The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-08-28

prove false any statements issued 5
his Office in reference 10 the Bowen a
fair. The papers which have oppor
tunity to pick up 9 few Of thes
Thousands are: The Divide Count,
Farmers Press, Crosby; The Progress.
Bleach; Dunn County Farmers Jour
nal, Dunn Center; Record, earring
con; Chronicle, Cavalier; Courant
Bottineau; Farmers Provost, New
Rockford; Grant County Leader. Car
son; Mail, Edgeley; Mckenzie Count,
Farmer, Arnegard; Farmers Press
Park River; Trail County News
Hillsboro; Free Press, Fessenden
Record Post, Rolette; Stutsman C0un
| ty Press, jamestown; Farmers News
Rugby.
The offer refutes charges made il
these various newspapers in q syndi
Gated article and passes the buck il
no uncertain terms. The letter t,
Thomas p. Reddick, Of the Crosb!
Farmers Press is practically dupi
Gated in the other offers. It is as fol
lows:
To Thomas p. Reddick, editor Of thu
Divide County farmers Press, Crosby
N. D.; to any reader Of the Divide
County Farmers Press and TO any
other citizen Of Divide county who be.
lieves Thomas P. Reddick prints thu
truth in Townley's paper.
hereby offer to Thomas T. Red.
dick, to A. C. Townley, to any reader
Of the Divide County Farmers Press
Kof any man in Divide county, the sum
Of $1,000 in gold If he proves to the
satisfaction Of the supreme court Of
the state that:
First-Fred Knodle, agent Of the
Paul Thuett Company Of South st.
Paul, who held a mortgage on the cat
tie that died. did not make an investi-
cation and find it was impossible to
show these cattle were poisoned.
Second Lee NJ. Roderick, Of
the department Of veterinary science
working under DR.. E. F. Ladd, did not
make report showing that he was
unable to determine the cause OF
death Of the cattle.
Third That the u. S. agent inves-
tigating the death Of the cattle did
not made a report that he was unable
to determine the cause.
Fourth That the chemists for DR..
Ladd did not make a report showing
they were unable to determine the
cause of death Of the cattle.
Fifth That Frank Evans, the de-
tective Of the Montana Cattle Crow
ers' Association, employed at the ex-
pense of my Office, did mot make an
AFFIDAVIT in April showing that no evil
dence of any kind OF poison was found
or that the evidence would warrant
the arrest of anyone.
Sixth--That all the reports on the
investigation by q. s. agents were not
OF file in the Office Of DR.. Grewe, state
veterinarian, at Bismarck, weeks be-
fore the shooting Of Bowen.
Seventh That these same records
were not also filed with another state
officer. n
q Eighth-That all Of the facts known
now by Governor Frazier were not
known by him weeks ago, and that the
man whom he appointed to investi-
gate the same, namely, Seaman Smith,
who was sheriff Of the county at the.
time the cattle died, and who lived
within a few miles Of the place, and
who had the entire resources Of the
cSnty back Of him to make an inves-
tigAtion, so far as the records show,
ever did anything sss' 1
Ninth That M. X. Bowen, before
he died did not make request that
The Attorney Generals Office should
have nothing to do with Seaman
Smith, the sheriff, that he was in with
with the people who had it in for
Bowen and that he was under the.
domination of Bowen's enemies.
Tenth That any legal evidence Of
any kind whatsoever was ever pre-
sented to this Office that the cattle
were poisoned.
Eleventh That H. "A. Bronson now,
a member Of the supreme court, my
first assistant at the time the Bowen
case was presented to the State Coun-.
eli Of Defence, and who was the legal.
adviser Of the State Council Of De-,
Tense was negligent in this. case which
he handled while in my Office.
This offer is good from now until
January I, 1921. Come on, gentlemen,
and get the money, and if Townley
still claims that / haven't done my
duty ask him why he does*t include
Dr.. Laid, DR.. Leo Doderick, the u. s.
agents, United States District At
torney Hildreth, the governor. Sea-
man Smith 1.-THE sheriff and now his
investigator), Dr.. Crewe, state veter-
marian, Frank Evans or Justice H..$A.
Bronson in the impeachment charges.