Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-09

and a leader in arbitration settlements
of labor disputes, is dead at his home
in Galesburs. Ill, after a long Illness
Formal appeal for government regu-
| 1ation of the country's food supply has
been forawrded to President Wilson
| by the representatives of two million
! women of the National Housewives
League
| An embargo has been declared
against shipment of cattle. sheep or
swine into Colorado from Kansas, Ne
braska and Missouri until the nature
of the disease among cattle reported
there" has been determined.
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Four men were killed at Kokomo,
| Ind. when buggy in which they were
riding was struck by a passenger train
| at a street crossing. The four men
were crowded in a single seat buggy.
All the bodies were thrown two hun
bred feet.
Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain,
widely known woman suffragist and
welfare worker. died in a hospital at
Los Angeles. Cal. shortly before mid
night after an illness of ten weeks.
She was 80 years old.
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American bankers have been warn
ed by the federal reserve board to
avoid locking up their funds by pur-
chasing treasury bills of foreign gov
ernments involving long term obliga-
lions.
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Southwest.
The charred body of Frank Nc
Laren, So, farmer near Taylor, Tex,
was found the other morning under
his burned automobile. The car caught
fire after plunging off a bridge fifteen
feet into a ravine.
Frank Potter, young man of May,
Ok, was instantly killed the other day
while hunting when a companion shot
him in the head accidentally. He
had stopped to let the other shoot and
got up too quickly.
Villa is moving northward from Chi
huahua City, according to dispatch
from General Trevino received by
General Gonzales at Juarez, who was
ordered to concentrate his forces at
JuareZ.
A quarantine on shipments of cattle,
hogs, sheep and goats from and into
the Kansas City Stock Yards has been
ordered by J. H. Mercer, live stock
commissioner of Kansas, and DR.. d. F.
Luckey, live stock commissioner of
Missouri. The order followed an in
vestigation of reports that carload
of cattle shipped from western Ne
braska had been infected with the
foot-and-mouth disease.
United States Attorney Oliver has
received a telegram from the attorney
general, authorizing him to investigate
prices of foodstuffs in ST. Louis. The
telegram says that the attorney gen.
eral has been informed that retailers
blame commission men for the high
prices.
Reports reaching Ell Paso from
other than Carranza sources are to the
effect that the Villa bandits succeed
ed in penetrating the gates of Chi
huahua City and heavy hand-to-hand
fighting followed in the streets.
Frank Gault, president of the state
board of agriculture, has established
a quarantine against the Importation
of live stock into Oklahoma from Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska.
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Foreign.
A Madrid dispatch by wireless an
nounces the arrival at Valencia of the
crew of the American steamer Che
mung, torpedoed in the Mediterranean
by a German submarine. The COM
mander gave the crew only few min
utes to abandon the vessel, not allow
ing them even to take their money
and papers.
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Eight thousand feet aloft, above the
North Sea, British hydroairplanes sent
two German Zeppelins hurting down
to destruction in flames Later, fly
ing at great height, German air
plane passed over London and dropped
six bombs on the capital, according
to an official statement.
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Inflicting losses on the enemy, Fran
cisco Villa and his bandit forces have
driven Gen. Jacinto Trevino and his
troops from Chihuahua City, and are
in possession of the capital The Car
rama garrison is fleeing in disorder
in the direction of Ojiniga
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The British foreign office has sent
Ambassador Page a note definitely re-
fllSino tn grant a safe copd,,o+ r.