Murderous Officer Slays Four at Camp Funston Bank
Captain Lewis R. Whisler of Salina Kansas killed four men and wounded a fifth at Fort Camp Funston with a hand axe and a rifle suicide after looting the army bank. The assailant was identified by Kearney Wornall of Kansas City as an army captain and friend of bank head C Fuller Winters.
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Camp Funston
Kansas
Lewis R. Whisler
Salina
Kan
National Army
Army Bank
Whisler
Army
Kearney Wormall
Kansas City
Wornall
C. Fuller Winters
Winters
Winter
Market Report Hogs Cattle and Sheep Chicago January 16
Receipts Hog 8000 Market strong with bulk 16.15 to 16.50 light 15.70 to 16.40 mixed 15.90 to 16.50 heavy 15.90 to 16.60 pigs 12.50 to 16.60 Cattle receipts 800 Market steady native steers 8.20 to 13.60 stockers 6.80 to 10.85 cows 8.80 to 11.75 calves 8.50 to 15.50 Sheep receipts 1000 market strong wethers 9.60 to 13.25 lambs 14 to 17.50.
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Chicago
Omaha and St Paul Livestock Prices Roundup
Hogs receipts 8,300 at Omaha with prices 20 to 25 cents lower. heavy 15.90 to 16.25, mixed 16 to 16.50, light 15.85 to 16.20, pigs 10 to 15.50, bulk 16 to 16.16. Cattle receipts 6,000 at Omaha with steady to lower values. natives 9 to 12.50, cows and heifers 7 to 11, western 8 to 11.50, Texas 7.50 to 10, calves 9 to 13. Canners 6 to 7, stockers 6 to 11, bulls 7 to 10.85. Sheep receipts and prices steady. yearlings 11.50 to 13.50, ewes 10.75 to 12.26, lambs 16 to 17.25. St Paul hogs 7,800 with steady market. range 15.50 to 16.05, bulk 15.75 to 15.90. Cattle at St Paul 2,000. killers 10 to 18 cents lower. steers 6.50 to 12.50, cows and heifers 7 to 10, veal calves 6.50 to 13.50. Sheep at St Paul receipts 500. lambs 8 to 16, wethers 7 to 13, ewes 5 to 11.75.
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Omaha
Texas
Ewes
Lambs
St. Paul
Grain Prices and Receipts Report from Minneapolis
Minneapolis grain report lists flour unchanged and shipments at 29 041 barrels. Wheat receipts total 325 cars vs 151 a year ago. Corn No 3 yellow 1 68 to 1 66. oats No 8 white 78 14 to 79 9 per bushel. barley at 1 82 to 1 57. rye 1 88 to 1 88.
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Minneapolis Grain
Minneapolis, Minn
Chicago Grain Market Report
Chicago January corn prices opened near 1.27 with highs around 1.27 and lows near 1.27. May contracts showed opening around 31.25 with mixed subsequent movement and notes of unusual price fluctuations.
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Chicago
Righ
Habsden
Keene Ae Alope
Shipping Board Expands Operations Across Atlantic Ports
The Shipping Board will reorganize and enlarge its operating department. New representation will be placed in London Paris and Rome with branches at major Atlantic and Gulf ports to improve control of the American merchant fleet and ensure full cooperation with Allied shipping.
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Washington, Jan. M
The
Shipping Board
S East Place
Lemden
Paris
Rome
Gulf Eoest
Yatoe Yavere
Suffrage Measure Adopted by House in Historic Vote
Washington January 12 the House approved by 274 to 186 a resolution to submit the Susan B Anthony amendment for national women suffrage to the states. The vote followed dramatic last minute maneuvers by Speaker Clark Republican Leader Mann and Representative Sims and sends the measure to the Senate as suffrage supporters press for action.
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Washington
House
Susan B. Anthony
Senate
Clark
Mann
Baltimore
Sims
Tennessee
Vickbed
Capitol
Million and a Half Americans Under Arms
Secretary Baker testified before the Senate Military Committee outlining and defending war department preparations for battle with Germany. He said the army has been raised, equipped and trained faster than any before, with modern arms and comfort for troops in France and abroad. Nearly 1.5 million men are in the field or in training, with subsistence and initial clothing supplies improving toward adequacy.
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Washington
War Department
Germany
Baker
Senate
Miilitary Committee
Department
France
Brest-Litovsk peace talks resume with no clear results
Bolshevik and quadruple alliance representatives continue peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk but no definite outcomes. A Petrograd decree orders new elections for a constituent assembly to replace members not representing workers and peasants. Northern Russia expected to receive Ukrainian grain as Bolshevik and Ukrainian reconciliation progresses. The Bolshevik authorities scramble to avert famine in Petrograd and other Bolshevik cities.
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Brest- Litovsk
Petrograd
Constituent Assembly
Russia
Ukraine
Bolshevik
Ukraiians
President Wilson peace plan draws German criticism
Dutch and German newspapers harshly condemn President Wilsons peace proposal. Dusseldorf weekly Nich oisten calls the plan utterly unacceptable and insists war must be decided on the battlefield. Allgemeine Zeitung of Bessen Bays mocks Wilsons understanding of German politics and democracy.
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Amsterdam
Nichoisten of
Dusseldorf
Wilson
Allgemeine Zeitung
Bessen
Free
Germany
Price relief not yet in sight in oil control plans
Washington officials say price fixing is not planned in immediate oil control measures. A general survey will assess the situation to ensure adequate supply. The petroleum war service committees, an organization of producers, will safeguard its positions for the present.
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Washington
Fuel Administration For Oil Control
Garfield
Mark L. Requa
Fuel Department
Oil Division
Petroleum War Service Seminities
Real Estate Transfers From Beaverhead Abstract Co.
Week ending Jan 11 1918 lists 160 to 320 acre transfers in Grasshopper Creek Big Hole Sage Creek and Dillon areas plus 119 acres north of Dillon and 85 by 75 foot lot on Ivato street. Also mentions water rights mining claims lodes and other notices in Dillon Armstead and Vipond district with various names and small sums.
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Books of the Beaverhead Abstract Co
Carl G. Knoll
Grasshopper Creek
Frank H. Stahl
Dillon
Mary E. Dullen
J. A. Browne
Browne
R. M. Cosgrove
James L. Cochrane
Washington Street
Edna Mae Awrews Dunn
George Rebich
Lucy Spehar
James €. Harrison
Frank P. Harrison
Ivato Street
Frank W. Reet
Moses D. Jardine
Upper Big Hole Basin
Dillon Greenhouse Company
Silver Fissure Mining Company
Silver Fissure Silver Mining Company
Polaris
Millsite
Vermont
Dakota
Ohio
Lost Cloud
James R. Gravely
Bear Creek
Orlando Mast
Birch Creek
Theron Moran
Utah-Idaho Live Stock Company
Charles H. Wheat
Armstead
Homestead
Desert
Bridget Hogan
Molly Hogan
Jakes Canyon
J. M. Long
Black Pine
Jim
News Boy
War Eagle
Old Scout
Vipond
Notary Commission
Clara E. Adams
Pictures Show How Boys Increase the Meat Supply
The Department of Agriculture released a film to motion picture houses showing how farm boys in clubs raise better pigs. The film documents instructions and methods used by the boys pig clubs started in Louisiana in 1910, now about 45 000 members nationwide. Clubs plan to send carloads of fat hogs to fairs then market cooperatively. The program also highlights increased food production and activities in national forests as key resources.
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Department of Agriculture
Louisiana
American tractors to plow in France during 1918
One thousand five hundred U S farm tractors will be sent to France to boost crops and ease labor. The first hundred are en route with all units to arrive by March ahead of spring plowing, plus naval transport space and schools of instruction. France’s 1917 crops lagged about 24 percent versus 1913, and tractors are expected to greatly improve the food situation.
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France
United States
Thomas Book Store Cash Sale Policy
Notice that due to current business conditions the Thomas Book Store will operate on a cash basis after January 1 1918. All goods sold will be cash only with the usual discount offered for cash payments.
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Thomas Book Store
Duplicating Second Sheets of Letters Offered
The Tribune Book Store advertises duplicating second sheets of letters for use in correspondence and office work. The brief note indicates availability at the store.
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Tribune
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Frank Schwartz
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J. Selway
R. J. Dansie
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U. S
First National Bank OF
State Bank of Dillon
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State Bank of Wisdom
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