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been in eastern Montana to probe
the reports sent in by some w. c. T.
u. women, whose names are in pos
session of the Producers News, that
a deluge of booze was coming over
the Canadian line in Daniels and
Sheridan counties. Although, Mr.
Bailey, who is a very efficient Off
Ger, and a large force Of men, have
patrolled the border, diligently, day
and night for the past two weeks,
they have not succeeded in captur-
ing a single booze runner. They ev-
en- combed the roads for evidence of
this kind of law violation. As an
evidence of the diligence of the Of
ficers, it might be mentioned that
Mr.. Bailey and another man waited
near the Electric Light plant all
night in a Cadillac car for pros
pective booze runners but no one
showed up. Another officer parked
his car in the dark in an alleyway on
the watch for law violators but there
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-21
]. S. SENATE CANCELS MONT. WATER DEBT
HOWARD LEWIS
RETURNS FROM
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Tells of Trip East Where He Attend
ed Meetings of American Law In
sfitutes.

"This is the most prosperous cOun-
try / have ever seen" said Attorney
Howard NJ. Lewis, on his return from
an extended pilgrimage to Washing
ton and New York.
Mr.. Lewis indicated that conditions
were none too good in the East, par
ticularly in the farming communi-
ties through which he passed He
said it had been windy there, as here,
and that the country suffered from
extremes of temperature, being too
warm part of the time and too cold
the rest of the time, but that it was
the windiest spring they had ever
had.
And when Mr.. Lewis told the peo-
pie whom he met in the East that
he came from the county which rails
ed more wheat and better wheat
than anywhere in the United States,
everyone agreed that the northeast
eIn corner of Montana is coming back
more quickly than any farming COM
munity in the nation.
Mr.. Lewis went as one of the dele
gates to the annual meeting of the
Law Institute, the purpose of which
is to make up a restatement of the
Common law of America. These re-
statements are made on various sub
jects by certain of the great law
teachers,-Beale, Williston, Bohlen
and Mechem, who have been teaching
these subjects for years. The law
yers who met, discussed various rules
and, usually, it must be admitted
did not procure very much change to
be made therein.
The lawyers were entertained al
the White House; and Mr.. Lewis
says that all of them were greatly
impressed with Mr.. Coolidge and the
graciousness of the Presidents wife
'The greatest kick I got out of the
entire trip" said the PlentywoOd law
year, twas in watching the boreC
and disguised expression on the face
of General Dawes, during some oil
the wild arguments in the Senate
when certain senators were playing
to the galleries. Senator Reed;
words are fitting, when he told the
Senate that during the recent session
of the 69th Congress, they might
Just as well be out doing a Hopi In
dian dance up and down Pennsyl
vania Avenue"
From Washington Mr.. Lewis wen
to New York and from there to hi!
wife's old home in Connecticut
where he was entertained in the
house which her family has occupied
for eight generations. "Many of the
old Colonial houses, however, hav,
/ been purchased by Italians who rais'
great quantities of grapes and are re
ported to ship the wine to New
York. And it did me good" he said
''to get back to this country, where
our farmers raise wheat, build whit,
farm houses and big red barns, ant
insist that the schools for their chill
dren are the best which they can pos
sibly construct"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-21
BILL EXPECTED TO GIVE NEW
START TO MANY FARMERS
Measure Affects Milk River Sun River and Other Projects
ference After Vote.

Washington, May 1.-THE senate
passed Monday and sent to confer
ence the house resolution wiping out
or suspending approximately $751;
100000 in water charges on certain
federal irrigation projects in the
west and southwest.
Owners of certain portions of lands
served by 10 irrigation projects are
affected and the charges are remov-
ed or suspended temperate because
of the fact that the and in point is
either permanently or temporarily
unproductive or for other reasons.
The charges and suspensions in
clude the following:
Bellefource project, South Dakota,
S475,415; Carlsbad project, New
ject, Colorado, S760,62S; Huntley pro-
ject, Montana, S169,341; King Hill
project, Idaho, 1881, 958; Klamath
project, Oregon, S269,587; Lower
Yellowstone project, Montana, North
Dakota, 1882, 250; Milk River project,
Montana, S1,891,889; Minedkota pro-
ject, Idaho, S9,172; Newlands project,
Nevada, S4,649,337; North Platte pro-
ject, Nebraska-W Wyoming interstate
division S56,OO1; Forth Laramie d.
vision S22,48O; North Port division,
S3,425.
Okanogan project, Washington,
S720,700; Rio Grande project, New
Mexico-Texas, S31,661; Shoshone pro-
ject, Wyoming Montana, S1,715,666;
Sun River project, Montana, $780,
531; Umatilla project Oregon, east
division, S9S6,632; west division S.
955; Uncompangre project, Colorado,
S1,363,437; Yakima project, Wash
ington, S3,06S.
In addition all payments upon con-
Struction charges are to be suspend
ed against lands found to be tenn
porarily unproductive, but these pay
ments will be reinstated if and when
the land becomes productive.
Several successive lean years ex-
perienced by Montana farmers on
certain irrigation projects made it i'm
possible for them to keep up the
payments demanded by the govern
ment for water used.
This led to the department of the
interior refusing TO supply water to
farms upon which the rental was in
arrears. Secretary Work maintained
that the federal statute left no alter
native.
Early this spring an appeal to con-
gress was made by a large number
of these farmers to supply their land
with water as their crops were al
ready suffering from lack of moist
ure. The action of the senate Mon
day and the house a few weeks pre-.
vious Is the result of his appeal.
Following the conference the house
and senate committees over minol
changes that have been made in the
resolution it will go to President
Coolidge for approval
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-21
WESLEY Wins
BY One TALLY
Defeats Reserve In Fest Game at
Reserve-LarsOn and BrOmberg
Stage Pitching Duel.

Last Sunday before a crowd esti-
mated at over 300 people, the West
by team defeated Reserve by a
score Of 4 to 8 on the Reserve dia-
mOnd.
Reserve started the game out with
a bang, annexing one run in the first
inning, but Larson, old veteran pitch
er, frightened up and allowed no more
scoring until the 4th. In the fourth,
Westby got to Bromberg, who was
on the mound for Reserve, and when
the fireworks was over, Westby had
put three runs across the plate and
put the game on ice. The Reserve
nine tried hard to overcome the lead
but after annexing one in the fourth
and another in the seventh were
powerless before the slants of Lar
son. Westby made the winning run
in the 5th, and from that time were
moved down in one, two, three order
by Bromberg, who had hit his stride.
Both Westby and Reserve have
splendid teams this year, being COM
posed almost entirely Of local play
ers, and The brand Of baseball exhi-
bited was as exciting as many games
played by high salaried teams. Those
fans living at Westby and Reserve
are making the prediction that be-
fore many moons pass, they are go
ing to have home organizations that
will give the salaried teams of this
and adjoining counties a run for
their money.
/ prod,,cavs Nro,,s 60 M . vao-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-21
CULBERTSON TO HAVE
BASE BALL ORGANIZATION

Observation-Disclosures will have
a baseball team this summer. This
was decided at a meeting of devotees
of the sport at the New Evans no
tel last night. G. A. James was
elected manager and n. V. Wilson,
secretary-treasurer. A subscription
list has already been circulated
among the business men Of the city
and liberal application Of sigma
lures and appropriations Herewith
resulted. 1t is the plan of the club
to hire a pitcher but with that ex-
ception they will be made up of
home boys. The schedule Of games
viii be published as soon as avail
able. CulbertsOn is to have a ball
team and it is up to everyone to get
behind it with a boost.
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Whitehall Crude Analysis
Shows Kerosene Strong

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1t contained the information that
200 barrels containing crude oil was
pumped from the well when as a
matter Of fact not that many gal
Ions came to the surface since the
first oil traces showed.
Analysis Show Big Kerosene Content
Analysis of a bottle of oil recov-
cred from the 42-foot water well of
Hans Hendrickson at Whitehall, Dan
iels county, shows it to be of a
startling kerosene content, and a
high gravity, says the Great Falls
Leader.
The bottle Of crude oil was receiv-
ed by The Leader last night and
analysis was completed today, show
ing gravity to be SO Baume, and
kerosene content 60 per cent, with Is
degrees heat and 10 per cent dis
tillate. The gravity is about 6 high
er than the Kevin-Sunburst field oil,
and the kerosene content is far be
yond. The kerosene content of the
Kevin-Sunburst is from to II pei
cent, whereas the Whitehall crude
shows go per cent. At least two 9th
er analysis Of crude oil received in
Great Falls show the same kerosene
content.
The Leader analysis was made by
the Sunburst refinery laboratory anC
is the same as at least two others
made on the same crude oil.
Some 300 gallons of crude oil have
been taken out of the well within
the last week and it is still being
taken out. The well was drilled
three years ago for water, and had
been used again a short time age
for the Hendrickson restaurant in
Whitehall, which is the west terminus
Of the 500 road; it was found dis
tasteful however, spelling the food
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Friday, May 81. Iq,.

were no evidences Of
Moon Puts Canadian n'y w,, Tuning
IT, Of Business 'Aey o.
The officers are no--
the the yeraeity Of some =, doubtful q
sent sent in and are said add !. Of the lss..,
the motives behind TO . be prog.
formed persons in mem Slgn. wei
F Ess Od, state that very yy iigttss and Pa.
time: This is due !, me for ~.
great distance Of tLo n part 70 y
stores store from the border sSd \ 9,
Guilty '1 OF securing goyer 1na the jif.
mits without which 31iior,e.Innrent y.
durable. Another ree 5uOf Is not h..
1t Is said that numero pn given ia,
been IN operation fo ,Ous stills hsr.
somewhere between tbo long 6rs
valley van and Sheridan Coup ytG;sae's q
said that operators Of JfOu aes. It i
have attained extraorJi,.ene se zil.
cy IN the manufactnr,as' profcs.
q 92!;, Some Of the prodU n l II 8.
distilleries, when pro6e sgI-t SO. Of 3sss
labeled, cannot be distine,,G;SJII .ed sli
the brand that used = + z Us alSaed mn
some time ago. Because u ItnpS''et
reasons, and that fact 30 q TIES
made liquor is cheaper t I,s' hons
ported stuff, it is said that 5:,t,' cs ne n,
liquor cannot meet this c cor Usaaoiaa
Besides people who have 'oo, aa1.tioa
taste for what is commoS SIIq0lfed
moon" consider the miI5ay cane
such as Scotch, sold in tbe q, 5 OialtS
too weak for consumption uOni \;
OF those who get drunk On ~ Aa,
quor, manufactured in ! co ~ .las b.
Of here, are bankers and 'e sos,. V'5
the very best people" V7 7o.-s o.
come home with a breath ' I5 1sI
ozone Of a distillery thew fro sns Ss
tell their wives that "tHev HI III -5' 1.
tie Canadian Club" at "'s "
house. The wives. who b. ..isl Z
mOOnshine breath of their Ir.I.-g,s
naturally conclude that f5s "a ~.
/ comes across the border H. ~. u
letters from well-meaning " : y 1
Y. women, who dislike the o3o y. 1
'mOOn," and the sleepless rio5,. Y
the immigration officers. '
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RANKIN DECLARES
WAR UPON BUTTE'S
LICENSE SYSTEM
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the case is transferred to federal
court.
Exposed In Producers News.

the case is transferred to federal
court.
Exposed In Producers News.
This license system was exposed
in the Producers News at the time
Marster's men and Assistant Attor-
ney General Collins, were in Plenty
wood, in an endeavor to get some
thing on" Salisbury and Erickson. 1t
was pointed out in the "Limelight"
column that this system of collection
of illegal fees was brought to the
attention of Collins and Wade but
that no action was taken. The pub
LEGATION of this story in the Produc-
ers News at the time caused a sensa-
ton amongst dry leaders in the
state and letters began to pour in to
the Editor asking for particulars.
Some of the letters intimated that
Mr.. Wade, Superintendent Of the An
! tiSaloon League, may have to answer
some very interesting questions at
the next meeting of that body about
why he, Collins and Marsters ignore
LIQUOR conditions in Butte.
Alliance Between Cops and stools"
When a representative of the Pro-
/ ucers News presented these facts
to the new District Attorney in Hell
ena. about a month ago, Mr.. Rankin
game him an earnest and sympathet-
ic hearing. The result was the dra-
matte speech in the u. S. Court which
| laid bare the collision between the
Prohibition agents and the Butte po-
! licemen to defeat the Federal PrOhi-
bition law Important developments
are now expected which may result
in the breakup of the alliance be-
tween Marsters men and official au-
thorities in Butte. New men may be
put in charge who will enforce the
law and close the 1000 saloons of the
mining city where liquor is sold ov-
er the bar as in the old days.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-21
SALISBURY TALKS
TO III. S. STUDENTS
Gives Interesting Lecture on Grimm
olOgy and the Duties of Law Of
hcers: Says There Should be a
Public Defender. Shows How
Rich Criminals Evade Law Whilst
Poor Suffer.


Rich Criminals Evade Law Whilst
Poor Suffer.
At the invitation of the high school
faculty, Sheriff Rodney Salisbury de-
nIvered very interesting lecture on
She dutles OF a law enforcement Of
ficer and criminology.
he stated that the editors of capt.
tsllst papers frequently put the brand
OF criminal on people who are as law
ABIDING as any teacher in the high
school' de mstanced the migratory
workers who come in to harvest the
wheat. They are frequently held as
suspects by officers who mistake the
clamor OF the press for justice. He
Vold ABOUT the jungles near Plenty
wood IN summer time and asked the
teachers to visit and study the type
OF men there. "You will find men in
the Jungles who can intelligently dis
cuss literature and art and tell inter-
eStlng stories about Hong Kong, Hon
olulu, BuenOs Aires and other
parts OF the globe they have visited"
continuing, Sheriff Salisbury said:
,Ihe people who are on the out
side, those who are financing and
running banks and building churches
ana making jails, they have no time
TO examine prisoners each year to
see whether they are guilty or inno-
cent. II the courts were organized
TO promote justice the people would
elect somebody to defend all these
I criminals, somebody as smart as the
prosecutor.
0Mocf oil &c 80. .,.s...s,,oI 81 -.
Slsts IN otfenses against property
People are sent to Jail because they
I have committed a crime against pro-
perty. 1t Is of very little consequence
whether one numbered people more
or less go to Jail who ought not to
go you must protect property, be
cause In this world property is OF
more Importance than anything else
How Is it done? These people who
have property fix it so they can pro.
tect what they have. When some
body commits a crime it does not fol
low that he had done something that
is morally wrong. The man on the
outside who has committed no crime
may have done something. For in.
stance to take all the coal in the
United States and raise the price
two dollars or three dollars wher
there is no need of it, and thus xii
thousands of babies and send thOus-
ands of people to the poorhouse anC
tens Of thousands to jail, as is done
every year in the United States-thi.
is a greater crime than all the people
in our jails ever committed, but the
law does not punish it. Why? Be
cause the fellows who control the
earth make the laws If you and
had the making Of the laws, the frs
thing we would do would be to pun
ish the fellow who gets control of the
earth. Nature put this coal in the
ground for me as well as for then
and nature made the prairies up her,
to raise wheat for me as we'll as fol
them, and then the great railroad
companies came along and fenced i
up"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-21
GETS OPHEIM AGENCY

Glasgow, May 19-Ed. Stadig, pio-
neer settler of Glentana vicinity, was
the successful applicant among ap-
proximgately 200 others who desired
the Ford agency at Opheim. He
leaves a successful garage business
in Glentana to assume the Opheim
agency.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-21

Shelby-Pipe line oil runs for first
quarter of 1926, were 1,200,736 bar
rels.
Bainville-ROosevelt County farm
bureau recommends establishment Of
laboratory here, for protein tests.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-21

with which it came in contact, and
a week ago was pumped out and the
trouble found to be from oil seeping
into the bottom of the well. The oil
probably seeps In some distance, but
it continues to seep at the rate of
about half a barrel a day.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-21
ANDREW UELANp. Plaintin.

ANDHEW UELAND, Plaintiff,
- versus
JOSEPH LALONDE. widower.
JAMES =. SANDY and NELLIE
SANDY, his wife. BERRY ]. STEPH-
Ems and BESSIE STEPHENS, his
wife, FRANK GREENER. a single
man. PIPER HOWE LUMBER COM
IAN a corporation. Karl ].
hAhLSON, ARTHUR E. WEST
BROOK, MERCY l. PHILLIPS and
band, If any, Defendants.
To be sold at Sheriffs Sale on the
18th day Of June, A. D. 1926. AT 2.0O
O'Clock +. NJ. Of said day at the front
door OF the County Court House in the
town or Plentywood. Sheridan county.
Montana, 10 the highest and best hid
der for cash in hand, the following de-
scrlDed real property, situated in Sheri-
dan County, Montana, tO-wit:
me Northeast quarter CNEH0
ana the North Half Of the North
east Quarter CNIb NEH) and the
East half of the Northwest Quar-
yer tEl2 NWA) Section Thirty
SSV)s Township Thirty-seven (37l
North Of Range F1fty-two (52l
East OF the Montana Meridian.
montana, containing 500 acres more
or - less according to the Government
Dated at Plentywood, Montana this
A0Ah gay OF May, A. ID. 1926
- RODNEY SALISBURY
sheflH OF Sheridan County, Montana.
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NOTICE OF sHERrrs SALE

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
OE THE STATE OF MONTANA, IN
DAN.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-21
STILL MAD

Ebenezer:-"Lo honey does You
done forgib yoh honey? I see you
smilin'."
Mandy:-"Don't pay no 'tenchin to
dat smile-ah's jes' restin' nah
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Producers News-sS.OO a Year.
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Wet Candidate Defeats An
other World Court Senator

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100000 COAL MINERS
CONTINUE STRIKE

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Sheridan Requests Planes
To Stop Canadian Booz

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Evening star., 1926-05-23
BRAZILIAN ISSUE
>0vERSUBSCR|BED
List Shows Firm Undert0ne.
Combined Average Is
Near Record.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, May 22.-Prompt
over-subscription of the $4,000, 900
Brazilian government 6ia per cent
bond issue overshadowed all other
developments in today's bond market.
Listed bonds displayed a firm under
tone. the combined average being
lifted to within 1-100 of the record
high established ON May 13.
Except for drop of one point in
Brazilian Ss of 1941 there were few
group. Italian sinking fund Is of
1851 were in brisk demand, showing
a substantial fractional gain on the
day.
Railroad liens rallied in sympathy
with the advance in railroad stocks,
heavy institutional buying being re-
ported for both classes of securities.
Net gains, as rule, were. held to
fractions. but they were distributed
over broad list.
Weakness of Wilson Co. convertible
'}2S OF 1881 which broke points to
a new low at 40 as compared with q
nigh of 7112 earlier in the year, con.
trasted with the strength of other in
dustrial mortgages.
In the absence of any large amount
of new high-grade industrial and rail.
road offerings, bond dealers reported
there was a growing disposition on
the part Of investors to take second
grade rails and public utilities. Large
sums are reported to be available for
investment but there is a reluctance
on the part Of many buyers to take
high grade listed issues at current
low Yields.
Evening star., 1926-05-23
WALL STREET BRIEFS

NEW YORK, May 22 R.-Phila-
delphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Corporation had very Improbable
year in 1925, reporting net loss OF
$4,115,567 after interest, taxes. depre-
citation and depletion, in contrast to
net income of 81 1,02O,593 in 1924. In
Guiding profit of $166,57S from the sale
Of property and securities, the deficit
for the year was $3,967 ,269, compared
with surplus Of $1.692,10 in the pre-
vious year, equal to $1.21 a share on
10000 shares of no par value stock.
Signatures Of 51s members Of the
New York Stock Exchange have been
affixed to the petition being circulated
to close the exchange on the Saturday
preceding Memorial day for a three
day recess until Tuesday.
Bank clearings for the week
throughout the country, compiled by
the Commercial and Financial Chron-
icle, are placed at $s.746,254,063, an
increase of AZ per cent over the $9,-
353, 3,115,544 reported a year ago. New
York City gained % per cent.
United Shoe Machinery Corporation
reports net profit Of $S,050,920 for the
year ended February 27, 1926, after
Federal taxes. equal after 6 per cent
preferred dividends to $3.S2 q share
on the common stock. against $6,502,-
741. or $3.02 a share, in the previous
year.
Jones Brothers Tea reports for the
quarter ended April net profit of
$14,216 after charges and Federal
Evening star., 1926-05-23
TREND IS UPWARD
IN STOCK MARKET
List Continues Rise Despite
Bear Traders Attempt
to Hit Motors.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, May 22.-The main
price tendency in today's brief ses-
sion of the stock market continued
upward, despite an attempt OF bear
traders to unsettle the general list by
again hammering the motor shares.
Trading was in rather heavy volume
for a Saturday, the days sales ag-
gregating 557 900 shares.
Omission of the Armour A dividend,
rejecting a poor first quarter by one
of the country's largest industries.
apparently had been anticipated. The
stock established a new low for the
year, at 13A, but later rallied to
13M, where it was off only n point
on the day. Other packing stocks
held steady.
Brisk demand for the railroad
shares continued to reflect the un-
usually favorable nature Of the April
earnings statements. the $500" lat
est to report, showing an increase
of nearly $4,000 In consolidated net,
despite sharp drop in the net in
come Of the Wisconsin Central. one
of it's subsidiaries. The sharp jump
Of 5 points In Atchison. which dupli-
Gated. the years high Of 1879, revived
runors that the company was plan
ming the distribution Of some of the
common stock in it's treasury.
Among the many other rails to
show net gains Of l to 2 points were
New York Central, Illinois Central,
Kansas City Southern, Missouri Pa
cific. Norfolk & Western. Seaboard
Air Line common and preferred. and
Southern Railway. Buying OF some
Of these issues was reported to be for