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Show AHH I'HUFAHINO TO I'UHt'llAKi: MOUNT FOH WAH Fl'HFOMtS OODBN, Aug. 27. I'reiMiratlon arc being made by local hore broker fur the oxpocled uunouncement or thu goternment aulhorUIng tho purchaae ror army u of npproxlmutely two hundred and fifty thouiHiiid horko and mule. While nil of the number will not bo bought here, coinmlalon for aeveral thousand ure cxpectod by local dealer. About three Ihouaand hornee were purchutied by the- United fltntoa government gov-ernment during July and u buying lotnmltiHlon ha been In thl city slneo thut tlmu waiting for tho new order to purchava hor. und mule. It I expected th.it the commission will receive re-ceive uuthorliatlon to buy horse and mule for the other allied nation now engaged In the war. |