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Show TRAMP BLOTTED OUT OF GRIMY TRAIL ST. PAUL, Minn., July 29 War has Virtually blotted ouf.the grimy trail of tho professional tramp In the Northwest, North-west, according to railroad officers and officials of states from Minnesota to the Western coast. The Northwestern tier or states, long tho summer playground of tho box car transient, havo so rigorously enforced tho "work or fight" order and other war measures that the tramps, who formerly appeared In droves after having hav-ing wintered In tho cities, have been reduced to a few lonely stragglers. "And the demand for labor la so koen that town policemen and village constnbles aro quick to draft these stragglers and put them to work," declared de-clared an official of a railroad with headquarters here. "Tho nrmed guards about railroad yards, bridges and tunnels have also been a thorn in the side of the carefree care-free wanderer. He Is in constant danger dan-ger of becoming a target while loatliog around his old haunts." In past years towns which were the headquarters of farm laborers were packed with professional gamblers, gunmen and thugs who devised various schemes of flocclng the worker of his money. They mingled with the men, " j " wore the clothes of the worker and could be weeded out bv officers only with difficulty. The war has, in the opinion of tho authorities, sounded tho death knoll of this small army which annually reaped a golden harvest no |