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The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-06-07
European War News

An official statement issued ut Lon"
don says that counting the Americans
serving in the British and French
armies and the additional units ordered
to France, there will seen be 100000
Americans in France.
The admiralty at Tokyo announces
that Japanese sQuadrons are operating
in the south Pacific ocean and In the
Mediterranean sea against enemy sub
marines.
"The successes against submarines
have resulted in distinct improve
ment in our food situation said Pre-
mier Lloyd George in the house of COM
mons in London. The premier salG
more effective blows had been dealt the
submarines in the last three weeks
than in any corresponding period OF
the war. He praised the work being
done by the American fleet.
1t was officially announced at Lon"
don that the British transport Tran
Sylvania was tOrpedOed on May WIN
the loss Of 413 persons. The Transyl-
vania was torpedoed in the Mediter-
ranean.
The Italians have crossed the Tina
vo river and occupied the village Of
Pan Giovanni. northwest of Dunno.
near the Gulf of Trieste, the Rome
war office announces. They have cap
tured nine Six-inch guns. The civil
evacuation of Trieste has been ordered.
1t is officially announced at Paris
that the French liner Sontay, bound
for Marseilles from Saloniki with 344
passengers. was torpedoed on April IA
with loss of As lives. Captain Mages
went down with the ship. The Sentay
was = vessel Of T,24T tons.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-06-07
Domestic

After thrilling escape from death
La, William Lorimer, former United
States senator and banker, is con-
fined to his home at Chicago, his right
arm broken in three places.
Almost $4,000 Boy Scouts of the
United States have enlisted at Presi-
dent Wilson's request, to circulate 49,
100000 Liberty loan circulars. Scouts
and their recruits have 2,S3O,OOO gar
den plots under cultivation
A mob of 1900 persons. determined,
as they shouted. to rid the city of ne
groes imported to work In factories
and munition plants. swept through
the streets Of East st. Louis, Ill.,. at
lacking and beating negroes wherever
found. Several negroes were seriously
injured.
lightweight corporations and indi-
viduals were indicted by the federal
grand jury at Boston for cOnspiring
to mOnOpOliZe Interstate commerce IN
onions The indictments were returned
as a result of nationwide inquiry
into the cost of food conducted last
winter by United States Attorney
George w. Anderson.
One woman was killed and another
woman and her child were injured
when a Chicago & Northwestern pas
senger train struck street car at
Menominee, Mich. The dead: Miss
Rose Henes, age eighteen, Menominee,
Mich. The injured: Mrs. Laura
iRaser and her siX-year-old son.
1t was announced in New York that
= the United States Steel corporation
has secured 60 acres of land adjacent
to Newark bay, and freight vessels OF
$500 to 5000 tons are to be construct.
ed as rapidly as Possible.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-06-07
Washington

The senate at Washington ordered
searching inquiry into the Mongolia &C
cident which caused the death of two
Red Cross nurses on their way to Eli
rope. The investigation will be cola
Quoted by the naval affairs committee.
Without a roll call, the Lever bill for
a food survey was passed by the
house at Washington. The bill allows
the secretary Of agriculture to spend
$14,522, 900 for food survey and stlnS-
ulatiOn of production.
Official announcement was made ut
Washington of plot to hinder regis
tratiOn and to resist CONSUMPTION by
an armed uprising against the govern
ment. Eleven arrests have been made.
The conspiracy is declared by the de-
partment of justice to have had its
origin in Texas, where society was
formed for the ostensible purpose Of
cooperative buying.
Senator Frelinghuyzen of New Jer-
sew introduced resolution in the SEN
ate at Washington for an investigation
Of the explosion on the Mongolia caus-
ing the death of two Red Cross nurses.
Conferees on the espionage bill nave
drswn q modified newspaper censor
shiir section which will be brought be-
fore congress at Washington with the
Influence of the administration for In
clusioA in the pending bill.
It was learned at Washington that
the fist class at the naval academy
will be graduated June % next. year
ahead of their time, in order to pro-
vide additional officers for fleet OF sub
marine chusers.
President Wilson issued proclama-
ton at Washington designating the
week ending June % as Red Cross
week. The proclamation calls upon
the people to give generously to the
fund for tEz support of the national re-
lief needs.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-06-07
Foreign

The Brazilian chamber passed the
ure revoking Brazils neutrality IN the
war between Germany and the United
States. The vote was 1876 to 3.
The Industrial crisis in Russia Is so
acute that, according to the minister
of finance, NJ. Shingaroff, only
miracle can save the country from
economic ruin. The socialist ministers
at ministerial council in Petrograd
said that the only possibility they saw
Of settling the difficulties vas to bring
the war to Il close.
The agraran disorders, wholesale
cOnfiscation of property, incendlarlsm
and other dangerous symptoms of an
archy which followed the overthrow OF
the old authority in many important IN"
dustrial centers and agricultural dis
tricts of central and southern Russia
are becoming more serious, according
to dispatches to Petrograd from vari-
GUS points.
Jonkheer Charles Rugs de Beeren-
droeck, member Of the chamber OF
deputies, has been selected to head the
Belgian relief commission in success
sion to Herbert Hoover, it was an
nounced ut Rotterdam.
The safe arrival in Switzerland Of
more Americans from Turkey has been
reported to Washington by Mr.. Stovall,
the American minister at Berne. Con
sui General George Horton and his
wife and daughter were among the nr-
rivals.
A national convention will be held
by German socialists on August L..
dispatch to Amsterdam from Berlin
said this would be the first cONyen-
ton of it's kind ever held in Germany.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-06-07
News of the
Week Cut
Down for
Busy Readers
US.-Teut017ic War News
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Smash France before the United
States goes in. This is Germany's chief
hone of victory, and it is the policy on
which the German government is con-
centrating all it's energies.
The Westminster Gazette publishes
a message from a correspondent VINO
says the submarine menace is being
mastered by simple method, which
the correspondent indicates is the In
vention of an American.
It was announced at Washington
that the National Guard must be re-
cruited by draft to it's war strength OF
100000 men. States are showing fall
ing off in volunteer enlistments. The
prospects also are that men between
twenty-one and thirty years, inclusive
will have to be drafted to enable the
government to bring the regular army
to it's full authorized war strength.
o .
Four thousand men and women In
the Auditorium theater at Chicago de-
in simple language the terms upon
which it will make peace with Ger
many. And 5000 other persons held
peace meeting at Grant Park, which
resulted in a riot and the arrest or
eight speakers who had denounced
President Wilson.
advocates, aroused by Socialist orators,
rioted at Cleveland, O. A hundred po-
lice battled the disturbers' 'DefOre sub
DUNG them. Five arrests were made.
Henry Reuterdah marine artist
and writer on naval subjects, was en-
rolled in the naval reserves, class
at New York.
Secretary Daniels announced at
Washington that word Of the sailing or
an American destroyer tlOtilla for Eu-
rope had been wired ahead to Ger
many, and that German submarines
had succeeded in scattering mines at
the entrance of the harbOr for which
the American warships were bound.
Three Americans are believed to
have lost their lives in the sinking by
German U-bOats of the Cunard liner
Feltria and the British steamer Cor
field.
Information has reached the navy
department Mt Washington that more
submarines are being run down, cap
tured and destroyed than ever before.
The American destroyers have played
an active part In the work. One re-
port said that during the last week ~
German submarines were captured or
DESTROYED.
President Wilson revealed to Ma
Tor General Pershing the plans he has
i'm mind in connection with the service
of American troops in France. The
general called at the White House In
Washington by appointment ana us
cussed the entire military situation
with the chief executive.
Arthur James BalfOur will report to
his government upon return to Eng
land that America Is going its bit well.
Balf0ur so told the newspaper men IN
an informal speech at the National
Press club in Washington.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-06-07

Useless.
"Ma," said discouraged little ur-
chin; II amt going to school any
more"
"Why, dear?" tenderly inquired his
mother.
"'Cause faint no use. I can never
learn to spell. The teacher keeps
changing words on me all the time"
Cocoa shells are being fed to cattle
In a course of experiments by French
dairymen.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-16
TR0PHYTOURNEY
IS A Bic SUCCESS
Promoter of Trapshooting
Brings Different Ma
tionalities Together.

Toledo, o., Nov. ia trapshoot-
Ing tournament that was novel and
20 say the least. unique. was recently
conducted by the EdEeWater Gun club
Of Toledo. It was an international az
fair in which Is nations We're rep
resented. or. in other words. 10 over
seas countries.
Any organization that can get Ger
mans and English together these days
with guns i'm their hands without
shooting each other undertakes q big
task. but that is what the Toledo Gun
club did, and sot away with it in fine
shape
Squads Of men represented each OF
these countries: England, Germany,
France. Ireland. Hungary. Austria,
italy. Sweden. Denmark, Poland. Rus
STA, Greece, Scotland and China. and
there was one delegation that didn't
have q flag-a Hebrew team.
Don't overlook the mention OF China
having a team in the cosmopolitan
competition Very few can reconcile
q Chinaman with a gun, but the Ce-
lestials We're there. II was no doubt
the first time a Chinese team ever
appeared before the traps. They are
an young men and quick TO learn the
ways of the greatest American sport.
The scores of the Chinese squad
We're Slew. - broken Got. s. Yee
and Quou-. each. and Kota. &C.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-16

o Harry WOlvertou. former major
] and minor league manager
Joe Birmingham. former manager
; Cleveland Americans
Roy Thomas. baseball coach Uni
T versity Of Pennsylvania.
Bill Donovan. deposed manager Of
. New York Yankees.
Pat Page. baseball coach Uuiver-
+ sity Of Chicago.
Carleton MoleswOrth. manager Biz
mingham Southern LeaEuel club.
Joe Kelley, scout New York Yam
I KEGS.
Charles Eelschner. former scout of
Browns.
Roger Bresnahan. manager Toledo
CA A. club.
Carl Luudgren. baseball coach Uni
versity OF Michigan
Charles Frank. manager New Or
leans tSOuthern League club.
This is a splendid list Of men"
Hickey said several of them would
be managers par excellence for any
club i'm the country The man want
certainly is among them. And 7 know
the baseball world viii congratulate
St. Louis If am successful in pro-
curing his services"
This eliminates such men rs
johnny Evers. Charley HerzOE.
Joe Tinker. Larry Doyle, Pat
Donovan, Jimmy Sheckard, Tom
my Leach and dozens OF others
who have been mentioned for the
place.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-16
BRANCH RICKEY NAMES PLAYERS
WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR PILOT

GT. LOUIS. No, Nov 16.-Who
viii be the next manager Of the
- St Louis Cardinals
Branch Hickey, president OF the
Knot Hole Gang. has simmered down
the field to y men
Look Em Over.
He says the name Of the successor
OF Miller Higgins, new pilot OF the
Yankees. is in this list
Ira Thomas. coach OF Athletic
pitchers.
Bin Carrisau, former manager Bos-
ton Red Soz.
Jack COMBS, pitcher OF Brooklyn
Dodgers.
George Huff baseball coach. Uni
versity OF Illinois.
Jack Hendricks. manager Indian
spOlis a. A. club.
George AIoriarty. American League
umpire.
Jack Miller, second baseman Cardf-
nails.
Charles Red" Doom. exmanager
Philadelphia Nationals.
Bill Clark. coach Princeton Univer-
Eity baseball team
BIZ Clymer. manager Louisville a.
A. club.
L W. St John. athletic director
Ohio State University
Johnny Dobbs, manager New Or
leans (Southern League club
Chester Brewer, athletic director
Michigan Aggies.
Bob Wallace, former shortstOp Of
Browns and Cardinals.
John Camel, manager kansas City
a A. club.
Fielding Fl. Tost. football coach
University Of Michigan.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-16
soccer TEAMS
PRACTICE HARD
Saturday Afternoon at the
Post Infantry and Artil-
lery Teams Will Clash.

Preliminary plans for the orEaniza-
ton OF a soccer league to embrace
four OF the fastest teams Of this dis
trict was made az q meeting We'd
nesday night at 31fs South FL Paso
street Teams which viii be entered
in the league are the United Empire
club Of FL Paso. and from the 18th
artillery. 34th infantry and Fifth cav
airy regiments.
Saturday afternoon the 34th iufau-
try and the 18th artillery teams viii
meet on the Fort Bliss field IN the
third game this season Sunday at
ternoOn at Fort Bliss the winning
team OF the saturday game viii meet
the United Empire club eleven. The
Empire club dropped a hard fought
contest TO the 3fth infantry last week
by the score Of . to I. and are ont
for revenge at the meeting sunday
afternoon
Manager Burley OF the Empire team
received challenge from the 10th
field artillery team at Douglas. Ariz.
Tor game 20 be held in that city
some time in the near future.
The 5fth infantry also challenged
the Douglas artillery team. but as
yet nothing definite has been re-
ceived from the mana cement OF the
western eleven
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-16
Higgins VIII Rebuild
New York Yankee Club

Under the regime Of the Brit
tons he was forced to make deals
that he did not sanction, and when
opportunities presented them
selves IL often happened that the
owners OF the club crossed Hugs
experienced Judgment
II viii be different in New York
Colonel Rupert has already stated
that Hug IS TO be in supreme COM
mand and that the only requirement
the club viii place upon him viii be
that ot maintaining strict discipline
among the players. on and off the
field That Hug viii keep discipline
10 the fore is n certainty, for he be-
Eeycs and demands that every ball
player should give the club he is
working for the best there is in him
all the time
Higgins Is Confident.
Higgins believes he has the nucleus
Of q winning bail club in the Yam
KEGS as they stand today. Gilhooley
and Marsans. not 70 mention Miller.
are great outfieIders. Waffle Pipp
should reach the crest Of his career
as first baseman next season, and
Frank Baker is good for another year
at least on the hot corner.
in Roger Peckinpaugh Hug has a
heady and experienced shortstops who
has always been greatly underesU-
mated. Peck may not be the star Hug
left in St Louis in HOrnsby, but he
doesn't have 10 doff his skypiece to
many shortgrass performers working
regularly in the big leagues today.
The Yankee pitching and catch
ing staffs, II handled rightly
ought TO get results. and with
HuEEins Mt the tfller they will be
handled right.
The Yanks need q new second base
man and need one badly. But by the
time the big league meetings are
over. in December. they may have the
man for the place Derriu Pratt is
the player Colonel Rupert has been
trying 10 land.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-16

nifty 10 join as Junior members. and
also encourage the older people 10
keep up active exercise"
Urges n Tourney.
His letter continues: Your children
of today viii be your men of to-
morrow. and il is quite apparent that
by a scheme Of this kind within a
very few years you viii make your
club even more substantial and vigor-
Gus Moreover, the men and women
Of tomorrow must he stronger than
ever before 20 bear the new burdens
resulting from war, and so the men
tai and physical benefits resulting
from tennis are Of great importance
I therefore ask the clubs TO give
open tournaments for all the boys and
girls in their communities this fall
if practical and, if not, to make such
plans through the winter that when
the season opens in the spring they
can at once start a junior tourna-
ment
In doing this please do not neg
lect play among your senior mem
bcrs, hut keep that interesting
and up to the standard.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-16
Don't TrifIe With Blood Disorders,
But Get Rid of Them Quickly

poverished and disordered state. There
are numerous other diseases which are
due solely to an impure condition OF
the blood
Can you not see, therefore. the inn
portance Of taking a blood purifier. so
as 70 avoid these diseases Just give
the system q thorough cleansing with
5. S. $, that sterling blood remedy.
and you VIII be in position to enjoy
the blessings Of good health
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more than fifty years and is sold by
druggists everywhere. Demand 5. s.
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medical advice VIII be gladly given
about your own case If You VIII write
to our medical director. Address
Swift Specific Co, 25I-A Swift Labor
atory, Atlanta. Ga.-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-16

TEW YORK, Nov I5.-Midget
M Miller higgins left the Cardi-
4 1 ' nails TO join the Yankees after
building u1 a team in S. Louis this
/ year which bids fair TO make a strong
fight for the National League pen
uant in 1918.
The third place Cards of the season
just closed were elevated TO that lofty
position 10y Higgins after finishing
the 1916 campaign in tie with the
Reds for last place Some accom- lllsn-
meut on the part of Hu-gius. You
said il,
And now the midget manager
has taken the rcins Of a second
division club in the American
League. but those who know him
best are predicting that the 1918
y ankees viii bloom forth ns pen
nant cOnteHders right Off the reel.
AT least Higgins should elevate the
Nauks to a first division berth If
given his head. and 10 is a practical
certainty that he would never have
signed contract with the Nauks un-
less he was 10 have free rein in man
aging and building up his team
l. Major Veteran.
After fourteen years as major
Lacquer, during which time he was
one of the greatest second basemen
who ever wore a pair Of spikes and
for five years past a manager who
has always commanded respect. Hug
gins viii break into American league
ranks next summer with rival pilots
casting q respectful weather eye at
him.
He is one Of the most resourceful
managers in the business, and with
% club that viii back UP his Judgment
cold al moral o
faces the greatest opportunity of his
life.
At ST. Louis Hug was continually
working under a handicap
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-16
WAIVERS ASKED ON
INFIELD EVERS

ITII1IoI1IiI. "a NIr- Tf--TIe
Philadelphia National league base
bail club has asked waivers on Johnny
ETers, its second basemau Evers
Joined the Phllies last July. the
Phlladelphiasa assuming the contract he
mad with the Boston Nationals.
Johnny Evers. at his home Thursday
night said Waivers are not neces-
sary- for when the curtain was rung
down on the 1917 baseball season /
was automatically Internationally
released. That was my agreement
with the PhIladelphias that the end
Of the 1917 playing season I should
become free agent. Waivers cannot
be asked for that reason"
When asked regarding the pros
poets for next year. he said
'I haven't anything definitely in
view. There's lots of time between
now and the first Of April"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-16
Stimulate Tennis Interest
President Urges the Players

TEW YORK. Nov. I6.-Julian S.
n s1yrick, acting president OF the
i y United States National Lawn
Tennis association, has addressed a
letter to all clubs calling their Off
GERS attention TO the need for con-
structive work to conserve the clubs
interests.
Saying that their responsibilities
VIII be greater during 1918 than ever
before, Myriolz points out the import
ance Of maintaining the membership
both as TO numbers and personnel. so
that the property Of the clubs may
not suffer
He makes the point that for
members 10 resign is false econ
omy, because the resulting dam
age TO the property will be felt
for years. In this connection he
writes:
one or the best ways TO stimulate
interest in your club is to encourage
all the boys and girls in your commu-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-16
ASSOCIATION
HAS NOMINATIONS

Chicago. ILL.,. Nov. 16-The nominal.
ing committee Of the United States
Golf association made public its NOM
nation, headed 10y Frederick s.
Wheeler Of the Apawamis club. for
president Thursday. Nominating Is
generally equivalent 10 election and
il is assumed that the slate viii DE
confirmed at the January meeting.
Another nomination follows
Vice preSidents-Walter y Hardan,
Columbia Country club; Sterling T..
Edmunds, St Louis Country club.
Secretary - Howard J.. Whitney.
Nassau Country club
Treasurer y Buckner.
Garden City Golf club.
Executive committee-Frauk T.
Miller, Oldem club. j. =. Eyers. Al
leghany Country club Asa T.. French.
The Country club ~. p. Stewart,
Audubon Golf clu-