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About Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1906)
. r _ _ I _ _ _ . ' . _ - , " " " " ' - - I 't " 'v.to . \ , , . I ! T , ' , V' . By the aid of that most marvelous modern Invention Walter Wellman , Washington correspondent of the Chl- : ago Record-Herald and notet ! arctic explorer , Is malting a third attempt to reach the north pole. Of the countless - less number of attempts to conquer the clements of the far north few , If , nnr , have ever excited the Interest of this expetltlon of Mr. Wellman ant ! his chosen companions. . . . , It Is this thing of going nbout It In a new way that lifts the Wellman expedition to a plane high above all previous efforts In point of Interest that places It In a class by Itself. The tevlces fixed upon by Mr. Wellman were selected because they were the latest offerings science has mate l which were' available for the purposes "t of the expedltlO11. The two expeditions made by Mr. Wellman , one In 18H ! and the other In 1897-98 , 1Il < e those of all other explorers - plorers , were made on the theory that and food supply. This last Item weighs 800 pounds and Is contalnet ! in a chest containing 16 cubic feet. When It is statet ! that this supply is sufficient - cient to nourish five me'n for 75 ta's some idea of the great economy of space being practiced may be gained. Of course , the disposition of the weight In the car is such as to insure perfect balance under normal conditione. The gasoline reservoirs are four in 'number , two at each extreme end of the car. In the engine-room is Illaced , besides the motors , the wireless telegraph ap- paratus. The car Is 52 feet long by six feet by eight feet In Its other di- mensions. Its construction represents the maximum of strength ant ! the mlnI I Imum of weight , bellg entirely of steel' ' tubing. The power from the motors Is transmitted - mitted to a shaft at either end of which Is a screw propeller with broad blades , which otter the greatest em- clency. The forward screw Is 181/ ! feet In diameter and the rear screw four feet less In diameter. There Is but one rudder , which Is above the car and below the rear end of the bag. This rudder Is operated from the en. glne-room with a simple steerlns ap- paratus. Below the car there Is suspended a steel lifeboat , nonslnlcnble and noncap- sizable , but of very light weight. This boat represents the precaution against the chance of the dest ructlon of the ship or Its sinking Into open water. Into It , are pacl < ct ! when not In use the cables for U\O guldo rope and the retarder , two of the most Important attachments of the airship. In the construction of both bag and car the utmost care has been exercised ant ! only the highest posslblo quality of materials used. A l gld system of material Inspection was maintained to reduce to the minimum the chances of fiawet ! materials Inadvertently being used. Snch , In brief , Is the airship In which will be made the most remarkable - able journey In history. It represents the highest degree of 51,111 Imown to the machlnlcal worl < . No principle In the construction of the ship Itself or of Its propelling appliances has been fol- lo\ved which hns not been proved to bo sound ant ! thoroughly practlcahle. The monster Img and Its attachments to not stand for a theory any moro than doe3 the Ilutomohlle that sltlms the ! Jouloval'ds. ' 1'h1) automobile . . . - breaks down at times nl1l1 becomc utterly - torly useless , but the I1rollorllon of efficiency Is great enough to mal\O nth tomohllo construction ona of the bl ! : Industries of the country. The W lI. man airship holds the same relation to the / > oslblo ; hlgh.spcet ! nlrshlp ot the future as the automobllo In Its present stage of development docs to' the Ilossible non.brellimbio automobile of the future. It Is posslblo thnt the prellmlnar ) ' nights or trials nt Dane's Island mlt ) ' Indlcato weaknesses or faults : but If such Is the case the ta- cllIties at the base for remedy Ins them are nll.sutnclent. The airship that I I starts to the polo wilt be a well-hQ- I haved , easily managed ship of the requlslto speed when the start Is made. If It develops untractnble trnlts after that It wilt be because conditions arise which cnn110t he foreseen or because l11achh\el'y brcnls down , a contingency which al'lses whenever machlner ) ' Is used. Mr. Wellman's Own Views. It Is Interesting to no to that In the gossipy dlcusslons of the venture by mC'n who pretel1l1 to latow nothing of aeronautics nor the polar regions , the two objections most often urged me the two which caused Mr. Wellman and his associates In the construction amI outfitting of the ship the mostller. plexlt ) . . ' 1'ho mUllllor In which he proposes - poses to overcome one oC these dangers -that froln fast , advel'se winds-has been explained by Mr. Wellman , thus : "We have alreally explalnet ! how wo- hope to make progress with our air. ship by means of our motors aIllI screws when the winds are favorable In direction , aIllI also when the ) ' are unfavorable , but not of too great ve- locity. What arc we going to do when they blow adversely and also tO strongly to permit us to advance with the motors ? "This brings us to one of the fundamental - mental features of the methot ! which we have adoptell. It Is this : " 1. With favorable winds or unCa. vorable winds of relatlvel ) ' small ve- locities-motor at a proper speed ot from ten to 17 geographical miles per hour , with 12 miles per hour as perhaps - haps the mean speed. " 2. With unfavorable wInds of hlgh- - LIUO'Tl1 . le.q.I'IT ! : GlUATn3T DrAHIT.eft " 2 nz , : , ' t.Ovnq OURrACC 1:1 Q\JIT2 : OMOOTl\ p'a un'"Q 0'1' C .aAa.'o" . . . . WUUI' T HO. " . . . . .T. . . . & I Iooow o. ' - ' - - . . . . . W : A.T 'H' . Po. . . , ' . . , . . . . . . , .0. . . . . 110 _ , . , . . ' ' ' .To\LIo''Tla" Of T"L : ' i : ; ' : : . . . .r : : . co" ' . . . . . ' AlfPA..TUIl.'T > IE AllfiAL . . . . WI" . " UN.aLUD "D 'VOPCNa&O ' RETA"OE " OIUCT'ON ' aP . . , , , . OR OQAQ PIRttTIOH III"RZ AHC"O . % > IAClR""M " " awl"'O c . "Ow IITReo , Oor , . .e . HoP " 10"1 "LT""D. . " III . ' 1I111T1"flUTED OY . ' . . . . . . . , _ . . . . . D."oe 0" " . . ! lR'C ' : . 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It was this fund of Information that suggested the methods to bo employed In the forthcoming ertort. , From an easll ) ' reached base of op. i eratlons In northern Spitzbergen , latItude - I Itude 80 degrees 50 minutes , the dls. , . tance to the mathomatlcal pole Is but t. 550 miles , maldng the flight there and return 1.100 geographical miles. Calculating - culating the distance at 1,200 miles , there would be required but 100 hours of airship motoring at the rate of 12 ( mllcs an hour. Santos-Dumont repeat- \ tdly ! had made 19 to 23 miles au hour with small airships equipped with correspondingly - respondingly small motors. The Le- baudy ship had made 25 miles an hour , amI Its average speed through a long series of filghts had been above 20 miles an hour. Under all conditions In which airship flights have been made n. speed of from 12 to 15 miles an hour has been easily obtainable. Description of Ship. A general description of the airship Is as follows : In length It Is 1601 feet. Its greatest dlametor Is 52 feet. The materials of which the bag Is made are llllre rubber and silk , with the top of the bag a perfectly smooth surface , which will not accumulate frost , snow or sleet , and thereby decrease the ascenslonal power , D ) ' a slmplo device provision lIas been made for the removal of snow from the top of the ship. The propelling power of the airship lies In three motors , of the Inner combustion - bustion tYl1e aud using gasoline for fuel. The combined horsepower of the motors Is 100 , although the con. tract called for only ; 5. The largest motor Is ; 0 horsepower. and In calm air provides a speed of Crom 12 to 14 miles an hour. With all motors worl < - lng , the ship will be driven 19 miles an hour In calms. The surtace of the hag measures 21 , . U9S square feet , and the volume Is 224- ' 725 cubic Ceet. The h'drogen WIth which UJI1 l ; Is Infiated Is made of . . - - ' - - - I sulphurlc acid and Iron shavings , and 165 tons of the3e materials , carefully selectel1 , were shipped to the expelI- tlon's base on Dane's Island. The as. censlonal power of the Inflated bag Is 15,300 pounds. The weight of the ship Itself and Its equipment and crew Is 7,000 pounds , leaving approximately 8,000 pounds tor cargo. The gasoline carried weighs 5,500 , which Is equal tea a power endurance of 1 O bours' motoring - toring with the 70 horsepower motor In full operation. At the rate of from 12 to 15 miles an hour this means that the airship will be able to travel 1,800 miles In cAlm air , or far enough to carr ) ' the airship from the base of supplies - plies to the pole and back and then back to the polo again. What the Car Will Carry. Suspendet ! from the bag Is the car , or basket , which contains the motors , gasoline supply , cabins for the explor. ers , motor sledge : : ; , scientific apparatus er velocities-stop the motors and throw out upon the Ice sheet over which we are sailing a dragging anchor - chor OJ' retardateur-a device calculat- et ! to offer the maximum of resistance In proportion to Its , weight-ant ! by this means to drift slowly with the adverse - verse wind. "Assuming that this method worlts out as well in practice as In theory- ant ! there are many reasons for believIng - Ing that It will to so to at least a fair degree-we have then this principle : " 1. That the winds that blow with our course , directly or obliquely , add thclr movements to tlre advance which we expeet to mal < e with our motor" and help us so much on our wa ) ' . " 2. Dut contrary winds of velocities greater than our motor speed , or se great that motoring against tthem would be an uneconomical use of fuel arc not losses to be deducted at full value from the progress of the air. ship , because the Infiuence of such winds Is largely neutralized by the ac' . tlon of the ' dragging a'nchor or ro tardateur. "In other words , all of the value ot fa vorablo wlnels Is placed on the credit side of our ledger or log , while enl ) a part of the value of the unfavorablE winds has to be written down on th ( debit side. "And the significance ot this , In U 8 last anl11ysls , Is that It wHl require a most extraordlnarr combination oj clt'cumstances to prevent us getting more help than hindrance from the winds , " The expedition Is distinctly Amerl can , Cor a1\ \ the mechanical aid that COl'elgn countries have given In the preparations , and for the deep Interest they are taldng In the project. It Is an American journalist. bacled by an Amet'lcan newspaper , to whom credit Is due for the bold and Intelligent can. ceptlon. It Is t'llcally American that all of science and the arts that ethel nations had to offer has been mar. shaled under the American nag tor tIu aerial journer Into the un'f..lown north. The giant airship h. ' 1 heen christened the "America , " nC1. IC the next few weeltH shall demonstrnto that the plnns ofIr. : . Wellman were well Counded aUlI the eXlllorer shall sail trhlmllhantly to the pole , the first act I will be the dropping ot the American Stllrs and Stl'lpos oyer the spot which ! has lured nearl ) ' a thousJnd brayo meQ to their deaths. . . . . - - - - ' - - ' - - - = - . " . " , . . r , . . . . , . - . . . . . _ _ _ _ _ _ J _ _ . . o' . . " , , ' . , . . " . . ' , . . . ; 0 . Men Who Figured in Kentucky Feud Which lesulted in Murder of J. B. Marcum . - . ' . 0 4n\l.c ) B"i Bc.\ttyvlllo , I\y.-The : jury In the Hargls.Callahan trial retuMlCl a verdict - dict of nuot guilly In short order after ono of the most desperately taught batlIes In n. Kentuclcy court tor years. JUdge James lIargls and Edward Callahan were charged with the murder of J. B. Marcum , Curtis Jett , who was brought here trom the Frnnlefort penitentiary , testl. fled that ho l < lllod Marcum" The verdict of not guilly Is t110 culmination of a loug and blttor fight in courts In an attempt to convict James Hargis and Et ! Callahan as chief conspirators In ono of the darkest - est crimes In Kentucley history. James B. Marcum was a mountain Republican lawyer of excellent stant ! . ing. Ho was engaged three years ago as an attorney In the contest against Hl\rgls ant ! Callahan , respectivelY Democratic jUdge and sheriff.elect , to oust them from their offices on an n.llegatlon of corrupt election. Much bitterness was aroused ant ! frequent OIlen ruptures occurred. Killed at Jackson. In May , 1903 , Marcum was shot to death from behind In the Jackson : courthouso. Curtis Jett n.nd Tom' ' White were convicted and sentenced to Ute Imprisonment for the murder. It was charged that they were the tools of Callahan , Hargis and others. Jett , after his conviction , confessed that ho shot Marcum and that his act was Inspired by Callahan and Hargis. On the witness stand , how. ever , ho repudiated the confession and sall1 ho alone was responsible. The acquittal followed largely on this repudiation , A jury of Clark county citizens returned - turned a verdict for $8,000 damages a year ago against Hargis on tbe allegation - legation that he had caused Marcum to bo killed. The suit was fIled by Mrs. Marcum. Hargis and Callahan are yet to bo tried In the Lexington court for the killing or James Cock- rell under similar circumstances. Ewing n. Stnr Witneso. B. J. Ewing , who was standing In the courthouse door talking with J. B. Marcum when the latter was murdered by Curtis Jett and "Tom" White , was the star witness for the commonwealth at the trial of lIargls and Callahan. Ewing was a deputy sherlt' ! under Callahan and a close and trusted friend of Judge Hargis. He said Judge Hargis was confidential with him and told him of many of his troubles and ambitions. He said , , I I PRISON TRUCK FARN I - Jefferson aty , Mo.-Warden Matt W , lIall , of the Missouri penitentiary , Is a gardener on qulto un extenslvo scalo. This ) 'ear he has devoted n. part of the state farm , located just cast of the prison , to "garden truck , " and Is just beginning to reallzo some of the results that Collow careful ant ! intelligent tilling of the soil , In the wny of palatable ant ! healthy additions - tions to tbo prison menu , and at a minimum of ex pen so to the state. The farm Is In charge of John Druner , who works several convicts in caring tor the place. Just now the "snap bean" crop Is in full bearing. The bean patch covers several acres of ground , and the crop on the state farm Is unusually prolific. The soil on top of the hill seems to bo especially adapted to the bean , and there will bo several "messes" for all hands In the warden's family of 2,800 persons. Some Idea of what It takes to go rount ! In the prison Is gained when It Is known that It requires 75 bushels of snap beans for ono meal. Recently that amount of beans was turned over to the prison kitchen , and It required all of It to give each convict all the beans he could eat. Several hundred pounds of bacon were required to cook them properly and glvo the right flavor. Radishes were grown In great quan. titles earlier In the season , and onions bave been served several times Crom the tarm. 'I'hero Is a great quantity of the onions still In lho grount ! . 'I'hls healthful , It somewhat odorlfer. ous , vegetable Is eagerly welcomed by the convicts as , in fact , Is all the gar. den trnck. "John , " said Mr. Hall , to Druner , the man In charge of the farm , "wo muat Jmve a little slaw for the Fourth ot July dinner. 1I0w many heads of cabbage - bago can ) 'OU let Dowen luwo Cor that day ? " "About 1,400 or 1,500 heads , " was ' - - - - - - < : : : tr.r- J c : 't Hargis had nsked him why ho did not kill Marcum ono night when the latter had remalnet ! at his house all night. "Next time you get n chance take Hlat fellow on a walk and return without him. " Ewlns aalll ho undor. stood lIargls to mean that he wanted him to lelll Marcum , but he did not take the hint. Ho said lIargls , after the murder of Marcum , had asked him to resign as deputy sberltl' , so that ho coult ! sit on a jur ) ' that might try I the men accused of his murder. Attorney Young , for the prosecu. tlon , atlemptet ! to make light of Ewing and was rebuked by Judge Dorsey. Ewing salt ! that ho had . .ItA.---.ItA..a---.llA . . . . For an omclally dead man , Henry Pancoast , n local liveryman , manages to enjoy his meals and surroundings fairly well ; and his Is ono of the odd. est of records. Pancoast enlisted In the civil war from Atlantic county and was discharged from tbo Echlngton hospital , Washington , D. C. , on Janu. ary 7 , 1863. Somehow the dates got mixed , and he was reported as dead by the SUl'geon , and so the records state to-da ) ' . It took him 20 years to provo ho was alive enough to get n pension. For 31 years Pancoast has been In I the lIvery business here , and during : that tlmo ho has never entered a church , never attended n. circus , never was In the local opera house or attend. et ! any amusement whatever , and never went to a Fourth of July cele. bratlon. The only place of entertainment - ment ho has visited was a reunion of the reply. 'l'heso cabbages will aver. age per aps two 1I0unds to the head , so It will bo observed that several thousand pounds ot raw material en. ters Into the problem of provltlng the prison pOllulatlon with the ono Item of a little cold slaw for tholr hOliday dinner. The cabbage patch on the state farm Includes 18,000 growing plants , and the crOll Is flourishing , but big as the patch Is a few rounds of "cold Blaw" will make heavy Inroads on It. 'l'hero are sevCl'al acres of 1I0tatoes , n. roasting ear patch of two or three acres , but the crowning glory of the big garden Is the tomato field , where there are 13,000 or 14,000 fiourlshlng 1I1ants growing that give promise of a great yield of this most dOllghtful of all vegetables. Some of the vines are loaded with tomatoes that will be ready Cor use In a tow weeks , while others have just reached the blooming stage. It nothIng - Ing happens to Injure the vines there will be an abundance of this croll , for the vines will continuo to produce un. tli Crest kills them. Warden Hall ant ! Mr. Druner figure that after the season Is over they will have unripe tomatoes enough on hand when the frost comes to make several hogsheads of chochow. It Is worth a trill to the state farm to see the gardening on a largo scale that Warden lIall has Inaugurated. Ills theory Is that whatever expense Is Involved In growing the vegetahles for use of the convicts Is more than offset by the diminution of the sick list. list.Tho The land has doterlorated somewhat during the last tew years , when It was leaacd by the state to private In. dlvlduals , and Mr. Hall will by sys- temo.tlc errort seek to build It up and restore It to a high degree ot produc. tlveness. To this end much of It willi 110 sown In cow peas this sumlllor.l\nd , this will bo turnet ! under early In the I full. . ' ' ' ' ' ' A-1I.B .1 : ' Identified Jett and admitted that ho was the first to reveal the nal110 of the assassin. 110 was also asleet ! If his hotel hall not been burned to the ground shortly after ho hat ! made the admissions which resulted In the arrest of Jott , and Whlto said that It hat ! been Lurned and that ho hat ! been Corced to leave Jacl < son for fear of assassination. Other witnesses who told of parts of the plots to talm the lIfo of : Mar. cum were John T. Noble , who was n. clerk In the lIargls store : I10zeklah Combs , E. L. Noble , N. B. Combs and others. The widow of t\1o murtered man , wlth the boy whom the father hlll cnrrled to and trom his office with his n.rms n.round his neck to ward oft the bullets of the assassins , who fearet ! killing the child , was In the courtroom. lIargls took n. deep Interest In tbo trial , whllo Callahan , as u8ual , was listless and gave uttlo nttentlon to what was going on. JUdge Dorsey made several rulings that greatly dls. apllolnted the commonwealth. Curtis Jett , the selt-conCessed as. I sassln of Marcum and Coclcrlll , came hero to testify Cram the Frankfort ponltentlary In the charge of prison guards. 110 was brought here to tell the story of the assassination of Mar- cum and of the alleged plots formet ! by Hargis nnd Calalhan to have him murdered. -----.lt1A - - Jt&1AMI. . , n - - -VMaQ'fiid"cdly ; D a"j-- sUliiveI ; : I hlB reglmont , the 'l'wcnty.fifth New Jersey volunteers , In Atlantic City. a yenr or two ago. He says there Is not another record ! lice his In the stato. The old soldier has left his homo every morning before the family Wl19 up , and returned most of _ the tlmo after they had retired for the nlghtj and hardly had n. speaking acquaint' anco .wlth his four children , all of whom grew up to fin prominent pos- ( tlons In life. . Knlser Plans World's Fair. Derlln.-The government has decld. od to Invite the nations' of Tlio world to participate In a great Intornatlonal exposition to be hold here In 1912. It Is proposed that the exposition shall surpass all world's talrs , not excopt. ling the marvelous expositions fet which Paris Is fumous , or the two grent Amorlcan { airs at Chicago and St. Louis. I CEMETERY IS A COLD MINE I , Graveyard Claim Is Jumped by nn En. thuslnstlc Pl'ospector In Man tnnn. , I ; Butte , Mont.-Tho Jewish ceme. tery has been "Jumped" as a gold. mine. So has the entire south halt of the : Mount Morlah cemetery , All the land Intervening between the Cath. ollc and Protestant cemeterIes has also been staked out to comprise a ten.acre placer claim known as the Palm Leaf placer. Herman Mueller , a wealthy saloon keeper , declares that there Is golt ! In the cemeteries. He has locatet ! his placer claim In ground around the two graveyards and his corner posta touch the Catholic cemetery fence , the boulevard and the common , and ono sacrilegious stal < o has been driven In the Mount Morlah soil not far from the W. A. Clark plot. The Jowlsh cemetery has been completely enveloped b ) ' the location , and , technically , the Jews have now no cemeter ) ' , Jews about town are boiling with Indignation , and pUblic Ilrotosts have been mnde. Indignant citizens have pulled up the norUiwest corner post of the Palm Leaf placer , driven near a headstone , , and have thrown It ovel the tenco. 'rho ground Is supposed to bo the . lrOIOrty of the Northern Pacific Hallway compan ) ' , and was given b ) the courtesy of the company to the \'arlous denominations desiring bury Ing groundll. Mr. Mueller declares that the land commissioner ruled that the ground was a government common. He sa's that ho and Gus Nickle located the ground 12 yenrs ago , but that slnco that tlntO the mlno has been nban done(1. Hecontly ho made the reloca. tlon which Is causing so much com. mont and Ilrotest. Mueller sa11 he does not prollose to let sentiment In tortero with his fight for fortuno. - o _
