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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
So NEW LOCOMOTIVES
FOR GREAT NORTHERN

st. Paul. March 6.-Thirty new
freight and % new passenger locomo-
tives have been ordered by the Great
Northern Railway. The delivery of
this new rolling stock, which is set
for September 1, will make the great
est addition to motive power made by
any northwest railroad this year.
These new locomotives will be haul
ing trains when the heavy harvest
traffic is on next fall, reducing to min
imum the POSSIBILITY of any car short
age danger.
The Grea Northern Railway also
has placed orders for 1000 new
freight cars, including box, automo-
bile, ore, refrigerator and stock cars
and these, too, are expected to be in
service by fall.
The % passenger locomotives OF
the mountain type are the largest in
the northwest, and they are not ex-
ceeded in size by any ever built. En-
CINE and tender weigh $4,000 pounds
The freight locomotives are the Santr
Fe type, and are the largest road
freight engines built. The engine anC
ender weigh 619,500 pounds.
The locomotives now are being built
for the Great Northern by the Bald
win Locomotive Works.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
CONE AND BAILEY
COMPLETE DUTIES
PROCEEDINGS OF LATE SENATE
ARE ENTERED IN OFFICIAL
JOURNAL.

Helena, Mont, March 25.-Secre-
tary Frank j. Cone and journal Clerk
Edwin Bailey having completed writ
ing the records of the senate of the
Eighteenth legislative assembly on
Friday, have returned to their homes,
Secretary Cone returning to Hamilton
Friday night and Journal Clerk Bail
ey returning 90 his home in Missoula
on Saturday. Before leaving Secre-
terry Cone delivered the senate journal
to Secretary of State Charles T.
Stewart and also filed certificate
with Governor Dixon 20 the effect
that the journal had been completed.
Writing the senate journal for this
last session of The legislature was one
oi the greatest tasks Of any session in
years. Due to all the resolutions and
the long string of amendments to
many of the bills the senate journal
will be an extremely large one this
time. Long reports submitted by
special senate Investigating commit
tees had to be written into the journ-
al, as well, and this entailed an IN
usual amount Of labor, all OF which
was done by Mr.. Bailey, who toiled
late hours each night after the legis-
lature adjourned to complete his task.
1t is said the senate journal will be a
larger document than the house journ-
al.
Mr. Bailey had charge Of the journ-
al proceedings throughout the session
and Secretary Cone praised him as
being one of the most efficient legis-
lative officials he has ever seen in the
service. Secretary Cone is a judge Ct
the ability Of legislative employees
for he has had years of experience as
legislator, as a member of the
house, member of the senate, and
secretary of the senate on a previous
occasion. Distinct fractional lines
were drawn in the last state senate
| body, but those fractional lines never
were visible to Secretary Cone and his
/ assistants. All they saw before them
was 81 senators and five or six news
paper reporters, also representing diff
/ ferent factions, but they accorded the
same fair treatment to all. There
were no special favors extended.
Sergeant at Arms John H. Allen
and his assistants proved another eff
/ ficient part of the last senate working
force. Their work was well organized
with the beginning of the session, anC
/ because of the methods adopted hun
/ dred per cent service was rendered
/ The senate never had a more capable
staff of assistants, and the work was
done at fully 100 per cent less cost
than in the session of two years ago
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OIL WELL TO PAY UP
BANK DEPOSITORS

Okmulgee, Okla, March 26.-Luck
changed today for the "Luckless" de-
positOrs of the defunct Bank of Com
merce of OImulgee when the magic
of oil interviewed.
The bank closed its doors November
%, 1921, unable to meet its obliga-
tions, and since then depositors had
given up hope of ever having their
money restored to them.
But today the twist of fate that
makes millionaires out of washer
women and plodding farmers over
night in Oklahoma revived dead hopes
A two hundred barrel oil we'll was
drilled in near here this afternoon on
land owned by the defunct bank. The
bank will receive the regular one
eighth royalty, and the money will go
to wipe out the losses of creditors of
the bank.
According to w. H. Crume, liquida-
ting agent, $500 depositors have an
interest in the well.
1t was the failure of the Bank of
Commerce that brought about the in
dictment of J. B. A. Robertson, form
er governor of Oklahoma, on a
charge of accepting a bride to permit
an insOlvent bank to operate. The in
dictment has been dismissed.
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-. !. 60 oH Of them 2

war profits off Of them?
'FBut if we we're lied to when we
were urged into this war, and If we
are going to have some more war, Cne
government can do nothing better
than to keep the ships that it now has,
operate them on the seas at a prohU
in competition with other shipping,
and we will really have something
worth while in case of another war.
And am in favor Of the government
manufacturing its own powder and
other munitions if we have another
war. am absolutely against placing
this government OF the mercy Of the
bio business concerns that made $685.
900 .OOO,O in war profits during the
last year. I am for the United States
first, last and all the time, but am
NOT for those that took the govern
ment by the throat and squeezed bill
ions out of its people in the time Of It's
greatest need"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
REHEARING IS SOUGHT

Minot, n D., March S0.-AttornsIs
for the plaintiff have announced that
they will file petition or rehearing
on the recent decision of the state
supreme court reversing a Ward coun
ty district court decision which award
ed $4,000 insurance to Mrs. Anna
Krowsather of Harlem, Mont, on a
policy on the life of her husband,
against the Western Union Life In
surance Company.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
BANK CLOSED AT BOTTINEAU

Bottineau, N. D., March 26.-The
First National Bank of Bottineau fail
ed to open its doors for business this
morning. The reason assigned for
the closing Of the bank was impair
ment of capital thru a shrinkage in
the assets arising from insufficient
security at present values on farmers
paper coming about thru short crops,
low prices, the farmers dehation and
some bankruptcies. The directors de-
cided that the interest Of all the de-
positors can be best protected by clos
ing the bank at this time.
w. H. Mcintosh, president, and F.
w. CathrO, vice president of the in
stitution, are undertaking to pledge
the business of their private copart-
nership, known as Mcintosh and
Cathro, to protect the depositors in
the closed institution against loss. 1t
is probable that additional capital will
be obtained for reorganization and
the bank reOjened with the losses elm
mated, it was announced today.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
RANKIN DEMANDS RAILROADS
LOWER THEIR RATES In MONTANA
Attorney General Takes Action to Secure Square Deal for
Shippers Demands to See Earnings-Hearing Before
State Commission to Start April 19th-State Interested
)aratOn Tor the case.
HIGH OFFICIALS COMING.


HIGH OFFICIALS COMING.
Not only will the railroads be rep
resented BY their presidents and other
high up officials, President Donnelly
of the Northern Pacific, and Presl-
dent Budd of the Great Northern, will
be here to defend their roads.
The railroads also will be represent
ed by an array of legal talent, judg-
ing from the following list of attorn-
they will represent:
eys who will be here, and the roads
o. w. Dynes and J. J. Davis ofChi-
cago, and F. w. Dudley of Seattle, for
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway company.
John E. Corette and George H.
Smith of Butte, for the Oregon Short
Line.
Gum, Rosch & Hall of Helena, for
the Northern Pacific, Gilmore & Pitts
bhrgh, and Billings & Central Rail-
way companies.
Kenneth F. Burgess, Chicago, for
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railway company.
L. o. Evans Ond D. M. Kelly of
Butte, for the Butte, Anaconda q Pa
cific Railway company.
J. A. McDonough of Great Falls
for the Montna Western Railway com
pany.
George w. Pierson of Billings, foI
the Montana, Wyoming & Southern
Railway company.
R. J. Hagman of st. Paul and
Parker Veazey Jr., of Greet Falls, fol
the Great Northern Railway company
A. H. Lossow of Minneapolis, com
merce counsel for the Minneapolis, 81
Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway
company.
In the list of AZ demands made by
4 Attorney General Rankin is found the
fact that he proposes to go into the
history of the operation of railroads
in Montana since 1915, to show pre-
war rates, he also proposes to show
the history of the organization of thu
railroad companies to show whether
there was, or is, any watered stool
used by the carrier companies.
In the conclusion of his complain
the attorney general prays
"That after full investigation ant
hearing an order be made by tn
board of railroad commissioners re
ducing the level of freight rates with
in the stae of Montana, horizontally
to a just, fair, equitable and reason
able basis.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
DEATH FIGURES SUPPRESSED

Constantinople, March 3O.-The Tur-
kish government has suppressed pub
LEGATION of the recent mortality figures
growing out of the typhus and small
pox epidemics. It is understood, how
ever there has been no diminution in
the number of deaths, which are av-
eraging more than five hundred week
ly.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
MONTANA WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

The State Railroad Commission has
reduced the transportation rate for
oil through pipeline from the Cat
Creek field, to Winnett, from 20 cents
a barrel to Is cents a barrel, effective
March 81.
There are 10 wells producing at
Cat Creek, an excellent development
record for scarcely three years of
work. In comparatively short per-
iod, Cat Creek has passed all other
fields in the Rocky Mountain Region
with the exception Of Salt Creek.
During 1922, Cat Creek produced 2,
209,832 barrels of crude oil, in excess
of the oil consumed as fuel in the field
Oil production on government land
in the Cat Creek field in Montana ag-
gregated III, 592 barrels Of oil in
January, an increase of 1876 barrels
over December.
Montana ranchers in need Of COM
m on laborers.
Miles City-s25,OOO workers bank
proposed.
Rocky Ridge Oil Co. to supply Cut
Bank with Natural Gas.
Anaconda-Rich silver strike made
in Champion mine.
State has almost 100000 acres
homestead land, largest area in Phil
lips county.
WilsallE6OO acre ranch nets own
er $50,
Kalispell-Yeomen considering es-
tablishment of .children's home on
Flathead Lake.
Troy-Large mine deal closed when
Snowstorm Silver Lead company buys
property of Montana Morning Mining
company.
S6elby-Ashber refinery starting
operations.
Miles City-Between $500 and g.
600 acres of land in the Sidney dis
trict to be planted to sugar beets this
year.
Livinston- Northern Pacific rail-
way to hire 1000 men for repair work
Hardin-WOrk on construction of
hard-surfaced gravel highway over
Crow Indian reservation will be under
way soon.
Chicago & Northwestern
plans to extend its road from Belle
Fourche, S. D. to Forsyth. Will tar
immense coal deposits near here.
Billings test wells drill
ing once more.
Helena-Bank deposits jump over
six million in period of A months.
Helena.-S2,0 900 needed to rebuild
country club here.
Great Falls-250 wells to be put
down in Kelvin field.
Lewistown-TwO more tests plan
ned for East Flatwillow
Billings Considerable development
work to be done in the Ryegate sec
ton this summer
Montana freight rates to be reduc
ed on an average of 10 per cent.
Railroad to extend from Casper,
Wyo., to Miles City will cost $4,000,
600.
Butte-Plans for school for ives
side under. way.
Glasgow's new creamery to have
capacity Of 1000 pounds butter
week
$4,000 allotted for forest road
within the state.
Kalispell-January sales of lumbe
I were more than double those of
year ago, totalling 23,240,272 feet 70
I 1928 as against 11,725,550 feet 70
z the same month in 1922.
: Stevensville-20,0O0 cannery to b
erected.
Helena-Two street work plan
proposed by council.
: G. B. & Q. to build S2,50O,OOO spu
] from Billings or Sheridan into tn
: Rosebud Coal fields.
Peter Munk and wife to En-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
JUST FOR A CHANGE

The federal fuel commissioner de-
clares he will fight proiteering IN
fuel. Wouldn't it be nice if some Of
these oficiols who declare they will
fight profteering would do it?-Mil-
waukee Leader
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
SALESMEN WANTED

Exceptional opportunity to repre-
sent a large wholesale grocer, estab-
lished since 1888. Nationally adver-
tised probationary satisfied Gus
tomers-large earning possibilities.
Protect your future Ask about our
proposition at once. State age and
full details. JOHN SEXTON & CO.,
Chicago, Ill. 52-1t-p
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
DENOMINATION FOR
HARDING SEEN BY
ATTY. DAUGHERTY
Attorney General Says He Believes
Country Will Demand Reelection;
Says President Gave Him No
Special Authority For Announce
ment.

Miami, Fla, March 21.-Attorney
General Daugherty, commenting to-
day on his announcement Saturday
that President Harding would be a
candidate in 1924 declared that his
denomination without a contest was
assured.
'There will be no contest and those
seekin gto show that there will be a
great fight viii be forcibly disap-
pointed" the attorney general declar-
ed.
Il took the responsibility Of max
ing the announcement that the presi-
dent would run again without any
special authority from him because j
believe the country will demand his
reelection. l have no doubt that un-
der the circumstances he would not
refuse the responsibility"
The party's platform will be prac-
tically that Of the administration
achievements. Mr.. Daugherty de-
clared. 1t will be based upon the
record of untangling complicated war
problems, the reducing of expendi-
lures, the cutting down of the burden
of taxation, the application of bus
Z lAACoo pics " al
fairs and the enforcement Of the laws
he said.
The presidents plan for member
ship in The Hague court will be a
factor, he stated, and he said the ques
ton would be answered whether the
interests of America would continue
to be secure and whether she could
continue to give help to the less for
tunate countries.
Until the Republican national COM
mittee meets in December, Mr.. Dau-
gherty said, the presidents campaign
will not be actively launched.
'The country is tired Of the political
talk of the last few months, and too
busy to listen to it now" he added.
Former Congressman Carl w. Rid
dick Of the Second Montana district
is now the editor of the National Re-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
MAY FORCE REFUNDS

Minot, N. D., March 30. II Ward
county probably will be obliged to pay
upwards of 100000 to townships and
school districts in Ward county as
their share of the penalty and interest
collected from 1911 to 1920 inclusive,
it is estimated by R. w. Kennard, au-
ditor. The latter has been instructed
to make an audit to determine the
exact share due various subdivisions.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06

FOR SALE-One (16-3O) Sixteen
Thirty Rumley tractor with Four
Bottom, Grant-De-tuer Plow, in
first class working condition.
Ready to go in the field. Has been
operated two short seasons. Price
$4,000, Terms, one half Cash,
balance to suit. All Cash S12500O.
Address Henry Valdez, Outlook,
Montana. 40 If.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
"AUCTIONEER

f for nav anybody ySody 4 4. any Z
He has proven en- m has
an auctiOneer, an anu
T wonderful i,Ial results d tss,oine W
sale. It viii pay : w. 40
# ia'v With AuctiOn.sssss r 81
man m n' who knows s.ts i he +. &
perry, r and ds ss's al al p"
Mont Mon Phone SO'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06

Peter Munk and wife to Emil
Stenrnark, warranty deed, lot 10,
Davis Adm, Plentywood.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06
NEWS CLASSIFIED.
ADVERTISEMENTS

WANTED-Second-hand lumber OF
small building. G. r. PETITE.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06

Former Congressman Carl w. Rid
dick OF the Second Montana district,
is now the editor of the National Re
publican.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06

FOR SALE-Team Of Horses and
Harness Complete, also two cows,
and a complete set of machinery,
very cheap. Call Sundays or We'd
nesdays of each week, or write, H.
P. Foster, DoOley, Mont. 49 If.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06

FOR SALE - Farm, VIZ sec. 9,
81 Range Sc. z miles N. E.
of Dooley, Mont. Cash or Terms.
MRS. +. R. HAZELBROTH, I'll A,
Ave, Eveleth, MINI. 5O-4t D
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06

HOUSES FOR RENT OR SALE
Rent as payments credited on pur-
chase. G. r. PETITE, Plenty
wood. 81
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06

Everybody reads ads in The Producers
News.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06

FOR SALE-Buf Orpington baby
chicks. $1,000 per hundred. Write
MRS. CHARLES DEERING, Nc
Cabe, Mont, for particulars. 49-4t-p
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06

SEED FOR SALE-Siberian millet;
does not degenerate because raised
in the north. $1.75 per bu. Sacks
included. E. o. MORGAN, Outlook,
Mont. 42-14t-$2pd.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06

FOR SALE-Choice, Clean Western
Rye Grass Seed. $500 per humid
red pounds. High grade cotton
garin bags included. ADOLPH
MATTSON, Outlook, Mont. 47-6t-p
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-04-06

COME TO MY PLACE In Spring
of 1922, 1 light Bay Mare Colt,
White Spot on Forehead. Owner
can have same by paying for ad
and pasture. OLE KLEIN, West
by, Montana 51-3t-p
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-11-15
Not Prepared.

The old deacon was the kindest Of
men. deeply religious and always ready
with a good word. One day while he
was driving to town he overlook an
Italian peddler with large pack on
his back. Stopping his horse. the dea-
con suggested that the man ride. The
Italian carefully stored his pack in the
back Of the spring wagon and then
climbed to the seat beside the good
deacon.
For some time the two talked pleas
antly. Then there was a rather long
pause, and, thinking to improve the
occasion in a religious sense. the dea-
con turned and asked, MY friend, are
you prepared to dep
With a shrek the Italian sprang to
the ground and disappeared into the
nearby woods The calls of the deacon
only FASTENED the fellows flight, and
neither the deacon nor any one else
ever saw him again in that neighbor-
hood. 1t seems that the peddler was
not prepared.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-11-15

Our immense fruit industry is here
largely because of favorable soil and
climate Moreover, where the costs
OF irrigation are high, or land values
are influenced by proximity to cities,
intensive production often is neces-
sity if such areas are to be farmed at
all. In commercial apple production,
we not only lead every state but we
surpass all states in total apple yield
of high quality fruit per acre. On the
basis of comutation made by Pro
fessor 0. B. Morris, head of the de-
partment of horticulture at the state
college, New York state probably av-
eraged 81 boxes of apples per acre
In 1920, while Washington state av-
eraged lot. Large areas of Washing
ton produce 200 to 300 boxes per
acre and many orchards in our best
sections produce 500 to 1000 boxes
per acre. When quality is compared
with the apples produced elsewhere,
the argument is equally favorable to
our side. Only through this high
grade production per acre of a higl,
quality fruit, carefully packed and eff
ficiently marketed, can Washington
hope to maintain its place and to Sc
cure such prices as are remunera-
tive to the grower.
But the apple man has arrived at
the point where he, too must give
closer attention to the fertility of the
soil, as heavy apple crops like heavy
wheat crops remove large quantities
of plant food which must be replaced
if profitable yields are to continue.
Cover cropping with legumes to su
ply humus and nitrogen is now be
coming common practice and must
be emphasized wherever the water
supply is sufficient. Some growers
are beginning a combination of apple
and dairy farming or apple and poul-
try farming. They propose not only
TO get the necessary manure for the
land but to provide for the family ia
BILE and secure additional income both
in years when apples are profitable
and when they are not.
The small fruit industry is very
important one even though the total
revenue comnared with that for
wheat, dairy products, apples or poul-
and poultry farms are using small
fruit as a cash crop and as an addi-
tional source of profitable labor and
income. Others in the neighborhood
of large city markets or where can
ing plants have been established are
devoting the majority of their time
to berry farming. No one travelling
through the Puyallup valley, for in
stance, can fail to realize the impor-
lance of berry farming to that section
and in travelling over large areas west
of the Cascades and in certain irri-
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DO NOT USE SURGERY
Will be at
Pasco Hotel Wednesday, Nov. %.
ONE DAY ONLY
Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 8 p. m.
No Charge for Consultation

The doctor in charge is a gradu-
ate in medicine and surgery, and
is licensed by the state of Wash
ington. He visits professionally the
more important towns and cities
and offers to all who call on this
trip, consultation free except the ex-
pense of treatment when desired.
According to his method of treat
ment he does not operate for chronic
appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers of
the stomach, tonsils or adenoids.
He has to his credit many wonder
full results in diseases of the stom-
ach, liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves
heart, kidney, bladder, bed wetting
catarrh weak lungs, bed wetting,
sciatica, leg ulcers and rectal all
ments.
IF you have been i'll for any length
of time and do not get better, do not
fail to call, as improper measures
rather than disease are often the
cause Of your long standing trouble
REMEMBER above date, that con-
sultation on this trip will be free, and
that his treatment is different.
Address: 1886 Boston Block, Min
neapolis, MINI. 1884
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-11-15
RETORT WAS RATHER GOOD
Evidently There Were Humorists in
the Missouri Legislature of the
Year 1887.

w. o. l.. Jewett of the Shelbina
Democrat tells an incident i'm the legis.
latu.e of 1887, i'm which Mark Twain
figured:
Henry Newman, representing RAN
dolph county, was the wit of the
house, and was trying to secure the
passage Of bill to amend the stock
law. This, Robert Bodine, represent
ing Monroe county, was opposing. Mr..
Newman said in his humorous style :
az was in the gentleman's county
once. / made speech at big picnic
In Florida, and / thought I made q
good one. In it 1 referred to the fact
that we were close to the place where
Mark Twain was born After / was
through, one of the gentleman's con-
stttutents, a tall, raw-boned long
haired, unkempt individual, came up,
and shaking his finger in my face said (:
What liars you politicians are. have
lived here nigh onto fifty years and
there was nary man named Twain
about here."'
"The gentleman from Monroe county
Immediately was on his feet to reply:
Mr.. Speaker, / want 1t distinctly
understood that when the gentleman
from Randolph was in Monroe county
1t was before the enactment of any
stock law kansas City Star.