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THE PRODUCERS NEWS
Workers
# f the World
Unite!
Liberty Is Not
Handed Down
From Above
^ed Weekly -
vnUjME XIV. No. 31
Official Paper of the City of Plentywood
A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE
PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1931
Sub. Rates:
Foreign, *3.7B
In U. S. JS.09
Per year
Per year
Entered as second Class Matter, Oe tober IS, ISIS, at the Poet
offloe at Plentywood, Montana, Unde r the Act of March S, 187S
JOSSES' PANIC
m
B REVEALED IN
fume MOVES
y or k.— Workers are be
. to awake to the fact that
SfSw awaited prosperity, tim
v^n a "just around the cor
coming this winter and
toe bosses and their press
■J been putting on a propagan
da to'keep the hungry
Sndul. Dürrn* recent days a ser
W «{ announcements by the big
pN^ da boys haS madC this
New
clear.
the jobless must face the
Jat instead of jobs being al
ready, the capitalists are dig
à, for a long siege of which
fhf worst has not been seen. While
L means to the bosses credit
w and huge national corpora
protect the banks, ''
the workers hunger,
and the murders that go
Now
fact
most
pools
it
tioDS to
means to
•ith them, wage cuts, lay offs and
8 constant fear of impending dis
At least five recent incidents
American business to
liter.
in much weaker position than
m0 ct workers realized:
l The announcement was made
recently that hanks would be al- !
lowed to borrow bonds on their
books for the price they had paid
for them. That is, the Comptroll- j
er 0 f the Currency officially in-,
fonned banks that they could fake
value of securities they held |
only dishonest bankers had done
before, so as to fool their deposit
into thinking they had the
wherewithal to meet deposits. If a
banker bought a bond at $1,000
with depositors' money and the
bond decreased in market value to
$400, he can now doctor his books
to show that he still has the $600,
to meet deposits with—and with
the approval of the Hoover admin
istration. Unfortunately, when
the depositors ask for their money
ill he can do is close the bank.
2. The insurance companies were
liven practically the same privi
lege as the bankers. Considered
lie strongest cornerstone in the
financial setup, they have weaken
ed so since June 30, 1931 that the
state insurance examiners in con
vention. with every state repre
sented have voted to allow the in
surance companies to doctor their
books by carrfing bonds at thedr
market price on June 30 instead ol
their actual price. Since only au
ditors and officials know what
companies are doing this and to
what extent, the financial state
ments of insurance companies as
well the banks valueless to
:he
as
the average policyholder.
3. Of the Hoover $500,000,000
pool to save the banks, which
were crashing at a rate never be
fore attained in America, little
need be said. It will not protect
ill banks but only the banks chos
en for protection by local commit
tees. It will furnish but a billion
of credit against 1% billion now
tied up in closed banks—and the
crashes go on. Its importance lies
M its measurement for the casual
observer of the tremendous fear
that griped Hoover and the bank
ers to make them act in s» far
reaching a way and in the period
P T en for the wise depositor to get
savings into a Postal Savings
wnk. When farm land values
have crashed 20 billions and
oarneir have lost 10 billions and
•rarities have crashed 125 bil
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wage
extended vacation
The way every publisher
'eeU about sending in news is
'Ma emphatically expressed
the following:
"This newspaper is always
ti»d to print all the news and
" an item is overlooked it is
0n * unintentionally. We are
crystal ball gasers
''Ytey Johns. You must
pe the news or personal
*0 us for we cannot read
, r mind or foretell the fu
" you have guests the
*®eat compliment you can pay
J«» is. to see that the fact
„."""turned. Don't sit back
tt tect to see it in print
/ Qrn i8hing the infor
* lon we have no rays
T W, J8 way of reaching in the
* »fter news."
fEED MEETINGS
HELD IN COUNTY
It Dur^ y bounty Agent
I *1 l he past "eek the
I i 2S bas h eld feed
I in ÎK Ctlcail y all the
coun
meetings
_ ^ communities
bi order to discuss
—uod. 1 f problems and the
the farm« pu EP bas ^ n f? feed for
^unatL 8 ' ? rom experimental
firm eK experiences of
&?ent i s * be Past, the county
ugp .f ommen ding that farm
tei* L^ tton see <* cake as a pro
thhtl« s P J, ^the Russian
!S*h th/ de £i£L5™? th€ St + L ck
, waiter. As cotton
>r; n .?* ns , 43% Protein, it
with tv,» cheap m price
it w ,, constl Pating effect
*Vld wort • lp ° n tbe cattle, it
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CAPONE TAKES
THE COUNT FOR
ELEVENS FIFTY
GANG CHIEF DENIED BAIL
AND IS HELD IN JAIL A
WAITING THE OUTCOME OF
FURTHER PROCEEDINGS.
Chicago, Oct. 24— "Scarface
A1 Capone was sentenced to 11
years imprisonment and fined
$50,000 and court costs totaling
about $100,000, today and was
taken immediately by two United
States marshalls, snarling and ill
yy
humored to the county jail to a
waj t fbial arguments by his attor
ne ^ s ^ or an a PPeal.
Capone walked into Federal
** u d£ e James H. Wilkerson's court
room at 10 a. m. today a worried
^pression on his face. Thirty
nunutes later he walked out a
gam vicious and angry, a U. S.
marshal holding to each of his
arms,
Sentenced
In that brief half hour he Ms
tened to his attorneys being
fused a writ which would have
quashed the income tax indict
ments agau^t him and thrown
out his conviction. Then he srrod,
hands clenched behind h:m,
heard sentence pronounced,
The 260 pound gang chief made
no attempt to conceal his rage,
He started as if to strike
ternal revenue agent half his
size when the official presented
him as he left the court, with
liens attaching his property for
overdue income taxes.
re
and
an m
Again at the county jail, he
showed his wrath, seizing a water
bucket and attempting to strike a
newspaper photographer, shout
ing "I'll knock your blankety
blank blank head off!
seized the enraged gangster and
hustled him away to a cell.
Judge Wilkerson first ordered
that Capone be taken tonight to
Leavenworth to begin serving his
sentence. Two hours after court
adjourned, however, the court is
yy
Guards
sued an order that Capone be held
In the county jail until Monday,
so his attorneys cour have time to
file a writ of supersedeas with
the circulit court of appeals.
If granted the write would ad
mit Capone to bail while his con
viction and his sentence — more
than twice as severe as any other
pronounced in the gangster-income
tax cases—were appealed.
The gang leader's sentence was
five years in federal prison on
each of three felony counts charg
ing evasion of income taxes and
one year each in the county jail
on two misdemeanor counts charg
ing failure to file tax reports.
Two of the felony and both mis
demeanor sentences will run con
currently, however, making the to
tal 11 years.
With good behavior the maxi
mum reduction in the prison sen
tence would be only three years.
At the end of seven years, there
fore, he might begin serving his
jail sentence.
The fine was $60,000 and in ad
dition he was ordered t opay the
prosecution costs estimated at ov
er $100,000.
The amount of income tax the
government charged him with was
$216,000 and that figure was ex
pected to be doubled by penalties,
fines and taxation on other in
come, evidence of which was brot
out by the government during the
trial.
Liens filed by the government
attached his $40,000 winter home
at Palm Island, Florida, and three
safety deposit boxes in a Chicago
bank. His. wife, Mrs. Mae Capone
was named in the liens with hm}*
Government attorneys and Chi
cago civic officials were jubilant
over the conviction
After Capone had finally settled
down in his cell in the jail be j®v i
It was a bit below the belt but
if we have to do it we can do it.
I've never heard of anyone get
ting more than five years for in
come tax trouble, but I guess
when they're prejudiced against
you, you've got no chance, even ii
you have good lawyers/
The luxury with whihe .Capone
lived on th eprofits from his rack
ets was brought out in detail dur
ing his trial. Scores of his more
elaborate purchases including sev
eral $12,500 automobiles, $1J&
suits of clothes and $80 shirts,
were recounted to the jury. Then
his own attorneys brought wit
nesses who testified he lost
000 on horse racing bets in five
it
years.
LOCATES IN SPOKANE
Information received mi Plenty
wood this week is to the e " e c
that Frank Guenther, who Lett
here some time ago, has purchas
ed a confectionery and grocery
store in Spokane. His large.circle
of friends in this city wish him
! every success.
BANKS POP IN AREA
NEAR PITTSBURGH
Pittsburgh.— The banks contin
ue popping in the Pittsburgh area
despite the Hoover plan to thaw
frozen assets. Following the clos
ing of five banks in Washington
county with resources, of more
than $12,600,000 thé National
Bank of Payette County ,at Un
iontown, went into the hands of
receivers. The bank, with depos
its of six million dollars was one
of the oldest in western Pennsyl
vania,
Wheeling, W. Va., had the first
failure in its history when the
Central Union Trust Co. went
broke. Two million dollars in
cash was rushed from Pittsburgh
in armored trucks to prevent a
similar fate for another panhandle
bank.
NEW ECONOMIC
SYSTEM ASKED
IN OKLAHOMA
FARMERS AGREE CAPITAL
ISM HAS COLLAPSED —OR
GANIZATION FORMED—ONE
COUNTY DISGUSTED WITH
DEMOCRATS.
Blair, Okla.—Complete abolition
of the capitalist system was de
manded at a meeting of farmers
at Elk View school near here on
October 16th.
support to government ownership
and operation.
We have also come to the con
clusion that we will not support
any candidates for office unless
they stand for the above princi
The following resolution was
passed :
Whereas it appears that the
capitalistic form of government
has collapsed and that, there must
be a different form of govern
ment established, therefore
We, the citizens of Elk View
school district, Jackson county,
state of Oklahoma, pledge our
Washington, Oct. 27— An at
rangement of international credit
f °; ^nd^corion 6 abroad i^unSr
wheat .nard
discussion between the * arm poar ?
and representatives of the French
government. . .
Pierre du Pasquier, economic ad
riser to Premier Laval, took the
question up with the farm ooard
at several conferences and there
will be further conversations later
this week.
Chairman Stone said today that
ples and form of government.
Officers were elected and a mo
tion made an dpassed that a copy
of the resolutions with names at
tached be sent to The American
Guardian for publication.
No Change in Rules For
Hunting of Pheasants
Helena, Oct. 28.— No change
will be made this year in pheas
ant hunting regulations, the state
fish and game commission has de
cided.
The commission had under con
sideration a proposal to limit hunlf
ing during the brief season to day
light hours but deferred action af
fecting the season this year, be
cause of the brief time available
for proper noticing.
TWO COUNTRIES
SEEK US.WHEAT
definite proposals for the pur
chase of either farm board
private wheat arid cotton have
been made or agreed upon.
The discussions so far have been
limited to the possibilities of ar
ranging credit to stimulate con
sumption of these American pro
duced commodities in Europe, par
ticularly in France.
Both France and Germany, Mr.
Stone said will need to buy wheat
because of damage to their crops
fro madverse weather.
In their conferences Stone and
Du Pasquier surveyed the whole
question of international finance,
a subject in which the farm board
chairman is intenselv interested.
The purpose as outlined by Mr.
Stone was not so much to sell the
stocks from the holdings controll
ed by the farm board, but to in
crease the consumption of Amer
can wheat and cotton in Europe.
Stone added it was immaterial
to him whether farm board storks
\nv possible
no
or
were disposed of.
sales could as well be made from
the current crops, he said.
The board is not in a position
to set up any export credit cor
poration or a similar arrangement.
It would be limited to. selling
stocks on long term credit.
( * J
LAWSUITS AGAINST RAILROADS IN MONTANA — A MESSAGE TO
LAWYERS. LITIGANTS AND OTHER CITIZENS
The Wibaux Flood Disaster
By H. LOWNDES MAURY
N JUNE 7th, 1929, the
reading public of Mon
tana wias shocked to
learn that the prosper
ous little town of Wibaux,
La county seat, in the semi-ar
id fanning belt, had been
flooded to a depth of seven
feet. Three lives were lost
and perhaps a million dollars
in property ruined. Among
0
the dead were the old Meth
odist clergyman, Mr. Siebert,
and his wife, known for their
good deeds for a generation in
several sections of the state.
Every newspaper was silent
as to the cause of the flood.
The few independent weeklies
were uninformed. The com
pany owned and otherwise sub
sidized dailies possibly knew
but did not suggest that the
flood was the direct result of
an embankment maintained
for 40 years in defiance of
statute law by the Northern
Pacific railway company. This
railroad is a member in good
standing of the Grand Alli
ance for the muffled enslave
ment of the state.
This alliance is now well
known to be
(3) The Royal Milling Company
owned mostly in Minnesota;
(4) The Foreign Insurance Com
(1) The Anaconda Copper Min
ing Company with its daily news
papers; Billings Gazette, Living
ston Enterprise, Butte Daily Post,
Montana Standard (now defunct
Anaconda Standard), Misoula Sen
tinel, Daily Missoulian, Capital
City Clipper (morning edition lab
eled Helena Independent — after
noon edition called Montana Rec
ord Herald);
(2) The Montana Power Com
pany with original capital invest
e d less than 14 million dollars,
rates fixed for 100 million dollars;
panies;
(5) The Telephone and Telegraph
Communes
. P rm, '-i j / j
(6) The Railroads (and express
companies)—Great Northern (sur
plus 126 million dollars), Northern
Pactfic (surplus 193 million dol
lars), Umon Pacific System (sur
plUS xT 7 !^ m h ? n d °i ar v ), „îî llW o U '
kee, Northwestern, Burlington, Soo
Ste. Mane & Co;
(7) The Merger Banks (not in
dependent bankers by any means)
(on the board of directors of the
First Bank Stock Corporation, now
dwindling rapidly to death, appear
the presidents of about all the
other above named corporations);
(8) The State Bar Association,
run by 20 vice presidents careful
ly picked for being local counsel
for members of the Alliance; (mes
senger boys, tip-takers of annual
passes over railroads;
(9) Tag Rag and barbed tail»,
Polyanna Societies (Rotary etc.),
Company hospital doctors and
nurses, weekly newspapers with
annual passes and recipients of
petty advertisements;
10 State House parasites, Burke
Clements, the Governor, the Lieu
tenant Governor, Stafford, Com
mission#*!* o'f TiaViot* IYia TTHlifiAs
Commission, Lee° De^iis Dan
Boyle, Leonard Young; the Board
° p f Tax E ^^tion Stewart Murj,
Sf?® *** man 7 others; 1 -° cal ^
iticiansi, county commissioners,
sheriffs, assessors, county attor
neys, etc.;
(11) The Universities where the
f aC ulties, who should teach our
children how to think, fear to
speak their own thoughts. (A
Protestant myself, I realize, that
there is yet decent freedom of
UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE
GENERAL MEETING
AT THE
FARMER - LABOR TEMPLE
-ON
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7™, 1931
The meeting will start at 2:00 p. m. with a
discussion of general interest and a program.
DANCING IN THE EVENING
speech in the Catholic schools in
Montana.)
When any serious litigation be
gins against one member of this
alliance, the fight is really against
all. The rest join secretly or op
enly to route by a campaign of
slander, blackmailing, boycott,
falsehood and intimidation, back
stairs wispering to judges and jur
ors, anyone who dares to seek re
dress in the courts for wrongs per
petrated by any of this organized
gang of absentee landlords of this
state—harpies that have fed upon
Montana until our people are flee
ing from slavery. (Our population
is running away for the same
causes that made the population
of the slave states before the Civil
War increase les rapidly than that
of the free states.)
TRAIN WRECKED AND
THREE MEN DROWN—
Wibaux is on the first bench
bf Beaver Creek. The water
shed of the creek above the
railroad embankment crossing
the valley is of 342 square
miles. It has always been
barren of trees, giving fallen
water a fast runoff. The re
gion has been characterized by
U. S. Weather Reports for 30
years «as one of terrific falls
of rain. Eight years before
the flood of 1929 there had
been another flood, backed up
by the N. P. embankment to a
greater depth in part of the
town than the one of the dis
r Aster. During this previous
flood, a section of the embank
ment had been washed out, a
freight train wrecked and 3
section men of the railway
drowned. Almost every year
since 1900 the aperture under
the brid f. to °
J™ 11 and backed up flood wa '
. _ ... , .
According to the records of
the railway produced at the recent
trial at BakeJ% a flood m 1900 had
ac t ua ll y reached the girders of the
bridge, and as no bridge is de
si(rned for a side thrust, any tree
floating down stream would prob
ably have moved the bridge and
wrecked a train.
One of the railway's own
witnesses at the trial sw»ore
that years before the flood tof
1929 there had been a fall of
r «Mi in one day of nine inch
es measured by him. He also
said the average width of the
banks .™ iles up stl ^ aia
bndge was abou J
teeL Comon sense and
experience of railroad engi
neers demand that a bridge
opening he at least as kmg
" ,h * duu, " el " wlde -
WITH AN EMBANKMENT
15 FEET HIGH, ACROSS
THE VALLEY LEVEL 4, 000
FEET, FOR 31 YEARS THE
RAILROAD MAINTAINED
ONLY 1 fi^ E FEET
* 65 CHAN
^^ING OF THE CHA
WLL MAUL di INAi UKL *U
THE EXTENT OF 95 FEET,
-m.. inevitable consequence of
diso^en^for e^S Tany
other purpose) of nature's laws
il 1929
'
NO WARNING BY
RAILROAD PEOPLE—
The railway people knew
for 10 hours before the flood
that an enormous head of wa
ter was coming to Wibaux,
down Beaver Creek. From
Beach, North Dakota ,a branch
line of the Northern Pacific
Irans south, entering the Beav
er Creek water shed at Car
lisle, 25 miles, above Wibaux
as the highway runs, 50 miles
above Wibaux on the mean
ders of the river. Beaver
Vreek carried away much
track at Carlile 12 hours be
fore the same flood reached
Wibaux, The railroad people
at Wibaux and Beach knew
this with 10 hours time to
save Wibaux by blasting the
\embankment. No warning was
given until 4 a. m. A section
man coming in for a quick
change of doths, told his land
lady the water was rising at
the bridge. Wibaux with no
great local rainfall slept in
peace. Railroad men, silent as
to their purpose were loading
a rock train.
At 5 a. m. the water, chok
ed at the bridge, began to rise
on the town. The old device
to weight down and save a
dirt fill, with a rock train was
in evidence here. A train load
ed with quarry rock was sta
tioned for hours on the fill.
The crew never turned a hand
to aid the town people who
cried for help while the wat
ers rose. A division superin
tendent was in Charge. A
blasting of the embankment
might have saved three lives
and the property of everyone;
The waters steadily rose,
CHIVALRY NOT DEAD—
Frame boluses with women and
children were tottering. People
climbed trees. Floating ob
jects broke into buildings. Wa
ter, stinking with dead ani
mals, stable filth, silt, per
meated everything in town.
County records, city records,
business books, documents,
currency, pictures, clothing,
motor engines!, were utterly
ruined. Gallant men, young
and middle-aged, tied with
life ropes rescued shrieking
women and screaming children
from upper stories. A sleeper
in a one story cabin did not
awake in time to leave by door
or window. He was drowned
like a rat in a trap. The
Methodist parsonage floated
1500 feet, landed on the rail
way embankment, carrying to
their death the old clergy
man and his good wife.
The railroad embankment
gave way in four places about
11 o'clock a. m. The lake rush
(Continue« on pas« Four)
Snow Blocks Two Entries
to Yellowstone Park—
Blizzard In Wyoming
Helena, Oct. 26.—Snow descend
ed further on the slopes of Mon
tana's mountains last night, clos
ing two gates to Yellowstone park
and spreading over contiguous cit
ies.
Eighteen inches of snowfall
halter traffic at the park's south
ern entrance from Teton and its
eastern entrance from Cody. Snow
also fell at Mammoth but the road
through Mammonth from West
Yellowstone to Gardiner is still
open.
Two inches of snow lay on the
ground this morning at Bozeman,
with the temperature around 35
degrees and cloudy skies giving
promise of more precipitation.
BLIZZARD IN WYOMING
A blizzard that disrupted traf
fic and caused damage to power
and telegraph lines in southwest
ern Wyoming was sweeping across
.the state today. A high wind was
driving the snow which was melt
ing as fast as it fell, according to
the weather bureau reports from
Cheyenne.
A SON
A son was bom to Mr. and Mrs.
John Shoal of McElroy at a Minot
hospital on Wednesday, Oct. 21.
Mother and child are doing nicely.
Mr. Shoal who was in Minot to
greet his new son, returned home
Wednesday evening.
Nothing too Good f or Vets
Pittsburgh. — They picked
his body out of a packing
box in the rear of a Pitts
burgh restaurant. A world
war veteran's pin was the on
ly identification.
"Death by starvation" was
the verdict of the coroner's
jury.
He was buried with mili
tary honors.
Japan Protests
Presence of Big
Army In Sector
Niponese Do Not Appreciate Presence of Big Red Army
Near Border of Territory Under Dispute — Japanese
Foreign Minister Thinks Military Operations Might
Be Misinterpreted by Both China and Japan.
Tokio, Japan, October 28.— Baron Shidehara, the
Japanese Foreign Minister, in a memorandum forwarded
today to Moscow, requested that Russian troop demon
strations on the Manchuria-Siberia border be discontin
NEW CHANGES IN
FEED LOAN REGS
By the County Agent
On Saturday, Oct. 24 the new
regulations together with the new
mortgage forms for securing a
federal feed loan werg received by
the county extension office.
The new regulations provide
that loans for feed for livestock
to any individual farmer will not
be in excess of the amounts nec
essary to feed 20 head of cattle,
six work horses, 100 sheep and 10
brood sows at the following rates
per month for a period not to ex
ceed five months:
Cattle and work horses, $3 per
head; Sheep, 30 cent per head;
Brood Sows, $1 per head. The
total amount of the loan to- an:
individual family shall not be in
excess of $600.
The regulations provide the fol
lowing loan schedule:
If it shall appear that the said
first mortgage exceeds the sum
of $25 per head on work horses;
$30 per head on milk cows and
pure bred cow; $17.60 per head
on stock cows; $20 per head on 2
year old milk heifers and pure
bred heifers; 15 pr*- head on 2
year old stock heifers; $10 per
head on yearling stock cattle; $2.
75 per head on sheep; and $6 per
head on brood sows, the holder of
said first mortgage in sonsidera
tion of the government making a
feed loan, shall waive in favor of
the United States all that portion
of said first mortgage in excess
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YAH. COME!
It won't be long now before the
ascendency of the porcine epider
mis elipsoid which only recently
superceded the equine epidermis
spheroid will be challenged by the
bovine cuticle spheroid.
REPORT OF REGULAR ANNUAL
EXAMINATION OF THE AFFAIRS
OF THE COUNTY BY ST.EXAMINER
The following are the notes submitted with the report
of the regular annual examination of the books, records
and affairs of the County of Sheridan, as made by B. A.
Risley, Deputy State Examiner, said examinations com
mencing on the 28th day of July 1931 and concluding
the I 3th day of August 1931.
on
At the time of this examination
the following items in the Treas
urer's cash are unacceptable and
were not cleared during the peri
od of the examination:
Cashiers check for $850.00 on
the closed Farmers and Mrechants
State Bank of Plentywood dated
July 9, 1931, made out in favor of
the Medicine Lake Wave and en
dorsed Medicine Lake Wave by
Mrs. Jos. Dolin;
Check of L. E. Hedn dated June
4, 1931 on the Farmers and Mer
chants State Bank, closed, for
$188.34;
Check of O. M. Stadig dated
May 30, 1931, drawn on Farmers
and Merchants State Bank for
$108.98;
Check of
Ernest Goodman
drawn on Noonan, North Dakota
Bank for $324.88, dated Novem
her 28, 1930;
Balance on check of Hurshell
H. Callahan drawn on Security
Sthte Bank of Outlook, dated
April 1931, for $118.17 — some
money has been paid towards the
taking up of thi Scheck.
These items should all be clear
ed up immediately. All tax items
should be cancelled if the checks
are not paid and suit should be
started on other items.
Treasurer does not need to take
checks and when he does, it is a
matter of accommodation. If the
The
Tued. He declared the mili
tary operations might be
misinterpreted.
Shidehara's communication re
lated that Russian troop demonr
strations were causing a demoral
izing effect on the Japanese as
well as the Chinese soldiers.
The foreign minister said he
was deeply concerned,
Chinese reports to the Japanese
consul at Tsitsihar indicate that
between 20,009 and 30,000 Rusisax
soldiers are concentrated in the
vicinity of Pbgranitchnaya, or Su
if enho, north of Vladivostok and
also west of Manchouli on anoth
er front.
Russian papers say the troop»
have been stationed in the vicinity
for months and are merely car
rying out maneuvers.
T drio newspapers today publish
ed Harbin dispatches stating the
Russians have sent arms and airw
unitioi to the Amur army, com
posed " f Chinese and Mongols,
wafc- 4» • as
tablish Amur as an independent
state with Tsitishar as the capitaL
The Russians deny this and
claim that Japanese interests are
merely upset because the presence
of Russian soldiers has caused
many of their schemes for con
quest of more Chinese territory
to fall through.
POSTPONED
ANNUAL MEETING
-of the
SHERIDAN COUNTY TAXPAY
ERS ASSOCIATION
at 1:00 p. m. at Antelope.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5th
Election of officers, new polio»
and other business to be considered
including disposition of the print
ing investigations.
A show down on a number of
matters is desired and more bach
ing is needed.
THOMAS SUNDSTED,
Vice-President.
E. I. SYVERUD,
Acting Secretary.
people will not protect their cheeks
and see that they are paid prompt
ly, the Treasurer will be forced to
go on a strictly cash basis awi
accept nothing but cash.
MONEY DUE
SINKING FUND—
There is still about $18,000.00
(Continued on page two)
OUTLOOK GRADES
PRESENT OPERETTA
Tre lower grade pupils of the
Outlook schools will present an op
eretta, "Enchanted Garden" Friday
November 6 at 8 p. m. at the Out
look theatre. The following is a
brief synopsis of the play:
cents. The patronage of the
munity will be appreciated.
Peggy loses her way in the
woods. She falls asleep and awakes
among the fairies in the enchant
ed garden. She spends the night
with the fairies and their >iueeu.
They entertain her by dancing and
singing their songs. Peter Pan
grants her wish to see a Chinese
boy, and then cals the Japanese -
girl for a companion, to him, us
file winds grow cold the fairies
leave the enchanted garden.
The admission will be 25 and 15