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Circulat. i n ............... . STHE PRODUS CERS NEWS I .1 Paper, of the Pe4PA for the People, by the People ,....- Plentywood, Sheridan CtAiity, Montana, Friday, May 28, 1920 Volume --Number 7 Farmers ProtsSt ClaSsificatiO Irate Tillers of the Soil Find Fault With Fake Land Classification--Many File Protest SbySbr Peatats Akead F'tlr and Au was L.am WiNt Fae.. U srm s Pestestiag Fate LandI CoU.-Fhhb Gees RIard i &krrlpr Coutmmimms Aura LKEALLY CLASSIFIED oLae fmm ts i . o ambers ap l bmfore * l t elt . d ai atn d and tLh ha dland s •es fabsi e &a Lackwe.d of the ea of a little less thi ea $S*I witha b.is, for the lasiatioe of the r of S. aida : reanty s c rlnd to the ad asif thm .rna rs greb te legislatur Sthe winter of i eo o Us.adesRt the aotests e made t u se.- sOied f. mal written pro b.i rm.er it is alleged that the mhe e aim r us a take and a feau eiasices is mart he e ne er been o- their o anit an.i ý.-l speaking th ..ne aw! iagr the lamt after a surrey has been made. e aadmoe the fariumes are ming t isuE th e hIt. bare faced a n bhe fact. that the andt dassi -ea.e bunhe s s a fer, ad that the cansiIrkon is woethaissl and that 9 of their money is being worse than thra away. being . ornated to a ampl of tyar-hy-ight surseyors of And oahe. the farmers and tax ` a. " t the taken the troupae to rr itgaR- a ie th -at. t'tia futtet they uae going to be taxed on the basi of thi fake an fr audulent icaitiva.that has been made up a e mtinter months down th the caon t set frm Oid goar Strm ernt r t or e withrout any regard to tite eritiO- Iýtact.. anal they are a Oinr i:'thC ftct thatr if some thing is rnts ost tthey titand a chance t bein rpra'ed tht many year tos ait; s 1. a'T t e Uar t the rort er. c!a `:.at er 1, bnOe hnakuro htevar Iter -reuoled ths amt ser of. the 'sscrrr.' i:' banding thmii clves i toIf t ar t 'sg t o. ~.e hi.t b ly aI ters to ' .'t c..t thir intoer' i-. h"it at to~e court hobeu-s Tueda that the tiatiolaergasted ceurte ebic't. l r journed and tsrt Ir ti'' consiertitio of the Prtests until tcda . whoen they will take the ms tr up an with the hepes that there will be less farmers areun! buto-ri ig them It is re-ported that the ceuntt corn Wnssoioets will, in settling the pro tests go aad rlook oere the lands and vesify the clasi fiteatoiis- and thus setts the uratter. sal the farmers man then appeal the aratter to the eiats- The commissioners will dbagpe the county ti per day to vis it the lals asai prob ably2 cents per wBiP probaby rscot the taxpayers an other $eSrao ak it betovese the taxpayers to take netior and to take it quirk if they tint want to be paying taxes on frst etas baml when they own most nll third close land. For it is a fact that the men classify ng the land dmn' know any more nhbot land than w hole matter is now in the aret in the atfest to have the clas siratiee law set aside. Clair Stoner fer the taxpayers through Onstad & Gmer, lawyse". haring the matter s- ia the Supreme Court. And in cimecti a with this matter it might nmw be strtee that more mosey is needed to cacrr the matter to the rct. if altE ofthe protesting farm emn. wedt. seda in fie dollasr to the Anal-ot-.0 Funs.l care of the Produc er, es. this matter could be bar r eo thraeah the carts and the whole matter settled onCe and for all. if you are interested. met busy and mt yar .lssaetmpt ito the Anti-Loot F~wI a n help port a stop to this ridi ridim gaft. DAL 9 W WUIM NW ,I c at tnrr ;esqaer -ri ~ If ~h tIIL b 1hr Sato T 3beM"a have vatab xhwa i arf dsiast iMW II t Thif Ir flrti h i4E1VU2 LI~~ pr tLIU- ~u - - dfi bmo - a- t Helar~ - y-u J':- ''- U.~ tc HONORED PIONEER FOR WHOM DANIELS COUNTY WAS NAMED 1 II t (By P. E. BURKE) It has occurred to the writer that during the recent campaign for the creation of Daniels County, possibly very few people ever once thought of the man in whose memory and honor this proposed county had been !named. For this reason, I have thought that it would be very appro priate at this time to write a short sketch, very incomplete at the best, of the history of Mansfield A. Daniels and the part he played in the making of the county that now bears his name. M. A. Daniels was born at Addison, Pa., April 2, 1858, the oldest son of John and Levina F. Daniels. At the age of ten he moved west to Albion, Iowa. where he received a common school education and worked at the carrenter trade. Later he worked in a dry goods store and went on the road selling cigars and tobacco, which occupation he followed for ten years. On April 6, 1880, he was united in marriage to Adele Timmons, at Mari etta. Iowa. No children were born to this marriage, and in July, 1907, Mrs. Daniels passed away. Being of that sturdy American pio neer type, who seems to grow restless under the influence of civilization and ease, Mr. Daniels moved, in April, 1896, to Poplar, Montana, where he was destined to do his share in the carving out and making of a new er. pire. He became identified there with the government service and be came a fast friend of Major Charles Richardson Anderson Scobey. who was then lmlian Agent for the Fort Peck reservation, and the man the town of Scobey is named after. Mr. Daniels received the appointment of U. S. Land Commissioner at Poplar and spent his time with the duties of that office and other odd -jobs around the Indian agency, includling his old trade of carpentering. In 1901 Mr. Daniels made his first itrip north to the present site of "Old Sce&y," which is located on the west bank of the Poplar river, about two miles southwest of the present town Sof Scobey. Here he conceived the idea, of starting in the farming and ranching business and also of estab lishai a small country store. The :.rader i asked at this point to stop t s osider what this part of the seetry must have been like at that Stme. That was nineteen years a, and we cal this a pi er couxti r tda. The writer d ot know hew aasy settlers there were at that tmee, er who they war, e i iis a wall nown fat that the. ws few -nd sess istd al at .m ly t stek rmbersb who I me-no mls aparst. It was th (day of cayuse and lariat, bachclors and flapjacks,-a time when the w\orkt and best traditions of a type of westerner, now gone forever, were in full evidence the year 'round. On January 20, 1909, Mr. Daniels was united in marriage a second time to Miss Mabel E. Brooks, who was then a nurse in the Indian school at Poplar. In that year Mr. and Mrs. Daniels moved to Scobey and settled on a ranch, and there Mrs. Daniels still resides. Scobey postoffice had just been established at that time by Joseph Bonnes, another of the early and most respected pioneers of this section who has since passed away, and was located about two miles south of "old" Scobey. Mrs. Charles Wood ley became postmaster after Mr. Bon nes resigned, and when Mr. Daniels located there and started his little store, Mrs. Woodley resigned and Mrs. Daniels became postmaster and held the office until it was discon tinued about three years ago. Few I people here do not know that Mrs. Daniels' first name is "Mabel." This is becauve she held the office un dler the name of Mabel B. Daniels and received all of the publicity that nat urally goes with an office of this na ture. "Mannie" Daniels, as he was known to his more intimate associates in those days, started in. to build the foundations of his future home, and be it said to his everlasting credit, he built them well. After starting his store and getting the postoffice, he at once became the financial and business center and the strong man of the community. It shoultl be ex plained here, for the benefit of those who do not know him, that Mr. Daniels was one of those big hearted frontiersmen whom we all know or have read of, and who were eternally ready to ido, give or lend to those who needed. And, believe me, he had his hands full, for they borrowed, they beggeod and they stole from Daniels. He was their storekeeper, their bank er and their counsellor-he was ev erything but their minister or priest, and in a large measure he was that. In partnership with Mr. Daniels, was Jacob C. Timmons, his brother . in-law, who shared equally in the trials and hardships of building up the community and who is today Chairman of the Board of County Commiussioners of Sheridan County. In 1911 Gustav Ole came here and established the present Citizens State Bank of Scehobey and later married a Salee of Mr. TiBenes. In 9ltt Mr. Dalela b n the Semaeles o a lba ltul home m a easo (Cetaleed a Vae Vert) DOLIN MANDAMUS SUIT IS IN SU PREME COURT COUNTY ATTORNEY LEFT WED NESDAY MORNING FOR HEL ENA TD TRY CASE. WOULD ABOLISH AUDITOR County Attorney Gunther left Wed nesday mduning for Helena to appear in the behalf of A. A. Major in the Mandamus action brought by Dolin against Major to compel Major to is sue a warrant when a claim is passed by the County Commissioners over the head of the County Auditor or when the county auditor acting in her official capacity has disapproved a claim or a,part of a claim. Early irtthe winter Dolin present ed a claim against the county for printing, padded as usual, and Mrs. O'Grady rgduced the claim to its pro Sper size amd allowed it. The claim was in the sum of $15 and was re duced to $18. The County Commis sioners unanimously approved the claim in the sum asked by Dolin and (Continued on Page Four) WEDDING BELIS RING AT ARCHER PROMINENT AND POPULAR YOUNG COUPLE WEI) AT SCOBEY, MAY 23rd. Mr. Eddie P. Moe of Archer, mem ber of the farming firm of the Moe Brothers Corporation and Miss Mar gurite Gregerson of Tande, were united in marriage at Scobey, Sunday, May 23rd. The newlyweds returned to Archer to take up their residence where the groom will continue as the manager of the Moe Brothers Store. r "Ed" Moe is well known and popu lar among the young people of sev eral communities, and is known I among his neighbors as a hustler and Ia live-wire.. I Miss Gmrsea is a well known and plady of the Tande "boa Ve thr iTal timate pr II~SWhIW~blite. Brush Lake "Resort" Opened Sunday LA FOLLETfE AND WALSH MAY HEAD THIRD PARTY BAllOT Friends of Warrior-Senator and Mili tant Chairman of W.r Labor Boarl Boom Pair for Fall Campaign. (By Paul Hanna.) (Correspondent, Federated Press.) Washington, May 24.-Robert M. LaFollette and Frank P. Walsh will head a third party ticket in this year's presidential fight if the fast maturing plans of influential groups shall be realized. The battling Wisconsin senator and the former joint-chairman of the war labor board have both been sounded on the proposition, and both are said to have given their provisionary con sent to the plan. LaFollette is said to have pointed to his advaancing years and his poor health as reasons why he would not under ordinary circumstances assume the burden of leadership in such a fight as the liberals wish him to un dertake. But he concedes that the circumstances are far from ordinary, andi La Follette is reported to have summed up his attitude by saying: "If it shall develop that a .onsld ýanmber the peo ornt ,the seri 'a John C mont' .i the great crisis in our his tory, 1 may accept that responsibility and make the fight." Fremont, it is recalled, was nomin ated for president in 1M56 by those insurgent elelments of the Whig, Free Soil and other parties who had wit ness'tld with alarm the ,ucccssive sur render of all parties and branches of the government to the institution of human slavery, and were determined to rally within one paolhtical party all men i illing to wag. relentle.s; op position to the evil. Friemnt was beaten for the presidency just four years before the tragic civil war in which chattel slavery was wiped out forcv'r in America. la Follette is everywhere known as the champion of the midtlh class against the more obvious oppression of intrenched capital. Ilis mind and heart turn backward to the time when railroads competed with each other, when money credit was to be had on equal terms by every small Iusiness man, when prices were not controlled by monopolists and when the curren cy had not been diluted to a 2.75 per cent mixture by the printing presses , f -w, . In addition to his middle class fol lowing, La Follette is expected to draw heavily upon the labor vote because of his authorship of the sea man's act and his support of other labor measures in Congress. His con version to a program of government ownership of basic industries is said to be complete, also. Frank P. Walsh is held to be the ideal running mate for La Follette. As joint chairman of the war labor board he championed the right of workers to bargain through their own representatives, and to receive a wage sufficient to support a family in health and reasonable comfort regard less of the financial condition of the employing corporation. Walsh is widely known also as the unrecognized envoy of Ireland at the Paris peace conference. Third party backers say he would draw millions of votes from those who believe Ire land is as much entitled to self-deter mination as the Kingdom of Hedjas. Generally speaking, it is anticipat ed that La Follette and Walsh would have the support of the Committee of Forty-eight, the Nonpartisan league and such parts of the Labor party as may survive the attempt at asphyxia tion now being made by the Wash ington leadership of the American Federation of Labor. By those most interested in the movement it is felt that the candi dates finally selected and the platform adopted by the two old parties will go far to determine the prospects of the third party. If these men were permitted to decide for the republi cans and democrats they would select Wood and Palmer, respectively, as standard bearers for the old parties, and present them with platforms dic tated by Wall srteet in the one case and by Burleson Bourbons in the oth er. Just now it is felt the chances are good that both old party conventions will be dominated by reactionaries of the most positive description. This feeling is reflected by the faithful po Iitieal reporters who have begun to write in their papers that the birth of a third party is held to be inevi table beeaue of the ir.eoaaellable a lla ei astlral within both old or CONG. RIDDICK INTRODUCES 'NOTHIER BIL Would Restore Soldiers' Homestead Rights-Bill Laudable and It Is Hoped `That It Will Have Better Luck Thau the Meoat of tiddick's Bills. "Hot Air" Carl Riddick, the Con gressman from eastern Montana, has broke in.o print again, this time with a bill to restore the homestead rights to soldiers. Things have been pretty dull for Carl for some time in the publicity line, as it seems tlhat one of his ch;i:bren has had babies nor done anything else that has atnlrded "Spot SLight" CArt.a chance to get hiii name in the w.rs. Carl has had :u lot to do will (tills, introduced most likely .hatin San excuse tog is nnn in the pa per an, peddle a lot of hot air' to his r constituent:. whom he seems to think are a nob of gullible sinips. 'T'h.i' il which we reprint in full is a ver, ;tudable bill and tthoutl be Sas-e; .mI it is hoped that it will have t.,te: luck than the most of Rid - dick i,: A 11.1., f I't. i'ioire the homestl'al ligitl to Ii'-r n l w llserved in the A.rmy, Na I v., . Iilarine Corps of the United , Stu. o:ring; the war with (iermany. s Ie 0t enacted by the Senate aid r ilou-' . Replresentatives; ' Ithe Lt nitied ht;les of America int Con t tre>L ;,.tsembled, That any pie.,on, otlhe:,ice duily qualified, who, duringlt the '.r with Germany, servedt in ithe s Army. Navy, or Marine Cott'.; of n the L anitld States as a private sol t ierl, hllr~r, seaman, marine, or Intcn n her o;" ,n other organization tt' of , fen.. ",: 'defense authori:zed ,.l Con Sgre .-. :sal f'ormling a par;tt of such s militai3 si ntaval service, for a period d of no.t I.s; than sixty days, ant who - was honcraly discharged, shall be r entitiesl to make entry utlndcr the s home-tra.d laws notwith:;t:anlinur a fornne. homestead entry ,o entries I- malde prir to the beginning of such a service or pursuant to valid settle e ment ;nitiated prior to seuch ervice. FRANK FINN GOES TO SOLDIERS' HOSPITAL Frank Finn, son of Mr. anil Mrs. M. Finn of Dooley, accompanied by his mother, will leave for St. Barna bas Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota, next Monday, where he will receive medical attention at the hand,; of Uncle Sam. Frank Finn is an ex-soldier, and while in the army suffe'red an attack of the influenza which weakened him and which was followed by consump tion. Lately this malady hats been complica:ted by a weaken:ng of the heart. A few days ago lie received instructlons to go to the givelnincnt hospital at Galen, in the western part of Montana,' which instructions were afterwards canceled and he was or dered to St. Paul, insteadl., for a while where a special study can be made .f his heart by the doctors. Af ter a treatment there he will probably be sent to a saitarium where he will reside until recovery. For the past few montht., since his discharge from the army, Mr. Finn has been residing with his par ents at )Dooley. hut he has been steadily failing in spite of all that coul I.." done. F.ce, by this outlook, republican and democratic reactionaries console themselves with three main reflec tions. The La Follette-Wulsh ticket will draw almost equally from the two old parties. It may draw heavily against the whopping vote that all who know conditlons expect the So cialist ticket, headed by Lugene V. Debs, to poll. Out of the eeral me lee a solid conservative will emsore to succeed Wilson in the White House, uanl the soeal eash, howerva imminent, will It least have bean postponed for a ay. A Few Members of the Blind Pig ging Fraternity Attend Openbis, and Several of the "Free Love Cult" "Shimmy" Lingerie Into a Frassle BUSINESS OPPORTUNI TIES PROMISING The Brush Lake amusfment "r sort," owned by Charles Huebner and A. J. Morin, erstwhile bartenders of Medicine Lake, staged a grand opea ing last Sunday. The weather was rather chilly so there were very few people In at tendance. However, among the num her giving the place the onee dyer and buying the "seless" wafer sand wiehes at two bits a throw and tak ing on ice cream samples at 25 cents the sample, were a number of the blind pigging fraternity, looking the place over, probably with an eye for future business. The music was exquisite, and sev eral members of the "free love cult" shimmied and shimmied, so it is re ported. The w:'ter wnas fine but there were not many who rented suits. It is announced by the manage ment, by means of big bills posted about, that there will be another "ceelbration" at the "park" and "re sort" on Decoration Day. ANOTHER IL LEGAL WARRANT issusc Warrant to lInlph Saunderhauf lh)puly County 'TI.easurer, Who Is Hlldidlig Two Job, iat the Same Tim.' and Is Drawing Two Salaries. FINE FAT PICKINGS A. A. Major, who recently turnl1 traitor to the farmers who elect&d him to the office of Clerk & Recorder, arndl went over to the old loot gang, lag aid hbugtrLge, has again demon strated his se:vility to his new found masters and has issued another il legal wvrrlnt. This time to Ralph Saunderhauf, deputy county treasur er, who is al.o holding down the job of county seed grain agent. For the job of deputy treasurer, Mr. Saunder hauf' i dlra.wlng $150 per month and as Seed (rain Agent is drawing $75 ter month, handling both jobs at the same time. When the claim was presented, the farmers' County Auditor, B. K. O'Grady, disapproved the claims on the advice of County Attorney Gunth er. The County Commissioners tried to fix the matter up for Mr. Saun derhauf by paosing an amended reso lution, but still Mrs. O'Grady refused to pay Mr. Saunderhauf two salaries for standing about and looking wise, and the county attorney could not be persuaded to change his mind so Major just issued the warrant any way, and the county treasurer paid the warrant. The taxpayers be damned says the hangers-on at the "steal works. JUDGE WILL SET CALENDAR Comer Will Set the June Calendar for the Twentieth Judicial District in ant for Sheridan County, May 28th. Judge C. E. Comer has caused to he sent out the following letter to the members of the bar of Sheridan coun ty and other interested parties, anent setitng of the June Calendar for the Twentieth Judicial District in and for Sheridan county, Montana: MEMBERS OF BAR OF SHERIDAN Co.: The Judge has instructed me to no tify all attorneys who are interested in cases coming up for hearing at the summer term of court, that he has set Friday, May 18th, at 2:80 o'clock, for to set calendar, at which time all cases where note of iamsse has been filed will be given date for hear n n't forget the date, Friday, May 28th, 2:80 P. M. Respectfully youm A. B. C !_ Mr. ad Masd A D u. J.2 i lam1am in i i