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Show I TRYING TO OVERTAKE DEATH. We do not fully realize how uearl man has been released from the fetters which have bound him to terra firms during the 1 enturies Of the past until some message similar to this one is broughl to our attention LOGAN Oct. l4.Receiving the news of his fathei '1 81 rions illness, Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan, Utah's premiei aviator during the war. left Blather field, Cal., this morning at 8 o'clock by airplane, arriving in Logan at 4 o'clock this afternoon, shorty after his father, Peter W. Maughan. promi , nent resident .f thl city, hud patted away of pneumonia. I When the pioneers came to l'tah a long day's journov was J" I miles and often the travelers made uot more than half ;i dozen miles J! irom sunup to sunset Then, as though a miracle was being per-,' I formed, men were transported by train from Utah to the Pacifii --oast m, nt :0 hours To do lhat year of construction work had to be gien 1 ts the building of roadbeds and the laying of steel I Now, with gasoline engine and wings, the aviator sails on higl ?nd. with a freedom not much less than that possessed by the eaple. j be steers his waj through the trackless air and, heeding the call ' I dying father, flies on and on until, having crossed valleys and mom, tain tops, hp lands at home, after having made a flight of 700 miles M iu eieht hours i Hut man with all his ingenuity anuot devise a means of over- 1 i' iiif; the metsengea of Heath. |