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RBID? V". J 1 4.. A' MI i. iý. t tiV' p AtB Lake, joutL th Il two Thi ame atr Tkh. lS, HE PRODI NEWS A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE; BY" it PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE Cn,= .ie I.OUTLOOK PROMOT'.R VoL VI Number 44 VOLUME 2 PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 20. 1919 NUMBER 10 L... HE. A C OUNT Ah, There, Ruben! TWO DAYS PICNIC Nonpartisan League BRUSH LAKE, MONT. Friday & Saturday JULY 11 th and 1'2th WALTER THOMAS MILLS JULY 11th ARTHUR C. TOWNLEY JULY 12th Meet Townley Face to Face DISASTROUS FIRE AT RAYMOND FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN DESTROYED THE MONTANA & DA KOTA ELEVATOR AND THE EQUITY ELEVATOR EAR LY THURSDAY MORNING.-LOSS $25,000, COVERED BY INSUR ANCE. The Montana & Dakota Elevator and the Equity Elevator at Raymond was destroyed by fire early Thurs day morning, resulting in a loss of about $25,000 fully covered by. insur ance. There was very little grain in the Equity elevators, but there was a carload of ground feed stored there in. In the Montana & Dakota there was about 2,000 bushels of diffd4cnt grains. Just how the fire originated is not known. A few days ago the elevator chain broke and a crew of men had been at work for two or three even ings mending the chain under the supervision of the superintendent who has been in Raymond aince Mon Pu1Fe Examiner Holds Warrants Fraudulent The following excerpt from the re port of the 'Public Examiner made last winter, which will soon be pub lished, indicates what the Examining department thinks of the fraudulent warrant issued to Joe Dolin for print ing primary ballots: Claim No. 17463, favor of Jos. F. .Dolin, for $7,812.00, covers the print ing of ballots for one election. We do not believe that this bill was pre tented in accordance with the print ing contract. We find that the same COUNTY PRINTING BIDS We print the different bids with the bid of the Pioneer last year and t .: year, last on each item so the taxpayers can note the difference in le'ices. It will be noticed that m means 1.0(0. 12 m means 500 and add. m is'eans additional 1,000. This is a continuation of the com parison of bids submitted on the county printing contract as appear ing in last week's issue of the Pro ducers News: Blanks, Binding, Blocking, Etc. One eighth sheet 3%x8%, printed on one side, statutory rates % m $4.50, m $6.50, add. m. $5; Producers News bid: le m $2.25, m $3.25, add. m $2.50; Herald bid: % m $2.84, m $4.33, add. m $3.33; Sentinel bid: % mi $1.27, m $3.75, add. m $1.50; In dependent bid: % m $2.50, m $3.75, add. m $3. Pioneer Press, last year's bid: / m $3.15, m $4.55, add. m. $3.50; this year's bid: % m 22 cents, m 33 cents, add. m 28 cents. (This is another fake bid to make a low appearance. There will likely be no legal blanks printed this year). One-eighth sheet 3%x8%, printed 2 sides, statutory rates: % m $7, m $9.50, add. m $6; Producers Newas a m $3.50, m $4.75, add a $3; Her ald: % m $4.33, m $8., add. m. $4; Sentinel: % m $1.95, m $2.85, add. day. It is thought that some of the workman must have been cateless with smoking. The evening before the fire the men had gotten the chain repaired and all left about half alter eleven. At half past one the elevators were afire and when discovered the flames were under such headway that noth ing could be done. A number 'ent over from Plenty wood but to no avail. The Montana & Dakota elevator at Whitetail burned early in the spring. This is the last Montana - Dakota elevator on the Soo line in Sheridan county. It is not known whether that company will rebuild. The Equity will rebuild at once. charge ($15.75 per M) was made for the sample ballots for each party, as was charged for the first one thous and, and, whereas, tre contract states that after the first thousand the rate per thousand will be less. It is our opinion that the official ballots and the sample ballots for each par ty should be considered as one "run" and all over the first thousand paid for at the rate stipulated for each subsequent thousand. m $1.80; Independent: ½ m $4.50, m 6$, add. m $3.50. Pioneer Press, last year: / m $4.90, m $6.65, add. m $4.20; this year: % m 33 cents, m 47% cents, add m. 30 cents. (another fake bid). ¼ sheet 7x8/ printed on one side, statutory rates, % m $6, m $8.50, add m $6; Producers News: % m $3, m $4.25, add. m $3; Herald: ½ mn $3.83, m $5.66, add. m $4; Sentinel: ½ m $2.27, m $3.32, add. m $2.10; Independent: % m $4, m $5, add. m $3.50. Pioneer Press last year: ½ m $4.20, m $5.95, add m $4.20; this year: ½ m $1.15, m $1.70, add. m $1.20. I. sheet, ~x8½, printed 2 sides, statutory rates, ½ m $9, m $13.50, add. m $8; Producers News: % m $4.50, m $6.75, 'add m $4; Herald: % m $5.66; m $7.66, add m $5.338; Sentinel: % m $510, m $6.90, ad. m $4.80; Independent: % m $6, m $7, add. m $5. Pioneer Press, last year: % m $6.30, m $9.45, add. n $7.20; this year: % m $4.25, an $SI, tad. m $4. (the readers will note at s item climbed up; there sae blanks thi size to be printed) % ,eet 1 %so pritd , Statutijy rates: % as SWo.5 i $14, (Coslsued a paga eit) "HOOKING" HOCKING NOWTELLS TROUBLE TO THE JUDGE STI .. I. SCOBEY ENTER TAINED WORLD WAR VETERANS BOYS WELCOMED HOME IN APPRECIATIVE MANNER-SOLDIERS SAY SCOBEY MEETING HAS RIGHT SPIRIT-SPLElW)ID BAN. QUET SERVED TO SOLDIERS AND THEIR MOTHERS SISTERS AND SWEETHEARTS-MAKE AFFAIR XNRNUAL SAYS SCOBEY NO GRAFTING ALLOWED Between four and five thousand people attended the Soldier and Sail or reunion and welcome day program given in Scobey last Saturday. The day was bright and warm and peo ple came from all directions as far away as fifty miles. About 150 Scobey soldiers and sailors were present. The program for the day com menced at noon with the registra tion of all returned men for the pur pose of organising a branch of the World War Veterans of America. Private Charles Hardy had charge of this at the city hall. Following this registration, the immense crowd be gan to surge towards the ball park where the Scobey ball team took a solider team into camp by a score of ............ After the ball game the great throng moved back into town again for the next event on the pro ram which happened to be the mili tary parade. The Plentywood 'band arrived on the afternoon train and' lead a mili tary parade through the principal streets of the town. The par* was headed by Carl Hauwk n hooeelic k, dressed as a General. After the parade the band played a street con cert for half an hour at which time the banquet for the soldiers and sail ors and their mothers, wives and sweethearts was announced. This banquet, which was the feat ure of the day's program, was held in the Rex Theatre, where plates had MURIERS WE THEN I·lls HIMSELF Deputy Sheriff Harry Cain and wife, both well known residents. of Poplar, are dead as the result of pis tol wounds inflicted by the former while in a fit of despondency last Sunday afternoon, both being shot through the temple, the latter dying about two hours afterward and the former next morning. Coroner A. W. Gustafson was called to the scene of the terrible crime Monday forenoon and held an inquest over the remains at which time but little light was shed on the tragedy or its causes. No one was present at the time the deed was committed and when discovered both were still alive, but remained, un conscious to the end. Mrs. Cain was lying on the bed and apparently was unaware of any danger when the fatal shot was fired. Cain sat in a chair a short distance from the bed and when discovered his body was still in an upright position with the gun laying at his feet. Both were well known and respect ed people and the terrible affair has spread a pall of gloom over the com munity in which they were so well known. Four children survive them, the oldest being about twelve. -SAVE THE PRIMARIES * * * * * * * * * * * * * NOT SURPRISING * * Seaman Smith, formerly sher- * * if of Golden Valley county, N. * * D., and new transportation of- * * ficer for the state prison and * * hospital for the insane, said re- * * cently: "I have taken 14 patients * * to the state hospital for the in- * * sane in the past three weeks..* • Thirteen of. them were violently * * opposed to the Nonpartisan * * leagae- the othEr one ba 4* never aof it." Banker M- * been laid for 250. Th tladies of the Red Cross all dressed in .upiorm served the banquet a orke prac tically all day getting iteay. They are deserving of 'a great deal of credit for the successful way in which it was handled. The banquet lasted for about an hour Which time the speaking began. Jilger . Davis of this city presided ins hil usual happy fashion as toastmaster and delivered a stirring patriotic speech. The Citi zen regrets that It ts Unable to se cure a copy of this speech for pub lication for we believe that of all the patriotic speeches delivered by Judge Davis in Scobey, this was the best. Judge Davis introduced as the first speaker, Mayor Sid Bennett who de livered a very appropriate welcome to the soldiers and sailors and task occasion to deliver tq$e the "keys of the city." "Take the town. to yourseves," said Mayor Benxttt, "Do what you want with it and when you have enjoyed yourselves to your sat isfaction and return again to your homes remember that the city of Scobey and the people living there are your friends." Attorney Thomas F. Clifford and Rev. It T. Cookinghani were on the program for short responses and both delivered very fine talks. A feature of the speaking was a short talk by Sergeant Irving Davis who ast recently returned from France and who lost his right.eye by the ex (Continued on page eight) B. K. WHEELER WILL SPEAK THRU COUNTY Under the Auspices of the Nonparti san League, Noted Attorney Will Deliver Addresses at Several Leagsie Plciics. ' 4WVE THE PRIMARIES ~ear Ye, Hear ye, hear ye! B. K. Wheeler, the noted, Butte attorney, dismissed from the office of United States District Attorney for the State of Montana, at the behest of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, because he refused to al low his office to be prostituted to the persecution of labor, and the rail roading of those prescribed by that godless profiteering company to the prison or the gallows on disloyalty charges while the gunmen of that Company murdered labor leaders in the street, without so much as being arrested, will deliver several ad dresses in Sheridan and Roosevelt counties under the auspices of the Nonpartisan League. At these meetings Mr. Wheeler will discuss the history of "Kopper" rule at Butte ' and its domination of the state of Montana. Every leaguer will want to hear B. K. Wheeler. Frank Korab, a league organizer, representing the state office of the League, will also speak and so will Charles E. Taylor, editor of the PIro ducers News. These meetings will sthrt at Sco bey, Sunday, June 22nd, with an all day picnic, then Whitetail Monday June 23rd;, Plentywood,. Tuesday, 2-th. B~ing your lunch for a picnic din ner and stay all day. There will be men prPI with pe titions' for you to sign heip Save the Primaries. You cannot vote .m n petitions uslesa yeo are Notary Publie. ill be premt ungisar you and wsil be theday. Mug'ypr ·~l;~·;~j (r4 t~ h~·ra · THE WEEK Reactionaries Show Speed Henderson Coming to America Government Manages Liability N. D. Labor it the Fight The more conservative labor pa qrs are stirred up over the fact that A*thur. Henderson, leader of the British Labor party, is coming to America at the invitation of the La bor party at Greater New x ork. The press excitement probably registers a still greater excitement or anxiety amag the conservative leaders. fat the difference between Hender son and his American labor critics are easily explained. England is further along than we are in ex perience with economic effects of the war. England had three years of it before we started. The living con ditions of England's industrial popu lation were always inferior to those in America. All of which means that conditions have forced British labor to act as a ,body in certain ways ahead of ours. It has come out for independent politics and for a pro gram designed to give the workers fair opportunities of livelihood. Caonditions which advance upon us like the Seasons are forcing us in the direction Englantd has gone. To the hard conditions preceding the war is added the burden of the war. There must be a new deal. In the meantime there mast be a brisk and probably embltteied struggle between` those who, would run and them who have to be dragged along. Evidently anxious not to let the Republican congress get ahead of the Democratic administration in credit for good works, Burleson has or dered the wires back to their former owners. With the action comes pro fuse explanations that complete pri vate control is not prpvided. The owners are to operate and the gov ernment is to keep the liability. This same policy is also forecasted for the railroads. The government is not .qnsidered able to operate the system efficiently by our Washington representatives, but they are quite sure that it will be efficient in man aging the liability end of it. At its annual convention in Minot recently the North Dakota Federation of Labor went on record for inde pendent political action in co-opera tion with the farmers. The opinion of labor in the state where defeat of the old party politicians has brought the best labor laws in the Union, ought to have great weight with la bor in other states. Illinois and Pennsylvania labor has taken the same step ahead of and not behind the farmers. Over 75 of our big cities, now have independent Labor parties, and in at least a dozen of them big political victories have al ready been won. Before 1920 there will be an immense organized vote which the sons of Barnum and Bailey, representing the special interest oli garchy, can not call their own. If independent politics to secure farmer and labor representation in law-making bodies is treason and bolshevism, as the sons of Barnum and Bailey declare, then, in the word of that famous leader of the Ameri can revolution', Patrick Henry, we shall reply, "Make the most of it." Parliaments and congresses may be everlasting slow in dickering over legislation designed to improve the conditions of the people. Sometimes the fight drags out over a whole gen eration or more, but when it comes to anti-labor or anti-farmer 'legisla tion they can frequently show speed comparable to the latest thing in aeroplanes. The Canadian parliament, forein stence, has had no time to attend to the grievances of the workers which led to the strikes in Winnipeg and other cities'but in less than an hour on June 7 a radical anti-labor act was passed and signed by the governor general. The lawmakers there saw only the srikes and not the vicious profiteering that has caused the strikes; so they planned to end 4rikes by providing for deportation offoreign-burn leaders of the work *s. Then they discovered that many the labor leaders were British , and they found time in the mentioned to amend the law to provide deportation for British-born eaders too. The next thing in this line of tyr anay is for the. different Canadian rovinces to deport labor leaders not orn in the province, and for our states to deport those born in other states. Judge Comer Will Now Have an Oppor tunity to Say Whether Joe Hocking will Hook the Taxpayers for Another $900---Taxpayers Await Decision. "Hooking" Joe Hocking, that rare friend of J. F. Redmond in the olden, golden days at Glasgow, and also bosom friend of the experienced Frank Weinrich of Mondak, has not been able to get his claim for the nice shiny, green counter sections which "Sunny Jim" and the "Three Blind Men" bought for Clerk of Court Girard's office, just a few days beforq the said "Sunny Jim" was separated from the county pap line, and for which nice pretty little coun ter sections, Mr. Girard, pants and pants, approved by "Bridget" O'Grady, county auditor. So the Loyalty League booster has now gone to Judge Comer with his tale of woe and will try to persuade that gentleman to help him get his grappling irons hOOked into the county treasury. LAst week he had papers served on the couny audi tor, Mrs. O'Grady and took the matter to the Judge who can approve a claim over the head of the county auditor, if he wants to. Mr. Hock ing is hoping for better luck this time, and the taxpayers are waiting to see what will happen next. Sheridan county is so near bank rupt that practically no work can be done on the roads this year; it is even probable that much of the coun ty activities will soon come to an end, because the county is dead broke and in debt to the limit, as a result of e management of J. F. Redmond and Frank Weinrich. "Von Hindie Weinrich" Chloroforms Poplar POPLAR STANDARD WEAKENING ON THE PETITON SKULDUG GERY-LUNACY LEAGUE MOORE ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH PRUSSIAN WEINRICH, LIKE CASCARETS, WORKS WHILE HE SLEEPS-IS POPLAR IN PACT TO DEFY LAW? POPLAR DOES "CAT'S PAW" STUNT, WOLF POINT "HE-HAWS" To look is to laugh. To laugh is to laugh again. The political penetration of Luna cy League Moore is equal to a lead ax on a granite boulder. But the trouble with "L. L." Moore is the fact that Mondak Frank has him chloroformed, hypnotized or be fuddled. He is comatose-and Prus sion Weinrich, like candy cascarets is working, working, slowly working, while "wise guy" Moore sleeps. In the meanwhile, Wolf Point stands aloof, and he-haws as it be holds Poplar do the "Cats Paw" stunt for the profit and edification of Mon dak and Faithful Frank. Surely to look is to laugh. This Medicine-man Moore, sure is a political wonder, that is, he's young, but he may be able to see a nole in a blanket as big as a wash tub if he lives long enough-"Great acses from little toecorns grow" or Heaven has lots of time and he may wake up and rub his eyes after the county seat has been located and a court house or two'has roted down-but who cares for time? Poplar is doing the "Cats Paw" stunt for Weinrich. How? By trying to prevent a county seat election; by illegally and without a color of an excuse, throwing out the Froid petitions. Everybody knows NOTICE * CALL FOR ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS MEETING * Notice is hereby given to the Stockholders of the People's Pub- * * lishing Company, of Plentywood, Montana, that the Annual Stock * holders Meeting of the above named corporation, is called as pro- * * vided by the Constitution and By-Laws of the said Peoples' Pub * lishing Company, for Tuesday, July 1st, 1919, at 2 o'clock sharp, at * Community Hall, in the City of Plentywood, Sheridan County, Mon- * * tana, for the purpose of electing a complete Board of Seven Direc * tors, to succeed the present Board of Directors, amending by-laws * and constitution, and to. transact such other business as may pro- * * perly be transacted at any Regular Annual Meeting. Signed * . (SEAL) J. C. 'GRONVOLD, Sec'y-Treas. Peoples Publishing Company. You are urged to present either in person or by proxy: for a quorum of stork must be represented in order to hold meeting. * * ** * * ** * * * s S a a * * *** *** These counter sections must be paid for by another county warrant. 'This warrant will go into a bond; the warrant will be for $900 and will cost the taxpayers by the time it is paid another $900 for interest. If there ever was a demonstration of downright incompetency and ma)' feasance in office, this counter sec tion business is a splendid sample of it, and every involved officer should be removed from office on the grounds of lunacy. The main excuse Mr. Girard gave for the purchase of these sections was that he wanted to fence the farmers away from the passage lead ing from the court room to thue judge's chamber, as during court weeks his front office was always filled with these uncouth tillers of the soil and that he wanted to fix the office in such a way, that the judge could pass from the court room to his chamber without having to rub elbows with these clodhoppers. It is claimed that this was the argu ment that won the day with the "Blind Men" and the counter sec tions were ordered. Nobody ever thought o fthe fact that a barbed wire entanglement could have been put in that would have served the same purpose for about five dollars. As it is now, anyont wanting to get in the judge's chamber can eith er go through the court room first or crawl through i window. what the law is; everybody knows that a petition fulfilling the require ments, of the law has been filed; ev erybody knows that Froid had a moral right to file the petition and everybody knows that Poplar is throwing away every chance she ev er had of getting the county seat by playing this game of Weinrich's. For it is plain to any one that this kind of dirty tactics only prejudices Pop lar in the eyes of all lovers of real sport-all lovers of a square deal. It is reported that Poplar is delay ing the game in order to naturalize about six hundred Indians, who will vote for Poplar-we don't blame that city for that or for wanting the coun ty seat. Poplar has as much right to pant for the county seat as has Bainville, Mondak or Froid. The prize to the winner. But six hundred Indians will not win the county seat for Poplar, a' ter Poplar has gained the ill-will c ' all of the other localities which as pire for the county seat. The question is being asked on ev ery side: "Is Poplar in a pact with Weinrich to defy the law, o! ;3 Pop lar working foi- Mondak and Wein rich?" Things do look suspicious. The Poplar Standard is the follow ing article seems to be weakening; (Continued on Page Eight)