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A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE. FOR THE PEOPLE. BY THE PEOPLE
PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25,1929
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Sub Rates* 18.78
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Entered as Second Clans Matter, October 18, 1818. at the Poab
office at Plentywood. Montana, Under the Act of March «. 1878
per year
per rear
ontanas Legislative MOI Grinds Slowly
Farmers Stop Trains, Dump Million Pounds Milk
CHICAGO MILK WAR STOPS WHEN
ARBITRATION IS AGREED UPON
Truck Driver Slugged by Pickets and Contents of Can Poured
Over Him. ..Remainder of Load Dumped on Ground. Dairy
Farmers Up in Arms. Million Pounds of Milk Destroyed.
Waukegan, Ill., Jan, 21.—Militant dairy farmers waylaid two
Soo Line trains at Lake Villa station 15 miles west of here Monday
night and dumped the contents of two tank cars of milk onto the
tracks. Sixty cans of milk were taken from the late afternoon
train bound for Chicago and at 8:45 p. m. the strikers boarded a
second milk train and emptied two*
tank cars, later tossing out all the;
milk they found in three réfrigéra
tor cars.
21.—With striking
Chicago, Jan.
dairymen throwing up an efective
blockade against importation of milk
linto the Chicago area, and further
Louis L.
Gov.
Reports of violence,
Emerson tonight moved to bring about
L settlement of the controversy be
the producers and distributors.
;ween
The goveernor said he would confer
it Springfield Tuesday with a repre
sentative of the producers to work out
bn arbitration program.
The announcement followed further
Reports of violence. Farmers picket
ing the highways of Kane and Mc
Henry counties slugged Abel Leetzow,
[truck driver for Charles Gifford of
IBartleU, 111, poured some of the milk
■from his truck over him and dumped
■he remainder into a ditch.
[ Following discovery of kerosene in
some of the milk shipped into the
ity, inspectors were assigned by the
ealth commissioner to guard against
urther pollution.
Highway patrolmen were assigned
to guard receiving plants of the larg
« producers to prevent further vio
knee to farmers attempting to deliv
[r milk, and the Lake county circuit
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HERIDAN COUNTY FARMERS WIN
MANY PRIZES AT MALTA SHOW
egistered Flax of Sheridan County Receives First, Second and
Third Places at District and State Show. Other Winners In
Various Classes of Pure Seed. Medicine Lake Farmer Wins
In Poultry and Turkey Exhibitions.
Sheridan County Pure Seed Crow
's again won honors at the Montana
istrict Seed Show and the Montana
täte Utility Show which was recent
[ held at Malta.
The first three awards in the flax
psses in both the District Seed
how and the State Seed Show went
I Sheridan county, demonstrating the
lility of Sheridan county
I arise high class flax seed.
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nns county also had a number of
rmer, who were consistent winners
all other classes of registered and
»proved gram. According to an item
M hst rece ived by County Agent:
the Secretar y of the
u • low, I. i,. Lantz, Malta, the,
Sowï ° f Sheridan °° UIlty are aS
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Registered Margus—George Over
I' 3r d; Lars Angvick 8th.
•Registered Flax—Andrew Dahl, 1st;
■ U. Wang, 2nd; George Overby, 3rd.
Rpproved Marquis—E. W. Martini,
R; Lars Angvick 9th.
Rpproved Victory— O. E. Wang,
farmers
approved Flax— O. E. Wang, 2nd.
Approved Flax—Nels
Ir iT D t W ° f Dagmar was als0
arded a silver cup by the Montana:
îd Growers Association for the best
u y seed flax sample shown in the
eed Show, also a Bintliff pic
e< • ®l n tliff Manu
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BOTH HOUSES WILL
INQUIRE INTO BIG
GAS TAX REFUND
21st legislative assembly are becom
ing aroused to the seriousness of what
they believe to be an abuse of the
Helena, Jan, 21 .—Members of the
| law permitting refunds of the state
gasoline tax in cases where the tax
has been paid upon gasoline used for
agricultural and industrial operations
and not for transportation upon the
public highways.
One and all are of the opinion that
some step must be taken to remedy
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SMALL BLAZE CALLS
OUT FIRE DEPARTMENT
The Plentywood Fire department
I was called out Saturday morning
about ten o'clock to answer a fire
! summons at the home of Joe Mcln
' tosh in the southwest part of the
city. The blaze was caused by some
material close to a stove pipe and
had been extinguished before the de
partment arrived. Practically no
damage was done.
AN0THE0EETYME
DANCE SATURDAY
Because of numerous requests for
another old time dance following the
enjoyable time had two weeks ago
at the Temple, the Plentywood Lodge
of the Sons of Norway is putting on
another of those popular events at
the Teitip i e tomorrow (Saturday)
evening and it is predicted that the
large popu i ar community hall will
again be the scene of a huge throng
of me rry-makers, who will make the
rafters ring with their shouts of en
j oyment as tbe old-time dances pro
gress in the good old-fashioned way.
Otto's old-time Buick orchestra will
furnish the music and everyone that
heard them two weeks ago will be
there and tell their friends of the ex
cellent music they are going to have.
The committee in charge reports
that old-time music and dances will
prevail throughout the entire evening
and asks the public to come prepared
for the time of their lives.
Olson.-
Annual Stockholders* Meeting
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j The Annual Stockholders meeting
^11 be held at the Sheridan Memori
al Hospital, February 16th, at 8:00
o'clock for the purpose of electing
trustees for the year.
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NEW ELECTRIC RATE
ON MINIMUM CHARGE
TAKES EFFECT FEB. 1
* Helena, Jan. 21.—Commencing *
* Feb. 1 the minimum charge of *
* three of the larger electric sys- *
* terns for combination use of elec- *
* tricity for lighting, heating, cook- *
* ing and appliances will be $1 a *
* month instead of $2, the state *
* public service commission an- *
* nounces. The Companies which *
* are putting the rate into effect *
* are the Montana Power, Great *
* Falls Power and the Thompson •
* Falls Power companies. The rate •
* is not applicable to hotel and *
* rooming house service. *
Son of Saco (Mont.) Lady
Killed in Clash At Nicaragua
Among those listed as killed in Nic
aragua as the result of a tilt between
i American Marines and Nicaraguan
insurgents, was Private Rector, who
1 was bom in 1907 at Aredale, Iowa. He
; er >Lsted in 1025 from Des Moines, and
I gave ms nearest relative as his moth
er, Mrs. Laura J. Rector, of Saco,
Mont.
Plentywood Wins and Loses
The Plentywood High School bas
ketball team won over the Antelope
highschool boys in a well played'
game at the Farmer-Labor Temple
The Sheridan County term of Court
ended Monday noon, and the jurors
were dismissed. Judge Felt presided
over court Saturday and Monday.
In the case of Dolin vs. Wächter,
score was 21 to 13.
The local boys lost Wednesday ev
ening to Scobey by a score of 24 to
13 in a well-played game.
DISTRICT COURT
ENDS MONDAY NOON
the attorneys agreed on a statement
of facts to be presented to the Judge
for his decision.
The Ommar case was dismissed by
the Judge after County Attorney
Bakewell asked for dismissal because
of lack of evidence.
The Kelly cases went by default
and judgment was rendered because
of non-appearance.
Monday noon, all cases having
been disposed of, the jury was dis
missed and the term of court ended.
Judge Felt, who was called on some
cases in which Judge Paul had been
disqualified, presided over the court
Saturday and Monday morning.
The Omar Case
Written By
HANS RASMUSSEN
Court session is over and justice
has again been handed out satisfac
tory to some and to the disappoint
ment of others.
The most interesting case on the
court calendar was the Omar case, a
where Mr. Omar was charged
case
with having received money from the
county under false pretense. Lots of
people were determined that this case
should be aired out in court, so peo
ple could find out just what was going
on in the county and know just what
done with some of the county's
was
Those in power at present
money.
time were just as determined that
this should not come before the pub
lic, so they started pulling all the
wires they could. You could see
county commissioners and other prom
inent politicians walking in and out
of the newly-elected county attorney's
office, with the result that the case
juggled from one end of the cal
was
endar to the other in order to gain
time and finally dismissed by the
DISTILLERY FIND
RAISES HAVOC Wim
MONTANA OFFICERS
North Dakota Prohibition Officers
Place Administrator Roberts and
His Men In Embarrassing Position.
Public Taking Much Interest in Dis
covery of Huge Still By Officers of
Another District.
The capture of the hute still by
North Dakota prohibition aiforcement
officers in the wilds of the Missouri
river without asking for aid of, or
notifying, Montana prohibition offi
cers of their intentions until after the
raid, is creating a good deal of talk
in this section of the state.
Some people have expressed the
opinion that the North Dakota offi
cers made the surprise visit to the
moonshiners in the Montana district
alone because they felt that if the
Montana prohibition officers had been
notified the moonshiners would have
received mysterious warning and fled
before being captured.
The strange part of the Missouri
river affair is that Waddell, federal
prohibition agent under Adminsitrator
Roberts, who has been chasing all
over northeastern Montana running
down blind pigs and whose headquart
ers are within 50 miles oi where the
big still was found, was apparently
unaware of the fact though several
papers had given notice that stills
were located on the Montana side of
the North Dakota boundary.
People are also wondering why
these little one-eyed joint proprietors
are brought into city court to pay a
small fine, when they have a federal
court for such cases and the offenders
have been arrested by federal offi
cers. They wonder if this is only a
case of hi-jacking,
At Billings some months ago, it is
■ reported that bootleggers brought be
fore the city magistrate and fined,
caused a grand jury investigation by
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ROUE SKATING IS
PROVING POPULAR
The pastime of roller skating at the
Farmer-Labor Temple is on the in
crease, according to A, C. Erickson
the manager.
Since the Temple acquired roller
skates and the price was reduced to
25 cents and 16 cents, the sport has
become very popular, and on nights
and afternoons scheduled for skating,
the floor is crowded to capacity.
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county attorney "for lack of evidence,"
much to the disappointment of the
jurors.
What a joke—if there had been
"lack of evidence," no effort would
have been made to stop the case. The
trouble was that there was too much
evidence. Those in power knew that
it would be no trouble at all to prove
that Mr. Omar had received money
from the county to which he was not
entitled. They simply did not want
LOCAL MARKETS
Thursday, January 24, 1929
Dark Northern Wheat ...
Winter Wheat ..
Amber Durum __
Flax, per bu....
Rye, per bu. --
Barley, per bu. _
Oats, per bu. _
Potatoes, per bu._
Creamery butter, per lb.
Dairy butter, per lb._
I Eggs, per doz..
.93
.92
.81
2.06
.60
.25
RAYMOND MEN
SENTENCED BY JUDGE
PAUL TUESDAY
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* Tuesday of this week Judge S. *
* E. Paul sentenced Pete Hen- *
* dricksnteier and Bob Porter who *
* were recently found guilty by a *
* jury of second degree assault. *
Porter was given a sentence of *
* from 2 to 4 years in the state *
* penitentiary and Hendricksmeier *
* from 1 Vi to 3 years,
* The men were taken to Deer *
* Lodge Wednesday by Sheriff
* Madsen and Oscar Ctollins.
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Power Company Man Goes
To Havre to Trace and
Stop Radio Interference
Havre» Jan. 19.—Some electrical
disturbance around Havre recently
has been so evident that owners
radio sets in the ctiy have been un
able to receive clear programs.
The Montana Power Co. has an ex
pert coming here Saturday who will
attempt to trace the trouble and cor
rect the disturbance.
Plentywood Implement Co.
Receives Carload of Drills
As the first token of spring
Plentywood Implement (jompany
loaded a car of Van Brunt Drills
Tuesday
Mr, Nelson believes in getting his
stock of machinery in while the get
ting is good and giving the farmers
an opportunity to look over their
spring purchases early, so that the
needed implements may be taken out
before the roads get bad in the spring,
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LOCAL CHURCH
TO BE ENLARGED
Among improvements contemplated
in Plentywood the coming year is the
enlarging of the Plentywood Congre
gational church from its present size
of 28 by 34 to 34 by 56 feet.
Besides the enlargement of the
church proper, one or two rooms will
be added to take care of the church's
The edifice will
numerous activities,
also be provided with a full size base
ment and a new entrance and steeple
will be built.
The new improvements which will
cost about $9,000, have long been
needed in order to take care of the
large number of attendants of that'
religious denomination and the over
crowded condition of the church will
be relieved by the addition.
to have this proven. So they started
pulling wires.
Not that they were so overly inter
ested in protecting Mr. Omar. They
did not care much if he went to the
pen or not. All they were interested
in was to protect their own hides.
If this case had been threshed out in
court the evidence would very likely
have shown how Mr. Omar was only
the go-between, that he was not the
one who got away with the real
money—or only very little of it—but
that the bulk of the money went to
more prominent citizens including
county commissioner.
They were simply afraid to bring
Mr. Omar on the stand. They knew
very well that if Omar went to the
pen he would not go there alone. Of
course, it is all right sending people
to the pen as long as it is the Pete
Hendricksmeier, the Bob Porters and
„ rm, 4 .
even the Omars. That class of people
, have very few wires to pull, but when
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MORE REVENUE FOR STATE
DRAWS SOLONS' ATTENTION
Higher Educational Institutions, Highway Projects and Other
State Departments Clamor for More Money As Committees
Go Into Session to Devise Ways and Means to Raise More
Revenue. Taxpayers Indignant At What They Term Ex
travagance of State Government.
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With two and one-half weeks gone by, the State Legislature is
still moving along slowly with many committees busy on plans to
increase the revenue of the state to meet the demands of different
'departments for more money. The general public is not taking
departments for more money. The general public is not taking
kindly to the idea of increased taxes and believe the state should
take means to economize rather than the present extravagance
which is increasing expenses rapidly over the present revenues of
the state. The action of the Representatives and Senators is being
watched closely by the folks at home.
MILLER PHARMACY
TO OCCUPY-NEW
BRICK BLOCK FEB. 1
of
The Millers Pharmacy will move
into the new brick block recently
erected by Gottlieb & Stadig in the
next few days, which will give that
popular drug store one of the finest
business places in the city.
Mr. Miller, proprietor of the Mil
ler Pharmacy, expects to be situated
in his new place of business by Feb
1 and be the
demands of his large number of pat
rons.
Pharmacy is now for rent, and while
it is not known what line of business
will enter the vacated premises, sev
eral offers have been considered by
Mr. Miller recently, and it is expected
The present location of the Miller
that with the big demand for business
1 houses located on Main street that
will soon be the home for another
flourishing business.
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3400 ARRESTED WHEN CHICAGO
POLICE STAGE GIGANTIC RAID
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Judges Asked to Give Time for the Inquiries—Professional
Bondsmen and "Mouthpieces" Have Tough Job. Most of
Prisoners Booked on Suspicion Charges to Permit Holding.
THREE NORTHWEST
BANKS ARE CLOSE
Bankruptcy, Defalcations, and Affilia
tion With Other Institutions Cause
Close Doors.
Spokan, Jan. 21.—Three banks of
this section were closed Saturday. The
Bank of Farmington, Wash., failed to
open its doors Saturday morning but
other state banks of the inland empire
will not be affected by the closing of
the Exchange National Bank of Spo
kane, it was said by Harry C. John
son, state superintendent of banking.
The Farmington bank was almost
entirely owned by the officers and di
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i for the latest improvements in the
equipment of that busy establishment
and the large amount of work done
attests to the efficiency of that popu
j ar tire repairing and battery charg
TIRE SHOP INSTALLS
NEW BATTERY CHARGER
A new Hobart 8 -hour battery
charger has been installed by The
Tire Shop this week, and Mr. Red
mond, proprietor, states that he is
now ready to charge batteries with
the latest in charging apparatus. The
new machine, according to Mr. Red
mond, works on a new principle, and
will fully charge a battery in eight
hours by individualistic method. The
Tire Shop is always on the lookout
ing place of business.
* Helena, Jan. 24.—Montana's house
of representatives got down to work
yesterday when it convened after the
week-end recess and passed three bills
heard a number of notices of bills
and heard three new measures intro
duced.
The measures adopted were house
bills 4, 5 and 7. ,
House bill No. 4 provides for is
suance of county bonds for erection
of high schools and their equipment
and also sets the limit of bonded in
debtedness. It passed the house with
out a dissenting vote.
House bill No. 7 was taken up next
and also passed without opposition.
It relates to joint school boards and
provides that high school trustees and
district trustees may form a joint
board and name a district superin
tendent.
The only opposition to a measure
came when House bill No. 5 was brot
up. The measure passed, but not with
the votes of the Carbon county dele
gation. They voted against the bill.
This bill relates to the high school tax.
levy.
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New Bills Introduced
Three new bills were introduced.
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Chicago, Jan. 21.—The city's lock
ups bulged and the police department
fanned around in a frenzy of work
today as it questioned, photographed
and fingerprinted 3,400 prisoners ta
ken in Chicago's geatest hoodlum
oundup.
Opened Saturday night, the dragnet
was folded up and put away for the
time being only because the raiding
squads reported they could find no
more suspects or underworld haunt*
that needed raiding.
Every police station in the city, w as
jammed with suspects brought in
wagon loads until the early hours of
the morning. It was estimated thujpe
to four days would be needed to slH
the crowd and make the necessary
records.
A stream of lawyers began to pour
into the criminal courts building with
petitions for habeas corpus as soon
as the doors were opened, but it son
became evident their jobs were diffi
cult. State's Attorney John A. Swan
son requested judges, before whom po
tions were heard to take no action
until police had ample time to investi
gate all those under arrest.
Wanted for Murder
In the wholesale arrests police hop
ed to find the solution of many of the
crime mysteries unsolved. Of the
first 600 examined, 236 were found to
have records, and one, John Hawkins,
had long been sought for the killing
of Betty Chambers, hoodlum consort
whose body was found about a year
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