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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1902)
LAKH COUNTY CXAHINER. LAKEVIEW, OREUON. OCT. 30. IX2. Derby of the Air. Continued from lot page. of the great Kiffcl tower ami returned to tlie desired snot, showed with what success the Hrnxlllnn had attacked the problem. Hut Santoa Thimont's theory must alwaj b open to one fatal ob jection that he depends for his sup fort In the air upon the very preearl out iraa which 01 la hit balloon and upon the ne-esarlly fluisy clotb which locloaea that iraa. Thla method will always lx too un rertain and dangerous for commercial purposes. Every lncreaae of load nec essarily Increases the size of the bal loon to support It. and every such In crease adds to the dancer. This danger was illustrated very strikingly In the recent Mediterranean accident. The ship became mixed up In a siunll, and the efforts of Santos Duinont to rlht matters only tipped over his gasoline engine, making au explosion tin mlneu t. The experience proved that In all such cases flying ma chines of the Santos Iiumont type would be most dangerous; that passen gers In them would, in fact, have al most no chance of safety. Professor I.angley started out on an entirely different theory. Mis aim lias been to eliminate the lalloon altogeth er and depend on winglike planes to support his machine, For twenty years he lias been trying to llnd out why birds fly. He found that birds flew with apparently little effort ; that the secret of their living was that they de veleped gnat lower In comparison to their weight. Put lie failed to discov er how this power was generated. With tills question before him. Pro fessor I-Kiiiley set about inventim; an engine which from less than ten ;xHinds weight could gem rate one horsepower of force. In this he was C:ial!y successful. An engine was Invented which could gen erate a horsepower of force from Seven pounds of weight all told. The next question was how to con struct the airship Itself. After years of experiment the plan hit uion waa this: A Ions steel rod waa to be held . VVSYX ..." V'". i -'.:-' 'i rnorsssoR s. p. i.anci.et. Ix-tween t'.vn sets of Inclined wings. Iielil riid. Siispeni'ed upon this rod whs to be the little j."''is"Iine inline which wvs to cier:iie a screw pr peller very much like lh;it used by t-tcuin-hlfi. This propeller v i.s to be jilaced between the wins that the buck wins woul l be behind the ticrew. To the rar of the back wi:i' would be the rudder, which would have apparatus for lateral ami louitudiiiCI F'wriiiK. At last the "aerodrome," for that was what he called his uiiship. was launch ed. The engine was net for only two minutes, for the airship had not been built large, enough to carry a man, but the machine soured Into the air im gracefully as u bird, and when the en nine had spent Its force the machine descended llfihtly to tbe ground en tirely uninjured. This was several years ago, and since then In the seclu io of his laboratory Professor Ing U;y has been working upon a larger Irship, one v. hich can carry larger eu ulnoa and which can carry an engineer io operate it. It is necessary for Professor Lang 'ey's alrshin to movewlth great rapid iiy to reniarn suspended lu the air. It will be capable of Infinite development. 1'he wings, always set, will act some what as a parachute in case of accl Jent to the machinery, so that there need never be any drops through tbe air, as In the case of Santos Iiumont's Walloons. I With the Improvement In the hard Milng of aluminium the steel bar used for this machine ami the material of t tic- engine will be Ktill more lightened. Professor Ltiugley said a few days be fore the beginning of the twentieth fentury that he believed aerlul naviga tion would be a fact In the lirsC decado if the century. Jt would certainly ti;etu that the prophecy of such a cau tious and scientiiic investigator would be of some value. r -fiir Hiram Mxlni, Inventor of the Maxim gun, has also been experiment Ing in aerial navigation, but has not taken the public into his confidence. It Is said, however, that his alrflldp de pends upon the principle that the air U a sort of plane, down which birds wllde and with the force gathered lu Hie descent are able to go up again wlt& but Jittlc tropelllnft assistance. There are two ways of doing business A right way and a wrong way tf tf The rijjht way (tnv way) is to sell every thing on a small margin orleptimate prof itno matter whether it is Suar, Cnlieo, Shoes. Furnishing Goods or anything else. The wronj; way is to advertise to sell one or two artieles, sneh as Sujjar or Cali co, below cost ami make up the loss on other goods. The store that advertises sugar for less than cost must necessarily charge you fifty to one hundred per cent profit on oth er goods to make up the loss on sugar. No merchant is in the field to loose mon ey. My gootls are at your disposal at a price you can well afford to pay. My price list proves that fact. Ask for one and convince yourself by compari son. You will save monev lv lu ving vour sup phes here. DMUTC Regarding the Forty Second Annual rUin 10 Statement $ EQUITABLE LIFE. Now business written in 1001: $-J15,)l-.'.0s7.00 dross assetts, " 331.0;V.1,720.:M Gross surplus " 71,720,75)7.00 Total payments to policy holders 27.714.C21.42 During the past ten years, the Krjuitsble has iid fJH.tVxI.ilHl.titt in dividends ot its policyholders, mhich largely exceeds the amount paid in dividei.its by any oth- lUompaoy during the same period. tiAiAlAUAAiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAlAAAlAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA1 k ' ELECTRIC LIQMT5 ELECTRIC FriN5 cool synnEi ioute WABASH NIAGARA FAILS SHORT LINE Along th thorcs ol tbs GREAT I To New York and C. S. CRANE. O. P. Agt. J St. Louis, Mo lie calls his iiKu hine an aeroplane. lb uses a impeller, though not to the same extent as is the ease with Pro fessor I.angley. The wings r.f bis ship are very much larger than those of the Smithsonian Inventor, and to the unin '.tiared it would seem that his plan Is essentially more dangerous than that f Professor Itngloy. There is a good deal of ''hot air" in the above, but it is intc retiiiK, inas much as we have right hen; in Lake View a genius who may some day "soar high" aliove. the clouds in a machine in vented by himself. The man referred to is 1'erry O. Stanley, whore picture, as . a loy of 14, is reproduced below by The . Examiner artist, from an old photo graph. Perry is caught in an attitude that denotes deep study. He is turn ing over in his brain the intricate points which, when put together, madu a water motor that worked satisfactorily. Soon after that time Perry was the "devil" in The Kxaminer oflice and often he struck many such altitudes during the busy times in the old Kxaminer nhop. So often, in fact, did these "attitudes' oc cur that the boss concluded lie would make a better inventor than a printer, and he chose another profession. From the footsteps of a "poor printer" he en tered a school of electrical engineering, where he graduated, and then accepted a position at a big mine in Napa county, Cal., where he drew down a salary ol $1800 per year. His family fell victims " New England Points : R05S CLINE, l. C. k. 25 Los Anjcclcs Cal to ill health and be returned, after many years, to bis old home in I.nkeview to accept the ponition of elei tri.-tian in the Lakeview Fneetrie I.iht Winks, whic h position he now holds. For a few years past Mr. Stanley hii Is-en studying out an invention that be believe lie will soon be the master of a liipi'd air engine. It is an engine which he expects to make a power pro peller without the aid of a boiler, and to be run w ithout heat or steam. 1 In line jioiiit about this proposed engine in, that after charging it w ith liipiid air it will make its own liipiid air ami r in twelve hours without being recharged. The engine will develop 1 horsH swer to every 4 pounds of its own weight. The average engine weighs 2tX) (saiiiils to each horse power. In bis work on the new invention Mr, Stanley has made four models of this engine, only one of which was in part a success. lie is now at work on a new model. The fourth one was so near perfect that he be lieves the one now in course of construc tion will work successfully in every de tail. This invention, according to Mr. Stanley's idea, can le attached to any or dinary engine and furnish power, with out the cost of fuel or water. The cost of running this machine, outside of lu bricating oil, will be less than 25 cents for each 10-horse power for 12 hours run. The time taken up in recharging every 12 hours will be five minutes The mo del Mr. Stanley is working on at present will be sent to Kan Francisco, and a 2 horse power maJo from it. Mr. Stanley has an abundance of financial backing to j it-feet and patent his invention. lb: has woiked on and studied over a flying machine, invention that lie has great faith in some day bringing before the public in a perfect condition. It would be an excellent mode of traveling out of and com ing back to Lakeview in the ab sence of railroad facilities. (iuorge Uennett, proprietor of the AlturoH-Ccdurville. stage line hud the misfortune to Iohu Heveral of his valu able stage horses from pink-eye last week. That discus) has made its ap pearance In neveral parts of thecoun ty this full. New Lru. Ashland ha a wood famine. The (ioosc Nike hell In still oh ft strike. Wheat sells at cents hi Surprise!1" '"' " n operation f..mppcn Valley. J. I. I 'i rra arrlveil from Paisley Moio lay o cnlng. Stationery of every ilcm-riptimi, sml pure, froi.li i smile st WiicniV 4'.' 1' Post A King's Huh room Is being n-llt ted ami ivmodclcd. Prank I'nrtln, the Jockey, has gone to la k land to ride t his w Inter. It "snow" a 111 tic lust Thursday mi the hills surrounding; l.akevlew. Horn At I a vis Crock, (bib!, put.', a . . i 1 -if.. . .t I it' l l " " Those line desert camp stoves (.r slieopineu can be found st Sehiiiincks. I'. P. 1 '1 11 1 1 1 1 ut-r and w Ife of U'lllow Itaiich Mere In l.akexieM Momla.v. I.akev lew oUKhl toki'ei warm HiIn winter with w I at ?...'" and I .-in 1 1 cry fori! Is Millliii; p.li-bir's (iood liiiiii-" In JiliU'e of Jin k Hill', dm Mrs. P. II. Smith has uoiie to 'I'a coina to Ult her tin t In c. M rs. M T. Walters. j l'litMi it.int 1 1 1 lit'iitrr h .1 vt iw 1 1 v -i' I lit Iimiiick-. l.m I puri'lnfc H11I1I )'iil se tliem. I.'-U Horn In PaUley, I 1.', 1U, in the wife of Stephen tiaylord, a daughter. i wis Frakes of Warner Lake was a business visitor in l.akevlew last Saturday. Horn In Cedarvllle, t ab, (l. t. 11 1. I IN II', to the Wife of Sol. Slnit, a daughter. I. Kobiiett and family, of Willow Hatich wen- in Iikevlew hint Friday and ha completely died out. on biihlncBM. I v,.,,.,!,,,, .i.-ntlMt luu. h- The lmou Caraoii (Jlnve Cnmpaiiy'a rated here, and w ill make old liorm-M .mrener'"''11 U'',lr,,"',,,U' tt""4.'20'i'u,,u- ,i"r" U to " mnn a lentyii. . . j who umhTHt amln hl builnei. Ib-ud I. C. Ih-rry of HavU Cnvk nt-eiitly ,,,H pr,,feHMlonal canl In tl.U U-u.-. Hold ik'i head of line l-cf to tieo. II.!,,,, , , , Kayie.V ot l.lkely. Prof. Miller U orKaulilnj; a brarnt band. Nee notice to tho. who denlre . . lo mruiiir IIH-UIII.-I n. Clay ICambo, the Mtockmnu from Warner, wan a business visitor lu Lakeview last week. Mrs. W. T. P.o.vil has returned I home from a trip to Shasta, where she Uit i her husband. Trv '.he Ahhalun glovi', something Hew. at Cheney's. lb ban tliem III short wril and gauntlet htyles. 411' .lames II. Oweli, stockman of j I toll lu I i rove, was a hllsilieM Is It or I III LakeN iew hint Monday, j Itoss I'lnley wiiMoverfroiaSprague river this week with a four horse 1 outfit after (loose Pake fruit. I now i in i eiioi , ii fiiinn nun iiiiii Andrew llamersley, always a pop- former k In tun t lion citizens will re nin r clerk , I purl Iciilarly so with the move to that place, ladies) In now at Itaile.v Massln-j MrM , , , , f.imlv 1)1V(. moved to town from the ranch In Wilcox has a great run on those pnpu. ;ir ) i cut cigtiM. I hocc i h like a mild and fragrant smoke get their cigars at Wilcox's. 41'1 tieo. A. Iluke of Likely has purchas ed t he bisf of Puke Mulkey, Walter huke ami .1. I). Mulkey at huvls Creek. Studley & Harris, the furniture men are doing a big business. The firm Is constantly adding to their Htock. Mr. Wendell, of the City Market, pur chased, a few days ago, 12 head of fine two-year old steers from Mrs. Pleasants of Willow Kanch. Tim Oregon Hotel continues to cater to the public. Fine meals and comfort able lodging. The Oregon retains its popularity as a family hotel. 42-3 The divorce case of Messner vs. Mesa ner, on trial before the circuit court last week, was taken under advisement by Judge Iteuson. Mr. and Mrs. hun Malloy arrived yesterday from Klamath Falls, and are receiving the congra t ulat Ions of I heir many friends. ICichard Sherlock left for Paisley yesterday, having been here looking after Home ImisIiichh before I he ( 'Ircull. court for Heveral dayn. See Mrs. F. I). Smith if you wish to order first-class wraps and tailorinade goods. Agent for the famous Kdward Ii, (jrussman Co., Chicago. 4.'i-tf Claud McCull, the young giant from the North, In now In the em ploy of LouU (Jerls-r, and 1h driv ing ti big bunch of sheep to Merrill. Kodaks I Kodaks 1 At Wilcox's. A full line of the latest in Kodaks and Cameras ; also complete line of Camera supplies. Call early. 42-2 Murk MiiMgrnvo mid Wilt lb-hart w,'lit ' Francisco last week, whcn the latter will enter a hospital Mr. and Mrs. Will llartlerodo of I'mUIiv went to inU t'ni-k last H'tt'k to remain all winter. Mrs. I larl lorodo w nm formerly MImm .losto Mulke.v. PlVMldlng libler Nilintnei lllc will preach at Cottonwood t'liurcli I'al., on net Sunday in rn I n l;. The pen pleat I 'tin- t lirk are Vipeled lobe present . It Is Usually the backbiter thai gives affront. The backbiter and scandal monger Is always of the ut l. r Icliorant hiss. I.akcvl.w has u f,.w , ,f i-m lr. aint Mrs Stelner til elvcd word thlsek that their Utile daughter Harbara had been m. rloiily ill with tllpht herla at Salem, but was t on ali'M in l apli . Mr .. s hl.iu I was UUlim her . 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 . I- Mr- .1. I i.n kal l lauial lion hell t lie bl III.' o. ill IV. I I here, alld the f.iimh w.t- - t ii ! b 1 1 to ramp out on t lie hill ..e llll.im i i .'atsnii prnel up on bl UiI See Ik niie. -ad lil Moll day . a t i n nv. he i in urow al fall. i and U'lnhli proiue on bin place w 1 1 In nil In la I ii Ml. C. II. hairy tuple left f..r ANhlaml Monday on IiuIih-mm. Mrn. hairy m pin, who hax bii'ii Hi opplnv; h her patvntM at I't Klamath for . eral iiioiitlm, will return with him. The l.akeleV public W'liiinl n opened on Monday after a postpone ment of two WeekM, owlli to itcurlct fever. The diwiiM uim In mtld form uur uir nnie i mi ty duckii, i iiiucw ItainlM.iiilletM ml hel.i t Ida Thnuuml Spriuit 'm!I.-v , hinuiner lk. ! ',ri,,B 's;i"l"1T ,"'H'1- ' J- L-iliiiaii, Iikevii'M , ()rciiii -ti ll Al Howell and vaipicrox did not leave w it h t he big band of horses lat week, as was announced. TlierewiiM a delay In gathering the bunch, ami they will probably n't away Satur day. (illlc Howard was lu from his tjunrl. valley toek ranch last Mon day, buying hoiiMchohl f iniil-blngs. Mile has Jie.t completed a new nul deiice ami he ami his bride are going to bollHckeepIll;. The tow n of K luiii.it hou. recently destroyed by tire, will probably not be rebuilt. The new town of Laird I I . I . f ... I I I order t ha t the children may attend Mchool during tic winter. Thev have rooms at the renideuce of Mr. mu! Mrs. ,1. W. Prow n. A daughter was bora to the wife of John W. Peacock on IctolsT Jflth. The Infant weighed of ii pound, ami Its lease of life was of short du ration. After living II days, the child died, and him burled on Monday. Louie (Jerls-r, the Htock buyer, Im nu cut htislust Ic supporter of Frank lin K. Lane, the hemocrutlc nomi nee for (iovcriior of California. Mr. (Jerls-r believes the KcpuhllcuiiM will win most of tin-slate ticket, but ho firmly bellevcH that Lane will defeat Pardee that he In willing to wager fdno on the result. THE OLD RELIABLE Jbr niliU'l irvnu PU'VI Absolutely Puro Trr c urn vnturrtTtrTf ' l. it IW WUKrilll U I Mm