Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-08-09

go ON sympathetic strike unless the
deported /. w. VS. are returned to
their homes in the Warren District of
Arizona. telegram voicing the in
tention of a walkout of more than a
quarter of a million men was sent
from Chicago to President Wilson by
w. D. Haywood, head of the Indus
trial Workers of the World.
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Accused of making threats against
the lives of J. P. Morgan, John D.
Rockefeller and John d. Rockefeller,
jr., a man who said he was Ellie Kood-
inopf, born in Russia, was arrested in
New York
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The American transport Saratoga,
at anchor waiting sailing orders, was
rammed by the inbound American
steamship Panama at an Atlantic port
recently. Those on board the Sara
toga were safely taken off in life boats
or by tugs and other craft in the har-
Dor, which responded to distress sig
mails.
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D. G. Scofield, president and direc-
tor of the California Standard Oil
Company, was found dead at Oakland,
Cal, recently with a bullet wound in
his head and a revolver by his side.
He had been ill some time.
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Five persons were killed and two
others were injured severely when the
motor car in which they were riding
was struck by a train near Seymour,
Ind. The dead are: Lon Pruitt, So
years old; William Speinker, "a;
Clara Weinhorst, %; Edna thinner
man, 81. and julius Orstadt, 81.
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A mob of several thousand men and
boys, defying nearly two hundred
armed guards, police and volunteers,
renewed race rioting at Chester, Pa.
Shortly after dark the rioters got be-
yond control and beat a negro insen-
sible before he could be rescued.
Scores were arrested.
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Will Jones, negro soldier of the
Twenty-fourth United States Infantry,
which arrived at Waco, Texas, for
temporary guard duty over govern
ment property at Camp Macarthur
was shot in the head and, several white
persons were injured as the result of
gro troops and citizens of that city.
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Southwest.
In the month just ended more cat
tie were received at the Kansas City
stock yards than in any previous July.
Arrivals were 81, 500 cattle and calves,
147 900 more than in July last year,
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than in July, 1901, when the previous
record for that month was made.
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Fred H. Moore, Los Angeles attor-
ney, who admitted he was counsel for
the /. w. w. was deported from the
Warren district at Bisbee, Ariz., by
deputy sheriffs and is now on his way
to Columbus, N. M
Three persons are dead and two
more are expected to die as the re-
suit of an accident at a grade cross
ing at Parkdale, Ark, when a passen-
ger train hit an automobile in which
the five were riding.
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James F. Ferguson, governor of
Texas, has been indicted on nine
Thavis County. Seven of the indict-
ments charge misapplication of pub
lie funds, one diversion of public funds
and one embezzlement.
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Foreign.
The French war cross has been
awarded to three members of Section
of the American field service for dis
tinguished services-John Ames, son
of Professor Ames of Harvard law
school; Raymond Whitney of Bedford,
Ind, and Edward Diemer of New York
City.
An attempt to wreck or burn the
train on which Elihu Root, head of the
American mission to Russia, was rid
ing was made by Anarchists at Viatka
Station, in Siberia, according to travel
ers from Russia arriving in Toxic.
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Vice-Admiral Mcgowan, commander
of the Austrian fleet, in an interview
given to the Neue Freie Presse, de-
clared he did not believe that subma.
rines would bring about decision in
| the war.
furry of mumps and measles
among General Pershing,s ..Sammies'
has been announced under control by
the medical corps in a report showing
| the general health of the American
| fighters excelIRDf