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The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-06

tumbled off the step, fell into the mud at the bottom of the trench, and lay still in huddled heap with a bullet hole in his forehead.
 At about the time he expected to ar rive at Waterloo station he was laid to rest in a little cemetery behind the lines. He had gone to Eighty.
 In the trenches one can never tell it is not safe to plan very far ahead.
 After stand down" the men sit on the fire step or repair to their respec- tive dugouts and wait for the rum is sue" to materialize. Immediately fol- lowing the rum comes breakfast. brought up from the rear. Sleeping is then in order unless some special work turns up.
 Around 12:30 dinner shows up. When this is eaten the men try to amuse themselves until "tea" appears at about four o'clock, then stand to- | and they carry on as before.
 While in rest billets Tommy gets up about six in the morning, washes up, answers roll call, Is inspected by his platoon officer, and has breakfast. At S:45 he parades (drills) with his con- pany or goes on fatigue according to the orders which have been read ont by the orderly sergeant the night pre- viouS.
 Between II 80 and noon he is dis missed, has his dinner and Is Ion his own" for the remainder of the day. unless he has clicked for a digging or working party, and so 1t goes on from day to day, always looping the loop" and looking forward to peace and Blighty.
 Sometimes, while engaged in a "coOtie' hunt, you think. Strange to say, but it is fact, while Tommy is searching his shirt serious thoughts come to him. Many a time, when per forming this operation, I have tried to figure out the outcome of the war and what will happen to me.
 My thoughts generally ran in this channel:
 Will I emerge safely from the next attack? If do will I skin through the following one, and so on? While your mind Is wandering into the future It is likely to be rudely brought to earth by Tommy interruptlng with, What's good for rheumatism?
 Then you have something else to think of. Will you come out of this war crippled and tied into knots with rheumatism, caused by the wet and mud of trenches and dugOutSY You give 1t up as bad job and generally saunter over to the nearest estaminet to drown your moody forebodings in glass of sickening French beer or to try your luck at the always present game of "house." You can hear the sing-song voice of a Tommy drOning out the numbers as he extracts the little squares of cardboard from the bag between his feet.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-06
"Over the Top" By An American Soldier
 Who Went
 ARTHUR GUY EnPEY Machine Gunner SerUinR in France
Machine Gunner Seroing in France

Copyright, 1917, by Arthur Guy Bmpey)
 We had a sergeant in our battalion named Warren. He was on duty with his platoon in the fire trench one after noon when orders came up from the rear that he had been granted seven days leave for Blighty, and would be relieved at five o'clock to proceed to England.
 He was tickled to death at these welcome tidings and regaled his more or less envious mates beside him on the fire step with the good times in store for him. He figured it out that in two days time he would arrive at Waterloo station, London, and then seven days bliss!
 At about five minutes to five he started to fidget with his rife, and then suddenly springing up on the fire step with a muttered, ''I'll send over a couple of souvenirs to Fritz so that he'll miss me when 1 leave" he stuck his rife over the top and fired two shots when "crack" went a bullet and he
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-06
Copper River and Northwestern Ky.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN CHITTNA AND KENNECOTT

CHITINA AND KENNECOTT Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot on Mon
 days, Thursdays and Saturdays Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays
 Thursdays and Fridays Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays
 and Fridays
 Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednes-
 days, Thursdays and Saturdays The above schedule subject to change without notice.
 Dining Car in Connection with all Regular Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina. Freight received and delivered at Cordova Wharf from a. m. to , D. m., except Sundays. Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office one hour before departure of trains.
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(To be Continued)
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-06
CHAPTER xI.
Over the Ton.

On my second trip to the trenches our officer was making his rounds of inspection, and we received the cheer full news that at four in the morning we were to go over the top and take
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-06
LOCATED IN GOLDEN HOTEL

Dr. Homer A. Blyth, of the dental firm of Drs. Daggett & Blyth with of fices at Cordova, has equipped modern office" "- Mccarthy, Alaska.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-02
PRODUCERS OF FARM and CITY Will UNITE ON
A THIRD TICKET TO FIGHT GOVERNOR
T BURNQUIST

st. Paul, Mimi, August lin
spite of the frantic Vaccinations Of
the old-line parties, union labor in
Minnesota has decided to- enter poll
tics side by side with the organized
FARMER. This important step was
taken at the convention of the State
Federation of Labor at Virginia,
Mlnn., July 1917. Inasmuch as the
farmers Nonpartisan League cast
ISL 900 votes in the recent primary
election, the junction of the workers
of the cities and the country insures
majority for the candidates they
will name for state Offices for the
November election.
For years organized labor has been
betrayed by. false promises of poll
tlcians who wanted nothing so much
as to keep the labor vote split up.
But now action has been precipitated
by the tyrannical hand Governor
Burnquist has held over the working
people through his so-called safety
commission and his refusal to abide
by the decisions of President Will
sons war labor board in regard to a
number of labor disputes.
Reject the Old Parties
The federation did not stop at de-
Gliding to go into politics on its own
hook. 1t went further by serving no
tice on both the machine Republicans
and Democrats that it would have
nothing to do with their candidates
for the governorsEip. Not only was
Burnquist denounced, but Fred E.
Wheaton, the reactionary Democratic
candidate for governor, was pro-
nounced unfit.
The convention adopted with en-
thusiasm resolution calling for
political conference in ST. Paul not
later than August "a, at which time
the whole political situation will be
discussed. This makes certain the
entrance of third ticket in the race
in November. The farmers League
will meet at about the same time.
Ready for New World
In setting forth its purpose to go
into state politics in Minnesota the
state convention declared that "it has
become imperative that the working
in government in proportion to their
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-02

Importance in industry" and that it
Will require a high degree of "intel-
llgent and vigilant activity exercised
by them in shaping and establishing
the new industrial conditons.'-
The preamble sets forth the way
in which conditions are being changed
throughout the world and the reso-
tuition reads as follows:
Conditions in Minnesota are such
as to render action by organized la
Dor imperative. The present govern
Or, J. A. A. Burnquist, while profess
ing loyalty, withholds all co-opera-
tion with the labor policy of the fed
eral government and ignores Or
spurns every right of organized la
Dor and the plain people. His auto
cratic methods are menace to the
peace and safety of the state. His
appointees ignore the law and the
courts. He must be defeated for re-
election if Minnesota and her loyal
workers are to do their share in the
world crisis which confronts US,
therefore,
Calls on Workers to Unite
"Be it resolved, that the delegates
to the Minnesota State Federation
of Labor, in annual convention as
sembled, do hereby declare that they
keenly appreciate the urgent neces-
sity of united, aggressive and indie
pendent political action of the work
ing class in order to intelligently and
effectively solve the many momen-
eous labor problems growing out Of
the present world crisis in govern
ment and in industry, and
"Be it further resolved, that up
on organized labor, composed of the
most highly skilled, best paid and
intelligent element of the working
class, rests the obligation of inaug-
uratlng such movement and in pro-
noting the full accomplishment of its
purpose, and
"Be it still further resolved, that
this convention hereby instructs its
executive officers to issue a call for
a labor-political conference to be
held at st. Paul not later than Aug
ust "a, 1918, for the purpose of form
uiatlng a plan for permanent po-
iltical movement for the working
classes"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-02
JUDGE AMID0N'S
CHARGE TO JURY
Famous Federal Judge Delivers Singing Re
buke to Parasites

In the Federal court at Bismarck
last Friday, July Goth, Federal Judge
Amidon, presiding at the trial of j.
W Brinton, general manager of the
Consumers United Stores Company,
on trumped-up charge of sedition
,pstigated by enemies of the United
consumers Stores, delivered the fol-
lowing ringing charge, setting out
real law, to the jury trying Brinton,
and which jury acquitted Brinton on
the first ballot:
"We have heard almost everything
discussed except the issue in this law
suit. You may think that when you
hiring in a verdict in this case you are
passing on whether Brinton at Gar
rison made a good economic discus
sion or not, whether he properly di-
yided his time between patriotism
and the discussion of the stores
whose establishment he was there to
promote. The only question you can
ballot OH when you get to the jury
room is this: Is the defendant guilty
of the crime that he is charged with
in the indictments or is he not guilty
of that crime.
THAT is the only issue that is sub
mitted to you and | entertain the
greatest doubt from the arguments
that have been made whether you
can fetch your mind to that question
or not.
take for example that argument
which has just closed. The head and
front of it is that the speech tended
to array class against class. / have
been on this earth quite a spell my
self. never have known of any
great reform being carried through
where the people whose established
condition would be disturbed by the
carrying out of the reform did not
say that the people who were trying
TO bring about the reform were stir
ring up class against class.
This is an argument that | know
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-02
INJUNCTION PETITION FILED
AGAINST PRINTING CONTRACT

ID. J. Olson, on behalf of himself
and other outraged taxpayers of this
county, has filed petition for in
junction against the board of county
commissioners Of Sheridan county, in
the Seventeenth JUDICIAL District. in
and for Sheridan County, Montana.
restraining them from issuing any
warrants under the now famous and
scandalous contract, or otherwise
carrying out the contract, secretly
and privately let by that body for 4
fabulous sum to JOS. f. Dolin, of the
Pioneer Press without the usual for
malities of bid as required by law,
Dy the terms of which the taxpayers
of Sheridan county world be COM
pelled to pay out for printing many
thousand dollars more than they
would have had to pay If the contract
had been let to competitive bids, as
law and honest business custom re-
quires.
The papers We're filed with the
clerk of court Wednesday morning,
and Attorney Mclaughlin, attorney
Tor the taxpayers interested, left
Immediately for Glasgow to have the
papers signed by Judge Hurley in
order that the case may be tried
August sixth when the Judge will be
in Pientywood TO hold special term
Of court.
There is an immense amount of
feeling throughout the county over
this printing contract and the final
outcome viii be watched with more
than ordinary interest.
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to be at least thirty-five hundred
years Old from my knowledge of
history, and it is repeated in every
eHort to change an existing condi
ton. The people who are benefited
by an existing condition always say
that the victims who suffer from il
and want to change it are stirring up
class against class. That is the stock
argument. If it could prevail We
never would get any change in any
existing condition. The people who
are enjoying the existing condition
would enjoy it eternally because the
only way you can produce a change
in any political or economic condition
is for the people who suffer from that
condition to say that the people who
are infiicting the suffering are doing
wrong and speak right out plainly
on that subject.
"AlI through the great agitation
for the abolition of slavery it was
claimed that the ab0litionists were
stirring up class against class.
have not, even standing TO one side
as | do, seen a single campaign car
ried through that that argument has
not been used in the thirty years
that | have been upon earth with
sufficient maturity of mind to know
what was going on.
eNow the defendant is not charged
in this indictment with stirring up
class against class. That is not any
Offense against the law. We have not
come to the time that discussions of
evils, though it does stir up class
against law is forbidden in the
United States and make criminals
and when we do then we will simply
pass into the Crustacean stage. There
would never be any change if such a
law were in force"
Following the finding of the ver-
dict and discharge of the jury, Mr.
Brinton thanked them personally for
the verdict rendered.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-02
MOB SPIRIT IS
DENOUNCED BY
THE PRESIDENT
"IF WE ARE DEMOCRACY3GHAM-
PIONS LET US SEE dAIT
THAT WE Do NOT DIseRM5lT
OUR OWN" HE SAYS.

Washington, D. c., July 90
forcefully denouncing an apparent
growth of mob spirit" as emulatine
the "lawless passion" Of Germany
Who has 'disregarded sacred obliga-
tons of law and made lynchers of
her armies," President Wilson today
appealed to the country "to make an
end to this disgraceful evil"
"Lynchings," he said, Constitute a
blow at the hearts of law and human
Justice" and contribute ito German
lies about the United States what
her most gifted liars cannot improve
upon by way of calumy."
The text of the presidents procla-
nation follows:
"My fellow countrymen:
Il take the liberty of addressing
you upon a subject which so vitally
affects the honor of the nation and
the very character and integrity of
our institutions that I trust you will
think me justified in speaking very
plaintly about it.
CONCERNING MOB SPIRIT
Il allude to the mob spirit which
has recently here and there very fire.
quently shown it's head amongst us
not in any single region, but in many
and widely separated parts of the
country. There have been many
lynchings and everyone of them has
been a blow at the heart of ordered
law and human justice. "No- man
who loves America, no man who
really cares for her fame and, honor
and character or who is truly. loyal
to her institutions can justify mob
action while the courts of justice are
open and the governments of the
states and nation are ready TO do
their duty.
We are at this very moment fight
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ing lawlessness passion. Germany
has 0utlawed herself among the ma
tiOns because she has disregarded the
sacred obligations of law and has
made lynchers of her armies. Lynch
ers emulate her disgraceful example.
|, for my part am anxious to see ev-
cry community in America rise above
that level, with pride and fixed re-
solution which no man or set of men
can afford to despise.
CHAMPIONS OF DEMOCRACY
1--WE PROUDLY CLAIM TO BE
THE CHAMPIONS OF DEMOCRA-
CY. IF WE REALLY ARE IN
DEED AND IN TRUTH, LET US
SEE TO 1T THAT WE Do NOT
DISCREDIT OUR OWN. I SAY
PLAINLY THAT EVERY AMERT-
CAN WHO TAKES PART IN THE
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-02
FORM A LABOR PARTY FOR THE
COMING MINNESOTA ELECTION


ARE ARRIVING
Albert Bakken, of north of
Raymond is to have the honor of
being the first owner of FORD
= SON tractor i'm Sheridan Coun-
. ty. This tractor has been ship
- ped to Raymond, Montana, where
it will be unloaded next Monday
y for Mr.. Bakken.
. Mr.. Lang, the Ford agent,
made a special trip to Fargo to
get these tractors started this
way and We hope they will con-
tinue to come.
Is The FOrdsOn tractor comes
equipped with special two-bot-
tom Oliver Plow made especially
=" for this tractor.
Mr.. Lang will be glad to give
out any information concerning
= this tractor and also will provide
bOnafide buyers with tractors.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-02
COUNCIL OPPOSE
LOYALTY ISSUE
NONIANA DEFENSE BODY DE-
CLARES USE OF DISLOYALTY
VhARGES FOR POLITICAL
PURPOSES is TRAITOROUS.

Gteat Falls, Mont, July 2S.-(Spe-
-Ihe Committee on Public In
'''nlatlOn Of the Montana Council
VI pelenSe has gone on record as
Sa'HSt :, Wholesale charge of disloy-
NV against any party or organiza-
'D lOf mere political purposes, and
n,n al order issued today charges the
n,; 'paperS and individuals who are
~ ;g the loyalty" issue as a means
ho; luehclng political opinion with
traitors" to the government.
MN. large number of the papers in
bsjn 'ana who have been charged as
ana - controlled by the copper trust
Cav OIner corporate influence have
sps;n vi constant campaign
tSs st the farmers organizations in
lovslt,' a.e and unfair charges of "dis-
liz pro-Germanism" and the
paDers S'e 0een freely made by these
ehsras sf careful investigation of the
1 On pDS,c 81 on the part of the Committee
Council sUlc Information of the Defense
yesta,5. an Official statement was
Which apay a! issued by this committee
and claas Orands these charges as false
rtraitossses rSses those making them a:
the ena, MUS" and giving comfort &c
rba s1ay my in time of war.
follows statement of the COMMITTEES
Set tl"1g tSa with this campaign to
sranss., me- farmer against the gov.
has ha0 war measures, there
zen Proceeding a twin cam
ued on Page Ski
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-02
FALSE FACES WORN BY TRAITORS
POLITICIANS CRY OF PRO-GER-
MAN AGAINST MEN DIFFER
ING WITH THEM TRAITORS,
SAYS SECRETARY BAKER.

Washington, July 2S.-(SpeciaD.-
Politicians who raise the cry of
treason, sedition, anarchy and pro-
Germans against men who differ
with them politically, are conveying
to the German agents information
that the country is swarming with
kaiser worshippers," says Secretary
of War Baker in statement just Is
sued.
The secretary of war calls thus
more dangerous than open opposl-
ton. and adds that the men who aids
Germany now is a traitor who merits
death.
Secretary Bakers statement fol
lows:
sTn every locality we have
contemptible set of cOwardiy
partisan politicians who cry
treason, sedition, anarchy and
pro-German' against men who
differ with them politically. The
claims of 'Americansim' and 10y
atty put forth by these narrow
bigots are nothing more than
false faces worn by traitors.
Such charges convey to the Ger
man agents the information that
the country is swarming with
kaiser w0rshippers, and is more
dangerous propaganda than open
opposition. In many cases our
courts are being imposed upon
by low-browed politicians who
are taking advantage of the spir-
it of loyalty in this land to wreak
vengeance on those whom they
cannot meet honestly upon po-
| litical issue. The man who aids
Germany now it traitor VINO
merits death, and the man VINO
wells .sedition' to aid party poll
tics. above all other is aiding our
enemies"
a
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Z ! ! : : : : Z Z
RANKIN RALLY

Hon. Jeanette Rankin, "The
= Lady from Montana" candidate
e of the producing and working
* people of this state for the Of
? flee of United States Senator,
3 now the leading lady legislator
: of the entire world, will be the
= principal speaker at gigantic
= Nonpartisan League Rally at
: Plentywood, Tuesday, August 6,
: at 2 o'clock p. m. There will
" also be other good speakers pres
: ent.
: In the evening, Tuesday, Aug.
: 9th, there will be rally at Brush
Lake, near Dagmar,
< In the afternoon of Monday,
= August 5th, Miss Rankin and
party will be at Wolf Point,
where there will be another rally.
Make your plans now on hear
ing "The Lady from Montana"
at one of these places.
Miss Rankin will be here sure.
= $50 ** 4
During the past two weeks, tn
Equity COOPERATIVE Exchange a
South st. Paul, which is the Farm
ers' Own Selling Agency, hav
handled over $50 per cent more bust
ness than they handled during tn
same period last year. This woul
indicate that the Northwestern farm
ers are making a success OF the &C
operative. marketing of their ow
live stock.
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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-04-10
NOTED WOMAN SPEAKS
!. ON The LIBERTY LOAN

Mrs: Severance of Minneapolis
spoke to Bemidji yesterday on the
Liberty Loan and what it means, and
what she had to say was clear, con-
else and to the point, she speaking
directly to her hearers. +
In the afternoon she addressed a
meeting of women in the Elko. In
the evening she spoke to the general
public, impressing her hearers that
subscribing to- a Liberty Loan did
not mean sacrifice, but an invest
ment as loan to help their govern
ment win the war and protect their
lives, their homes and their all. .~-
Mrs. Severance is one of the noted
women of the Red Cross work of the
country and was loaned to the
government in the Liberty bond cam
paign. She is a most able speaker
and what she had to say carried con-
viction to her hearers. = >.-.,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-04-10
PRIVATE 0LS0N'S FUNERAL
TAKES PLACE TOMORROW

The funeral of Private Floyd Olson
of this city, son of Mr.. and Mrs: C. H
Olson of Island Lake, will be held to-
morrow afternoon at O'Clock, from
the Presbyterian church, Rev. Lest
er P. Warford officiating. It will be
military, funeral -.
Private Olson, who was Ben,idji
boy, having made his home here
since 1899 with the exception of some
time spent on the farm and havi ng
ATTENDED the public schools here, cal
listed in the Twentieth engineers he
latter part of last January. He d! ed
at the army hospital in Secaucus, ~.
j., April 4, after having been i'll FROM
pneumonia only seven days. His
company was just ready to go to
France when he was examined and
found to be infected and was taken
to the hospital. His company is now
in France. The body was accom-
panied to Bemidji by Sergeant Geb-
hart, who has returned to camp.
Private Olson was 10 years and 26
days old at the time of his DEATH
He leaves his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. H. Olson of Island Lake, a sister,
Mrs. J. C. Seeley- of Sacramento,
Calf, and brother, Ed Olson, of
Bemidji. Interment will be in Green
wood. :.
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7 !
!: !: | ACTIVITIES ]
PENNINGTON WIDE AWAKE.

IN spite of the inclement weather
Of Saturday evening, residents of
Pennington showed their loyalty by
turning out in large numbers to the
Red Cross dance in ETheriault's- pa
vilion. The ladies furnished the
supper and an orchestra composed of
Walter Skinner, Chester Greer,
james Greer and Jack McKinnon do
ns ted their services. The sum of
s?.,S1 was netted by the affair, as
Tho portion of the dance proceeds.
Christ Hanson, one Of the drafted
men, did his bit by aucti Cning girls
lat, Miss Marguerite Mj,Donald TAX
ing it for $4.25, which was added to
'ihe evenings receipts.
In addition to the enjoyment. of
t. 9 evening, IL new members were
added to the local, making total of
5G members secured by Mrs. Jesse
Mcdonald, who says there are no
s'ackers in that vicinity, the young
est member being Marshal Theriault
age six years, the little man sporting g
p Red Cross button Of which he is
justly proud. I !
The proceeds, from the dance 'ant
from the memberships brings the
total to $S6O6 from Pennington tc
the Beltrami county chapter since
March 2, which, the correspondent
naively remarks, is more news jfol
Bill'.