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AIRPLANE AND STAGE COACH The

first

airplane flight across Cascade Mountains

was

ac-

complished June 30, 1919, between Seattle and Ellensburg, 115 miles, in 1 hour, 15 minutes, by J. M. Fetters and Ser-

Owen Kissel, army aviators. Airplane flights in the In connecPacific Northwest have been frequent this year.

geant

tion with the rose festival at Portland,

June 10-13, airplanes flights have been those between Portland and Sacramento in one of which Governor Ben W. Olcott was a passenger. These speed journeys, at 100 miles an hour or better, covering the distance between Portland and Sacramento in less than six hours, recall by contrast the first speed test between the two cities in 1860, that of the pony express, which consumed seven days pf continuous travel night and day in covering the 700 miles, and was hailed The running as a triumphant feat of speed and endurance. time in winter was twelve days.

made numerous

trips.

The most noteworthy

MONUMENT FOR CAPTAIN HEMBREE The ambush and death of Captain Absalom J. Hembree by Indians in the Yakima War of 1855-56, has been a tragic event Northwest annals, and the scene of the tragedy will marked with a monument by the state historical society of be Washington. The place where Captain Hembree fell was in Pacific

June 22, by W. D. Stillwell, of Tillamook, Oregon, of 95 years age, who accompanied Captain Hembree at the the of time tragedy. The place is five miles from Toppenish, identified

Others present on June 22 were M. V. Stillwell, W. D. Stillwell, W. P. Bonney, secretary of who historical state the society of Washington, and L. V. MeWhorter and C. H. Newell of Yakima, County.

Washington. is

the son of

MR. TEAL'S "THE PIONEER" The Pioneer, a memorial bronze statue, the gift to the University of Oregon by Joseph N. Teal, of Portland, stands