The producers news. [volume], June 05, 1936, Image 1

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THE WIVES and CHILDREN
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Producers News
Official Organ of Farmers Holiday Association of Montana
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Plenty wood, Sheridan County, Montana, Friday, June 5, 1936
Power Corporation Stealing Poison Site
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SENSATIONAL ARRESTS MADE
ON HORSE STEALING CHARGE
SHERIFF LOWE AND
STOCK DETECTIVE
HAKE CHARGES
Information Secured at Jane
ville, Wisconsin, Results in
Arrests of Five Men Who
Most Face Grand Larceny
Indictment
Kilns' Statement
A charge of grand larceny faces
Fred Radons of Outlook, who was
arrested at Janesville, Wis., Sat
urday, by sheriff Henry P. Lowe
of Roosevelt county and Phil
Buckley, state stock inspector.
Radons is accused of stealing
horses.
As a result of information ob
tained at Janesville, four other
Dien, John Aker of Poplar and Re
serve, Ernest Summers of Smqke
Creek and Louis Marsh of Plenty
wood are at liberty under bonds
while Charles Hamilton, formerly
of Culbertson is in custody of of
ficials at Wolf Point on the same
account. •
Radons has been returned from
Janesville.
According to officials, seventeen
head of horses were stolen in the
£°par vicinity in January or
February. -The animals
Jessed from their winter
"nbl this spring.
Sheriff Lowe who Went to Min
C0NCERÄÄ
were not
ranges
Jiwn Wlth v !* or8e stealing «I
esville, Wis., by Sheriff
r.!!u an( * Stock Inspector Phil
said to a representative
in tu * ro d ucer s News, regard
Î, matter*.
I was hired by Louis Marsh
2 r iw *ywood to take a carload
Dai w 8 to open Cattle and
Æ ket a* ^esville, Wis.
k h w 1 catt ! e and horse mar
cwaé frnJ 8C °,? Sm ' 'where buyers
,J Nno im aVei - th ? 1 É ï e€tion *
\r terest in the horses.
from R av v? rse , 8 were shipped
tas«*. * mon( ^ a carload of 24
3?JT f ' h , e 800 Line '
ly bjii?. of January, regular
flunk rSjf to Janesville, Wis
ir 8usnù.; kere were no secret
Anybody
^ duly inspected all
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ot horse shipment
p Market ntJ d m
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to Montana Jur gv.
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CALLAHAN FINED
$50 FOR CONTEMPT
Found Guilty of 'Technical'
Contempt of Temporary
Injunction Issued Last
Fall by Judge Paul
FINE SUSPENDED
Herschel H. Callahan, Redstone
farmer, was found guilty of con
tempt of court by Judge Stanley
E. Felt, of Baker, called in by
Judge S. E. Paul, who had dis
qualified himself, who heard the
case, last Friday, and fined $50,
which fine Svas suspended on com
pliance with the temporary in
junction, until the matter is dis
posed of at the hearing for the
granting of the permanent injunc
tion, which will occur in open court
at Plentywood on Monday, June
22, when the permanent injunction
against Callahan sought by the
Union Central Life Insurance com
pany hr its notorious dispossessing
Callahan, will either be denied
or granted.
Judge Felt, in finding Callahan
guilty conceded that the case was
"technical," but that Callahan in
stopping Henry Slagh ifom going
onto his farm on Easter Sunday,
has interferred with the peaceful
possession of Art Blase, who is
now in his neighbors home and on
his farm.
A crowd that packed the court
house attended the trial, and heard
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Second Son of Antelope
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family to Lhe m Month,
Funeral Held Wednesday
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Martin Island, 28, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. M. Island, pioneer resi
dent of the Antelope community,
died last Sunday at the hospital
a t Fort Peck of lobar pneumonia,
the result of deadly silicosis pois
oning he was subjected to in work
ta^on one^of Ae tunnel construe
tion crews in one of the big tun
ne i s a t the Fort Peck dam pro
ject He went to work in the tun
'nei on or around the middle of
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funeral was large and the floral
offerin £s many - hody ^ aS
terred in the Antelope cemetery.
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WIRE TOWNSEND
The following telegram was *
* sent by the Farmer-Labor par- *
* ty conference, by a unanimous *
* vote meeting in Chicago, May *
* 30-31:
* Dr. Charles E. Townsend, *
* Washington, D. C. *
* The conference held in Chi- *
* cago, May 30 and 31 called by *
* the Minnesota Farmer-Labor *
* parity for considering a Na- *
* tional Farmer Labor party ex- *
* presses its indignation against *
* your persecution which 'we *
* recognize as an attack by re- *
* actionary financial interests *
* upon the cause of old age *
* pensions and social insurance * i
* generally.
* Signed, Mrs. Arthur LeSueur, *
* • Sec'y of the Conference. *
DEATH CALLS
MRS. J. MICHELS
Pioneer Lady Expires at Mi*
not Hospital Wednesday
After Operation
FUNERAL TODAY
Mrs. James Michels, 56 years of
age, expired at the Minot hospital
last Wednesday, as the result of
pulmonary embolism following an
operation for the removal of the
gall bladder.
Mrs, Michels was stricken on
Mothers Day at her home in Plen
tywood. Tortured With pain, she
consulted physicians who advised
an operation. On the Monday be
fore her death she submitted to
surgery, and her condition was con
sidered satisfactory until shortly
before her demise.
Visiting with members of her
family who were at her bedside,
she asked for a drink of water. A
few minutes after drinking she
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loyal and sympathetic friend. Mrs.
Michels was respected by all who
knew her.
Funeral services were conducted
from the St. Joseph's Catholic
church in PlentyWood, Saturday
f orenoon w ith Rev. Fr. Pratchner
officiating. The remains were in
terred in the Plentywood Catholic
cemetery. The funeral and pro
cession was one of the largest
c^r held m Plentywood.
^^N IN
MINNESOTA
Mrs. James Michels was bom at
Park River, Minnesota, Septem oer
10, 1879 At the age of three s he
migrated west With her Parents
who settled at Devils Lake, N. D.,
at which place she spent her
childhood and grew to young
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steaded near Brinsmade, N D. In
2? ÄtÄ'
Ä sassk-Ä Ss
southwest of Plentywood, where
ISr* ,e " w " —* -
- urec n v experienced the hard
ships of^pioneering, and that later
P depression. She was the
kind aod lo™. nnd .«If-.nmfldn,
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CONSPIRE TO ALIENATE HUGE NATIONAL
RESOURCES FROM STATE AND INDIANS
Montana Sleeps as Washington Authorities Hand Fifty
Million Dollar Poison Dam Project Back to Defaulting
Rocky Mountain Power Company and Montana
Power Company
SENATOR SEEMS STRANGELY SILENT
Corporation Owned Press of Montana Entirely Silent for
Months as Montana Project Worth Countless Millions
and to Which the State Has a Valid Property Claim Is
Being Donated to Holding Companies, While Officials
in Helena Say Nothing
MONTANA PEOPLE WIRE S0L0NS
EXTRA
FRANK J. EDWARDS,
H. LOWNDES MAURY
WIRE SEN. MURRAY
PROTESTING POi SON
DAM STEAL
The following is a c
y of a
telegram sent by H. L. II ury and
Frank J. Edwards, form j mayor
of Helena, to Senator Murray, to
wit:
Helena, Montana,
May 30, 1936
To Senator James E. Murray,
U. S. Senate,
Washington, D. C.
Consideration of plan ,.o per
petuate private privilege to ac
quire Poison dam sites from the
government, may indicate small
difference between poiijy of
Roosevelt and that of Hoover.
first unit of the Poison site
would produce a hundred thou
sand/ horse power and would
cosit $8,000,000. This cost would
mean that the cost per kilowatt
installation would be $107. This
cost would mean also, that at
an interest rate of two and one
half per cent, the principal fixed
charge would be ($2.67) two
dollars and sixty-seven cents
per kilowatt year. A kilowatt
year will yield $87.50 when sold
at the rate of one cent per kilo
watt hour. When electricity is
sold at 2, 3, 4, or 5 fonts per
kilowatt hour, the annual yield
may be ascertained by multi
plying the charge In cents by
8760. For example, one kilowatt
year will yield $438.00 when sold
at 5 cents per kilowatt hour.
The spread between the cost
and the selling price is so great
as to suggest with some force,
that thé enjoyment of< private
monopoly should be brought to
an end. If the Poison dam sites
are not within the realm of
"CONSERVATION" the course
of reasoning should be made
known.
May we hope that you will
invite President Roosevelt to join
you in an expression to the Fed
eral Power Commission, to th*
end that ownership and control
of the Poison dam sites will
never be removed from the
United States government.
Frank J. Edwards.
H, L, Maury,
BY H. L. MÀÜRY
Two years ago, the Federal
Power Commission requested
opinion of the United States So
licitor General as to the validity
or default of the Rocky Mountain
Power Company, a subsidiary of
the Montana Power Company, as
to its contract with the Indians
and the United States government
for the building of the dam at Poi
son.
an
HOOVER CONDEMNED
FOR GRANTING LICENSE
The opinion was 'written by
Nathan R. Hargold, Solicitor. The
opinion was published widely when
delivered. The Roosevelt Adminis
tration views the opinion as a basis
of a promise to the people of Mon
tana to *wipe out this license for
50 years and to make of the Poison
dam a government project. The
Roosevelt Administration
demned the Hoover administration
for ever granting this license.
DID NOT CONTRACT
con
WITH INDIAN SWINDLERS
Well, the Hoover administration
at least made a contract with a
concern not knoWn to be in default,
not known to have swindled the
Indians, not known to have tied
the great Flathead River power
pite up to prevent competition and
to insure a monopoly against the
people of Western Montana.
DEFAULTING COMPANY
LIABLE FOR DAMAGES
The Solicitor General,
opinion, recites:
"A second mode of redress is
open to the government and to
the Flathead tribe by reason of
licensee's breach of contract
on action at law for breach of
contract. There can be no ques
tion that .the defendant has
broken its contract and is liable
in damages...What is the meas
ure of damages! for such breach?
The present value of the
tract in question to the Flat
head tribe is $7,355,000 less ap- •
propriété deductions for interest
if the sum is paid in advance of
schedule... It is not necessary to
consider at the present time
whether other damages than
those accruing to the Flathead
tribe may be shown in a, suit
based upon breach of contract.
It may be noted that the license
confers upon the iFlathead Irri
gation Project the vested right
to receive 15,000 H. P. of elec
trical power on demand at a
fixed low price. It is possible
in his
con
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