Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-01-03


in all labor disputes arising in the
States during the war The appoint
ment was agreed upon by representa-
tives of packers and 1aborers after
conferences with President Wilson's
labor mediation board
Mrs. Carl NJ Nelson of Moorhead,
Mimi, lies in a hospital suffering from
critical burns received when candles
on a home Christmas tree fired her
Santa Claus disguise while distribut-
ing presents to the children
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The Russian freighter Shilka, Capt.
Boris Dogal, which unheralded slipped
into a Pacific port, direct from V1adi-
vostok, is under Bolshevid control A
number of the Shilka's sailors were
fraternizing on the docks with party
of alleged Industrial Workers of the
World, twenty-one of whom we're ar
rested.
Orders have been given by Surgeon
General Gorgas of the army for the re-
mova1 of all Incompetent medical Of
ficers- They will first be given in
structions and if they prove incapable
of the army work, they will be dis
charged
Most of the churches of Haverhill,
Mass, have closed their doors and
united in services in two theaters
which have a seating capacity suffi-
cient to accommodate the combined
congregations. The step is taken to
conserve coal.
Twenty-one of the fifty-five soldiers
who left Camp Sherman for Christmas
furloughs without permission have
been taken into custody in Cleveland
within forty-eight hours. Thirty of the
men, it is reported, already are volun-
tarily returning to Chillicothe.
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Southwest.
Thomas E. Campbell has turned
over the governorship of Arizona to
Governor George w. P Hunt in obedi-
ence to the mandate of the supreme
court of the state, which found that
Governor Hunt is the legally elected
governor by a plurality of 43 votes.
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The Red Cross enrolment for the
Southwest district since December 10
has reached 2,2S0,000. This is nearly
three times the original allotment for
this district, which includes Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and
Texas.
An army observation balloon, carry
ing a crew of seven, landed on a farm
about twenty miles north of Temple,
Tex, at dawn the other morning.
Members of the crew report an excit-
ing battle with the wind, the balloon
floating at so low an altitude at times
as to drag them across tree tops and
telephone wires.
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Three members of the British royal
flying corps training at Fort Worth,
Tex, were killed when two machines
collided in the air. Two of the men
were in one machine. The collision
took place at a low altitude and less
than half a mile from the landing
field.
When a water storage tanks sup
port on the Fentress State Bank build
ing at Fentress, Tex, broke recently,
the bank building was demolished,
other buildings damaged and J. w.
Lipscombe, cashier, saved his life only
by running into the bank vault.
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Foreign.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign
minister, at meeting of the revolu-
tionary organizations assembled in
congress at Petrograd, read documents
and kilograms which he declared con-
tanned evidence that Americans were
helping General Kaledines, the leader
of the Don Cossacks The story is
emphatically denied by Ambassador
Francis.
Christmas day was bright and cold
on the battle front, but there were no
demonstrative celebrations. Also there
was no fraternizing with the Germans
as happened on the first and even on
the second Christmas of the war The
German methods of warfare have
wholly destroyed any tendencies of
that sort among the Britons.
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German atrocities against American
soldiers are officially reported. An
American sentry has been found with
his throat cut, and it is officially de-
clared ''he must have been so killed
after capture
The London Daily Mail has begun
the publication of an American edition