Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-03-27
LANCER DEFIES
LEAGUE LEADER
in STATEMENT
Attorney-General A Calls A. c.
Townley's Hand - Offers
Reward Of Thousand.
<By the Associated Press>

Bismarck, N. D., March 25.-(Spe-
ciaD D-Attorney-General LANCER calls
President A. C. Townley's hand in a
statement issued today offering re-
ward of $1,000 for proof that, as
claimed by the Fargo Courier-News
on Sunday, plot has been hatched in
which $4,000 is to be used to illegal
ly haress the United Consumers
Store company.
The Fargo story was so worded as
to intimate that the Consumers
United Stores company considered
the investigation of its business or
dered by the blue sky commission, of
which Mr.. LANCER is member, part
of this plot.
In addition to offering reward
of $1,000, "as an individual and citi-
zen of the state of North Dakota" +"
for "any evidence which will lead to
the apprehension and conviction of
any person, Individual, association or
corporation implicated in said illegal
plot in violation of the state laws"
Mr.. LANCER has wired William c..
Green, states attorney of Cass coun-
ty, requesting that he investigate a
phase of the Courier-News story to
the effect. that Fargo wholesalers and
jobbers last Thursday evening raised
$500 to be put into a fund Of $4O,-
900 which the Fargo paper alleged is
being raised in the twin cities for the
purpose of illegally fighting the Unit
ed, Consumers Stores company. "
Borrowed the Money
To relieve the public of any sus-
picion that he has at this time a
sudden accession of wealth, Mr.. Lam
ger naively closes his reward notice
with the postscript: II borrowed the
money The notice follows: ~.
..Tp whom. #. may concern, and es-
pecia1iy. the officers and attorneys
of the United Consumers Stores
company, the editor and officers OF
the Courier-News Publishing COM
pany, the chief of police of Fargo,
the sheriff of >Cass county, North
Dakota, the United States marshal,
and to A. c. Townley:
...Sirs: Information having this day
been: published in the Courier-News
of Fargo, North Dakota, that plot
has been hatched, as a part of which
there was a meeting in Fargo on
March 20, 1919, at which $500 was
raised as q part of a fund of $4,000,
with whirl1 to illegally harass the
United Consumers Store company,
you are hereby notified that i as an
individual and citizen OF. the state of
North; Dakota; have deposited the
sum ofi;i 81 900 in the sFarmers'
Equity State Bank of Mandan, at
Mandan, N. D., to be paid as reward
by me personally, for any evidence
which will lead to the apprehension
and conviction Of any person, tndi-
vidual, association, or corporation
implicated in said illegal plot in vio-
lation of the state laws.
Z. civilian F. LANCER,
,..5 "Attorney-General."
"P. ST. borrowed the money"
Asks Prosecutor to Act. =
To William c. Green, states attor-
ney Of Cass county, Mr.. LANCER
wrote: Al
"The Courier-News this morning
states that Fargo wholesalers and
jobbers Thursday evening raised ST.
500 to be put into fund Of 100000
now alleged as being raised in the
twin cities for the purpose of illegal
~ fighting the United Consumers
Stores company. s,.s,s. s. \. J. vi,
"You are hereby Instructed to In
vestigate these charges. I suggest
that you Immediately interview the
editor and officers Of the Courier
News and the officers Of the Consum-
ers' United Stores company for the
purpose of getting evidence against
any wholesaler or jobber and that 1t
you have evidence even to warrant a
prima facie case, that you immediate
ly arrest the jobber or wholesaler or
both. hereby tender the services
OF one Of my assistants and the pow
ers of my Office to assist you. It is
my earnest desire. that you investi-
gate these charges thoroughly and
and assiduously, and that
you bring the guilty individual, or