-; ..L .N .. r . A. NUMBER 26 " .
vOLUME I. t q..--.:
, COUN NUMBER 26
nII, V 'rrV· ", I71. "
B.I K.WHEELER
ACCUSES A.C.M.
U. S. DISTRICT ATTORNEY I
CHARGES I. W. W. STRIKE IN
CITED BY COMPANY'S PAIDl
AGENTS.
Butte, Oct. 9.-In a signed letter I
to Dan M. Kelly of the legal staf of
the Anaconda Copper Mining comn
pany, United States District Attor
ney B. K. Wheeler charges that the t
I. W. W. strike in Butte has been '
fostered and encouraged by the paid n
agents of the Anaconda company, n
who, he says, are high in the coun- C
sels of the I. W. W.
Wheeler charges that Kelly has c
"sought occasion to vent his Aspeean"
because he (Kelly) was fined $800 in a
the federal court for alleged jury t
corruption, in which case Wheeler had h
prosecuted Kelly at the direction of la
the court. The letter continues:
"The I. W. W. organization did
herald or call the present strike in ts
Butte. They were encouraged to do tl
so by the paid agents of your com- C
pany. These paid agents are high in w
the counsel of the I. . W. W. local
union. These paid agents of the Ana
conda Copper Mining company serve
and are serving upon the propaganda ot
committee of this I. W. W. lo e
union. These paid agents also as
sited in making up the demands of di
the striking miners which were served mi
upon the department of justice. -
"One of the paid agents of the Ana.
conda Copper Mining company ad- t
dressed the miners in open meetin
on September 22, 1918, at Rebgeu ke
park and he made the most viol as
speech at the meeting; this paid
agent urged at this mass meeting
that the men stand by the I. W. W. eri
ad not go back to work and to pay Au
s attention to unions afiliatdd with th
Je American Federation of Labor or
others. This same man during la 7
nsmmer and continuously ever since
hs encouraged the men of this city M
to pay no attention to the labor com
iiiion appointed by his excellency,
Prsident Wilson. This same paid
'lent of the Anaconda Copper Mi- we
ag company has at various times en- ofi
araged men to commit acts of sab
stage, sedition and other crimes. sot
"If these facts are not known to
-f may I suggest you consult th of
- tective reports of your company ?
"Yours very truly, bot
(Signed) "B. K. WHEELER,
"United States Attorney." Fir
` I0LEY COUPLE DIE OF
INFLUENZA THIS WEEK
Pish Influenza claimed two vic
in the Dooley vicinity this week
Mrs. Walter Smith died Tues
and her husband followed her to
l reat Beyond yesterday morn
The Smiths came to Dooley
seven years ago from South
- and have lived there since,
farm they originally home
Sunfortunate victims leave four
n to mourn their untimely and
loss, the oldest of which is
seven years and the youngest
Yi r nd-a-halfg
for the funeral are not at
tibe (Thursday) completed but
"Ighkt the remains will be
to their former home in South
for interment.
ITERM OF
COURT CALENDAR
21, 2:00 p. m.-Florence M.
vs. James A. DeVinney.
22, 930 a m.-Leona Nak
er NakkenT
22.9:30 a. m.-Citije
H lofi Wheelock vs. John R.
0a. m.-Margaret J.
SMcMillan.,
9:30 a. m.--. Thor-
SF:loyd Mountjoy.
: a. -oe A.Ko
C. Lasater, et a.,
9:80 a. .---State Ba
Vs. K. O. Slette, et i.
, 9:0 m.--Osseo Sta!
S9Coulter, et a.u
SDodd.
Wan, et al.
A CC g to tele trip a ea
i' for dctora and nurses from a great
- many pla in Montana and prac
D tically from all over the country to
assist in fighting Spaniih I-nfenz
outbreaks,, the epidemic is spreading
;er at a rapid rate .
• .S. Oa S. clls are being received
n- constantly by the state board of
r- health from commii s throughout
he the state. In many places where it
o was thought the influenza would not
a molest the people, it is cropping out
, now and reports show that many
cases exist.
$chools and all public 'places are
S closed in an effort to combat the
» Spanish Influenza. At Scobey, Re
n serve, and in fact other towns
Sthroughout the state the epidemic
t has taken many victims. It is usual.
i ly followed by pneumonia which is
fatal to those effected.
id Bainville sent an S. O. S., to the
state board of heatlh recently and
to the request was taken up with Red
Cross authorities who believe help
n will be sent to that place.
i Antelope *and Outlook communl
ties are now receiving their share of
Spanish Influenza. Dooley and all
other Soo Line towns have reported
several cases and it appears that it
has sqst started in thos6 places. In
f dications are that there are hundreds
more cases throughou( the eastern
portion of the state which have not
yet been reported. Every precau
tion should be taken-against the epi;
dems to avoid contagion. Use hand
i and remain indoors as much
Ia t d all schools, theaters,
churches, and places of public gath
ering have been closed by the health
authorities with a view of checking
the inZue na, and so fjir there does
nt se P~to be ay deats, thanks to.
MARRIAGE LICENSES T
-ISSUED THIS WEEK
The following marriage licenses A
were issued from the Clerk of Court's v
office during the past week: P
John Sorenson and Anna Fredrick- fe
son, both of Dagmar, October 8. of
John Diehl and Bertha White, both
of Culbertson, October 5. p
Lloyd Red Eagleand Jennie Smith, t4
both of Brockton, October 2. d
Frederick A. French and Carrie E. f
Fine, both of Bainville, October 2. o
Places and Dates For
N.PL County Meetingsto
___ ,, ~~to
Mr. William Clavier, a splendid ed
lycational talker will be the main
speaker. Mr. Clavier comes very
r highlyi recommended from the- state
r office. The candidates will be alongf
and some of them will make brief
epeeches. Meetiqg will be held as
the following plaes on the following
dates. There may be some changes:
or time which will be announced lat
cr. There will be bills up. Get the
date and plan on being-there.
It is planned, if the :oaditions per- :
mit, to have a gigantie auto parade
commencing at Seobe -.- about Nov.
xst and ending at Wolt Point, No
vember 3rd. If the health conditions
allow, plan on jinaiag this mcosster
parade with your an. MaX e deails
later.
B.. t roc.to &..i
Culbe os, Oct, 27,2 pl am.
Lanark, Oct. 27, aveaing.
is b Oct. a8, afea :.
Aiig~ r .*.;.o. n* 3 .,
MioeS Oct,,
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- A STRATEGIC E ATION
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SWE PRINT BELOW A
C OPY O A S~D GRAIN CON
TRACT WHICIh BRISTLES WITH
EFFICIENCY.
"Sunny Jim," the efficient County
Auditor, has not sent in copy as in
vited to explain his transactions with
Peter Westerlund and the Dagmar
farmers in reference to that chapter
of the seed grain flim-fiam.
It is reported that he is now busy
preparing an annual statement of
the Plentywood Oil Company, in or
der to let the stockholders of that de
funct company know what became
of the mazuma. This report will be
very interesting to the "lunacy
League" for they are glad to - know
that there was some money grabbed
in the community that did not go in
to the pocketq of A. C. Town~ly or
to swell the campaign funds ocf the
Nonpartisan League, and wae. ca4 as
sert without danger of disputei that
none of the above money 'was 'used
r'm ything but "loyal" purIposs.
However, in our rummaging aousnd
we ran onto the following seed grain
ahitrac made out in the ofikOe of the -
"Pber stamp ma ."
It is seed grain contract No. ~. t
It was made out in the ... Co6nty I
Auditor's office.- - "
In reading the contract :you Fwill i
notice that the county took a .-i -
gage on all of. JQhn Smythin s -
crops, his horses and cattle, a Hen
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11N . WORK
UA % 'hs .nisms om
A1 i All the P..gh br IhSups~lui c Comtrol
i Natism's ntretmika~ Rmssrm.
P -- .pA of
ý'ýu 'U'"' '; . i a ie ys .
58'~~I ~i~a
~~~is~~a-e *i ar~yr
. on the. land, for eighty-one -doUays.
- You will notice that this eighty
one dollars was for. payment for
twenty-five bushels of seed wheat.
" The county had security on about
- $5,000 worth of property for $81.00.
And the seed grain, 25 bushels of
r wheat, was to cost $81.00. If you can
r figure, you will see that our "Effi
cient County Auditor" tried to
I gouge this poor farmer out of just
$.24"per iushel for his seed wheat.
Maybe "Sunny Jim" can explain
this, to the satisfaction of the farm
ers, and if he can, no doubt he will
send his deputy "Surveyor of
Weights and Measures," his man,
"Friday" Chapman, chairman of the
membership committee of. the ."I4ina
vy Lepgue" around the county aL,the
expense. of ten cents per mile and
other perquisites, explaining it to
them privately. This wduld be
cheap for USunny Jim" even if it
were expensive for the taxpayers,
and we understand that he is doing
something like that even now.
Just think of it! Three dollars and
wenty-four centts per bushel for seed
wheat. That's what this member of
the "Sheridan County Loyalty
League," "Lunacy League," or "what
you call it," seems to have tried to
sting this patriotic farmer for.
But John Smithmeyer didn't take
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I PARTIAL IUSTOF
18-45 REGISTRANTS
Here are the first 125 of selective
draft men in Sheridan county in the
order they have been or will be drawn
through questionnaires which are now
being mailed. to all the 18 to 45 year
registrants. The Producers News will
publish a list of these names each
week, the number depending largely
upon the space that can be spared for
the purpose. Watch this list weekly:
Order
No.
1 Martin Ole Lee, McCabe
2 Marvin Louis Buckland, Scobey
3 Clifford Dickinson Knapp, Sco-
bey
4 Raymond Tyler Cookingham,
Scobey
5 Duke Alman Bosticik, Scobey
6 James Hollarn, Scobey
7 George Henry Jones, Scobey
8 Jess Oliver Jenkins, Poplar
8 Joshua Richard Williams, Sco
bey
10 Soren Peter Vies, Scobey
11 Mike Polivany, Bainville
12 Peter Spaabeck, Bredette
13 Carl K. Hanson, Scobey
14 Frank Buller, Scobey
15 Gustav Adolph Johnson, Scobey
16 Phillip Joseph Gumble, Loma
17 Martin Elling Larsen, McCabe
18 Richard Moe, Scobey
19 Douglas C. Jackson, Bainville
20 John Burnhard Sorebo, Flax
ville
21 Joseph Henry Bellmore, Welli
ver
22 Arthur Papendick, Flaxville
23 *Peter Karlsrud, Scobey
24 Erick Manney Lundberg, Ma
doc
25 Charles Marsh, Scobey t
26 Louis Discher, Scobey
27 Wesley Alvin S yder, Scobey
28 John Adams Ju ens, Scobey
29, Edward S. Pica d, Bainville
* 3.1o h - i aak Sod, Mendak
31 Henry Jacobson, Mondak t
32 :Jorgen Peter Nere, Westby
r 33 Joseph St. Germaine, Wolf
Point
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f FIRE' DESTROYS FARM HOME. .
NEAR DOOLEY WEDNESDAY w
r Fire of an unknown origin totally t,
t destroyed the dwelling house on the t
J. A. Robieson farm, 2 miles north- ti
i east of town, Wednesday noon, Oc- p
- tober 2nd. Mrs. Robieson anid child
1 ren .!ere alone and the time, and for- ri
. tunate were out of the house when 4
,the fire was discovered, she being in a
Sthe garage washing. The fire was
Splainly seen from town and a num
. ber from here motored to the scene,
I but could not save anything.
SMr. Robieson estimates the loss is p
over a thousand dollars with $650 In
Isarance.--Dooley Sun.
DANCE AT OUTLOOK fr
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 m
to
On Saturday night, October 19, a co
social dance will be given at Stiver's au
hall, at Outlook and ever~>oy is lig
cordially invited to attend. Music Go
will be furnished by the Plentywood of
orchestra. ph
This is the first dance given in ig
Outlook this fall and it promises to inj
be one of the best soc~al functions of
the season. People from all over the thf
north end of the county are making 4
preparations to attend. the
FORMER DOOJEYITE VICTIM
OF SPAMI$H INFLUENZA
The Dooley Sun says word was re
ived at Dooley last Tuesday to the
efect that Art Nott, of Wolf Point,
formerly of Dooley, died that morna
Lug from pleumonia follwiug Span
iek ialalnza. Mr. Iolt while in
Ddaey was interat In, the salomi
with H. EI. Nelsd.
_.4. P 'r QIICE
ii Weditt t&U NWt
be. been in ex
-waf
MORE FIi' ElAM
PULITICS STAGE
1e TRICKS USED AFTER CIVIL WAR
S TO BUILD UP MONOPOLY TO
W BE REPEATED NOW, DECLARE
iINSURGENT SENATOR FRO'I
11 IDAHO.
"Politics is adjourned," declares the
president, but it is becoming increas
ingly apparent that politics have
been pushed aside only by these who
are not politicians. The special iI
terests and their henchmen in both
' old parties are making the national
beehive buzz with political excite
ment. The old-guard Republicans,
opposed to all government regula
tion of war profits and government
ownership, are working night and day
to send more Republicans to congress
this fall, because, as they declare,
President Wilson needs "their sup
port." The fact that they oppose
his fundamental policies is a very
minor consideration. The big con
cealed issue is that old-guard rein
forcements at Washington, whether
Republican or Democratic, this fall
will mean low taxes on war profits,
curtailment of war regulations and
the handing back of the railroads ana
ships to private monopolies. The in
terests are trying to put them over
everywhere in the United States on
the flim-flam of "support to the
president" and vaudeville loyalty.
SENATOR EXPOSES PLAN.
But the big flim-flam will be
staged for 1920. Here is the way
Senator William E: Borah, who was
recently indorsed for re-election by
the Nonpartisan league in Idaho pri
maries, has sized up the big inter
est plans. The war will probably be
over at that time. Democrats will
run on the fact that Wilson won the
war and the Republican med by
third-term Roosevelt, will appeal for
votes on the boast that their crowd
made Wilson win the war. Every ef
fort will be. made to make the cam
paign one of personalities and to
dodge the big issues of America's
place in international relations, de
mobilization of tfoops and munition
workers; market ,rform, public own
ership of utilis and basic indus
tries. If they appear to be failing in
these old circus tricks, the conven.
tional party lea.ers will make their
puppets ballyho on some vital is
sues until they can get into ofiee.
There are two big forces, however,
that threaten the forecast of the In-'
surgezt senaator: The farmers' Non
parti league in the West and the
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FARMER'S AUTO CRASHES
INTO CITY STREET LIGHT
Late Monday night Harry God
frey, a farmer who resides about six
[9 miles east of the city, was preparing
to go home and it is said that he lost
a control of the steering wheel of his
s auto and crashed into the city street
is light post located in front or near the
ic Gold Dollar Bar, breaking the light
I off at its base and smashing it com
pletely. 'Outside of a broken street
n light, there was no damage, not even .
o injuries to Godfrey.
E Marshal Pierce came around about
e the time the accident happened and
V arranged with Godfrey to settle for
the damages to the city property in
the way of a neat little sum of hard
earned cash.
THOS. SIMONS OF OUT.
SLOO VICTIM OF "FLU"
, Word was teved here yesterday
St did at. Outlook
Thursday orni after a short Il
ness from Spmae in311ees wbl
developed into patemona. Mr. Sin
oft wa a part wner of the Stephens
& Simns billiard hall at Outlook and
also owned a hme farm near Ceylon,
0a. HiS EIa- S it noticed
late last wee imd be went to bed on
His wife was laid to ret in the
ce tery the lttthr part of
L AL 10R I STIIL BuSa
d ill bmry. *:
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