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...mont went West with famed Kit Carson, observed buffalo, ate dog meat, charted the Continental Divide. Returning to Washington where Jessie lay in childbirth, he spread over her bed a ragged flag, said: "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. I have brought it to you." Then, with Jessie's aid, he wrote a report of his trip which exploded the myth that the "Great American Desert" lay between Missouri and the Rockies. The public read the document avidly; the movement westward was stimulated...
...Jail. Ten freshmen of Butler University of Indianapolis, Ind., fled to a jail rather than submit to further rough initiations at the hands of members of the Tau Kappa Tau fraternity. They played cards, sang songs, ate food supplied by the father of one of them. Big TKT men promised "action" when the freshmen left jail...
...brother of Vice President Dawes and board chairman of the Pure Oil Co., which was one of the original owners of the much-bickered oil bought and sold by Continental?yielded nothing illuminating on the witness stand. Col. Stewart submitted to the Senate's arrest in his hotel room, ate his meals under surveillance. Then he got a court to free "his body, wherever found," by a writ of habeas corpus. Perhaps he reflected, as did observers, that at least it was lucky he was not Beman Gates Dawes, to whom a Senate trial would involve fraternal embarrassment...
...Fall River started building itself up again: There was prospect of more work. The whistles of 29 locomotives were screaming one afternoon last week. Their cords had been caught in the fallen timbers of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.'s roundhouse and shops of Connellsville, Pa., while fire ate up $4,000,000 worth of locomotives and property...
...Thirty-three scowling criminals began to curse Mrs. Dolder, describing her mush also in uncomplimentary terms. Mrs. Dolder turned on a hose and squirted water over the 33 criminals until they cried for mercy. The next night she again provided plates of tepid, sticky, horrible mush. This the prisoners ate with relish...