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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1912)
THE SEMI-WEEKLY TfflBUHE IRA L. BARD, Publisher. - TERMS, $1.85 IN ADVANCE). NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD INTBJ.LIGENCE HERE GATHERED COVERS WIDE AREA. f GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT Includes What Id Going On at Wash Ington and In Other Sections of the Country. Congress. Itcprcsontatlvo Sulzcr Introduced a resolution to Invito foreign legisla tive bodies to n peace 'conference In Washington In 1915. In the houao official papers of Im peachment of Judge Robert W. Ach bald were prepared for presentation to tho senate. ' The hoiiBo pasBed tho Clayton con tempt bill, providing Jury trial for persona accuBod of Indirect contempt tif a federal court. Representative Bergor Introduced a bill providing for federal government loanB to county, city and town gov ernments for public utilities. The senate comraltteo on postofflces voted down nn amendment to tho poBtofllco appropriation bill to estab lish two rates for second-class mall matter. Tho sonato appropriations commit tee reported tho sundry civil appro priation bill amended to contlnuo tho tariff board and with additions aggre gating $5,000,000. Mrs. Martin W. Littleton, boforo tho eenate library committee advocated Senator Martin's resolution authoriz ing an Investigation on the feasibility of the purchase of Jefferson's homo, Montlccllo. Tho senato military commlttoo or dered favorablo report on tho recon Itructcd army appropriation bill, af lsr striking out tho provision that Would havo legislated General Wood tut of olllco as chiof of staff. George II. Cortclyou, former repub lican national commlttco chairman, testified boforo tho sonato campaign contribution investigating commlttoo that fl,900,0D0 waB raUed by repub lican commlttoo In tho 1904 RoobovoU campaign, A sharp difforonco along political linen has developed In tho eonato over tho propoBcd Impeachment of Judgo Robert W. Achbald of tho commerce court. Many sonatora, Including In fluential republicans, favor deterring tho trial until after tho November elections, contending that amplo tlmo Bhould bo given to proparo for tho bearing of tho impeachment charges and that many senators aro needed at homo to look after tho political fences. General. QcorgBJ. Cortolyou told of tho """nource of cnmpalgn contributions dur ing tho Roosovolt campaign. National hcudquartorB for conduct ing ,tho republican .campaign will bo established in Now YprkT City. ' ., Governor' Wilson put tho 'final touchcB on the mesBago which Robert 8. Iludapoth carried for him to tho democratic national commitoo in Chi cago. Dispatches from Orlonto indicate that tho Insurrection in Cuba has been crushed. Tho troopB, however, aro continuing tho pursuit ot small bands ' of Btnrvlng ncgrooB. At Marlon, Ind., four persons wero killed and nioro than a dozen sorlouB ly injured in a head-on collision bo tween two interurban cars on the Marlon, Bluff ton & Eastern ti notion . line. The American government and peo ple began tho now fiscal year with 3,040,407,621, of which all but $363, C21.008 Is In circulation and tho bal ance held in tho treasury vaults as the assets of tho fedral government. The American lino otoamor, Phila delphia, duo to leave Now York for Southampton, was held up through the failure of 17G oilers, coal passers and water tenders to report for duty. Tho men apparently deserted In sym pathy with the seamen's strlko. Brigadier Gonoral Frederick A. Smith, commander ot the, Department of Missouri, United States Army, has gone to Polo Mountain, Wyo., for tho national maneuvers at that placo. No detachment from Fort Crook or Fort Omaha havo been ordered to Polo Mountain. Thomas Leo Moore, Virginia moni tor ot tho national committee ot tho progressive party, said that ho Is got- ting into communication with tho progressives over tho state as rapidly us posslblo in order to hold a con ference at Roanoak or Richmond ou July 30 to select Virginia's represent dives to tho Chicago convention, The disappearance of two poucheB of registered mall from u government Htrcet car whllo en route to tho Union dopot from tho postoffico in Kansas City, 1b puzzling government Inspect ors, Tho mall was addressed to Now York, Omaha and Ogdon, Utah. Brynn Callaghan, fourteen tlmos elected mayor ot San Antonio and serving In that otflco, died after an illness of two weeks, After being attacked by a baud ot mountain IndlnnB and defeating thorn, 00 citizens of Ixtlan, Mexico, lined i forty-throo prisoners und shot them, Tho national education association will probably meet next at Salt Lake City. Secretary of tho Interior Fisher flatly denied Friday thnt Robert (I. Valentino, commissioner of Indian af fairs, had resigned, Another case of suspected bubonic plaguo was reported from Havana. Thorc waB a bitter fight In the house against tho Clayton contempt bill. The heaviest earthquake In hlstorj was experienced at Fairbanks. Alaska. Tho Roosevelt party Issued a call for a national convention nt Chicago August 5. Mormon colonials In Mexico will give battlo rather than pay trlbuto to Mexican rebels. Treasury officials estimate that there are now 1,952,131,861 pennies In circulation. Tho national education association voted to bury the Boston ballot box stuffing scandal. Senator Norrlfl Brown says Presi dent Taft was honestly nominated and should be re-elected. Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia Is fighting to forco from tho Washing ton forco all colored policemen. With hut one dissenting voice tho hotino voted articles of Impeachment against Federal Judge Archbald. Iowa republicans refused to endorse cither Taft or Roosevelt, but Boose volt men dominated tho convention. Holding it "unpatriotic," tho D. A. R. Is fighting tho treasury plan to re move the Goddess of Liberty from 5 cent pieces and substitute a buffalo head. Governor William O. Dawson of South Carolina announced that ho has signed tho call for tho national convention of tho Roosevelt party to bo held In Chicago August 10. Tho Cuban senate udopted tho re port of tho committee on laws, author izing President Gomez to negotiate un amplification of tho reciprocity treay between Cuba and tho United States. General Monteagudo, tho command-or-ln-chlef of tho Cuban government' troops, has formally turned over tho government of tho province of Orlento to tho citizens, declaring that tho re bellion Is over. Governor Wilson's day Wednesday in Atlantic City was planned to bo a brief one. At noon ho was to lay tho corner stone of tho Y. M. C. A. and at 2 o'clock ho was schcdulod to address tho annual convention of tho National Building and Loan asoclatlons on tho steel pier. Threo mnsked bandits armed with revolvers and shotguns terrorized tho village of Torono, 111. Two farmers driving homo wero first held up and robbed and then tho trio forced tho Illinois Central agent at tho point of guns to surrender nil tho cash ou hand in tho station. At Roanoko, Vn.P lenders in the Roosevelt third party movement met and decided to hold a mass meeting, July 30 for tho purpose of selecting a delegation to cast Virginia's twolvo votes in tho proposed Chicago con vention, and to namo progressive electors. Tho plentiful harvest of important crops of the country, Indicated by tho crop report of tho department of agri culture, will extend also to minor crops to a great extent Conditions ot all crops woro materially hotter on July 1 than on the samo dato Inst year. ' Bishop II. W. Warren, recently re tired by tho Methodist Episcopal church, is critically 111 at his resl dencb in -'University' Park, Denver, Ho" as been confined to his bod with In rtmmatory rheumatism for four weeks. Tho Inflammation has now rcachod his lungs and It fs feared ho cannot recover. Governor Denecn Issued a state ment, In which ho declared tho ver dict of tho United States sonato In tho Lorlmer case tho natural result of tho corruption and bipartisan combi nations which havo figured in legisla tive circles In recent yonrs. Ho states no other verdict could havo been pos sible. MIbs Alleen Hoppnor, tho young wo man numod by Mrs, Josephine Run ning as the person who lnfluvnced hf.r In tho alleged conspiracy to injure Claronco S. Funk, general manager of tho International Harvester company, by moans of a suit for damages for alleged alienation of Mrs Hennlug's affections, wno held to the grand jury. Robert C, Grler, one of Peoria's old- st und most successful business men and undo ot John Grler Hlbbern ot Princeton, died at his homo In that city. Mr. Grlor founded tho Peoria Bqard of Trado, was president of tho association several terms nnd until eleven years ago, whon ho retired, waB ono ot tho most prominent and nctlvo grain men In tho west. Fanned by n high wind flames de stroyed tour retail store buildings and contents, tho Dakota Stata bank, tho Citizens'. State bank, a printing com pany, tho Johnson Jlvory, tho post- lofllco, telephone headquarters and a dontlst's ofllco nt Eagle Butte, S. D, After attending a series of meetings ot a "HollnesB association" nt Porry, Iowa, Frank Learning, a prominent Perry citizen, has lost his mind. Ho will bo taken to tho state hospital at Clarlnda. Mrs. Russell Rage of Now York gavo $5,000 to the street cleaning de partment pension fund for supcran uated and disabled "whlto wings," Personal. Charles D. Hlllos was mado chair man ot tho republican national com mittee. Senator LaFolletto saya RoobovoU throw away the opportunity of. a life time ut the Chicago convention. Chafin and Watklns woro named as tho s.tandard bearers of tho prohibi tion party at Atlantic City. EXPRESS RATES CUT COMMERCE COMMISSION TAKES THE MATTER IN HAND. THE REDUCTION IS HORIZONTAL The Amount Approximated to Do Sliced Off Will Be at Least Fifteen Por Cent Washington. Sweeping reductions In express rates averaging, In gen eral, approximately 15 per cent; dras tic reforms in regulations nnd prac tices; and comprehensive changes In tho methods of operation, aro pro scribed In a report made public by tho Iuterstato Commerce Commission of its investigation into tho business of tho thirteen great express com panies ot tho United States. Dealing with tho Identity of Inter est between tho various companies, tho report finds that while those com panies nrc separate legal entitles, "it Is of Interest to regard the fact that by Btock-owonership nnd otherwise they aro so interlaced, intertwined, and interlocked that it is with difficul ty wo can trace any ono of tho great er companies as olthor wholly Inde pendent In Its management or tho agency of a single railroad system. So that whllo these companies operate separately and compete with each other for tratllc, tho oxprcss business may bo said to bo almost a family af fair. An Interesting genealogical tree, in Jact, might bo drawn showing a common ancestry In nil of tho larger companies. And, whllo many nameB may ho used to designate those com panies, It Is within the fact to say that usldo from tho oporatlon of tho minor and distinctively railroad ex press companies, tho express business of tho United States Is managed by not more than threo groups of Inter ests." Tho Inquiry was tho most extensive and, in wealth of Inflnlto detail, prob ably tho most thorough, over prosecut ed and the report was propared by Commissioner Franklin K. Lano. It has been In progress for nearly threo years. Tho report Itself makes GOO printed pages. It Involved an examina tion and comparison of practically moro than GOO.000,000 express rates In effect In this country, In addition to an examination of millions of waybills and an Investigation, through tho books of tho companies, of their financial operation and business methods. Commissioner Lano Is of the opini on that tho conclusions reached con stitute a long stop toward tho solu tion of that gravest problem of tho American householder, tho high cost of living. The greatest reduction of rates pro posed is on small packages that is on parcels which weigh loss than twolvo poundB. RateB on packages of moro than twolvo pounds wero found to bo moro reasonable than those on Bmallcr parcels. LORIMER, IS OUSTED. Hla Seat Taken Away by a Vote of v -- ... 55 to 28. Washington. By a vote of 55 lo ,28 thovUnlted States senate Saturday took away from William Lorlmer his seat as junior senator of Illinois. His 'election was held to havo been inval id and ho wno doclared to havo been tho recipient of votes obtained by "corrupt methods and practices." Lor lmer had been a member of tho sen ato Blnco Juno 18, 1909. Tho first sug gestion of fraud In connection with his election became public in April, 1910, when Charles A. Whlto, a mem ber ot tho Illinois legislature, swore that ho had received $1,000 as a bribe for voting for Lorlmor. Reads 6fDry 'TIcketT r'or president Eugono W. Chafin, Arizona. For Vlco President Aaron S. Wat kins, Ohio. Atlantic City, N. J. The prohlbl tlonlsts' national convention took up tho nominations of candidates for president nnd vlco president. Eugene W. Chafin ot Arizona, tho nomtneo of four years ago, waB first placed In "nomination. F. W. Emerson of San Francisco also was named as a presi dential candidate. Several other can didates woro to bo uamed and it was evident a choice would not bo made until lato In the session.. Choice for heads of tho ticket was mado as nbovo. May Issue a Bench Capias. Washington. If John Mitchell, ud Judged guilty of contempt of court with Samuel Gompors and Frank Mor rison of tho American Federation ol Labor, does not appear in court here Monday or walvo his right to be pres ent when sentence 1b passed, a bench warraut will bo lBsued for his arrest. Fatality Record of a Day. Pittsburg, Pa. Throo dead from tho heat, threo drowned in tho rivers seeking relief, two killed by lightning and two dead by committing suicide whllo temporarily unbalanced by tho warm weather, Is tho record In this city. Tom Taggart to Hold On. Indianapolis, Thomas Tag'gart, na tional democratic committeeman from Indiana, who had announced his re signation, will contlnuo in actlvo po litical work. Nebraska in brief. News Notes of Interest from Varlour Sections. Ono Schlnko of Beatrice paid a fine of $1,250 for beating his wife. John Donner was fined $25 and costs In police court at Strnnton for trying to steal a keg of whisky. Tho Methodist Episcopal church at Chesler has closed a contract with a company for a pipe organ at a coBt of $2,150. Tho reports of tho fifteen banks In Seward county, June 14, show that In round numbers tho people had on de posit $2,710,000. Firo at Sutherland destroyed all business placeB on East Front street for a block with tho exception of tho State bank and Burkanl's genera) store. Tho Auburn chnutauqua will start this year on August 3, and last nine days. There Is an exceptionally strong program mado up for this year. About fifty of tho business men of Sheltou met and organized a coin ;morcial club and perfected plans for a carnival and rnco meet to be pulled off tho later part of AugUBt. , An order has been given by tho de partment of judiciary at Washington, transferring the ofllce of referee, in bankruptcy from HaBtinga to liol drege. Arthur WllllamB, colored convict at tho penitentiary, was released at the -completion of n threo years sentence. Williams was sentenced from Douglas county on a charge of breaking nnd entering. Tho trial of J. W. Brlstor on a charge of wife desertion was con tinued until July 25 in Judge Craw ford's court at Seward. Bristor was re leased undor bond of $300 furnished by his mother. Typhoid fever has again broken out at tho Institution for feeble minded In Beatrice and four patients woro placed Jn n local hospital. Bookkeep er Underwood was stricken with tho disease. Tho fine country home of J. W. Be vans, two miles east of Holmcsvllle, was destroyed by Are. Loss $2,500, with $1,200 Insurance. The fire was caused from a gasoline stove explo sion. Mrs. Fred Matthiossen of Fremont, Trhoso husband shot and wounded Henry von Wasmer In an altercation over tho hitter's wife last fall, has commenced suit for divorce In district court. The Commercial club has mado ar rangements for a Seward boosters day July 30; the stores will offer a discount on some commodity, and tho discount offered will be quite ex tensively advertised. Herman Wiebko, proprietor of the Wlebke pharmacy in Seward, who was nssaulted after an altercation on the Fourth of July In tho park at York by Sheriff- Swee,t, is suffering intensely and Is In n serious condition. There was a sharp contest over tho proposition to Issue bonds to tho amount of $65,000 for building a new court house for Greeley county. Speaking nnd booming parties can vassed tho towns for ten days. Indi cations aro that the bonds failed to carry. V. S. Culver, agricultural expert for Merrick county, reports that wheat Is rapidly being harvested with many fields yielding thirty bushels. Some will average forty bushels per aero. Early oats look now to averao iwenty-iive uusneis. L.aie oajs aro affected by the dry winds, Bdmdv'belng; cut for hay. Corn is In excelfeiit con dition. Labor Commissioner L. V. Guyo haB prepared tho circular letter which he la to send out to all Nebraskans nnd out-of-the-stnto people who havo been inquiring as to land open to en try in this state. The letter, which gives In a general way a description of tho land and of tho oportunities within reach, pertainB to nnd In Hoo ker, Grant, Cherry, Logan and other north, central and western Nebraska counties. Fire losses In tho state for the first half of tho present year havo exceed ed those of the first half of 1911 by several hundred thousand dollars, ac cording to Fire Commissioner Ran dall. The Jump In tho figures is caused by tho high Iobecs In Omaha during tho latter end of tho half year. Outsldo of that city the Btato made a gain over the year before. The total of tho Omaha losses rcachod $1,000, 000 and most of thlB was concentrat ed on threo fires. Tho biggest binder twine shortage in tho history of tho state confronts Nebraska farmers. Despite frantic efforts, the companies which furnlBh tho cordage confess their Inability to meet the demand by hundreds ot thousands of pounds. The unexpect edly largo yield of winter wheat, fol lowing pessimistic advance orders, overwhelmed them with rush roqueBtB for. large quantities of twlno and hur ried shipments from tho factories aro proving totally Inadequate. As a re sult of tho shortage, farmers, all over tho state will bo forced to use varloui makeshifts in place of the ordinary cordage. Tho board of commissioners of Stanton county havo completed settle ment with tho county treasurer for tho six monthB ondlng June 30, 1912. They find tho treasurer's bookB In ex cellent shapo with a balance of $36, 787.44 In tho treasury. Great preparutloiiB are being made In Aurora for the celebration of "booster day" which has been official ly fixod for July 24. So many things havo been happening in tho way ot now depot projects, paving, building oporatlouB, etc., during the past year that no fitting observation of the vari ous holidays has been hold. LOOKS OVER STATE i GOVERNOR BACK FROM YTRIP THROUGH NORTHWEST. THE OUTLOOK IS PROMISING Settlers Alive to Their Interests and Great Things Predicted for the Near Coming Years Governor Aldrlch and his private secretary, Mr. Fuller, returned from a trip by special train through tho northwest nnd the Irrigation country. Tho executive announced he Would proparo a written statement about his trip. Ho seemed much impressed with the good the trip may have done in tho way of awakening tho farmerp throughout thnt section to a realiza tion of their responsibilities as far as their rights to the use of water Is con cerned. The governor said that crops look ed' fine and that the country from North Platte up was a beautiful Gar den ot Eden. Ho saw man$ fields of oats which would go seventy bushels per acre nnd other crops In compar ison. "Sixteen years ago," Bald the governor, "I was up through that country nnd It was nothing but sage brush and sand; now It is tho most beautiful portion of tho state." Edson Rich, who nccorapanled the governor on tho trip, representing the Union Pacific railroad, made sev eral addresses, showing how Impor tant It was that the country 3hould bo settled and how the railway com pany would do Its part along that line. Ho said tho revenue derived from tho shipments was not by any means paying he expenses of keeping up' tho services, but that they had confidence in tho great future pros perity of that portion of the state and with tho assistance of tho peopfe there the country would develop rap Idly. "About the first thing these people do up there when they start to build a town," snld the governor, "is to build a hnll or an opera house in which public meetings can be held. In this matter they have struck the right thing and are far ahead of the older towns of the state of tho same Bize. If I had the tlmel could talk to you all day of the great advantages of that Irrigation country and the great future it will have If It accepts and puts Into effect those things which It can have If it is a mind to. I expect great things from up there In tho next ten years." Two coaches were used on the spe cial and these were filled most of the time. Among tho number who spoko besides the governor and Mr. Rich were Senator Hoagland of North Platte and Judge Grimes? Side trips were made to different points which could not be reached by rail. The Why and Wherefore. The state railway commission has Instructed Attorney General Martin to ascertain why tho Northwestern railroad has not obeyed the order Is sued by that branch of the state gov ernment to the effect that a new de pot should bo constructed at Hum phrey. The order,yas -issued seeraU months ago, and It was set outT by tho commission that the work should be done by July 1. Complaint lo Dismissed. The state railway commission has refused to concur in the opinion of complainants against the Union Pa cific railroad as to discharge of pas sengers from the side of trains near est depots, which would in effect, mean, tho discharge of passengers between tracks of the double track system of the railroad company. Box Butte Tax Problem. Secretary of the state board of equalization and assessment returned from a trip to Alliance where ho in vestigated the claim of the county taxing officers that $289,000 of Bur lington railroad property should properly be listed In Box Butte county. After looking the matter up tho county officials concluded that $176,630 worth of property had been assessed by tho state board nnd therefore could not be legally taxed locally within the county. Effect of Amendment. Several of tho sheriffs attending the state meeting In Lincoln recently were very much interested in what tho effect of the now constitutional amendment would have on them If It passed. They were told that officials who aro elected for a term of two years in 1913, will get only a one-year term unless they run again In 1914. Sheriff Condlt of Dodge county, who called on the attorney general to see about the matter, said that the sher iffs do not like the amendment. Lincoln's Assessed Value. The total assessed valuation of tho city of Lincoln, on which the city must baso its levy of taxes, will be about $9,G50.000. Tax Commissioner Sheffield has made allowance for tho work of the board of equalization and figures up the real estate valua tion at $5,881,535 and the personal property valuation at $3,255,630, a to tal of $9,157,115, This does not In clude the railroads, tho state board of equalization not having reported tho tlty'a share of rolling stock valuation. FOR USE OF WATER. General Hearing to Bo Had on Appli cations." At a mooting of the state board o Irrigation It waB determined to hold a general hearing on tho application ol C. T. Boggs for power rights on tho Loup river, within tho next thirty days. II. E. Babcock of Columbus and A. C. Koenlg of Omaha, both Interest ed In tho power propositions, will be called into tho hearing and an at tempt made to settle tho light for the control of tho water of this stream. Tho Boggs filing is being pushed by the recently organized Common wealth Power company of Lincoln In which George Moore, an eastern cap italist, Is Interested with several lo cal Investors. Babcock Is backed by tho Doherty Interests of Now York City, while Koenlg Is aligned with tho Moore Interests. All of these havo claims on Loup river projects and tho fight Is expected to bo exceedingly keen when the matter comes up. No definite date has been set, but It was determined to hold the session within tho specified time. It was announced thnt the Babcock interests would bo asked to show cause why tholr right to tho stream should not bo denied and why tho BoggB filing, which overlaps theirs, should npt bo granted. Tho Koenig filing, which docs not extend in tho same territory, will play little part In the affair. However, It Is considered to bo a good stalking horso for tho Mooro interests, and will provent any other large project from acquiring ad jacent workablo territory for the pur poso of -competing with the Common wealth Power company. I As to Mortgage Assessment. According to two decrees handed down in district court in Lincoln, mortgages upon which the owner of tho mortgages upon which the owner of tho mortgaged property has agreed to pay the tax, cannot bo assessed against a bank that holds the mort gage. The decrees were in the cases of the First Trust company and tho First Savings bank, appealing from tho decision of the county board of equalization which upheld Secretary Seymour of tho 'state board of assess ment in including mortgages in tho capital stock of the bank assessment. Looking Up Glanders. Dr. Bostrom of the state board of voterinaries left for Valentine and other points on the Northwestern rail way in that section of the state to look up rumorB as to glanders and other diseases which havo come to him. In his trip west of Omaha last week he discovered a few cases of anthrax in cattle and sixteen wero killed. The department Is somewhat short of funds and a thorough exam ination cannot be had In consequence only In cases of extreme instances. Request of Northwestern. The Northwestern Railway com pany haB asked permission of tho rail way commission to guarantee pay ment of $1,120,000 worth of refunding bonds ot the St. Paul, Eastern & Grand Trunk Railway company and to guarantee $2,500,000 worth of bonds for the construction of the Dea Plalnes Valley Railway company in Illinois. Loup Power Canal. Construction work on the Loup power canaL project which has-been,, talked. overfdr fifteen years hasstal-t-ed at laBt, A force of men and teams was put to work and excavating and throwing up embankments for a head gate near Genoa has begun. Appeals to Higher Court. Tho Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway company has appeal ed from a judgment In the district court of Douglas county in which Ell M. Lang secured a verdict of $1,500 against It for Injuries received while getting off a car at Twentieth and Fnrnam streets In tho city of Omaha. State's Claim Allowed. The war department has decided to allow the claim of the state of Ne-j braska for the replacement of the national guard property destroyed by fire In the guard armory at Omaha. Tho property will be replaced without charging the amount against the al lotment of tho entire guard of the state. The proprty loBt is said to have been worth $18,000. Secretary Miller Is preparing for some good attractions at tho coming state fair. Burlington Valuation. A supplemental report of the physi cal valuation of tho Burlington rail road, including such lines in this state as has been surveyed or graded but upon which track has not been locat ed, has made its appearance in tho annual state railway commission re port. Tho valuation includes figures upon tho proposed extensions from Kearney to Northport, from Imperial to the Colorado lino and from Crete to Mllford, a total dh-tnnce of about 260 miles. Mellor Engages Aviator. Secretary Mellor of the state fair closed a contract with tho airship pepplo and will havo an especially good bill for the fair in thiB line. Tho machine will be a monoplane and the flyer will bo H. Kantnler, tho daring Frenchman. He will make from two to threo flights every day, tho dis tance to be not less than three miles nnd the height not less than 500 feet. Mr. Molior thinks with the immense crowds. Kantnler will bo inspired to do Eome spectacular stunts. A A