Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-10-11

| rants charging them with murder in
connection with the explosion at Ed
dyston ammunition plant on April 10,
which cost 1873 lives. The prisoners
| are Nicholas Kleckner, Philadelphia,
| and Mitchell Lagoda, a former resi-
dent of Chester.
Search for alleged l. w. W. leaders
named in indictments returned at
Chicago was made in various army
environments, where, it is learned, a
number of the men sought are in ma
tiona1 service. A careful check of all
the registered men is now being made
by federal authorities.
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A serious tieup of ocean going
freight is feared from a strike of more
than one thousand dock freight hand
lers, which went into effect recently
at Boston. The men demand an g.
hour day and an advance in wages.
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The Amsterdam TELEGRAPH says
bill is being prepared in Berlin au-
thorizing the German government, in
view of the scarcity of foodstuffs, to
remove from the country all foreign
ers not employed in war industries.
The bill probably will be enforced
within month.
Four leaders of the Industrial Work
ers of the World who have been active
in the East have been arrested in New
York on warrants issued in Chicago
under the blanket Indictment against
166 members of the organization.
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President -Irigoyen is preparing a
message in reply to the request made
by congress that the diplomatic rela-
tions between Argentina and Germany
be broken. The president, it is un-
derstood, is opposed to such action at
this time.
The War Department is rapidly
dropping army officers considered UNI
fit to command. AS a result of the
wedding out process the prediction is
made thousands of officers will return
to civil life before their comrades
reach France.
Southwest
A meteor of several tons fell the
other night and completely buried it
self on the farm of Harry James, two
miles south of Hillsboro, Tex. Many
persons saw the meteor, which was
the size of an ordinary motor car.
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Ottawa county, Ok, will vote on a
100000 bond issue November 20. The
board of county commissioners de-
cided $35O,0OO will be for improved
roads and $4,000 for new Jail.
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Francisco Villa, leading a band of
his followers, swept down from the
Durango mountains recently and cap
tured the town of Rosario, Durango,
according to an employe of an Ameri-
can corporation operating there, who
has arrived at Ell Paso.
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Practically all of the 220 alleged
draft-resisters and conspirators indict-
ed by the federal grand jury, which
recently adjourned at McA1ester, are
under arrest, it was announced at the
United States district attorneys Of
flee.
Twenty-seven persons were killed
and fifty injured, half of them seri-
ously, in the most disastrous railroad
wreck in the history of Oklahoma in
a head-on collision that occurred one
mile southwest of Kelleyyille, Ok,
when Frisco passenger train No. z
ran into an empty troop training COM
ing east.
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Orban C. Patterson, widely known
criminal lawyer, shot and killed Sam
Williams, president of the Purcell
Bank and Trust Company, Purcell,
Ok, the other morning. The shooting
occurred before a large crowd at Okla
homa City.
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One hundred and twenty indict-
ments were returned by the McAles-
ter, Ok, special grand jury called to
Investigate the acts of members of the
Working Glass Union. Fifty-two mo
bills" were returned.
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Foreign.
British airmen, who recently bonn
barded German stations behind the
lines, destroyed fifteen Gotha air
planes at ST. Denis and Westrom and
wrecked a troop train, killing many,
according to messages received at
Amsterdam from Sluis
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