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Show oo AGENTS BUYING UP HORSES FOR ARMY East St. Louis, 111 , Jan. 20. Agents for the United States, Great BrlLain, France and Italy were buying horses at the National Stock Yards here today to-day A representatn e of the commissary com-missary department of the United States army has bought 150 horses this week to be shipped to NacOi Ariz , and Fort Leavenworth, Kana British and French agents have orders or-ders to buy 100 horses a day. Dealers say that Germany has offered of-fered to pay $200 a head for horses, If delivery on German soil is guaranteed guar-anteed No sales on these terms have been made. |