The Tomahawk. [volume], October 24, 1918, Image 7

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Fish Day.
"Look at the mackerel sky."
"Well, isn't it Friday?"Boston
Transcript.
After some men get started they are
toov lazy to stop.
Ice Boxes on Wheels
Refrigerator cars for carrying meat are ice
boxes traveling on wheels.
Most people in America would have to go
without, fresh meat, or would have to pay
more for what they could get, if it were not
for these traveling ice boxes.
Gustavus F. Swift, the first Swift in the
packing industry, saw the need of these
traveling ice boxes before others.
He asked the railroads to build them. The
railroads refused. They were equipped, and
preferred tohaulcattlerather thandressedbeef.
So Gustavus F. Swift had to make the cars.
himself. The first one was a box car rigged
up to hold ice. Now there are 7,000 Swift
refrigerator cars. Each one is as fine an ice
box as you have in your home.
Day and night, fair weather and foul,
through heat and cold, these 7,000 cars go
rolling up and down the country, keeping meat
just right, on its way,to you.
Thus another phase of Swift & Company's
activities has grown to meet a need no one
else could or would supply, in way that
matched Swift & Company ideas of being
useful.
When you seeone oftheseSwift & Company
cars in a train, or on a siding, you will be
reminded of what isbeingdone for you as the
fruit of experience and a desire to serve.
Swift & Company, U. S. A/
British Daring.
Richthofen, the famous German alr
Bghter, now dead, once described how
an English machine one night came
down from a height of 150 feet,
through a fusillade of gun fire and
a blinding glare of searchlights to
bomb a German airdrome with dead
ly effect. Richthofen considered it
"tremendously plucky that the man
oidn't swerve, but came straight on in
accordance with his plans."
Wht Is the cans* of indliwtlon, dJ
Kpsla,
bloat, heartburn, food repeating",
letting, gaasr. sour stomach, and so
many stomach miseries} Just thisactf
tamaclasnporacirtity as the doctor*
call It. It robs millions of their fall
strength, vitality and the power to enjoy
lifeto be real men and women.
It is well known that an acid month
destroys tie teeth. The acid Is so power
ful that It eats right through the hard
enamel and causes teeth to decay.
This is fair warning of what excess acid
ity win do to the delicate organization
of the stomach as a matter of fact, ex
cess acidity not only produces a great
many palnfol and disagreeable symp
toms that we generally name "Stomach
troubles." but it is the creator of a long
train of Tery serious ailments. Acid
stomach Interferes with the digestion
and causes the food to ferment. This
mass of sour, fermented food passes into
the Intestines, where it becomes the
breeding place for germs and toxic
poisons, which In torn are absorbed
Into the blood and distributed through
out the entire &edy.
Wherever yoa go you see Tictlms of
add-stomi^h people who. while not
actually down sick are always aliia**-
hare no appetite, food doesn't digest.
belching all the tisae. cootincally coos
plaining of being weak and tired and
worn oat. It la thin excess acidity that
Lend the Way
They Fight
BuylibertyBonds
Slight Misunderstanding.
"As winter approaches," said the
presiding elder, "no doubt you are con
templating taking your family to town
and getting them shod?"
"I hadn't figgered on it," replied Gap
Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, "but the
way times is, it may come to that,
all right. Still, I don't see the ne
cessity of taking 'em to town. It
would be cheaper for me to shoot 'em
myself. You're at home, and"
"Shoot them? Mercy, Brother John
son! I said 'shod,' not 'shot' and"
"Aw!"Kansas City Star.
Good Reasons.
"Why do you call your boat the
Hen?" "Because she has hatches and
lays to."
Indigestion, Bloat,
Heartburn, Caused
by Acid-Stomach
take* the pep and punch oat of them,
leaves little or no vitality.
Strike at the rery cause of all this
trouble and clean this excess acid out
of the stomach. This will give the stom
ach a chance to digest the food properly
nature will do the rest.
A wonderful new remedy restores ex
cess add without the slightest discom
fort. It Is caUed EATOMC. made la
the form of tabletsthey are good to eat
just like a bit of candy. EATOMC
literally absorb* the injurious excess
add and carries it away through the In
testines. It drives the bloat oat of the
bodyyou can fairly feel it work.
Try EATOMC and see how quickly
It banishes bloat, heartburn, belching,
food-repeating. Indigestion, etc. See
too. how quickly your general health
Improves bow much more of yocr
food Is digestedhaw nervousness and
Irritability disappear. Learn how easy
It is to get back your physical and men
tal punch. Hare the power and energy
to work with Tim. Enjoy the good
things of life. Learn what it means to
fairly bubble over with health.
So get a box of EATOMC from your
drozgtst today. We authorise bun to
aca-antee EATOMC to please you and
yon can trust your druggist to make
this guarantee coed. If it falls in any
way. take ft backhe will refund your
THE TOMAHAWK. WHITE EARTH. MINN.
sr?
AT LEAST 1,000
PERSONS PERISH
IN FOREST FIRES
Flames Starting Near Bemidji,
Minn., Cut Swath About
Fifty Miles Wide.
MANY VILLAGES GONE
Property Worth Millions of Dollars
Haa Been Destroyed and Mora
Than 15,000 Persona Are
Homeless.
Duluth, Oct. 15.More than 1,000
are dead, 12,000 destitute and esti
mates of those made homeless run as
high as 40,000, as a result of Minne
sota's greatest disaster, caused by for
est fires burning over an area of ap
proximately 80 by 100 miles in North
eastern Minnesota, centering in Pine
and Carlton counties, according to re
ports received here.
The property loss is expected to run
between 150,000,000 and $100,000,000.
Fires la most sections have burned
themselves out and the abatement of
the high winds caused the blazes to
die down, but renewal of the gale may
fan countless small fires into furious
conflagrations.
Weather reports give no promise of
rains quenching the biases.
106 Bodies at Duluth 76 at Moose
Lake.
Officials were reluctant to estimate
the number of deadit being almost
impossible to obtain any'definite fig
ures from cities and towns, while hun
dreds of farm homes undoubtedly have
been burned and hundreds of persons
may eventually be found in these
ruins.
One hundred and ninety-six bodies
had been brought.to Duluth} seventy
five bodies, few of which have been
identified, are in an improvised morgue
at Moose Lake, and it is known that
more than 400 have been burned to
death in the Moose Lake-Kettle River
district alone about ten deaths are
known to have occurred at Cloquet,
and Twig, west of Duluth on the Mil
ler Trunk road, is fleported complete
ly wiped out and a search Is being con
ducted for bodies.
Scores of others are known to be
dead at Brookston, Pine Lake and
other villages in Pine, Carlton and St
Louis counties. Burch Lake, a sum
mer resort near Duluth, is virtually
wiped out, with, a heavy loss of life
reported.
The fire fighters caution against re
laxation in fighting the fires. Addi
tional aid and large numbers of fire
fighters from other sections of the
Northwest are needed to relieve the
exhausted and burned men fighting
the fires, which continue to smolder in
all sections.
Forest rangers said that the danger
will not be entirely over until a heavy
rain falls throughout the entire sec
tion. A high wind, they say, will fan
the flames into a roaring, seething
furnace of'fire.
Cloquet Almost Desert Waste.
Cloquet, a thriving city of 9,000, is
almost level. Every residence in the
city is reported burned, but fortunate
ly a waning of the approaching fire
came in time to allow nearly every
resident of the city to leave.
Twelve trains were made up at Carl
ton and rushed to Cloquet. The trains
were composed of Pullmans, coaches,
boxcars, coal cars, ore cars and flat
cars. Three bodies have been found
there.
Five large mills, including a tooth
pick factory, lumber mills and othev
important Industries still standa re
minder of prosperous Clcquet.
Relief work, directed by Adjutant
General Rhinow and his aid, Lieuten
ant Glenn Harrison, is well under way.
All Mesabi, Vermilion and Cuyuna
Iron range towns are reported safe,
though at Nashwauk some buildings
are burned and fires are reported near
Virginia, Eveleth, Hlbbing and Gilbert.
Part of Proctor and West Duluth
were burned, but the losses in that
section are comparatively small.
Bodlea Arrive In Duluth.
Bodies are being brought from every
village and hamlet stricken by the
gale-driven forest fires. The charred
bodies are beyond identification and
great crowds of eager searchers who
hare relatives missing are filing in and
out of the undertaking establishments,
uncertain whether they bave identi
fied their people or not.
WLen day broke on the Pike Lake
road, gruesome sights greeted res
cuer*. Bodies were strewn along the
roadside, six in the space of half a
mile, the charred remains of five auto
mobiles still stood upright in the ditch,
great trees reared their blackened
Pine County Farrds Destroyed.
Bruno, Oct. 15.Bruno, Pine county,
untouched by the fire, reports thirty
farmers near there had lost every
thing they had and their families are
in need. The flames completely dev
astated large, areas near the vil
lage. Kerrick, in Pine county, was
slightly touched by the fire, two houses
being destroyed, but the farms in that
vicinity were also heavy sufferers.
One woman near'that place lost her
life and several were severely burned
and may die.
hulks to the skieseverywhere devas
tation.
The following towns were almost
totally destroyed: Cloquet, Brookston,
Brevator, Scanlon, Corona, Adolph,
Thompson.
Home Guard units from all over the
state are being mobilized to assist the
dazed survivors.
Instances are being related of sev
eral families huddling together in one
cellar and being suffocated or crushed
to death.
In one cellar near Moose Lake, thir
ty bodies were discovered, in another
cellar eight bodies and more are be
ing discovered as the ruins cool enough
to permit of search.
Has Start Near Bemidji.
The fire started near Bemidji, where
fire has been smouldering for weeks.
Fanned by a high wind, the flames
swept across the state toward Duluth,
cutting a swath of 50 miles wide
through cut-over lands, bounded on
both sides by a chain of lakes.
At Moose Lake the havoc wrought
by the blaze was most complete, al
though the loss of life in the town it
self was low, because the Inhabitants,
warned of the approach of the fire,
took refuge in the icy waters of the
lake.
Brainerd, Bemidji and Aitkin es
caped destruction, partly because the
wind died down and in part through
heroic work of volunteer fire fighters.
Duluth and Superior, although sub
urbs were burned, were untouched by
the flames and are serving as a place
of refuge for a large number of the
15,000* homeless ones.
The heaviest loss of life was at
Moose Lake and vicinity. Adjutant
General Rhinow estimating that more
that 300 persons died there. Duluth
morgues have approximately 200 bod
ies and officials estimate that several
hundred more dead men, women and
children are scattered throughout the
fire region.
Hibblng Ringed by Fire.
Hibbing, although ringed about fire,
was unharmed. Citizens of the Iron
range were last night hurrying for
shelter at Carlton, and fires were
blazing at the Morton location, Kee
watin aud other towns.' Grand Rapids
was reported on fire.
Five mills are all that Is left in
Cloquet of what was yesterday a city
of 9,000 persons with varied business
interests and many beautiful homes.
The homes are a smouldering ruin,
every residence being burned, .but
warning of the approaching fire came
in time to allow the people of the
town to depart.
Pitiful Search for Relatives.
Moose Lake, Oct. 15.The death list
in the Moose Lake-Kettle River dis
trict has been estimated as high as
400 by those investigating conditions.
Along the roads were found the
bodies of mothers with babies clasped
to their lifeless breasts and children
clinging together.
Through the yellow pall of pine
smoke that hung low over the ruins of
Moose Lake, frightened mothers, car
rying thinly clad children In arms and
with others tied to their apron strings
to guard against separation, conducted
a frantic and often hopeless search for
missing husbands and fathers.
Ban on Sightseers.
St. Paul, Oct. 15.No "rubberneck
caravans" will be permitted to tra
verse the flreswept areas of Northern
Minnesota, it was announced at the ad
jutant general's office. The mandate
was Issued at the capitol following
an appeal by relief workers that per
sons outside the stricken area, unless
on special missions, refrain from inter
fering in the relief work, as relief
agencies now being organized have
their hands full in caring for refugees.
St. Paul, Oct. 15.Governor Burn
quint, accompanied by Mrs. Burnquist,
left for Moose Lake, where he took
charge of relief work and investigated
the extent of the disaster and will
order financial aid. Mrs. Burnquist
will also aid the women of the stricken
district as much as possible.
Governor Burnquist cancelled all his
speaking dates and said that he will
decide whether financial assistance,
which must be given, will corao
through an appropriation by the calam
ity board of the state or by public sub
scription.
Calamity Board Has Power.
The calamity board, composed of
the Governor, state treasurer and
state auditor, has power to make an
appropriation of state funds for relief
work in such a disaster, he said, and
this course may be taken.
Major W. G. Garis, chief of staff in
Adjutant General Rhinow's office, or
dered out the National guard com
panies from St. Cloud, Ironton and
other cities in proximity to the devas
tated area. Word came to him that
fires were threatening Kimberly, Tam
arack and other places just east of
Aitkin. The fires at Kimberly and
Tamarack were extinguished but a'
message from Ironton said they had
broken out again.
300 Coffins for Moose Lake.
General Rhinow at Moose Lake
wired Major Garis for 300 coffins to
be sent at once to that city, mostly
for grown persons, the requisition mes
sage said, and most of these were dis
patched from St. Paul and cities near
the scene of the disaster.
CMoholm Almost Out of Danger.
Chlsholm, Oct. 15.Unless the wind
shifts, Chlsholm is out of danger.
Fires approached the city from the
south, but are under control. A large
force of men are at work and con
fident that Chlsholm will be saved.
Fires Burning In Itasca 'County.
Merrifield, Oct. 15.Scattered fires
are burning along the Minnesota and
International railroad from Merrifield
to Big Falls. No casualties are re
ported.
Otherwise O. K.
"Meanleigh comes of-a good family,
doesn't he?"
"Yes he Is the only thing I know
against it."Boston Transcript.
WRIGIETS
We will win this war
Awful Word.
A few weekes after school began six
year-old Jack announced at the dinner
table:
"A boy at the school today said a
bad word."
"Oh, dear," said mamma, "he ought
to be ashamed."
"Yes, and the teacher said she'd
have,to punish him if he over said It
again."
"What did he say?" asked daddy.
"I can't tell you, daddy. It was aw
ful bad."
"Really "Just awful, awful bad. I wouldn't
say such a word." Then suddenly
brightening, as If with a new Idea:
"But I'll spell It for you. It Is g-i-tl"
Nothing eUe really matters until we dot
The flavor Lasts
"Cold In the Head"
Is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Per
sons who are subject to frequent "colds
In the head" will find that the use of
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINES will
build up the System, cleanse the Blood
and render them less liable to colds.
Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may
lead to Chronic Catarrh.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE is tak
en Internally and acta through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
All Druggists 76c. Testimonials free.
tioe.oo for any case of catarrh that
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will not
F. J. Cheney ft Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
Difficult Classification.
TeacherTommy, to what class of
the animal kingdom do I belong?
TommyDunno, teacher. Pa says
you're an old hen and ma says you're
an old cat.
The hurt of a burn or a cut atone when
Cole's Carbollsalve ia applied. It heals
quickly without scars. 25c and 60c by
all druggists. For free sample write The
J. W. Cole Co., Rockford, 111.Adv.
The Diagnosis.
"Hasn't the patient a decidedly de
veloped case of egoism?"
"No Just plain, ordinary fits."
Consulting Hia Taste.
"Don't yco generally b** a homily
when you minister dines with you?"
"Oh, no he doesn't eat It."
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle ot
CASTOIHA, that famous old remedy
for infants snd children, and see that It
Bears the
Signature
of
i
In Use for Over 30 Years,
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
Might Be Too Much for Him.
Southern Parson (to convert)Does
yo* think yo' kin keep In de straight
an' narrer path now, Sam?
SamI reckon I kin, pahson, ef dey
ain't no watahmilllon patches eriong
de road.Boston Evening Transcript.
Main Point
"Life is a blank."
"Just so. Now how are
to nil It outr
Of Course Not.
Elizabeth had been buying Thrift
stamps and almost had her third book
filled before the drive for War Savings
pledges. Her mother suggested that
she had better not start another book
until the campaign was on.
"Mother," replied Elizabeth, "do you
think our dear soldiers over In Franca
would say "have fought three battles
and I can't fight any more?"
Irrigation projects under considera
tion for India affect about 10,000,000
acres of land.
Utah's 1917 metallic production was
valued at $00,328,000.
No Substitute For
Dodd'sKidney Pffls.
That. Why Their Sal* Has Increased
Wonderfully for the Last
Forty Years.
Don't accept a substitute for Dodd's
when you know that if they didn't re
lieve and give permanent satisfaction
they couldn't be selling to the same fam
ilies for two generations. Thousands of
users, who have saved themselves from
the ravages of kidney troubles and
Bright's Disease by the use of this fa
mous old remedy, will accept nothing:
else. They know that upon the slightest
backache, pain in the loins, stiffness in
stooping or lifting, you must take warn
ing and use Dodd's and Dodd's only.
You are protected by the name on
the flat, round box the name with
the three D's for diseased, disordered
and deranged kidneys. No article of
similar nam a
will do. Get
your box today
and start on the
road to health.
Druggists will
gladly refund
your money if
not promptly re*
lieved.
XIDHtY
PILLS
^v.-
gotag
As men of parts, acton at* not la It
with barbers.
MITT KILL VOIR CATTLE
BY DRENCHING
Salts and oil are DANGEROUS.
Few eattlo die of constipation many of
PABALYSIS of the bowels. Give
LAXOTONIC
dry on the tongue. Positively
prevents and overcomes both.
Excellent for loss of appetite.
AT OUR DEALER*
or Poatpald BO Gents*
Send forprice Hat of medicines.
Consult DR. DAVID ROBERT*
about aU animal ailments.
Information free. Get a ffftf copy of "la CsMs
SMCMTT with full Information on aftsrtiea Is Csss,
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Soothe Your
Itching Skin
with Guticura
A Bad Cough
ff ailn lcif. often leads to serums
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