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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23
Big Premium
List at State Fair
Premium List of Prizes to Be Award
ed at the State Fair Are Now
Ready for Distribution.

| Helena Montana, May 15.-More
than $4,000 in cash premiums have
been appropriated by the Montana
State Fair for distribution among
the various classes of exhibitors, at
the coming Victory Exposition Sep
TENDER 8-13, with additional $4,000
in special premiums put up by Ma
tional Breeders Associations and
Institutions interested in the differ
ent phases of development of the
State, according to the forecast of
the 1919 premium catalog now in
course of publication.
Carrying out the purport of the
legislative act of 1911 in which the
Montana State Fair was designated
as a State Institution for the promo
ton of the public welfare as me-
dunn of giving prominence and pub
licity to the resources of Montana,
this book is issued yearly for the in
formation of prospective exhibitors,
giving the rules and regulations un-
der which the Exposition is conduct
ed.
This year the premium list will
EiCSCut' MANY CIldliSSS 1Ilu 1OuiIiOflS
over previous issues, so that those
interested in horses, cattle, sheep,
goats, swine, poultry, rabbits, farm
products, fruits, flowers, dairy pro-
ducts, domestic science, art or edu-
cation will find all essential informa-
ton pertaining to the division or
class in which they are interested.
The subject of County Collective
Exhibits, one of the mainstays of
the State Fair, is clearly outlined
for cooperation of individual exhi-
bitors and duly appointed superin-
tendents of county displays. Under
the law creating the State fair the
board of Commissioners of each
county is empowered to cover the
expense assembling and conduct
ing such displays. The combined
county exhibits constitute the Won
derful agricultural exhibit for which
the State has become famous
throughout the nation.
According to announcement, ap-
pearing elsewhere in this issue of
The. Producers News, copies of
this premium book are procurable,
postpaid, on request to Secretary
Horace S. Ensign, at Helena.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23
STATE TERMINAL ELEVATOR
COMMISSION AT ST. PAUI

The Montana State Terminal Ele.
vator commission, charged with the
location and preliminary work on the
Montana state-owned terminal ele-
Hator established by the 1919 legis-
iature, paid the Equity Cooperative
Exchange terminal in st. Paul Q
visit few days ago, and discussed
with the management phases OF
grain handling.
The commission consists of c. E
Foster Of Coffee Greek, Mont, nom
mated by the Montana Union, Ameri-
can Society of Equity; w. S. Nc
Cormack, Calispell, Mont, nominated
by the Grange; Clark Baumgartner,
Fife, Mont, representing the federal
farm bureau; F. S. Putnam, Joliet,
Mont, nominated by the Farmers
Union, and Adam Stimpert of Great
Falls, an implement dealer, named
by Governor Stewart as a member
of the commission.
The commission visited Astoria
and Portland, Ore; Seattle, Wash;
Calgary, Alberta, and Forth Arthur
on the Great Lakes, and studied ter
minal elevator problems at these
points. Montana appropriated $780,
600 to start this enterprise.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23

pany or corporation violating any Of
the provisions Of this Act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and punish.
able by fine of not less than Tween.
ty-five ($25.00) Dollars nor more
than Two Hundred Fifty ($25O.00)
Dollars.
Any bull found running at large
on the open range or National For.
est Reserve in violation of the pro
visions of this Act may be caught
and castrated by any person finding
such bull. Provided any pure bred
dairy bull found running at large
may be taken up and party holding
bull shall notify the owner in per-
son, and if the owner of such bull
does not take possession of said bull
within twenty-four hours after being
notified, party holding such bull may
castrate him."
This Act became law on April
LIST, 1919, and is being enforced all
over the State of Montana, AMI
therefore any person who owns any
scrub bulls had better go out and
round them up and keep them off the
range for all time to come.
We are giving this law pointer to
our farmer readers so that none OF
them will come to grief like two of
the Dooley farmers did.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23
ELEVATOR PICNICS
ARE BEING PLANNED

By way of getting acquainted with
the success that has attended the
farmers line elevators in North Da-
kota for the year just completed, a
series of picnics to be held in con-
nection with the annual meetings of
the elevator companies is being
planned, and if there are enough
farmers interested, speakers will be
provided and a regular schedule of
farmer meetings will be held in
North Dakota.
Many of the Equity line elevators
have made splendid records and all
are in good financial condition ac-
cording to H. E. Diemer, superin-
tendent of elevators; who has just
finished the Cutoff" for the year
and will soon be ready to announce
definite results.
No better way has yet been found
of bringing the farmers together for
OCCASIONAL business and community
affairs, than the holding Of picnics,
and this year there is special
reason, inasmuch as it marks the
first time in the history of the grain
region that farmers have had line
elevator of their own in operation.
Farmers are urged to write at once,
either to the Co-Operators' Herald at
Fargo, N. D., or to the secretary of
the Equity Cooperative Exchange
and state whether they would be in
terested in planning for an annual
picnic in connection with their local
elevator meeting.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23
CONGRESSMAN RIDDICK TO
gbi START INVESTIGATION

Congressman Carl w. Riddick OF
Montana, member of the Agricultural
Committee, declared today that al
the earliest opportunity he proposes
to start an investigation into the
reasons for the unfair favoritism
which has characterized the policy
of meddlesome interference with all
kinds of business by numerous
boards who autocratic functioning
has Disguised everybody.
As, one of the many examples of
fragrant unfairness, Congressman
Riddick points to the recent official
announcement of the wheat corpora
ton at New York refusing to permit
American raised wheat to be sold
abroad. The reason given for this
restriction is to Keep all cur wheat
in this country and to keep down the
price
Today comes an announcement that
a similar government board is act
ing as salesman in foreign markets
for the packing houses of this coun-
try. It is declared that large guam
titles, of canned meats from Ameri-
can packing houses are to be sold
abroad by government agency in or
der to keep those goods off the home
market, to keep the price up to a
proper high level.
1t is abominable that the present
administration uses it's government
agencies to automatically discrimin-
ate against. one group of American
citizens and the product of their la
Dor, by denying them the right to
foreign markets and at the same
Tune uses the same authority to fav-
or another. group of citizens by seek
ing foreign markets to increase the
profits of their products.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23
North Dakota Hires
Compensation Expert

Bismarck, N. D.-As an earnest
desire of the North Dakota farmers
administration to make the work
mems compensation law in that
state as efficient a spossible, Emil E.
Watson of Ohio, considered the
greatest authority in the United
States on industrial insurance, has
been retained to draw up a schedule
of rates for the workmen's compen-
sation bureau.
Mr.. Watson was in Bismarck re-
Gently to sign a contract with the bu.
reau for his work. Besides being
connected with the Ohio industrial
commission, he is now consulting
actuary for the war risk insurance
bureau of the United States treasury
department., and also has full charge
of the actuarial and underwriting
work of two other states, New York
and Maryland He was appointed
sole actuary on the committee of in
surance Of the war department,
where he served until the armistice
was signed. In this capacity he
saved the government nearly $2,000,-
900, which the government had given
to risk companies in excess profits.
FIJI A SPLENDID LAW
North Dakota" said Mr.. Watson,
during his stay in Bismarck, "has
the most broad and humane work
mems compensation law enacted. 1t
is better than those of all other
states, and excels even the most lib
eral compensation plan of any for
eign government. The laws perfect
ly balanced scale of compensation
allowances for different degrees of
temporary and permanent disability
arising from accidents will enable
the employees to derive more benefit
from it than from ANY other in ex-
istence, not excepting the Ohio law,
which until now has led the field.
Furthermore, it can be administered
at much less cost to the employer
than the former private insurance
system.
can. illustration of the superiority
of the North Dakota. system over the
private compensation system, l find
that out of $4,000 insured in liza
bility through accidents to employees
of the manufacturing plants carry
ing private insurance, only $13,500
went to the injured men and women
The remaining $1,000 went to pay
lawyers fees and other expenses in
cident to collecting the insurance
claims. Now this $4,000 was the
total paid to all those injured and to
the dependents of those killed. But
under the new law, a man who is
deprived Of his eyesight will get as
much or more than all those workers
who We're killed or injured in North
Dakota last year. Yet the burden of
cost will be distributed to all en-
ployers, so that the state insurance
in the end will be cheaper even than
the private line insurance they are
buying now"
Mr.. Watson will spend the next six
or seven weeks computing North Da-
kota's compensation insurance rates.
The use of nearly $1,000,000 worth
OF tabulation of machinery has been
placed at North Dakota's disposal
through Mr.. Watson's connection
with the Ohio industrial commission,
thus effecting great saving to the
state.
Private insurance companies time |
and again have tried to hire Mr.. Wat |
son away from public work. He has
always refused, because he believes
that government insurance is the only |
proper solution.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23
WANT EQUITY TO
W START FLOUR MILL

Since the big farmers elevator at
Dunseith has been amalgamated with
the Equity line elevator and the
small elevator that was in the Equity
line at that place. is now urgently
needed for grain, group of farm
ers of the vicinity have asked that
the Equity Cooperative Exchange
put the small, old elevator to use by
erecting a midget" flour mill. If
the Exchange will erect flour mill
in conjunction with the old elevator.
local farmers will subscribe $4,000
to stock in the Exchange, they de-
clare. This would be enough to buy
and erect the mill and give some
thing for an operating fund
1t has not been determined that
the Equity Cooperative Exchange
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23
FARMERS MUST BE SURE TO
= POST UP ON LAW

One of the laws which was passed
at the 1919 session of the Montana
Legislature is of prime Importance
to the farmers who own or has in his
possession any bull other than a pure
bred bull of a recognized beef type
as he is likely to be hailed into Court
any day and made to pay a fine as
two farmers from north of Dooley
have ben compelled to do. The law
reads in part, as follows:
at shall be unlaful for any per
son or persons, firm, company OF
corporation to turn upon, or allow to
run at large on the public highways
open range or National Forest Re-
serve within the State of Montana
any bull other than pure bred bull
of recognized beef type.
'Any person or persons, firm, COM
pany or corporation allowing or per-
uniting female breeding cattle to run
at large upon the public range or Ma
tional Forest Reserves in the State
of Montana must place upon said
range or National Forest Reserve,
one pure bred bull of recognized
beef type, not less than Is months
nor more than 8 years of age, for
every 80 head of breeding cattle,
pastured upon such range or Nation
al Reserve; provided, however, that
any two or more such users of the
public range or National Forest Re
serve may join together in furnishing
such bull when the aggregate num-
Der of female breeding cattle turned
loose upon the same range or Nation
al Forest Reserve by such two or
more users thereof does not exceed
80 head.
Any person or persons, firm, COM
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23

The system of private and semi
public spying which we used to
think belonged in Europe, has now
become a widespread disease with US.
In all large cities there are private
spying companies which make a
business of following wives or hus-
bands and digging up enough correct
or false scandal to make business
good via the divorce court. Several
years ago the president of the Penn
sylvania railroad testified that the
company spent 100000 a year for
spying and special police (mostly to
fight union labor. New York City
alone contains 127 companies which
get their income by furnishing spies
and thus to labor-hating employers.
Now we are entering a new phase
of the spying system. The reac-
tionaries throughout the country are
Investigating" school teachers. One
of the principal methods is to get
immature school boys and girls to
act as spies and report to parents
greedy to hear of some progressive
idea that they may step on it. The
New York City board of education
has ordered the superintendent to
make "an immediate and exhaustive
investigation into the life, affiliations,
opinions and loyalty of every men,
Der of the (teachers) union"
And so the thing goes, and in
time will seriously reach any one
and every one who dares to have
opinions different from the reac-
tionaries. 1t is one of the express
sions of the brutal power of concen-
trated wealth.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23

can go into the milling business at
this time, but the offer of farmers to
take $4,000 more capital in stock
in order to finance it, and their in
sistence that they want this mill un-
der Equity control and not in prx-
vate hands, indicates the strength Of
the cooperative sentiment in the
locality.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23

A base ball team of Plentywood
boys, aged 10 to Ia jouneyed to An
teiope and played the junior team of
that town, winning by a score of 20
to 8. Here is hoping our mems team
does as well as the boys.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-23
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Rev. w. E. Savage, Pastor.

SUNDAY SCHOOL dC 10 a. III.
Morning worship at II a. m.
Beginning a week from Sunday,
May 25, the evening services will be
continued again on the first and
third Sundays of the month until
further notice.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-13
STOPS HUSBANDS PAY
WHILE DIVORCE PENDS

Alleging that Albert s. Charlton
had been guilty of extreme cruelty
and neglect OF duty by failing 10 sup
port his family, Bettie Charlton filed
suit in the district court yesterday
for divorce and secured an order
from Judge owen preventing the
Frisco Railway company from pay
ing his wages to the defendant until
further order of the court.
The petition states that there are
three children, and that the defend
ant has often left them to the mercy
OF charity. and that the plaintiff has
often been compelled to, get out and
work In order that they might have
the necessities of life.
n q. Conley also filed suit In the
district court for divorce from Alice
Conley He alleges desertion az a
grounds for the action.
Mable shannon asks TO be di-
yorced from n. w Shannon because
of the extreme cruelty and neglect OF
duty on the part OF the defendant
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-13
OLD STYLE COTTON ORDERS
PERMITTED UNTIL APRIL 80

WASHINGTON. March l2.---To
clear up NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., the bu-
rcau OF markets tonight issued n
statement explaining its recent rul-
ing on the cotton futures acts that
purcbasea or bonaffue sales covered
by old style contracts Tor the pur-
pose of liquidation would be per-
mitted until April 80. The state
ment follows:
"Fulfillment OF old style contracts
in accordance with other written
terms. namely. by actual delivery or
receipt OF cotton or by setoff or
ringout or by cash settlement In the
future month IN which they mature,
is not prevented by the recent
amendment to the cotton futures
act Under the provision OF the
amendment as passed there TX seri-
GUS doubt as TO legality OF permit
ting the execution OF any old style
contracts whatsoever after March 4
even though such contracts bee for
the purpose Of liquidAtinE old style
contracts. However. after confer
cnCe with treasury department II
was agreed In order To help the
trade In the situation brought about
by the unexpected passage and i'm
mediate effectiveness ~ the amend
ment to make no objection To bona
fide sales or purchases for sole pur-
pose OF such liquidation until the
conclusion OF April 80"
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-13
BOY RESERVE RANKS
ARE FILLING FAST
Craig aud Rogers Counties Organ
iy,Nd and State l. Approaching
Its Quota.

Enro,mcuts I'm tho boys working
reserve are increasing every day and
the prospects Tor the quota set for
the state before April will he sur
passed, asserted Howard Meyer. as
sOCiate director Of the boys working
reserve, after visiting several coun-
ties IN IN, eastern hair or the state.
The organization IN Craig county
has been completed and the Rev.
Howard v Tomllnson. pastor Of the
CouErcgut.nrniis church at NIniih,
has been appointed to take charge
ot the work assisted hy the county
farm agent. q T. Thomas, l., VI
Aldridgo. correspondent FOR The
Tulsa world has been appointed
publicity officer fur the county.
The officials In tuaig county are
expecting To use the reserve to har-
vest the largo wheat acreage th,H
spring II rs thought that the largest
wheat crop IN the history OF the
county will Ice harvested
nr W $ Johnson whose SPLEEN
did work among the reserve last
year received praise from caduunr-
tcrs In Washington Will continue To
have charge OF Rogers county. W
c. kateS, secretary OF the CONNER,
cial club OF Cnrcmore. was np-
pointed publicity officer and to as-
sist Doctor Johnson
Several complaints have been re
ceiVcd from members ~ The reserve
Of not receiving badges for the work
done last year. ANY hoy ~ the re
serve who did not receive his badge
may secure one from A. L. Farmer.
federal state director Of Tulsa, hy
sending credentials showing the
number or hours worked during the
year place ana name OF employer
said Mr. Meyer
The enrolment I'm Tulsa and
Tulsa county Is increasing as rapidly
as possible ana the officials OF the
local reserve are certain the reserve
slogan, Two hundred members be
fore April' will be reached The
high school students have begun to
enroll for work during the spring,
Mr. Meyer raid
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-13
CUMMINGS TAKES RAP AT
SENATE FOR OPPOSITION

STAMFORD. Conn. March ~ --
Homer $ Cummings, chairman OF
the national democratic committee
IN formal statement issued here to-
day charged that the senate 10y its
failure 10 pass "many pending meas
uros essential ia American business
had "RbdlCatcd Its functions and neg
loctcd ita own duty TO point out the
supposed derelIctions OF the president
and defects I'm peace treaty which
has not been completed and which
Is not before the senate for It's CON
sideratlon.
Declaring that those who assent
to so desperate a political device as
sumo heavy responsibility" Mr.
Cummings praised the attitude Of
former President TAFT and criticised
the republican senators opposed to
the present terms OF the draft "under
the leadership OF Senators Lodge
penrose and Knox" lie charged
them with having no breadth Of
view" and with being actuated in
part by settled dislike for Wilson
and all his works. and In part by a
fixed purpose to embarrass tho pres
ident and to weaken his influence at
home and abroad
All civilization IL today upon an
unsafe and unstable basis, said Mi.
Cummings, The break-up of EN-
pires, the struggling into national
life of submerged peoples, the rise
and spread OF bolsheVism, the dlSlo-
cation OF industry and the existence
OF famine have created new and eX-
traordinary difficulties,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-13
COURT CONFIRMS SALE
OF HICKORY ESTATE

Holding that the sale ~ land be-
longing to the Hickory heirs. lo-
Gated ncnf the city OF Tulsa. had
been conducted In a legal manner,
ANA that the price OF $4,000 WAS
not disproportiouatc to It's value.
Judge owen confirmed the sale As
made through the county court
The matter camo up I'm the dis
irict court yesterday on petition ~
James 5. watson, probate attorney,
IA which hr sought to prevent tive
confirmation of the sale The case
wNs dockctcd under the title In tho
matter OF the guardi1nship ut Lou.
mia Hickory SHllo hickory and
Samlc Hickory minors. and } &. W
Bland, their guardian.
] -. Campbell i- the purchaser
of the land. Attorney Watson
claimed IN his petition that the GOV
ernmcnt had appraised the land Ht
$4,000 and that Campbell WAS the
only bidder ON the land AT mo sale
and had purchased II tt t'E.uOO.
which he claimed was diSproporluu.
uto to ils value, Notice OF appeal was
given.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-13
PACKERS AND LIVE STOCK
MEN FORM ORGANIZATION

CHICAGO, March IL What was
officially characterized NJ an epoch
making event in the live stock in
dustry was announced here today. II
X an organization of i've stock mon
ana packers. with the government
represented, designed 10 iron out dif-
t"rcnces between packers ana I've
STOCK producers as fast a. they occur.
Tho announcement SumC ON the
heels of "A iS-huur conference attend
"i hy representatives OF the i've stock
associations OF five states and about
10 Of the leading packers OF the
country The Zig Eve packers
all entered into tho agreement
Tho state associations represented
wer" thns" OF Kansas. Illinois. Iowa,
Missouri and Texas other assucia-
uuns. II was said viii Join the move
mrnt Resides the Chicago packers.
there were packing house representa- l.
lives from buffalo, indianapolis. be
lroit, tIrN Gland, Austin, Tex. st
Louis and Pueblo. colo.
The conference adopted "A plan
which calls for conference COM
mittcc of the live stock industry.
composed OF 20 representatives. OF tho
producers, the packers and the com
mission men and "A government mem
ber.
Growers who think they have boon
unfairly treated IN any market may
obtain the facts through "A local COM
miitoe on which they win ho fully
represented, according To the plan.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-13
MISSOURI WOMAN ADMITS
POISONING HER HUSBAND

PARKER, Kan. March 12.-Ren-
Gtn,h hominc, age 40. and Mrs.
Ited Highback. age 80. today ma de
written confessions to the county at
"Iuty OF Harper county that Friday
,,snt lhey killed the husband OF Mrs.
iii,,Enpack ii,snVck by giving him poison. Mrs
r,'Hnuacks confession says Romlne
IaI'"ssed the poison and gave IL to
,'t hlshback was In the habit OF
|NIng pepsin after his meals and
nI,h ne took the medicine following
s.pper Friday night she saws she
tt.s nun some OF the poison. High
~ y, WA was S' years old and the father
OF Tour children.
ro Homlnes confession differed 1T
~. W. rom that Of the woman. nc 10 n
An,hosl.' Ac,or' Both are held In jail az