sentences:  His brother Jonas was caught with the banned publications and was sentenced to three years in prison and two years of exile.Due to his Lithuanian activities and short temper, Tumas quarreled with his superiors and was frequently moved to increasingly more remote parishes.However, in 1906, bishops of Samogitia and Vilnius agreed to allow Tumas to move to Vilnius to work as an editor of the daily "Vilniaus žinios" published by Petras Vileišis.