Show I RUBBERS INfEST KANSAS WHEAT HEAT BEl BELT T High Ride Freight Trams Trains and Rob Ro Farm r W Workers r ers of Wages Wades I KANSAS CITY A Aus Aug 6 Bandits Bandits termed high jackels who are maki making mak mak- i ing lag a business busIness of ot riding freight trains in the tha the wheat belt of ot K certain certain tam tain parts of ot Oklahoma robbing barvest bar bar- vest veat hands of their wages are aro becoming becoming becoming be be- coming more mOl bold and are ln receiving increasing attention from lo local al au authorities au- au in those states according to toI I reports today toda I High j Jacket Jacket- activities which have have been reported almost daily daly throughout I the harvest season season reach reached d a climax Wednesday night night when two of or the tha robbers robbers rob rob- bers hers attempted to hold up a a. n party ol ot former soldiers and harvest hands aboard a a freight train running between Kechi and Furley FreYa Kan Ian The sol ex diers who had Just been ben discharged from a Texas army ary camp began beJan shootIng shootIng shoot shoot- Ing and one man said Mid to have hav been a n high Jacker was killed and four of ol I the former toner soldiers and ane harvest harest hands injured inured Tho The remaining robber es escaped escaped es- es after aler a a. a terrific fight In which ho he throw threw half a dozen of ot his opponents opponent from tho the moving train With tho the number of ot complaints from victims of ot the tho robbers growing officials oW- oW dais of ot several smaller Kansas towns were reported to bo be investigating mysterious mysterious mysterious mys mys- murders murder in their localities on the theory that the high jackels may ma have ha committed them There Thero have havo I been five or more unexplained killings in tho Kansas Kangas wheat belt In th the tho last month Somo Sorno Soro officials were said to believe tho high have left lef the cities cites to prey pre upon upon the harvest hands as they aro paid by the farmers |