The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-24
FARMERS TAKE ACTION
Sheriff Madsen Wiling Tool of Bankers and Machine
Companies, for Small Fee, Does His Bit in the
Shining of His Old Neighbor, Friend, and
Supporter Out of His All

Burglary has been done in
Sheridan county, Certainly not
the first and surely not the last.
Yet none surprising this one in
it's amazing open, brazen and
heartless technique.
True it was q, legal burglary,
done, perhaps, within the law, and
allied and Allotted by Sheriff Hans
Madsen, the willing and servile
tool of the mortgage and loan
sharks, after the manner Of many
others that have occurred in this
and. other counties, but none the
less criminal on that account.
For law OF no law, the Callahan
family of Redstone have been rob-
bed out Of their lives earnings
out Of the products Of the toll d
q large, hard-woking, frugal, in
dustrius family, by the Rkinninf
Union Central Life Insurance
Company Of Cincinnati, inst al
wontonly, Just as calculatingly
just as effectively, az If they Wer'
held mp BY masked road agents
and their pockets looted, and 1
was done Just svcold -blOodedly
and with just as felonious intent
and just as criminally, az q soutl
sea pirate would have gone abou
the iob-but with none Of the risk
with no fear Of future hanging
To the yard arms. Yet no pirat
that ever hung in. chains to q var,
arm till the, carniverous bird
picked the last tissue fom his rat
thing bones, but, was the mora
equal as far as purpose and oh
jective are concerned Of the Un
ion Central Life Insurance Com
pany.
It is an amazing tale, the stor
Of the robbing Of the Callaha
family. II is a terrible exposnr
of the cunning and duplicity an
rascality of insurance and NOR
gage sharks: Of farmers willin
to make a corrupt and miserabl
pittance at the expense Of an oil
neighbor whose home has bee
their homes; and whose table hs
been their table, whose food the
have eaten with relish and we
come. Il makes ones blood fairl
boil with rage. It arouses a 'righ
eous fury in the hearts Of ever
honest man with any fellow fee
ing. And the knowledge and u
Outstanding tof the facts IN 18th
Il case Is going to arouse the poop
ii Of Sheridan and surrounding eoul
ties as they never have beC
aroused before And maybe, It
TO be hoped that it will, result
in such an organization Of q
FL farmers and workers so poWerf
and militant, aseto peyent thin
Of this sort happening In q
future-fOr organization. Is. u
only thing that will stop rObbel
of this sort. ,.,,.
II The story Of the robbing of q
1 Callahan family Is an, OrdinaI
: one in principle, but only more vi
{ land foul and clear cut in its fe
lures. But what has hapepned
D; the Galatians is what. Is going
b. happen eventually if no resistan
o is organized to every farmer /
a. these widespread plains. Ii 10 qul
e a long story, in fact ita details !
&, volVe many persons and mDtiY'
O. so II must be printed "a sever
e stories, serially. In this issue,
g. the Producers News only the ma
n story win be related. .,,4 "a =
p .Hurshel Callahan and his vi
3 and family Of children came
+ Montana 10 make their home a
Z fortune II the spring dof 1916 a
+ took q halt section overe5in sc
. Fort Peck Indian sReseryati
! which had just been thrown opC
4 locating south hf ,RedetoneS ne
p the 500 postoffice, Tor which. "a
, the contracted with thea COVER
J. mert to pay $7,0Ofper acre. The
n they. built q home broke. up
8 sod and by hard work and ten
s. cious industry, developed eaa 90
% farm. The Galatians were, 50
81 neighbors, and because of tn
g industry honesty and generosi
= were highly respected by ali "
" knew them. They were e0nRidI
D. the best and most successful e
70 mers ia, the section where they !
b cd. The family had by hard VIC
and .frugality prospered and
cumulated q few thousand dola
The family resided on the hon
a., stead until 1928, when they re
M ed and. farmed land nearer
" Redstone, in fact the land the "a
= ily afterwards bought, which Il
81 farmed well.
ep There were born into the c
lahan family seven strong