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Show IMPERIAL VALLEY EXCITED ' AIRSHIP MYSTERIOUS SHIP WATCHED IN ITS NIGHTLY FIGHTS. Sails Across Salton Sea at Widest Point and Disappears In Shadows of San Jacinto Mountain. Los Angeles, Cal , June 4. A special dispatch to the Timos from El Cen-tro, Cen-tro, 6ays; . All Imperial valley Is excited over reports of a mysterious airship which is taking nightly flights over Salton sea. - 1 At first the ship appeared to be J stationed at a point directly over ' Salton 6ea near the intake of the I Alamo and New rivers. Then It be- j gan a rapid flight, swerving from a I southerly course to one directly northwest, north-west, and apparently passing direct- j ly across Salton sea at its widest ' point, until It disappeared in the I shadows of the San Jacinto mountains. I At Brawley, a party of twenty men ! witnessed the flight across the sky. Securing field glasses, thev closely , studied the machine. Its appearance was that of a basket fastened between two wide wings, and when the turn was made, it is said the propeller could be plainly seen. The observers were unable to distinguish any person per-son In the basket. J |