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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1924)
Blazer of Ox Team Trails Flies Into Omaha - - - ■ ■ — ■■ ■■ 1 “■ Ezra Meeker, 94, Sees Old Trails From Place in Sky m Nonogenarian on Way to To ledo Air Races and to Visit President Coolidge. Seventy-two years ago a robust young man with a team of oxen fol lowed the faint line of the Oregon trail to Puget sound. This same man, his hair whitened hv the snows of many winters and his fare tanned by the suns of many summers, has come back over the same trail. He Is using the most modern means of transportation—the • lrplane. But he yearns for the old flays that enrich a memory which has tn Its ken events that would bewilder men who have lived gentler lives. Ezra Meeker, 04, and sturdier than most striplings born a quarter of a century after his debut into the world, reached Fort Crook, Omaha, Friday morning, and spent an hour there. Another famous trail blazer ^vas his pilot, Lieut. Oakley Cl. Kel r lev, one of the two army fliers who made the dawn-to-dusk flight front Mlneola to San Diego. To Visit Colidge. The venerable pioneer is on his way to Dayton to witness the Pulitzer rup race Saturday. Later he will go to Washington to confer with Presi dent Colidge on his pet project of making his beloved trail a military highway. A journey from the Missouri river to the wilderness that now peoples millions in the Pacific northwest was quite a feat in 1S52, even for men with stout hearts and an accurate atm with the rifle. Long before Hor ace Greeley Issued his advice to young men to seek their fortunes in the west, Ezra Meeker had begun hie tortuous trip to the land which beck oned him on toward the setting sun. It took Meeker six months to tra verse the vast territory then inhabi ted only by the red tnen and a few adventurous settlers. He finally reached the tiny frontier town of Se attle, which at that time could not boast of 100 inhabitants. He has seen the settlement grow to a great city of . % .. .. .-y -—it.--,-__ -S ~-»■>>---------“-*--.-^P jgj £>t. Oa k/e/ 0 Meifi/ ahs &zn? Meeker 400,000 and become the dominant commercial capital of a. district larg er than France and Italy combined. Speedier Tourist Now. He is a speedier tourist now. On Wednesday he and Lieutenant Kelly traversed one-third of the old Oregon trail before breakfast. The patriarch of the northwest Is an impatient traveler, Lieutenant Kelly said on hi-s arrival at Fort Crook. “lie never wants me to stop," the dawn to-dusk pilot declared. "It seems a waste of time to him to halt long enough to get gasoline or a bite to cat. At North Platte last night he tried to get me to go on through the night." Meeker was asked If he preferred the airplane to the slower method he employed on his first trip across the continent. "Give me the oxen every time," he replied. Undertaker-Dodging Rcripe. Unlike most nonogenarians, Meeker has no recipe for longevity. He ascribes his success in dodging the undertaker to sensible habits, the Pudget Sound climate and the fact that he lins never quit work. He re cently was a candidate for the Wash ington legislature and was beaten by only 31 votes. He Is on his way east as the official representative of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and to further a desire to find out why the government has pigeon-holed the plan he and Colonel Iloosevdt con cocted to make the Oregon trail a permanent national highway. Meeker told Lieutenant Kelly he wanted to spend Friday night In In dianapolls, ami the pilot readily ac quiesced. The next atop after leav ing Omaha was to be Rantoul, 111., 400 miles from here. The machine, a De Havilnnd, left Vancouver Barracks, Wash., Wednes day, stopping at Boise and Pocatello, Idaho, that day, a total distance of 600 miles. An Thursday Lieutenant Kelly and his aged passenger went to Rock Splines, Wyo., a distance of 200 miles, and then on to North Platte, 4^0 miles further on. Omaha is 250 miles from North Platte as the crow, Kelly and Meeker fly. 1'pon his arrival here. Lieutenant Kelly had spent Just 13 hours and 30 min utes in the air. After getting into his flying togs again. Meeker was strapped in his scat. He was wearing a Coolldge Ttawes button. Lieutenant Kelly sfaffeft the engine. "Let her rip," shouted the old fel low, and away thpy went like a gi gantic winged bird. Y. M. C. A. to Entertain Roys on “Harvard Plan" Columbus, N>b.. Oct. 3.—The ' Har vard plan” will be used to entertain 300 »boy* who will attend the annual statewide boys’ Y. M. 0. A. conference to be held at Columbus, November 28 and 29, C. A. Wise, Y. M. C. A. secre fury, announced today. Husking to Start Soon. Callaway, Oct. 3—Farmers in this part of the state plan to start husk ing in about two weeks. It Is ex pected that Vbe corn crop will be normal. A grent. amount of cattle feeding will be done. MEDICAL ARTS CASE UNSETTLED A. J. Yielding, 72, head of the 1’uxton-Vlerllng iron works, took the witness stand In District Judge Hastings’ court to prove his claims towards the suit of which his com pany seeks to establish priority for its lien of $158,410.03 against the Medical Arts building. No settlement seemed likely, ac cording to the litigants as they left the court room for their noon lunch eon. Attorneys for the iron works claim the Kulp investment company of Chicago has $500,000 available to pay liens on the structure. They want I lie iron company paid from this sum or else the uncompleted structure sold under foreclosure to satisfy the lien. i Ha rvard—Julius Schultz, a resident here for many years, died at hi* home 'n West Harvard. 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Ask your d r ug gist Resinol mmmmmmmmmmmmmwmui La Follette Cutting Down Coolidge’s Lead 689,019 Votes From 18 States in the “Digest’s” Nation-wide Poll Are Tabulated and Analyzed This Week California a Hotly Contested Battle-Ground— The “Solid South” May Turn Tide for Davis Interest in the “Digest’s” nation-wide Presidential poll is mounting to great heights as the hundreds of thousands of votes are being received and tabulated weekly. An interesting side-light upon the La Follette strength and whence it is drawn is shown in the “Digest” this week by the opinions and observations of editors throughout the country, especially by those in California. The “Digest” also carries a detailed record of the previous affiliations of those who vote in this largest of Presidential straw-vote polls, and this record is shown weekly in the tabulations. Ft will become increasingly illuminating as the vote mounts up. 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