Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-01-30
Thursday, January 30, 1908.

i~uHuoi Sohipohy, u W. tu'hh
Lumber company and Williams
Lumber company made defendants
former employee gives startling evi
dence to show lumber companies in
combine"
The above are the headlines which
appeared over a column OF sensa.
tional political stuff sent from Wau.
bay to the Aberdeen American and
published last Sunday. The article
is one tangle of lies from start to fin.
ish. The writer says there was sur.
prise ia Waubay. This he knows
was false. Mr.. Frank Anderson and
Mr.. w. +. Ebert are so well known
in Webster that they knew they
could secure no standing before any
Webster justice and they went to
Waubay and it took the united pres
sure of all the boxers in Waubay to
get Justice August HOMELAND TO issue
sthe subp9nas in the case. And when
the train arrived in Waubay every
boxer was lined up along the side
walk or in the Office Of the justice to
see what was doing. The animus OF
the case at this time is shown by the
fact that the complaint was made
out and sworn to last September.
Why has there been all this delay ?
They have never asked the states
attorney of this county-the man
paid by the tax payers to enforce the
laws to prosecute the case. The
attorney generals Office shows its
discourtesy to our states attorney by
"butting in" in this county when the
states attorney has been given no
opportunity to refuse or to prosecute
case. This shows. conclusively that
the case is one of political prostitu-
ton OF the attorney generals Office
for the persecution of stalwart repub-
licans In the hopes Of advancing
Crawfords chances in Day county.
But we believe that Assistant Attor-
ney General p. w. Dougherty, of
Dell Rapids, really thought he had
more of a case TO work upon than he
found when he swore his prescott
ing witness; he is too wise to get
mixed in such a hopeless case as the
one Of last week unless he was lied
to as regards the testimony which
would be given.
The article states that the attorney
general had Justice HOMELAND issue
subp9nas for Anton Karpen, mana
ger OF the Lampert Lumber CON-
'pany; p. j. Roth, manager OF the
John w. Tuthill Lumber company;
and John Williams and w. H. Chard,
Of the Williams Brothers Lumber
company; together with w. F. Ebert,
farmer living south of Webster, who
had previously been employed by
the Lappert Lumber company. That
is about the only truthful statement
made in the entire article. The arti-
Gle then proceeds to set up a straw
case and alleges whole lot Of stuff
as testimony given by w. f. Ebert
before Justice HOMELAND. We have
taken the American to seven differ
ent gentlemen who heard the testi-
mony Of Ebert and each any every
one OF them aver that he made abso-
lutely no such case as appears in
the American. He did not swear to
u single thing Of personal knowledge.
He had had heard this. He was
told" that, but at not single time
was he present when any business of
any kind was transacted which could
be construed as OF combination
nature. 1t was evident from the
questions OF Mr.. Dougherty that rr.
Ebert had told HIM great deal.
But when he came to the place where
be had to swear to them and might
be called upon to defend a charge Of
perjury. Ebert weakened. The stem
ofsthe case in Waubay was
sherman Duggan. We will say
right here that we hope, for Mr..
Ebert's sake, that the Aberdeen
American's report Is not taken from
! Transcript Of the evidence Is made
81 him Tor there are several abso.
|utely false slat3Inents ind lie would
IS proyet ! perjurer a this
term 81 court Mr. Ebert did not
dnss suear lo ne statements - bad