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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03
MULTIPLE HITCH
AT COUNTY FAIR:

The Percheron Society of America
will demonstrate the Multiple Fitch
at our coming County Fair. 3. Fl.
Critchficld, Secretary Of the North
Dakota Livestock Breeders Associa-
tion will put on this demonstration
for the Percheron Society. This DEM
onstration will be held on the John
Mcintosh land adjoining the fair
grounds. ..
To those who 90 not know what the
Multiple Hitch is will say that it is n
comparatively new method of driving
four siX-eight, ten or more horses with
one set of lines and in such manner
as to eliminate side draft and give
proper balance and equalization Of
pulling power, etc. This demonstration
should prove very interesting to fair
patrons.
s., Fl Wilson Scr'y
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03
LEAGUE WINS REFERENDUM ELECTION, June Is

easily in nc g.. yer o. the POVERTY line
can not realize how desperately little
the great masses have to live for un-
der the burdens Of the great war
During the war patriotic sacrifice
made the burden easier, but now flesh
and blood cry out against the !,ugd-
cry needed to make both ends meet
the lack Of good food, the shoddy
clothes, the cramped living conditions
Of our cities.
Be honest, politicians, where have
they any hope Of relief? If you
whom the big interests who control
the two old parties allow to scram.
bic for personal power: You know
they have no hope in you. In radi-
cal overturn Of society? They real.
ize the greater misery necessary i1
such a change before completion.
Only from North Dakota sp~1ngE
the living hope. There the people
have driven out special privilege by
means of organization and the ballot
A great host of farmers and workers
is ready to do likewise as North Da.
kota demonstrates that success by the
ballot is possible.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03
LOCALS WIN FOUR STRAIGHT

Since The Gourant was last printed
the Bottineau Ballteam has annexed
four straight victories to their credit.
The first game was against Qmemee
on the local diamond on Wednesday.
June 25th. The result was, Bottineau
6, Omemee, /. Brown was on the
mound for the locals and pitched air.
tight ball, while Brandt for Omemes
was hit freely. This was really the
big game Of the past week inasmuch
as it was the first game that Omemee
lost with Brandt pitching.
The next game was Friday between
the locals and Deloraine team and
won with a score Of to /. Farnand
Williams pitched this game and show
ed he was capable Of stepping up
notch from the high school team.
Then on Sunday the team went t9
Upham where they won with a score
Of 10 to I, from what was considered
one of the best teams in the neighbor-
hood. Not a sing hit was registered
by the Upham boys while the Bottin-
eau boys had IL or IS.
To cap the climax for the week the
locals again trimmed the Upham team
here last evening in game noted for
the many long hits made. This game
started promptly at seven o'clock and
when the sun set the home boys had
the long end of 81 to 10 game. Up
ham had strengthened up with two
players from Omemee but the locals
hit hard at all times. Woods and
Brown for the locals each drova mt
a home run, while two three baggers,
several two-baggers and numerous
single hits were made by Bottineau.
The next scheduled game is Tues
day evening on the home grounds
against Rolette, the team that has
trimmed the locals twice already.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03
SHERMAN TOWNSHIP

This region was visited by hard
wind storm last Monday morning
about one o'clock that did some dam
age in the way Of overturning out
buildings, graneries, barns, ETC., but
the fine shower that accompanied the
storm was so greatly needed to save
the crop that the damage seems slight
in comparison with the great gain.
However there were not many, If any,
good substantial buildings destroyed.
The grasshopper plague is quite se-
rious in places. The people are putting
out all the poison they can get but
it is claimed by some who have tried
it that the results are not very satis-
factory Some claim the hopper dozera
give better results. One thing is GER
tain the farmer who hauls a hopper
dozer over his fields knows whether
he il getting any hoppers or not.
Road work is the order Of the day.
It Is good to see our roads being inn
proved. ss
Mrs. OVERLY has had tlle pleasure
Of a visit from her mother and sister,
the Wigeby's from Bottineau, who ro~
turned home on Sunday. !.
The supper and sale given BY tho
Girls Missionary Society Saturday
evening was highly successful af-
fair. A hountjful supper was served
TO about 200 people the proceeds
being $50. Afterward short program
was rendered. The young people gave
several songs accompanied by four
guitars. There was a solo by Ruth Fe-
land and a short talk on Missions by
Mrs. Cram. The chief feature of the
evening followed, viz. alictioning OF
articles made by the society, aprons,
dresses and fancy work. Mrs Overland
was auctioneer. The bidding was fast
and generous. We have not learned
the receipts Of the evening.
Several members 81 the sth grade
class took their. remaining subjects II
The June examinations, Thursday and
.IkidJs I, Il / sss.ss:ls.l Nh
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03
CASHIER IN SEVEN MONTHS

Considerable interest has been
aroused in the rapid rise Of Mr.. Max
Buechler, recently promoted to Cash
ier Of the Fredonia State Bank. Only
Z months ago he started there as book
keeper and Asst. Cashier after CONF
pleting course at the Dakota Busi-
ness College, Fargo, N. D. Only thor
ough training can, account for such
quick promotion.
All eyes are now on Mr.. Lawrence
Hanson, another D. B. G. graduate,
who has recently accepted the position
Of asst. cashier Of the First National
Bank of Leeds.
Write to r. L. Watkins, 806 Front
ST., Fargo, N. d. for information
about summer courses,
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03

alleges conspiracy to discourage en-
hstments and hinder the prosecution
Of the war.
The conspiracy consists Of the fact
that League leaders talked ani organ
lied in Jackson county after they had
been unlawfully forbidden to do SO
and that League papers and literature
were circulated, the same literature
which the supreme court Of the state
found to be patriotic In q similar case
brought up from Martin county In
July, 1918.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03
FORESTRY STATE NORMAL

After a tie was decided the prizes
of the Bottineau County Agriculture
contest were awarded to Lloyd Lilies
trand, first, and Elmer Larson, sec
ond. The subject Of the papers this
year was Crop Rotation on Bottineau
County Farms"
Miss Ruth Wilson leaves for Chica-
go this week where she will spend two
months at the Art Institute.
MI. Brown is supervising th remod-
cling of the dormitory. After that he
will attend the University Of Chicago
for the second term.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03

The federal trade commission sends
out a report that its experts believe
the Northewest AMI the Middle West
could support at least 10 more i've
stock slaughtering centers and that
the present congestion Of the business
in few centers is bad.
Many years ago the large-scale
slaughtering was done chiefly on the
Atlantic coast, near the market here
and in Europe. Then came refrig-
orator cars and the slaughtering plant
moved nearer to the cattle raisers.
Why haven't they kept on going near
er to them?
The Big Five naturally find it con-
venient to have their business under
few roofs, but didn't Investigator
Heney hit the nail on the head when
he ~emarked that the packers Ike I'd
have congested, oversupplied mar
ket in Chicago to keep livestock pris]
es depressed? Heney declared that
the packers knew what they were
about in keeping the few other mar
kets "lined up" with Chicago. Even
the packers themselves admit in their
ads that they are wissmen.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03
MAJ0nll'l''..-...-,.. n :. =, ANCE FROM 5000
TO $4,000 ON REFERRED LAWS
BOTIlNEAU COUNTY GOES FOR FARMERS WITH
VOTE OF BETTER THAN TWO TO One

The Referendum election held il this,
state last Thursday is now history and
to the great majority Of people the
result was ND surprise. AS the Cour-
ant goes to press the returns are still
incomplete and probably will be for
. day or two yet. The printing bill,
which received the smallest majority
carried with 5000 votes to the good
and the Bank bill with the largest ma
5ority has lead of $4,000. Figures on
the average majority will be about IL
600.
The /. v. A. through its official or
am, the Independent, put up q game
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03

Al cartoon Ia, the last issue of the
North Dakota Leader before the re-
.ferendrm election on June 26, showed
) great mass Of humanity locking
toward the farmer Of that state and
q voice cries from the mass, GIVE ns
something 10 live fol" ..3.
Perhaps no phrase can express me
intense feeling and the hope that sup7
PORTS the Nonpartisan league better
then that. The people who got .fa q
.war profits ant TIA people who liyee
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03
C Commissioner Of Imnigra-

Wanted-Men or women to take or
ders among friends and neighbors for
the genuine guaranteed hosiery, full
line for men, women and children.
Eliminates darning. We pay so cents
an hour spare time or $24 week for
full time. Experience unnecessary.
Write, international Stocking Mill,
Co., Norristown, Pa. ct.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03
SPY EXPOSES
MEANS USED
RALPH A. MOORE, HIRED TO
FRAME UP TOILER ORGANI.
CATIONS, TELLS STORY

ots dOlS MLu.-DeSlnnn2 WIN lCS
July z issue the Nonpartisan Leader,
official national magazine Of the Non
partisan league, announces that it will
run remarkable and sensational ex-
posture Of the big detective agencies
and their relation to the special inter-
ests.
Under the heading of "My Story
BY Spy for the Special Interests ~
Ralph A. Moore, who has spent life
time in the work Of private spying
for big corporate organizations, tells
Of his intimate experiences. His
story will run through five or six is
sues.
Employed Against League
Among other "jobs" which Mr..
Moore was hired to perform was that
Of finding frame-up material on the
Nonpartisan league in Nebraska dur
ing the war. Knowing nothing about
the League prior to this assignment,
he secured q position as organizer and
came in touch with the various Of
ficers, committees and leaders. He
did considerable organization work
and even was present at the meeting
of state delegates in st. Paul last
winter. So cleverly did he do his work
that not once was he suspected Of be-
ing an outside spy.
His articles, however, are not con-
fined to his employment by business
mems committees" against the
League. They will cover the many
years in which he was employed tc
frame-up labor and other organiza-
tions which the big interests desired
to overcome. They will offer an In
side view Of the great war always go.
ing on beneath the surface Of Ameri.
can life and fought with much more
cunning and with rs little scruple as
in the days when Rockefeller built
up his. monopoly in oil.
Documentary Evidence
Mr.. Moore's story will also be sub
stantiated in every important particu-
lar by series OF sensational docu-
ments obtained from another and in
dependent source, although friends Of
the League will hardly question his
sincerity in wanting to make up fol-
his employment by League enemies.
The articles in the Nonpartisan
Leader will be illustrated by many
Photographic reproductions Of original
documents. The installment OF the
July z issue, for instalce, will con-
tain a reproduction of Mr.. Moore's
membership card in the /. w. W,
which he obtained under false pre-
lenses when he was spying On that
organization for big corporations.
How he came 20 wife these remark
able chapters concerning the dirty
work and corruption in Artssican POL
itics and business is not the least IN
teresting part Of Detective Moore's
story. With all his tricks gained
from years Of experience he never
found anything damaging to the
League, and after he learned how
sincere and honest the League move
nent was, the hadr-shelled detective
was moved with compuctions about re-
manning il the employ Of the inter
ests lighting the organized farmers
with such contemplate methods and
lase come torn ward and teil ths M
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03

fight and used any means possible TO
beat the bills. Bottineau County gave
the league measures q majority of
1000, Bottineaq city gaining 20 per
cent for the measures over the vote
last fall. In all cities Of the state The
League gained from 10 to 20 percent,
The following is the vote: in Bottineau
county:
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03

Frank Walsh, who recently served
as labor chairman of the war labor
board, and Ex-Governor Dunno Of H.
linois went to Ireland not long ago
as a committee to study conditions
first-hand on behalf Of American
friends of Irish freedom. After q
visit there they attempted to have an
audience with English government
officials in London and were refused.
Later they were refused recognition
by officials Of the Paris peace confer
ence.
They have issued q report on Irish
conditions which would shock the
world were it not that the world were
shocked with many barbarous things
going on at the present time.
The conservative New York Herald,
which printed the report in full, COM
ments thus on it in q report dated
from London:
"The report came here from Paris
early this week. :. Those who saw it
were stunned. Publication was with
held by the newspaper owners, who
demanded that the government an
swer the charges and publish them
simultaneously with the report. This
official denial was not forthcoming,
and finally the report appeared in a
London newspaper. It stunned Eng
land. At first, English newspapers
could find but one word to use in an
swer to the charges. That word was
1ie.' Still there was no government
denial. The following day another
newspaper printed the report. Today
it was printed in full by two other
London journals"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03
A. {. TOWNLEY
DENIED RIGHTS
JACKSON COUNTY MINI, JUDGE
RULES HE MUST BE IN
COURT

Jackson, Mlnn.-u the special re-
ferendum election in North Dakota
on the new farmer legislation has at
tracted the attention Of the entire
country, it is no less true that the
trial Of President Townley and Joseph
Gilbert here on the trnmped.up
charge Of conspiracy has attracted
the anti-league venom Of the entire
country too.
All the unscrupulous, foolish stories
OF League disloyalty, Of La Toilette
incidents, or I. w. w. connections Of
sinister, hidden meanings Of everyday
words and phrases when used by Non
partisan league speakers-in short,
every shred Of alleged evidence that
the League was disloyal is to be re-
hashed and gone over. It will be done
not SO much because Of the bearing Of
these things on the jackson county
cSse as because it will give the con-
trolled press occasion to display the
old spasms.
Dismissal Denied
Knowing that the courts in jackson
county would be prejudiced against
the Nonpartisan league because Of the
unusually vicious methods used to
keep the League out Of that county
in 1917 and 1918, the League lawyers
moved for dismissal Of the case before
the supremee court but this was de-
MED. While League speakers and or
ganizers have been kept out in def
ance Of our fundamental law, anti
farmer interests have flooded the
country with incendiary literature and
speechmaking.
And the rulings Of, the court 50 far
have shown that the fears about an
Unfair trial were well founded. Con-,
trary To- section 1900 Of the Minneso-
t. code, Judge Dean ruled that Mr..
Townley had to appear personally in
court. This section expressly pro-
vides that defendants may be repre-.
sented in court by counsel only in mis-
demeanor cases. There was obvious
" the intention to put through what
. could be painted as an humiliation OF
the League president and to interfere
with. his work in the North Dakota
campaign.
Great Bias Shown
n The Judge has also refused to keep
the witnesses out OF the courtroom
and they can thus hear what the man
on the stand testifies and reframe
their stories accordingly. He has re-
fused to allow the defense to challenge
two Jurors for cause when one adj
mitted that evidence would have to be
produced to set him right, and when
another declared to barber that eyr1
erybody seemed to be prejudiced
against the League. AT another time
he stopped the defense il. cross-exan1-
ming witnessson the ground that II
was delaying the case.
The case was brought by the Jack
son county attorney last year when
he federal government refused to
take itup after strong pressure had
been brought tol do so. The federal
I prosecutor could see nothing Il the
evidence. The Indictment, thereSofe,
d fought under u stat4 law, the con
81 hae newer been
M Aa jt w eEal court sndG1
asz 30
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03
Il; OF
THE PAST WEEK
Imperialists Fall in Italy
r..
Rubbed in With Salt -
.,5EsEi HI. +.
Preachers of the Sword
Something to Live For
Americans Report on Ireland =
More Packing Centers Needed.

The Orlando cabinet in Italy has
been forced to resign by a vote Of
more than three to one. Only few
short weeks ago our big city. press in
formed us that great public demon
strations in the big cities there show
ed the people thoroughly united behind
Orlando.
Now really, gentlemen of the con-
trolled press, weren't those. demon
strations considerably staged BY the
government And didn't you forget
to tell about the staging so as TO pro-
mote Imperialism and so as to> keep
Wilson from driving his "new-fang-
led" points in to the sticking point?
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03

w nv OO tklO 1C4AVwo "AV NA 6N~
that reform must come by violence
distribute their own literature when
they could Just as well use the litera-
ture of violence put out by the spe-
cial interests? Why not circulate the
speeches Of Ole Hanson Of Seattle, Of
Kelly of the Illinois Manufacturers
association, Of Judge MCGEE Of the
Minnesota Public Safety commission :?
And here is 8 splendid thing sent out
as news from Council Bluffs, Iowa:
IF the boys Of the 168th could
have marched into Des Moines Just
after the battle Of Chateau Thierry,
where they saw fall 1,400 boys OF the
regiment, and could have seen a copy
Of the special edition. Of the Iowa
Homestead, BY night there would not
have been left standing single tim
ber of the Homestead building, and
as for the publisher well, there would
not have been left enough shreds OF
his body to bury This is what Colo.
mel Mat Tinley, former commander OF
the 16Sth, said Monday night when
speaking to the veterans of Council
Bluffs, at Rainbow post session, on
special editions of the Homestead put
out during and after the war, attack
ing the Iowa methods Of making war
drives" a
Many another splendidly ir1agirlas-
tive picture has. been drawn on the
theme oe how the boys are going TO
bring the war from Europe to aQafr- ls2s
lea in behalf Of special privilege. has
particular one is drawn by a brotner
Of Eminent Tinley, vice president of q
the Greater Iowa association and 9
high handed politician. The Iowa y 9.
Homestead has been ca1npaIgn,aa1ng
against big road deal and disragard !,
OF law and order. Hence the politli--
cal reason for shattering its timbers
by violence.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-03

in the "sad" plight of Butte, Mont.
sheriff. This arm Of the law, togeth-
er with several others who claimed
to be MOVED by the purest patriotism,
dragged a citizen from his bed at
night and threw him into jail on a
trumped-up .disloyalty charge. 1t
seems the citizen had appeared before
the draft board in behalf Of two Swed-
ish citizens who were by treaty ex-
empted from the draft and that he
had q Job which one Of the ''patriots'
also wanted. =,
The arrest gave the Butte Miner
and other papers chance to show
their loyalty by condemning the citi.
zen beforethe was tried, in scurrilous
accounts But the victim Of official
oppression did not take the patriotic
game kindly. He had the nerve to
bring suit for $40, 900 damages against
the Butte Miner, the sheriff and 9th
ers concerned. -.
Seeing the turn affairs were taking
and knowing the lack of any excuse
for their act, the "patriots" decided
to try to settle out Of court. But the
citizens heart was hard. He refused
anything less than $4,000 and some
salt to rub it in. The salt was a pub
lie apology by the sheriff, played up as
prominently as the disgusting story OF
his arrest And he got it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-06

Representatives of fourteen rail-
road unions have joined in a COM
munication to Director General Hines.
asking immediate increases in wages,
So far as known. this is the first In
stance on record in which all the
railroad unions, representing 1900, 600
employees, have acted as a unit.
Mr.. Hines said today, that he had
not had time to analyze the commune
cation. but that it seemed to be mere
ly formal presentation of wage de-
mands already made public.
Speculation was caused by the ac-
ton. of the unions as to whether in
the future they would continue to
proceed as a unit. When the four big
brotherhoods united in wage demands
several years ago their insistence
that the railroads treat with them as
sistance, because of the tremendous
power which the unified brotherhooda
could bring to bear.
ShoufA all OF the unions adopt the
same methods, 1t was said that
virtually no demands which they
might make could be resisted.
Mr.. Hines conferred today with
Chief Shepherd of the conductors and
Acting Chief Shea of the flremen, but
said the discussion concerned only
routine matters, as he previously had
taken UP with them the new wage
demands. President Forester, repre-
senting the clerks and freight ham
dlers expected to see the director gem
eral late today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-06

The high price of shoes was declared
tn ba aue "a axce.s,va nrof,ts taken
~ oo oue 70 excessive pron.s
by every factor IN the shoe production
industry, in a report by the Federal
TradA comnois,ior +o coneress made
~ eo'o ''- ~ -
pubic today.
The packers were charged with hav-
ing begun the pvramidine of shoe
'no siaune
prices by an unwarranted increase IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-06
FIRING SQUAD MAY BE
PROFITEERING REMEDY,
HINTS ENGINEER CHIEF
TEN-CENT BEEF SEEMED
HIGH TOD. c. RESIDENTS
.HFTY-NINE YEARS AGO

Mounting food costs were agi-
tating the residents of Wash
ington fifty-nine years ago to-
day, just as they are at pres
ent. Reference to the files of
The Evening Star Of that day
discloses a letter protesting
retail prices of beef, which was
then selling at from 10 to IL
cents a pound. The letter is
signed "a Beef Eater" and
reads:
Mr.. Editor:-.A live dog is
better than a dead lion,' it has
been said, IL quote correctly.
but a live OK Is not SO valuable
as a dead one, by a burned
sight Beef cattle are quoted
at about an average of cents
per pound, while a very ordi-
nary pound in the market
costs 10 or IL cents. My friends,
the butchers. are a jolly good
set of fellows, but they are get
ting rich. buying up farms.
buying fast horses, etc, while
we poor devils who have to go
our funds grow small by de-
grees and beautifully less II
any one of the political par
ties will put cheap beef
plank in their platform /. for
one, am ready to stand on it
till meat comes down."