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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
WILL REDMOND BE-
COME POSTMASTER
FARMERS SAY NO

Like a crack of thunder out of a
clear sky came the expose in the
last issue of the Producers News of
the plot to make j. F. Redmond
postmaster of Plentywood.
Already the patrons of the Plenty
wood postoffice are taking steps to
prevent this foul imposition of the
patrons of the county seat office by
the Montana Loyalty League and the
"slimy political gang" at the state
house at Helena.
The farmers feel that if faithful
Frank Weinrich must furnish a job
a nice soft easy position, to the erst-
while auditor, in order to kept that
gentleman from talking too much
let the experienced county commits
sioner take him to Mondak and feed
him on Roosevelt county pap, where
he can have Redmond's efficiency
right close at hand. Weinrich may
need him on occasions down there
and it will be inconvenient to come
up to Plentywood to talk over mat.
ters.
Petitions Of protest will be sent
in to the authorities and such othel
action as seems necessary will be
taken to prevent the postoffice from
falling into such hands.
There are other good democrats
acceptable to all of the people, wht
would be glad to be postmaster.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
COMMISSIONERS ADVERTISE FOR
BIDS FOR COUNTY PRINTING

very questionable and the county
commissioners and auditor are going
to try to put stop to this kind OF
thing-so all merchants furnishing
supplies to county charges who fur
nish supplies without proper authorl-
ty will do so at their own risks.
The contract for the county print
ing for the ensuings year was taken
under consideration. and bids were
ordered advertised for, which bids
will be opened May 26, 1919. Each
bidder will have to accompany his
bid by a certified check in the sum
of $500 and must be prepared to
furnish a bond in the sum of Slo,-
0oo.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
LARSONS JAZZ
BAND COMING

Jazz, jazz, let us jazz.
LarsOn's JAZZ Band will be in Plen-
ty"ood, at the Community Hall,
Monday, May 10th, and will jazz,
jan, Jazz, all that night, till you
are all in, in, in.
Larson's are the only real Jazz
Band in captivity or rather on the
road. that can jazz.
The band has a special feature this
time. Harry Fletcher, Montana's
famous baritone singer, VIII sing all
Of the latest song hits.
This il the Bands return engage
mont; it was here once before.
So all ye jazzers, come out ano
Jazz, Jazz, jazz.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
PIONEER TRACTOR D1
MONSTRATION
A. E. Reinertson, County
Agent, Deponstrating Popu-
lar Tractor on Farm North
of Light Plant.

A. E. Reinertson, county
agent for the Pioneer Tractor,
received one of those popular
engines the first of the week
and is now demonstrating on
a farm north of the light
plant, Plentywood,, where the
engine can be seen at work
any afternoon.
Mr.. Reinertson delivered
Pioneer go" to Sig Nelson at
Westby last Monday. Mr..
Nelson now has two Pioneer
"30" working in his fields
where they are giving splen-
did satisfaction.
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
POLAND CHINA BREEDER
ORGANIZE

Attention of Breeders of
Poland China Hogs are called
to the fact that there will be
a convention of all interested
in the breeding of fine hogs,
especially Poland China, at the
Orpheum Theatre on May Is,
at 2:30 p. m, for the purpose
of organizing a Poland China
Breeders Association. All in
terested are urged to be pres
ent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
DOLIN CAN MAKE THREE BIDS

When the bids are opened for the
county printing May 26th, it is like
Iv that Joe Dolin will have three
bids, viz: The bids of the Pioneer
Press, the bid of the Medicine Lake
Wave and the bid of the Scobey Sen
tinel, all three of which papers 1T Is
claimed that Mr.. Dolin owns.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
S. REWARD

Lost Friday (today) a black bill
book. with the name ROLAND FL.
jerks printed on the outside, con-
tanning S21 in bills and the registra-
ton card of ROLAND I'll. Jenks,. with
the address of Moore, Montana.
Finder leave with County Agent An
dersOn and get reward.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
Judge Hurry Grants
Temporary Injunction

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER GRANTED THE
BONDS-SAYS THAT COMMISSIONERS ACTED IN
FAITH DISCRETION BUT SHOULD HAVE
CALLED BIDDERS.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09

J. J. Gunther Files Papers With the
Clerk of Court Praying For An
Order Enjoining the Payment of
Certain Warrants Given in Pay
ment of Claims for Printing Ballots
and Alleged to Be Fraudulent.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06
NEW ONE ON UNDERTAKEN
Woman in Mourning and Weeping
Softly Ncks Funeral Direc-
tor for $26.

San Francisco, Cal-Weeping softly
and wearing deep mourning, an attrac-
tive woman operated successfully a
new confidence game, making a firm
Of undertakers her victims, and after
paying for a $3.50 funeral for a dead
relative,' with a worthless check for
$176, disappeared with $26 change.
A warrant for the arrest Of the wom-
an, who gave the name of Mrs. 8. M.
Davis, was issued ON complaint Of w.
J. Thorpe, manager of the undertaking
firm
Mrs" Davis entered the establish
ment held a lace handkerchief to her
eyes, which were red with weeping.
Her clothing was correct. She finally
controlled her feelings with seeming
difficulty and addressing Thorpe said
that her Husbands brothers daugh-
ter" whom she described as being fif-
teen years DID, had died and she
wished to arrange for the funeral
She picked out a casket and left in
structions to call for the body. Then
she produced the check for $176.
The bank was communicated with
and the hoax was uncovered.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06

II you change your address, do not
notify the carrier boy-report your
new address to the office.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06

moment cast startled eyes about, seek
ing the near victim. Then they laughed,
and it was the kind of laugh one de-
lights to hear.
There was softened note, tender
touching note to it. For the moment
those people-all types and classes
were represented-forgot the heat of
the city, forgot their business, their
everyday cares and were essentially
human.
And the reason-a foolish, trif1ng,
insignificant reason it was, too. Only
a kitten, tiny, tawny creature meas
uring not more than eight inches from
nosetip to TAIL was slowly, and quite
leisurely picking it's way diagonally
from one side of the street to the
other.
So small it was that it must leap,
rather than step over each car rail.
So small that it could not essay the
curbng of it's own effort when it
reached there.
A richly goWned woman gave it aid.
In another moment woman, kitty, cars
and people had moved on.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06
"Cave Man" Chagrined
When Wife Still! Lived.

Cleveland.-"Well, what do
you think Of that?"
Such was the comment of AL
bert Majoras, "cave man." when
he learned from the police that
his wife was not dead.
Majoras appeared at Central
police station and calmly in
formed the desk sergeant that
he had killed his wife. Police
rushed to the Majoras home
and found the wife all tied in
bundle. When they had remov-
ed the ropes she told the police
that her husband tied her up
and threw her out of the house.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06

We ship by boat or rail fresh
cooked crabs or crab cocktails. Order
from Dave Phillips, P. o. Box 217.
2-tf
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06

First-class dressmaking done Mrs.
o. Smith, No. II Burkhardt apart
ments. 3-tf
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06

Your eyes fitted. Compound and
stigmatic lenses replaced. See o.
borne.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06

It's the flavor and the grain which
make the bread at the City Bakery
famous.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06

Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat
teries, all sizes. Blum O'Neill Co. 3-tf
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06

Read the Daily Times for the latest
and most reliable world news.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06

Job printing at Daily Times office
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-06

Fresh Ever-Ready F1ashlight Bat
teries, all sizes. Blum O'Neill Co. 3-tf
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24
TERRIBLY SWOLLEN
Suffering Described Az Torture
Relieved BY Black Draught.

Rossville, GAINS. Kate Lee Able, a
mis- place, writes: "My husband Is -
eugiHeer, and once while littiag. he Ia
Iursd himself with a piece Of heavy ma
ehiRery, across the abdomea. He was
70 sore he could not bear 10 press o.
hImseIf at all, on chest or abdomen. He
weighed l65 lbs, and fell on Hath he
weighed ITO lbs, In two weeks.
He became constipated aad Il looked
IKE he would die. We had three dlffereat
doctors. yet with all their medicine, he
bowels failed to act. He would tarn upI
q tsa-cent bottle Of castor oil. and drInkl
4 two or three days In succession. Ma
dId this yet without result. We became
desperate, he suffered so. He wns swell
lea terribly. He told me hls suffering
could oaly Be described IS torture.
cent and bought Thediord's Black
Draught made him take a big dose.
and when 1t began 10 act he tainted. be
was in such misery, but he got relief and
began TO mend at once. He got well.
and we both feel he owes his life 10
rhedford's Black Draught."
Thedford's Black Draught win help Yoa
10 keep 1T, ready for the days work.
Try I'll NC-13i
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24
A Smeller's Work.

Some persons have faith in the coil
smeller," as in the case of an Okla
homa farmer who was drilling on his
farm. He had just brought in small
we'll when a 'smeller" offered for
moderate fee to locate a gusher The
farmer agreed The "smeller" cover
ed most of the farm and finally
"smelled' the gusher site just thirty
feet from the farmers we'll The far
mer is drilling on the new location.
There are other methods employed
sometimes in the oil game, such as
the operator who locates" a well,
starts drilling and in the night hauls
in a DARRELL of OIL pours some in the
hole and greases the drill. The fol-
lowing day the countryside is excited
and the drilling business is good.
But these methods are few in the
oil industry.
Locating oil wells is matter of
some knowledge, some experience
and a preponderance of chance. The
staff of biologists, whose entire
time is devoted to study of earth
structure in various fields, and locat-
ing drilling sites. A majority OF the
smaller companies deal only in lea
Ses.
The experience of one town in
Kansas illustrates what may be
termed the "luck" of the oil business.
through possibly failure to apply
science had much to do with it.
This town got the bug" after an
other city nearby had drilled and pro-
cured gas. The town voted $4,000
for prospecting in the vicinity and
four wells were drilled without sue
cess. The land held under lease by
the municipality was some of the
best oil land in what later developed
to be one of the greatest producing
wells Of the Middle West. After the
fourth hole proved dry the city sold
its leases to a private company for
$50, 900. The company sent its geolo-
gist to the field. traced the oil struc-
ture and began drilling on the loca-
ton he recommended. Every well
was a producer. To date p million
barrels of oil have been taken from
the company's leases, which still
are being developed rapidly.
In the pioneer days of the oil IN
dustry. before Kansas had thought
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24

in combination with heat, pressure
and other elements.
One Kansas City oil operator with
40 years experience as an engineer
in both oil and gas fields also gets
away from the beaten path in his at
tempt to solve the origin of oil and
gas. Said the operator:
"All of the earboniferous material,
such as leaves, grass, trees, dead
animals and dead fish that have
about by the waves until they were
thrown into the gulf stream and
then, of course, carried in the direc-.
tion the stream flowed and dis
appeared in the depths of the earth
with the gulf stream.
There are a number of deep spots
in the ocean that are unfathomable.
These deep spots appear along the
eastern shore of South America
There is one just west of the Carib-
bean sea and one in the Gulf of Mex
leo. They register two thousand
fathoms in depth. There are also
number of deep spots in the ocean
around Australia. around the Philip
pine Islands and one northeast of
Japan and another at the south end
floated down the river Throughout the
world during the unknown past per-
iods of time are not still floating
around on the oceans surface. They
did float around and were tossed
of Boring Straight.
"a look at the world map would
indicate that these deep spots are
fact it looks as though they are a
receptacle for all of the refuse that
floats down the rivers.
"All of the hydrocarbon substances
have evidently gotten into these deep
spots of the ocean and then floated
in under the earth's surface, the
water flowing through the center of
the earth and out at the North Pole.
The refuse material is trapped and
there decomposed with salt water
until it rises in the form of gas.
Some of this gas undoubtedly bub-
bles up through the waters in the
ocean and some of it comes up
This gas is composed of oxygen,
hydrogen and hydrocarbons. When
it comes in contact with heat in ex-
cess of 1900 or 1900 degrees Fab
renheit, the oxygen unites with the
carbon and produces some carbon
dioxide gas, which liberates the hy-
drogen and hydro-carbon gas. These
gases rise gradually to the eartRs
surface through crevices in the gran
lite and on top of the granite is a
honey -combed rock known as Tren-
ton rock or Trenton limestone. Then
these gases condense into the natural
elements, which are water, hydro
gn and hydro-carbon oils. The hydro
or marsh gas, does not condense, and
therefore furnishes the natural gas
that we discover by drilling into the
sands The hydro-carbon condenses
and furnishes oil. The enormous gas
pressure that accumulates forces the
oil and water towards the earth's
surface. The gas, oil and water con-
tinue to find crevices through the
Silurian, Devonian and Mississippian
stratas and finally into the sands IN
the Cherokee shale. This water, purl-
fled by heat. filters through all these
stratas that were laid down pre- |
historically, and forced by gas pres
sure to supply the springs that are
not supplied by rainfall Where the
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24

GeOlOgy's Part.
"The real truth about the oil bust
ness said the Oklahoma man, "is
that geology plays a prominent part
in locating new oil country, far re-
moved from proved fields.
"The oil industry might be divided
into two classes, the companies that
pay high prices for leases in proved
territory, and the wildcatters. The
first play a comparatively safe
game, with high expense and smaller
profits. The wildcatters pay little or
nothing for leases in unknown coun-
try. Their biologists choose the like
ly places for drilling. If few good
wells are brought in their profits
are large. Theirs is really the gamble
end of the oil business, for the
chances are much more in favor of
the operator in country that already
is producing OIL
Another operator declares there is
no science in locating oil, other than
knowing the boundaries of the sea of
past ages that covered parts of the
United States. He declares that un-
face oil strain is traced to its source,
only the drill used in territory known
to have been under water in past
ages will disclose oil-and even then
it will fail rs per cent of the time.
Then there are some who believe
in the foil smeller." His class is
small and his followers few He has
profound mien, is mysterious in
his methods, and, strange to say, now
and then makes as good showing
as the scientist. He uses an instru-
ment of secret composition, which is
said to bend towards the ground
when over oil pockets. The secret
composition is supposed to have an
affinity for oil, and it is from this
instrument that he gets the name
"oil smeller."
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24

oil and gas had been drilled into,
and the pressure not off, there have
been domes raised up from the enor-
nous pressure which shows in the
earth's surface. These domes are
called anticlines."
But theories, as one operator said,
will not find oil wells. The drill will
if it is there 1t costs money to drill,
and many lose where another wins.
Oil is a gamble, the greatest gamble
on earth. The amateur who uses
common sense is liable to strike it
loaded down with science, is apt to
loadd down with science, is apt to
get dry hole-Kansas City Star.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24
But the Biologists Are Neutral.

But the biologists Are neutral.
One geologist declares that the
lowest order of animal life came into
existence with the formation of the
Potsdam and Trenton rocks, and the
source or origin of natural gas and
oil must be attributed to the burying
and subsequent decay of these mus
sells and other invertebrates. He
adds:
"Periods of storm and calm laid
the sand down loosely then disturbed
it, filling it with either silicate or
the spaces between the little pebbles
became reservoirs for gas or 81
generated by decayed animal life.
then the sand was cemented together.
Extreme storms formed the shell
and held down the major portion of
the gas and oil until man drilled
through to it. Oil is a product Of
natural gas, caused by the confine-
ment and pressure of gases in the
rocks
Other biologists are noncommittal,
however. One says: How, when and
where the constituents of gas and oil
were formed is not known definitely
We need not bother about the various
theories that have been propounded;
that is. whether these constituents
originated from cosmic, organic, in
organic, animal. vegetable, volcanic,
animal bacterial plant bacterial, di-
atomic or fatty algal sources. The
incontrovertible facts are that we
have gas and oil as a crude natural
substance made up of mixtures of
widely varying constituents, even
though we do not know how these
mixtures were thrown together"
Biologists in general are inclined
TO the theory that oil results from
decayed animal and vegetable matter
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24

Mr.. R. E. Leigh is in New York
Purchasing the initial stock for his
new store on Main street, which he
expects to open for business early
in September.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24

Mr. j. D. Jordan, after serving
fourteen months has arrived at Camp
Merritt New Jersey, and will be
mustred out soon at Camp Shelby.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24

Mr.. Joe Salter, Of the prairie, was
in the city yesterday on business.
Mr.. w. r. Mcpherson was in the
city yesterday on business.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24

DR.. C. d. Goodwin has returned
from Buffalo, where he attended the
annual meeting of the Optometrical
Association of America
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24

Mr.. H. E. King, secretary of the
college, has returned from a business
trip to Atlanta in the interest of the
college.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24

Miss Oslo Jordan, who has been
attending the normal at Peabody is
expected home soon.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24
HOW TOLOCATE OIL

of oil, a Kansas City man made a re-
port to large company declaring
that all of Kansas was oil country
and that the southern part of the
state would produce oil in huge
quantities. This was before the days
of geology in oil industry, and his
report was based entirely on his be-
lief that Kansas was at one time un-
der salt water and that several deep
holes of the former ocean bed were
under that state. 1t was through this
recommendation that some of the
early drilling was begun in that
state.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24

AS to the show" all operators or
locators, or scouts, which is perhaps
better name, do not agree. The one
answer they do not agree on is that
| geology takes some of the hazard
out Of the oil business, but after all
| il is only 10 per cent science and 80
per cent guesswork; that it is almost
purely a gamble and the greatest
gamble on earth.
One operator, who has located
more than 100 wells and who has
"hit" 80 per cent of his locations, de-
clares he follows no set rule.
where there are surface indica-
tions," he said, sit is easy to deter
mine where to drill These surface
indications are called anticlines, out
groupings of rock that mean oil. Then
again there may be outcropping of
oil sand. Once a person learns to
identify an anticline, it is not hard
to locate oil country"
Another Kansas City oil man can
"see" oil land at long range. Recent
ly he was on a train in the southwest
when he looked out of the window
and remarked to a travelling COM
panion:
"There is oil land | am going to
get some leases there"
He made hurried trip over the
land and found outcroppings that in
dicated oil. After obtaining leases on
several hundred acres, he found pay
ing oil country to the north and
south of his holdings, and evidence
from the indications that his leases
were the center of long oil-bearing
district.
Oil men agree that even in cases
where outcroppings are found, sew
eral holes may be drilled before oil !
is found Chance of success is in
creased by indications, but after all
It is gamble.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-24

How Is oil located?
Are there any hard and fast rules
TO follow in selection of drilling
sites? Is locating of oil science or
guess-work? Are some men natural
oil finders, and if so, how do they do
it? Do they smell it, see something
on the surface that says "oil," or can
they tell by the feel of the earth
Ask oil operators these questions
and they'll look very mysterious, and
answer: Its easy-if you know
how"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-02-14
DAVENPORT ACQUITTED
OF CHARGE OF MURDER

Samuel L. Davenport charged with
having killed Henry Strickler in the
basement of Billy Grice's poolroom at
Nampa the afternoon Of August 10Th
last, was found not guilty by the jury
early Wednesday morning. The jury
was out nine hours.
Davenport admitted in his testimony
that he and Strickler had quarreled
and later engaged in fight. but &C
cording to his testimony, it was during
this fight that Strickler's revovel was
accidentally discharged. He contend
ed that Strickler was killed by ball
from his own gun.
Ed Bohannan was the only witness
to the tragedy, and he swore that he
saw the men fighting. but saw no
revolver, and this evidence strongly
supporting that of the defendant is
believed to have been factor in the
decision of the jury. The introduction
of the evidence of the defendant was
finished at about o'clock and the
case given to the jury. but the verdict
was not reached by it until 3 o'clock
in the morning.