The producers news. [volume], October 10, 1924, Image 1

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FOR PRESIDENT, ROBERT M. La FOLLETTE, ON FARMER-LABOR^TICKET
THE PRODUCERS NEWS
LIBERTY
IS NOT
HANDED down
from above
THE PRODUCERS
NEWS GOES INTO
EVERY HOME IN
THE COUNTY.
Official Paper of the City of Plenlywood
VOL VII, No. 27
A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE
PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1924
Continuing Plenlywood Pioneer Press, Vol. 10, No. 7
Continuing the Outlook Promoter
Sheridan County News & Dooley Sun
Rodger Burke Killed in Automobile Wreck
COUNTY GANGSTERS ORGANIZE FOR FINAL DRIVE
"SSSST™
When Auto Plunges Over Embankment and Turns
Completely Over—Beverung Drives Car Which Con
tained Ill-fated Party.
7 OTHERS MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPE DEATH
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Tuesday morning, the people of
Plentywood and Northeastern Mon
were shocked to hear that Rod
Burke, editor of the Sheridan
Farmer, had been killed be
Rcdstone and Scobey at mid- :
unt y
number of Plentywood young j
. including Wm. Ewing, Creigh
Rodger Burke, Francis Hueb
ien Collins and Ruby Mullen
3r. invited by Numie Scott, |
ed the big St,utz automo- :
from A. J. Beverung, who drove j
hine, to take a auto spin up
iv. \v here a dance was in pro- (
onday evening.
arty left Plentywood at about j
•ing from here to Outlook, ;
Key were joined by Miss
tv Mullen, who recently was a
• at the Nickerson school,
leaving Outlook the ill-fated
party started toward Scobey. About
three miles west cf Redstone in go
ing around a curve in the road, the
ichine left the highway, strik
e side of a bridge above a deep
drop on the right hand side of the
road. The car capsized and rolled to I
the ground below.
Xewlon,
ho ha*
3 C
Scc.be
he
9:00,
The occupants of the car, who were
unhurt extricated themselves from
i, machine, but Roger Burke, who j
sat on the side of the car which re
ceivod the brunt cf the drop did not
answer to the call of the passengers
when asked if he was injured.
Ft antic efforts were then made to
get Mr. Burke out, who was tangled
in the debris, but his body was wedged
under the car in such a manner that
it could not be reached with the c&r
in the position in which it lay after
the accident. The party then went *
for help and secured a team by
"hose aid the car was uprighted,
"hen the body of the unfortunate man
"as found huddled in the bottom of
the car enmeshed in the levers which
control the machine. The body was
immediately rushed to Plentywood
"here an examination proved that life
A ftp
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sa
F armer- Labor
Meetings
' mu men dit g Thursday, October 16th, the Farmer-Labor party
"ill have a series of meetings which will extend to every community
' the county for the purpose of enlightening the voters upon the
Pertinent issues in the coming election.
Ih itinerary is scheduled as follows:
WESTBV — Thursday evening, October 16th.
McELROY —Friday Evening, October 17th.
COMERTOWN —Saturday evening, October 18th.
DOt *^EY—Sunday evening, October 19th.
RAYMOND —Monday Evening, October 20th.
OUTLOOK —Tuesday evening, October 21st.
DALE VIEW—Wednesday Evening, October 22nd.
REDS TONE—Thursday evening, October 23rd.
"eek.
p ^has. E, Taylor will speak at some of the above places,
"ill k i ard8 * can ^*^ a t® for governor on the Farmer-Labor ticket
siH'at • * our ^ ber id an * Daniels and Roosevelt counties and will
j . a! least two or three times in this county and the Farmer
voi >° r c {J un *y candidates will speak at all of the places and give the
* rs the facts regarding the conduct of their offices,
l ach precinct committeeman
immediately arrange for suitable places for the meetings in
so th ^ esp , ective precincts and communicate with Rodney Salisbury
' at advertisements may be arranged and distributed.
Tp,, E J ER Y ONE COME OUT AND HEAR THESE TALKS AND
SHmr»%? UR NEIGHBORS. EVERY FARMER-LABOR MEETING
TpiipHI BE PACKED TO THE DOORS AND ALL THOSE IN
fcKhSTED IN THE WELFARE OF SHERIDAN COUNTY WILL
h 1 HERR. LET'S GO. REMEMBER THE DATE.
( he balance of the dates up to election will be announced next
the Farmer-Labor ticket
on
should i
their
boycott The Boycotters! business men unfair to farmers
ZEIDLER HARWARE
HARRIS CONFECTIONERY
MONTANA MOTOR CO.
WEST CABARET
KAVON GARAGE
ORPHEUM THEATRE
REtoE EVEN
LARGER MAJORITY
;
* So Writes Charles Madsen of *
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Archer, Prominent Farmer and *
One Who Appreciates a Real *
Friend of the Farmers and *
W orkers In Letter to Producers *
News. *
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Archer, Mcnt. *
October 6, 1924. *
* Editor Producers News, *
* Plentywood, Mont *
* Dear Sir: *
* We hear a great deal of noise *
* these days in regard to the re- *
* election of Mr. Salisbury for *
* sheriff. * *
* I see no reason why Rodney *
* should nc.t be re-elected by
* larger majority than by which he *
* was elected two years ago. *
* He has stood four square on *
all his pre-election promises. He *
has given no ground to the usur- *
* er's union, but has at all times *
* proven to be a man who could *
* stand on his own feet and show *
these grafters they co.uld not use *
nor office as they would *
^ ke - *
Rodney has at all times made it *
plain that he is a friend of the *
farmers and workers. *
Hid we ever have a sheriff in *
Sheridan county before who could *
sa Y> I stood alone to protect the *
poor? *
Now friends, let's go to the *
P°Hs, November 4th and vote like *
rea l men an( l women and re-elect *
Rodney Salisbury sheriff of Sher- *
idan county. *
a *
Yours truly, *
CHAS. MADSEN. •
♦
EDWARDS CHALLENGES GOV. DIXON
GOV. DIXON HERE TUESDAY OCTOBER 14TH
Local Supporters Will Put on a Parade and Free Show In Or
der to Coax Out Crowd to Hear Montana's Most Expen
sive Governor Garble Figures of State Finances.
EDWARDS 0FFERS D,X0N ^ T0 MEET HIM
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Governor Dixon will speak in Plen-1
tywocd. at the Orpheum, Tuesday
evening, October 14. This will be his
first appearence in Plentywood in four
years, or since he was campaigning
for election four years ago against
Wheeler, when he made his famous
freelove attack against the members
of the nonpartisan league and threw
a fit over Russia.
Wm
ps
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JOSEPH M. DIXON
Montana's Möst Expensive Governor :
Before the meeting there will be a !
torch light parade which will be led j
by Oscar Collins, the man on the state j
pay roll who is looking after Dixon's j
interest in this section of the country, j
Mr. Collins will be assisted by Mr. |
O'Grady in arranging for the parade, j
After Governor Dixon completes |
his address there will be a free pic- (
ture show. Whether there will be any
specialties has not yet been announced ;
but it is claimed that the pictures are
good and worth traveling miles to see.
FRANK EDWARDS
CHALLENGES DIXON
Hon. Frank Edwards, five times
mayor of Helena, Bull Moose candi
date for governor of Montana in 1912,
when Governor Dixon was the Bull
Moose candidate for the United States
Senate, and republican candidate for
governor in 1916, will be in Sheridan i
County at the same time, and he chai- 1
lenges Governor Dixon to meet him |
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DOUN NOW ON
THE FARMERINE
Old Time Editor of Sheridan
County Returns to Plenty
wood to Edit Joe Dixon's
Paper.
Joe Dolin, who had been in the
newspaper game in northeastern Mon
tana for many years, but who dis
posed of his interests here about a
year ago and started the Carbon
County Chronicle at Red Lodge, which
paper went defunct a month ago, when
Mr. Dolin returned to Medicine Lake
to take charge of the Medicine Lake
Wave, the paper issued by his father
who recently died, came to Plentywood
Tuesday, immediately after Roger
Burke's unfortunate death, to take
charge of the Sheridan County Far
mer and it is understood that he will
edit and publish that paper from now
on for its owner, Dr. Storkan.
Dolin is somewhat handicapped this
week because of the fact that he must
get out two papers as it seems that
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RAY LANG PUTS ON
EXTRA WATCHMAN
Ray Lang has been instrument- *
al in having the city dads put on *
* an extra watchman to protect the *
* business interests of the city, so *
I * it is reported. *
* It's because of the fact that *
*
Jack O'Grady spends so much of *
! * his time in the chair behind the *
wicket near Ray's cash register. *
This worries Ray nearly to death, *
i * as he has to stick
neglect his, work, thus
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around and *
causing *
Ray considerable loss. So Ray has *
* had an extra watchman put on *
* to watch his cash register while *
* Jack takes his daily siesta in the *
; * easy chair, and now Ray can look *
* after his work punching numbers *
j * in Ford engines. *
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BOWLER,
DELIBERATE LIAR
Tinhorn Burley, the editor of the Daniels County Leader, the
paper owned, controlled and financed by Sid Bennett and Bill Stevens,
which man was removed as editor of the farmers' paper of Daniels!
county, the Scobey Sentinel, because it was found that Bowler had
misappropriated a considerable amount of money to his own use and
because he spent most of the time which he was drawing wages for,
gambling in the wide-open and notorious gambling dens of Scobey,
is the most deliberate falsifier and prevaricator in this section of the
country.
:
There is no depth to which this Canadian fugitive will not go
in his lying career; in his desperate effort to discredit Taylor, or to
destroy the Farmer-Labor party, and to restore the Beimett-Stevens
gang to power in Daniels county.
Where Burley is known and where Taylor is known, Burley can
do him no harm. Where Burley is known best, he is thought the least
of. What prestige he has ever gained any where, is the prestige he
gained as editor and writer on the farmers' paper of Daniels county,
the Scobey Sentinel.
Burley, after he left the Scobey Sentinel, from which ser
vice he was dismissed because of his underworld life, and because he
did not do the work he was hired to do, and because he used the
papers funds to finance his gambling activities, has become a most *
wiltul and deliberate falsifier in regard to any and every activity of
the Farmer-Labor party and he has in his wild hatred for and almost
desperate desire to discredit Editor Taylor of the Producers News,
made the most libelous and untruthful attacks upon that person in
the paper that he edits besid.es the campaign of personal slander
which he dared not publish, but circulated by word of mouth. Burley
has passed by nothing that he could hope by any freak action of the
imagination, to pervert into a story to discredit the Farmer-Labor
party and any and all of its leaders.
Bccuse ol some prestige that he had gained in the employ of
the farmers and because of the wilful and daring manner with which
he has published his deliberate lies, he had made some impression in
Daniels county, and was persuading many people to believe that there
is something to his wild ravings.
But Burley, in his eagerness to wreck the farmer-labor move
ment and serve the will of the owners of his paper, played his game
of wild lying and malicious and premeditated falsifying altogether
lOO idSt*
At the solicitation of Oscar Collins, and at the behest of Gov.
Dixon, who Burley i s supporting now for political consumption only,
while he and his gang are slipping his stiletto in the governor's back.
Burley B« wI er went to Helena at the time of the Republican conven
tion, m the first days of September to serve as the republican state
committeeman from Daniels County. Burley is a Canadian citizen
whose application for citizenship in this country has been refused
because the authorities do not consider him worthy of citizenship
and as he was not an officer of any kind in the republican party, but
ia and was only a tool of Sid Bennett and Bill Stevens acting under
the instructions of Oscar Collins, the local state pay roll agent of Joe
Dixon, there was no way he could sit in the Republican convention
without a proxy. To be of use to Dixon. Burlev must have
He got one.
a proxy.
* oK ^ t the sam © time, Bowler, realizing the overwhelming Farm
er-Labor sentiment in Daniels County, pretended to be a La Follette
™ a îln bU îi a i gai £Vi e Farmer - Lab or party idea, so his paper wheeled
m behind La Follette and supported the idea of La Follette electors
on the Independent ticket, and in order to do as much damage S
possible to the farmer-labor party, he got in touch with James Bald
win, and pretending to be a La Follette man, supporting the Independ'
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DAGMAR TO HOLD
COMMUNITY FAIR
Making Extensive Preparations for
Big Day—Ladies Will Serve Lunch
During Day.
In keeping with the well known
progressive character of the Dagmar
community, the first annual Dagmar
Community Fair will be held at Dag
mar, Saturday, October 25th. The
committees in charge are making ex
tensive preparations for making the
fair a big success. *
Silk ribbons will be offered for first
and second places on all kinds of
grains, vegetables, com, grasses, live
stock, and poultry, fancy work, sew
ing, baking, canned goods, school ex
hibits. etc.
Money prizes are offered for Boys'
and Girls' Club work.
The ladies are serving lunch thru
out the day; the proceeds to go to
wards defraying expenses.
Everyone is cordially invited to
bring exhibits.
THRESHING DELAYED
Threshing was delayed the first of
the week by rain and snow which oc
curred on Saturday and Sunday. The
threshing is progressing rapidly and
many of the rigs have pulled in.
MEET AT F J. FISHBECK'S ELECTRIC OFFICE
Lay Plans to Win Back Power In County and Make Arrange
ments to Entertain Gov. Dixon When He Arrives Tues
day, October 14th.
jack O'GRADY CARL PETERSON AND
DR. STORKAN ARRANGE MEETING
BILL DUNNE WILL
SPEAK AT RAYMOND
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MANAGES MEETING *
* j . , _ American *
* delegate on the Communist Inter- *
* at ° na ' headquarters at *
* M ® sc ® w » who . has be * n in Russia *
* a ?t hU, ; ope . sin 5 e * le tatter part *,
* J" May, having been appointed on- '
* *u th e Executi y e Committee of *
- u- Eoi || imu ® Ist International, *
which makes him an international *
* character,, now candidate for gov
* r» rn ? r Illinois on the Workers *
* * lck ®î» W1 in behalf *
* the candidacy of Wm. Foster, *
^ the Workers Party candidate for *
* P resi pent, and on conditions in *
* ussla ' giving first hand informa- *
* 3 s on editions m the farmers' *
* SSJ SlfcS oL Ra r
* tor ft ( .'£ tober Af .
* r£ Jo h be a !
* Hontial pïti f West phal, P r SI - *
* S « Ï f° r he i } Vo * kers !
"Fo^er whS wa" a '«W*tuhthê*i
* Secretary of State last Saturday, *
* will handle the meeting. *
* Mr Westnhal i«s a „mmimmt *
♦ member of the Workers Trtv *
* having gone to that party from *
* the now defunct socialist party. *
* It is anticipated that there will *
* be a huge crowd present. *
* SATURDAY EVENING, OCT.
* 25TH, UNDER AUSPICES OF
* WORKERS PARTY.
^ CHARLES WESTPHAL
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William F.
Dunne,
linderman speaks
IN PLENTYWOOD
Hon. Frank Linderman, republican
candidate for United States senator
spoke in Plentywood last Friday even
ing, to a crowd of about 20"people
mostly farmer-laborites supporting
Senator Anderson. L, J. Onstad in
troduced him. Linderman paid a
great tribute to the teapotdomers and
told what a wonderful man silent Cal
is, and said, that he and Congressman
•Scott Leavit was for the republican
party. Fall, Daugherty, suitcasses and
all, and Peewit Dawes, too.
The crowd was held by a free pic
ture show which was given after Mr.
Linderman had finished his eulogy of
Coolidge.
Do You Want
to Go Back?
. Eas ^ ^ eek » ' ve showed from the records that for the three years
prior to the farmers' administration, the taxpayers paid into* the
t l easury ' ab °ut twice as much money as had been collected
for the three years after the farmers' officials took tCd
crop and deflation.
htfni V L a,SO p ShoW€d ^ ha i while old Kan * officiais were going further
«sainnnmîn Ma . rch 7 ' 1921 ' the co «nty was bonded for
4>ölU,UÜ .0 an , warrants we **e issued for $390,000.00
and not paid at that time, making a total of $1,200,000/
thus going into debt on the average of over $171,000.00
tax coüections 1913 ^ besides spending their huge
j I,, A from going $171,000.00 per year into
debt to the paying off of the debt of $125,000.00 per
year makes a difference of $296,000.00 per year be- !
tween the present administration and the old.
DAN J. OLSON,
County Treasurer. I
office, due to poor
Monday night there was a gather
ing of the Republican-Democratic
clans at Fishbeck's electric light of
fice.
Every member of the usurer's union
was present, and every collector was
there. They had a long discussion on
ways and means to bring about the
defeat of Rodney" Salisbury" for sheriff
and the election of Mark Olson to
that office.
Several of the wise guys thought
j that the appointment of Mark Olson
by Judge Comer as Receiver of the
defunct Farmers State Bank of Medi
cine Lake was a major political blun
der, while seme others, including
Mark himself, while admitting that
the appointment coming just at this
i time was somewhat embarrassing,
j thought that opportunity nvist be
| seized when she picsentö ntisuu,
that there was after all nothing like
being on the safe side—that a $250
per month's receivership, likelv to
last about a half a dozen years, had
its own attraction, and would be «
nice solace in case the voters put their
, crosses in the wrong place. This idea
did net find great welcome among the
j usurers, who are interested in elect
ing a sheriff who will do the ruff stuff
: for them in their collection activities,
but as the thin S ha <* happened they
mUSt make the most of it and fl ° their
ver Y best under the circumstances.
r GREAT PREPARATIONS
v,nd ? Wn Pr SSf atl °2? f ° r tb %
bad been ^ade. Slippery Carl Pet
! erson was the major on the arrange
^ ents co ™mittee. He was ably as
mai^hpV J |°T? ° l î} e
™ a * {S?™} £ r ' Etorkan .« who ._ ls tbe
r "i be J* md . t he , Fa ™e™e, Mr O'
G £ ady { ormshed the advice. John
Charles is becoming almost
cious and silent as Cal, and as he has
become more silent he has
more wise, and Mr. Peterson
finds him a valuable assistant. The
foxy Clerk of Coprt got the crowd
together, and no one was over-looked
who might add something to the mass
wisdom of the conglomerations of has
beens who were gathered together.
Editor Sherry of Redstone came in
on high and was taken in tow by
Carl who lead him to the meeting in
order to make sure he would find the
place in this great city. Editor Sher
ry has become a great pussy*footer—
he pussy foots about the alleys and
back rooms of the pool halls and then
comes into Plentywood and reports to
old foxy, the Clerk, of course, and en
joys a smile along with Jack O'Grady
in the back end of Carl's office.
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as can
grown
now