The statue of General of Arvo Killomaki III, had been a fixture at the small park at the Porcupine Valley train station since the building was built. It had been ordered and paid for by the general's great grandson, Arvo Killomaki the sixth. When he heard that the statue had been ordered to be removed, he raced to the station to confront the work crew that was sent to do the job. He had marched up to the workers and yelled that it would be over his dead body, that the statue would be removed. When the police saw him pull out a gun, they shot him, dead. . . he was correct in his announcement. 

Few of the valley people even had heard of the Civil War General and nobody could even say what side he was fighting for. Nobody seemed to care much about the statue and had just got used to it being there. The problem came when Toivo and Eino Maki, the political giants of the whole area, had envisioned their valley as a new theme park, to bring in thousands of tourists. The plan called for a new statue for the site that fit in with their overall plan. If only the grandson had asked, he would have learned that his statue was just going to be moved to another location, that site however, had not been decided on yet. Seems it won't matter much to him or anybody else, for that matter, at this point.

The work went on as planned, even while the grandson's body was being carted off by the undertaker, who also is the area barber. When the next train came into the station from the outside world, the new theme statue was in place to greet them. Now once again, the shift whistle blew at the saw mill and life just fell back to normal for the town folks. The next issue of the Porcupine Valley Times covered the story in detail and the photo below was right on the front page, and the headline read, "Over my dead body" the police said he asked for it.