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Zebulon M. Pike rests in a military cemetery at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. Last week the El Paso County (Col.) Pioneers' Society requested the Secretary of War to permit the removal of his remains to Pike's Peak. In 1806, as an army lieutenant, Pike went out to explore the new Louisiana Purchase, scaled a neighboring mountain, looked upon what is now called Pike's Peak, and declared it "never could be scaled by man." After the Pioneers' Society has shown him, he will not be so incredulous...
...Western World: Mt. Aconcagua (Chile-Argentina), 23,080 ft. Highest in North America: Mt. McKinley, Alaska, 20,300 ft. Highest in the U. S. proper: Mt. Whitney, Calif., 14,501 ft. Highest in Europe: Mont Elbruz, Caucasus, 18,465 ft. Highest Alp: Mont Blanc, 15,781 ft. Pike's Peak...
...Lincoln, a big, slow-spoken man, slick at hunting and swapping, but not clever, moves his family up to Knob Creek on the Louisville-Nashville pike. Young Abe walks four miles to school, a one-room school with no windows, a "blab" school where you say your lessons to yourself out loud until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion...
...point Dr. Millikan was carrying on his experiments on top of Pike's Peak with featherweight instruments buoyed in air by small balloons; at another time he probed 60 feet deep in a snow-fed lake under the brow of Mount Whitney. Since it would take 10,000,000 volts to reproduce the ray artificially, Dr. Millikan points out that there is little likelihood of his discovery being utilized for some time to come. The Academicians were interested...
Engaged. Miss Katherine Langley, daughter of Congressman John W. Langley of Pikeville, Ky., to one James G. Bentley. Readers of the Pike County News gnawed their pencils, solved a crossword puzzle, discovered it to be an announcement of the engagement...