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Salina, over the Santa Fe
Fort Smith. Ark, negro bootleggers
are in a plot TO kill off every deputy
sheriff operating ont Of Muskogee.
Oklahoma.
The next meeting OF the Trans
Mississippi Commercial congress VIII
bc held at Wichita, Kan.
4 tcamster retaining from the
Rockefeller barns vas robbed at the
polnt Of a revolver by two Italians.
Five thousand persons attended the
White Roch Old Settlers reunion neat
CORTLAND. Kan. Meetings have been
held annually since 1868.
Aviator Bells ~aeroplane fell 30 feet
while making a flight at Garnet, Kan.
The machine VAS badly wrecked.
Two secret indictments were re-
turned By the grand jury in connec-
lion with the alleged conspiracy to
distribute dynamite in Lawrence,
Mass, in the textile strike there last
winter.
Allegations that more ballots were
cast for governor in the South caro-
lima Democratic state primary than
there were voters in the state have
been made.
Thirteen Mexican fire fighters we're
rescncd from Devils canyon. Cal.
where they had been hemmed in since
Monday morning without food or
water. BY the flames.
The voters Of New Orleans will de.
tcrmine at d special election whether
the rity shall haze a commission form
OF government.
At Logan. Utah, huge h%ailstones
driven by "A heavy wind swept fields
and orchards for 80 miles, stripping
trees, ra2ing grain and clearing sugar
beet fields.
Five men have been employed all
summer by the veterinary department
Of the Missouri college OF agriculture
in inoculating hogs and manufacturing
serum for the cure Of cholera.
Officers of thu" New York Coal Mer.
chants association say there will b" a
serious shortage OF coal Throughout
the East no matter BOW much Is mined
in the mex two months.
Raymond Dysart, a negro, who
PLAYED on the football team OF the
University of Minnesota last year
Knocked down a white man who in
suited two white girls. at Dcs Moincs,
Iowa.
The United States ~postOitice depart
m"nt will go into the express business
on a limited scale January /, 1919,
when the new parcels post bill goes
into effect.
At the request of farmers II is ex.
pected a mail boat will soon start
daily trips on tn" Current river in Mis-
souri,.
4 mountain lion, believed to have
strayed in from tn" Ozarks, has ap
peared in the vicinity Of Okesa, Ok.
Killing horses ana farm animals.
After five years OF dickering a con
tract has been signed to build "A dam
and hydro-electric plant In he Crane
river east Of Muskopec, OK. 1t vii
cost 81 900, 900.
President Taft was invited IN tc
the capitol ono more, and at ABB
j. m, wrote "hnls" after the pro
ceedings OF the second session OF The
Sixty.second congress.
The shipping season for grass cat
tle has opened in the grazing districts
OF Kansas. T%wcnty.nine carloads
containing about 200 left Bazaar il
one day.
Two men were killed by gas o,
plosion when they took an open lam
into a mine near Trinidad, Col,
In a fight at G~alsden, Ala, betweel
q fugitive negro and a mountain poss
the black killed one OF his pursuer,
wounded another and escaped.
Sunday mail delivery all over IN
L. s. has been stopped by postofiic
officials.
Two hundred and forty kegs
powder exploded, killing three me
and iniuring -four, at the Sand Powd,
company mill near Knoxville, Tenn.
The 3lst annual national encam,
ment OF the Sons Of Veterans opene
formally with addresses at the plal
Gers hotel st. Louis.
A 7O.year-old man. George Ros
was hanged at Nashville, Tenn, II
the murder OF n neighboring planter.
Five saloon keepers at East Atcl
con were arrested in a raid by depu
sherirs on charges OF malntainiI
gambling devices.