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CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
CARNEGIE GIVES «1.250.000,
| Hero Fund* Now in United States.
England. Germany and France.
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SAILS OVER MOUNTAIN.
Hoasey Clears Ml. Wilson Observa
tory tn Heavy Biplane.
TROUBLE BREWS
IN MANCHURIA
Berlin — Announcement was mad«'
Aviation Field, Loe Angeles Adil
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here that Andrew Carnegie ha* given
I ing to the laurel* he ha* already won
31.250,000 for a Carnegie foundation
j
st
the
present
meet.
Arch
Hoxsey,
for life savers in Germany.
i bolder of the pres«- t wurM*' altitude
The conditions and purpose* of th«-
Icmiowment are similar to those of the
i record of 11,474 feet, flew over Mount
"hero fund*" previously e*tablish«-d by
• Wilson, the highest peak of the moun-
■ the American financier and philan
| tain range which rim* the valley in
thropist in the United States, England,
General Resume of Important Event* and France. The annual proceeds will Strong Wind* and Treacherous Air which Los Angeles, Pasadena and the Coolies and Corsans Clash Chines*
Spies Wstch Every Move of
Current* Prove Disastrous to
‘ town* of the orange belt lie.
Under
be used fur the benefit of those who
Pretented In Condensed Form
Japanese Troops.
have
been
injured
in
the
performance
World
Champton*.
ideal
weather
conditions
he
soared
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of heroic acta, and, in the event of a
' <X>5 feet into the sky and cleared the
hero's death, for the support of surviv
Ixt* Angeles, Jan. 2. Arch Hox
ing dependents.
A special provision aey, bolder of the World'* aviation al crest of Mount Wilson with 4.200 feet
Victoria, B. C.—Diaquieting condi
Killing of Hoxaey put a |>all on the
to spare.
is made for the education of the child
tions which may give rise to serious
aviation meet at lx* Angels*.
titude recod, and Star of the air pilots
ren of those who have sacrificed their
Lieutenant Vernon Boiler and sev trouble between Japan and China, if
of America, plunged to earth a Dom
Report* say that th«- gold camp at lives.
eral other army officers here were not between Russia and China, also,
Iditarwd, Alaska, is worked out.
Some time ago American Ambassa , ingucs field at 2:12 thia afternoon
: quirk to observe in Hoxsey'* perform are reported by the Tokio Kokumin, ac
I‘|nrhot advisee Taft to cancel the dor Hill, at the re«,urol of Mr. Carr.c from a height of 225 feet and ¡was in ! ance a new way of transporting armies cording to advices received by the
gie, approached the emperor on the stantly killed. The tragedy wa* wit
iteamer Tacoma Maru. The Kokumin
Cunningham coal claim* in Alack*.
across mountain ranges.
Lieutenant says the growing intimacy between
subject of whether such a gift would nessed by 10,000 person*
Archbishop Glennon, of St. lx>ui», tie acceptable. Hi* majesty thoroughly
The actual point of the accident, ac Boiler, who came here from Fort Russian* and Japanese in Manchuria is
declares military men are but para- approved of the project, and in an au ■ cording to th«- barograph, waa at the
Whipple, Arizona, said that l.WMi bi- : having a serious effect upon the CM-
site*.
tograph letter to the donor expressed altitude of 225 feet. Hoxsey had been
!
plan«-»
c«uld transport an army of 10,- iissc, and anti-Japanese and anti-Rus-
gliding from an altitude of 7,' hhi feet
Ivy Baldwin, an aviator at Santa deep interest in the benefaction.
sian sentiment is increasing.
The
The necessary detail* were soon con I Thia descent was beautifully acccim- ’ 000 men across mountains as high a* slightest movement*
Barbara, fell 20 feet, but escaped ser
of Japanese
cluded
and
the
fund
place«!
in
the
pliabcd. and it would have been impos : the Alfa in a day.
ious injury.
troops in Manchuria cause great sus
hand* of the emperor, who a* Ita pat- sible for anyone not an expert to un
Hoxsey used a heavy stock Wright picion, and large numbers of Chinese
The provisional government of Port I ron appointed a commission of 12 to
der*tand that what he wa* doing wa* biplane, cquip|«d for passenger ser- »pies are constantly reconnoitering.
ugal I* Mid to be tottering and it* fall administer the same.
not the easiest thing In the world.
When the maneuvers of the Japansee
is expected at any time.
The president of the commission I*
A stiff north wind wa* blowing and I vice and he marie the journey to a troops in Manchuria were arranged in
point
beyond
the
mountain*
in
one
England ia surprised that the king Rudolph von Valenti, chief of his ma- the air waa filled with what aeronaut*
hour, 2> minute*.
The di»t*ncc trav- November, the Chinese military offi
created no new peers for New Years, i jesty's civil cabinet, and hi* associate* call "pocket*'
cials sent a large focre of Chinese
<
I-<1
is
estimated
at
34
miles.
I
in
connection
with
the
American
am-
which ia contrary to custom.
Just how Hoxsey hsppened to lose
tnaipa to the scene, and only by tact
He
*
a*
out
of
sight
of
the
crowd
be
I baaitador and representatives of the
It ia estimated that the grow earn- mining, railway, maritime and Indus- control of the machine, if that wa* the fore he made the attempt at topppi ng fulness on the part of the Japanese
cause, no one who saw him fall was
officials was thia force withdrawn be
nings of the railroads of the l’nit«-<l
■ trial interests of Germany and the able to explain, la-cause the thing was th«« |>eak. but before starting he had fore any untoward incident occurred.
States for the past year ’were <2.335.-
announce«!
his
intention
to
do
so.
medical profession.
done so quickly as to defy precise ob
374,531.
The news of hi* auccea* was flashed Since then Chinese tnxips and police
The benefit r^tf the fund began with servation. He had tie« n in the air one
have ix-cn greatly augmented along the
Berlin tailor* are angry because the the new year.
hour and eight minutes, and shortly to the aviation field by telephone* from Antung-Mukden railway.
kaiser ha* his clothes made In Ixjndon,
Germany now has provision* for the before the catastrophe was circling the Carnegie Solar observatory on
They have instigated Chinese coolie*
arid directly above
and all the German nobility follow hi* j relief of civil servants who have suf east of the field at the very summit of Mount Wilson
to
intimidate Co roan laborers, with the
which th* aviator soared.
fered through heroism, and Mr. Car hi* day's flight.
example.
result that for three days a thousand
"It
wa*
fearfully
cold,"
said
Hox
negie's gift will make it possible to
He had swung around, seemed to
Chinese and Coreans engaged in fight
An earthquake rocked the palace of
round out a general system of bene poise about a mile above ground, and sey, "and when I got to a point just ing. The Chinese police supplied the
the sultan of Turkey, and badly fright
above
the
summit
I
found
that
the
perhaps a mile cast of the field. At
cooliM arm* and there were several
ened the inhabitant* near by, but no faction.
I this point be struck a slide and came haxe, which obscure.! the mountain* casualties.
one w>* killed.
from
the
aviation
field,
wa*
a
heavy
115 MORI MEN INDICTEO
at a downward cant nf perhaps 30 de-
The Kokumin concludes a long ar
The report of the California fish and
gree* in a line which, if projected, pall of vapor filled with fine ice par ticle by asserting that if Japanese
ticle* that stung my face.
game wnr-l.r. .m’nx nd* tMH
Total of Ohio Vole*«ll*r* Now I 285 would have taken him about the mid
"I am certain that if I had had a gusnis are augmented to suppress the
crab* be taken in California water*
dle of the back field.J
First Jail Sentence* Enforced.
rr.-oniii.g
thermometer with me. it trouble further fighting will follow.
for two years.
When he waa over the back field,
West Union, 0. The departing year about 5<>0 feet northeast from the w«-uld have shown the temperature of
A severe blizzard swept the Middle
j was marked here by a grand jury re judge*' stand, the angle of dean nt wa* the upper altitude to be far tielow
AVIATORS MEET DEATH.
West and Eastern states, the therm«»-
port which returned 115 additional in | changed to a deeper one, but even yet zero. However, hurdling mountains is
meter at some point* falling 46 de
diriment* aganiat voters of Adams he had not reached the danger point. much easier than climbing 11,000 feet
grves in eight hour*.
county, charging them with either | *o far as observation could detect.
over a valley or the *ea. The earth Frenchmen Meet Disaster Trying tor
A stray bullet, thought to have been bribery or acceptance of bribes in con
Suddenly a cry went up from the doc» not seem wi far away."
«20.000 Prize.
fired by New Year cclebratom, in nection with the traffic in vote* on No grandstand and the thousands banked
atantly killed an I It-year old boy stand vember B last.
Th«- grand total of along the fence. They sex-med to un
Paris
Marquis Marie I’aulla and
SUN SOLVES MYSTERY.
ing on the street in Salt Lake City.
those indicted haa reached 1.25K,
Alexander Laffon, chief pilot of the
derstand vaguely in that instant that a
Judge A. Z. Blair sent five Man
a tragedy of the atr wa* about to lie en
Antoinette school <if aviation, were
A revolution haa started in Honduras
Rays Illuminate Crevasse and Musher
ter men to jail for five months, fined - ated, for the airship tipped from its
crushed to death under their aeroplane,
and fighting ia In progress.
Sees Burros in Dsptnt.
just after they had taken the air for a
i them 3 100 each and disfranchised them i steep gliding angle and dived straight
A movement is on foot to have a f .- five year*. These are th-- first jail,
Seattle
A special from Valdes, speed flight from Paris to Brussels and
downward.
The flight at this angle
permanent tariff eommision appointed. sentence* actually executed, although
return.
continued for only can instant, for the Alaska, says:
Laffon’a w ife was standing only a
American and Canadian officials rec a suspended sentence has bees hung great Wright machine tipped until it
Five hundred f«-< t down a cr«va*iu- few feet away when the machine
ommend an international commerce over «very one of the guilty men in the appeared that it would turn a complete
in the groat Valdcx glacier have been struck th«- ground. The aviator* fell
wholesale bribery investigation.
com miss on.
somi-rsauit. It then came to a straight
Court opened at 5:30 o'clock, th«- vertical again, and shot down with discover«-«! the bodies of six burro* 200 feet and the aeroplane fell upon
The Pennsylvania railroad ha* de county seat living filled with voters
making up the pack train of a party of them, crushing and mangling both
clared a dividend of 4 per cent, mak from the extreme eastern section, who ■ the swiftness of an arrow.
shockingly. Laffon’* head was crushed
Eastern prospector* who started for
ing 7 per cent this year.
had walked in, tramping all night t>>
and hi* right leg. twisted upward
New Orleans, Jan. 2. Leaving City
the Copper River country from this against his body, wa* driven into his
President Ixiwcll, of Hsrvard, de arrive early and make their pleas of Park Aviation field at 9:3s o’clock
cliesL
nounces college yell* and rugtime guilty.
Saturday morning, full of life, vigor point 13 year* ago and were lost.
Laffon and Marquis Pauli* were in
and hope, hi* eyes sparkling in antiei- {
music al student*' dinner*.
W. H. Crary, a musher who was
Laffon'* machine.
They were trying
Bottom Out of Falta Hair Market.
pation
of
adding
to
hi*
country's
glory
traveling over the glacier, made the
A portrait of Julia Ward Howe has
London Ladies with only moderate by bringing the Michelin cup to Amer discovery. The depths of the crevasse for a prize of 120.000 offered for the
been refused a place beside other noted
fastrot passenger flight over the Paris-
mean* desiring curls or switches, and ica, John B. Moissant. one of the
Americans in Faneuil Hall, Boston.
gentlemen, whose pocket* are rather world's moat daring and skilllul avia were illuminated by the sun as Mr. Bru«»e!» course.
The machine had left the ground
A German inventor will attempt to light and whose hair is getting thin on tors, flew over New Orleans only to : Crary crossed it and he caught sight of
cross the Atlantic in a dirigible bal the top may now obtain hirsute adorn meet death near Harahan, 11 mile* the burros.
With the aid of hi* easily and had once circled the grounds
Just
loon, attached to a lifeboat, which it ment* at greatly reduced price*. There from the city, 20 minutes later.
binocular* he ascertained that the bur ready to «tart on it* long flight.
will drag after it.
l* a glut in human hair, and the reason
Tonight at the hour when he was to ros were in a perfect state of proser a* it passed over Laffon's hangar and
seemed about to shoot away on the
The Western Union Telegraph com given is a political one, the annexation have been presented with a handsome vation and equipped with saddle* and
Brussels course, it lurched violently.
loving
cup
bearing
the
legend,
"John
I
of
Korea
by
the
Japanese.
It
appear*
pack*.
He
could
not
diacover
any
hu
pany will loan money to ita employe*
It is believed a stay of one of the
that
since
that
event
so
msny
Korean*
B.
Moissant,
the
glory
of
Central
man
bodies,
liut
it
is
believed
the
own
to the amount of a month's salary
wings gave way and that the aeroplane
without interest, to enable them to have cut off their "top-knots" that in America," eontribut«M by the Central ers of the pack train perished with it
at once bwcame unmanageable.
From
one
small
town
over
ten
new
barber
American
colony
in
New
Orleans,
the
in
the
cravaaae,
and
an
attempt
will
be
avoid the clutches of loan sharks.
shop* have been opened, and the )>rice plucky aviator lies in the morgue, a made a* soon as the weather nwderatea ground Laffon’s effort* to right the
Hiram Maxim, the noted gun manu of human hair ha* fallen so much that martyr to the science of aviation.
to descend into the fixsure. The cre machine were plainly visible.
facturer. says bad powder is the cause the beat quality can now be bought for
The effort was for only a few mo
Alfred J. Moissant. president of the vasse is far from the old Copper River
of many accident* with military and a quarter an ounce, the price that used International aviators, hade his broth trail and this leads to the conjecture menta. for with another lurch the ma
naval arms, l>ut the secretary of the to be asked for the cheapest.
er cheery farewell, just tiefore he as that the prospectors loat their way and chine ducked toward th* earth, at the
navy say* Maxim knows nothing about
same time turning over. The aviator*
cended. Accompanied by pres* repre perished.
the powder now in use.
Mexican* Report Battle.
»tuck to their place* for the first turn,
sentative* and mechanician* in an au
but were thrown out when the ma
Mexico
City
—
Twenty-seven
killed,
tomobile,
he
followed
the
flight
to
the
Japan Not Sending Spies.
A passenger steamer plying between
chine again swirled around and turned
Mediterranean an.i European Atlantic three missing and 2H wounded ia the place up the river where the cup trial
Washington Publication of state
port* loat her propeller and floundcr«-d official report of casualties during the wa* to take plaice, only to be met by ment* of Japanese activities in the completely over a second time. They
for nearly two months helplee*, until fighting at Mai Paso on December 2s, the »tunning news that John B. Mois Philippin«ra ha* called forth from the • truck the earth a fraction of a second
before the machine with it» heavy en-
an American wrecking steamer found when that strategic point of the revo sant wa* dead.
War department the assertion that no
lutionist* in the state of Chihuauhua
The added weight of an extra gas information had been received there to I ginro, fell upon them.
her and towed her to New York.
The little crowd that had gathered to
waa taken by the Federal*.
Of the oline tank, the use of a strange ma justify such statement*.
watch the beginning of the flght rush-
A scheme has been unearthed where dead. 13 were Fedsrals and 14 revolu chine and the deadly prank of a 15-
The official* in*i*t it would be the «1 forward and lifted the wrccke«t ma
by certain "reputable” picture dealer* tionist*. The three unaccounte«l for mile wind at tfe«- moment when he had
duty of the governor general or Major
chine off the bodies of the victims.
in Europe have tu-en making imitation* were Federalist*. Of the regulars 2S pointed the noae of his machine at a
Duvall, commander of the Philippine The marquis wa* placed in an ambu
of old masterpieces and selling them to were wounded, including a lieutenant- sharp downward angle, combined in
division, promptly to cable the depart
lance, but died before reaching a hos
rich American*. It is said E H. Har colonel. The number of revolutionist* sending Moissant down to death.
ment of the discovery of spies or of pital.
Laffon lived a few minutes
riman and J. P. Morgan have been ex injured is unknown, a* they were ckr- , Thrown from his machine by it* sud
any facta that threatened American
tensively victimilcd.
ried away by their comdadea.
den inclination, Moissant described a sovereignity in the Philippine*. No longer. Both were unconscious when
curve through the air and head first such report* have been received here. the crowd reached them.
Report* deny that General Navarro
Take* Photograph From Sky.
like a diver, shot downward, landing
surrendered, and claim he haa received
Hi* neck wa*
Rebels Make Big Osins.
No Strike Wanted.
Ixw Angele* It was conceded t«day on his neck and head.
reinforcement*.
by military and naval experts here that , broken.
El Paso, Tex. — Fortified in the
Chicago
Managers
of
61
Western
Michigan jurist* score Roosevelt for
a startling prophecy ia involved in
railroads and representatives of the mountain* and able to repel an attack
bis criticisms of the Supreme court.
Haskell Calls Troops.
the remarkable aerial performance nf
trainmen
conductor»,- baggagemen by a greatly superior force, a large
Trolley cars collided head on on * Roy Knabenahue, representative of the
Oklahoma City Two companies of and flagmen on these lines are said to hand of rebels are in control of the
trestle 30 feet above the ground at Wright brothers, at Domingues avia state militia almost got into acti«m in be making rapid and satisfactory pro Big Bend country and are making that
Kansas City, killing two and injuring tion fieM, who, while dying at a height the state capital removal fight. Hear gress in the settlement of wage de- the base of the rebel supplies, accord
of 500 feet, took a *na|«hot of Dornin- ing that Guthrie eitixena had interfered marxi*. Formal notice was handexi the ing to a report sent here by a field
about 50.
It is reported on good authority guex field. The feat is considered note with the removal of three wagon loads manager» recently of the demands of representative of the El Paso Herald.
that Taft would accept the nomination worthy because Knabenshue was trav of state records. Governor Haskell or the men, which average about 15 per The rebels, according to the corres
The manager* sent pondent, are in absolute control of the
for president in 1912, and believes he eling 40 miles an hour when he took dered militia companies A ami B to cent increase.
the
photograph,
which,
when
the
film
rtand
in
readiness
to
move
to
Guthrie.
back
their
formal
reply, which, it i» country from Marfa to Alpine. Hun
could win.
waa developed, showed the picture A short time later the governor learned understood, offer* a scale increase of H dreds of revolutionist* are reported
Suit has been commenced to recover true to detail.
to be joining the rebel* in the field
over the telephone that Guthrie cit and 10 per cent
title to 9ti.fi76 acres of land granted to
near Chihuahua.
izens would make no objection* to the
the Coos Bay Wagon Road company by
Bomb Wreck* Quaker City Store
Everett Man Gets Plum.
removal of the documenta and no fur
the state of Oregon.
Philadelphia — Resident* in the ther trouble ia expected over the re
Canadian Bank Badly Busted.
Washington — Secretary Ballinger
The Northern hank of New York ha« neighborhooal of Thirteenth and Dick moval of the capital to thia place.
has awarded the contract to George C.
Toronto — Hundreds of American
been closed, following manipulation of inson street* were greatly frightened
Clark, of Everett, Wash., for construe shareholder*
and
depositor* were
Farman Win* Great Prix*.
stocks by ita president, who became by the terrific explosion of a bomb
tion of the Ixwl River div«-r*ion works, caught in the failure of the Farmers'
insane and attempted suicide.
placed in front of the grocery store
Etampes, France By flying 3# 1.33 Klamath irrigation project. The work bank of Canada.
The losses will’be
No miles in eight hours, Henri Farman, tn consist* of a concrete diversion dam, far in excess of what they were •>rig-
A Pennsylvania oil well employe put and home of Frank Angelluirr.
a can of nitro glycerine in a barrel of one wa* injured, but the place was , a Farmar£bikplane, broke ‘the world's culvert*, bridges, etc., and involve* inally expected to be, it is said. With
hot water to thaw it out
He was wrecked. Angelluirr places the blame record 'for sustained distance flight, 40,000 cubic yard* of excavation and shareholder* paying doable their liabil-
blown to pieces and the derrick and on a "black hand" gang of that lo«-al- I and won the Michelin cup and trophy embankment.
The contract price is Tiro, th* bank will be able to pay only
for 1910.
buildings wrecked.
ity.
S9K.556.
* 25 cents on the dollsr.
iXiings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
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TWO AVIATORS
MEET DEATH
Hoxsey and Moissant Both
Hase Fatal Falls.
China Worried Over Friendship
of Japs and Russians.
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