The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1922-06-01
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Washington
Observation-Disclosures G. Sperry,
president of the Private Soldiers and
Sailors league, was arrested here as
fugitive from Justice at the request OF
Baltimore police, who said they had
warrant charging embezzlement from
the Buddies club Of that city, which
he founded. The complaint against
Sperry, detectives said, was sworn
out by Edward Smyth, former Canadl-
an soldier.
Northumberland of per-
manent rural credits legislation was
continued by the house committee on
banking and currency, with Represen-
tative Sydney Anderson, Minnesota,
chairman of the joint committee on
agricultural inquiry, and Benjamin c.
Marsh of the Farmers National coun-
Gil as witnesses.
WashingtonASelecti Of the spe-
cial grand jury to consider alleged
frauds in connection with war con-
tracts, provision for which was made
in the bill recently passed by congress
appropriating 100000 to cover costs
of prosecuting persons alleged to
have been involved in the frauds, has
begun. .... +.
Acknowledgements that an in.
ternational conference of bankers be
called in Washington to devise means
of untangling the economic maze IN
Europe has been made to President
Harding by certain of his advisers.
Washington-The house industrial
arts committee reported the resolution
| expressing government Endorsement
of the Sesquicentennial of the sign
ing of the Declaration of Independ.
ence, to be conducted at Philadelphia
in 1926 and authorizing the president
to invite participation by foreign gov
ernments.
| ashington-Dismissal of formal
proceedings against the IOwa-Nebras
ka-Minnesota Wholesale Grocers asso
| citation of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was an
nounced by the federal trade commits
sion. 1t was stated that the dismissal
| was without prejudice" a.
Washfngton-Representative Moses
! Kinkaid announced that he would not
be candidate for reelection He, is
the author, of the Kinkaid homestead
| law and will have served 20 years in
congress when his term expires on
March 3, 1923. e.....
| Washington-With 289 landing fields
for use of airplane pilots established
in the seventh corps area, comprising
Minnesota, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska and North and
South Dakota, this section of the coun-
try is considered the safest for air
| travel in the United States.
Washington-Half of the Alaskan
fur seals are lost at sea before they
reach commercial or bearing age, is
the conclusion of the committee on
conservation of marine life in the Pa.
| cific of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
Domestic
Boston - Drinking among college
students has diminished materially
since the 18th amendment was enact
ed, and in a majority of colleges
which were canvassed drinking has
practically disappeared, according to
President F. c. Southworth OF the
Meadville Theological school. His re-
port of an investigation was made to
he Unitarian Temperance society.
| Lexington, Va.-Arthur Dawson, Off
,ial portrait painter of the United
| States Military academy, announced
ae had discovered at Washington and
! Lee university here an original paint
ing of George Washington by Gilbert
Stuart. The painting is estimated by
art experts to be worth from SIS, 900 to
! 100000. : % ~. -. -
Buffalo-Thousands watching a cir
,us performance here were startled
when big lion escaped from its cage
md ran into the street. Pursued by
circus employees it ran three blocks
before finally cornered. Several hun
ired people who followed the lion out
If the tent were thrown into a near
panic when the beast broke loose from
he ropes and charged directly into
he crowd. =. Z e-H ~ !. ~.
Condo, Texas-The body of Negro
youth was found by Grimes county
farmers swinging to a tree by the
roadside near Plantersville. The youth,
who was known by the name or Early,
apparently had been lynched. p
Jersey City-Five hundred and four
i gallons Of whisky shipped by distill-
Ing companies in Kentucky to IA New
4 York firms were seized on the pier
Of the American Railway Express
company by general prohibition
1 agents. *ss s 1919 i ii.
Aurora, Ill.-Miss Minnie Bruno,
known as the "taxicab fiapper," who
was brought back from Clinton, Iowa,
to face a charge of robbery, won her
freedom by marrying her accuser,
James Crowley, Batavia restaurant
owner. ..5
New York-The founder Of the for
tunes OF the firm Of ]. P. Morgan &
Co. was Joseph Morgan, who, after
fighting in Washington's army, settled
i down as q farmer in Connecticut. He