Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-14
FARMERS MAY
HAVE TO FOOT
ALL THE BILLS
Townley's $37s,o List of Judg.
ments Shows His Capa-
city.
SOME CHECKS ARE
COMING BACK
No Financial Report Has Been
Made to the League
Members

corporated, but it is doing business
and every member as above described
ranks as a partner, although only the
executive committee" has anything
to say about expending the money.
The attorneys say:
Every partner is liable for the acts
of another, and the acts of partner
bind the firm and each individual.
and the league ranks as a partner.
ship"
Farcical Examination.
The so.called examination of the
accounts during the convention at
Fargo resulted in statement of about
three sentences in which the "aud.
tiors" stated that the money had been
properly expended. The Pierce Coun'
ty Tribune wittily says: "NOt a
farmers telephone company any.
where would have accepted such an
"audit."
Rumors Of Impending Crash.
Many checks issued by the league
were turned down by the banks and
marked, IN. IS. F." at the time OF the
biz convention. The latter was a ne
cessity to raise money and brought in
something like S40,oB0. This helped
some;sbut indications are that ;s.crisfs
is again approaching. The threat oi
starting a new daily newspaper has
not been carried out and various chat
tel, mortgages filed on the component
parts of the Non-partisan Leader indi.
cate that all is not clear sailing.
~, Truth Becoming Known.
Attacks made by II. r. Quanbeck,
o. j.. Sorlie, w. G. Burnett and Sena-
tor w. A. Martin have shaken con.
tidence in the management. The pho
to-engraving part of the Leaders bust
ness is being transferred to a hold
ing company, organized by Townley,
Coates and Linden, under the name q
the Dakota Engraving company. Evi.
dently the name, ''Non-partisan Lead.
err is becoming odoriferous.
And the discussion Of TOwnley's
record has brought out the facts con.
cerning his plunging and the immense
debts piled up in the western part OF
the state. AS the members of the
league come to know these facts and
to realize that they are responsible
for the debts Townley, and his coad.
tutors may pile up they are exceed.
ingly uneasy.
TownIey's Financial Record.
Townley is said to have gone to
Colorado after his ventures in North
Dakota, and there he fell in with
Coates, who came at his call to this
state when informed that the picking
was good Coates brought with him a
number Of other carpetbaggers. Town
ley's financial record in Montana and
Colorado has not yet been secured,
but in Golden Valley and Mckenzie
counties North Dakota the records
show the following:
A. c. TovNNLEY AND ToWNuEY
BROTHERS.
The following were filed from 1910
to 1913 and the record does not show
that they have been satisfied:
Mortgagee Amount
Lowell Bros. ............$ $3.50 90
State Bank, Parkers Prai-
rie (judgment) ......... 1898. go
Beach Implement Co. -. 400. 100
First National Bank ..... 400. 100
H. K. Schuster ........... 6,0O0. 90
International Harvester Co.
(s mortgages) ......... 1882. 90
Rumely Products Co. ..... 1928 90
Rumely Products Co. 49,. 1920. 90
J. P. Reeve ............. 267.77
Jacob c. Adler (crop. 9,-S9S
acres) ................. l56,O97 .5O
Farmers and Merchants
Bank, Beach, N. D. ..... $4,000 90