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Meanwhile Texas was working fast to end the state of siege against Oklahoma. Its Legislature passed a bill for the toll bridge company to sue the State. The Governor's secretary sped 200 mi. by motor from Austin to Houston, dashed into a banquet of Texas attorneys, presented the measure to Governor Sterling who signed it amid cheers. Next day the Federal Court suspended its injunction until Aug. 3 when another hearing would be held. At Denison Captain Hickman and his men cleared away the cumbersome barricades from the free bridge, opened it to traffic...
...story of an Arctic egg hunt reached Pittsburgh last week. Month ago George Miksch Sutton, onetime Pennsylvania game commissioner, and John Bonner Semple, retired Sewickley, Pa. manufacturer of Navy ordnance* were 40 mi. north of Churchill on the western shore of Hudson's Bay. With them were Olin S. Pettingill of Bowdoin College and Bert Lloyd, Saskatchewan ornithologist. They were collecting birds, plants and insects. Competing with them was a party of the Canadian Ornithological Society. Hope of both groups was to be the first to find eggs of a Harris's sparrow...
Marcus Daly and the late U. S. Senator Andrews Clark, prospectors, amassed great riches from Montana gold & copper in the 1870's and 1880's. Clark centered his interests in Butte. Daly built a huge copper smelter at Anaconda, 26 mi. away. From close friendship, their relationship cooled to business and political rivalry, flamed finally in open warfare...
...narrow fuselage bore the legend Trait d'Union ("Hyphen"). In the cabin were short, squint-eyed Joseph Marie Lebrix, onetime flying partner (now enemy) of Dieudonné Coste; famed Aerobat Marcel Doret, and Mechanic René Mesnin. They were bound nonstop for Tokyo, 6,032 mi. away, farther than any plane had flown in a straight line. They were confident, because only a few weeks ago they had flown the Trait d'Union 6,560 mi. around a closed course for a world record. That took them 70 hr.; this should take...
...hydrogen, floated sluggishly into a mushy sky over Akron one afternoon last week. They were to race for two of the three places on the U. S. Team in the James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race in September.* Heavy rains beat two of the bags to earth within 20 mi. of the start. Storms that night brought down three more. Last to land was the Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. T. G. W. ("Tex") Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, at Marilla. N. Y., winning with the unimpressive distance of 215 mi. (unofficial...