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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SALINA. UTAH Scenes and Persons. in the Current News r & & s ::. x x i' x M6'x5A. "Mhtw . eA x : V t ... VIGILANTES WAR ON RURAL CRIME , ,.,. ... .. x ,, x c: Loss From Farm Thefts Is Greater Than From Bank Robberies and Kidnaping in; Illinois; Organize Vigilante Corps . . 's "-- L WILLIAM . . UTLEY The kidnaper? The gang Enemy No.-1bank . robber? The 'racketeer? The . it is these desperadoes, whose . Perhaps. make the big Headlines. Their ruthless and spectacular .exploits merciless work., often conducted right out in the open, is not infrequently touched up w'ith a bit of showmanship which makes which fire the public imagination. them the type The urgency for exercising every piethod w ithin human means for .apprehending these criminals is not to be minimized. But the. very publicity, ascending By . ;;itHnnfp;i v fliiW WHO S.l. C. At-.lea- ' commander. 2 Infection of the capitol police in Washington by Capt. William S. Orthman, center, their leader of the Blum, Mr vl.ew of the 'new $0,000,000 Inland port at Brownsville, Texas,; just officially opened. new the government. of. as head and countrys France Socialist party of spchthe 1-- 3-- Leon Plari for. Banker Is. Accused; of Complicity. in Mail Robberies ' Oliver P: Arnold, assistant dent erf the Denver National liAnk of ITenver, Colo., was 'one. of eleven; per Pan-Americ- Hospital an Pr iBf rlcirn1 t yt.Kfr'wXw I S x yj. r - " t - sometimes to outright ballyhoo in crime Inspector in.pilier states. the enthusiasms .of the more vig- Saunders, working under Walter I,. whichorous press, attends their McLaughlin, state director of agricomings and goings- - unfortunately culture, and jn close overshadows another type of pubwith press and radio, has served as lic enemy, who- works quietly and tlie foeal head for the campaign. in most eases Inconspicuously hut Already it is hearing fruit, fifr wjiose evil deeds are often of. more while the decrease in crime throughserious consequence than those of out the nation generally last year his more spectacular brother In was 13 per cent,- - the decrease In crime . Illinois was 40 per cent. Especially The citizen who lives .in . rural in the last six months has the fight areas oe on tfie farms often enter- against mail crime proved to be a tains tliisj R'u nil Public. Enemy No. victorious one for Justice. 1 in his own back yard without It begun in Joliet, Will county, with knowing it. For tills is a mass meeting in which more than chicken thief. lie and the oth1,000 farmers gathered following the ers of his kind who steal horses, murder of youthful John llliverniehl, cattle, and .farm .produce and ma- who went to investigate a suspicious chinery are, collectively, far more car' in the neighborhood of his emimportant to the farmer than nil of ployer's farm and was shot in cold blood. F.ugene Shiltut, the nrgrb who . the bank robbers in creation. killed hint, escaped, but was found Importance Ii Unrealized. later. in Tennessee, shot to death by b bullet from a ,22. . Chicken stealing is usually- - re Because Will county was the first per- garded as u low type .to declare' war. on .rural smal.1 the the openly fry, petrated nnlyby 1i an oil station and the furtive man- ner of its occupants aroused suspicion. The women copied the .name, and address from the side, of the Eugene Shilcut, chicken thief who slew Joliet (III.) youth and was later slain himself in Tennessee. truck. Tlie result vvas an arrest, followed by conviction and the re-- , covery of the cattle by tlie owner. A fanner near Chicago saw a .cor parked along the open highwa'y for no apparent 'reason. He became suspicious, took down the license number and reported result, was the arrest of-- 28 chicken thieves who-haoperated as it gang and. hail stolen thousands of head of poultry in northern Illinois: ' In anotlier case a t to'an Irolf a transporting the cattle through Illinois to his farm near South Bend, Ind. Two women saw his truck at g t s Hal oil . d station' to buy gasoline at two oclock on a Ilis actionrf cohj winter morning. didnt and .general conversation quite ring true. They were. reported .' and. Sheriff Clarence Roth of Champaign county caught several cattle . and hog thieves ns a result. . x 6ther Methods Help. Cases Just like these can be rat-tleoil by the hundreds. tion by all tlie farmers, a really simple tM tip to accomplish In areas wlipre losses have been fieavy, Is .about all. that is needed. It has been shown that the gangs pull up stakes when the. farmers unite . . a'gainst them. Tliere are other method. which can .be of-- great help. A large number of h'en houses are now being equipped with burglar alarms which But even have proved effective. more, important Is the institution in each state of- - uniform registration, of poultry and livestock. If it were required fhat some kind of Identithe web of fication mark 'lie put-o- n tlie wing ofr poultry and on the, ear. or some part of the body of aninmfs tha( would be a protection. It is all too freifiient an occurence that suspected criminals, when their . cases come to trial, are of necessity acquitted . because . the complaining farm y has ntf way iif positively idem tifyin'g his poultry or his live stock. This,bfandfng can make such' idenli n riiif. 1 the-wm- Only, Boulder Dam Is Higher Than This . g stolen property, and thus Improves, chances of convicting crirtiinals. .. Post-Gradua- ... n Latfn-Aineriea- n Thfs new method of identification is applied to the ear of livestock or of poul- -' under the vyeb of try. It facilitates Identification of , This Is an architects drawing of the proposed hospital which will be constructed in New York at a cost of about $7,000,000 and which will be ready for occupancy In 193S. Similar structures will be built In Central and South America. The New York Institution will be the first of its staff students, physicians and surIts kind In this country and will have-o. nations. geons from n sons arrested for complicity in .extensive mail robberies. The charges were brought by United States post office Inspectors. 1 D. Leigh Colvin . Nominated by Drys for the Presidency "The Prohibition party in its national convention at Niagara Falls, N. Y., crime, the results of its meeting and organization were watched with interest by the ent.ire Middle West. The farmers of the county themselves were in a fever heat of Indignation- against the three or four complaint of theft which had heeft made to authqrities every night. From evidence uncovered at. this meeting and at meetings iti other parts' of the state it been nre apparent that rural thievery wusMot.tbe work of fndiylduals, .but of gangs, Often these gangs were. led by criminals who hail been driv-frothe cities by the; efficient tliere, against .crinpcantjiaign These leaders Hilred men. .to .make .systematic stnall tliefts.; t be combined lotal of all of them was t new 'racket ns the state, says Saunders, there . were enough to stamp lie ' . head important. 20,000 stolen 1,500,000 cluckejis, of cattle and uncoiinleil tools and .mi-- ' 'Cattle Ku.tling Returns. hungry hobo ifr lhe wayward, minstrel-joke darkey. Ofteh when the thief is caught he Is sent on hjs way with a kick In the pants or is simply given a: good.scarq. It is not unusual to find the farmer he has attempted to burglarize protecting him from prosecution tthlclf might net him six months on a state peiial farm, a sentence that might lie re-- , garded as a little stiff for just stealing a eliiken or two. Stiff sentence? Tfie monetary loss to farmers last, year in one state plane Illinois from cfneken stealing ami fundred rural crimes wus mote limn the loss-il- f the entire nation from bunk robberies and 'kuhinfliniis, according to Host C. Saunders rural crime prevention inspector for the slate agriculture department, from the 2.11,01)0 farms of sea-sont-- d - ", filaments. , tification possible. . method bus been developed in Illinois which seems to fill the bill and which will probably he adopted soon by the farmers of other stales. Tlie mark Is quickly applied with a simple, tool and tlie application .is A .Even cattlt- rustling besanie big Other states have been subjected t(f tin- gang4, alUioiigli it to enormous Kisse.s fioni what seems husiiK-son the surface to hA pet tv thievery. .wa.s not, . to lie 'sure, the cattle in Indiana by rustling of the old Wert. In Jlicsft A survey ooiidncfod a farm magazine revealed that in a days of smooth, concrete highways trucks it is possi-.hle- . single.-yea- r there wen- 5MI.1S5 head and a to steal few head (if cattle, of poultry stolen, 2.322 hogs, 3.212 a truck and move them oirtp buid 7,12.1 head of other livestock, gaL lons of .gasoline, 27,122 husheta of them across a. state .ii,i a 'single t luv gangs worked in grain. There were Slit thefts of tools? night. Often relays, one'truck Vpiriting away the ftoieii anjmals apd. anotlier waiting for .the load to he transferred to it at, 4lie state ii tie. Sometimes' the" was .itMJair 4U miles gatjgs liidf-oli- t . most of awyy from the .area wh(.-retlu-i- r was thievery perpetrated. Farmers, .slow to. awaken to the nee 'seijousness . of the "(lisdppeaVnnce .Owyhee dam, mhin feature of . the irrigation works .of the new Owj New ot Colvin nominated. I). Leigh second highest border,. federal reclamation .project oh the.Oregon-IiVih- o of their livestock, and chickens a t .York for President of the United few head at. a finp. were often en.dam In the United States, second only to the great Boulder dam. .It is 4U5fec-.. State's. acre-fee- t capacity which In height and creates a stortige reservoir of tirely Unaware that Choir neighsimilar will serve 112, OOQ acres of land, r.ouldardam on the Colorado river is 5.70 feet bors . were experiencing Largest. Library relosses. Small losses high and has a pow.er plant .capable of developing l,i00;000 horsepower. .One of . of congress is the e.d ; cases in some farmers the greatest engineering projects of its kind In ;tlie. world, Boulder dam ow.es port ' . . largest. ip the world.. its inception to President-- Theodore. Roosevelt in 1007. . thought tlieiflselves fully capalile of. coping with a common John Bliyernicht, whose murder chicken thief. Where it wa.s actualat the hands pf a ruralthief stirred ly discovered that .the thefts- were, Illinois farmers to action. .. . tffie work of gang or of the more farm far more humane-fliallie old iime desperate type of criminal families- - hesitated V report tliefts with a Jiot ironarjd is In Iiranding r-for fear ttie Imrglars woniil. return effect' somewhat similar to tattooi' . and set t.heir houses or farm build-kigs- ' ng: (in-.- . on . . ? 'Sv would also ., 2 y Bryndlng, of i The unsu er seems now, to- - be that "in remove, tlie .packing companies Iiniorj there is strength. Tbiity days whicli buy the fifrniers product Ross "C. Saunders, leader" in Illiin ufter'the.Wjll county fanteers.met and from .embarrassing positionsable crime to nois model rural organized. Sheriff llreen tins prevention which they sometiipes find report that fhievryy hjid stopped.'- ... campaign. . . They occasionally and. quite . Howdid. these fanners efleet this innocently,- buy stolen poultry or and uopleLiients,.i3j thefts of clotit-.Ing- , eflieient cean-nso. swift . Ji witiioht from thieves 1)07 thefts of goods and .2,253 Reeled . Ears Opened, Eyes knowing .it. and thus help foster misc'ellunenus.thnfts from farms.' Tlie law makes it man-- . Definite instructions are given ail .In Illinois chicken tlidffs, for ten fjir-tliIn-dator.V and Farmers buyers of stolen .area. the years during which some sort (if farmers to be. on goodS to reimburse the losers upon are families trained their heeii cheek has .maintained, haye, stolen. proof that; tlie property the lookout for suspicious automoaveraged about a rnilli cm head of Western Newspaper Union. biles strang-(u- s and 12,000 head, chickens annua-Hand. situations.. Wlien a theft is of livestock. T.lie . situation, v., Street Scenes in, Siam a cljmax when a younj; man reportpd. tlie firrmers - .immediately ora aefions of scenes in Siam present a Street persons feport any d of Will county was brutally of Chinese and Malayan nature mixture that may .they siispic'ious to his irbtect wliile ti'yirtg olisCrveH-a- t costumes-.-in- d or time have tlie netir iackgroiiiid that comemployer agajnst loss at the hands of the theft. More often than not pose a continuous panoramic series . of Jthieves, called for action. tlie inforrnatiorf obtained leads Jo of intriguing pictures.- The "women Mas. Meeting Start. It. a sfdution of tlie crime! liae ij clever way of wrapping seen with their cans, getting mulligan, . How this works, niii.v be shown' their sahufgs so as to form iron Action that was. taken intliis state Delegates to the convention of tiieTlobocsof- America in Louisville, Ky., are ' . was honored by the convention with the title, Supreme Sir Knight. .lie had has proved so successful that now by a few examples: sers instead of skirts. The Siamese llarry L. Ilopkiris. WIA administrator, . King of the Hoboes without .Illinois methods are Jeff Davis wis.re-elefcteami gracious previously hold the lessor title, HSij- Knight of he Rnad-- " :a. Recently a man was- - convicted of are a In cattle-stealinSt. Louis. 1IC.7 in been convention He had to Iowa. . hold Ptiral their voted model for.tlie combat against opposition. The delegates - - s ast-iuovl.iig - is-th- 00 wen-.seldo- y . Hoboes Getting Mulligan at Their Convention - n k y. ,UT thVm-sclfe- p -- rural-crime- .. e . s whicli-reache- mur-deN-- d eoui-teou- serv-ing-a- s . g peo-P.le- . s. |