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Jamwed Reery Week at 860 Howard At. Ban Franciseo Lae Anuelea Office, LITT Colorade Miva. Ot B. Bo Postoffice aa Becond Chuan Mull Matter. Puhtiaied, PACIFIC RURAL. nkaa COMPANY Soha BR Pickett, President D, Ly Kletfer, See. Trew. 1. Modxes,, Low Angeies “Mannucr Member Awdit Turenu ef Circulation. Addrese all commoniastions and muke checks or money onters parable to PACIFIC RURAL Presk BAN FRANCIACO ONK DOLLAR PER han " Te all points in UR Canadas $2.00 other Torvian ‘cuunteles. ADDRESS to chanwe their mddvens should netity wo owhn before the change te ( ADVANCE Poumentons ; tse te mhdrenere piven. Iteed the address on your paper and HE tncorrest or tne complete “ornd erected aisirese to our Clrvulation Dept ~~ Metaber of Amociated Farm Papers NED CORTRILO, 18 W. 44th Street, Chieneo New York JOMN B.PICKETT = 05 - - 2 6 + Realtor OONALD {. KIRFFER = . - + Managing Reiter W. G TROCRR ~~ + + 8 + + Mortlenttore Rom wWORGRS - - - - - + + + Aurtcaltare LH. RTORGAARD ~~ + = + = Livestock PROF. GRO, F, WRLDON - . - + Bowthern Frulia JAMES DRYDEN - 5 = - 7s + 8 + + Poulter MABRL WORTH - oo - + Home OR, BERT J, MORRIS + Chaeth ‘ond Cometenity Lite MILTON BD, SAPINO + - + + = + + + Legal DM, CECIL MOULTON - - = = + + — Veterinery OARET P. DEAN - . + Mik Goats Hee ee ey California GPRIB fetlow Al Capone, neemn to gtva the Chicngo folk a lot of trouble,” remarks the Californian. “Yor, tho poor boobs, he's got ‘em buffaloed,” chimes in his neighbor. , “Ho hum, Poor old Chicago.” And Cailfornia turns back to Introspection of local affairs. . And yet, it appenra that racketeering In Chi- cago te a local affair for California, Becnuse the rackoteera exact a toll of $50 of every car of grapes sold in the second largest market in the country. Because grapes are uxed for wine making, the racketeorn probably figure that Callfornia wilt Co fin growling in private, And muyt don't care if California ¢ se And likely the drayage tolls also include nome racketeering charges. Abd doubtless there are many tolln other thin thene, Seema to nocd n Httle attention, doe It not? HE Chiengo Bally News of September 22_ has i very Interesting Klory about AD Capone and in racketeering government of Chiengo. The article uses many names, both of racket cork and Of thelr Tuwyerk and collateral wsxist aunts. Tt Intimates (hat policemen drink with racket- cera for whom the polire aro looking, and ap. parently the beozo te ruch an the policemen cannot ace the racketeera well enough to identl- fr them Men scour the cily with looking for reketoers, ‘hile evidently (he newspaper men meet them on the atrect and talk to them. Hore tun Uitte of the News articte, Wish wo bad apace to reproduce nll of it: Tho nun source of revenue Is the beer and ooze businers, Juke Guatek, supplying tthe loop diatrict, fa the pitin beer boxs, duke Kot hin start am a wat bay Ina bawdy house and became allied with Ca- pone tn the days when they both took orders from Jehnny Torrie, Now he dwelts in atnte at @ downtown hotel, haa ambitions of entering 80- Clety and forgetting the sordid details which have given him hin wenlth Gustck hon his miniature breweries and bis up-an-alley diatillorion where hin beer and whis- key are made, Mo han brewers and distifiers. He Tas his roughneck crews who deliver the whisky ct heer. And he has Harry ("Greasy Thumb”) Gusick, his brother, and Slymle (“Loud Mouth") Levin, as his personal representatives for the loop. Harry and Hymle, accompunicd by thelr gorillas, make the rounds of the loop regularly. Even when they buy a drink for a policeman, be can't xe them with xuMciont distincinean to ar- text them. ‘They move about with the ciation at a five-ton track, with efforte at concealment rearecly aurpnrecd by m@ brass band marching down a busy atreet. They do auch soitclting ae In necessary ant they do all the collecting, Monday finda them regularly In the loop. Monday finds them—but the police don’t. eee cen ROWELL Aas aald many ‘times that racketeering will be stopped In Chiengo when the “good” citizens want peace more thas they want booze, of a drink they will have the Tacket. Perhapa most of ua have thought of tt as @ local problem. Bot it in more than that. §€ tho racketeers exact toll on grapes how long WHE Tt be before they demand it on other fruits “license” of the Ro long na they demand the Hberty , 2" canned Roodn. bare Good luck to the endeavor. Henry Hobson, formerly of the Stale Market OMece, once nade Inquiry aloog this tine and found © lot of response among cooperatives of the Mid- dio Went. “It you do tt you will make the middleman Fore,” KONE ONE HIYA, Possibly, Hut whom are we trying to please, the tniddleman oc ourselves? Corhaps we could give the middteman bis tex ular cut und do it with bis cooperation. Hux anybody tried? Light Needed on Fish Doe d Game Policies + A COMMITTEE of the legislature bas been la- vextgating the Fish and Game Comtoteston.« ‘The murmuring te that sporteinapebip ts not ne high na it misht be. Meanwhile the Farm Durcau baa been causing” the Fish and Game Cofumiuaion anacyance by de- munding to know when they propose to do some- thing about deer damage, The Laat begisiature kave then authority to pretect tarmerd who have | heaty crop dunuge from deer, but tbe game tom-* mixsion haw produc necting wore vubetantiang than beuruina af A subpcriber ot Drvndtte. He wants 5! have a bird Maite but he charges ‘thet he .gete no belp ftom the: ekamission oa Lad rom toes Aportamen, Wi do not profess 7 bow 20; soyiting ston, ‘tha, merits of his cule, but he describes wometiads © ‘bich seme to. inditete a iced and‘ gommething which atira the feert.+ te hod aah t paints if, Quail and Gores teoditig’ fleets} Look out of the breakinet, windew. aid Rigna- ponted of bis to; keep jot - but buntera not Reepian out.“ <” “It the misnion..of the, sommobeston 46; niet wild life, the qubstion) arises ae. to trteathipe: conse puch an thin tune describes phunide wel, an active and Hfective miyport of thé Protection sbonkd bi” «. bwo-way: tidwg: tore must be tony by wild’ Ife: Sxsphe ‘gamb tobon It ‘protecting: have effective ‘enti fa! cartia | Droduccrs want to seihw.e retwrt ot t ‘tor auch creatures, |‘ 7 ‘ea Tt bas been eharned ‘ier tied nilanion policies é¢d ras) feaki goa’ toh leew anything. It thie tn true, the pe Tr it In not true, the have the facta knowne The innttor 0 poe bat ‘the