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The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
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Third Liberty Loan Bonds

:. Third Liberty Loan Bonds
+ will bear date of May 9th, 1918,
: and mature in 1928.
: Interest-4% per cent per
. annum, payable September 18th
: and March 18th.
! Payment Dates-All cash by
: May 4th, or
: 5 per cent by May 18th,
: 20 per cent by May 2Sth,
: IS per cent by July 18th,
: 40 per cent by August 18th.
. . Denominations - $50, 500;
: $500, $1,000, $4,000 and $4,000,
. either coupon or registered.
: Convertibility-4k per cent
: bonds will not be convertible
. into subsequent issues.
. First and Second Liberty
. Loan Bonds are convertible in
: to AZ per cent bonds of the
. Third issue.
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The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
HORST HELD UNDER SPY ACT
Charged With Making Statements
Comforting to Foe.

Fargo, N. D., April 12.-Charged
with violation of the espionage act by
utterances which it is alleged inter
fere with the military and naval op.
erations of the United States forces,
Leo S. Horst, former student at the
Agricultural college, and Nonpartisan
league speaker, has been taken into
custody by Deputy United States
Marshal p. H. Bowler.
Horst was arraigned before United
States Commissioner William c. Green
and was bound over to the federal
grand jury. Bail was fixed at 1000
which was furnished.
The alleged violations are said to
have been committed in an address
Horst gave at Owner, N. D.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
-------- Do I u. Ia. INIISIINS
IOWA FIRST TO FILL QUOTA
Hawkeye State Leads in Reaching
Third Liberty Loan Goal.

Hawkeye State Leads in Reaching
Third Liberty Loan Goal.
Chicago, April 12.-Iowa is the first
state in the United States to fill its
quota of the third Liberty Loan, It
has been officially announced.
Washington, April 12.-Liberty
Loan subscriptions for the first four
working days Of the campaign report
ed by banks and trust companies in
10 Of the IL Federal Reserve districts.
amounted to $275,919,000. These re-
present pledges backed up by initial
payments, but since many banks re-
ports were not included in this total
and two districts, Philadelphia and
Minneapolis, were missing from the
.abulation, it is believed the actual
total Is near $4O0,000,000.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
Socialist Candidate For Governor
Faces 20 Year Term.

Minneapolis. April 12.-Jacob O.
Bentall nominee for Governor of Min
nesota, has been found guilty of "at-
tempting to cause INSTRUMENTATION, dis.
content, mutiny and refusal of duty
in the military and naval forces OF
the United States
The Socialist party standard bearer
Is already under sentence of one year
for draft obstruction. The maximum
sentence for the offense of which he
has just been convicted is 20 years in
a federal prison and $4,000 fine. He
will be sentenced by Judge Page Nor
ris in United States district court
Friday, April 10.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
63 COAST SHIPS TAKEN OVER

Go Into Governments Hands BY Edict
Of President.
Washington, April 12-Leadtpg At
lantic and Gulf steamship lines will
be unified Saturday under control OF
the Railroad administration.
President Wilson, by proclamation,
has Communicated the Clyde, NAL
lory, Merchants and Miners and the
Southern steamship lines and assign
ed them to the supervision of Direc-
tor4General McAdoo, who already has
control of railway-owned lines, the
Ocean, Old Dominion, Southern Pa
cific, Baltimore Steam Packet and
Chesapeake Steamship companies.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
[ Loan Ad in La Toilette
Pictures Place at "U"

Madison, Wis, April 11.-University
of Wisconsin faculty members have
discovered that a picture of Senator
Robert M. La Toilette in the univer-
sity hall of fame" has been removed
from its frame and in its place third
Liberty Loan poster inserted. So far
no one has attempted to reinstate La
Follette's picture.
pTrv RONDS
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
Creek Indian Rich From Oil.
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i Creek Indian Rich From Oil.
Oklahoma City, April 12.-On tract
OF land in Oklahoma, allotted to Jack.
SON Barnett, Creek Indian, and on
which it is not recorded that he ever
did stroke Of work, oil was discov.
cred. Jackson's income Is said to be
go, 900 month from oil royalties.
He has q cabin, erected for him by
the superintendent of the five tribes.
hut he prefers to live in the open. At
night he wraps himself In a blanket
and sleeps on the porch. His property
q now said to be worth close to $500
600.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
TAKES TWO PALESTINE TOWNS
AIlenby Advances Lines Despite. Stub
horn Resistance.

London, April 12.-British troops
on April 9 advanced their line north
of Jerusalem to a depth of IL miles
along a front of five miles, the Brit
ish war office announces. Notwith-
standing the stubborn resistance Of
the Turks, the British captured the
VILLAGES of Pafat-and Ell Kefr.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
BUY L, BONDS

TAFT and Walsh Head New Board.
Washington, April 10. - Former
President Taft, with Frank B. Walsh,
of Kansas City, will head the new
national War Labor Board to be
created at the suggestion of the labor
conference which ended 10 days ago.
It is stated these selections. with
such others as President Wilson may
decide upon, will be officially an
nounced by proclamation. 1t Is under
stood both Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Walsh
have agreed to undertake the work.
The main purpose of the board will
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
Miller Speaks for Harbors.

Washington. April 1.-THE develop
ment of New York harbor is not
merely of local, but Of nationwide
Importance, Representative c. B. Mil
Ter told the House, in urging the con-
struction Of 40-foot channel through
the East river. Mr.. Miller said that
the development of 14-foot channel
between Duluth and Buffalo had saved
Minnesota farmers in freight charges
approximately Is cents bushel on
their grain. aad as New York is the
greatest port in the world it should be
developed ss national project.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
FOE GETS THIRD OF RUSSIA
German Peace Treaty Conditions Arc
Announced,

Petrograd, April IL By the Asso-
ciated Press) Under the terms of
the peace treaty, the commissioner
of commerce announces, Russia has
lost 100000 square kilometers of ter
ritory with 56,0OO,00O Inhabitants, or
% per cent of the entire population
aos~Ahe country.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
AUSTRIAN LABOR ASKS PEACE

Demonstration for Eisht-Hour Day Is
Also Planned.
Washington, April 12.-In mani.
festo to the working people of Austria
on May-day preparations the Arbeiter
Zeitung of Vienna has called for q
demonstration for general peace and
an eight-lour day.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
Gone.

Gone.
Mrs. Al thought your cock was q
Jewell" Mrs. B.-"So she was. but she
has been reset"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18

If we could see ourselves as other
see us what a disagreeable old world
this would be FOB us to live in!
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18

Paris, April 13.-Severe French fire
has broken up an attack by the Ger
mans in the Champagne district.
Armentieres has been evacuated by
the British, while ethe Germans, driv'
ing in from the southwest of the
town, are struggling to push forward
in the area southwest Of Messines
Ridge, the Keypoint of the British
line in Flanders. The British have
retired to new positions Three miles
west of Armentieres.
Messines Ridge Objective.
Messines Ridge itself has been the
objective of desperate frontal at
tacks, and the Germans are reported
to have pushed on to the ridge sew
eral times during the fierce hand TO
hand fighting. Each tine, however,
the British came bat'. at them with
effective counter-attacks and today
were still holding the ridge.
Armentieres Full Of Gas.
Armentieres is reported full CT gas
by General Haig. West Of Armen-
there's the enemy struggling in his
deep salient, has pushed the fighting
to the limit and at one time succeed
ed in driving some three mhes be-
yond the river Lys to Lacheche. In
this situation the British likewise re-
acted strongly and by vigorous couu'
ter.attacks ousted the Germans.
: Wytischaete, South Of Messines,
was also the objective of heavy Ger
man attacks and possession of II
changed several times but Thursday
found Field Marshal Haigs troops
holding the town.
There was a similar hard fight for
14estrem, at the western tip OF the
German salient on the River Lave
The Germans worked their way into
this place Wednesday but were un'
able to move on further and ultimate
~ were driven out of 1t and back
across the Lave.
1 The evacuation of Armentieres had
been discounted as the place is with
out strategical value. What is left OF
the town Is full of gas. hanging there
from the copious gas shell lombard
ments.
Aim to Wipe Out British.
Emperor William and the German
military leaders in the present often
sive, 1t is reported in dispatches from
the battle front, plan the wiping out
of the British army. 1t is believed
that the Germans now are seriously
attempting by swinging their attacks
to tho north, to annihilate British re-
sistance+ In consequence, further as
saults along the British front and
much desperate fighting is expected
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
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Wilson War Writings in Schools.

Wilson War Writings IN SCHOOLS.
Minneapolis, April 12.-President
Wilson's war writings have been Civ
en- first place on weekly patriotic pro-
grams in Minneapolis schools. Pro-
gram recommendations sent out from
the board of education call attention
to the propriety of including these
utterances as part of the program
work. Verse productions of the local
schools. evidencing the patriotic feel
ing of Minneapolis boys and girls, also
are used. The weekly program is =
part OF the thrift campaign being car
ried on in every school
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
BUY LII BONDS
Speed is Bakers Slogan.

Paris, April 10-It is learned from
high authority that the paramount
thought In the mind of Secretary of
War N. d. Baker, ON the eve Of his
return to America, is the neces-
sity of rushing American bayonets to
France. Since his return from Italy,
the secretary has declined all formal
engagements and is spending hours
daily at the United States embassy,
where he is in constant commune
cation and consultation with Aemri-
can military heads, including General
John Pursuing.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
BUY l.. L. BONDS
Hoover Demands Greater Savings,

Hoover Demands Greater Savings.
Washington, April 12.-Voluntary
food conservation in households must
be extended If the United States is to
meet Allied and domestic demand,
Food Administrator Hoover told the
National Conference of American Lee
turers. The response of the public to
requests for restrictions has been SO
general, Mr.. Hoover said, that there IS
little prospect that an arbitrary food
rationing system ever will become
necessary. ... ~
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
GERMAN SOLDIERS MUTINY

Fire on Officers in Beverloo Camp,
is Report. r-
Amsterdam, April ia mutiny
has occurred in the German military
camp at Beverloo, according to reports
from the Belgian front. German
soldiers are said to have fired upon
their officers, killing three. Seventeen
soldiers have been arrested
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18
Remains of City Filled With
4" Fumes Hanging There From
s. Gas Shell Bombardments.
BRITISH RETAIN RIDGE
RepuIse Repeated Attacks on Mes
sines Positions in Fierce Hand to
Hand Fights-kaiser Plans
Wiping Out Britain's Forces.

London, April 12.-swingins
his heaviest Iegions and might
lest guns far to the north Of the
Picardy battlefield, Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg now is driving at
tack after attack against the
British lines between Arras and
Tpres.
Charging across the level coun-
try behind tempest of high ex-
plosives and gas shells, the Ger
mans have succeeded by terrific
fighting in penetrating the Brit
ish defenses at points over
fornt of nearly 80 miles to depth
Of almost six miles just to the
south of Y pres.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-04-18

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-07
GERMAN PARTIES
NEARING BREAK?
Socialists May Withdraw Support
From government omentOus
Meetings Are Held.

Amsterdam. Jan. There was a
more calm feeling in German parlia-
mentary circles Sunday afternoon, .ac-
cording to the Tageblatt, and the
reichstag majority parties firmly in
tend to support the government. On
the other hand the Socialists held
meetings Sunday which Vorwaerts
calls perhaps the most momentous
since August, 1914" The Socialist or
gan saws that the Socialist party will
make its attitude dependent on wheth-
er the government returns to the
declarations made on Dec. rs.
In the meantime, the Tageblatt says,
the annexationists are making every
effort to overthrow Foreign Secretary
Won Kuehlmann. certain serious con-
sequences being threatened openly if
he stays in Office.
DR.. Wekerle, the Hungarian pre-
mier, and DR.. Won WINNER, the Aus
trian minister of finance, arrived in
Berlin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-07
MEDIATION KEEPS
WORKERS ATJ0BS
Method Of Settling Labor Disputes
Proves Aid to Government War
Program. Report Shows.

Washington, Jan. Mediation of
trade disputes by representatives OF
the department Of labor has been suc-
cessful in keeping at work thousands
of men whose labor is vital to the war
program, according to report cover
ing the last three months, made public
today by the department. Insistence
on a continuance Of work during nego-
tiations has caused a minimum loss in
the output of factories affected by the
disputes.
In three months ended Dec. 81 the
departments good offices were in
voked in pa cases, including III
strikes, 1C4 controversies and "a lock-
outs. Mediators settled 1873 amicably
and failed to settle only six. Local
agencies adjusted IS cases before the
department. mediators arrived. There
remain pending So cases of recent
origin of which only IA are strikes.
The total number of workers direct
ly involved in the disputes OF three
months was 10000 while 1.706 more
were affected indirectly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-07
earl READING IS
TO Be war ENVOY

London. Jan. earl Reading, lord
chief justice will go to the United
States as direct representative of the
British war cabinet, according to the
Daily Express. While Earl Reading
will have the title of ambassador,
purely diplomatic matters will be in
the hands of charge d. affairs, the
earl controlling war activities.
Earl Readings work will, according
to the understanding in Official circles,
deal mainly with financial and general
business matters and he will be re-
lieved of the ordinary ambassadorial
functions of handling numerous minor
diplomatic negotiations which consti-
tute large part of the embassay's
work. Colonel E. D. Swinton, assist
ant secretary of the war cabinet and
one of the originators Of the British
tank, will accompany the lord chief
justice as an attache
The appointment of Earl Reading as
ambassador is primarily for war pur-
poses, it is said, and probably means
that Viscount Northcliffe will not re-
turn to the United States as head of
the permanent British mission. Lord
Northcliffe will continue the active
direction in England of the American
mission Offices.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-07
NATION ASKS
R0ADSAb0UT
M0NEYNEEDS
Railway Heads Requested
BY Government to State
Capital Required.

Washington, Jan. 7.-As the first
step in government assistance of rail-
road financing, presidents of railroads
were requested by Interstate Com
msrce Commissioner Daniels today to
telegraph hin Immediately the amount
of capital required for this year and
also for the first six months OF the
year.
This action was taken at the direc-
tiono Of Director General McAdoo.
tail the precise purposes for which
funds will be needed to meet matur-
ing securities not already provided
for, to pay for improvements, better
ments and construction work already
contracted for and partially finished.
Roads. were requested also to show
what portion of improvements already
started can be stopped now without
detriment.
Gets Line for improvements.
Another item sought by Commits
sioner Daniels in an approximate es-
innate of capital necessary to provide
for new construction work, improve
ments and betterments, including ad
ditional terminals and new equipment.
Presidents were asked to specify what
part Of their financial requirements
during this year are not absolutely
necessary for protection of property
OF maintenance of earnings.
A definite statement also is sought
as to the character of securities which
each company had planned to issue.
Next week has been designated by
Director General Meade as freight
clearance week" A. special campaign
will be conducted over the entire
country to induce shippers and con-
signees to unload freight cars quickly
to relieve railroad conges ~on. Mr.
McAdoo will issue an appeal to gov
ernors. state railroad commissions
city officials and others to assist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-07
SAYS COAL PRICE
| SCARS NOT FALLS
Clifford ThOrne Declares Government
Action Advances Charge and
Boosts Profits.

Washington, Jan. 7.-Clifford Thorne
of Chicago who told the senate inves-
tigating committee today he had made
study of the coal situation in the
last six months, declared government
price fixing had advanced prices, that
operators we're making excessive prof
it's and that the public did not have
sufficient voice in governmental in
vestigation to gain data for price reg
ulation.
Mr.. Thorne did not charge favorit-
ism in prices to the private consumer
or railroads and large public utili-
ties but he did testify that the Nation
al Union Coal company at Ward, Iowa.
was selling 100 tons of coal daily to
the government at Camp Dodge at a
price so per cent greater than it was
charging for $50 tons of the same
kind of coal delivered daily to the Bur.
lington railroad.
Thorne estimated the coal operat.
ors' profits now aggregated 81 ,aaa, Qot
a day.
With competition in the Illinois
| field in August, 1916, the average
price for slack coal was $1.25 and the
price no wunder government regula.
ton is S1.70, he said. His investiga-
ton convinced him it would be ad-
visable to close many small mines
having high production costs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-07
MEET OF REICHSTAG
ONLY HOPE HE SAYS

London, Jan. 7.-Maximilian Har-
den, in Die Zukunft, urges that the
reichstag, which is Germany's only
popular organization, should be as
sembled Immediately or otherwise
chances of peace with Russia will be
lost, according to dispatch from
Berlin. ...
1.-THE reichstag," he says, must
shoulder its responsibility and tell the
world what Germany wants, not what
this general or that minister wants.
Not otherwise can the world be con-
WINGED that Germanys peace aims are
sincere. If the reichstag misses this
supreme chance, the war must con-
tinue and no mortal being can fore
see for how long, or what the end
will be-"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-07
WAR
AIMSbACKED:
EYES ON HUN
Speech Of Lloyd George
Praised-Its Reception
in Germany Watched.

London. Jan. LII the country.s
opinion as is probable in the* recent
case can be judged by expressions i'll
the London press, it may be said that
never before has Premier Lloyd
George won such universal approval
as is given to his statement Of Sat-
urday concerning Great Britain's war
aims. 1t is recognized that there will
be a divergence of opinion on details
like the economical terms of settle
ment and disposition of Germany's
African colonies, but in all essentials
his statement is hailed as eminently
satisfactory and the premier is de-
clared to have performed a most i'm
portant service to the country.
All interest now is focused on the
question as to how the statement will
be received in Germany, Austria Hun
gary, and not the least, in Russia. But
anxious curiosity.
With the exception only Of the belli-
cose Morning Post, which, however
is not opposed TO the premier's thesis
the morning newspapers Of London
join in a chorus of approval.
Speech Is Praised.
The Times declares it is the most
important state document since the
declaration Of war. 1t commends the
moderation of the statement, which
however, it thinks may disconcert some
tried friends and allies and even lend
itself to the enemy Misrepresentation
The Daily Mail says that nothing could
be more simple or more democratic
than the statement, and the whole
British people are solid behind 1t
The Germans, it declares, will never
get better terms.
Premier Lloyd Georges assertion
that he was not speaking for the gov
eminent, but the nation and the en-
pire, the Daily Telegraph thinks, viii
remove a load Of anxiety from many
troubled minds. 1t says that all the
primary essentials for peace terms are
included in the statement, which, how
ever, it anticipates, will draw a cry
of incredulous rage from Germany.
Under Wilson's Policy.
The Daily News describes the state
ment as a landmark in the war bring
ing us and, we take it, our allies gen
orally into line with the policy Presi
dent Wilson constantly has formu
lated"
"On these lines" II adds. 1.-THE ma
lions can go forward with clear con
science and firm purpose. They ar:
the lines of clean peace and we mus
stand by them firmly, unyieldingly.
is a peace Of the people"
! The Daily Express says the premiel
has spoken the entire mind of the en-
tente. Germany, 1t adds, finds hersei
taken seriously and it is the suprem'
| test of her sincerity. To the Dail,
Chronicle the careful terms in which
the aim of all effective league OF ma
tons is formulated seem among TN
most valuable parts OF the his'orica
( utterancc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-07
LATE BULLETINS

Washington, Jan. THE rail.
road administration held today
that the municipal bridge between
st. Louis and East st. Louis can
be taken over by the government
because 1t has railway tracks.
Compensation will be decided
later.
Rome, Jan. 7.-British patrols
have again crossed the Piave riv.
er, the war Office announces. They
forced = passage ut various, points,
causing alarm In the enemy lines.
Washington. Jan. THE gov.
ernment's motion 10 postpone, be.
cause Of the war, further censld.
Grafton Of several important anti.
trust suits. Was granted today By
the supreme court with the q.
ccptlen Of the case against the
United Shee Machinery. company,
wAicA will 50 forward.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-07
Worst Blizzard of Years Buries Middle West
Den;esReported
Plan for Taking
Packing Houses

Washington. Jan. 7.-Statements
that the United States is planning
to have receivers take over and run
the packing business" as reported
from Philadelphia, were denied today
in an announcement by F. ]. Heney.
special counsel. conducting the fed
eral trade commissions investigation
into the meat packing industry.
Some of the newspapers have quot
ed me as saying that l intended to
prosecute some of the big packers. -
said Heney. Il have not at any time
made such statement. and on the
contrary l have time and again stated
that the department of justice has ex-
elusive jurisdiction in such matters.