The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1923-10-04
Sports

New York-After having tried all
the wrong ways in the book, Harry
Wills, the colored freight wrestler, is
going about the modern and APPROX
ed method Of getting a crack at the
worlds heavyweight crown. Words,
challenges, injunctions and threats
having failed to get him into the ring
with Jack Dempsey, Wills had decid-
ed to step out and fight himself into
a position where he will have to be
considered. Until very recently.
Wills took the position that he was
established as the logical contender
for the championship and that he did
not have to trace his steps back over
the road of setups to prove his right
for a fight with Dempsey.
Foreign
Honolulu-Hawaii, a makeless Eden
since the islands were first created by
volcanic upheavals from the floor Of
the ocean, has been invaded by that
reptile.
Sydney-The legislative assembly,
by vote Of 80 to "a, adopted a resolu-
ton declaring that the granting Of
titles is contrary to the sentiment d
the citizens Of New South Wales.
London-Charles Henry Tuition, who
accompanied Lord Robert Cecil to &C.
neva for the League of Nations con-
gress, died in that city. Mr.. Tuition
participated in the peace conference
at Paris in 1919.
Constantinople-Th statement cir
culated in the Turkish press that the
Angora government has demanded
withdrawal of the American fiotilla
from Constantinople is erroneous, it
was learned, and no such demand has
been made.
Glasgow, Scotland-Seventy men
were entombed when a deep pit at the
James Nimmo company's colliery near
Falkirk was flooded 1t was feared
that all would perish, but one party of
men succeeded in making their escape
through disused shaft. There now
are Al unaccounted for, and it is al
most certain they are dead.
Madrid-President Primo Rivera's
substitution of courtmartial for jury
trial Is resulting in a speedy variety
Of justice throughout Spain. Pascual
Aguirra and Jose Saleta were execut-
ed at Tarrasa, near Barcelona, for a
holdup and murder five days after the
crime was committed.
London-The trade union movement
in England may have a woman for
president. Miss Margaret G. Bond
field, we'll known leader among women
workers, Is regarded as the likely
choice from among the three candi-
dates for the craftsmanship of the gen.
eral council of the Trades Union con-
gress.
Buenos Aires-The US S. Richmond
left for Brazil after four day visit
to Buenos Aires. In Rio de Janeiro
it will take aboard the bodies of 40
American sailors who died in the in
fiuenza epidemic there in 1917 during
the visit of Admiral Caperton's South
American squadron. The majority of
the victims were Washington and Ore
gon high school drafts. The Rich
mond will take the bodies home.
Mexico City-Adlolfo De La Huerta,
whose resignation as secretary of the
treasury has been accepted by Presi-
dent Oregon, has assured a delega-
tion representing the co-operatista
party in the chamber Of deputies that
his retirement has altered the circum-
stances and made it possible for him
to reconsider his determination not to
become candidate for the presidency.
Melbourne-The authorities here
say no request has come for the ap-
Tprehension of King" Benjamin Pur-
nell Of the House of David colony, in
Michigan, who is reported to have
come to Melbourne as fugitive from
justice in Michigan. Purnell visited
Melbourne in 1904 and then proceed
ed to America with about 80 Austria
liam converts"
Peking-Although denying RESPONSE
bility for the Lincheng bandit outrage
of last May in which a number of
kidnapped from Tientsien-Shanghai
express train and held captive for more
than month, the Chinese government
already has begun reorganization of
its railway police, is preparing to
punish provincial officials for their
negligence.
Moscow-Senator E. F. Ladd of
North Dakota was among spectators
at a review of several thousand ca
diets, mostly sons Of workmen and
peasants, who are to become units in
the regular army and the territorial
army which Russia is building up.
The cadets were graduated from vari-
Gus military academies.
Madrid-The American embassy
here was mysteriously burglarized.
The intruders, who were not ordinary
burglars, ransacked the desks of Am.
bassador Alexander P. Moore and his
secretaries and carried off huge mar
BILE clock weighing 800 pounds.
Observation-Disclosures winner of the