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Show SMOKE FROM THE WEEKLY PIPE The trial of Thomas Riley, alias James Hayes, f'fl who on the night of March 26th shot to death ill George W. Fassell, a grocer, on East Fourth H'l South street, is in its first stages in Judge fjl Lewis' division of the district court. Hayes and If 1 his two companions were captured a half hour '11 after the murder, and two hours later Hayes, fll voluntarily and freely confessed to the killing 11 and to the details of the murder and robbery. fl Following the custom of all these gentlemen of ; the road who, in the last few years have killed M their man here, Hayes after the confession M pleaded "not guilty," and Utah Justice is now free M to pursue its inimitlable way. i M Smoot's paper has seemingly irritated Judge M Lewis by having published the day before the M Hayes trial began, that desperado's confession of his murder of Fassell, and it is probable that a :M recess of the case will be taken while the dls- 1 trict attorney presents an affidavit charging the ' Hyphenated with contempt of court. M In connection with which, one is tempted to M ask how anybody could be in contempt of court lM if Lewis is the court. H I M Aviation enthusiasm sweeps the country. H Of Paulhan's flight from London to Manches- M ter, one hundred and eighty-five miles, the one jl hundred and fifty miles covered by Glen H. Cur- 11 tiss between Albany and New York, and the one hundred and seventy-five mile flight of Hamil- M ton recently from New York to Philadelphia, not I M one, by itself, would have been sufficient to ' B arouse to its present state the public interest in i H the flyers, their machines and their feats. The j H three great flights coming so close, one upon the H other's heels, however, have kindled thegmoulder- ijll ing wonder of men at this meteor-like develop- Ifl ment of the invasion of the air in heavier-than- dH air machines, and there is unquestionably a clear- aH er, more minute understanding of aviation, its H keen sport and pleasure, its perils and more than IH all, its possibilities, today on the part of the IH average man than at any time in the past year. jH The Thursday morning press reports of the rH wonderful flight of Count Zeppelin's great craft, jH the Deutchland, which, carrying twenty passen- iH gers successfully made a trip of three hundred !H miles in nine hours from Friederichshafen to jH Dusseldoif, Germany, staggers the imagination. H The average rate of speed was forty-one miles M an hour, and the twenty passengers occupied a M mahogany walled and carpeted cabin, from the M windows of which they viewed the scenery as H the aerial car swept along. This is the inaugura- H t'on of the first regular airship passenger service M in the world and already many tickets have been sold for the Deutchland's regular trips at from H twenty-five to fifty dollars each. The airship is M equipped with a restaurant which will supply the M passengers with a buffet service such as is af- M forded on railroad trains and the craft is able M to accomplish a continuous trip of seven hundred M miles. M The remarkable flights of Paulhan, Curtiss and M Hamilton are of such a nature that they Instinctive- M ly and instantly command attention and as they H have been one of the chief topics of the day's M news the past month, it is easy to understand M the spreading interest in aeroplanlng. A recent M English writer says, "The imagination Is simply M unable to keep up with the developments in the M new art. The s' 'llty to be astonished is ex- M hausted. These amazing exploits follow one anoth- ' M er too fast. The aviators hardly respect the de- M cencies of science." Now, following close on M Hamilton's wonderful aeroplane flight from New M York to Philadelphia, the flyers are tuning up H their machines in preparation of a flight from M New York to Chicago, and plans are being per- M fected for the first International aviation meet M fl for the United States, which will be held upon H u the broad plains near Garden City, Long Island, H . , New York, during the month of October. The B sum of $250,000 has been raised to insure the H attendance of the foreign aeroplanists. Hamil- B ton's ambition to beat Paulhan's established record H . for a continuous cross country flight without a M stop, of 117 miles, will beyond a doubt be real- H ized within a very short time. Already to this B young aeronaut belongs the honor of having first B flown forward and backward across country be- H tween two big cities in one day. The record for B the longest cross country flight in America is al- Hr so Hamilton's by his performance this month. His H total distance o Philadelphia and back to New Bi York was 175 miles. Curtiss' flight from Albany B to New York was 150 miles, and the distance H traversed in two hours and 46 minutes, with an H average speed of 54.18 miles an hour, as con- H trusted with the average speed of the Twentieth H Century Limited running between Albany and H New York of 49. G miles per hour. Hamilton was H in the air three hours and 34 minutes, maintain- Hj ing an average speed of 46.92 miles an hour from H New York to Philadelphia, and on the return H trip a speed of 51.36 miles per hour. flj Four years ago Santos-Dumont was hailed as H the greatest of all aviators because he made a H flight of 720 feet. Farman in France made a Hj flight of 17 miles without landing; Blerio in the H, same neighborhood two years ago made 26 miles Hj and then flew across the English channel. Far- H man in 1908 flew 40 miles, later 112 miles and Hi later in 1909, 144 miles. Latham in France last H October averaged 90 miles an uour in his aero- H plane. And the story is endless. Whati the im- H mediate future wilj bring forth is problematical, H of course, but it is very certain that the next ' great feat that the aeroplanists will try to ac- i complish and of which there can be hardly a W doubt that they will succeed, is to fly from New B York to San i-rancisco with a limit of three days H for the journey. m In connection with the approaching maneuvers m of the regular army in Wyoming, the officers at M Fort Douglas are greatly interested in the new m field uniform that has been ordered for United 1 States infantry troops, as the maneuvers will H provide the first opportunity for a thorough try- M out of the new equipment. B Much attention has been given by the mill- M tary authorities to the new hat recommended by Hj the infantry equipment board. That hat is lighter m. in weight than that now worn and has a broader H! brim and less height of crown. It has been rec- WM ommended that the hat be worn with the "Mon- 9, .tana peak" instead of the "Alpine crease," on Hj the theory that the former shape is an aid to i ventilation and affords a water shed which !s Hi lacking in the hat with the crease. It will be H' necessary to avoid the "fool's cap" elongation of H the crown, which is the habit of some wearers of H that form of hat. H; Another article which is being critically ex- H amined by the infantry members of the general H staff is the new poncho. It is of a form which I provides better protection against the rain, being a longer garment than is the present "slicker," f and it is of a composite form which enables its Hj conversion into a very satisfactory sleeping bag. H This poncho weighs two pounds and six ounces H and is a factor in the reduction of the weight of H the infantryman's burden. IH ' The new equipment, including the personal WM J) clothing, the ammunition of 100 rounds, the rifle, H, the haversack and the pack, weighs forty-seven Hj pounds. The equipment, without the pack, weight H thirty-eight pounds. H An important addition to the equipment is E? the camp shoe, weighing eight ounces. This has i ' a buckskin sole with a canvas upper and will be a' 1 found of the greatest comfort as well as protection ItA to the feet in the rell-i! it affords after a day's march. Another new article of apparel is the field overcoat, as distinguished from the longer overcoat, which is retained for garrison use. The new garment is of canvas, kersey-lined and of the pea jacket variety. It will be used for field service only. It has the advantage of abbreviated length aud so avoids interference in marching. The sweater is substituted substi-tuted for the blouse as a garment for the field more suitable than the present article. It will be carried nominally in the way of clothing. The ponies are chasing each other around the track at Buena Vista in a way that to date has left the bookies and the public about even. The racing Is the cleanest and best Salt Lake has ever had and the attendance is correspondingly corresponding-ly heavy. 3ome fine features are announced for this afternoon's card and the crowd will probably be the heaviest of the meet. |