Western Kansas world., 1917-01-06

will be the largest ever built in New
York for a public meeting.
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Southwest.
Although General Carranza has not
replied to the demand of the United
States that he either ratify or repudi-
ate the protocol drawn by the Mexi-
can-American joint commission, the
expiration of the time limit was not
made the occasion for formally declar
ing the negotiations at an end.
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Returning from Christmas ride at
Waco, Tex, Mrs. Henry Thompson,
bride of three weeks, was killed when
a motor cycle on which she was rid
ing with her husband ran into NOV
ing van.
Annoyed by continual sniping by
Mexicans across the Rio Grande,
troops of the Third Kentucky Infan-
try recently opened fire with a ma
chine gun, firing about two hundred
shots. The shooting occurred near the
city limits of Ell Paso. There were no
casualties.
Eldevo in a restaurant at Chickasha,
Ok. The shooting is the result of
feud between the two families. Both
are well-to-do farmers living west OF
that city.
Governor Hays of Arkansas has is
sued Christmas list" of thirty three
pardons In the list are eight persons
Of dor
whose sentences aggregate 127 years.
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Employees of the Gulf Refining Com
pany at Beaumont, Tex, who were re-
Gently given a wage bonus, will de-
eide by ballot whether the bonus shall
take the form of a lump sum payment
of 10 per cent of 1916 wages or a flat
daily increase in current wages.
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A fat yearling buffalo killed by
Amarillo hunters in the second buff
falo hunt held in the Texas Panhandle
in a quarter of a century, has been
carved and the biggest piece sent to
President Wilson.
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The Bank of Skiatook, Okla, was
robbed of more than $4,000 the other
night. The bandits escaped. Ska
took is about ten miles from Tulsa.
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Foreign.
A report was received at Ell Paso
by sources known to be close to Fran
cisco Villa and by government agents
saying that Villas forces have cap
tured San Luis Potosi. Many foreign
ers, who left Torreon before Villa at
tackled that town recently, went to
San Luis Potosi.
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The French government has de-
cided to raise Joffre to the dignity of
Marshal of France in recognition of
his eminent services to the country. A
decree nominating him will be submit
ted to parliament as soon as possible.
Howard Burchard Lines, a graduate
of Dartmouth and the Harvard Law
School, son of DR.. E. H. Ines of Paris,
and a volunteer in the American Am
bulance Corps, has just died in the Ar
gonne of acute pneumonia.
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The London morning newspapers
again are giving ample space to Pres
ident Wilson's note, assiduously seek
ing to penetrate into any possible con-
cealed motive that may have led the
President to what is considered here
on all sides most inopportune move
ment.
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Both houses of the Danish Parlia-
ment now have approved the sale of
the Danish West Indies to the United
States. The Landsthing, or upper
house, voted favorably on the PROPOSE
ton, 40 to 19. The United States rati-
fled the treaty September s.
King Christian, in the cabinet
council. ratified the treaty providing
for the sale of the Danish West Indies
to the United States. The exchange
of the ratification instruments viii
take place in Washington probably to-
ward the end of January.