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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-29
AUTO OWNERS BETTER LOOK
OUT

According to inform alton received
by local peace officers it will be advis-
able for all owners or drivers of auto
mobiles to be more careful about OBJ
serving the law in the future than
they have been in the past. The in
formation says that an officer repre-
senting the state department is liable
to be in this county almost any time
now and he will be no respecter of
persons. 1t will be his duty to see
that the laws of the state of Kansas
are obeyed. He will take in charge
those who are running cars without
license, those without proper lights,
those who do not keep on the right
side of the road or street and those
who exceed the speed limit. The law
regarding license tags is pretty gen
orally understood but number are
disregarding it. An extract regard
ing speed limit, crossings and lights
is published herewith.
"Speed limit, accidents, railroad
crossings, lights-No person shall
operate a motor vehicle on any high
way outside of city or village at
rate of speed greater than forty (4o)
miles per hour, greater than is
reasonable and proper, having regard
for the traffic and use of the road and
the conditions of the road, nor at
ra te of speed such as to endanger the
life or limb of any person; and within
any city or village no motor vehicle
shall be operated at a speed greater
than twelve miles an hour nor at a
rate of speed greater than is reason
able and proper, and having regard
for the traffic and use of the road and
the condition of the road, nor at a
rate of speed such as to endanger the
life or limb of any person.
Upon approaching a railroad cross
ing or intersection of highways out
side of any village or city, or turning
corners, the person operating motor
vehicle shall reduce the speed of such
vehicle to a rate not exceeding eight
miles an hour, and shall not exceed
such speed until entirely past such
crossing or intersection. When cross
ing an intersection of streets within
any city or village, motor vehicles
shall not be driven at a speed exceed
ing six miles per hour. That
every automobile using any public
highway of this state shall Show be-
tween one-half hour after sunset and
one-ha1f hour before sunrise two
lamps exhibiting white lights, visi-
bic alta distance of three hundred feet
in the direction toward which the
automobile is proceeding, and shall
also exhibit a red light, visible at the
rear end The lamps shall be 50
placed to be free from obstruction
to light from other parts of the ma
chine" ~
Those who wish further information
can secure a copy of the state auto
laws at the county treasurer's office.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-29
BIG ARMIsTICE CELEBRATION

Posters have been printed announc-
ing big celebration to be held in Wa
Keeney on Armistice Day, November
11th. The celebration is to be under
direction of Post Moore, American
Legion, and a great big time can be
expected Those of us who were here
November 11th, 1918, will recall the
time" we had on that day but it is
probable that celebration will be
miniature compared to what the boys
will put on here next November 11th-
The program has not been completed
When it IS finished it will be given
proper publication. In the mean time
begin planning now on having your
friends to be here on Armistice day
Found-Odd Fellow. watch charm.
Inquire at this office.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-29
M E. CHURCH NOTES

Next Sunday is Prohibition Sunday
and it viii be observed by our church
A good attendance last Sunday and
we invite you to come again.
Next Wednesday night we ask for
the official board and Sunday School
board and every working member
to meet and plan for future work
Sunday School 1000 m.
Epworths D. m.
Preaching p m
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-29
MIKE HILDEBRAND KILLED

This afternoon about o'clock, word
reacher the city that Mike Hildebrand
was killed. He was drilling wheat on
their place southeast of Russell when
the team ran away and the drill run
over him crushing his head.
The foregoing paragraph from the
Russell Record has reference TO a
brother of Chris EIildebrand of Collyer
township.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-29
A WINDY STORY

Whenever the wind blows unusually
hard in this country it starts the old
timers telling stories about the windy
days that used to be. They just can't
help telling them and some of the
stories which are told may sound
little windy but there is a good deal
If truth in some of them just the
same. The story telling is generally
commenced by someone making the
statement that <tIt don't seem like the
wind blows hard here as it used
to-, and then someone else will spring
the old story about the fellows hat
which blew off and he made no effort
to catch it stating that it would come
back to him tomorrow when the wind
changes to the other direction" This
is challenge to some other member
of the company to tell a personal ex-
perience story He will tell how the
wind and dust blew at a certain time
and either blew him off the wheat
drill or the dust was so thick that he
could not see his horses when he was
holding the end of the lines walking
behind a harrow A story Of the ex-
periences of a tenderfoot is also re-
lated but the best one the writer has
heard for long time came from W.
c. P. Rhoades at the Farmers e1eva-
tor Tuesday morning. It may have
been personal experience but Mr.
Rhoades was too modest to tell it in
the first person.
According to the story a farmer
had a granary on one side of which
was door which was partly open.
On the other side a few feet from the
ground there was a knot hole In
this granary were several bushels OF
ear corn. One summer day there
came up one of those old time roaring
hot winds which will suck the water
out of a jug, dry up the cows, blow
out of the jug, dries up the cows and
drift dust into the fence row until
the posts are hidden and continues
to do several other things of similar
nature which are not impossible. This
farmer went out in the morning be-
fore the weather got bad and cared
for his stock. He had good idea of
what was coming in the weather line
and did not go out to work in the field.
He stayed at home and when things
got ssbad'' he crawled away into a
dark corner in the house and went to
sleep The wind roared and how1ed
screeched and whistled through ev-
| cry 11ttle mole but 1t did not waken
the farmer. He slept until toward
| evening when he knew he must go
out and care for his stock again. When
he came near his granary he was sur
prised to notice a large pile of cobs
on the still side of it. He wondered
where they came from. Investi eating
he found he had no ear corn in the bin
The wind had sucked thru the open
door and the knot hole in such a way
that it had drawn the ears of corn up
to the knot hole with such force that
as they passed through the kernels of
corn were all she11ed off and the cob
had passed on through the hole.
LUTHERAN CHURCH NOTES
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-29

The banks report that money mat
ters are Tightening up but long as
the farmers have wheat, corn, feed
and other produce to sell the depres-
sion is not going to be felt as much
as it is further east. Trego county
is in good shape so far financially but
it is advisable for all to use caution
and not spend money too rapidly A
little money all the time is better than
a lot of money for a little while and
nothing the rest of the tine
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-29
LOCAL MARKET QUOTATIONS

The following prices prevail on the
local market today, September 20th.
Wheat, $115
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-29

Corn oats and barley, from 35c
to SOC. All local trade. none
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-29
OVER ONE MILLION ON DEPOSIT

There are four banks in Trego coun-
ty, three of which are state banks
which are publishing statements this
week for the close of business Sep
tember p, 1921. The bank at CoIlyer
is a national bank and published its
statement for the close of business
on September 9Th, last By making
a combined statement of the four
banks we find some Interesting fig
ures. The totals are a great deal
larger than they were a few years
ago and the total deposits are excep-
tionally good for this time of the year.
Com bining these statements we get
the following:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-29
LUTHERAN CHURCH NOTES

Sunday services in the German
language 1880 a. M
Sunday School, 1870 a. m.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-29

Found-Odd Fellow watch charm
Inquire at this office.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-29
!. S. OIL MEN SEE
MEX|CANS TODAY
Tax and Constitutional Cues
tions Affecting America
May Be Solved
SUPREME COURT AT WORK
Rv Tho Associated Press

Mexico City. Aug. 29.-This is to be
oil week in Mexico City. Petroleum,
In al its vexatious phases. embracing
taxation and alleged property confsca
ton. will be discussed by various
branches of the Mexican Government
with view to removing that stumbling
block to resumption Of diplomatic re-
lations between the United States and
Mexico.
The five heads Of large American oil
companies are en- route here to take up
oil questions with the Government.
Coupled with their visit is announced
the determination Of the Supreme Court
to render a clarifying decision not later
than September 10, on the alleged re-
troactive and confiscatory Article
NXVII of the Mexican Constitution,
There also is possibility that the
Chamber of Deputies may take some
action amending Article XVII in the
last hours of its extraordinary session
which will close Wednesday.
The visiting American oil men were
scheduled to arrive here in the morning
and conferences with Adolfo de IN
Huerta. Secretary of the Treasury.
relative to the tax on Oil exports are to
begin Immediately. Those conferences
probably will continue for several days
at the Secretary's Office, and then are
expected to shift to the National
Palace, where President Obregon will
participate.
II has not yet been disclosed here
whether the conferences will extend be-
yond q mere discussion of the recent
taxation decrees, but 1t is regarded as
highly probable that the end of the
week will see some definite understand
ing reached-either a compromise on
the tax question or an agreement to
disagree.
A new phase to the situation has been
presented by the failure of several
American oil companies to pay into the
national treasury their July taxes,
which fell due on August 81.
President Obregon's recent decree i'm
posing an approximate increase of %
per cent upon oil export taxes became
effective July |, and the vigorous pro-
tests again that levy were increased last
week when the Government ordered
new tax upon oil stopd within the
country. Representatives Of some of
the oil companies asserted that this last
tax was imposed so suddenly that i'm
mediate compliance was impossible, and
they therefore postponed all tax pay
ments.
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WOODEN BRIDGE DISPLACED
Foxburs Landmark Gives Way to
Steel Span Across Allegheny

toNburg. Pa, Aug. 2a.-The famous
'",Id wood EN- railroad bridge spanning
inc Allegheny River here is being re.
paced by Il modern steel structure,
eliminating one of the last of the tim
mer structures from the railroads of the
State.
The first of the steel spans has been
placed III position. the work occupying
scarcely ten minutes, although it Is $50
rect long and weighs about 400 tons
Iwo additional spans of the same size
nre to be erected before the bridge will
be completed.
The whole town and scores Of people
rom the surrounding country lined the
river banks when the engineers in
fSnarge of the work slipped the new span
into position.
1t had been built beside the wooden
fpan ON rollers. and rollers also havo
n'ch placed under the old structure. At
,ne word, two great cranes were set in
nolion, and the steel span slowly
pushed the wooden span from the piers
W ialsework erected on the downstream
Mue' When the operation was complete
we steel was connected and the wooden
e'rIciure was gone forever.
Two additional spans are to be
erected before the structure is complete,
"he on September 1S and the other on
October 16.
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PenrOse in City
to SOLUe TdngLe


Continued from Page One
ticket contain two candidates indorsed
Jointly by the League and Mayor Moore
--Rotan and Wolf. Colonel Kemp Is
indorsed by the League only, so far.
Campbell and Watson are on the COM
bine slate. Senator Penrosc is credited
with being opposed to Kendrick. The
Senator does not like the recol-
lection of Hendricks smashing the slate
for delegat at large for the last ma
tional convention.
Conferences Probable
Senator Penrose will probably begin
at once series of conferences with
combine and Moore leaders and with
representatives of the Voters League.
No intimation of his plans. however,
could be gained at the Pcnrose home,
1881 Spruce street, or from Mr.. Taylor,
who spent the night at the Bellevue
Stratford Hotel.
Mayor Moore had not expected to re-
turn to the city from his sum.lor home
Mt Island Heights until tor-orrow. 1t
Is quite likely. however. that he will
come up today for the purpose of talk
ing things over with Penrose.
Leaders of the Voters League see in
the presence here of Senator Penrose
sure signs of victory in the primaries.
We're surprised that the Senator Is
here" said Franklin Spencer Edmonds,
chairman Of the Political Action Com
mittee of the Voters League. "We're
surprised-but we're glad. hope the
Senator is here to work.
As Mr.. Edmonds and other leaders of
the Voters League view it, the coming
of the Senator means that he is likely to
plunge into the present political muddle,
and they believe on the side of Mayor
Moore and the league ticket.
Hint Displeasure at Acker
The week may also be productive of
large events in City Hall Report has
it that the Mayor is highly displeased
with A. Lincoln Acker, city purchasing
agent, who declined to stand as Moore
candidate for City Treasurer. When
Acker announced at a meeting Of the
War Board last week that he would not
run, the Mayor is said to have shown
his anger in no uncertain way. As
result there is much talk of Mr.. Acker
leaving the Moore Cabinet.
Senator Daix, at his summer home,
Mt Avalon, n. j., again asserted that
no one was responsible for his with
drawal but himself. He declared he
withdrew because he had no assurances
of real support and denied he had
promised to support Watson, the Ware
candidate.
Senator Daix himself is authority for
this statement:
] have not pledged my support to
Thomas +. Watson. the combine ,
candidate for City Treasurer. | have
not seen Mr. Watson TO hold con-
versation with him for more than
three months.
] am not a Ware man. ! always
have been Penrose man and will
continue to be such.
AS to the present campaign, I think
] shall spend most of it here in
Avalon watering my plants.
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National Park Camp Closes

National Park, \. J., Aug. 90. -
Borough officials attended the closing
service of the camp meeting here last
night and were quite surprised when
the pastor, Rev. Elmer l.. Finger, did
not attack them for failure TO stop
Sunday baseball. Pastor Finger told
the borough officials that he was pleased
70 have them present. The camp was
n success. Rev. Ii. L. Burkott and
Rev. Edward y. Weeks, of Gibbstown,
SISTED Pastor Finger during the
week.
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700 India Rebels
Slain by British

Continued from Page One
prociaiming home rule in all the dis
turbed areas. Their emblem. the green
flag. has been hoisted at Pallipu.
Ganghi, the Nationalist leader, has
Congress Committee to visit Malabar at
the earliest possible moment in an en- :
deavor to pacify the Moplahs.
London. Aug. 29.-(By A. Pre-
ports today from the revolutionary area
of Maabar. British India. indicating
that British troops and cavalry had
arrived there. tended to confirm the
belief< in London that the uprising
would be confined to this area. although
none here would deny the seriousness
of the situation or It's potentialities for
spreading. o..
The revolutionary area is more or less
isolated from other portions of India
which might be expected to lend CO.
operation in the movement If any were
Forthcoming, but it would not surprise
official circles here IL Mt least the fnnat
ical Mohammedans along the northern
frontier should take this occasion to
write another chapter in their aim 1st
continuous warfare against the British.
The trouble in Malabar arises pri
marily from religious fanaticism and
from the intense hatred Of the Moplahs
or Mohammedans of Arab descent, for
Europeans and Hindus. OF politics and
home rule they know nothing, as they
virtually are barbarians, but the re-
llgious torch will always stir them Ia
bloodshed, as they live mainly for their
religion and are willing to die for It.
Self torture Is not uncommon among
the Moplahs in the hope that they will
thus arrive in heaven and they believe
that death on the battlefield is the sure
road TO n happy hereafter.
J The uprising also Is in part blamed
on the propaganda Of the native Indian
Nationalists. TO this agitation has
been added reports of great wrongs done
Turkey and the Caliphate by the Treaty
Of Sevres. This propaganda has beer
spread not only in the Malabar region
but throughout India. especially in the
populous Punjab and united provinces
and along the northwest frontier among
the ever r-turbulent tribesmen.
The situation for isolated Europeans
and Hindus is grave. ms the Moplahs in
the past have halted at nothing in their
frenzicd hatred. At the time of the
projected pretentious uprising in the
Punjab Mt the outbreak of the war some
or the most cold -bloodcd documents were
issued telling how Europeans were to
b. extermnated to the last person.
The India Office reports that the en- =
tire disturbed area of Malabar Is now
threatened with famine.
Mahatma Ganghi. who has been re-
quested by the Kc"ala Provisional Con =
gress Committee to 90 to Malabar aud
attempt to pacify the Moplahs, is chief
of the native Nationalists in India. His
plan Of campaign is non GO operation
with the British, n virtual boycott Of vi
things British. He has constantly ad O..
vocatcd avoidance of violence.
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2 Probes Ordered
of AHpldne Tragedy

Continued from Page One
afternoon and after tuning up the air
plane made the test fight, and upon
his descent reported that the motor
was running smoothly. He had made
five flights with passengers when Mr..
and Mrs. Puszynska and their chill
dren arrived at the field in an automo-
bile. Mrs. Puszynska expressed de-
sire to make flight and. although it
was but two passenger machine, the
woman and her son Vincent were put
into the front seats and taken on n
short flight
Upon the descent she said that she
had enjoyed the trip so much she
wanted to make second fight. This
time she was accompanied by her son
John.
Rises 500 Feet
The airplane rose gracefully off the
ground and arose to a height Of five
hundred feet and sailed majestically
over the Roosevelt boulevard. 1t went
toward the west and circled over a
large clump of trees at the western end
of George ID. Edwards farm and started
back 10 the landing field
As the pilot attempted to bring the
ulEDluHt Oul VI lllf UHllk IHP UlHtnlnp
gradually glided down to within 100
feet of the ground. Persons on the
flying field half mile away were
amazed at the dipping of the machine
and were wondering as to what the
pilot was attempting. Suddenly the
machine turned its nose towards the
ground and like a bullet fired from n
rife crashed with terrific roar into
plowed field about twenty five feet off
the Krewestown road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards and six
friends were sitting on the front porch
Of their farmhouse when they heard
the engine Of the airplane stop. and
looking up saw the machine DESCENDING
toward them. The women screamed
and ran indoors while Mr.. Edwards
watched the machine fal almost into
his backyard. The falling plane missed
striking William Smith, a farmland,
by ten feet. Smith saw the falling air
plane but was too spellbound to move.
First Thought Only Two Died
Mr.. Edwards shouted for help and ran
to the alrplane which was now mass
of tangled wreckage. Several auto
mObilsts who stopped their machines
assisted in removing the debris from the
bodies Of the dead pilot and passenger.
The, first body found was that of Foss.
Several struts from the framework Of
the airplane had pierced his abdomen
and chest and came out his back. He
had been instantly killed.
The searchers then found the body of
the small boy buried under the wreck.
age The boy had also died instantly
and his body was badly crushed. Tele-
phone calls had been made to the
Tacony police station and the Frankford
HosnitaJ and the hndtes ~ the rtlot and
boy were carried into Edwards home.
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Alcohol Ship
Called Unsafe

Continued from Page One
bers Of her crew is listed as Norman
Selby. That is the real name of "Kid"
Mccoy. once champion prize fighter
The crew are SALTY looking lot ,
veterans of deep sea voyages. The Liz
Hic Il. Hall will have to withstand the
battcrng Of high seas and pcrilous
weather. mariners say, when she
Swings the great circle for the
African coast during the storms of Sep
tembcr.
The schooner. according to Mr.,
Kurtz. recently became the property of
Lee Rudolph. OF 421 Sutter avenue,
Brooklyn. the transfer having been
made August %. The ship was built in
Fredonia, Del.
Triple Alliance to Fight Rum
A triple alliance of city. county and
Federal authorities was formed at City
Hall last night to stamp out the
liquor traffic in Philadelphia. The
conference. held in District Attorney
Rotan's Office. lasted three hours. and
no announcement was made of plans
at its conclusion.
That the session was important was
indicated by those attending. They
were Director Cortelyou,, Assistant
District. Attorneys Taulane and Cor
don, Police Captains Van Horn aud
Kenny, Lieutenant Lee. of the Vice
Squad Magistrate Carson, Assistant
United States Attorney Robert A. Bol-
Gsr and \. A. Nichols, special agent
OF the Internal Revenue Department,
representing Prohibition Director Nc
Connel.
Director Cortolyou said the general
subject of prohibition enforcement was
discussed. He would not disclose what
else was under consideration.
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uIVl0e JOBS TO AID OTHERS
Baltimore Shipworkers Alternate
Week by Week

baltimore. Aug. 29.-In accordance
En EEl,n the plan advocated by Samuel
rTolllpers, president of the American
reaeration of Labor, to divide Jobs 50
more more men may find employment, en-
nloEes IN a number of departments of
aae IN Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
az eparrows Point are operating
a,hInohs themselves. In those departments
un ,na men work one week and lay off the
,ns AI week that other men may earn
''n,stplng Tt to support their families.
The arrangement has been workod
out between the men and forcmen of
apartments, although the company of.
~ TTTlals have not given their sanction.
hc oihclals, however, are informed ag
w. What Is being done aud have offered
10 objections. y
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-29

A solid oak. 42-inch top table and
auartered oak back, box pad seat
chairs. covered with Imperial leather.
All substantially built, extremely
good looking and very durable. Just
one instance OF the remarkable values
In this great sale,
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Portuguese cablne, ResIon,

Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 20. - The
Cabinet of Barros Queiroz, which was
formed last May, has handed its resig-
nation to the President of the Repub-
lie.