The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-07-01
CHIEF EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD
ny CHARLES p. STEWART
NEA Service Writer

his decision at Cheyenne upho lding
ex-Secretary Of the Interior Falls
Teapot Dome leases to Harry Sim
clair, friends of all the men hit by
the oil inquiry hurried to Presidency
Coolidge with the news.
Everybody vindicated!" they
cried.
The president was strangely uh-
enthusiastic. He couldn't forget that
Judge Mccormick, at Los Angeles.
decided the Doheny case the other
way.
he's quoted as having rasped. Lets
see how it comes out on appeal"
That cautious New England tenn
permanent again!
WISCONSIN
Since Senator La Follette's death,
Washington's eyes have been turned
in intense interest on Wisconsin.
The late senator's political organ
ization is in control there and can
fill his seat for the balance Of his
term, which expires in 1929.
But whether it will be able to re-
tain hi. place after that depends
largely upon the choice Of the in
dividual to hold it in the meantime.
Mrs. La Toilette seems the strong
est candidate, ii she will accept.
Attorney General Herman Ekern
is said to have been La Follette's
own choice as his successor, though
the titular head of his party, with
his death, is Gov. John J. Blaine.
Congressman John NJ. Nelson,
Representatives, also is in the front
rank.
IN THE ARCTIC
Nothing fretss members Of the
Macmillan Navy arctic expedition
more than the suggestion that
they're hunting the north pole.
The party, now on its way, aims
to study the polar region in general,
especially with a view to finding new
land in the far north, but it has no
interest in the pole itself.
Why does it seek land in SO re-
mote spot? Well, for one thing,
as stopping place for airplanes,
short cuttng across the pole.
And there are hints of oil in the
arctic wastes. Scientific curiosity
has something TO do with the trip,
too.
II the expedition does find land, it
means to annex it for the United
States Canada, on the other hand,
says any islands between her north
ern coast and the pole belong to her.
This may mean an argument-but
not war.
CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN
Captain Amundsen, back in Spitz-
bergen from his aerial polar dash
doesn't much think the Macmillan
outfit will find any land. At any
rate there's no arctic continent, he
says.
Amundsen didn't cover the whole
field, however. Even agreeing
there's no continent, there may be
big islands he missed.
Amundsen, by the way, returning
from the top of the earth, was picked
up by fishing boat.
How did that fishing boat happen
to be in waters only explorers are
supposed to penetrate?
1t recalls the story of Walter
Wellman who, in distress in one OF
the highest ATTITUDES ever attained
by any explorer of his time, was
rescued by sealer-south-bou
It's one thing to explore-some.
thing entirely different to 60 l." the
same place in the course Of the or
binary days hard work.
CHINA
The row in China has scared the
western world considerably. and IL
isn't over yet.
1t isn't likely to develop into
much Of a fight, but the Chinese
have turned sulky, and while they
can be licked, they can't be driven
They're bound to be recognized as
human beings, and sooner or later
they will.
The State Department speaks
slightingly of President Alfredt
Palacious of the Latin American
Union, who refers to Secretary KEEL.
logg's warning to President Gales OF
Mexico as ian insolent threat OF
the imperialism of Wall Street"
In fact he is a very influential
Argentine, one of the best known
men in South America.
copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc
POULTRYMEN WAR ON RATS
WITH AID OF POISON GAS
Tacoma, July l.-LR-Plans are
now being laid for q gas attack on the