White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-26
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president of the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Engineers, died here last
week in hospital where he had been
taken to be treated for uremic poison
ing. Stone was one of the foremost
labor leaders in the country. Although
I he started his career as law stu.
dent and went into the financial field,
much of his life was devoted to the
cause of labor. He was born on n
farm near Ainsworth, Iowa, February
1, 1860.
ALBANY, N. VI can't be respon-
sible for somebody's pipe dream"
This constituted Governor Smiths
denial of published reports that he
would retire from public life at the
close of his present term. The gov
erner said he had made no retirement
plans.
ST. PAUL, MINI. The st. Paul
Dispatch says that the Great North
ern Company, through the Great
Northern Transit Company, has pur-
chased four motor bus lines, operating
between st. Paul and Duluth on the
Iron Range in Northern Minnesota
According to the story published in
the Dispatch, the consideration was
said to be in excess of 100000. The
| motor buses, the story said, will be
operated by the Great Northern Rail
way.
HANNIBAL, MO.-Monument to
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn,
| Mark Twain's famous literary char
acters, will be erected on Cardiff hill,
standing at the head of a prominent
business street here. Cardiff hill was
mentioned repeatedly in the humor
lists boks. Frederick G. Hubbard,
native Missourian who designed the
Mark Twain monument erected here
several years ago by the state, will
be the creator of the new figure, said
to be the first monument to literature
characters. The expense will be
borne by Mr.. and Mrs. George A.
Mahan.
NEW YORK-Establish of four
awards for men of the electrical in
dustry, to be presented annually
through a fund given by James H.
McGraw, publisher of industrial and
engineering papers, was announced
acre. Three of the awards, each of
which takes the form of a bronze
medal and purse, will be competed
Tor in the manufacturing, jobbing and
contractor-dealer branches of the
electrical industry. The fourth will
oe open to these and, in addition, to
men in the electrical central station
industry.
Y.-Commissioner Robert
J. Hamilton of the Department of JUS
1ice for the District of Montana, is
bringing large party of Blackfoot
indians from that state to the Mac
.eod and Calgary stampedes. These
indians will bring their tepees and
ponies and will camp out. In their
party will be a dozen highly educated
5lackfoot girls who will give musical
recitals and exemplify the latest
dances. About twenty members of
The original Northwest Mounted Po-
ice force who were members of the
contingent that established the fo,t
1t Calgary in 1875 will attend the ju-
oilee and stampede here July GIL.
md the Canadian Pacific Railway is
llloting ten special rooms in the Pal
| lister Hotel for their accommodation.
WASHINGTON. - The 1926 an
nual convention and exposition of
the American Bottlers Of Carbonated
Beverages and Beverage Exposition
will be held in the American Royal
building at Kansas City, Mo-, October
10 to %, inclusive.
TIFLIS, Republic of Georgia.-Ital-
ian and Belgian interests have secur-
| I'd from the Georgian government
30-year concession covering oil pro-
| lucing lands in the Shearaksky steppe
region, northeast of Tiflis. The con-
cessions are three tracts of about 337
acres each for exploitation, and deep
wells are being sunk in these areas.
M. Maurice Reygrasse, governor
general of Algiers, leading African
archaeologist, will accompany a Be-
lott, Wis, expedition into northern
Africa next summer in search Of the
cradle of prehistoric civilization
NEW YORK.-The report of the
Columbia University investigation Of
ethyl gasoline is to be delivered to
the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, and a
copy. sent to Sergeant General Cum
ming, who is to determine if the re-
port shall be made public. The con-
tents Of the report have already been
made known to DR.. w. Gilman Thomp-
son, chairman of the medical COM
mittee of the corporation and contrac-
tural representative Of the company
in it's arrangement with the univer-
sity for the investigation.
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