Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-08-25
MOTHER AND SON
GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE.
BY Judge Wallace N. Scales For
Contempt of Court--NOw
Sues For 100000.

Mrs. Mary Dahlquist and her
son, Earl II. Poff, both of
Culdesac, were found guilty of
contempt of court at Grangeville
Saturday and were sentenced by
Judge Wallace N. Scales, tenth
judicial district, TO 80 days and
20 days. respectively, in the
county Jail at Lewiston.
They were remanded to the
custody of Charles Monroe,
deputy sheriff of Nez Perece
county, with instructions from
the court to take them to Lewis
ton and see that they were con-
fired in jail for the entire period
of their sentences.
The mother and son were
taken to Grangeville Friday from
their home near Culdesac by
Deputy Monroe, following their
alleged interference with con-
struction of the north and south
highway across their land in the
Lapwai highway district. Last
July court order by Judge
Scales, was issued to the high
way contractors, to build their
road through the Dahlquist
ranch.
Sue For 100000 Damages.
On Monday Mrs. Dahlquist
filed suit alleging that when
state and county officials and
highway engineers of the state
and county sought to resist her
efforts to prevent them from
constructing a link of the North
and South highway through her
ranch several miles south of
Culdesac, they were guilty of q
conspiracy against her, Mrs.
Mary Dahlquist, who was jailed
Saturday for contempt of an in
junction of the Nez Perez county
district court, filed suit for dam
ages of 5000 against group
of nine defendants.
In the complaint Mrs. Dahl
quist charges that the defend
ants tore down a "hog tight"
fence around her farm, trespass-
ed upon her property, turned her
stock loose, seized her stone
quarry and injured her fields
and crops and that when she re-
sisted she was arrested on q
warrant issued by Judge Wallace
N. Scales at Grangeville. which
she alleges was void because the
law governing such warrants
was not complied with in its is
suance. She furthermore alleges
that she was not given an OPP
portunity to consult counsel and
was not allowed to give bail for
her appearance i'm court, but was
kept in custody from the time OF
her arrest until the time for her
appearance.
She alleges that while the
state law stipulates that'for con-
tempt of court the penalty shall
lie fine of $500 or imprison-
ment for five days, OF both, she
was sentenced for 80 days. In
the commitment papers ISSUED
by Judge Wallace N. Scales, it is
stated that appraisers estimated
: the damages done to the Dahl
quist place by the construction
, of the highway TO be 1886, which
was offered her, but that this
, offer was refused, and that i
: had been proved that Mrs. Dahl
! quist had violated an order O
the court restraining her from
r interfering with the construction
: of the highway.
Those cited as defendants ar
? Theo. Mattson and John May
nard, Culdesac farmers; Gran
/ Smith company, contractors O
!. the highway; Jud Mcclure, su
: perintendent in charge; William
0 P. Hughes, J. F. Dunbald, Elsl,
Dunbald, Everett Harris and ID
D L. Barclay. She also charges
: that Judge Wallace N. Scales
: and George Welker, sheriff O
8 Nez Perce county, were influenc
: ed to press the action. agains