Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-18 | Page 7 | Farmers in Illinois Arm to Fight Cattle Rustlers

Farmers in Illinois Arm I To fight Cattle Rustlers JOLIET Ill S Sept pt 18 UP UP Determined t to shoot to kill 2000 Will Vill county farmers ers today oiled their shotguns placed them within easy reach and awaited the alarm larm that will call them to battle batUc c cat cat- t- t tIe tle rustlers 4 The he Will wm C County Theft association adopted the b Get Y Your ur Shotgun Modern cattle rustlers traveling cling In light fast trucks trucks- have stolen hundreds of head of oC valuable cattle In the Chicago area area in rec recent n months The They arc are blamed for for the sl slaying ying of a R f farmhand d near near here several weeks kS ago Ross Saunders personal represent representative sent Uv of of- Governor Henry Horner Horner Hor- Hor ner ncr called caned caneda a a. a mo mobilization meeting last night Ight Farmers agreed gr ed to rally their scattered forces l Into to a solid organization with units in each township Saunders brought word from Crom Governor Horner Homer th that t the complete state Blate police system would be available in any necessity Sheriff Michael J. J Breen was Vas was cheered when he hc told the farmers Dont come t ti to my my office and ask it you b have v to have a deputy's card to shoot a prowler Shoot em and then come Tn and ask me Vigilante days dRs of ot the old old west when r ranchers organized to lynch c cattle thieves were recalled at the meeting Saunders pointed out that loss losses s sIn in Illinois as as r sult of ot poultry and cattle thefts total fr from m 2000 to to a year while in peak times bank thefts hefts amoun amounted ed to only 3 Harvey Wood attorn attorney y for tor the Puro Pure Milk Milk association expressed the attitude of tho the farmers farmers' toward cattIe cattle cat cat- tIe tle and poultry thieves when he lie declared declared de de- de- de dared f i i iThe J The best way to scare scare- a rat Is Isto Isto Isto to send a singed rat back to his brethren The o only ly j j jury ry from which there is no appeal is fa a a. coroners coroner's coroners coroner's coro coro- ners ner's jury