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News you can use
Emily Mayer
The drought continued to be the leading news in the Havre Plaindealer 100 years ago. There was little rain, and C. W. Ling, the local weather observer, reported the temperatures of July 1919 were the hottest in 39 years. That would have been 1874, before Fort Assinniboine was built, the railroad came through and homesteaders were few and far between in the area.
Because of the drought, the city implemented water restrictions.
SPECIAL POLICE GETS FEW VIOLATORS OF ORDINANCE
The special policeman is walking himself thin and the city of Havre is richer by only $35 because of the enforcing of water regulations. So far only seven offenders have been brought up before the judge and because they plead guilty and paid their fines, and promised never to do it again, we won’t tell their names. But they were all prominent citizens. The special policeman slinks around late at night and gets out early in the morning to be sure that no one has forgotten to turn the water off but only seven have fallen into his clutches. Either the people of Havre are very good or else they have found a way of foxing the police.
Water violations were not the only court news in the paper this week 100 years ago.
WOMEN CHARGED WITH VAGRANCY TAKE CHANGE
Eleven of the cases of the twelve women charged with vagrancy were transferred to Justice of Peace Evans at Spring Coulee upon the hearing of an affidavit made out by Mrs. John Williams charging Judge Kirkland with prejudice. The case of Jane Doe was not transferred.
Mrs. Williams made out an affidavit to the effect that shorly after her arrest she went into the post office one evening about seven o’clock. While there she over heard Judge Kirkland talking to a man. On this occasion she asserts that Mr. Kirkland said that if those women charged with vagrancy were brought before him he was going to do everything in his power to see that they were convicted. A change of venue was granted and the case turned over to Justice of the Peace Evans at Spring Coulee. Attorney V. R. Griggs and J. P. Donnelly were employed by the defendants. Judge Kirkland says that the affidavit is absolutely false and has no foundation on fact.
The women who were arranged are Mrs. Ellen Embury, Mrs. Francis Clay, Mrs. F. J. Mayer, Corrine Reynolds, Daisy Gill Stewart, Mrs. Helen Fenton, Mrs. John Williams, Mrs. H. J. Neilander, Blanche Walker, Inez Lafferty and Jane Doe.
And we can’t forget “Long” George Francis!
GEORGE FRANCIS BOUND OVER TO DISTRICT COURT
Long George Francis has been bound over to the district court for trial on the charge of stealing a cold from Phil Clack after a hearing in the justice court Saturday. The case is much the same as the one on which Francis stands convicted. Phil Clack is the plaintiff in both cases.
Clack alleges that Francis stole the cold of the mare that he was convicted of stealing. According to the testimony in the former trial the mare was turned out on the range in the spring and Clack did not see it again until he found it in E. C. Carruth’s pasture. Mr. Carruth said he bought the mare from Long George. Upon examination it was found that Long George’s brand was put over Clack’s. upon talking with Long George Clack says that he admitted to him that the mare had a cold and he says that if Clack could prove that he had stolen the mare that he would give him the colt.
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