The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1923-06-21
Domestic

Ger, aged So, but Of the seeming vigor
of a woman Of 80, set out from River
side to scale the San Jacinto noun
tains in quest Of rare botanical speci-
mems for Harvard university. She
expects to roam the crags unaccom.
panied, and says she fails to see any
thing unusual in that.
New York-One hundred passengers
on the excursion boat Keansburg
scrambled for safety when an ebb tide
threw the craft against an Ellis is
land ferry wharf projection. Portions
of the boat and the ferry structure
were torn away, but the damage was
all above water. All on board were
landed safety and the boat later made
another journey to Keansburg, N. ].
Pana, Ill.-Joseph w. Wakefield,
aged "a, a friend of Abraham Lincoln,
and a grand nephew Of John Morton,
one of the signers Of the Declaration
of independence, died. He was re-
tired farmer from Shelby county.
Memphis-Nine barges loaded with
coal, conveyed by the steamer Charles
F. Richardson Of the West Kentucky
Coal company, sunk in the MISSISSIPPI
pi river 60 miles north Of Memphis
when the steamer encountered a Sc
we're wind and rainstorm, it became
known here when the boat reached
Memphis. Officials of the company,
whose headquarters are in this city.
estimated the total loss at 100000.
Logan, Utah-A slight earth shock,
accompanied by rumbling sounds, was
felt in Logan and vicinity. In many
homes dishes were broken and pic
lures dislodged from walls, but other.
wise no damage has been reported.
Redondo Beach, Calif.-Three surf
bathers were caught in tide and
drowned here.
Chicago-Bishop Thomas Nicholson
of Chicago area Of the Methodist Epis-
copal church left for New York en-
route to England to attend the Irish
and English Wesleyan conferences.
Hammond, Ind.-Rance Odds, aged
%, pilot, was killed almost instantly
here when the racing auto he was
driving at the Robey speedway skid.
ded on the dirt track, turned over and
then crashed into the fence within a
short distance of the grandstand hold.
ing 5000 persons.
New York.. zone policeman with
drawn pistol held several hundred per-
sons back to enable William Mooney
a surface car motorman, to flee the
upper east side crowd which had
stoned the car after it had killed g
baby. The mother shouted that Moo
ney's carelessness was responible for
the tragedy.
New York-Bound for the west and
northwest, more than 400 we'll to do
Swedish farmers arrived here on the
Swedish-American liner Drottning-
holm from Gothenburg. The immi-
formed that farmers were in great
demand, owing to the movement Of
young American soil tillers to the
cities.
New York-Although a general
strike of 10000 hotel employees is
scheduled for the latter part of this
month, William Lehman, head of
Walters local No. 1, of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees International AL
lance of America, announced he ex-
pected the New York Restaurant
Keepers association would reach an
agreement with 5000 walters who de-
mand renewal of the union agree
ment.
Shelby, Mont-Down in the depths
of a big pine crater, the Gibbons fam
fly looked over the arena in which the
head of the house is to fight Jack
Dempsey for the worlds heavyweight
championship July 4. The family in
spection of the battle-ground was not
prearranged. Tommy, his wife and
two little Gibbonses had returned
from the Blackfoot Indian reserva
ton, where the bloods Of the tribe
headed by the Venerable Chief Noun
tain, turned out for them, in, the ring
toggery of their day. Tommy wanted
to look over the "stockage" which has
been built near the arena for his
training work.
Chicago-Robert N. Watkin of Dial
las was elected president of the Mu
sic Merchants association Of Amer
lea, conducting it's annual convention
here in conjunction with the conven
ton of the Music Industries Chamber
of Commerce.
Fort Worth-The trial of J. w
"Hog Creek" Caruth and L. F. Reyn
olds, Jr., was brought to abrupt end
ing when the two defendants pleaded
guilty to the charge of using the
mails to defraud and were each sen
fenced to year and day in the fed
eral penit entiary at Leavenworth ant
| to pay a fine of $1,000.