The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-24

ing the life out of the soviet govern.
ment. Denikine kept up his advance
on Moscow, capturing Orel and other
important points. The army of the
northwest under Yudenitch took Luga
and pressed on toward Petrograd,
whose fall was imminent. This army,
it was said, was working in close un-
Outstanding with Admiral Kolchak
whose Siberian troops were pushing
| the bOlshevfki back to the European
| border These three commanders have
rejected all overtures from Germany,
maintaining their connection with the
allies.
An official dispatch from Archangel
said the North Russian forces were
pursuing the bOlsheviki in the direc-
ton of Omega after occupying their
fortified positions along the railroad,
capturing guns and prisoners and de-
stroying an armored train. In fact,
they seem to be doing very well with
out the help of the British and Amer
lean troops that We're withdrawn.
Meanwhile the British fleet in the
Baltic was very busy. The supreme
council having declared a blockade of
all Russian bolshevik ports, number
OF German vessels were seized. Then
the British warships moved on Kron-
stadt. After a severe bombarlment It
was evacuated by the bolsheviki and
the fleet entered the harbor. All neu-
tra' nations have been asked to Join
in the blockade of bolshevist Russia.
Lieutenant DAnnunzio seems ia
have adopted more yielding attitude
in regard to Fiume, which he still
holds. He has sent to Premier Gle.
menceau an appeal to take the initia.
tive In obtaining from the allied gov
ernments declaration making F!ume
an open port. The present Italian plan
contemplates an independent buffer
state at Fiume with the extension of
Italian control over the strip of coast
from Fiume to Trieste so the new
state shall abut on Italian territory
on that side and not be surrounded
by Jugo-Slavia influence. The dan.
ger of war over this problem is fad.
ing. D'Annunzio sent word t. Paris
that he had drafted a manifesto urging
both Serbs and Italians to recognize
mutual national rights and to main.
tain the bonds OF brotherhood which
have been sealed by blood.''
Prices Of food throughout the Uni.
ted States have fallen almost 25 pe,
cent. according to Attorney General
Palmer. But housewives, also through.
out the United States, are asking why
1t this is true. they are forced to pay
as much as ever or more when they
visit the retail dealer.
The cost of leather and of footwea,
has dropped 20 per cent since the mid.
die OF August. says the president of
the National Boot and Shoe Manufac.
turers' association. But the consumer
Is still paying exorbitant prices for
his shoes. and the aforesaid presiden,
explains that the shoes now being man.
fractured at reduced cost will not be
marketed before next April.
The tremendous hullabaloo about
reducing the cost Of living and punish.
ing the prof1teer has dwindled until
1t can scarcely be heard with the aid
OF microphone. Just at present the
consumer Is exercised about the suga,
situation which promises to develon
into famine with % cents a pound
ar HAnoon1Nx1
amounts of sugar to be had. The do.
nestle output is nowhere near enough
ana 1t seems most of the Cuban crop is
going to Europe. Dealers blame our
government for this condition because
1t limited the wholesale price While
European dealers were willing to nav
anything.
The federal trade commission came
to bat again with another of it's reports
attacking the big packers. stating thew
now handle more than POO food prod.
ucts not related to the meat indus.
try and bid fair to dominate the whole
sale grocery trade, dividing the field
among themselves.
VI course the packers. this time
through Louis 3. Swift. declared the
trade commissions figures were great.
~ exaggerated and the conclusions
based on them utterly absurd. As MS
ua'' the big five can supply facts and
hgures to uphold their entire limo.
cence' nut for some reason the &. neral
public has learned to look askance :.
IL. the statistics these gentlemen produce
ih's may be due to what the trade com.
mission calls "the maze and secrecy
"f the packers methods of conducting
much Of his business"