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Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
FORTUNE LEFT
BY RECLUSE, 88

WESTWOOD, N. j., Dec. 3. W.n)
Mrs. Allen Ackerman left two
important items in her 12-room,
fashioned house when she died
at 88. One was a sack of dough-
nuts, the other 100000.
The doughnuts were no surprise
to the half dozen Or 50 persons who
had kept a semblance of contact
with her since she became re-
cluse some 20 years ago, but the
fortune that crannies of her dark
old home still were giving up today
amazed a whole community.
The fortune, in gold coins, old
currency, home owners loan certi-
ficates and other securities, was
hard to account for. Her neigh
bors and more than 80 relatives
who have popped up as heirs had
believed her poor.
Only John Murchen and his wife,
Mrs. Ackerman's next door neigh
bors, could tell anything about her.
She was kind" Murchen said.
"She just was lonely. But we did
Mt know she had money. She nev-
er did anything for fun except eat
doughnuts."
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
e OH So!
W. says
11AS FRANK WATAsABe
kV5 4y
W 10 HOLDEN

Constitution Of u. 5. are great
est paper ever wrote. That are
opinion of ALL world experts.
American Grandfathers creating
il to make a Nation happy A.
prosperous. Now some people
wanting to change il. They say II
are just as old fashion as horse
& wagon wearing Mae Vests
bustles. Maybe SOL doann0. SO
1 reading them Honorable d0cu-
ment. One sentence trap my eye,
it say 50. life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness" Now !
thinking TO making agreeable To
all citizens we must putting down
what LIFE means. One idea OF
life TO one fellow are the reverses
of the opposite at the other. But
LIBERTY are more difficulty.
One mans liberty are the other
fellows obnoxious. And when we
arriving at what HAPPINESS
are meaning-Oh Hot Dog I2s
million Americans can all be
wrong.
Oh Sol are going stop
water are getting too deep for ms.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
TWO HELD in
CUTTING CASE

Jesus Morales and Manuel Ma
barro are held in the county Jail for
investigation following their ar
rest at Westmorland Monday night.
Morales was said to have admit
ted playing a stellar role in a cut
ting affray in Greenfield in June,
while Nabarro was said to have ad-
mitted being a witness.
Imperial county deputies contact
ed Greenfield officers in an attempt
to verify the statements of the two
MeXicanS.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03

bales.
The AAA proposes to offer the
new plan to producers to supplant
contracts expiring on Dec. 81. Thus,
despite action before the U. S.
supreme court questioning the con-
stitutionality of the processing
taxes-life blood of the AAA-the
New Deal pushed forward to round
out its farm program as planned
by President Roosevelt.
Declared that the emergency
plow-up stage" of the cotton pro-
gram has passed, officials explained
the new proposal is aimed at
gradual correction of inequalities"
in the present system. The longer
term arrangement, it was said,
will enable farmers to look ahead
Continued on page 2; column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
KILLER SUSPECT
FOUND GUILTY

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 3. UP)-Paul
d. Petro, former Watertown, Wis,
marine was found guilty of first
degree murder in the Staying of
Mrs. Catherine Geer, Ell Cajon
ranch woman, by jury which
deliberated until early today.
A recommendation of life i'm
prisonment went with the first de-
gree verdict, saving Petro from a
death sentence.
Petro was charged with slugging
the elderly hog ranch owner with
a padded pipe, binding and gagging
her and then ransacking her home
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
Quota on Cotton
Cut Five Per Cent

WASHINGTON, Dec. g. U.P)-A
four year cotton adjustment pro-
gram in which farmers cooperat-
ing with the AAA will be urged
to take five per cent more acreage
out of production in 1886 than in
1885, has been approved by Secre-
tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal
lace, it was announced today.
The plan calls for a minimum
reduction of 80 per cent of the
base acreage and a maximum cut
of As per cent. Experts today
expected a 1886 crop of between
100000 to 100000 bales.
The 1885 minimum was 25 per
cent but actually farmers agreed
to take 1913 per cent of their acre
age out of production to produce
IN estimated yield of 1l,l69,0O0
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
OSBORNE URGES
CARE OF ROADS

Supervisor Hugh T. Osborne to-
day enlisted the cooperation of the
El Centro chamber of commerce in
an attempt to prevent farmers
from driving discs across county
roads in the Ell Centro road dis
trict.
Graveled roads are kept up at
intervals of approximately one mile
in all directions from Ell Centre,
Osborne pointed out, These roads,
he said, are broken up when discs
are driven across or along them,
causing needless expense and dis
comfort.
DR.. Sem Bacon, president of the
chamber of commerce, suggested
that all discs should be carried over
the roads on trucks or wagons.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03

NEARING POLE

live in huts buried beneath the
earth to protect them from the
freezing cold.
A Polar Bear Hunt
We were greatly excited just be-
fore we left Monday when Red"
Borland heard the Eskimos crying,
"Nanook, Nanook' Eskimo for
Polar bear. Grabbing our rifles
we rushed out of the igloo to watch
the hunt.
With a party of Eskimos we
padded in kayaks through chan
Continued on Page 2, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
MAN STARVES
in DEEP WELL

NORTH WTLKESBORO, N. c.,
Dec. 3. W.p)-Robert Dyson, AZ, a
farmer, described today his 10 days
in dried-up well without food or
water. He was taken out more
dead than alive
He was crossing his farm and
walked over the rotting cover of an
abandoned well when he fell in.
Hounds led searchers to the edge
of the well. At the bottom they
saw Dyson, spraW,ed face down.
ward.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
Overlooking a Bet

a
When the Imperial Highway as
ISOLATION convenes at Imperial for
Its annual convention Saturday. p
part OF the program should be
given over to the old Vallecitoc /
gnoSt, If ghost has a proper place
on program. The association is
overlooking a good source of pub
llclty If it doesn't expose the spirit.
Among others who abide by the
ghosts existence is Glen Miner
he heard it once! Glen. with
couple of friends, was stranded in
ohe hills near the old ValIecitos
stage station, so the story goes
when a storm sent water down in
oucketsful, washing out the roads.
Ihe party took refuge in the old
state station.
Along about midnight. which is
the proper time for ghosts. the
party heard wagon travelling
doWn The canyon. That was queer,
because boulders as big as houses
streWed the canyon floor. Then
they heard the driver shout and
crack whip over the backs of his
horses. Thinking they might ride
10 town with the driver, the group
emerged from the station. The
wagon came on, pulled in a wide
circle around the station, and roll
ed away into the darkness.
Inc men saw nothing. Next
morning, there were no tracks.
Anyway, that's their story, and
they stick to it.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
EthiOpians Push
Guerilla Warfare

ROME, Dec. 3. U.P)-Continued
persistent activity of Ethiopian
guerrilla bands behind the Italian
lines on the northern front was dis
closed today in a communique from
Marshall Peitro Badoglio, COM
mander in chief.
lone of our columns" the COM
munique said, "repulsed an attack
by 200 armed Ethiopians in the
region south of the Abaro Pass.
The enemy fled, leaving on the
ground several dead.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
Milk Officials
Meeting Called

President Walter B. Havekorst
OF the Milk Institute of Imperial
Valley today called a meeting o
the board of directors and the
board of regents, at the Bank of
America, Ell Centro, at 7:3O o'clock
Thursday evening.
Plans will be formulated for the
annual meeting of the institute
some time this month.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
JAILED
IN ASSAULT CASE

Gregario Rodriguez, 30-year-old
Mexican, was arrested by Brawley
city police Monday and bound over
for hearing in Brawley justice court
on charge of assault with dead
ly weapon.
Bail was set at 1000 and he was
lodged in the county Jail to await de-
velopments. Angel Rodriguez was
the complainant.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
Kindness To Motorists

Captain A. F. OsWalt, whose
California highway patrol crew Is
among the most efficient units in
the state, was revealed this week
as pioneer. He blazed new trails,
legend has it, when he became cap
tain here by ordering his men to
cease hardboiled tactics in dealing
with motorists. Kindness and edu-
cation, Frank thought, would do
more to end traffic violations than
any amount of talking out of the
corner of your mouh. 1t did, and
now the system is followed
throughout the state.
The next step, RR believes.
should be one by which motorists
would be kind to traffic cops.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
JURY COMPLETED
IN THEFT CASE

Selection of jury was complet-
ed for the trial of j. C. Wilson and
II. G. Boyer, accused of grand
theft and the sale of mortgaged
property, in Judge Vaughn N.
T'hompson's court this morning.
Taking of testimony was sched-
uled to occupy the afternoon hours
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
MAN CONVICTED
OF ROBBERY

Jurymen found Eugene Manning
guilty of attempt to commit rob-
berry in the first degree after delib-
Grating approximately three hours.
The case went to the jury shortly
after S o'clock Monday night and
the verdict was returned before $3.50
o'clock. Trial began in Judge R. d.
McPherrin's court Monday morn
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
SUPERVISORS OF
COUNTY MEET

Imperial county supervisors met
at the court house Monday morn
ing and transacted the matters in
connection with county business.
All board members were present
and the session was scheduled to
continue throughout the afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
x IateNIewS
ACKIE COOGAN TO WE'D

JACKIE COOGAN TO WE'D
HOLLYWOOD, Dec B. (UP)-yacke COOgan, onetme
child star and Betty CRADLE youthful
er announced their engagement today.
AMERICANS Nv DANGER
WASHINGTON Dec. g. (UP)-The American consul
general at HankO has teegraped the Human provincial
dn urgent request for protection of Americans
including missionaries in the path of Chinese Communist
forces
WOMAN SETS AIR RECORD
Los ANGELES, Dec. g. (UP)-Bernardine King,
noted fHer today claimed unofficial "upside-
don" flying record after she poted her inherited plane
for 45 minutes
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
SRA DIRECTOR
TRANSFERRED
New Relief Manager Will Take Charge
In Ell CentrO December 5

Homer Miller, Imperial county director for the SRA
for the last four months will be transferred to another
December 5, and upon the date his successor
William Fitzer will take charge of the work here.
FitZer arrived in Ell CentrO Monday for a conference
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
AGRICULTURE
TEST UNITS
District Lays Plans for Bringing Vast
Area Under Plow-Experiments
In Crops May Be Asked

Forerunnng definite plans for cultivation of several
thousand acres on Imperial Valleys east side under
the All American canal directors of the Imperial Irrga
tion District today discussed preparation of resolution
asking the federal to establish agricultural ex
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
France and Britain To
Offer New Peace Plan
KING PLEDGES
AIDTOLEACUE
British Monarch Promises Stern Policy
Dealing With Italy
Copyright, 1885, By United Press

LONDON, Dec. 3. (UP)-Kng George pledged Great
Britain forcefuy and unequvocay today to the govern
ment's firm policy in the Italian-Ethopan crisis.
In speech from the throne of the house of lords at
the state opening parliament read in his absence by the
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03

BANKS LAND (By Wireless)
Dec. 3.-We have been so busy in
pushing on to find Santa that this
is the first radio message I have
had time to send We are now 200
miles north of Polazerok, the Es-
kimo town where I'VE landed Sun
day.
The little brown Arctic people
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03

BY CAPT. +. f. KLEINSCHMIDT
Especial correspondent to the Post
Press and leader of the expedition
to find Santa CLAUSE
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03
Beauty Is Ageless-

The Junior Ten Thousand club
has, at last, obtained pretty good
age census among the women of
FL Centro-or at least among it's
members. All women who are 30
or over were supposed to drop out
when the membership roll was
made'up. So far, none has left the
list.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-03

Bank Clearings Today
$42,768.35
Building Permits
S90,042.00
Ito Date This Year,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1935-01-05

tana's Forgotten Man. His name Is
mentioned few times IN history. The
Society Of Montana Pioneers. meeting
IN Livingston q number Of years ago.
discussed suitable memorial. At one
time Senator Dan HeaIy Of Park cogln-
ty and DR. Byamis grandson, Senator
Muffly OF Broadwater county, attempt
ed to get legislative approval and ap-
preparation for memorial in the state
capital. The effort never bore fruit.
In the summer Of 1888 the matter
was recalled to MIR. Healy.s memory.
With the writer, he went to locate Dw.
Byam's grave MRS. Fred Bother as
sisted in locating the spot to the best
Of her memory. Soon afterward Mrs.
Henry Byam of Billings, accompanied
by Mrs. Andy Daily Of Emigrant, put
a new board at the grave, confirming
Mrs. Bottler's location, and bringing to
light the fact DR.. Byam's son was still
living.
Park post No. %, American Legion,
at Livingston, year ago made an eff
fort to finance an appropriate monu-
ment at DR. Byam's grave but economic
conditions at the time set the project
aside until times are better. The move
ment has, however, led 70 this rather
sketchy personal history Of DR.. Byam,
and when the time Is again opportune
the matter of monument viii be re-
vived. And Don L. Byam shall no long
er be Montana's Forgotten Man.
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he lived until the middle 1850s, when
he moved further westward. apparent
IL lingering for a time In Iowa, where
his son, Henry Byan, was born. He was
at Denver soon after the Pixies Peak
gold boom started In 1883 In 1852,
with his family, he was among the
first TO leave Colorado for the new
boom camp at Bannack, IN Montana.
Here we digress for a statement from
Henry Byam, who a year ago, at the
age Of 81 years, was moved to talk OF
his father, at his home in Billings. he
stated ne was in Iowa with relatives
when the family came west. He joined
the family In Montana in 1857. He
said he had heard his father talk Of
the trip from Pixies Peak TO Bannack,
telling that ON the road boy In the
train shot q squaw and that the In
dams caught him and literally skinned
him alive, after which the boy ran 100
feet toward the wagons before falling
dead.
Henry Byam states that his father
secured q good claim at Bannack and
in the spring Of 1863, soon after Alder
Gulch was discovered, he approached
IN charge. They presented the muzzles
Of four guns, ordering. Don't come any
further or we will riddle your body.
The claim that was yours is now ours"
Realizing, as did everyone In Ban
mack at that time, the terroristic COM
troll Of the road agents, Dr. Byam
hitched his mules and started that
night for Alder Gulch. Here he located
a claim and during the summer his
character so impressed the miners thar
he was selected as the judge of the
Nevada district, a position Of h0aaoE'
but not necessarily Of extensive fame,
among the miners Of the rough anu
tumble camps Of the g1lch.
That trick d fate which led % his
selection as Judge Of the miners court
must have developed recognition o.
character and courage which made N.
Ryan the man of the hour whan tire
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repaid due to the vicissitudes of those
early ranch experiences.
DR.. Byam and his family moved to
Emigrant gulch on the Yellowstone, in
1874. He engaged in mining in the
gulch until about 1880, when he moved
across to the west side Of the river and
established a store, poStoffice, and a
ferry across the river. The place was
known as Riverside, and was on the
road from Bozeman to Emigrant glllch,
about eight miles from the mining
camp of Chico.
While at Riverside, Dr. Byam's sons.
Henry c., Oliver o., and Charles Byam.
became interested in coal mines on
Trail creek Oliver was killed in a mine
accident, and was buried at Emigrant
Charles went to the Klondike and was
never heard from again Henry Byam,
during the ninetieS, went into the low
er Yellowstone country as a prospector
AID later as a rancher. When inter
viewed year ago he resided at 308
South saith street, Billings
A son-in-Iaw, MIR. Muffly, father Of
the late Charles MIffIy, also was as
ISOLATED with the Byam enterprises at
Riverside, and he and his wife died
in Montana some time around 1900.
Mrs. Byam, after the death of her hIs-
band, resided with the Mufflys until
their passing, and in 1902 she went TO
Quincy, H., to make her home with
relatives, passing away there Feb. q,
1905, aged IS years.
While running his store at Riverside,
DR.. Byam was stricken with paralysis
How long he was I'll is not known, but
he died March IS, 1882, In his SEVENTEEN
year. His WIS the second grave to be
made in the Emigrant cemetery Gami-
grant was then called ridley.
Mrs. Fred Bother, still residing at
Emigrant, helped to line the rough |
coffin, put together by the men OF the
community DR.. Byam was buried with
the simple honors a group of pioneers
in a primitive community were able toll
confer upon respected citizen, who
had contributed 30 the building Of a
new land.
Even at his death, less than 20 years
after the Ives trial, DR.. Byams cour-
ageous service to Montana in her hour
Of need had been forgotten. Apparently
his own family failed to recall It. The
failed to chronicle the story
of those fatefuI three days when DR.
Byam and his court comageously faced
danger to themselves that Montana
might win a battle with banditry and
establish q community of social order,
safety and justice to all men.
The Man Of the Hour In Montana's
hour OF need, DR.. Byam became Mon
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AZ ELNOl

Montanas Forgotten Man lies Ia 8
humble grave In the cemetery at EN-
igrant, Park county q grave un-
marked except by a pine slab bear
ing . name ia black paint, which a
year ago replaced another slab, split
and twisted, weatherbeaten, which
had served for more than half
century. That Forgotten Man Is DR.
BON 4. Byam, who presided as judge
d the miners court which tried Road
Agent George Ives at Nevada, Alder
GuIch, in December, 1863, and paved
the way for the Vlgilantes
DR.. Byam's classification as Mon
tana's Forgotten Man, Is due to the
fact that Montana history gives him
but passing mention. Nothing has been
recorded Of his personal history; the
states leading historians know but very
little Of him.
Els own relatives in Montana have
but scant. vague and conflicting data
regarding his history.
True, DIR. Byam's moment In the
iimelght was but a flash across one
Of the earliest pages OF Montana his
s1&ys ACtcAbutlcecs Tie A1hSu anu lie
page are deeply significant.
The story Of the capture, trial, con =
viction and execution Of Ives, which led
quickly to the organization Of the Mon
tana Vigilantes, is a well-told story.
IN that story the prosecutor, WILDER r.
Sanders, fun Of the fire Of youth and
inspired by the ambition Of q young
man entering his LIES career, stands
out in high relief. His personal his
tory and his subsequent service to the
state in public capacities, notably as
United States senator. have secure
place in Montana history.
Or. Don L. Byam the middle-aged
physician turned miner, probably a man
Of retiring mien but, withal, Of supreme
courage and devotion to good citizen
ship, was the peer OF Sanders for those
three December days, the 18th, goth
and 21st, back in 1868. Sanders, guided
by the call Of opportunity for contin-
ued service in a new country, climbed
the ladder Of fame. DR.. Byam, with his
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life well cast In the irrevocable mold
OF increasing years, retired again to his
own obscure affairs, and when he died
al his lonely trading post on the upper
Yellowstone, was Just another man
gone TO his reward after life well
lived.
From MRS. Charles Muffly Of Win
ston, widow of the late State Senator
Charles Muffly, a grandson OF Or. By
am: from Henry @. Byam Of Billings,
son OF the doctor; and from grand
son, Grant Condit Of Urbana, H., in
the last year or more information has
been CLEANED from which is pieced to-
gefher a sketchy history Of the man
who, as Ives stood with the moose about
his neck and his outlaw friends milled
threateningiy about the gallows, spoke
for the first time in Montanas battle
for law and order the command: Men,
do your dutyI"
DR.. Byam was born some time in the
period l812-1814. His son, Henry Byam,
said he was in his SEVENTEEN year when
he died March IS, 1882. A brief bio
graphical sketch under photo in he
State Publishing company's reprint OF
Dimsdale's Vigilantes (the only pub
lighed sketch known of Dr.. Byam) gives
Or. Byam's birthplace as probably IN
Virginia. Henry Byam's statement is
that his father was born In Vermont.
David Hilger, state historical librarian,
states that while Byam is a rare name
II was known IN Massachusetts, in the
early days. This would tend TO confirm
New England as his birthplace.
The son said DR.. Byam WAS educated
In New York. The sketch N the Dims-
dale reprint states he astended Wiiiiam
ana MARI college IN Virginia, but did
rs0s graduate. and that he did graduate
from some medical school This would
lead 10 ths belief Or. HgRm studied
rnedsciue ia kiew YORK. A. bis death
IT, Awanf Courier at hneaann said
0f nam;
he doctor wa6 a well n9laanea naan
aaa asad m@6icine ~ usa VpSAn9e'
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days, belonged to the Eclectic persua-
sion" Eclectic: Selecting or choosing
from different systems" This would
indicate Dr. Byams professional edu-
cation was a selection Of ideas and
practices from divergent systems and
prejudices in the art of healing in his
day, adapted to meet the needs and
surroundings OF himself and his pa
TENTS. His life story would indicate
medical practice was largely by the way
and that livelihood was gained mostly
in other pursuits"
DR.. Byam was married in Virginia.
and in early manhood yielded to the
westward urge, going to Ohio. where
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1935-01-05

DR.. Elwood Mead, commissioners of
reclamation, recently told the National
Reclamation association that reclama-
ton is not mainly devoted to bringing
new lands into cultivation but is res
cue agency for the lands already being
farmed.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1935-01-05

The Federal Emergency Relief adj
ministration has announced tentative
approval OF SO r1ral-industrial conn
munities in 20 states for the destitute
unemployed.