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Wri.f^ry r ?*f ;**%? *-V-» '>-**>*,•. <s t* i f ? ^ V ; ^ > y<$. a '., % w - < • • :<&-« LOST TREASURES, - •*_ OF AMERICA I Gold and Jewels Still Waiting to be Found by Some Modern Adventure!*. BY. BUFFINGTON PHILLIPS ^Tt inn i in I IN MIIII I I I I ITDI i i i i i iT i r i in iTinnmi in i mi I I I IMIIMIIMI (Copyright, by the Ridgway Co.) T[E greatest treasure In the United States, a vast sum that awaits some one's finding, is one concerning which I have Bought the exact truth for the several years that I have followed this fad of col­ lecting treasure-trove data The pub­ lication of the story or stories about it Bay bring to light the men who can •ay definitely what is what. However any man who cares to set out after it In a business-like manner may turn himself into a multi-millionaire be­ tween Christmas and Fourth of July. This much is certain: somewhere on the tipper reaches of the Missouri river lie four large barges, lost in 1866, laoded to their utmost capacity with gold estimated in amount from $7,000,000 to $25,000,000. Just at the close of the civil war some rumors of the finding of gold in the Black Hills of Dakota and Mon­ tana drifted into the towns on the border of civilization in the northwest It seems odd to think that fifty years ago that region was a frontier, but there are hundreds of old Indians now living on the reservations who then were fighting braves and fifty years qgo they had never seen a white man's face. In the spring of 1866 some old pros­ pectors in the back drift from Califor­ nia found gold in one of the tributaries Of the Missouri, said now to be the north fork of the Cheyenne. Why It is no more certain will appear. rOthers of thier ilk "smelled"' the discovery and a band of no more than forty drew Into the region, making a won­ derful strike, the richest that has ever been made on America soil according to all accounts. The strike was made In what is now called Deadmen's Gulch, named to suit the story, but called in the old records Federation, Desperation and Starvation Gulches. The gold was alluvial, washed down from the northern ledges, now being worked by the rich Caledonia Qaurtz Mine Company near Deadwood. The gravel banks and flats were inexpres­ sibly rich with it and all summer the forty men tolled feverishly, extracting as much as they could "before the win­ ter should descend upon them, shot off their fish, game and vegetable foot supply and drive them to civilization where the knowledge of the vast wealth of the Black Hills.aud the r< malnder of the auriferous region woul> become public property. When the ground froze and they could work no longer they cut timber and made four large barges of shallow draft and on them laoded the gold In provision boxes, and mule and deer skins made Into rawhide sacks. Evei then tbey were compelled to leave some of It behind because the barges would not carry it. The hostile Indians who had noi dared attack so large a party In tin; mining camp with its excellent d< lenses and those who were apparentl on friendly terms with the miners nov took a hand in the game. After th hardy forty had reached the Missouri and had negotiated a portion of its distance they tied up one night, not long before Christmas. They were at­ tacked by a large band of Indians, who massacred every living soul, sank the barges and took all their belong­ ings except the gold, of which they did not know the value. Some accounts hold the Blackfeet responsible, others the Ogalala. How the news ever got to the world7 I cannot say, save as the Indians told of it and friends of the dead men traced them Into the country from which they never came out. Gradual­ ly the story took form and It set the prospectors wild. They ranged the region from the Bad Lands to the Big Horn river for twenty-seven years and then came the great discovery in the Black Hills. The gold left behind at the point of embarkation was finally found. Old workings which showed the vast quantities taken out by the forty pros­ pectors were discovered and for a few years a torrent of alluvial gold poured out of the Black Hills. Then the whole thing settled down to the staid and regular quartz proposition. The Kansas City Star some years ago printed a circumstantial story stating that a young Indian student at Haskell had told a professor that his father was one of the braves in the massacre, knew where the barges were sunk and was still living on the reser­ vation. It may be that the river has changed its course and left the barges under a thin layer of gravel, easily ac­ cessible on dry land. The wa^ to find the treasure Is to trace down the sto­ ries, locate some of the old Indians and Induce them to locate the spot and .point it out from memory, it should not be difficult. In 1759 there was lost in the Bay of Islands, at the mouth of the St. Law- ranee river, the good ship Primrose, with a store of gold and sliver and Jewels aboard her. The exact amount of her treasure is unknown, but it must be vast. Full of wild romance Is the story of the "Devil Duval's Horde" on the top of the Rocks of Perce on the Gaspe peninsula, only abovt~ twenty- four hours ride by train from New York City. Certain British laws must be repealed before it can be recovered, however. It is in one of the out-of- way places of the world and very lit­ tle is known by the general public about it. The superstitious French fishermen, unchanged in a hundred and fifty years, still await the return of the tierce pilot to claim his own. The Rock of Perce, named for the adjacent fishing village, is one of the true natural wonders of our continent When some convulsion of nature rent the coast this rock was split from the nearby mountain and left standing, a grim monument to the caprice of the gods of sea and land. Several hun­ dred foet high, with a comparatively flat top, its sides are beetling and one side is about two hundred feet higher than the other. Once It was pierced by three archeB through any one of which a small ship might sail, but now one of these has collapsed, leaving only the two huge galleries. Captain Duval was a French priva­ teer who returned only a small por­ tion of his loot from English and oth­ er ships to the French authorities, and after the declaration of peace he becume an out-and-out pirate. He protected the French fishermen and was generous with them. They, in their turn, protected him as the Eng­ lish peasant protected Dick Turpin. At last he was hard pressed by the English, and having in his Bervice a Micmac Indian who knew a secret trail to the supposedly inaccessible Rock of Perce, he collected all his caches of treasure in the maritime provinces and brought them to Perce. The Indian carried a line to the top of the rock and hauled up a block and fall. Then two prisoners were hauled upk and next Duval himself. Boats containing the great treasure chests stood by below. The tradition Is that they were a day and a moonlight night getting it all up. Then the Indian was sent down and Duval himself was lowered away. His rapier was dripping with • treasure is to bury It, It seems. The earth In some mysterious way spreads « mantle of* oblivion which can not be pierced by the memory of man and takes back to her bosom the treasure that was wrested from her. The other area Is in the east, be- ginnig at about Camden, fJ. J., and ex­ tending north to Albany and thence to Portland, Maine. In that field lived the rich Royalist and Tory families. The sudden turning of the tide foond the Tories in possession of a great quantity of gold coin, gold and silver plate and jewels, and fearing they would lose these, they burled them and then fled. Comparatively little of It was ever exhumed and the area Is dotted thickly with localities where a search would be highly profitable. Of them I can mention a few only. At Sound Beach, Conn., lives Mrs. Jane Louden, 101 years of age. Her husband, knowing that on the home farm a wealthy Tory family had buried gold, hunted until he found several pots containing several thousand dol­ lars each, A neighbor also acquired sudden wealth which he did not ex­ plain. Every one knew there was a great joint family cache soBfteWtere near. It was known for many years that on Lord Edmeston's estate near West Edmeston. N. Y., his personal repre­ sentative, Perdlfer Carr, had buried a treasure. The property known as the Burdlck Farm, having been bought by Henry F. Burdlck In 1850, was the site. In 1904 a tenant named Cheese- borough plowed into a case of china and glass, breaking half of It before he realized what the obstruction was. By reason of design and quality the re­ mainder, however, was worth a small fortune to dealers In antiques. It was the Edmeston ware. The law suit that followed for possession made the case famous. Where is the remainder of the treasure? Joel Coryell, sexton at Romulus, N. Y., digging a grave on what was a Tory estate In 1776, found a large quantity of money in an old pot. The grave belonged to Thomas Mann, but Coryell kept the gold. Walter Butler, the notorious Mo­ hawk Valley Tory, returned to the val­ ley at the end of the war with a force of Tories and Indians to dig up the treasures he had buried and those that had been buried by other wealthy Tories who had told him where to re­ cover it in their behalf. When he had finished his work and was returning, vhe pursuing Colonials under Colonel Marlnus Willet, overtook the treasure squad beyond Johnson's Hall on the bank of the West Canada in northern Herkimer county. The treasure was too heavy for the Of it could bs tive ease now. with comparsr blood and when he reached the boat he stood up, and with a harquebus shot at the tackle till it was cut clean, too high up the rocks for any one to reach. "Devil Duval" sailed away and never returned. For years the winds battered and the sun and rains rotted the ropes on the walls of the rotfk till at last they disappeared. So many lives were lost in attempts to scale the rocks and re­ cover the treasure that a law was passed forbidding any one to make the attempt without the necessary le­ galized concession from the governor or the province of Quebec. Only the wild sea-birds, making their nests in the top of the rock, know the story of the two prisoners and the chests of treas­ ure on the bleak heights. But an air­ ship could learn it. Carleton Island, in the St. Lawrence river, was an outfitting place for Tory raiding parties and an arsenal was es­ tablished there. A pay chest was sent to the post with a large sum of money. The chest disappeared and its loss was reported to General Haldimand at Montreal. In 1879, Colonel Horr of Cape St. Vincent, received a visit from a Stranger, who requested the use of a boat and, being granted it, he rowed to Carleton Island and returned in a short time with a heavy iron chest covered with clinging wet clay. Col­ onel Horr, thinking nothing wrong, helped the man row to the steamboat landing and he was never heard' from again. In a few days William Majo. one of the owners of the island, sent a boy into the pine thicket for stray­ ing horses and there the lad found the flat-stone-lined hole where the chest had rested. There are two extensive areas of buried treasure in the thickly popu­ lated parts of the United States. One. the lesser, is on the general lines of Sherman's march to the sea. North and south of it plantation after plan­ tation, town after town, have their storieR of treasures ranging from a few hundreds of dollars to hundreds of thousands which were buried for fear the Union army would get them. Many were never recovered because of the failure of the owners to locate the burial places. The surest way to fleeing party so it was dumped In the shallows and horses were ridden through the water to make it muddy. Butler was killed, the raiders driven away and the spoils await present-day seekers. While there Is some doubt as to au­ thenticity, there is said to be a $16,- 000,000 cache of Spanish doublons, buried by Captain Kidd, on Esopus Island in the Hudson river, not far from New York City, while at the very gate of New York Is a forgotten treas­ ure of many hundreds of thousands. ThlB famous treasure was lost when the British frigate Hesarar, a pay ship sent in for the British soldiers during the revolutionary war, went down In the East river. It will be easy, to look up the old Admiralty records and get the full information that may lead to the finding of the treasure. The facts pertaining to Kiopper Smith's horde are as follows: "Def Kiopper" was a very brutal and much feared knight of the road on the west shores of the Hudson from Nyack to the Catskills and he robbed the wealthy Dutch In an unmerciful man­ ner. He had no opportunities for spending his ill-gotten wealth and hoarded it somewhere. At last he was captured and before his execution at Newburg confided to a keeper who had been kind to him that he had sacks of gold and silver and Jewels buried in a spot on Storm King Mountain, just north of Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, some thirty-five miles north of New York City. No search has ever been made. In the hey-day of Mississippi river steamboat traffic, a great deal of sun­ ken treasure accumulated in the Ohio. Cumberland, Tennessee, Missouri, Red and Arkansas rivers. A pay boat on its way to Grant's army at Vicksburg with more than two million dollars aboard was fired by gome of her crew who meant to rob her. The paymas­ ter's men defended the money till the boat sank. James B. Eads, who built the Eads bridge at St. Louis and the Eads jetties at the mouth of the Mis­ sissippi, invented an apparatus by use of which he could reach some of the treasure-wrecks in shallow water and recovered several million dollars. All Just above Pine Bluff, Arkansas, a steamboat said to have been the Car- lyle J. Harrison, with several hundred thousand dollars In gold to pay for cotton, was sunk In 1869. None of It has ever been recovered. There is a fascinating story about an old barge that is buried In the Mis­ souri sand-fiats near Fort Rice, North Dakota. With It is buried silver worth more than half a million dollars At the time when the unsuccessful pros­ pectors were toiling, empty handed, back from the gold fields of California, a little hand of men struck a rich find near what is now Virginia City. Mon­ tana. The built a rude camp and. with the poor Implements that they had, work­ ed feverishly for many months until they had taken out all tha*l their packs could carry across the miles of uncivilized country they must cross to the navigable rivers of the upper Mis­ souri. Tolling across the mountains, always in danger of massacre, facing starvation and privations, breaking roads in the frozen flats and blazing trails through the forests, they finally reached the river near Painted Woods, and there built a rude barge and load' ed it to the water's edge with the rich silrer ore. Traveling by night In constant fear of Indian outbreaks, they wended slow­ ly down the partly frozen river, know­ ing that soon they would reach the frontier town and safety. It was In '64 and the few scattered settlements had been deserted. No Indians had been seen for days and, taking cour­ age, they traveled faster and with less caution. When they were "®ar Fort Rice they were attacked > the In­ dians and all of the little band were killed with the exception of one man, Pierre Laselle. Ignorant of the wealth aboard, the Redskins sunk the float, and Pierre Laselle escaped to Fort Rice leaving behind him no trace of the expedition; the secret of the hardships and toll and wealth were with the river and with him. He told no one anything about it for some time--not until he had enlisted in the army and maneu­ vered so as to get back to be near his treasure. Then he took an old Quak­ er, named Richard Pope, into his con­ fidence and at the urgent request of the Quaker his son was also told the secret. Three month^ later the litle party, well arir.ed and well provisioned, went quietly to the spot that Laselle remem­ bered so well, only to find that the river course had changed and a bar of sand had formed over the barge. Not dismayed, however, they dug un> ill they found the pr'ow of the old cow and on the very eve of success hey too were attacked by the Indians md Laselle was killed! Pope and his son, too badly frightened to work igain within the year, went back with he secret to the town and while there voung Pope died. After many years the old Quaker ook another man, named Emerson, md with the drawings that Laselle und he had made they went back to he place of trove and found that the : and bar had grown and that the river an many hundreds of feet away from he spot where the fortune lay burled m glistening sands. Where Pope said • he old diggings would be found a oung cottonwood tree was flourish- ig. They spent weeks digging for lany feet around the place, but found nothing. Some mistake had evidently been made in following out the former instructions, but the barge was there, because Pope and Laselle found it on their first visit. Pope is - dead, but Emerson is still alive and has the old drawings, letters and records. Maybe he can be induced to part with it, and maybe not, but somewhere In the flats near Fort Rice is a snug little fortune awaiting some finder. Behind the city of 8t. Augustine, In some likely spot another rich treasure Is located. When it was a rich Span­ ish town, a favorite putting-ln port for the heavily laden Spanish galleons that were coming through the Straits of Florida to avoid sailing the waters made dangerous by Peter the Terrible and Sir Henry Morgan, its wealth at­ tracted the attention of the free-boot- ers and word of their preparations to attack and loot the city was carried to the captain-general. For weeks the city was in a state of great perturbation and when some English ships, probably privateers, ap­ peared off the coast, the public treas­ ure, the church treasure and the valu­ ables of the wealthy citizens were as­ sembled, removed inland and hidden. For months the state of suspense con­ tinued until the Spanish Admiral Quln- tana appeared with his fleet. Then the St. Augustinlans thought they could safely bring back their wealth To their horror the three prominent men entrusted with the secreting of it either could not find it or pretend­ ed they could not. One fled to Spain before the anger of his fellow-citizens and his flight cost the lives of the oth­ er two. They were assassinated as soon as the flight became known. The archives pf the Spanish admir­ alty have full record of the affair and the true key to the treasure trove can best be found by searching the family papers of the man who fled. He never returned, but without doubt he left the valuable information tq his heirs. Where millions await the finder in wilder and more uncertain spots is far more interesting ground than the localities where thousands lie under the very noses of the townspeople, or where the plow passes every year over the burled trove. All through the west are rich mines which have been found and lost. ADMIRE AND USE TELEPHONE flgurts Show That Americans Most Greatly Appreciate This Modern 0' Aid to Business. There are few aidB to efliclency so -useful as the telephone, apd it is aomethlng we may be proud of that In this country alone 67 per cent, of all the instruments and 61% per cent, .of all the wire used in telephonic sertr- las In the world are employed. Prao- tlcally two-thirds of the telephone business of the world Is therefore con­ centrated in the United States. This represents an investment of $1,729,- 000,000, which is certainly a great sum, in view of the fact that last year was only the thirty-fifth since Profes­ sor Bell Invented the telephone. Statistics recently filed show that In Stockholm there are 18.9 telephones p§r 100 population, a figure excelled by no American city except Los An­ geles, where there are 24 instruments per 100 population. Copenhagen and Christiana also have good service, and it is well patronized; but London. Paris, Vienna and St. Petersburg are far down in the list of telephone-using cities. The relative use of the three great methods of communication--first- class mail, telegraph and telephone-- In the United States In 1909 was 40.9, 0.4 and 58.7 per cent respectively, while in Europe during the same year the percentages were 74.4, 1.7 and 28.9 respectively. The total numbers of messages sent by all three methods in the two divisions were practically the same--about 21.000,000,000.--En­ gineering Record. Patience and Poultry. A man doesn't need a big lot el money to build up a profitable poultry business. But he does need a lot of p&tlence and perseverance mixed wltt an ardent desire to gat he* under standing. ANNUAL MEE ILLINOIS ANTI-HORSE THIEF AS­ SOCIATION TO MEET OCTOBER 16. GOVERNOR DENEEN INVITED Chief Executive of State Is Asked to Deliver the Address of Welcome- May Schnepp Will Also Speak. Springfield.--The thirtieth annual convention of the Illinois Anti-Horse Thief association of Illinois will he held in Springfield on October 16. Last year the convention was held in Car- linville, and 255 of the 257 lodges in the state, representing a membership of approximately 3,000, were repre­ sented. The coming meeting will be by delegates, and it, Is anticipated that the attendance will be larger than that of last year. Officers of the as­ sociation are: President, H. R. Ter­ ry Of Virden; vice-president, William J. Cordier, Springfield; secretary, John W. Clary, Jacksonville; marshal, James S. Derry, Springfield. The oommlttee on arrangements for the coming meeting consists of William J. Cordier, chairman; James S. Derry and Daniel Fielding. "Cordier and Derry have presented to Governor Deneen a request that that official addreBS the meeting, which la to be held in the senate chambers at the state house, begin­ ning at ten o'clock in the morning. Should Governor Deneen be in the city at that time he will be one of the speakers, others on the program be­ ing an address on behalf of the city by Mayor John S. Schnepp, while Coun­ ty Judge J. B. Weaver will talk on the good of the order. . Physicians Pass State Test. The state board of health has just announced the results of the physi­ cian's examination held in Springfield on June 15. The marking of the pa­ pers was completed in July, but the results have been withheld until all the successful candidates had paid their certificate fees. Two hundred and twelve applicants appeared for ex­ amination. Of these 158 were success­ ful and 61 failed to obtain the average required. The papers of three are still incomplete. The highest grade alAong the 1912 graduates was obtained by a student of Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, the medical department of Valparaiso university. This college also got second place. Graduates of Northwestern University Medical school, Chicago, ran third and fourth. Three from Springfield passed the examination. They are Harry Griffith Hirschle, George Frederick ( Sorgatz and Paul Relnhold Wohler. Joseph Henry Smith of Sherman also passed. Others from outside of Chicago who were successful were: Harry August Brandes, Granite City; Martin Rist Chase, Toulon; Ar­ thur B. Connor, Wheaton; Warner Latta Crouch, Belle Prairie; Murtell M. Eddington, Springfield; Rollae Dean Finch, Flora; Hart Elles Fisher, Joliet; Howard Norton Flezer, Joliet; Leo Howard Flynn, Bloomington; John Milton Gamblll, Johnston City; Katherlne Gerow, Evanston; Arthur W. Karch, Blue Island; John William Krohn, Joliet; Louis F. Mutschmann, East St. Louis; William Christopher Schlele, Joliet; Bert Smith, Mount Carmel; Walter S. Stevens, Hulls; Welcome Blaine Tllton, Freeport; Ed­ ward Tipple, New Baden; Willard Robert Vaughn, La Salle; William Robert Wesenberg, America; Arthur R. Williamson, Pontlac. State Inspeotort Examine Milk. Springfield.--Springfield milk is un­ dergoing a rigid examination. Deputy State Pure Food Inspectors H. G. Rodenberg of East St. Louis and Anton Spath of Mt. Carmel, who reached the city, have personally stopped enough milk wagons in the city to procure forty samples of milk and cream. They have been sent to the state laboratory and there will be analyzed for percentages of fat, solids and fat, water and preservatives. The inspectors announce that a com­ mon preservative is formaldehyde, a substance which is used commonly in embalming. The parallel use of the preservative Is not exactly appetizing, but the use, it is said, is almost uni­ versal. Whether local milkmen have used this is yet to be determined. The Inspectors visited a number of groceries, where they took twelve Bam pies of goods, mostly vinegar. They stated they found muchvof the vinegar distilled and burned sugar colored, a combination which is illegal. Canned milk will be analyzed. Health Board Victor In Suit. Suits brought by the Illinois state board of health against violators of the medical practice laws are evident­ ly becoming of national Import. This was shown iu Quincy on Au­ gust 15, when the lieutenant governor Of Wisconsin, Hon. Thomas Morris of La Crosse, defended "Dr. L. Q- Brown, so-called chiropractor, against whom the state board of health had brought suit for practicing medicine without a license and who was being prosecuted by State's Attorney John T. Gilmer. Mr. Morris claimed to represent the national council of the u°iver78^ Chiropractor's association of the Uni­ ted States, which, he stated, has suc­ cessfully defended suits brought in other states In his argument to the jury he roundly scored the Illinois state board of health which he fiharged as belonging to *the medical trust." The jury, however, was not seemingly impressed by the argument for after a short deliberation it de­ clared Brown guilty of the charge preferred against him by the state board of health, and he was fined $100 and oosta. Boys' 8tate Fair School, Preliminary arrangements for the third annual session pf the Boys' State Fair school, to be held In connection with the state fair October 4 to October 12, Were made at a meeting In Springfield, attended by Secretary J. KL Dickirson of the state board of agriculture. State Su­ perintendent of Instruction Francis G. Blair, Principal Thomson of the Springfield High school, Col. Charles F. Mills, and County Superintendent of Schools E. C. Pruitt of this county. This year the encampment of the boys will be held in the southwest cor­ ner of the grounds, near the automo­ bile entrance. Contracts for the fur­ nishing of supplies and meals to the boys during their stay in camp will be let within a few days. The first and second sessions of this school were successful beyond the expectations of the members of the state board of agriculture, the commission is charged and the general public. The hearty co-operation of the county superintendents and teachers of the town and rural schools of the state resulted In the .selection of a very superior class of boys. The school had the active sympathy and support of the officers and mem­ bers of the State and County Farmers' institutes. There was no lack of effort on the part of each member of the Illinois state board of agriculture to make the school one of the greatest possible benefit to the boys In attendance. The cordial and hearty co-operation on the part of the members of the faculty of the college of agriculture made complete the arrangements for the varied and very satisfactory course of study and observation. The above agencies conduced to an attendance and resultB in class work work most unexpected and gratifying at the sessions of 1910 and 1911 to the management, the boys participat­ ing and the general public. One hundred and twenty-flve boys were enrolled the first year and 194 the second year. The high-class work and very practical course of Btudy, with the exceptional advantages pro­ vided by the state fair exhibits, mad« possible the excellent results charao teristic of tho Boys' State Fair school of Illinois. The very superior class work a» compllshed and the unsurpassed ad­ vantages provided for observations inspiration and good fellowship fur nlshed these Toung men delightful ex­ periences that will for all time make them enthusiastic advocates of th« continuance and further development of the school. The state fair officials will continu« their efforts to secure funds from ths general assembly necessary to pro­ vide suitable and permanent building* and other conveniences for the Boys' State Fatr school. The best of camping facilities foi the Boys' State Fair school of 1913 will be provided by Adjt. Gen. Frank S. Dickson, who made the 1911 camp a model in conveniences and all thai could be desired In the way of ar rangement. The full enrollment of the schodl will consist of two boys from each county outside Cook county and eigh­ teen from Cook county, making a total of 320. The boys must be over fifteen and under twenty-one years of age. The boys are chosen by a committee consisting of the county superintend­ ent of schools, the president of the County Farmers' institute and the chairman of the county board of su­ pervisors. AUTOMOBILE HAS A WINS French Motor Car Is Driven Same Manner ss an Aeroplane. In A successful trial run was made w cently from Paris to London, about 320 miles, by a motor car driven bjr a revolving wing, the Paris Figaro states. The vehicle, which was designed by M. Bertrand de Lesseps, and is called the wingedcar," has the appearance of an ordinary motor car, save that in front It Is shaped like the prow of a shfp. From the extremity of the prow extends a shaft to which Is attached the propeller--or revolving wing--invented by M. Filippi. The wing is small, strong and thick and revolves within a protecting cage. The engine is of 40 horsepower and rotates the wing by shaft and transmission. There is no other mechanism, the wheels of the car being free, except for footbrakes. By the side of the driver is a single lever which con­ trols the clutch and the forward and reverse movement of the wing. The wing can be reversed at a moment's notice, thereby forming an additional brake. In the trial runs a speed of 62 miles an hour was obtained with 2,100 revolutions of the wing a min­ ute. One curious feature was that Its car made no dust Couldn't Happen to Them. Mike got a job moving some kegs of powder, and, to the alarm of Ids foreman, was discovered smoking at his work. "Je-ru-Ba-lem!" exclaimed the fore­ man. "Do you know what happened when a man smoked at this job soma years ago? There was an explosion that blew up a dozen men." "That couldn't happen here," re­ turned Mike calmly. "Why not?" " 'Cause there's only you and me,** was the reply.--Everybody's Maga­ zine. 1 fi y Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children, and see that It Bears the Signature of i In Use For Over 30~ Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Some people spend their llveg t» trying to acquire money to spend. ennaren, ana see that it CURBS ITCHING SKIN DISBASBS. Cote's Carboliaaive «tops itching and makes AM akin smooth. All droggiats. 2S and BOe. • But the early bachelor is never bagged by the timid leap year girl. -M Km. Wtnaiowa soothing nrnip for CblUitt teething, softens the gums, reduces Uon, allays pain, cures wind colic. 26c a bottla. More often It is the man who justice that kicks. --!-- - a Aviation Events Big Fair Feature. Announcement was made of the special attractions for this year's Greatest Fair on Earth--the Illinois state fair. Secretary J. K. Dickerson expressed himself aB delighted with the program and declared that no fair in this country this year had such an array of talent. Aviation will be the main card, and contracts have been made with two different companies for monoplanes, thus assuring that each will do his best, and In the races between the two the best machine and shrewdest driver will win. One of them Is an American machine, manufactured at Terre Haute by Johnson Brothers. It will be operated by Louis J. Johnson^ the inventor and patentee. The other is the Nieuport mono­ plane, a French machine, which last year made a record flight between Lyons and Paris, France, Le Tournleu, who made that extraordinary flight, and who doesn't speak a word of Eng­ lish, will be the engineer of this ma­ chine. There will be a sharp contest between France and America in the monoplane exhibitions. Both ma­ chines will carry Aerial mail from the fair grounds to a near-by post office, arrangements for which are now being perfected by Postmaster Wheeler with the post office depart­ ment at Washington. The Curtiss-N'atlonal biplane will enter a number of aviation events with the monoplanes every forenoon between 9:30 and 11:30. A Curtlss aeroplane has never p.xhibited in Springfield, the Wrights being the only machines in the air in 1910 and 1911. Yon can save money on your trip Southwest by taking advaiu tage of the low excursion fares in effect on the First and Third Tuff- day of each month. f * the tteie tp mikeatrU'tS Oklahoma cjfY Texas and tap '< just wberejm# ^opportuuitju , Aak your loej#- agent to aeii yoa : a ticket via Katf ! | - orUrllnw'wheae r you. want to and I'll plan jrouf*"e trip and give f OS tuU tntormatioa about She fa as f r o m y o u | horns town. 1 wUl also 8«ns you our fine fit looks on South­ west opportunr ties. Write todajw W. s. St. C£0*CE, c. r. a., m. k. a i. in m Waiawrifkt Mf.. ST. LOUIS. SO. Articles of Incorporation. Aug. 14.--Secretary of State Doyle issued certificates of Incorporation to the following: The A. n. Stables Company, Limited, Chicago: capital. 12,500; livery. In­ corporators--J. J. Mitchell, Austin J. Gross, Jr., R. F. Fowler. Columbus Monument Garage. Chi­ cago; capital, $2,500. Incorporators-- J. T. Grotty, Frank C. Taylor, J. J. Poulton. White Eagle Express, "Chicago; cap­ ital, 11,000. Incorporators--Max Bor- chardt. Sidney Drelfus. George Fox. Credit Registration Bureau, Cht cago; capital, $500. Incorporators-- Sam Smith, Felix Rothschild, Trac? Rothschild. Handy Plating Company, Chicago; capital, $10,000; novelties.- Incorpo­ rators--Geo. F Talty, J. B. ConBidinet Dennis F. Considine. Femly Jewelry Company, Chicago; capital, $10,000. Incorporators.--Ar­ thur J. Donlin, George W. Faror, G. W. Femly National Cumberland Road associa­ tion, Effingham. Incorporators--L. H. Blssell, J. H- Curry, George M. Lie Crone. Is Your Money Earn­ ing Less Than 10%? Would you consider a prop­ osition like the following, if we could prove it to you? 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