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SHERIDAN COUNTY
A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE. FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE
_PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928.
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ls which derive their sustenance
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mrtto particular interest they
Jaamtained to serve, vvunrne
hikers News it is different and
Liter Taylor and myself are far
3 away from the big interests
their domicile in the western
-K of the state to he able to give
Z expression to our opinions on
utter* of current interest. If we
je influenced at all we are influ
■ grf by the opinions of the people
m w * lom we " ve and move an( i
ar e the tillers and toilers of
Xwrtheastem Montana
il SMITH seems to have the best
* He running this tar. The attacks
■ mm because of his religion by
jjcilia and others seems to have
iciped the candidacy o.t the New York
jiifrnw. After all a man's way of
_pun io heaven is his own affair and
tt American public as a whole is
■ mMd to attorn to the other fellow
tie rights that they themselves insist
9ipt. Hut A1 smith's sensational
9 rxe in the primary is no sign that
9 k will win in the fall election. Aft
9 er ill this is a predominatingly re
|H publican country and if any other
9 republican candidate outside of Hoov
9 (r is nominated A1 Smith wont have
91show. Homer is weak because he
9 1 disliked in the west because the
9 farmers are dissatisfied with the
9«) he handled wheat during his
9M administration and he is
ma strong in the east where a large
19 °1 people think he spent too
19 *** *1 lus life in London. The
9 daws are that Andy Mellon
■ «Mr prominent republicans will
9 Î** , a in some hotel in
H «MS City just betöre the republi
and
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PRODUCERS NEWS WILL BE INDEPENDENT IN COMING CAMPAIGN
SHERIDAN COUNTY SENATOR
TALKS ON ISSUES uF THE DAY
Tayl° r Defines Position of People's Paper in Forthcoming
Election. The Voter at the Polling Booth Is Competent to
Select His Servants, He Says. All Candidates for Public
Ofhce Wil! Be Given Impartial Treatment and Paper Will
Play No r avorites. But Junior Senator May Execute Strate
gic Retirement from Montana Politics By Becoming Run
ning Mate of A1 Smith.
r 1 Relieve the people of Sheridan County have arrived at the age
hn°w ■ t n ca i ma ^ lty - They know the qualifications of candidates
Ä u their v P tes for P ublic office * ft is for them to de
erTNw/S ser ye them. In the coming campaign the Produc
s , e '' s maintain an independent attitude. It will let the
people decide at the polls who shall be their county servants for
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ART UELAND FILES
FOR LEGISLATURE'
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* Art L eland, one of the most *
t Prominent farmers in the Outlook *
* territory if not in Sheridan coun- *
y filed for representative Thurs- *
' day on the republican ticket. *
-Ur. I elanld is a large and very *
successful farmer located north •
* of Outlook. He is one of the most •
tugnty respected citizens of the *
county; a university graduate and *
a man w ho is universally re- *
„ spected by the people. He is a *
man of independent and open •
* mind who cannot be bought or *
t bribed by any clique or interest, *
* He about 35 years of age, •
m arried and has a family. •
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RODEO AT BRUSH LAKE
Next Sunday, May 27th, Brush Lake
will open officially with a rodeo and
stampede. The Garter Colored Band
will furnish the music. In the even
ing a dance will be held at the big
pavilion.
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Unce Again Plentywood ball Diamond Will Be Scene of
Mighty Battle Between Professional Players of the Great
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National Game—Happy relsch Will Be In Plentywood
Lineup and Pitching Aces Will Be on the Mound for Both
Aggregations. -w
Plentywood Meets Fast Scobey
Ball Team Sunday, May 27 th
Next Sunday, May 27th, there will be a big day in Plentywood
when the baseball season opens in this city with the local team
playing Scobey at the Herald ball park. Thousands of people will
be present from over Northeastern Montana and northwestern
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HOMESTEAD FARMER
DIED SATURDAY
Jorgen Engebritson Passes Away at
Sheridan Memorial Hospital After
Short Illness. ^Jaying
Following an operation for appen
dicitis Jorgen Engebritson, young
farmer of the Homestead country,
died last Saturday at the Sheridan
Memorial hospital.
The deceased xvas a single man, 31
years of age. He leaves two brothers
near Homestead and two brothers and
one sister and a father in Norway to
mourn his passing.
Services were held in the Lutheran
church at Homestead last Monday
and burial was _ .
cemetery.
in the Homestead
FEDERAL COURT AT
MISSOULA AND BUTTE
Helena, May 18— Preparations for
resumption of sessions of the federal
court term in May and early June are
being made in the offices of united
State District Attorney Rankin, Mar
shall Tom Belton and Court Clerk
Charley Garlow. A jury is being sum
moned at Miscsoula to begin trials of,
about 40 bootlegging and other cases
on May 25. Trials will start in Butte
about June 1. The calendar consists
of 250 abatement and about 120 other
criminal cases, mostly liquor law vi
dations. "Judge George M. Bourqum
who has been at Seattle and ban
Francisco for several weeks, will re
turn to Montana about May 20 to
hear motions and demurrers at Butte.
SOCIALIST CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT DIES
TRYING TO SAVE BOY
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* Bend, Ore^May 2li—Frank T. *
* Johns of Portland, candidde for ^
. SÄ
*the ensuing two years."
Makes Statement on Return
This Was the statement made by
Senator. Chas. E. Taylor upon his
arrival in Plentywood this week after
an absence of some months looking
after his lumber operations in north
ern Minnesota. The Senator was tan
ned from outdoor life working
superintending the operation of his
lath mill in the north woods of
that state. His old friends greeted
th e veteran fighter for the people's
rights upon his return. Men of all
parties shook hands with him on the
streets of his home city. In an inter
view with a representative of the Pro
ducers News, the business manager of
the people's paper and the man who
holds the highest office within the
gift of the people of Sheridan County
said amongst other things:
The State Outlook
"During my absence I have kept in
clo . se touch with events in the state.
This political year looks promising in
more ways than one. Men of ad
vanced progressive views have filed
for high state office. There seems to
be a challenge to the domination of
the state by one great public corpora
tion. The opinion seems to be wide
spread that the interests of all the
people in the state could be best serv
ed if big business kepLout of politics
and allowed the common people to
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Dakota.
At last the long-waited-for day has
arrived and the Plentywood and Sco
bey fans are agog with excitement as
each day draws that much closer to
Sunday when the great John Donald
son, colored pitcher, tries to outwit
Happy" Felsch, one of the greatest
hitters in the United States today. In
the meantime, "Chief" Seeley will be
them down for the Scobey
crack batsmen, and the "Chief" is
going to display a line of curves and
speed dazzle the fans.
The grïfeij* Sunday will be one of
the most'sensational games of the
season.as attest of the strength of
both teams will be given at this time,
but it is believed by most of the fans
that neither team is going to have
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SALISBURY MAY NOT
RUN FOR SHERIFF
Will Rodney Salisbury
. - . run f or
Sheriff or not. is the question which ,
is much discussed in Sheridan county
today. The sheriff says that he will i
not seek the office again and gives as i
a reason that he has a large family j
to support. . i
It is known that Mr. Salisbury has ;
had offers of a position which would 1
give him twice as good a living as he 1
Has now. A Farmer-Labor sheriff,
who is loyal to the people who elects
him has to live on the salary paid him
by the county. There are ho grafts
or side issues. Mr. Salisbury has
stood with the farmers since he was
elected He has entered into no deals
with the loan shark or foreclosure
lawyers and he will retire from his
present office no richer than when he
entered it. He stated Thursday that
the people had honored him three
times by elecing him sheriff and that
(Cont'nuod on Last Tage)
SHAKEÜP IN BORDER
PATROL IMMINENT
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With Government Gave 'ITiem Power to Play "Smart Poli
lics"—Sheridan Visits County and Talks With Subordinates i
—Men Who Knocked Producers News While Truckloads
of Booze Came Across Border They Were Supposed to Pro
tect Find Themselves in "Hot Water."
Federal Investigators Trail Men Who Imagined Their Jobs
There is much back door gossip among the members of the Bor
der Patrol and thelf friends in this section of the state. There is
something brewing that-is causing a lot of worry to men who
thought they had a "cinch" on their jobs and assured their friends
that Colonel Sheridan would not
them no matter what they did.
Holes in Boîtier
For the fact leaked out that some
Czars of the Border who extended
the sphere of their operations to the
towns of Sheridan, Daniels and Val
ley Counties aie not "sitting as pret
ty" as they lead people to believe.
Favored bootleggers who run truck
loads of booze across the line without
molestation for months from the Bor
der Patrol officers in these parts are
also feeling pretty uneasy. They are
afraid of a change of administration
and that the hole in the border line
will ce plugged by honest enforce
ment officers. For it is known that
investigators from Washington were
. of ^f s wl î°
imagined that they had "things in
their mit" in these parts for some
Xmlrî Pe.tered_Bu.in«* inter
ferred With
It is stated that some of the so
called officers were running things
with a high and mighty hand. In
stead of stopping the truckload rum
runners at the border., they., were..
"holding up" the cars of farmers w T ho
had occasion to cross the line on busi
ness. They frightened the wives and
families of some farmers who mistook
the Border Patrol men for bandits
from their general appearance,
farmers who were peacefully engag
ed in the transaction of their business
made known the fact that they resent
ed this
The
unwarranted interference
LOCAL MARKETS
Thursday, May 24, 1928
Dark Northern ....
Winter Wheat ....
Amber Durum ....
Flax, per bu....
Rye, per bu..
1 Oats, per bu.
j Barley, per bu..
I Creamery Butter .
Dairy Butter _
Eggs, per doz.
$1.25
1.22
1.10
2.05
1.05
.50
.65
.55
... .45
.20
SENATOR PAUL
VISITS PLENTYWOOD
Senator W. J. Paul of Deer Lodge
was a visitor to Plentywood and
Northeastern Montana during the
week. He called to see his old friend
Senator Taylor but the latter had not
yet returned from the north woods of
Minnesota.
He, however, met P. J. Wallace as
the latter was getting off the train
at Culbertson and had a short but
interesting chat with him on the issues
of the day. '
Senator Paul was leader of the pro
gressive republican forces in the last
session of the State Senate. He is a
man of outstanding ability and a close
friend and supporter of Governor
Dixon. He recently delivered a speech
in Miles City which was widely copied
in the progressive press of the state,
He is candidate for Governor in the
republican primaries and is making a
tour of the state in the interest of
[the policies which he advocates.
fire*
with their movements by people who
were supposed to be their servants.
And the "road agents" or "Border Pa
trol" men got sore and blamed the
resentment the farmers on the
Producers News and started propa
ganda against the people's paper and
began to enter politics generally. One
border patrolman put out the propa
ganda that a member of the prohibi
tion force who "knocked over" more
bootleggers during his term of office
than all the federal agents who pre
ceded him since the Volstead Act v/as
passed, was "canned
Producers News gave him favorable
publicity.
because the
The Man From Washington
The Washington investigator found
out this and much more with the re
sult that evidence will be placed be
fore the federal attorney's office that
may result in an application for in
dictment of some government offi
(Continued on Last Page)
P. F. OF A. TO GIVE
TWO BENEFIT DANCES
Next Saturday, May 26th, starting
at 9:00 o'clock, a bam dance will be
given by the Progressive Farmers
Councils of McElroy, Comertown and
Westby at the Leo Brady bam, 8
miles northeast of Dooley and 8 miles
northwest of Comertown. Als Go-Get
ters will furnish the music. Lunch
will be served and a general good
time will be had. Saturday night is
a big night at Brady's bam, every
body will be there.
Wednesday, May 30th, another big
Benefit dance will be given at the
Farmer-Labor Temple in Plentywood
by the P. F. A, This will be a big.
dance as spring work is finished and
all are ready to celebrate the occa
sion. Remember the day, Decoration
Day, and Al's Go-Get-ers will furnish
the music.
Old and new dances will be on the
program.
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F KtMUtN 1 ÜBJL11S 10
EQUALIZATION CLAUSE
Doubtful If Congress Passes Bill Over Coolidge Veto. Dawes
and Lowden Still Stand By Bill In Entirety. Talk About
Prolonging Session So That Farm Relief Measure May Be
Agreed On. Merchant Marine Measure Signed.
W ashington, May 23.—The McNary-Haugen farm relief bill was
vetoed by President Coolidge today with language fully as em
pnatic as he used in disapproving the measure a year ago. Cen
tering his attack upon the constitutionality of the bill the presi
dent informed the senate to which it was returned, that the equali
zation fee of the bill was "a sales tax" and that no board could
resist the political pressure which would be placed upon it to boost
prices above normal.
The bill, Mr. Coolidge said, em
bodies a "formidable array of perils
for agriculture which are all the
menacing because of their being
observed in a maze of ponderously fu- !
tile bureaucratic paraphernalia."
Using strong terms, throughout the
veto, Mr. Coolidge applied to the bill
such terms as
more
cruelly deceptive,"
"repugnant" and "fallacious."
Two Paths Open
The fate of agricultural relief this
session now rests squarely with con
gress. It has a choice of passing the
over Mr - Coolidge's veto, or bring
Sgned afonTune 1 agreeable °to him! 6
, So , t far as the political aspects of
it^ssu^s^thaL^n^hf event congres
fails to act - the whole farm relief
problem will be presented to the com
ing presidential conventions as a vex
ing question which promises to figure
largely in the campaign and on wfyich
the Republitan leadership itself is
sharply divided.
Like last year, the veto was accom
panied by a lengthy report by Attor
ney General Sargent holding the
Senator McNary, Republican, of
measure to be unconstitutional.
(Continued on Last Page)
Pease Riddles "Nation" Article
On Walsh With Barrage of Facts
Leading Montana Liberal Ridicules Assertion That Walsh Is
Not a Copper Disciple. Exposes His Inconsistency on Pub
lic Utility Question. Cites His Subservience to Montana
Power As Exemplified By His Support of That Company's
Move to Have Flathead Dam Leased. Senior Senator's War
Record Referred to.
Butte.—The following is a copy of a letter sent by Attorney
Hallow Pease to the editors of the "Nation" and is a reply to an
article on Senator Walsh, published May 9 entitled "Presidential
Possibilities" in that weekly,
paragraph published in the "Limelight" column of the Producers
News some time ago. He admitted the charges contained in the
imelight" paragraph but one and endeavored to show that
Walsh had done other things that took the curse off his reaction
ary acts. The letter of Mr. Pease reads as follows :
Mr. Villard took as his text a
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Pease Replies to the "Nation"
May 11, 1928.
Editors of The Nation,
20 Vesey St.,
New York City.
Dear Sirs:
I find your May 9th issue rather a
sad affair in this, that you have se
lected the birthday of John Brown on
which to publish an attack on the
editor of the only radical newspaper
now remaining in Montana, and to
eulogize T. J. Walsh. In other words,
you have placed the Nation in exact
alignment with the political wishes of
the Anaconda Copper Mining Compa
Adequately t* discuss Mr. Villard's
article a nd give the evidence fu.ly
against Walsh would require a stam
men! of equal or greater length. 11
will content mjseif with mentioning
errors and omissions inherent in the
views just published, not from the
basis of gossip or parochial prejudice
but from events of public record and
general knowledge.
1. Walsh owes ten years of his sen
ate incumbency u the support o the
company supported Walsh for the sen
ate as against Jeannette Rankin (na
tional party) and O. N. Lanstrum,
standpat Republican. In 1924 that
company supported him again against
J. W. Anderson, Farmer-Labor parly
and Frank Linderman, standpat Re
publican. If Walsh had ever been
dangerous to the Standard Oil group
and its two Montana components, the
Anaconda and the Montana Powei
Company, I think those concerns
would, at least by 1924, have become
aware of his hostility and acted ac
cordingly. You have mentioned his
1912 election but not the two subse
auent.
2. You say in response to the Mon
tana editor, "As for the 'oil and cop
per press,' if there is such," etc. I
hasten to inform you that there is
uch, specifically the Anaconda Stand
ard (owned outright by the A. C. M.),
the Butte Post, the Helena Independ
ent, the Great Fails Tribune, the Bill
ings Gazette, the Missoula 'Missouli
an,' and others, in all a dozen or so
lContinued on page Sight)
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Redstone Boy's Skull
Crushed By Cultivator
* Ray Bishop^ who lives three *
* three and a half miles south of *
* Redstone, brought his six-year-old *
* son into the Sheridan Memorial •
* hospital Thursday at noon. The *
* boy was suffering from crushed *
* skull caused by a cultivator run- •
* ning over his head. It appears *
* that Mr. Bishop was hitching up *
* the team in the yard and the tug *
* got some way caught and threw •
* the boy under he cultivator caus- *
* in g him severe injuries around the *
* head. •
* He was brought in at once by *
* his father and mother to a doc- *
* tor who ordered him to the hos- *
* pital where he is now being treat- *
* ed. He seems to be conscious but •
* cannot talk. He is receiving the *
* best of medical care and his rela- *
* tives are at his bedsWe. There *
* is much interest in the case in *
* the Redstone territory and syin- *
* pathy for the parens of the in- *
* jured boy. *
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PLENTYWOOD
TO ENTERTAIN
LEGIONNAIRES
300 Members and Families Expected
at Saturday Meet; Program Is Plan
ned. Will Continue Over Sunday,
An American Legion convention
for the northeastern Montana dis
trict will be held in this city Satur
day. It will continue over until
Sunday, when it is planned to wind
up the convention by all members
attending the opening game of base
ball between Scobey and Plenty
wood, which will be played on the
home grounds.
The Legionnaires plan on a big
time here, with speakers, singers
and comedians to help out in en
tertainment. A banquet will be
served in the Cartholic church base
ment, which will be followed by a
lecture by the Rev. Silas Farnham,
who has recently returned from
France.' His subject will be "In
Flanders Field." This will be fol
lowed by a show and a dance will
be given at the Farmer-Labor Tem
ple the same evening.
Legionnaires are making
rangements to take care of 300
members and their families.
PLENTYWOOD STORES
ar
TO CLOSE MEMORIAL
DAY FROM 10 TO 4
All of the Plentywood stores will
be closed Decoration Day from 10
a. m. to 4 p. m. This is done so that
employers and employes may have
opporunity to take in the program of
the day.
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