended upon Europe, they seem to
ave turned instinctively to warllke |
ports to keep alive the fighting spirit
mong the people. In view Of recent
evelopments, the recourse would hard
7 appear to have been a SUGGEST
'hicagO Daily News.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
Var Ae.IvItIes d ee0IoaIoaI Survey.

war Activities of Geological Survey.
The special training of the geological
survey engineers made them available
for effective war service both overseas
and in this country. The large amount
Of technical data collected through the
years by the geological survey was
fOuntl to possess value not anticI-
pated, and the official machinery or
Ganized for scientific investigation of
the subjects within the geological sur
vey'S province was also utilized in the
more Intensive inquiries required as
each Industrial or military need arose.
The increase in the geological surveys
representation in the army from Gil
men at the beginning of the fiscal year
1918 To sd at the end of the year (462
IN November II, 1919 necessarily in
vOlted serious reduction in the man
power available for other contributions
to war work Yet 1t is believed that
both in variety Of scope and in vol
ume of results the war activities I'M
der direction Of the geological survey,
department Of the interior, were more
important during the closing months
Of the year than ever before.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
Abu slmbcT.

! The temples :0f Abu Simbel are a
pQpp Of rock-cut shrines in the banks
nl the Nile. The four giant colossl
guarding the entrance to the main tenn
re gaze TRANQUILITY over the river from
their rocky perch For ages these
nnge figures have kept their vigil By
fhe waters. weary yet faithful sentl4
nals Of me Nile. They are supposed I'd
represent Rameses the Second, and
smaller aagurcs of the great kings
aueens md children keep watch with
Eheir husband and father.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
ne Takes the Blue One.

OF course you've heard about the
hdrdworked guy whose job was to
psck the blossoms off the family CEN
fury plant; the bloke who sticks tho
se9rNs Oh double-blank dominOes and
HE. qes8rit whose life work is making
bird seed for cuckoo clocks, but the
champeen, double-bOwknOtted, fioatin'
axled hld vulcanized war loafer is tho
cuss who said he was doing war work
Ov picking up the stitches his wife
dropped when s.. knitted.--Indianapo-
lis Ster
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
Ani,ine in a Pigment.

To detect the presence of aniline in q
pigment little of the color is laid upon
Il piece of letter paper, and drop Of
spirit poured upon 1t. If the pig
IRent contains an aniline dye, the pa
per will be colored right through by
it while pure pigment will not al
ter the shade of the paper and will
under no circumstances penetrate it.
--TsDpular Science Monthly.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
eeoIoaioaI survey Aar.Map Printer

Geological Survey a Nar-Map Printer.
The contribution TO the war of the
map engraving and printing plant Of
the United States geological survey,
department of the interior, las not
been limited to the reproduction of
the surveys executed by the topograph-
ic engineers, but has included the re-
printing of photographic and British
admiralty charts in large numbers for
the navy department and of various
military maps of French and Belgian
areas for the war department. Motor
truck route maps and airp!ane route
maps have also been compiled and
printed for the use of the army, as
well as special charts and maps for
use at instruction camps. An inter
esting use of this specially equipped
printing plant has been the regular is
sue of camouhage charts for the navy.
The regular geologic map work has
given place during the period of the
war TO these exigency calls for color
printing for military purposes.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
He Changed the Subject.

miss Wombat, do you think two
can live as cheaply as one?"
II have never given the matter any
thought. When get married expect
10 make the pone= ay."-LoulsviIIe
Coulier-Journal.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05
Daily Thought.

That act Of contemplation creates
the thing contemplated Disraell.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-05

There are 80 dozen eggs in q bush