And now the Mole Mystery Theater, presented by M-O-L-L-E. Mole, the heavier brushless shaving cream for tender skin. Good evening. This is Jeffrey Barnes, welcoming you to the program that presents the best in mystery and detective fiction. Tonight's story is a hard-boiled gangster tale, written by Mountain Ryerson and entitled, Alibi for Murder. It's about a very ordinary young man named Dave Whitman, who was destined from birth to be involved in two gangland killings. Yes, destined from birth. Puzzling? Perhaps it'll all be quite clear when you meet gangster Steve Yeager. Before you begin your story, Mr. Barnes, here's some good advice for men. If you have a wiry hard-to-cut beard or a tender skin, and that morning's shave of yours is just short of murder, then shave with Mole, the heavier brushless shaving cream. Yes, sir, man. It's smooth. So smooth. It's slick. So slick. It's a smooth, smooth, slick, slick shave you get with M-O-L-L-E. Mole, the heavier brushless cream for tender skins. That's right. Mole is a heavier cream. The kind of cream you need if you have wiry whiskers or a tender skin. Because M-O-L-E is heavier, it not only softens your whiskers, it stands them up straighter and makes them easy to cut. So you shave faster, closer, easier, and you shave painlessly with M-O-L-E. The heavier brushless cream for tender skins. Mole. And now here is Jeffrey Barnes with tonight's M-O-L-E mystery. Alibi for murder. Three men stand in a windowless, ill-lighted little room in the huge warehouse. They are staring in awe at the unconscious man sprawled out in the rickety cot before them. Finally, one of the men speaks. It's unbelievable, Steve. I read about things like this, but I never expected to see it actually happen. How bad has he hurt that?  It's the slut buried in his shoulder might cause trouble. He should go to a hospital. Hospital? Nothing. You do this job yourself at my place. But Steve, it's dangerous. He could die.  You're gonna make sure he don't. Okay, Steve, you're the big boss. You know, I never argue with you. Bob, yes? Yes, Mr. Yeager? You sure nobody knows about him except you? Well, it happened just like I told you, Mr. Yeager. I heard the shots while I was making my nice round to the warehouse. I ran outside and there he was laying in the heap on the sidewalk. And the car that the shots came from beating it away in the darkness. At first I thought this was you, Mr. Yeager. Well, you did, huh? You didn't catch the plates in the car, did you? No, it was too dark, Mr. Yeager. Okay, Pop, thanks a lot for calling me. I won't forget it. This is keeping under your scalp. Don't worry, Mr. Yeager. I won't say a word. I'm sure you won't. Better get back in your rounds now, Pop. I don't want to hold you up and make you late. Okay, Mr. Yeager, you're very considerate. Good night.  What's that gag about dead men keeping their mouths shut, Doc? Okay, bust things up, make it look like a robbery. Then let's get this Joe over to my apartment. Coming out of it, Steve. I want to see what he does when he lamps me for the first time. He's lifting his head off the pillar. Looking around. He sees you. I wonder did I look as surprised when I first saw him. He can't figure it out, Steve. Guess he thinks he's looking in the mirror. It's okay, pal. You ain't seeing things. It's us, two of us. Two of us? That's right. This is me and that's you. You and me, they made one of us first and forgot to throw away the mold. That's unbelievable. You're almost identical twins. Same height, same weight, same face, the same coloring. What's your name, pal? Whitman, Dave Whitman. We found you in front of the warehouse down by the river. You had a nasty hunk of lead in your shoulder. Doc here had a rough time fishing it out. You were a doctor? Yeah, this here is Doc Kinsella. I'm Steve Yeager. You're going to see a lot of us. I don't understand what you mean, Mr. Yeager. Never mind. You got many friends in town, Whitman? No, I just arrived here tonight on freight. Right on the rails, huh? A hobo? No, just out of a job. That's what I had hoped to find here. I figured I'd find me a flop down by the river in that big building. My warehouse? Oh, it is? Well, anyway, all of a sudden, a car comes racing around the corner and lets me have it. I mean, that little lead party wasn't meant for you. That was a surprise cooked up for you, as truly. You, Mr. Yeager? Yeah, friends of mine. They took you for me. Then they bust in and murdered a watchman. But I don't get it. Forget it. So you're looking for work, huh? Any kind of work. Well, what would you say to a job with me? In your warehouse? No, not exactly. This linear, a lot bigger piece of change than working down there. I don't know what that slug did to my brain, but this is how it feels to be crazy. Brother, I want to stay that way. Yeah, I think you and me are going to get along OK, Whitman. I'll see if you can grab some sleep. Come on, Doc. Lock the door. Why? He can't... Lock the door. Why, Steve? I don't want anybody to know I got me a spitting image. Sit down, Doc. Steve, what exactly do you want with Whitman? I want him so I can be in two places at once. There's a few things I've been wanting to attend to for a long time, Doc. Only I needed an alibi. I don't follow you, Steve. It should be simple for a guy with a brain big enough to enter an MD.  All right, Skip it. Now, look. I don't like the kind of competition that's crawling into this town. You mean Goldie Mays? For one, Slapsy Higgins, number two. Who's gone when do you think it was the other night? Slapsy's. He goes in for that strong arm stuff. Goldie's too wise for that stuff. I know, Steve. I heard Goldie's lined up with a lot of tinhorn politicians in town. Guys who can do you lots of harm. Which means that Goldie and Slapsy got to be discouraged. But quick. And Whitman, even though he don't know it, he's going to help me do it. Well, kid, you're looking fine. No one had guessed that 10 days ago you had a slug in you. Yeah, Doc. All right, Whitman, let me look at you. And keep that bow tie straight. And it keeps twisting. Well, don't let it twist. And don't drop the bottom button on your tucks. Yeah, pull that handkerchief out of your pocket a little further like that. Okay. All right. Let's go to the mirror and see. Well, Doc, what do you say? Except by instinct, Steve, I'd say it was improbable. Even your own mothers could tell you apart. I hardly know which of us is me. Neither one of us is you. We're both me. And don't forget it even for a second. Yeah, okay, Steve. Now you're going to my nightclub with Doc. Your nightclub? That's right. The Silver Swan. I own it. Doc will point out everybody in the place to you. Anything and everything you need to know about him.  Just stick us a guy in your face and let Doc do the talking. You got it? Yeah, I got it. And there's only one rub. What's that, Steve? Lorraine.  How do you know about her? I read all about her in those clippings in your press book. Things at your nightclub. Is she really as pretty as that photo on a piano? Never mind how pretty she is, Lorraine. Steve, you usually kiss her when she comes over to the table. If he doesn't kiss her, she might get suspicious and ask questions. Okay, Whitman, you'll have to kiss her. But make it quick. When you do kiss her, grab her like I do. Come here, I'll show you how. Maybe you two would like to be alone.  Don't you dance with her or anything, Steve? No, kiss her quick, Whitman, and get rid of her. Tell her that you and Doc got important business. Say you'll see her after the last show. By that time, I'll be there and you'll be back here in the penthouse again.  I understand, Steve. Doc, this is just about the greatest experience in my whole life. Yes, the club starts to ride pretty high at midnight Saturdays. This place must have cost Steve a small fortune. It did.  Don't forget, you're supposed to be the person who owns it. Here comes the waiter. Order rye highball. But I like scotch and soda. Steve likes rye highball. Oh. Even to Mr. Yeager. Hiya, Doc. Hello, Mike. What'll it be, Mr. Yeager? Here you go. Yeah, Mike, rye highball. Coming right up, boss. See that white-haired man with the party at the ringside table over there? Yeah. That's John Martin, city magistrate. Wave to him. Okay. He a friend of Steve's? Yeah. Sort of. Steve must know important people. Yeah. Remember me, Mr. Huh? Why, all a surprise. You look as if you never saw me before. Hello, Lorraine, Lorraine. Hi. Well, who would you think I was? Why are you staring? Oh, I was just thinking.  No, Steve, you never told me. Oh, yeah. Do you mind if I kiss you? You don't usually ask, do you? No, I guess not. Anything wrong? Hardly. You look stunned. Maybe because you never kissed me like that before. It seemed to be something different. Steve, don't forget we've got a lot of important business to talk over. Oh, yeah, yeah, business. I'll see you after the last show, Lorraine. Doc and I've got some important angles to work out. Yes, sure, Steve. I understand. See you later. Gosh.  She's all wrapped up with a big, expensive tag on the Reed's hands-off property of Steve Yeager. Yeah, yeah, I know, Doc. Oh, there's the signal from Steve Whitman. Now, you slip into his office, not the back door. Steve will take your place, and none the wiser. You sure nobody caught wise? He wasn't me sitting at this table all the while, Doc? No, and Steve, not even Lorraine. Uh-oh. Hang on to your bridge work, Doc. Here it comes. Where? Through the front door. McAfee and Fennec. Yeah, the headquarters twins. Well, well, if any, my two old sidekicks. Sergeant McAfee and Joe Fennec, grab chairs and sit down, boys. What are you drinking? Sorry, Steve, but, uh, this isn't that kind of a visit. Goldie Mayes has just been bumped. Goldie Mayes? That's not an hour ago, Steve. No kidding, man. Oh, that's tough. Goldie was an OK guy. What, uh, what's that got to do with me? Uh, Captain got an idea in his head. He wants you brought to headquarters for a question. Mc, I've been here in the club with Doc ever since midnight. You sure, Steve? All the time? Sitting right here at this table, we were. Of course, though, except for about three minutes when I went into the office to write out a check. And we have everybody here in the club to prove we were here. There's John Martin, Health Commissioner Wood, they all vouch for you. Sure, you want me to call them over? Skip it, I'll talk to them later. Sorry, Steve. Yes, we made a mistake. Yeah. I guess you did. As the curtain falls on Act One of our story, it looks as though Steve Yeager has an iron-clad alibi as far as the death of Goldie Mayes is concerned. 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Molle, the heavier brushless shaving cream for tender skins. Molle. Now back to Jeffrey Barnes and act two of Alibi for Murder. By a strange coincidence, the down-and-out Dave Whitman is a perfect double for the notorious gangster Steve Yeager. While Dave poses as Yeager in the director's nightclub, the gangster commits a murder. Now Yeager and his sidekick doc are entering Yeager's apartment. Do you think that McAfee's push when I told him I was sitting in a club all the time? And how quickly you back down, we started rattling off the names of the witnesses who saw you in the club? Yeah. Whitman, what do you call this? You've got your old clothes on.  You've been taking yourself a quick run-out, Potter Whitman. That's exactly what I'm taking, Mr. Yeager.  There's a note in your room telling you I'm resigning the fine job you gave me. Resigning? Yeah. When I took this job, I didn't know it included murder. You might have. I heard all about it on the radio a few minutes ago. Charlie McCarthy's on the radio. You don't believe everything he says, do you? It won't work, Steve.  This thing all wrong. Ah, Steve, you're the one who's got it wrong. I'm washed up. I'm gone. Stay away from that door, Whitman. That's all I have, Steve. Sure. I'll let you go right on your... Kiss it! Okay, Yeager. Two can play at that gate. I wouldn't try it, Whitman. You might find a little tough opposition in this gun I'm holding.  I don't like the sight of blood. That's better. If you're smart, Whitman, you'll also get any idea you might have about squawking of the police right out of your brain. That's right. I guess you want to sit on my lap in the electric chair. What do you mean? No one would believe you and Steve weren't in on this thing together. Nobody'd ever believe you didn't know what you were doing. Doc's right. Get smart. Yeah, smart. There's plenty in this for you. Now, what about it? I don't seem to have any choice. Now, we'll work the same game Monday night. Okay.  Right, Doc? Check. Doesn't this club ever have a slow night? Doc, it's jam-packed again tonight. Yeah. What do you keep looking around over your shoulder for? Expecting somebody? Obviously not, Doc. Hey, where are you going? To meet the somebody I was looking for. She just came through that little door we were talking about. Wait. Come back here. Oh, Steve. You sound surprised. It's the first time I ever saw you come to meet me. Anything wrong? Wrong?  Oh, I'm sorry, Steve. You look bewildered. I am. Why? Why, you kissed me just now. You kissed me like that Saturday night when I came to your table. Something about it seems so different. Oh, Steve, we got business to talk over, remember? Oh, yeah, Doc. I'll tell you what.  But, uh, is that argument in my pocket might not wait?  But... I said sit down, Doc. Now, I mean sit down. Okay. Okay. I'll be waiting. Doc seems to be kind of unhappy about something. Doc's getting older, eh? No more romance. I never heard you mention the word romance before. Well, there's a lot of words you probably haven't heard me say that you're gonna hear. Shall we dance? Love to love. Yeah? I've been wondering lately. Are you really in love with a guy named Steve Yeager? That's a funny question. But now that you've asked it, I always liked your looks and type, Steve. But except for twice, I'm afraid I've never been really in love with a man inside. You said except for twice? That's right. Saturday and... Tonight? Uh-huh. I just can't explain it, Steve. I suppose it sounds kind of silly. But you almost don't seem like the same person. Now, how do we get back here in the gambling room? Maybe because I said I felt lucky. How lucky? Tonight, just about the luckiest person alive. You got a quarter, lady? Could be. Why? Let me have it. We'll pour our interest. I've got a dime. A very lucky dime. I thought you never did. This is a special occasion. Let's have the quarter. All right. Here you are. Here, you drop this lucky dime into your purse. There. But I... Come on, let's try our quarter on these slot machines. All right. This looks like a lucky machine. Here, you drop in the quarter. Okay. Now, I yank the lever. All those little feels are spinning just like my brain. It's all so mixed up. Four bars. Jackpot. All those quarters. Oh, there must be easily ten dollars. Tell you what, you take these quarters to the cashier and get one blue chip. Steve, I'm so sorry to be long.  Where's Whitman? Been cooling my heels in this office for the past half hour. You know I can't leave you until he comes. He was at the big table, Steve. Let Lorraine walk away with five Gs. Five grand. The dealer naturally thought he was you. Every time he smiled, the dealer touched the little button under the table, and the bell stopped and the number Lorraine had her chips on.  This is all your fault. But, Steve...  Get him over to the penthouse and keep him there. I'll be over later. Okay, Steve. And I'll break his neck when I get him that punk. Hey, boss. Yeah, Louis? The headquarters twins just came in. Says they want to buzz you about the murder of Slapsy Higgins. Okay. Tell Lorraine I want her in here. Lorraine ducked out a few minutes ago, boss. Where'd she go? I don't know, but she looked them off a hundred... Hurry. I wonder. You wonder what, boss? Nothing. The car out back? Yeah, nearly. Okay, Louis. I want you to drive me home. Fast. This is Jeffrey Barnes again. In just a few moments, we'll bring you Act 3 of Alibi for Murder. When you have dandruff, you might just as well try to combat it with plain water, as with most ordinary hair preparations. For such products, simply remove loose dandruff and you can do that with plain water. To do more, to fight dandruff effectively, use double dandering. For double dandering is a scientific product that does what most ordinary hair preparations can't do. 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Steve used me as his alibi for murder. I would have made a break for it, but I couldn't go without you. With that money we won tonight, Lorraine, I hoped we could go away somewhere and start over.  Steve. Steve, I didn't hear you come in. You just drove me over from the club. Well, it's like something out of the movies. The big hero with a protecting arm around the girl's waist. It's kind of corny, Whitman. This is why you took the quick run out from the club, Lorraine. I was right, there are two of you. But not for long. Whitman, where those rags you first came in. Why? Don't ask questions, where are they? In the bottom of the closet in the bedroom. All right, Doc, keep that gun of yours aimed at his shirt stud. I got me a quick change to make. Hope I didn't keep you waiting too long. Well, Doc, what are you gaping at? Gosh, Steve, you look just like Whitman did that first night to close everything. Even he must up here. Yeah, not to dump these things. Hey, that's your wallet and credentials you're putting on the table. Well, neither anymore. Now, Doc, I'll take your ride. Sure, sure, Steve. Here, but I don't understand. It's simple, Doc. This is the end of the line. This is where you three get off. Three. And Steve Yeager goes on alone. But, Steve. You've outlived your usefulness, Doc. Besides, you and these two are the only people in the world who know I have a double. But, Steve, I wouldn't talk. You know that. I know you haven't talked so far. But, Steve, I'm not a popper. Slaps you, Goldie. I'm your friend. Taking no chances, Doc. You at this two-time endame and the phony Steve Yeager get the lights blown out here and now. Steve, no, please. I had it figured out for a long time, Doc. You and a dame get it with my gun. Then, while you're dying, you give it a Whitman here with your gun. Anyway, that's how it's going to look to the cops. You're going to make them think Dave is you? That he killed Doc? That's right. Gonna look swell in a tabloid. Doc can sell a foolin' around with Steve Yeager's girl. And who walks in but Steve? You'll never get away with it, Yeager. Why won't I? The cops haven't even got a fingerprint of me. I'll just fade into the old zone and become a character named Dave Whitman. But why, Steve? Goldie's gone. Slaps is gone. You've no more competition in town. Yes, Steve. Too bad Doc wasn't a bad guy. You ain't shittin' Mac. What? Doc was the best. Louie. He's frontin' dropped the gun. Don't be crazy, Louie. Take that rod out of my back. Drop what I said. I don't know what you're doin', Louie.  All right, you satisfied it's me? Steve. And another Steve over there. Am I seein' double or somethin'? Person I'm seein' double. I'm Steve Yeager. This guy's just a hobo. I don't know. I'd say you look more like the hobo on M-Close.  I'm Steve. I tell ya, look at me. Yeah, yeah, Louie. Look at us. Good. I'm all mixed up. It's simple, Louie. It's just a shakedown. He found out he looked like me, killed a couple of people, and then tried to blackmail me. He's lyin', Louie. I'm Steve Yeager. If he was Steve Yeager, would he shoot Doc Canceler, his best friend? No. No, I guess he wouldn't. Louie, he's tryin' a confusion. Look, they're my credentials in the table. No, Louie, they're my credentials. I just told you he was tryin' to shake me down. I want to be sure. I wouldn't want to pull his trigger on the wrong guy.  Wait a second, Louie. You know whose girl Lorraine is, don't you? Sure. Everybody knows that. She's Steve Yeager's girl. Then ask her which one of us she loves.  That wasn't very smart. Him tryin' to rush my gun. Gosh, I didn't want to kill a guy. But would you suffer yourself, Steve? He was grabbin' for my gun. He was either him or me. We've got to get out of here quick before the police comes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we've got to get out of here. You go ahead, Louie. A few things I've got to clean up here. Yeah, okay, boy. Quick, lock the door. Bye. Good. Now then. What are you doing, Dave? The only thing we can do... I'm calling the police. Any place where people won't take me for Steve Yeager's ghost. Brother, what a job it was straightening out that mess with the police. Yeah, especially after they picked up Louie and insisted you were Steve. What are you thinking about, darling? Well, honey, two weeks ago I rode into town in a freight car with a thin dime in my pocket. Now I'm riding out of town with a world in the palm of my hand. And now this is Jeffrey Barnes again inviting you to be with us next week when we present a great study and suspense entitled The Creeper by Joseph Rusko. The original music for the Molle Mystery Theatre is composed and conducted by Alexander Semmer. Alibi for Murder was written and adapted for radio by Martin Ryerson. Elsbeth Eric, Mandel Kramer and John Sylvester were featured in tonight's program. This is Dan Seymour saying good night until next Friday at this same time when the Mystery Theatre presents The Creeper. Tonight's Mystery Theatre presentation came to you from Radio City in New York. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.


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The benefits from inclined bed therapy are pretty impressive and so I thought I'd talk about them in this video. Now inclined bed therapy essentially is where you raise the head of your bed by four to six inches and you just sleep and you don't need a special bed for this, you can use you know books or blocks of wood and the idea is that by doing this you massively improve the quality of your sleep, you know your blood circulation. Let me just read a few of the benefits out of doing this, the reported and claimed benefits. So improving blood circulation, boosting in metabolism, improving lymphatic drainage from the brain, that's quite impressive. Improving immune system, improved respiratory function and easing symptoms associated with Alzheimer's, diabetes, glycova, migraine, sleep apnea, acid reflux, varicose veins and more. Now that is a pretty impressive list of benefits that you can get just by putting a few books under your bed. So does it really work? Well firstly let me just show you how it would, how you would do it. Okay so as you can see this is my bed and it doesn't look really any different to normal, right? You wouldn't really notice it's on an incline and it's not actually on that big of an incline but if you look here you'll see, if you look here you'll see that it's actually on an incline, it's been raised up by a few books and it's been raised by about four inches or so and what I found is that this does make a difference to how I feel when I sleep. If you've got a bed like mine you'll also have like a central pillar, I don't know if you can see that over there and this central pillar is to support the weight from the middle of the bed. Now what you'll also need to do is to put a few books underneath that because otherwise the weight from as you sleep on the bed is going to crush the middle part and it might even break the bed so you need to make sure that the weight is balanced between the books at the head of the bed and also the middle part if you've got a double bed like this. So that's how you would do it, that's how you would have an inclined bed or you know how you do IBT the therapy and the idea is that it improves all of these things by gravity. The idea is that gravity will improve your blood circulation, it helps your digestion because the food flows down through you as opposed to laying flat and you know giving acid reflux and things. It's fairly simple and you think about it like that you know it's basic physics you know liquid or water will always find a level whatever container you put it into it will always find its level. So if you're if you're digesting your food and if you imagine your food's like a liquid now when you've digested it or when you've chewed it up it will lay flat okay so it's no surprise then that lots of people have acid reflux because the food isn't able to go anywhere it's just laying flat in your system whereas if you're on even a slight incline the food will collect at the bottom you know like towards where it needs to be excreted and away from your throat and your esophagus and your neck and everything like that so you won't get acid reflux. The same can be said of your blood circulation it's important to let the gravity actually help your blood circulate properly. So there is some merit to this this inclined bed therapy does seem to be grounded in science at least in some way and the actual the actual way this was discovered right the actual history behind this is somebody called Andrew K. Fletcher discovered doing his research he's always been interested in how things work and how to improve how things work and he he noted that trees he noted that trees have a very simple and effective way of distributing their sap and nutrients from the root of the tree to the branches at the top and it's using gravity so what the tree does is it will create sort of like a really dense heavy sap at the top of the tree that will flow down the tree using gravity and as it flows down it then forces the other nutrients and the less dense water or you know nutrient carrying sap and everything like that it will force that to go up the tree so it's a very similar system with our human body I'm not entirely sure of the science behind it but it seems to have some grounding in physics and science so what I would suggest to you to do is just to try it out okay it's a very simple experiment I've only just started doing this you know a couple of weeks ago we're not even that about a week ago and so I'm gonna see how it goes I'm gonna see how it feels more importantly and whether I sleep better or not what I can say is that it does feel nicer you know even that slight incline it does feel sort of a bit nicer to sleep on a bed that is on an incline and I don't know whether that's just a placebo effect or whether I was expecting it to feel better look the truth is guys it's very easy and cheap to do that is it free essentially you just put a few books under your bed so go ahead and try it let me know what you think leave a comment letting me know whether you think it's a good idea and this video actually was inspired by a comment from somebody so it's one of you said have you tried an incline bed therapy and I said no I haven't so I'll try it out so leave a comment letting me know let me know also like if you want me to try anything else any new ideas or things that you want me to research or have a look at and I'll see you next time thanks for watching guys this video and this channel was supported by my patreon followers please consider giving just a dollar a month to support this channel or just click the links in the description you'll find links to various lucid dream products articles techniques and tutorials if you did enjoy this video please click the notification bell and subscribe and I'll see you next time why are you still watching this you should have clicked one of my related videos by now right or subscribed or gone on to my website or something like that


My name is Denise. I am a program coordinator at the University of Manitoba. I am a first-generation graduate of the University and a proud Metis woman from Winnipeg. One of the programs that I manage at the University of Manitoba is the Empowering New Financial Wellness Program, Your Finances, Your Future. It's new to the Indigenous Student Center as of September 2018. So the Empowering New Program came to fritician out of the realization of the potential impact targeted programming relating to financial literacy for Indigenous students could have on the students at the University of Manitoba. The objectives of the program are to provide or empower Indigenous students with the tools and resources necessary for them to make informed, knowledgeable financial decisions with their money throughout their university journey as well as beyond. Another objective is that we deliver culturally appropriate programming for the Indigenous students, which allows them to reflect on their past, present, and future relationship with money, which then would alleviate some of the financial stress that they may be feeling within their life. And ultimately, the goal of the Empowering New Program is to increase the persistence and retention rate of Indigenous students as financial hardships or stress is often one of the reasons that students drop out of university because they don't have the knowledge or resources to say apply for student loans or understand the difference between a scholarship and a bursary and just provide them with those tools. The program is workshop and session based where we bring in community partners or faculties and units on campus that support Indigenous students' success. So some of our partners include obviously elders within the center. We work with Seed Winnipeg that has a dedicated program, Money Matters, that is grounded in Indigenous knowledge for Indigenous students. Some of our programs, while all of our programming incorporates Indigenous teachings and we use Indigenous materials wherever relevant, one of the materials that we use that we give all the students that participate in the program is the Money Matters booklet that was created by Prosper Canada in partnership with AFOA. This booklet uses the land as teachings and animals to convey messages about money management to students. Some of the sessions that we have offered in the fall were a budgeting and savings workshop where students were delivered a presentation about ways that they can save their money and increase their income while in university. We also had an Indigenous financial aid and awards officer come into the center speak to the students about the differences between student loans, scholarships, bursaries, some of the funding options, and then the students were able to move to the computer lab and apply on site with the assistance of the awards officer for the University of Manitoba general bursary. That was quite popular with the students because they felt supported and they had answers to their questions immediately while they were applying. In November, which is financial literacy month, we had an Indigenous dietician come into the center who did a workshop on eating healthy on a budget. Her workshop focused on it was very holistic and it focused on traditional cultural and spiritual aspects of preparing a meal. The meal was all the ingredients were shopped for separately and receipts were shown to the students so they could see how much each recipe actually cost to purchase. Students at the end of the session were provided with a folder that had the Indigenous recipes as well as information on where to purchase traditional foods within Winnipeg as well as ancestral beverages, a booklet on how to make those, and a resource on harvesting as well. Moving into 2019, we've already had an escaping year debt, one dollar at a time session, and heading into tax season, we will be having a tax tips for student session and offering for the first time a tax clinic where students can sign up in advance and come in and have their taxes prepared in the center by trained volunteers that work with community financial services in Winnipeg. So we're quite excited about the programming in year one and really looking forward to how we move forward to year two. Measuring the success of the program I think is very individualistic because success is defined differently for every student. As a program coordinator, one of the biggest measurements of success that I see in the program is having a student take the knowledge that they've learned in some of the sessions and workshops and then apply it outside to their everyday life. So a measurement of success in regards to that would be chatting with a student who has now told me that, you know what, I don't go to Tim's every day, I don't go twice a day, I now make my coffee at home and I've saved, you know, $15 to $20 a week. So their income has been increased. Another example student related would be a student who has never filed taxes before, who comes to the tax clinic, files the taxes and then receives child tax benefits or gets a renter's credit or something from filing their taxes. So that also has created knowledge that there are tax credits and things available to them that will increase their income and then alleviate some of the financial pressures that they may see in their life. But ultimately, I think one of the measurements of success as well is seeing an increase in post-secondary persistence, which I mentioned before, having students stay in school beyond first term so they have the finances and the knowledge to be able to afford their tuition for second term to afford their rent so that they can concentrate on their academics and not worry so much about the financial side of things. I mentioned that the Empowering New Program uses the Managing Your Money booklet. If you're interested in purchasing booklets, you can go to the Prosper Canada website. There's a link that will take you here. You can order copies of it and they also offer downloadable worksheets as well. From my perspective, I think Indigenous education is holistic and rooted in Indigenous values and culture. I would say that it honors Indigenous history and incorporates culturally relevant learning opportunities for Indigenous students into their classrooms and programming and provides them a safe and welcoming space to obtain their education. I think it's also an important part of reconciliation as it provides non-Indigenous people the ability to learn from some of the curriculum and the teachings that are taking place in the classroom. The Empowering New Program is fortunate to have donor support and without the generosity of the donor and having the donor recognize the need for Indigenous specific programming, we wouldn't be able to provide the tools and the resources and supports that we do in regards to financial literacy to the students. In the next 10 years, I would hope that more donors would come forward and provide funding for programming specific to financial literacy. I believe the end result of having funding directed to this would be the increased knowledge around one's own financial wellness and it would support their overall well-being for Indigenous students culturally, spiritually, emotionally, physically. I envision that in the next 10 years, as a result of this funding, we would see a rise in post-secondary enrollment of Indigenous students, as well as their persistence, and then in the end, increased graduation rates.


Think Tech Hawaii, civil engagement lives here. We're now on a soggy Monday. Howard Wigg, Think Tech Hawaii, Code Green. I have the honor today of having as my guest, Miles Topping, Director of Energy Management for the entire UH system. That includes all the community colleges. Welcome to the program. Thank you. Thanks so much for being here. We've got a, well, you know what you, your ambition is to get to net zero energy. That's not just for the Manoa campus. That includes all the community colleges. That is a pretty gosh darn ambitious goal. And as a fellow state employee whose mission is 100% clean energy by the year 2045, the UH system is a big, big, big user in the entire scheme of things. So this is a real important goal that you have. So why don't we, because we've got a lot of material to cover, why don't we jump right into the first slide and you can just take it away here, Miles. OK. Skip slide. Skip slide. Skip slide. So just some context, the UH, so out of the state of Hawaii, the largest energy user is, of course, the feds and then the state. And then out of the state, the UH is the top energy user. UH Manoa has a $30 million annual electric bill. And it's unsustainable because of growth and rate escalation. And it's a real good opportunity for us to redirect some of that budget into education. And we also receive the net zero mandate, which talks about the UH getting to 100% by 2035. And what that means is that the UH needs to produce as much as it consumes. So if you go to the next slide, here's this chart that is produced every year and is given to the, it's a report that's provided to the state ledge every year. And this shows our progress towards this net zero mandate. And so there's the statute. And you can see that to consume, we've defined is used by our facilities and properties. And produce is produced on our facilities and properties. And you'll see later why that's important next slide. And here's a breakdown of all the different campuses. You can see that Manoa is really the juggernaut in usage. And the other campuses are just kind of minor. And that's because Manoa is an R1 research facility. It's on 24-7. It's got those big libraries. It's got the dorms and everything. It's just huge. Believe it or not, I think there are over 200 buildings on the Manoa campus. There's 350 structures. Yeah, it doesn't seem like it, but when you really get down into it, yeah. Yeah, next slide, please. So this again sort of shows the stack up. The community colleges have been disaggregated. This is an analysis that was done by Hawaii Energy back in 2014. But it's just illustrating that UH Manoa is the big user. Next slide. So that's why we're going to focus on Manoa. And like I mentioned before, we have all these research facilities that are on 24-7. We've got dorms. We've got sporting arenas with huge lighting and stand sheriff is air conditioned. We've got a huge data center, which houses a lot of the state data. And out of all of that, we actually have some lead buildings, too. And we are mandated to, from now on, each new building needs to be lead silver or better. And just to clarify, when you say research facilities, very often those include laboratories that are very, very strictly climate controlled. Yes. Three, 365 days a year. Yeah, that's right. And laboratories require special climate control. So in 100% air exchanges for biological research, if there's animals or stuff in there. And that's the most expensive way to provide environmental, indoor environmental quality is through 100% air exchanges.  So it can use some of that cold air to help with the cooling process. But if you have to switch over, then it just has to work harder. And that's where a lot of the energy is going. Libraries, it turns out, even have a higher, tighter tolerance because of their humidity and stuff. So those are very expensive to control. Libraries and research facilities. So if we could have the next slide. OK, so here's a snapshot of the campus. The Manoa campus, as well as some other campuses, are actually microgrids. So they're fed. HECO sort of stops at the substation shown here on the chart. And these two substations, either one can power the entire campus. So there's redundancy built in there. And you can see here on the chart next to it is the lowest usage day, which happens to be January 1. And the highest usage day, which is like on or around the first day of school. But it really, what it is, is it tracks the weather. And so that 10 megawatt base is basically, it's a cold day. Nobody's there. Everybody, it's January 1. We're basically closed. So in sleep mode, the UH Manoa does consume quite a bit of energy. Yeah, 10 megawatts, that's substantial. That's substantial. That's like 10,000 homes or something like that. Yep, that's about it. And what a lot of people don't realize is that a large part of the AC load is dehumidification. That's right. Really wet day like this, even though it's cool, the AC still has to work like mad to get that moisture out of the air. Yep, yep. It's a whole other topic of discussion. And it's really interesting, especially with the right speaker and the right charts, which I am not an expert in air conditioning. But to dehumidify what they do is they blow the hot air across cold coils, which basically rings the moisture out of the air. And it's kind of like what happens on your soda, how the moisture collects through your soda, same kind of thing. So what's dripping out of the back of your window unit is, of course, moisture that was once in the air. And so what blows into the space is now dehumidified, but it's very cold. So in order to make it tolerable to humans, you have to kind of reheat it a little. So you're using energy one way to dehumidify, and you're using energy the other way to reheat it so that it's tolerable for us. Yeah, we have to figure out a better way to do that. That would be neat. Yeah, that would be neat. But next slide, please. Yeah, so here, just driving home the point, we know through modeling, we know through measuring, and we know through auditing that most of the energy is going into the air conditioner. So this just kind of sends it home. You can see in that Bachmann Hall consumption measuring that the midday rise when that sun goes above head, that's when most of the energy is being consumed. And then as the sun starts to taper off, so does the energy consumption. You can see there, there's a day with a very low, that's a Thursday, that's actually Thanksgiving day. And nobody's there, so the AC is scheduled off. And then the next day is the AC, the central system is scheduled on, but there's a lot of small systems around it, like split systems and window units that a lot of people took both days off. So even though the central was scheduled on, the other AC loads didn't come on probably. Well, I don't know, I didn't have an occupancy sensor in there, but you can kind of see it in the data. Next slide, please. Yeah, so UH Manoa, I didn't know this before I got there, but it's got a bunch of cooling loops, sometimes referred to as like district cooling. A lot of campuses have this for their heating, like on the mainland or for the cooling is they have all the buildings sort of connected with underground pipes supplying chilled water to the different cooling, the different buildings that need cooling, just something I throw up there for people to get an appreciation of these giant, giant air conditioning systems sucking up all this energy. And the idea I think is to have one big, very efficient chiller feeding several different buildings rather than having a bunch of smaller chillers for each building. That is an idea. There's pros and cons, there's some merit to it. It looked like we looked at it from a financial analysis. If you stretch it out over enough years, there could be some payback, but there's also redundancy and some other things are kind of locked into a big system in case something better comes along. But it is being looked at, yeah. Yeah. Next slide. Yeah, here just driving home the point again, you can see the energy consumption sort of per month, the peak, you can see it peak up when we start up school and that's right when the temperature is the hottest, which is the orange curve. And as it just tracks the temperature, that blue curve is sort of the peak energy usage and the orange curve is the temperature measured at the airport and you can see that it just tracks, that's where it's all going, there's no doubt about it. But note that there's not a direct correlation and again, when did school open in August these days? Yeah, that's hot and there's a lot of humidity in the air in August, September, October. Yep, direct correlation. Yeah, yeah. Next slide please. So we're using a lot of energy, it's costing a lot of money, but if you compare it sort of on the national scale, we're actually pretty low. I mean, national scale, if you look at this chart, it's like the lower numbers, I can't even read it from here, but we're well under the... 54 KVP. Yeah, we're 54, the national average is like 180 or 200 depending on how you measure it. And we should clarify, EUI is energy use index, which measures the energy intensity of a given building. For instance, an older elementary school classroom or building will just have lighting in it and it'll be only going for 2,000 hours a year. The opposite end of the curve is a hospital that's going 24-7 and you have these big air changes or your labs, 24-7 big air changes. So they're very intense, an elementary school is very un-intense. Thank you Howard, yes, that's exactly right. And you can go to the next slide. So the point of this, that slide was that we're not actually that bad on the national scale. That's because we don't have to do a lot of heating and stuff. Yeah, yeah. So you can go to the next slide. This presentation was pulled together from a energy tour that we had done, so it may not be directly applicable to this talk, but there's some slides in here that are common. So you can't manage, which you can't measure. So we're going through this process of putting in digital submetering, which allows you to do not only historical trending and profiling, but if you hook it up to your control system, you can actually turn loads off if you need to because or manage demand. So we're in the process, we're in phase three of building out this metering from replacing the existing analog meters with digital meters. Next slide. And I have to say, Manoa, if you look historically back, I mean, the energy consumption has gone way down because of just organic sort of ongoing O&M things that we do. So we practice Manoa Green Days, which is where we shut off buildings that aren't in use over the holidays. And you saw that in my last slide. We have just, every time we replace a piece of equipment, it is replaced with something that's efficient, whether we do a recommissioning or just the controls, it's always done with efficiency as part of the vision. So not just replacing like with like, but replacing like with better. And some of you may have heard or seen of the frogs, which are net zero buildings on the College of Education, which is an experiment actually being run by H&EI and Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. I bet frog is an acronym for something. It is, it's, what is it? Yeah, it's something response to ongoing growth. I forgot the F stood for it, but I could Google it right now if you want. Okay, well, on that cherry note, we do need to take a break. Howard Wigg, Code Green with Miles Topping, Director of Energy for the whole UH system. Back in a moment. Aloha and Richard Concepcion, the Holes of Hispanic Hawaii. You can watch my show every other Tuesday at 2 p.m. We will bring you entertainment, educational, and also we tell you what is happening right here within our community. Think Tech Hawaii, Aloha. Hi, I'm Ethan Allen, host on Think Tech Hawaii of Pacific Partnerships in Education. Every other Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m., I hope you'll join us as we explore the value, the accomplishments and the challenges of education here in the Pacific Islands. Hello, everyone. I'm DeSoto Brown, the co-host of Human Humane Architecture, which is seen on Think Tech Hawaii every other Tuesday at 4 p.m. And with the show's host, Martin Despeng, we discuss architecture here in the Hawaiian Islands and how it not only affects the way we live, but other aspects of our life, not only here in Hawaii, but internationally as well. So join us for Human Humane Architecture every other Tuesday at 4 p.m. on Think Tech Hawaii. Good afternoon again, Howard Wigg, Code Green. My guest today, Miles Topping, director of Energy for the entire whole UH system. And Miles has some really aggressive goals that he's setting. Why don't we jump right back into it, Miles? Okay, yeah. Yeah, so it's the next slide. So of course, performance contracting is in our arsenal of, you know, to attack this beast of a problem. And just we wanted to mention here that performance contracting is on this sort of this sliding scale of what a P3 is, a public-private partnership. And, you know, it's kind of at one end, but there are some other colleges that have gone kind of with a full extreme, so kind of like what you were talking about, doing a central utilities plan and totally privatize it. And, you know, that is in the spectrum of P3. I mean, we're not, you know, currently thinking about privatizing the college at all, but it is a performance contract is in the spectrum. So it is a form of P3, which a lot of people sometimes forget. They think of P3 as total privatization, but it's not, it's a piece of the spectrum. It's a real agreement, a working agreement. We should mention performance contracting is a facility like UH enters into a contract with a firm that specializes in energy efficiency and they enter the college says, you will do all of this work up front, all the engineering installation monitoring at no cost to the university and then you will be repaid through the savings that you achieve. That's right. That's how they're supposed to work. And in fact, the community colleges are in phase two of a pretty successful performance contract. Performance contracting has been done across the state. Howard probably can talk more about that, about the successes that they've had there. So it is definitely in our arsenal. We're going after one of the cooling loops that I showed earlier, which is the Holmes Hall cooling loop. For several reasons, it was one of the original cooling loops. It's kind of in that research corridor. There's a lot of research buildings next to it. It may be a good opportunity to hook up post, which is another building in that district, but not on the loop. So, yeah, so performance contracting, P3 is in our arsenal. You can go to the next slide. Another thing that's in our arsenal, which is very interesting is space utilization. So, there's a lot of space and there's not a lot of space to kind of depending on who you ask. And so we have been analyzing, so all of this is kind of data-based, right? Everything we're trying to do now is sort of knee-jerk or somebody said so. It's all data-based. And so we've been analyzing our spaces and we went into a deep dive with classroom spaces. And the gray bars represent the number of classrooms with the space down at the bottom of that gray bar. And the green bar represents the number of bookings for that type of classroom. And you can see that there is, we've kind of shifted away, I guess that, I don't know if the teaching pedagogy is shifted from large lecture halls to more interactive type of hands-on working spaces, but that's just in the data. That's what it's showing us. We also have recently published a building design performance standard, which has been adopted on a couple of recent projects, which basically says to model in energy efficiency as part of the design process. And with each submittal comes an energy model and to consider things like mix mode cooling because we know that all the energy is going into the AC. So if you're building a classroom building or something like that, it may be good to consider a mix mode, which is where you have the fans on, most of the time you only switch the AC on if you have to, now if you're in a library or a lab or something like that, that kind of changes, you may not be able to use or utilize mix mode. We have the best climate in the world. We might as well enjoy it as much as we can. And ironically, the frogs were built with the same concepts that are in the building design performance standards, and which was kind of mentioned to me as sort of common sense stuff, but we put it down into a standard and we have a format to follow and a checklist and everything. And if you follow the standard, not only will you're building the high efficiency in performance, but it'll also meet lead silver. So without going over after some of that lower hanging fruit. Yeah, and of course you can't just emulate mainland campuses because they've got a heating load. That's right. Yeah, that's right. So another exciting initiative is this green revolving fund allows us to track harness and reinvest savings. So kind of like how a performance contract would go in and build something and then you'd pay for that upgrade through your utility savings. If you do an organic one or an ongoing one, like turning off buildings over the breaks or putting in a more efficient air conditioner, we can do that too. I call it self-esco. We can use the utility's budget savings to fund further efficiency projects. And so we have that set up and it is working in effect. We just made a purchase from that to get some energy star scientific freezers and this is our first pilot. So to collect on that savings and refund the account would be, we're right there. We're gonna see how that plays out. Up and running, that's exciting. Yeah, our next slide please. Okay, so renewable energies, next slide. So yeah, so I've done a sort of a spatial analysis using just GIS and there's about 3.3 million square feet of rooftop space. And so I said, well if I can use 30% of that rooftop space, not using 70% of it, I think I can put about 17 megawatts of solar based on a 300 watt module.  Some of the buildings are good for solar, so. And I should say that once you put solar panels up on the roof, you put the panels up on little platforms. You don't land directly on the roof. That's correct. So you have a little airspace under there and suddenly the roof, instead of being as hot as 150, 160 degrees on a sunny day, it's just the ambient temperature. If it's 80 outside, it's 80 on the roof. It helps with the temperature. It helps with the sun degradation. It hurts in other, you know, there's the roofs leak without anything on them anyway. So the more stuff you start putting on the roof, the more chance you have of leaking. There's mold, possibility for mold. So as long as you install them in a way that you can still maintain your roof and maintain your panels, it'll be synergistic. So we have plans to do that and we're moving forward with solarizing the campus. And again, that can probably be done by some form of financing because you're gonna be producing electricity. Yeah, so we're talking, so if you wanna dive into that a little bit, we're talking to PPAs like how much would a PPA be if you included the rear roof, right? So you could wrap it all up into some master finance program. And in fact, I just got off the phone with one provider today. So we'll see where the, you know, kind of quotes start landing. And if there's something, if there's some traction there, we'll get some permission to do it and then we'll go on RFP it and yeah. I can hopefully almost guarantee you, you will get that traction. And we've got just a few seconds left. Any parting words for the audience? Well, I do. And that is that if you are in a PPA, a PPA being, a Power Purchase Agreement, that it may make really good financial sense to buy it out at year, if you're in past year six, it may make good financial sense to go ahead and buy that out right now.   So the tax benefits have been absorbed by the private funder. Right, yeah. And so they'll kind of just pass on to you and you can get probably a really good deal much better than what you're getting now. So that would be my advice. And ideally those panels are gonna last for 20 years or more if they're done right. Yeah. So on that cheery note, we must bid fond to do, thank you Miles Topping, energy manager for the entire UH system. We're back into soggy Oahu, not exactly a good PV day. Thank you very much. See you next time.


A fiery horse for the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty hail silver, the lone ranger. With his faithful Indian companion Tato, the masked rider of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations, and nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, from out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver, the lone ranger rides again. Come on Silver, faster boy, faster, higher Silver, higher. It was nearly midnight when Sheriff John Bartlett rode to his fiddleback ranch with two prisoners in tow. John knew that the sound of their horses had awakened his son, because a moment later, the back door of the ranch house opened and he heard the boy call. That you, Dad? Yep. Light the lamp, Matt. We'll be in there in a minute. Sure. All right, you buzzards. Hit the dirt. This is where we bed down. All right. All right. Good going, man. Who'd you catch, Dad? A couple of long riddies. Snakey looking quitties, ain't they? You've seen these men before. Hang around Harker City. Yeah, that's likely so. They're part of the gang that's been robbing the Spencer Stage Line. I wouldn't doubt it. Where'd you pick them up? Oh, into the Calasco River. I'd trade them from that hold that night before last. Well, you've almost might as well sit down. You ain't going anyplace yet. All right. I'll come and scoff you off here at the ranch, Dad. Hey, too late to ride into town tonight. Kinda tired out. Got a lot of ground roundin' up these buzzards. Before them, the other two gave me the slip. I heard these into jail first thing in the morning. You get some sleep, Dad. I'll keep watch over them. They won't give you any trouble, Matt. I've got their hands tied with the rod. They're not so tough. Just a run in the rim rock owl hoots. It's the trouble, huh? Yes, I didn't corral head man. That's right, boys. You're one of them smart batch toters. Figure it out for yourself. Still on the prod, eh?  Bet you wish you knew. Maybe. I guess you're forgetting about that guard you're getting the whole up. The charge against both of you is murder. That means a rope and a tight one around both of your scrawny necks. We'll never hang. It wouldn't be too sure if I were you. Want a bet on it? $5 will get you $10. If I was a gambler, take that bet. Somebody coming, Dad. I'll see you in a minute. Turn down the light before you open that door. Yeah. Can't be too careful. Two of the bunch got away. They might have trained me. Keep your gun handy, Matt. Who's there? Mord Spencer. Don't you recognize me, Matt? Mord's there? Yeah. Come on in, Mr. Spencer. What's here? Wait. I'll turn up the lamp here. Hello, Mord. John, I... Well, what's this? Glad you came by, Mord. These are two of the gents who had been looting your stages for the past months. So you nailed them, eh? Ah, good work, sir. Well, at least it's a beginning. I'll run the rest of them down. I'm sure you will. Well, you sneak and pull, kids. What have you got to say to yourselves? Same thing you'd say, Mr. if you was where we are. Nothing. Hmm. That very anxious talk, are they, John? They talk all right. Wait till they spend a few days in jail. Never saw the gunslinger yet. They wouldn't squeal when he saw a hanger open. Taking them into town tonight? I'm going to wait until sun up. I need some sleep. Even the saddle for two days. Matt'll keep an eye on the critters while I rest. No, no need to put the boy to that trouble. I'll stay here. Well, watching glutes like these ain't your job more. Why not? They've been robbing my stages, haven't they? I'm as anxious to see them safely behind bars as you are. Well, maybe you're right. I am took it out. And watching two hyenas is a pretty big job for Matt. Oh, Paul, I can watch. Well, both of you get some sleep. I'll see you right here with my gun in easy reach. Mr. Spencer's right, Matt. Come on, let's hit the hay. Got a big day ahead of us tomorrow. If you want some coffee, Mr. Spencer, there's a pot full in the back of the stove. Oh, thanks, Matt. I'll get along all right. Good night, Sheriff. Good night, Mord. Come on, Matt. If you jaspers have an idea, you might get loose. Remember, I can trigger this gun before you can move. The sheriff and his son are retired at their cots in the bedroom. A few moments later, they were both asleep. But like most men who live in the west, they slept lightly. It was Matt who woke first about an hour later when his keen ears caught the scuff of a heavy boot on the floor in the next room. What's that? The pressure of his hand on his father's shoulder awakened the sheriff instantly. They're dead. What is it, Matt? Somebody walking next room. Spencer? Don't think so. It sounds like somebody's sneaking. No reason for him to sneak. You all right? Got your gun, Matt? Right here. Good. They're coming this way. Watch then, Doornob. If it turns, we'll start blasting. Doornob, it's turning. It's one of them outlaws. Cut him down, Matt. What the... Did... Did we get him, Dad? I don't know. Too dark to tell. I could have hit the floor if I didn't know if he was... Oh! Pete, where are you? Pete, are you hit? Who fired those shots? It wasn't me, Dad. Spencer, strike him out so we can see what happened. Sure. Look at that, Dad. It's the men you brought in. He would hardly get loose. Doorn, do you all right? Come here, Matt. I have a shoe on. I was shooting in the dark. I couldn't tell whether I... I guess I dropped him, all right. Now, they did? They did. Matt and I opened up, and they tried to sneak in here. But it was you who led them to nail him. They're sneaking sidewinders. Dad had their hands tied. How'd they get...  One of these fellas slipped his bones, I guess, because the first thing I knew he was holding a gun on me. You can't figure that one. Those raw-eyed ropes I used to tie him... Then they hid me over the head and knocked me cold. The next thing I knew was the noise of your guns. That brought me around. So I grabbed this extra gun and carried my shoulder holster and started shooting. It's a good thing you did, Mort. Well, dead owl hoots are better live ones. Yeah. I kind of wish these had stayed alive just a little bit longer. Why? Matt had got some information out of them. Found out who's the head of the gang. You'll find out someday, Chef. In the meantime, I'm glad these two are dead. Yes, he gets you right. What are we going to do with them, Dad? Can't leave them here? Of course. Come, son. We'll take the critters over to Kalskull Creek and... Kalskull Creek? Is the land over that way part of your ranch, Chef? Sure. It's all part of the fiddle bag. Good grazing land, too. But I guess a couple of our hoot graves won't spoil it. Kalskull Creek? You might, if I go along, Chef. Maybe I can help. Well, Matt and I can do the job all right, Mort. But if you want to see these varmints planted, it's all right for me. Oh, thanks. Well, Matt, as long as we're going to wait around a little more than now about some of that coffee you were talking about. Oh, sure. I'll heat it up right away. We're shortly after sunrise, the following morning when the Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Dan Reid rained up their horses near Kalskull Creek. Oh, Kalskull Creek! What's happening over there? It's just what I was curious about, Dan. Those men are digging for something. You see what's in Springwagon? Men dig grave. Yes, I believe you're right, Tonto. It does look like a burial party. Funny place to bury anybody, right out there in the middle of the prairie. It is strange, Dan, especially when there's a cemetery near town, over five miles from here. Maybe those men need some help. You and Tonto ride over there, and I'll wait for you here. Sure. Come on, Victor. Come on, let's go. Oh, whoopie! Hello! Hello, man. My friend and I saw you from the river trail. You need any help? No, thanks. It's the same. We'll make that all right. Great. You're ready, man. No, man. Spencer and I will carry him. We'll get him in the shovel dirt bag.  I'd rather handle the shovel. It doesn't make a big difference. You help me get him out of the wagon right there. Sure. Are the men you're burying friends of yours? No, just a couple of no-good-out hoots. A dead-lit boy's living. All right, man, sweet-out. Help me. Tonto know that man, damn. Mm-hmm. Who is he, Tonto? Him, Lawman, Sheriff Bartlett. Young father, his son. He not know other men. Now, look. He's putting pieces of rock or dirt in his pocket. Isn't that right? I wonder why he's doing that. All right, Spitzy. Here they are. Shove it in the dirt. Yeah, this is a job I really enjoy. I guess there's nothing wrong, Tonto. Just a sheriff burying a couple of dead-out laws. Ah. I'd still like to know why that other man keeps putting those pieces of rock in his pocket. Why does it want a sheriff isn't looking? Me not know. If we can't be of any help, Sheriff, my friend and I'll be riding along. Sure. Thanks for your help, anyway, son. Come on, Victor. Get him up, Scout. How did you find out? Tonto was right. It was a lawman, his son, and other men burying a couple of dead-out laws. Was that so? Ah, lawman, Sheriff Bartlett. Bartlett, huh? Ah. Then this must be part of the fiddle by crunch. That's right. I'm glad to know there's nothing wrong. The sheriff is burying dead-out laws. I'm sure he knows what he's doing. That was one thing I thought was kind of funny. What was that, Dan? The man was helping the sheriff and his son. They called him Spencer. He was helping dig the graves. But when the sheriff wasn't looking, he kept putting pieces of dirt or rock in his pockets. Oh. That's strange. Well, I guess it's none of our business. Are we going to keep on riding south? Later on, Dan. I want to wait here for a few minutes until after the outlaws are buried. Why? Is anything wrong? Probably not. But I'm curious to know why Mr. Spencer is so interested in dirt and rocks. As soon as they leave, we'll take a look at those graves. Later that afternoon, the office of his stage line in Parker City, Mord Spencer greeted a visitor. One of the boys down at the cafe said you were looking for me, Mord. Yeah, that's right, Kel. Sit down. Yeah. Special job? Very special. It has to be a quick one. Yeah? What is it? Use your rifle. Go to the empty store room above Kelly's Feet Store. There's a window. Looks out right over Main Street. I know that. Who's the armory I'm supposed to nail? Don't worry about that. I'll be right beside you. I'll point him out. Come on, let's get started. Sheriff John Barton and his son Matt had written into Parker City from the fiddleback ranch. They rained up in front of the Sheriff's office, which was directly opposite Kelly's Feet Store. Oh, oh, oh! Hey, man, get some work to do in the office, Matt. You better stay below horses. Sure, Dad. We won't be riding home for two or three hours yet, and then we'll get the key to... Dad! Dad, what's wrong? Revivalant. Chester! I'm done for, Matt. Who could have done it? Well, that'll be your job, son. Find out. You'll have to take over. I'll find out. If it's the last thing I ever do. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments to continue our story. Everyone in Harker City was enraged about the murder of Sheriff Bartlett. Within a few moments, there was a large crowd gathered outside the lawman's office. Shot him down in cold blood. Where'd the shot come from? Anybody know? How are we going to run down the cutter? We don't know who did it. We've got to have a new sheriff first. Young Matt's the one to take his pause place. There's Matt now. What about it, Matt? What are you going to do? Find a sneak and out blow that shocked my father. That's right! That's the way to do it. But pause, murder, leave the county in Harker City without a sheriff. The first thing we've got to do is appoint somebody to take his place. All ready to figure that out, Matt. You're the man to take your pause place. All right, I will take it.  Less than an hour later, Tonto and Dan Reed rained up at the camp that they and the Lone Ranger had made near Cowskull River. Cowskull! Cowskull! Cowskull! Did you find out anything? Not much about Mr. Spencer. But just before we got to town, there was a murder. The sheriff was killed. You mean Sheriff Bartlett? Yeah. How did it happen? I don't know. When Tonto and I rode into town, there was a big crowd in front of the sheriff's office. Somebody said he'd been killed about 10 minutes before that. Ah. Doctors say Lawman killed by rifle bullet. Did anybody see the murder? I guess not. The people in town have appointed Matt Bartlett to be the new sheriff. That's a good idea. I heard him tell a crowd that the first thing he was going to do was find out who killed his father. Good. I'm glad we stopped here. Matt may need some help. But gee, Wallace doesn't have anything to do with Mr. Spencer, does he? It may, Dan. I have an idea it has a lot to do with Mr. Spencer's habit of collecting rocks. Tonto. Ah. You know where the government to say office is in Harker City? Ah. You know. You and Dan ride back into town and have them make a test of one of these rocks we picked up where the outlaws were buried. Here. A test? For what? The sheriff wasn't murdered without a reason, Dan. If we can find that reason, we'll be that much nearer the murderer. Golly. And what you do, Kimusubby? I'll ride into town too, but not until after sundown. If you get back here first, wait for me. Ah. Get him up, scoundrel. Come on, Victor. In the meantime, Mort Spencer was giving some new instructions to Cal Thompson, his gunman. That was a good job, Cal. All of my jobs were good. But I still don't get the idea. Why'd you want to get rid of the sheriff? It was necessary. You mean because he trailed red and peat and corralled them? Shucks. They were just tied up out at Fiddlebank Rants, like you say. We can turn them loose any time. Of course. Then why plug the old fritter? He was harmless. See, how about me riding out to Fiddlebank and helping the boys get loose? Uh, no, no, no. I have something else for you to do. The boys are still out there, aren't they? Well, sure, sure. But you can go out later. Right now, I want you to round up every man in town who's ever worked for me. Tell them all we learned, ten dollars a piece. For doing what? Marching in a parade. What? Well, explain. When a sheriff dies according to the law, temporarily lawman is supported in his place. Sure. That's what Bartlett's kid Matt is doing now, taking his old man's place. But if the people aren't satisfied with the man who's appointed, they can put in somebody else. I guess so. I don't know much about that stuff. Well, I'd be a much better sheriff than that boy Matt Bartlett. You? Why not? I don't know. You're already robbing your own stage line, wrestling cattle and high-grading. I guess you might as well be your own lawman, too. I'm glad you agree. Now, listen. Get those men together as many as you can. Get some signs painted. Spencer for sheriff, understand? Sure. I know what to do. When does this big popularity parade for Mort Spencer begin? About ten o'clock. March down the street to the sheriff's office. I'll be in the crowd and if you yell a lot enough, I'll make a speech. I get it. Oh, yes. One more thing, Cal. Huh? You've seen young Matt within the last hour or so? He was in the café talking about forming a posse to trail his pa's killer the last time I saw him. Oh, good. I want to have a talk with Matt. I'll go down to the café. Oh, Matt. Oh. Hello, Mr. Spencer. I guess I don't have to tell you how sorry I am about your father's death. He was a fine man. The best sheriff this county ever had. I think so.  It takes forever. Any idea who it was, Matt? No. But I discovered where the shot came from. Whoever fired it was in the window above Kelly's feed store. Is that so?  The only thing I can figure is it was part of that gang he captured. They must have trail us into town.  How am I? Say, Matt, hear that the citizens of Harker City have made you temporary sheriff. I wanted the job. Now when I catch the crooks that killed Dad, it'll be the law and me talking at the same time. With a six gun. Yeah. See what you mean. How about your ranch, fiddleback? What about it? Do you intend to keep on running the ranch? Oh, sure. Why not? No, no reason. I've just been thinking there might be somewhere I could help you out. Well, how? Well, I'll buy the place, Matt. Give you 10,000 cash. 10,000? Well, that's a lot of money, Mr. Spencer. I didn't know you were interested in owning a ranch. What isn't exactly that? Well, I just want to help you, if I can. Thanks, but I... Well, I don't want to sell. Anything you say. Have you ever changed your mind? The offer still holds. Thanks a lot, Mr. Spencer. Well, I must be going. I've got a lot of things to do. Congratulations on your new job, Sheriff. Thanks. It was 10 o'clock that evening, when Toto and Dan returned to their camp and found the Lone Ranger waiting impatiently. Oh! What's going on? I don't dismount. We'll have some more riding to do. What did you find out at the essay office? No man say rocks. Got plenty good gold ore. I thought so. That proves my suspicions about Spencer. You mean he knew those rocks were gold ore? I'm sure he did. I disguised myself and went into town earlier this evening. I was in the cafe and overheard Spencer offer Matt Bartlett $10,000 for fiddleback ranch. That proves he knows there's gold on the land. Something Matt and his father didn't know. Do you think it was him who killed the sheriff? I don't know, Dan. I do know he's planning a mass parade tonight. What does he want to have a parade for? To try to convince the people of Harker City that he should be appointed sheriff instead of Matt Bartlett. Dolly! Here, Silver. By now, Matt is probably back at his ranch. We must reach him first and then stop that parade. The meddleback isn't very far from here. Even so, we'll have to ride fast. Come on, Silver! Come on, Victor! Down scout! Oh, Silver, hold on! Hold on! Easy, big fella. There's a light in the front room. He must be here. Yeah? Masked? Who are you? If you think you're gonna... Don't reach for your gun, Matt. I'm not an outlaw. How do you know my name? Never mind that. You know that Mort Spencer is trying to have himself appointed a sheriff in your place? Spencer is trying to... What do you mean? He's hired men to parade in Harker City tonight in hopes to convince everyone that it's a popular demonstration. I... Well, even if that's true, there's nothing wrong in it. If the people want Spencer for sheriff, it's up to them. He tried to buy a fiddleback today. How did you know? And the reason he wants to buy it is because he knows there's a gold mine on your ranch. That's worth 50 times what he offered you. Gold mine?  He discovered the oar. Samples of it have been assayed and proved. But I... Mort Spencer is trying to get your ranch and your job. You want to help stop him? I... I don't know who you are, Mr. But if what you say is true, I sure do want to help. Good. I see your horse is ground hitched out here. Come on. An Indian and a kid? Who are they? Friends of mine. Is that a big fella? Come on. I'm ready. Come on, Silver.  Come on, Silver. Come on, Silver. Come on, Silver. Come on, Silver. Come on, Silver. Come on, Silver. Come on, Silver. Come on. Come on, Silver. Come on, Silver. Thank you, my friends. I can't begin to tell you how much this popular demonstration has impressed me. I hadn't thought of becoming sheriff. But if you want me to take the job, well, I'll be forced to accept your judgment. The only thing I regret is that your choice will force young Matt Bartlett out of a job. I'm more than sorry... We want a real woman. Very well. Who's that? Matt Bartlett. Who's the killer wearing a mask? An outlaw? Who's the engine? Who's the kid? Go on, Matt. Tell them what you know. Listen to me, please. Quiet. I've just learned some things I think all of you ought to know. I'll tell you about them. Then if you'd rather have Mort Spencer for sheriff, it's up to you. First, I'm sure I know the man who murdered my father. It's the same man who tried to buy the fiddleback ranch for me today. Because he knows there's a gold mine on it. Who is it?  He helped bury them yesterday afternoon. That's the man who wants to be the sheriff of Harker County. His name is Mort Spencer. Sorry, young fucker. My arm a bit shut. You're lucky that it's only your arm. I'll leave it to all of you. If he isn't guilty, why did he try to pull a gun? Yes, sir. I want to ask a question. What is it? Not to you. Spencer's the one I want to talk to. How about it, Mort?  Was that red and peat? I, uh... It was an accident, Cal. You dirty... Never mind, never mind. The law will take care of him. You're under arrest. Both of you. Absolutely not. Come on, Tutto. Then our job is done. What a fine work, Matt. Because Harker City is pretty lucky having two good shares, one after the other, and both named Bartlett. You're right, sir! Thanks. Hey, Matt. Who was that mass critter who was doing all the fancy shooting? I wish I knew. The whole thing was his idea. I don't even know his name. I'll settle that! 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