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did not come, as the plan of the
Sioux had been spoiled by prema-
ture discovery.
''Liver-Eating" Johnson, who,
with seven other men were en-
camped on the other side of the ri
yer, heard the shot and hurried
across in time to see the Indians
leaving the fringe of the timber
for the hills. After a conference
it was decided to attack the Sioux
and Johnson was placed in COM
mand. AS they drew near the
edge of the timber they found the
Indians were moving towards the
camp in a wide circle, but as the
whites appeared new plan was
evolved and a cunning trap laid.
The Indians started off in a mad
gallop toward the distant hills with
the idea of drawing the whites out
in pursuit. 1t was a clever trick
but it did not fool an old Indian
fighter like Johnson. While a
part of the Sioux had ridden off
into the hills a larger party had
made a detour and returned to
deep coulee which opened into the
Musselshell bottom.
Under Johnson's plan of cam
paign three men with Winchesters
were sent across the river to pro-
tected position commanding the
coulee while the rest of the party
was so divided that no avenue of
escape from the coulee was left
open. AS a result when firing COM
menced the Sioux were picked off
like rats in a trap.
Seeing the helplessness of their
position, the Indians held a pow
WOW, but Johnson refused to make
terms and told them to get out if
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BIG CORN CROP IN
HILL COUNTY
1.-THE Estimated acreage Of corn In

uy HE estimated acreage of corn in
Hill county for this season is
1 between $1,000 and 10000
acres, which is many times the
amount of corn that has been seeded
in the history of the county, accord
ing to County Agent e. B. Duncan.
With ample rainfall almost assured
it looks as though conditions are IA
vorable for a bumper crop.
There are seven variety test plots
being grown by farmers in various
sections of the county. These test
plots consist of three pounds each of
ten varieties, namely, Brown County
Dent, Wisconsin No. %, Minnesota
No. 10, Minnesota No. %. Pioneer
White Dent, three strains of North
western Dent, Gehu Flint and Dako-
tia White Flint.
Records will be kept on these var
iety tests taking into consideration
the condition of the land, last year,
preparation of the land for planting,
cultivation, date Of ripening, height
of ear on stalk, height of stalk, and
yields
Since trials will be carried on by
the farmers themselves under actual
farm conditions in different parts of
the county some very valuable in
formation should result from the test.
In addition to the seven variety
corn tests, IS boys have enrolled in
the Hill county corn club.
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Big .Cron In Northeast.

A succession of excellent rains dur
ing the last two weeks has made crop
prospects in northeastern Montana
the best in years, according to the
estimates of local residents. 1t is
generally conceded that there is
enough moisture in the ground now
to make crop without further pre-
cipitation. However, it is predicted
that with few rains later in the sea-
son this section of Montana will har-
vest larger crop this year than ever
before.
Travellers say that northwestern
North Dakota has also received an
abundance of moisture and it is re-
ported that train service on the 500
Line north of here was temporarily
interrupted recently by flooded
tracks.
Highways in all directions are re-
ported rough, due to the rains, but
passable.
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'RICHLAND PROJECT
MAKING PROGRESS
~ NE OF THE best illustrations of
1 \ the development of diversified
~ farming in Montana over an ex-

| ~ NE OF THE best illustrations of
4 the development of diversified
~ farming in Montana over an ex-
tensive area is furnished on the Low
er Yellowstone reclamation project
| in Richland county. Construction of
the project, which was begun in 1904,
is virtually completed, the area to
which water can be supplied being
about $4,000 acres. In the early
years grain and alfalfa were the prin-
cipal crops grown. About eight years
ago a start was made in sugar beets,
and except during the war period
there has been an annual increase
in the acreage devoted to this crop
The large increase has come, how
ever, in the past three years. In 1923
about three thousand acres were de-
voted to sugar beets. This year $500
acres we're signed up or sugar beets
and about $500 acres are now in that
crop.
In addition to the sugar beets the
area devoted to seed peas, this season
is $50 acres, grown under contract.
On that part of the project north of
Fairview the increase in beet acreage
has been over last year 1900 acres.
A considerable acreage has also been
planted to beans this year.
In 1921 there was organized on the
project mutual dairy loan associa-
ton, SIS goods cows and five regis
tered bulls being brought in as a
starter. Each year since the receipts
of cream at Sidney, where there is a
creamery, have doubled. Within a
month there will be cheese factory
Fairview and also a creamery, work
on each, now being prosecuted. The
of hogs, poultry and poul-
try products has kept pace with the
diversification of farm crops.
Sheep and cattle feeding on the
farms has also witnessed a steady
growth, due in large part to the an
nual increase in the production of
corn. This year Richland county has
in 10000 acres of corn. A big crop
of this grain was grown last year,
and so brisk was the demand for it
that the production was not equal to |
the local demand, several cars being
shipped in
The feeding and fattening opera
tions that have been conducted by the |
farmers for two or three years have |
proved the business is profitable |
With corn, alfalfa, beet tops, they |
nave right on the farm feeding stuffs, |
and they have made profit which in
he past has gone to the eastern feed
,r on his purchase of Richland county
ambs and half fat cattle.
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they could. The first to make a
break was shot down and the pot
shooting continued until finally
they made a general rush only to
run into the fire of another party.
When the general fight was over
90 Sioux were stretched lifeless on
the ground.
But the affair was not over as a
number of the wounded had
crawled off to hide in the timber
along the bottoms. These were
searched out and killed as it was
decided to let none escape.
Johnson found one buck as he
was crawling away to the prairie,
seriously but not fatally wounded.
AS Johnson approached, the In
dian turned to make his last fight
for life. Waiting until Johnson
was close to him he let fly his last
arrow, but he was weak from loss
of blood and the arrow was poorly
aimed. 1t whizzed harmlessly by
Johnson's head.
Johnson was upon him in an in
slant and, finding the Indian I'M
armed, pulled out his hunting
knife, grasped the Indians scalp
lock and with a few quick slashes
with the sharp blade, jerked the
scalp from the Indians head. Then
siezing him Johnson threw the In
dian across his knee, twisted the
head around until every muscle was
tense, gave it one fearful slash with
he knife and the painted head came
off in his hand.
He walked quickly back to his
comrades, rifle in one hand and
the bloody knife in the other. One
Of the party noticed a shred of flesh
hanging to the blade and asked
what it was.
THAT" said Johnson, is piece
If the Indians liver. | just had
least off of one and thought may
oe some of you would like taste.
Try it,
None appeared DESTROYS of par
aking of the tid-bit whereupon he
aid:
"You don't know how good it
$. | eat nothing else when I am
tut on the plains, if I can get In
Ian livers. They taste best raw"
With that he lifted the knife to
lis mouth and made motion as
hough he was eating the stuff. In
eality he dropped it to the ground
y a twist of his hand. But the
road red splatch across his beard
ave the spectators contrary
pinion. From that day he was
nown far and wide as 'Liver-Eat-
lg" Johnson.
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HOW "LIVER-EATING'
GOT HIS ODD NAME,

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BY GEO. P. GOODEARL

/" HE QUESTION of the right kind
of feed for poultry becomes more
Il important considering. that a
four-pound hen laying 120 eggs a
year produces four times her body
weight in eggs and in so doing con-
sumes 20 times her body weight in
feed, says Geo. P. Goodearl, poultry
man for the Montana State College.
Since eggs are manufactured from
the food that is consumed it is quite
essential, according to Mr.. Goodearl,
that the poultryman know something
of the egg producing value of the
food that is being placed before the
hens. The Montana poultry raiser
is interested in knowing the feeding
value of the different grain that are
raised in Montana.
In considering the matter of feed
ing value it must be remembered that
the value of feed is expressed in
terms of proteins, carbohydrates, fats,
ash and water, with protein often the
most deficient element and the most
costly. Proteins are required for
blood, feathers, tendons, muscles and
the whites of the eggs. Carbohy
vi dISo PlOuuCO OnO1 69J hCdb5 AoS ohN
the egg yolks. Fats are needed for
the same purpose as carbohydrates
but are considered about two and
onehalf times as efficient. Ash is
needed for the production of she'll
and bone. The Importance of water
is indicated from the fact that the
body of the hen is composed of
about Sc per cent water and the egg
is about IS per cent water. In adj
dition water aids digestion, fills and
distends tissues and aids in regulat-
ing body temperatures.
Following is abrief discussion of
the value of different Montana grown
feeds for egg production and fatten-
ing, as prepared by Mr.. Goodearl.
Corn and its by-products-Cons |
ering the country as whole, corn
and its by-products form the most i'm
portant poultry feed. 1t is very pal
atable and much relished by poultry,
as we'll as highly digestible. Corn is
very high in carbohydrates and fat
but is low in protein. 1t is thus un-
suitable when fed alone to poultry, |
but extremely valuable when fed in
combination with other grains. 1t is
probably our most efficient grain for
Corn meal, which is simply the
whole corn ground fine, is distinctly
Useful in the mash ration. Being
nigh in carbohydrates and fat, it is
particularly valuable when used in a
ration.
Gluten meal, gluten feed and hon.
ny are all by-products of corn. Gu
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extraordinary and serious always was
made, long prior to the naming of the
Meyer-M committee, the COM
ing of the matter to the attention of
President Coolidge, organization of
the agricultural relief corporation or
other developments that focused at
tention on the northwest. From the
first, the statements of many men in
public life, presumably sincere in
their beliefs that remedy for a con-
dition resulting from unprecedented
economics effects could be found in
legislation, have exaggerated the ST.
tuation.
Unbalanced Wheat Acreage
The wheat harvest of 1914 in the
northwest was just in the making
when the European war came on. In
1915 these states added 1,946,000
acres. Continued expansion brought
the wheat acreage to an annual av-
erage of $685. 200 in the war years
1915 to 1918. Every additional pres
sure was brought to increase it when
the United States entered the war. In
1919 there were 20,408,000 acres
planted and a short crop, only 1922
100000 bushels. In 1920 the acre
age dropped sharply to 17.513,000
acres. Land initiation and a multi
tude of minor influences entered.
The territory was grotesquely over
banked with little $4,000 capital
institutions, sometimes three in
town of 500 to 1000 people and bank
guarantee deposit laws in some states
told the people one bank was as good
as another. A period of troubled
readJustment was inevitable.
Through the long period of repeat
ed presentation of plans for Iegisla-
tive remedy by vociferous advocates
and the rise of sudden and success
full politicians in the several states
whose success came from promises to
the farmers, no real student of the
situation ever believed that the re-
medy lay in the legislative halls. Up
to and including the lately defeated
McNary-Haugen bill myriad of pro-
posals have been advocated with en-
phasized and exaggerated statements
OF distress as necessary accompani-
ment.
Here and there an adverse happen
ing may yet be heard of as the storm
recedes, but the pessimism arising
from belated discovery of what has
been history for three and one-half
years will do no good. The RENE
dies are being applied-not by legis-
latures but by merchants, city bank
ers, the railroads, newspapers, the ag-
ricultural credit corporation, the
farmers themselves. Nothing of the
potential wealth of this territory has
been lost. Agricultural diversified
ton is the biggest single thing now
under way in the northwest, and it is
coming everywhere. 1t takes time,
OF course, to make dairy or diversi-
Iled farmer out of one-crop farmer.
But great progress already has been
made.
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CHILDREN CRY FOR @CASTORIA"
Harmless Substitute for Castor OH, Paregorc Drops
and Soothing SWups - No Narcotics!

Mother! Fletcher's Castoria has
been in uss for over 80 years to re-
lieve babies and children of Constipa-
ton, Flatulency, Wind Colo and
Dtarrhea; allaying Feverishness aris-
ing therefrom, and, by regulating the
Stomach and Bowels. aids the assim-
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Washington-Distr of the
blanks for adjusted war service COM
pensation has been started through
legion posts. Six million blanks will
be sent out.
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Escalion, GAIA Jersey COW, %
years of age, recently gave birth to
her 22nd calf and is producing 40
pounds of butterfat monthly. She
gives evidence of being good for SER
vice for many years.
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MILITARY ACADEMY

College Preparatory. Accredited. Separ-
ate Junior School, grades to s. Modified
Military System. Undenominational with
Christian influences. Register any time.
Summer Camp in High Sierras, both cultur-
al and recreational. Catalog. Camp folder.
Address school, R d. No. 2, Box 12F, Pasa-
deha, Calf.
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Blackstone Military Academy

In the healthful Piedmont Region of Vir-
ginia. College Preparatory and Business
Administrative Courses. Best Home In
fluences. Modern Fireproof Equipment.
All Sports Free Booklet, Glow the Boy
Lives" Address Va, Blackstone, Box @,
Colonel E. S. Ligon President.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
A Call to the Workers Of Chile and Peru
Yankee Capitalists Foment War Between the Latin Nations
in Order to Weaken and Conquer Them

in Order to Weaken and Conquer Them
comrsdesI
In the of all the keeny
from the crimes Of Yankee imperialism
The principal obstacle the definite triumph
Yankee imperialism the
the OF extreme SOUTH IN to nuy
these
to DO what it has Mexico
part Of South America the octopus Of Yankee Imperialism preparing
fratracda between Chile Peru Argentine
newspapers been
firing between
Gates to what degree the forces imperialism
the realization Of their plans
Pretending mpartap the dispute over the
provinces Of Aes the government
time, navy
together with other officers
the country"
carried out Brazil ordering Admiral
Argentina Not that Yankee Imperialism favorable Brazil
Argentina pna Chile wishes to
(Aoentna chIe) to
all
toward continental imperialism
The only LatnAmerioa rescune
Brazil Argentina arriving the
nnsO Haiti Nicaragua Mexico etc. action resoue immediate and
imminent and unity the forces Of all the continent against
patriotism tarIs the agents Of Yankee
Imperialism Chile Peru will betay
to the House Of Morgan.
feeding
by the bourgeois armies The not
past future present
If the Chilean Peruvian
Of the United States the both nations
against gov
ernments, overthro~ing them if necessary
future Of all the
Begin
WAR AGAINST FRATRcIDAL WAR;
AGAINST YANKEE IMPERIALISM
FORWARD FEDERATION OF WORKERS, AND FARM.
ERs' GOVERNMENTS OF BOTH coNTNENTsI
LONG LIVE RANAMERIcAN SOLIDARITY
THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO
The WORKERS (communst) Of THE UNITED STATES
The MEXICAN COMMITTEE OF THE RED INTERNArloNALAoF
The PAN-AMERicAN ANTIlMPERiALrsT LEAGUE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
Gonpers Dies While
Returning to the
u. S. from Mexico
Continued from page u

Continued from page u
stated by three physicians who at
tended him to be bronchitis and
possibly twenty-four hour pneumonia"
Had Lucid Interval.
After night Of deIifium in Mexico
City, he told his attendants in lucid
interval that he thought he would live
If he were moved to a lower altitude
and insisted on boarding a train for
the United States.
He was removed from the train at
San Luis Potosi early Wednesday
night, and was examined by physi-
clans who reported that his condition
was not dangerous. He spent the night
in the hospital at San Luis Potosi,
and resumed the journey Thursday
morning, hoping to reach Laredo,
Texas, on the border, on Friday morn
ing.
But the mountain range in the
vicinity of San Nicolas is the highest
along the route of the International
and Great Northern railroad to the
United States, and despite the efforts
Of the physicians to keep Gompers
alive by artificial means, his heart
would not function.
Gompers was born in London, Eng
land, 1850, of Jewish parents. He be-
came a cigarmaker and, tho he has
continually opposed the entrance of
workers from other countries, came
to America himself as an immigrant
alien worker. More than that, he was
a radical" alien immigrant. He
skinned thru some of the pamphlets
Of the immature revolutionary move
ment Of the time, and announced him
self to be an anarchist.
Like all anarchists, however, he
grew ever more close to the position
Of the petty bourgeoisie in social out
look, and after attaining the presidency
Of the American Federation Of Labor
in 1880, he waged unrelenting war
upon all revolutionary ideas in the
labor movement. Fortified in his posi-
ton by building machine which con-
trolled the American Federation Of La
Dor from top to bottom, he increased
his attacks on revolutionary tenden-
cies within the labor unions, and be-
came the most open advocate Of class
collaboration, political and industrial.
He modified the American FEEDER
alton OF Labor for support of the inn
perialist war before the United States
entered II at the Buffalo convention
in February 1917. And in common
with all the reformist labor leaders of
the allied nations he never forgave
the Russian workers for turning the
imperialist war into revolutionary
civil war against capitalists and land
lords.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
FRENCH COMMUNISTS TO
PROTEST THE MASS
ARRESTS OF WORKERS

PARIS, France, Dec. 11,--commu-
nlsts announced their intention Of
holding a street meeting near the
Laxare railroad terminal tonight to
protest against the continued arrest
and deportation Of Communists.
Communists Of foreign birth are be-
Ing arrested here at the rate Of two
or three every day, at the instance
Of the Herriot government.
The government has declared its
Intention Of attempting to prevent
or break up the meeting. Large
forces Of police are to be coneen-
trated at the railroad station tonight
In an effort to suppress the meeting.
The Communists plan several de-
monstratIons Of similar nature pro-
testing against the Herriot violence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
STRIKERS TURN
down PROPOSAL
OF ARBITRATION
COmpany's Attempt to
Run ScGb Train Fails
ESPECIAL to The Daily Worksrl

Especial 10 ne DaliN Workorl
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. H.
Efforts of Mayor S. A. Billiard
of this city to induce the $50
striking employees of the illinois
traction system to return to
work again failed yesterday.
The strikers insist that they
be paid time and one-half over
time for all work over ten hours
and demand a closed shop. They
have refused to listen to propo-
sails of the mayor and Spring
field chamber of commerce that
the men return to work and then
arbitrate.
strikers Surround Seab Train.
A passenger coach was operated
from Litchfeld to Staunton Monday
night by non-union crew. A crowd
of several hundred strikers and sym.
pathizers surrounded the car and its
crew on its arrival at Staunton, and
insisted that the car be returned to
the Litchneld barn and kept there
The car was taken back to Litchfield
and no further efforts to use strike.
breakers have been made.
AT the main office Of the Illinois
traction company at Springfield. the
company denied responsibility for the
running Of the car. Company officials
claimed the car was taken out Of the
barn without their permission, prob
ably by joyriders." Strikers, how
ever, declare that the car was run &c
try out sentiment of the population in
the towns affected by the strike.
Long Records Of strkebreaking.
Superintendent D. w. Snyder, who
is representing the company in nego-
tiations, has a long record as vic
ious strikebreaker. Snyder was form.
erly manager of the traction system
at Bloomington. He was responsible
for the historic Bloomington street
car strike of 1917, which was marked
by violence and bloodshed melted b.
gunner imported by Snyder
In the Bloomington strike these
professional strikebreakers tried to dc
their stun in the usual fashion, and
there were several clashes between
the strikers and the hired gunner
Bloomington unions raised $4,000 tc
defend and exonerate several Of theil
members indicted by packed CRANE
jury for alleged rioting. The Bloom
ington carmen now have a 100 pc
cent union as evidence Of Snyder's
incompetency as a strikebreaker It
looks as tho the running Of the car
to stanton were some of Snyder's
handiwork.
Further negotiations are expected tc
take place today either at Peoria or
at Springfield.
The last strike on the Illinois trac
ton system in 1918 resulted in a par
tial victory for the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
Labor Faker Talks
Class Collaboration
At Bosses Meeting

NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-w. N. Doak,
vice.president OF the Brotherhood OF
Railroad TraInmen, appearing on the
same platform with railroad execu.
tives here, opposed government own.
ership according to press dispatches
Doak, who spoke after Alfred p. Thorn
general counsel OF the association Of
railway executives, spoke for "activt
and friendly cooperation Of capital.
labor and management as a solution
OF railroad ills," Is is reported.