Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-08-30

recently enacted by Congress WIFI be
started Immediately by the depart
ment of agriculture. Plans for the
census show that it will cover nearly
100. items of food and will include
supplies on the farms, in warehouses
and stores, and even the stocks in the
family pantry.
The bite of one mosquito communi-
eating pernicious malaria, is held re-
sponsible for the quick death of three
members of the Skinner family at
Richmond, Va John A. Skinner, Jr,
died first His brother and mother
died the next day.
DIR. S. ]. Bernfeld and Louis l.
Cherry, indicted members of exemp-
ton board No. 80 ofsNew York, plead
ed guilty to a charge of conspiracy to
obstruct the Draft Law. They were
sentenced to two years each in the
federal penitentiaryI at Atlanta, Ga
r. r r
Peace and quiet prevail throughout
the northwest states of Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana, where a
strike of thousands of Industrial
Workers of the World in the construc-
ton, harvesting and fruit industries
was scheduled to take place.
r r r.
Hog prices, which have risen every
day since July 81, reached a new high
record in Chicago when they scared
to s19.75 per 100 pounds On August
1, 1914, hogs sold for $3.50.
r r r
Two steel boats, bought by the Mex
lean government in Chicago for light
house tenders, were destroyed in a
series of four explosions while the
boats were on the Mississippi river at
st. Louis. Twenty men were injured,
several of them being Mexican mem
bers of the crews.
Two British army airplanes, flying
low and at great speed, collided over
the Thames near Purfleet, Essex Both
machines fell and the pilot of one of
them was drowned
Southwest.
Construction of Camp Bowie has
been finished, it was officially an
nounced recently. The camp is the
first of the sixteen national guard
camps to be finished and accepted by
the War Department. Seven units
have arrived
Plans for the control of the wheat
and rye trade in ST. Louis and vicinity
under the authority of the food law
were announced recently by Edward
M. Flesh, manager of the food admin
istration grain corporation for the ST.
Louis district.
The government took action in one
l. w. W. situation when a company
of the Idaho National Guard, now in
federal service, arrested twenty-seven
members of the organization, includ-
ing James Rowan, district secretary in
the headquarters at Spokane, Wash
J. L SQuibb, navy gunner detailed
to an American steamship that ar
rived recently from Genoa, was re-
ported by ship officers to have fallen
or jumped overheard on August IA.
Squibh's home was in Joplin, Mo.
r. r. r
Norris Paxon, full blood Cherokee
Indian, charged with being a deserter
from the United States army, was shot
to death by posse headed by Sheriff
John Riddel near Talihina, Ok. Paxon
had defied the authorities, they said,
sending them word he would never be
taken alive.
r + +
Taking the stand at Austin, Texas,
in his own defense against the charges
brought by Speaker F. o. Fuller, Gov.
James E. Ferguson denied that he
had in effect or intent been guilty of
five of the thirteen allegations against
him.
Aroused over Senator Thomas p
Cores attempt to force an amendment
to the Appropriation bill prohibiting
the use of funds in waging war out
side of United States territory, four
hundred citizens of Hugo and Choc-
taw county, Ok, have demanded that
Gore resign.
r r r
Foreign
British light naval forces destroyed
Zeppelin airship off the Jutland,
Denmark, coast, says an official Brit
ish communication issued recently
The communication adds that there
were no survivors from the crew of