The producers news., 1924-04-25
Senator March Failed In
Fraudulent Homestead Proof
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printed on them up to the implement
shed to look them over, and Sidney
Morensen said his name was spelled
wrong in the notice of proof. and he
was therefore barred from testifying
much to his satisfaction. The pro-
ceedings were then hastily deferred,
until afternoon, then till Tuesday,
then till Wednesday morning, when
after hours of coaxing March induced
Ibsen to testify that once when
he drove past the place that he saw
Arthur Welcome, hanging about the
place, and John Palubicki was in
weighed into also testifying that he
saw him on the place once or twice
when out in that country gopher
| shooting. The proof was sent in,
along with the perjured testimony of
! Sen. March, setting out that he resld-
ed there, when he knows well he never
made a bonafide residence of NOM
ent in his life on the place he is try
/ ing to prove up. Since Monday the
pilsters'. grafters', bootleggers' only
hope, has been on the street waving
/ his hand like Black Hawk delivering
his Grafton to the palefaces, hurting
! invectives against the reds, and 9th
! er undesirables, who, he says ought
to be put where the dogs won't bite
them, and nauttering something about
being beaten out of a homestead
When o. A. Moe and Dan Olson
appeared in the office of the Clerk
of Court everybody acted fidgety, and
the visitors seemed unwelcome. Fin
ally Carl asked March and his wit
nesses back to quiet and secluded
place in his office, where they could
! tell what they knew without being
disturbed; where they could sigr
without being annoyed by the pryinp
| glances of any red-eyed Red. Moe
the persistent cuss, went back witt
them, when the procedure blew up
Mortensen found his name misspelled
and Fred IbSen wanted to read the
questions over before he signed then
as any careful man would, and took
the questions to the Office as he wai
busy, to read over. Arthur Welcome
then went to find John Palubicki, t
help him, but PalubicIi was out farm
ing. In the afternoon the proof wa.
not made, and Tuesday there wai
nothing doing. but Wednesday morn
44lS Tile DClldDOL llluGCGN II ICO lDSGI
to testify that he had seen him OF
the place once when he went by il
his car, and Palubicki testified tha
he had seen the Editor seeding once
on the place when he went by, anC
the great champion of the gangster
testified himself that he had live
there every year, except about fivt
months In the year, when he wa
away. Of course, Arthur Welcom,
knows that he has never made
bonafide residence on the homestea,
day in his life.
Mr.. March was not able to get ever
one of his neighbors to testify fo
him-he is that popular among hi
neighbors.
w. B. Newton, deputy sheriff
Tuesday, besides filing a protest t
{ the proof, filed a contest on tn
place, and secured several affidavit
to the effect that since 1919 whel
March filed on this homestead, h
has at all times lived with his wifi
on her homestead, several mile
: away from his homestead, excep
when both Of them were living il
Plentywood. One neighbor living Of
the adjoining place, says March wa
never at the place except to put i
a little crop in the spring when h
drove over from his wife's place
daily for that purpose.
However, it appears, that Arthu
Welcome March, who was to rescu
the county from the reds. will b
unable to hijack Uncle Sam out o
320 acres of perfectly good land b
the perjury route and that if he get
more land in that section he will hav
to use the Zeidler methods whic
is claimed to be more efficient.