Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-10-04

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Senator Robert NJ La Toilette was
en- route to Washington after an adj
dress at Toledo in which he hit back
vigorously at his enemies. He has
collected material for many libel suits
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The 1900 million dollar war cred
adopted by the House and the meas
ure sent to the White House for the
Presidents signature.
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Southwest.
The government has rested it's case
against forty-nine defendants charged
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draft law, in connection with alleged
activities of the Farmers and Labor
ers' Protective Association at Abilene,
Texas.
A revolution of two million malcon-
tents, nationwide in scope. backed by
the 1. w. w. and forty-eight affiliated
organizations, in which it was planned
to apply the torch to small cities,
shoot officers of the government
and demoralize communication, was
planned for July 81 last, according to
the testimony in the trial of eleven
anti-draft agitators from Central Okla
homa.
A mighty audience, but a wonderful
ly attentive one, heard Colonel Roose-
welt speak at Kansas City on why
We Are At War" In the amphithea-
ter were more than twenty thousand
people. At least twenty thousand more
filled the remainder of the park to
overlooking.
The strike of the freight handlers
and yard and checking clerks at Kan
sas City is over. By a vote of to 1,
the striking employees voted at meet
ing at the Labor Temple to accept the
proposition of the railroad representa-
tives and return to work. Approx
mately two thousand men will return
to their jobs on thirteen lines of rail-
road.
The Texas senate high court of inn
parchment which has been trying Gov.
James E. Ferguson for the last three
weeks, has sustained ten of the TWEEN.
ty-one charges in the bill returned
against him by the house committee
of the whole.
Further testimony that members
of the Farmers and Laborers' Pro-
tective Association, fifty of whom are
on trial in Texas for conspiracy against
the government, planned to resist be-
ing drafted and had arranged to pur-
chase guns and ammunition to that
end, was given.
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FOREIGN
Nine persons were killed and much
property damage was caused at Port
Antonio in the hurricane which struck
the Island of Jamaica the other day.
The custom house there was destroyed
and a large hotel was damaged.
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The Argentina chamber of deputies
has voted in favor of rupture with
Germany The vote was So to 18. The
resolution has already been passed by
the Argentine senate by a vote of %
to 1.
Mobilization of the Argentine navy
has been ordered at a rendezvous thir-
ty-seven kilometers from Buenos
Aires There is also unusual military
activity throughout the South Ameri-
can republic
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The shortage of print paper in Ber-
lin is so serious that many of the city's
important newspapers were unable to
appear the other day, according to
Berlin advices to the Exchange Tele-
graphs Amsterdam correspondent.
Other newspapers were issued only in
four-page form.
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Just as the Argentine Chamber of
Deputies was preparing to vote on the
question of breaking diplomatic rela-
tons with Germany an official COM
munication was received from the Ber-
lin foreign office The note disap-
proved of the ideas expressed by
Count Won Luxburg. The vote was
postponed.
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In reply to the peace proposals of
Pope Benedict. the German and Aus
ro-Hungarian governments express
the hope that the pontiff's efforts may
bring about a cessation of hostiiities