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CHHDRENS HOSPITAL
BUILT WITHOUT TAX

Madison, Wis WiscOnsin's or
thOpedic hospital for children has
been dedicated. 1t cost the taxpay-
ers nothing. w= -
Some years ago the state of Wis
oOnsim established a fire insurance
fund to insure public buildings
owned by villages. towns cities,
counties and the state. AT first
the state charged premiums $50
less than the private insurance
companies. The surplus accnmu-
lated so rapidly the rate was cut
so that the premium was but $50
of the rate charged. by private
concerns.
Out of the surplus. the. state
built a new office building 10 house
the fund and now draws on the
surplus to build. the state chill.
dren's hospital 1t cost 100000.
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ty, assisting in Bannon's defense,
made the principal plea for Ban
non. The pleas began at a. m.
and were not concluded until about
8 O'Clock Saturday night. A packed
courtroom heard them.
The Murder
The Haven family disappeared
on February 9, 1880. Shortly after
that BaDnon and his son moved
onto the Haven place after telling
that they had driven the Ravens
to Williston on The night Of the
9th where they Uook the train fo1
Oregon. The Bannons took posses
sion of the property of the Ravens
and sold some of he hogs on the
place. Charles Bannon was ares
ed last November and charged
with the embezzlement of some Of
the Haven property. In the mean
time the older Bdnnon went to Or
egon where he was later arrested
He had IN his possession at The
time of his arrest almost $1,000
which ne admitted belonged to The
Havens and which he declared he
was trying to deliver to them il
Oregon.
Charles Bannon finallay confess
ed to the killing of the entire fam
lily and told where the bodies
would be found. James Banno1
maintained his innocence but off
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case. Organized society only eaa
remedy the condition that brought
on those events. There is as littk
use also under the present unoz-
ganized state of the people Of Mon
tana to try to make any memhsr
of the Grand Alliance Of Merger
Banks, Railroads, Telephone, Pow
er and Mining Companies carry ts
fair share of the burden of gov
eminent. The people must wake
up or sleep the sleep of slavery
that knows no waking from the IN
H. LOWNDES MAURY.
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NOTICE OF MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
OF THE PEOPLES PUBLISHING COMPANY

The Stockholders of the Peoples Publishing Company
hereby notified that pursuant the Charter and By
Laws of the above Corporation the regular annual stock
holders meeting will be held the Farmera bor Temple
at Plentywood Saturday, July II, 1881 at o'clock p.
when the board of directors will be elected for the
suing year. and such other business transacted may
properly before the annual stockholders meeting
O. NJ LUTNES, Secretary.
Any stakeholder who cannot attend in person, will
please sign the following proxy and give
tending.
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Continued from front page)
so often entrapped unwary farm
ers, and by which his damages
were limited to the parts which
broke. Moreover, he was required,
by the terms of the order, to give
notice within a few days after the
machine was delivered; and such
notice was extremely technical.
Parent answered this by show
ing that he never had read the or
der nor had it read to him. He al
so claimed the company had walv-
ed the term SOf the written order
by having its men out there to put
the machine in operation and try
to make it work.
Eight of the jury, consisting of
the following, voted solidly for
Parent: McCready of Redstone;
Ersdahl of Medicine Lake; Axle
stad of Plentywood; Ronnie of
DOoley; Rasmussen of Dagmar;
Paul Christianson of Antelope;
Carl Lind of Reserve and Howell
of Plentywood. Four of the jury
led by J. F. Moore, an implement
dealer at Medicine Lake, voted a.
gainst allowing the farmer any
damages. The other three were
Jensen of Raymond; Wiveholm OF
Dagmar; and Madsen of Westby
/ After several hours of deliberation
the jury allowed the defendant
$2,908.00 damages, and cancelled
all of the outstanding notes which,
with attorneys fees, it is under
stood, and interest amount to ap-
proximately $500. Parents vic
tory really amounted to one Of
about $4,000.
Paul Babcock of Plentywood rep.
resented the implement company;
and Parent was represented BY
Howard M. Lewis. The case took
all of one week and was character.
lied by lengthy examination and
numerous tits between attorneys
Objections poured in rapidly from
both sides. Several of the jurors
took notes during the trial and as
the case was one which is great.
ly involved they showed extremely
good judgment in doing this. Par.
ent's counter claim included hi!
loss of grain for the years 1926
and 1880 and he deducted from the
market price of the grain which
was lost, the cost of hauling. Thii
made very involved case to b
tried by a jury and the eight wht
remained true to the principles o
justice and of right are 10 be con
graduated upon being able to keel
the facts clear IN their minds.
FINE JURY
This term of court was distin
guished by an exceptionally intel
ligent and careful and attentiv
jury which gave its very best eff
forts in every case to do justic
between the litigents. Many o
the jury were alert and intereste
young men who took their dut
seriously and requited themselve
with great credit.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
LOCAL MARKETS
FERTILE, MINNESOTA
PEOPLE VISIT P'WOOD

Edwin and liver Morvig, brothers
of Mrs. Jens Gronvold, and Miss
Angelina Gredvig, their niece, all
of Fertile Minnesota, Mrs. Gron-
vold's girlhood home, arrived in
Plentywood, Friday night, June 10
for a few days visit with the
Gronvolds, at Plentywood, and Ole
Morvig and Art Goodale, relatives,
at Whitehall.
People here will recall Mr.. and
Mrs. Morvig who used to come to
Plentywood to visit their daughter,
Mrs. Jens Gronvold. The visitors
report the old gentleman as very
well. Mrs. Morvig died a year ago
this spring.
The party left Fertile Friday
morning at 4 o'clock and arrived
here that night at 9 o'clock making
a record trip of SIS miles.
The visitors report a bumper
crop in Minnesota, where the out
of-doors never looked nicer and
good crops to Devils Lake but abb
solutely nothing west of that city
to the Montana line, and that
things looked, bad as they are,
much better in Montana than in
the intervening territory.
The party returned to Fertile on
Tuesday of last week.
Have good millett seed and bar.
ley seed for sale. Price reasonable
Points Seed Farm, Crosby, NORTH
Dakota. (13-2t)
Mrs. Luehr and son are spending
the week at Grenora with relative!
and friends. They went over Sun
/ day and expect to return the frs
of next week.
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CHILDREN viii fret, often for no
~ apparent reason. But there's al
ways Castorial Harmless as the recipe
IN the wrapper; mild and bland as it
astes. But its gentle action sootheS
youngster more surely than a mora
powerful medicine.
That's the beauty of this special
;hildren's remedyl 1t may be given
he tiniest infant-as often as there
s need. In cases of colo, diarrhea or
similar disturbance, it is invaluable.
A coated tongue calls for just a few
drops to ward of constipation; so
hoes any suggestion of bad breath.
Whenever children don't eat well.
ion't rest well, or have any little
Lpset-this pure vegetable prepare
lion is usually all that's needed.
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GERS felt they had a strong case a.
gainst him
Charles Bannon, son of James,
confessed to the murder and was
taken from the jail at Shaffer by
a mob and lynched early in the
morning of January %, 1881. In
his confession the younger Bannon
exonerated his father and took the
entire blame for the destruction of
the Havens but States Attorney j.
S. Taylor of Mckenzie county in.
sisted that James Bannon was a
party 30 the murder and subpoena
ed So witnesses 10 prove his con-
tentions.
James Bannon was kept at the
jail at Williston since his arrest
last fall. He was taken 10 Shafer
for preliminary hearing and trial
along with his % year old son on
January 28th and put in Jail at
Shafer from which he was taken
by the mob early the next morning
and lynched. AS a result of the
feeling in Mckenzie county, Ban
non was granted a change of ven
ue which was made to Divide coun-
ty and started week before last.
Repudiates Confession
Bannon in his testimony on his
own behalf repudiated the confes.
sion of his son Charles, who con
fessed to the six Haven murder:
and was later lynched.
Confessions in Charles Bannon'.
handwriting were read into the
record and filed as exhibits. The
younger Bannon testified that hi,
father had been at the Haven farm
at II o'clock on the day when The
boy alleged that he shot and club
bed to death six members of tn,
Haven family.
Bannon denied he was at tn,
Haven farm at any time on tn
day of the murders.
Good Witness
Attorney Craven said in Willis
ton that BannOn had been a goo
, witness in his own defense. "H
. told his story carefully" Crave
. said, "and we were unable to brea'
. it down in cross examination"
: Peculiar Situation
. The conviction of the elder Ban
non complicates the Haven murde
case. A bunch of hoodlums lynch
, ed Charles Bannon who had cor
feSsed to the gruesome murder i
one of the most vicious and deger
Grated lynchings in the history @
|, the west. 1t is evident tat tn
{ officers made no attempt to proteC
Charlie Bannon and it would seer
, that they even encouraged tn
: lynching if they did not actual
! participate.
After the dastardly and disgrace
full affair Gov. Shafer of Mort
Dakota made a weak gesture
find the murderers of Charles Bar
: non, but his investigators reporte
they could find n oclues. Now til
jury convicts James Bannon, I'll
father. If James Bannon was
:, party to the murder then no doul
|, can exist but that he was the il
stigator, and undoubtedly the pril
! cipal. Evidence against Bannon
convincing. Then it appears thu
!, Charlie Bannon, the boy, bravel
! assumed all responsibility for IL
: murder, and died at he hands {
the rnurderers protesting the il
:, nocence of his father to save hir
: And SO the principal goes TO prise
: for life and the son was murdere
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seems that this is the only way
we can enforce the law. 1t seems
that warnings are not sufficient
in too many cases.
Mrs. Beck had two viOlators ar
rested and fined at CuloertSon. She
said there were others practicing
without a license in Plentywood
but hoped that one arrest would be
sufficient.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03
CHURCH NOTES
LUTHERAN CHURCH
o. M. Simundson, Pastor.

00ANagS July JUL
Communion services at Dooley
at IL a. m. and Communion service
at Antelope at 2:30 p. m. Commun-
icants will kindly be promptly on
time. Mr.. Simundson viii have
services at Plentywood at IL a. m.
and at Outlook at 2:30 p. m
Sunday, July 12-Services at IL
a. m. at Plentywood and at Ray
mOnda at 2.30 p. m. and at Out
look at 8 p. m. Mr.. Simundson will
have services at Antelope at IL a.
m and at Dooley at 2:30 p. m.
The DOoley people will kindly re-
member that the summer school
begins there on Monday, July Is
at 9 a. m. We hope that all par
ents will send the children. Let
US make the best use of this OPP
portunity.
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Receipts to the state land depart
ment for May this year totaled
S63, 633 as compared with May
1880, when the total was 1859.
The decrease is in rentals and oil
and gas leases, according to the
report of Commissioner Brandjord.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-03

Corporation. Liberty of the press"
is an idle gesture when one crowd
owns the press. (But a fearless
weekly press can accomplish more
IN a year than a muzzled daily
press can in the same time, even
though the immense daily press Is
a wonder at fooling the public for
a fortnight-)
The Power of Strength
The sheriff stopped the fellows
from unlawful fishing. He had
the power. AS 10 the pillage OF
the bread wagon and barbecue OF
the steer he had no power in the
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TRINITY LUTHERAN, DooLEY

We are celebrating mission-fes-
tival next Sunday, July 5th with
German services at 1920 a. m;
English services at 2:30 D. m. The
morning speaker will be the Rev.
F. A. Mehl from Sylvan Grove,
Kansas, father of the present pas
tor. In the afternoon the Rev.
Kleidon, Wolf Point, popular speak
er KICK, will deliver the ser
mon. Come and hear inspiring SER
mons by well-known speakers. You
are always welcome at our ser
vices.
Have You ever listened to the
Lutheran Hour3 1t comes in over
the Columbia chain Thursday eve
ming at 700 O'Clock.
Lamber J, Mehl, Pastor.
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cil in it's attempt to raise two and
one-half million dollars to pay off
the city's debts. Peddlers are to
be charged fifty dollars a year,
BARRIERS get a raise, auctioneers
must pay (the sheriff is the only
auctioneer in Butte), boot blacks
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PROXY

Know All Men by These Presents that -
do hereby constitute and appoint
to be my lawful attorney, substitute and proxy, for in
my name, place and stead to share of stock
.leId by me : /, rts PublshinT rpaN 81 Tlen-
tvvood Montana the stockholders annual meeting
be held at the FarmerLabor Temple, Plentywood Mont,
Saturday July H. 1881 fully as may could do,
were personally present at said meeting.
hereby revoke any proxy given to any person hereto
fore and prior to this date.
Signed ...-----.-.. ..---..---.--
Stockholder Peoples Pub. Co.
Dated this - day of --- 1881.
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Hot Springs - The post office
building has been repainted.
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BANNON

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Know All Men by These Presents that ...........
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Have good millett seed and bar
ley seed for sale. Price reasonable.
Points Seed Farm, Crosby, North
Dakota. (13-2t)
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gagged Just about the time was dis
covering that for all his alteration Ethan
was as immovable as the marble gate
posts up at his house, dear old Horace
Higginson became an eligible widower.
Why be one more Kingsway wife when
you could be petted to death by nice
1t was little ticklish to get Horace
committed before broke with Ethan,
but did. And then I told Ethan the
honest, sensible truth, that couldn't
ever be the wife he wanted without pre-
tending till I was bored to death. ]
think was fairer to him than If I'd
married him"
Nina"
ASK on, my dear"
Weren't you ever sorry you'd mar
ried a man you didn't love?"
Never to the day he died. He was a
darling to me. He gave me everything
wanted. Sometimes. of course Ronny
was little of a bother, but after all.
between boys camps and school, there
hasn't been much to that. A stepSon Is
much less of problem than a step
daughter"
What do you hear from Ronny?"
Nina frowned. Nothing very salts
factory. Writing poetry, cutting his
Summer school claSses-I do hate i'm
practical people. 1 told him that II I
heard any more bad reports from him
I'd cut off his allowance"
Ronny was something of an enigma
to most people; mostly silent, bursting
into occasional flares of passionate talk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26

He couldn't have done anything
more disconcerting - I'd planned to
really settle down"
Helen looked across at her, curious.
nina, you don't mean you really al
ways-always-"
Nina cried out with laughter.
Have always loved him, hiding q
breaking heart under the visiting cards
of Mrs. Horace Higginson? No, you
goose! People aren't like that. But
Ethan has never looked seriously at any
girl since I broke of with him to marry
Horace, and it seems the most sensible
thing to marry him."
ooh. Ninal"
Helen knew nothing of the circun-
stances of her cousins engagement to
Ethan Kingsway And she had never
liked to ask. Nina had come to the
town to teach school. pretty and with
an eye to the main chance which her
evenness of manner concealed. She had
become engaged to Ethan Kingsway and
then broken it off and married Horace
Higginson She hadn't been approved
Of, but she had won her way to popu-
larity coolly and steadily. She told
Helen more now than she ever had.
There's no more to it than this
Ethan's mother began to be subject to
attacks of int1ammatory rheumatism.
He had her on his hands and that big
ancestral estate of his that he could
have cut up into building lots and been
millionaire, and he wouldn't. I was
getting deadly tired about then, anyway
of having to pretend to admire ancestral
ideals and civic responsibility and
knightly devotion"
Nina, sometimes I think you are q
perfect brute" said Helen. laughing
against her will. But, Nina, 1t wasn't
a bit funny for him.
1T maynt have been actually humor-
GUS" said Nina calmly, but think of
his having knightly broken heart and
turning into a village legend! And
anyway. in my day, around ten or twelve
years ago. If you didn't break off two or
three engagements before you really
married you got no pleasure at all out
of life, because it was the only way for
really nice girl to get petted."
Helen did not answer, but her sensi-
tive face flushed and Nina laughed
again.
You know you're a little on the fir
tatious side yourself angel. Well, there's
no more to 1t than this. Ethan looked
wonderful to me when we first got en-
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house. to run over the last reels Of
The Gay Young Oysterman.'
She had scarcely finished before
Tommy's horn blew outside. With the
ready wave of color flooding her face
she excused herself, caught up her
coat, and was with him again.
1t was daylight still as they drove
recklessly through the pleasant streets
of the old town. It was a very old
town, with broad, leisurely feeling
streets. shaded by old, old elm trees,
planted hundreds of years ago.
Tommy's runabout slid down the
main street like a frightened cat. It
stopped. with an effect of being
pulled back on its launches, at
Tommy's house, instead of the Mill
ken one.
Got to get something forgot" said
Tommy. big surprise for 'the gang.
What do you think of Klieg lightS?"
Il think they're a dreadful extrava-
gance," said Helen promptly.
Tommy. leaving the car running as
usual. bolted up the walk. and was seen
entering via a front window on the
porch.
Helen relaxed, turned the motor of,
and leaned against the back Of the
seat.
She was still dreaming when Tommy
bounded out with the long sticks of
the lighting apparatus so encumbering
him that only rangy Tommy could
have bounded
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about abstract rights and wrongs; a
tragic Shelleyan young face, and a ca
pacity for being shut up inside himself
which worried frank, laxative Helen.
But" said Nina, with her calm
frankness, "I've been thinking, consid-
ering all things, that it would be a
good thing for me to marry Ethan. I'm
older now, I could handle him. Fur
thermore, she laughed a little at
Helen's surprise-"to complete the pic
ture of a perfectly mercenary wretch,
Ethan can give his wife a social posi-
ton which / have always wanted, and
has a lot more money than he had.
And"-her voice softened-"Im wor-
ried about Ronny. He was mixed up
in some wild business at college last
year, and I do hate scandals so! They're
so much trouble. Ethan has a firm
hand, and boys adore him. Even Ronny
who never shows any feelings. He
could handle Ronny. And to think
Ethan had to be dragged off to Eu
rope!"
Helen spoke with distress in her
voice.
Nina, wish you wouldn't"
Darling" said Nina with unruff1ed
pleasantness, 1--WE can't all be as ro-
mantle as you are. In your present
Tommyesque state I suppose I sound
like something awful. How is 1t he
isn't infesting the PREMISES"
Hes about to infest," Helen said.
Were going over to Doris Milliken's
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~ LID Horace HigginSon had made
a great deal of money. He
had married-or been captured
~ by-pennileSs, cool-headed 20
year-old Nina Heather 10 years
before.
Old Horace, whose first wife had been
so bad tempered that Nina's even, ami
able self1shness seemed to him all
man could ask of the perfect wife, had
been dead three years now. There was
q stepson. Ronny, but Nina kept him in
camps and prep schools and latterly in
college, because boys bothered her.
Once in a while he came home, lanky
and bewildered and silent, but not
often. Nina annoyed him as much as
he did her. Helen, who was sorry for
him, tried to mother him.
Helen crossed the wide hall, with its
beautiful winding broad balustrade, to
the room on the right-the drawing
room. Nina was there sure enough.
A taut little figure, wirily alive. She
was just throwing her smartly plain
bag on one chair and her smartly Sc
we're hat on another Nina would have
casually cluttered up a pyramid If she
had happened to live in one. She
dropped the Powered chiffon jacket as
Helen entered, throwing up her bare
arms with sigh Of relief,
Gracious, 1t was hotl And that
crazy idiot of a Grace Mannering had
us play on the veranda, instead of in
the cool house. Sort of miscalculation
she would make
You couldn't help liking Nina. Once
you faced the fact that she would
never die for your sake or anybody
else's, she was delightful person, with
the evenest temper in the world. And
she was as fond of Helen as it was pos
gible for her to be of any one
Darling, ring for Matte and some
iced ginger ale, won't you? What's
new?"
Tommy cut the bank today. Mr..
Delamater was simply boiling He told
me"-Helen flushed a little-"to give
him what he called 'wigging' How
does one wig, Nina?"
Nina laughed.
AHA, we are already in the family
councils"
Helen blushed and changed the SUBJ
1ect hurriedly, offering her other news.
Ethan Kingsway called to see you
and left a message. He has to go to
Europe, and can't come to dinner next
week"
How annoying! That dinner was
built round Ethan Kingsway, and he
walks of to France"
Nina's social campaign would be de-
layed by Ethan's fight to Europe, Helen
knew.
Hes writing you" Helen offered, to
soften the blow
How long is he going to stay?"
He said some months. And some
thing about a small but troublesome
responsibility.
Nina's bright red-brown eyes focused
far of, and she lifted one extensively
arched eyebrow. 1t was the expression
she always wore when she was being
Napoleonic.
Nobody said anything more for the
moment, because Matte entered to an
nounce dinner, and the two women fol-
lowed her into the cool, dusky, spacious
dining room.
Nina spoke petulantly between courses.
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alleged by the police TO be members of
an organized rum combine, was q story
related by Clark of plans for a reign
Of terror" to eliminate price slashing In
Denver liquor circles.
Liquor dealers from Pueblo, Trinidad
and Aguilar, Colo, were alleged to have
attended the meeting.
Most of those under arrest denied they
were participating in anything but a
banquet. No liquor was seized.
The raid was staged by 80 officers
armed with machins guns.