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PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA, FRIDAY. NOV. 19,1926
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IN THE
oort and Pertinent
*tis Pertdininj
. h ând Events
l cf 'Great and Small
*n
Concern.
ID MOSS, editor of the White
•.V pilot, is another Flathead Coun
p^rMjn who has been bitten by
'■ gmbition tick which seems to be
, . pant in that part of the state.
11 b u ld li' e to wield the Speaker's
next session of the leg
and has thrown his little
the a
H* V 4
mtcI m fne
islaturr
hat in the ring preparatory to
»oins: 1° bat for the possession of
' coveted prize. Whether or not'
indorsement of One i
McLean, erstwhile Mayor of
home town, is not disclosed in j
presv dispatches. Hut then a 1
from Flathead county does not |
^ indorsements or urgings to go (
and annex a good state office. !
m
the
hr has
Horse
-un
flit
f] e just naturally feels that such
were invented for Flat- I
hold. Isn't Old Flat- i
anrcures
headers t;/
-uud John, from Kulispeil, holding j
jMvn the Job of Governor at $7,500
«r and free house and coal with
the gra>>hoal to boot. And there is
pjathead -May Trum per, who is
banking her salary as State Super
inu-ndcnt of Public Instruction, for
God Lnow.s how long. W. W. Mc
(„rmack. one of the f latest of the
flatheads, is Lieutenant Governor
iiid J- W. Walker, another Flat
deader is Chairman of the Tax
(onmission. These are but a few
0 f the state jobs held by the Flat
heads. An unkindly critic once
remarked: "The reason the state
is so fiat is because there
many fatheads on the pay
i
j
treasury
are so
roll." Perhaps he got his L's mixed
2nd perhaps not. Anyway Flathead
(oirnty will continue to rule Mon
unless Montana makes an at
tempt to rule itself.
:ina
CAL COOLIDGE seems to be pay
ing some attention to the elections,
in which several world court senators
1 failed to "make the grade.
I Kansas City he made a speech which
I k regarded in London as a repudia
I tion of the World Court idea. One
I thing sems to have percolated into
I the New England consciousness of
At
Cal and that is the fact that the
American people do not like the
Senators who voted this country in
to the World Court, which is the
sack door of the League of Na
tions. Of the seven Senators stand
ing for réélection, who voted vali
antly for the Court, six were* de
feated either in the Primary or the
general election. The Pro>-O»urt
ers. whose names will be missing
from the Senate Chamber in the
70th Congress, bear the following,
familiar names: Senator William M.
Butler, of Massachusetts; Senator
James E. Wadsworth, of New York;
Senator Richard P. Ernst, of Ken
tucky: Sunator Robert N. Stanfield
of Oregon; Senator Ovi'ngton E.
Weller, erf Maryland; Senator Ralph
H. Cameron, of Arizona; Senator
George Wharton Pepper, of Penn
sylvania ; Senator Irvine L. Len
root, of Wisconsin; Senator Rice W.
Means, of Colorado; Senator Wil
liam B. McKinley, of Illinois; the
late Senator Albert B. Cummins, of
Iowa. When Senators Walsh and
Wheeler, who* so ardently cooperat
ed with Col. House, in the passage
of the World Court bill, hote the
ahsense of the above named gentle
men from the National Capitol, and
ponder over the returns of the 2nd
District Congressional election in
Montana, where they made them
wives the issue, they must have an
uneasy feeling that 1928 is at hand
»nt be fearful of the old saw:
"Coming events cast their Shadows
Wore."
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wTZANESTI
was the word
H caused Marie of Roumania to
turn pale with fear and shame when
dje saw it inscribed on a banner in
tKifago this week. And well she
jt'ieHt for the word brings back to
"ff memories which she would like
tu have the world forget. Behind
" e *°rd is a story which is typical
*1 the effete European royalty of
*mfh this perambulating strumpet
shut a type, \fter the demonstra
' !(, n in Chicago, the old King of the
'^ist-feudai vassal state* of Rou
jjxria ordered "Her Majesty" back
' l,n, c for Xmas. But our Babbit
r ) and Boobery had an opportunity
Airplay that sickening spirt of
and self-abasement w hich is
characteristic of some Americans
f African
fourth
negroes. Now the
ra k< old Queen is going back
»hl 011 the intended favor
^ impression before certain Wall
lr reet Douses started to unload Rou
an Bonds. Her game was nip
th.i K ^' e resolution of
mcago Federation of Labor and
*■ Parade of the members of the
f) ,- r , ers ' Party. And "King Ben
* H ^use of David now holds the
***** of the
stage!
?fS DA . N COUNTY has 57 miles
ra highway yet to be built,
br tlto^u to a statement s€lnt out
al, t ' on tana Automobile Associ
'oriati r/re e * ef tion. The same As
lio n i 0 * Promised that a half mil
(founr 3rs wou Bt spdnt in this
the over a ten year period, if
V 00 *! Hoads'' Initiative Bill
** passed and it
oil ihne that our Commer
t*m g U ° s an< I other civic organiza
tb t H rr ld 8te P out and remind
ay Commission of tho
Wbj nri ':J? n Promises of the people
hls Bill. One map sent out
tl L . one °f the proposed feder
*rui f r extending like a big
iqq t L 0m Culbertson to Plentywood
*«rcial n Scob ®y- The Com
r * u Bs all along the line
«tod .. " j 1 busy on this matter ahd
delegation to Helena to
eo 1 riaims of this country
a treatment in the matter
««rried.
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Montana State Legislature Asked for Huge Appropriations
OFFICIALS WANT $6,000,000
FOR EXPENSE OF STATE
Solons Face Problem of Finding Revenue for the Ever In
creasing Appropriations Required to Operate State at
Coming Session of Legislature.
Helena, Montana, Wednesday, November 17.—When the 1927
legislature convenes at Helena, January 3, it will face the problem
ol making appropriations totalling more than six million dollars,
ii recommendations of the state board of examiners are followed
out. The board this year has gone over all items in the budget
mid the figures will be submitted in detail when legislators get
together. This board is required by law to recommend to the
legislature a financial program for the state on the basis of bud
get requests from officials, department heads and institutions.
The board includes Governor Erickson, Attorney General Foot
and Secretary of State Stewart.*
F„r the°two-year^ "period*, eodi„ K
June 30, 1929, the board approves ex
penditures totalling $6,656,627. To
this amount the legislature must add
whatever it needs for its own opera
uro,öS!* last session cost about
With a few classes of expenditures
the board is not required to deal. No
appropriation is required for distri
bution of the state school income,
which last biennium totalled about
$300,000.
Interest on the state debt, estimat
ed at $335,000 for the coming bien
nium, and payments from the educa
tional bond fund, of which $339,103
was unspent on June 30, 1926, do not
require appropriations.
Profit Not Included.
Under a system adopted by the
1925 legislature earnings of depart
ments and institutions are not in
cluded in appropriations. The budget
bills carried the note that the appro
priations w-ere in addition to all in
from permanent funds and en
dowmets and from land grants, fees
and earnings, requiring that these
incomes be spent before the appropri
ation from the general fund should
become effective.
Receipts from the United States
government for co-operative projects
amounted during the last biennium,
to $400,000.
Lop Nearly Two Million.
The amounts recommended by the
board represent a cut of $1,927,325
from the requests of officials, depart
ments and institutions. The total al
lows expenditures of $6,453,605 for
operation, $93,877 for capital expens
and $130,144 for repairs.
The general fund, of course, bears
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comes
the load.
BANK ROBBERS SOUGHT
BY WILL1ST0N SHERIFF
C rri All i . m m/| I
Warrants Out for Arrest of Three Men Alleged to Have Mur
dered Wheelock Bank Cashier. Many Banks Have Been
Held-Up" by Burglars in Fhckertail State During Past Pew
Months—Clever Safecrackers Said to Be Working
Western North Dakota.
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MINOT, N. D. Nov. 17. — Three former convicts are be
sought for the holdup of the Citizens State bank at Wheel
N. D., last Friday, and the slaying of H. N. Petersen
announced in Minot today, by Sheriff A. R.
mg
ock,
cashier, it was
Marshall of Williston.
Warrants charging murder and robbery have been issued
for the arrest of Lester Barge, 26; John Northrop, 33, a rel
Barge, and Ray Moore, 33, whom authorities be
who committed the holdup and shot and
believed to have resisted them.
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ative of
lieve to be the men
killed Peterson, when he is
Divide and Mountrail
Counties
Barge and Northrop have lived in
Divide and Mountrail counties dur
ing the last few years, and Moore for
a time resided in Mountrail county,
cbming to North Dakota from Mon
tana where he served a penitentiary
sentence"for robbery. Northrop also
has served a sentence in ^ he . pe PJ;
tentiary at Deer Lodge, Mont, for
automobile stealing , and Barg. has
served a term m the North Dakota
penitentiary for automobile steakng
having been sentenced in Divide
,C °Trace of the three men is now^be
ing sought. Authorities have been
abk to follow their movements prior
irr»"
known.
WHEELOCK N D H- N^Petor
son, casluer of the
of a pair of
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Special to Producers News.
. .Great Falls, November 16.—Gor
don Campbell of Great Falls will
surrender to the deputy U. S. mar
shal at Great Falls today to begin
serving his sentence* according to
word received here by U. S. Marshal
John C. Orrkk from Campbell's at
torney.
Campbell was sentenced to pay a
fine of $2,000 and serve two years in
prison following his conviction on
charges of using the mails to de
fraud. The actio involved an oil
promotor scheme whereby part of
money raised under a co-operative
plan for development of some Mon
tana properties was used for adver
tising. This, the federal court held,
was unlawful under the terms of the
co-operative agreement. The Mon
tana federal district court was sus
tained by the United States court of
appeals and the supreme court of the
United States declined to interfere.
MEXICAN SENATOR KILLED
MEXICO CITY — In a duel to the
death which was fought in the Senate
chamber here last Tuesday, November
9 th, Senator Enrique Henshaw was
wounded, and Senator Luis Espinosa
was shot through the heart, dying in
stantly. The shooting was the cli
max to a bitter quarrel between the
two men. Confusion reigned in the
chamber following the duel.
Russian All-Union Textile
Syndicate May Buy Cotton
* It is reported that a committee *
* of officials from the Russian All- *
* Union Textile Syndicate is in this *
* country trying to arrange for the *
* immediate purchase of about 2,- *
* 000,000 bales of American cotton. *
* Normally Russia takes only 350,- *
<• 000 bales of the United States *
* crop, but due to an off-season *
* there and an increasing demand *
* for cotton goods, the country will *
* probably be able to use the 2,000,- *
£ 000 bales this year. It is under- *
* stood that suitable long-time *
* credit will have to be arranged *
* in order to negotiate the deal. *
* Bankers in the Cotton States al- *
* ready have made plans for the *
* holding of 4,000,000 bales off of *
* the market in order to effect an *
* upward trend in the market to al- *
* low the planters a small profit *
* from the crop.
* deal goes through it will go a *
* long way toward solving the *
* South's cotton problem.
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FRANK L. SMITH, ILL.IIP*
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These two men have proven that seats in the United States
Senate can be purchased from the electorate. Now the question is,
"Shall they be seated?" All America knows that it is not a party
question and any senator who so considers It will find himself in the
samt position as those who voted for Newberry. Where are those
senator* now? Gone—all Gone— Twenty seven of them.
SHUT THE SENATE DOOR IN THEIR FACES
Now that Senators-elect William S. Vare, of Pennsylvania, arid Frank
L. Smith, of Illinois, have demonstrated to there own satisfaction that
seats in the United States Senate* can be purchased from the electorate
if only one has the requisite amount of cash to plunk down on the
counter before primary elections, the Senate faces the question of
what's to be done about it.
All America is interested in the answer reached by other Senators,
as it was when another Senate refused to seat Mr. Newberry. And it
is to be hoped this Senate will not fight the question out on party lines,
and the processes of government corrupted while Congress sits by and
watches?
It is not a parly question.
If the Senate is to maintain the comparatively high position it
cupies in the opinion of American citizens, that august body must
make known that it will not permit Senate seats to be knocked off at
auction to the. highest bidder.
The Senate may not solve the problem for a year, or it may solve it
when it is oreraniv,dJ Two opposing views are taken of the manner iu
which the question is to be attacked.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, maintains Vare and Smith must be seated
and that a subsequent resolution to declare their seats vacant will re
quire a two-thirds vote.
Senators Norris, of Nebraska, and Ashhurst, of Arizona, say Vare
and Smith may be denied seats when they present their certificates and
that only a majority vote will be necessary to exclude them.
But discussion of the* manner in which the Senate is to act should
not be allowed to cloud the real issue? May nominations be purchased
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Canadian Farmers' Fool Sells
190,000,000 Bushels Wheat
WINNIPEG — (FP) — Canadian
wheat pool farmers have* closed an
other banner season during which
the Central Selling agency disposed
of 190,000,000 bushels of wheat.
The last dividend on the 1925 crop,
which has just been paid, totaled
$8,500,000 or 2*4 per bushell.
Wheat pool members thus receiv
ed for the 1925 crop an initial pay
ment of $1, two additional payments
of 20c each per bushel and the fin
al payment making a total for No.
1 wheat of $1.42 / 2 per bushel. This
is considered by the farmers an
cellent return as the 1925 crop
a large one.
During the three years of their
existence the wheat pools have han
dk.3: 1923 crop, 34,000,000 bushels
(Ä S
ex
was
katchewan and Manitoba), and 190,
000,000 bushels of the 1925
for the three provinces,
than double the quantity handled
in the previous your. Membership
in the has increased
crop
or more
79,700 in July 1924 to 127,200 mem
bers in July 1926.
Last year the pools inaugurated
the policy c«f sécuring elevators by
the simple process of deducting 2c
por bushel on all grain handled for
elevator purposes. This elevator
fund has been used to (secure 30
local elevators in Manitoba. 33 ek*
vators in Alberta and 575 in Sas
katchewan, or a total of 638 for the !
three pools. These elevators, like
the other property of the pools, is
paid for in cash; hence* there are
no bonds or mortgages.
In addition to the local elevators,
the pools have terminal elevator
facilities for handling 20,000,000
bushels of wheat at a time. With
the small enlargement of these ter
minal facilities and a quick turnover
the pools will be able to handle
their entire product.
Ih the development of co-opera
tive marketing of grain, the Cana
dians are beating the world.
SCOBEY BRANCH SHIPS
TRAINLOAD OF STOCK
SCOBEY. — Another trainload of
cattle and sheep, approximately 50
cars, went into St, Paul markets
the branch line Thursday, Nov. 11th.
Part of these cattle were loaded at
po\pts west of Scobey and about 10
cars were added east of Scobey to
make up the trainload. Scobey is
again becoming a cattle and sheep
country with this difference—in the
old days, it was range stuff, and now
it is farm livestock. This illustrates
the new diversified system which is
becoming prevalent in this county.
over
THANKSGIVING DINNER
AND CHARITY BALL
BENEFIT OF OUTLOOK COMMUN
ITY HOSPITAL.
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* The Fifth Annual Thanksgiving *
* Dinner and Charity Ball for the *
* benefit of the Outlook Communi- *
* ty Hospital will occur as usual at *
* Stivers' Hall at Outlook,, Thanks- *
* giving Dav, Thursday, November *
* 25th. *
* The dinner which will cost $1.00 *
* the plate will start at four o'clock *
* in the afternoon, and the Ball will *
* commence as soon as the dinner *
* is over and the dishes aVe cleared *
* away. The dame tickets are one *
* dollar. *
* The best music obtainable has *
* been procured and the dance of *
* the season is promised.
* The Annual Dinner and Ball is *
* the social event of the season in *
* the Outlook territory. Last year *
* only a thousand dollars was real- *
* ized for the hospital. This year *
*
*
the crowd promises to be larger *
than ever. *
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part of Montana where there has been
winter since almost the first of Sep
tember, but Mr. Geo. Midby of Mid
by, can show that even such things
can happen. He brought two may
flowers or crocuses to the Producers
News to prove his statements, and
said he was going to name his place
Mayflower Ranch to commemorate
the event. In an endeavor to explain
this oddity Mr. Midby said "Well, you
see the soil is so rich in this part of
Montana, that the flowers cannot
wait until their proper time to grow,
but have to blossom all the year
round, trying to get all they can out
of it."
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Flowers Still Blooming
In Sheridan County
To find mayflowers on one's ranch
in the middle of November is rather
a freak of nature in the northeastern
COONEY IS OUT FOR
SPEAKER OF HOUSE
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*
* GREAT FALLS. — E. H. Coo- •
'* ney, representative-elect of Cas- *
* cade county, announced here to- *
* night that he will be a candidate *
* the* hext legislative session for *
* the speakership of the lowe r *
* house. Mr. Cooney was a mem- *
* ber of the sixth, 16th, 17th, and *
* 19th assemblies, the one to which *
* he. is now elected being his fifth. *
* He was also assistant chief clerk *
* of the first Montana assembly. *
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AFTER HOSTILE BANNERS
GREET HER AT CHICAGO
Trip Arranged to Facilitate Roumanian Loan Fiascos When
Workers Expose Tyranny in Home Country—Dunne
Speaks at Chicago After Police Disperse Crowds.
U
C0TZFANESH" TURNS MARIA'S CHEEKS PALE
Washington.—News reaching the Roumanian legation
today authorizes them to give out a public statement that
Queen Marie and the Princess lleana and Prince "Nickey are
requested to come home Christmas by the King of Roumania.
This request from the king, following closely on the untoward
reception of Her Majesty in Chicago, is interpreted to mean
that the royal trip to the United States has proved a fiasco.
Wanted Loan
*1
The original intention of the tour
of the Queen was for the purpose of
popularizing Roumania with the
people of America so that a big loan
lor that country could be floated by
a well known Wall street banking
house. But the many incidents
which happened during the course of
the trip had the opposite effect. The
exposure of the Queen's part in the
Cotzfanesti" affair, and the reso
lutions of condemnation of the treat
ment of Roumanian workers, put the
u
finishing on the Royal tour
which started out under auspicious
circumstances.
"COTZFANESTI"
By Thurber Lewis
Special to the Producers News.
Chicago.—Policemen's clubs were
used on the hoads of American work
ers to save a ruling monarch from
the embarrassment of being remind
ed of I he brutal and tyranneous reign
of her royal house; Chicago is buzz
ing with wonder and amazement ov
er the word "Cotzfanesti
which the queen was greeted from
the throats of hundreds of workers;
and for the fitst time in her tri
umphant procession over the contin
ent, her royal highness was mad >
vividly to understand that the work
ers and peasants of Roumania who
have been murdered and imprisoned
by her regime have champions in
this country who can make their
voices heard.
Marie's Face Turns Pale
These are the outstanding facts of
the arrival of Maria von Hohenzol
lem in this city.
Her face blanched with fear, shud
dering and drawing back into the
cushions of her limousine, Queen Ma
rie heard the word that has haunted
her from that shameful day on the
with
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Schlapsz Given 30 Day Ex
tension By Supreme Court
Friends of Boy Murderer of Biem are Given Opportunity to
Raise Costs of Appeal to State's Highest Tribunal—
Ferdinand Is Happy in Jail and Does Not Expect Death,
Says Sheriff John Anderson.
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Helena, Nov. 1 3.—Inability upon the part of Roosevelt
county friends and relatives of Ferdinand Schlapsz to raise
money to meet the expenses of appeal to the supreme court
from the judgment of the district court of Roosevelt county
finding him guilty of murder, under which he has been sent
enced to death, caused the supreme court Monday to order an
extension of 30 days in the time for filing the printed brief of
counsel for the appellant. 1
Order Signed By Callaway ***'
The order was signed by Chief
Justice L. L. Callaway in response to
a petition filed by" Howard M. Lewis
of Plentywood, and Maum and Mar
ford of Poplar, attorneys for the de
fendant, in which it was set out that
Schlapsz has no funds or property
of any kind out of which to defray
the expenses of appeal, and particu
larly ^he printing of the brief.
They show that his defense in the
district court w r as made by attorneys
appointed by the court for that pur
pose and at the expense of the prose
cution, and that Schlapsz was not
even able to defray the expense of
the transcript on appeal. It is furth
er stated that his friends and rela
tives have agreed to pay the ex
penses of his attorneys on the ap
peal, but they have been wholly un
able to raise any money; that his at
torneys are willing to procure the
appeal and perform the necessary la
bor upon the agreement of the
friends and relatives that they will
raise the necessary funds in the
course of time, and probably partly
thereof from the proceeds of their
crops of 1926, and the balance from
their crops of 1927, but they have
been delayed by storms in the/ har
vesting of their present year crops.
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UNCLE JOE CANNON
Famed Ex-Speaker of House of
Representatives, who died at the
ripe old age of Ninety years, at
his home at Danville, Illinois, last
week.
TRANSPORTATION MEANS
IN SOVIET RUSSIA ARE
DEVELOPED WITH SPEED
MOSCOW — The total number of
lines of interurban suburban and city
motor transport within the borders
of the U. S S. R. amounts to 153
of a total distance of 7,096 kilometers,
the work of Moscow motor busses
amounting to 75 percent of all regular
motor connections in the U. S. S. R_
The next place in motor transport is
occupied by Transcaucasia, where 25.
lines are working.
DAGMAR BOY
SEVERELY WOUNDED
Wallace Christenson, fifteen year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Christ
enson of Dagmar was accidently shot,
and seriously wounded, Saturday, No
vember 13th, when a shotgun went off
and tore away part of his jaw, hurt
ing his eye at the same time so badly
that there is little hope for the recov
ery of his eyesight.
Wallace, with a man who was work
ing on his parents' farm went after
a load of straw from the fields, tak
ing along with them a gun. They
set the gun between them, muzzle
upwards, and in doing so discharged
it accidentally. The man who
with the boy received powder burns
all over his face, and cried, I'm shot.
But Wallace, who was really shot
did not realize the fact, until after
he had been toid so by the other one. s
He was immediately rushed to the
hospital at Grenora, where his
dition is reported very serious. He
was a sophomore at Plentywood High
and had gone home to spend the week
end with his parents.
was
con-