Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-07-26

| i've STOCK and attempts at 1nC6nQ1aF-
ism of farm buildings in Oregon have
been uncovered by J. H. Carnahan, as
| sistant United States attorney, who is
conducting an investigation into the
| responsibility for fire which recent
quantity of stored grain at klamath
| Falls.
With sixty-two out of seventy-six
municipalities completely reported, the
Porto Rico to have voted for prohibit
| ton by more than 2 to I.
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DIR. Edward E. Pratt, chief of the
commerce departments bureau of for
eign and domestic commerce, has re-
signed at the request of Secretary
Redfield. No reason was announced.
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Magazines and newspapers bearing
1-cent stamps hereafter may be post
ed, unwrapped and unaddressed, by
persons other than publishers and
will be forwarded by postal authori-
ties to American soldiers and sailors
in Europe.
An embargo, effective Immediately,
against all shipments intended for ex-
port of commodities named in Presi-
dent Wilson's recent export proclama-
ton, except when bill of lading is pre-
scented with a federal license number
furnished or authorized by the export
council at Washington, has been or
dered by the American Railway Asso-
cations commission on car service.
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Southwest.
Kansas City has been chosen as the
location of an examining unit for avia-
tors to comprise the great air fleet
the United States will send to Europe
to blind the eyes of the German ar
mics and win the world war. A per-
manent medical board will be estab-
Hshed there and the work started at
once of choosing a large quota of men
from the Southwest to take up avi-
alton training.
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More than five hundred delegates
representing the entire northern route
and oil fields trail of the Ozark Trail
extending from Amarillo, Tex, to
Tulsa, assembled at Gushing, Ok, and
organized the line as the postal hign-
way. The entire line is now complete
and ready for travel.
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J. B. Sturgess, a preacher, was SEN
fenced to serve four years in the peni-
Tertiary by a jury in the district court
at McAlester, Ok, on charge brought
by Miss Elvessie McClaren, 10 years
old. Sturgess persuaded the girl to
run away with him.
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property loss of $4,000, none of
which was covered by insurance, re-
suited from a fire that burned eleven
buildings and their contents on Main
street of Writ, oil field village of Okla
homa. This is the fifth destructive
fire in Writ in two years. The state
fire marshal has been asked to make
thorough inquiry.
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General George Bell, Jr., district
commander at Ell Paso received orders
from Washington to provide rations
Sfor the men deported from Bisbee,
Ariz. General Bell issued orders to
Colonel Sicke1 at Columbus to bring
the deported men from Hermanas to
Columbus and provide them with ra-
tions until further notice.
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FOREIGN
Germany is sending seven hundred
spies into Russia to attempt the as
sassination of Minister of War Keren-
sky, General Brusiloff and other lead
ers, according to information obtained
by the Russian intelligence depart
'ment.
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Dr. Won Bethmann-HoIIweg, the Ger
man imperial chancellor, has resign
ed. DR.. George Michaelis, Prussian
under-secretary of finance and food
commissioner, has been appointed to
succeed him.
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Two demonstrations against the
government resulted in the firing of
shots in the Nevsky Prospekt at Pc
trograd, as a result of which several
persons were killed or wounded The
firing apparently was the result of
stray shots which brought on panic
in which the demonstrators turned
rifles and machine guns on each 9th
er. Quiet was restored after a few
minutes.
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Argentina has instructed its min
lister in Berlin to demand of the Ger
man government an answer to the Ar