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Show LOSE PSTIEKE 10 ST WL RIOT Citizens of Glendive Attempt to Drag Biplane Into River: Soldiers Save Machine. GLENDIVE. Mont.. July 5. It required tho services of a detail of the state mlll-.tla mlll-.tla yesterday to prevent a long-suffering and disappointed crowd from running an airship Into the Yellowstone river because be-cause It coufd not fly. There wore several thousand visitors In this city al tending tho Fourth of July eclehratron. Tho Curllss Aviator company com-pany of New York. City, after promlalng to send Aviator St. Helen v here for a flight, had refused to keep the date, and as a last resort an arrangement was made with George If. Webster of Fargo for a flight to bo made by Felix Schmidt of Chicago, and $300 was paid down on the deal. The biplane arrived, and with it came Its owner. Miss Cosoy Smith, a mechanician mechani-cian named Eugene Gruhbln. and Felix Schmidt, the blrdmnn. The crowd waited patiently until o'clock In the afternoon, when word was passed that the airship could not navigate the heavens'. Some one suggested running tn machine ma-chine Into the river, and simultaneously a. cowboy In tho crowd lassoocd the propeller pro-peller with Ids lariat and shouted for1 some one to bring him his good, fast horse. A hundred willing hands seized hold of various parts of the contraption, contrap-tion, and In an Instant It was headed for tho Yellowstone river, a distance of a few yards. The state militia, under Major D. J. Donohue, had been summoned earlv In the day to act as a patrol to prevent accidents ac-cidents when the aeroplane should make its ascension. The soldier bovs now came In handy to save the machfno from utter destruction. Aviator Schmidt and Mechanician Grubbln fled panic-atriekcr. before tho angry crowd. The airship was running swiftly on the ground and was about half way to the river when Ma.lor Donohue threw a detail of militiamen In front of tho crowd, surr6unding the machine with a bristling line of bayonets and saved it from destruction. The citizens' committee commit-tee will secure an attachment on the machine, and It Is predicted that the city of Glendive will shortly own an airship. |