Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-25
lANCER0FF|'lE[RS
REWARD TO THE
TOWlQEY GANG
Will Give, Thousand Dollars
For Evidence in Omitted
Store Plot"
Cass County Attorney is
Asked to Probe Charge
Recently Made.
fspecial To The Herald.l

Bismarck, March 25.-Attorney
General LANCER calls President A. G.
rownley's hand in a statement issued
yesterday offering a reward Of $1,000
Tor proof that, as. claimed. by the
Fargo Coufier-News on Sunday, a plot
has been Matched by Twin City job
bers in which forty thousand dollars
is to be used to illegally harass the
United Consumers Store company.
The reward notice is positively di-
rected to Townley and the Courier
News among others.
The Fargo story so worded as to
Intimate that h Consumers United
Stores company considered the in
vestigation of it's business ordered by
the Blue Sky commission. which Mr..
LANCER is a as part or the
plot.
In addition to offering a reward of
$1,000 "as an individual and citizen
Of the state of North Dakota" for
any evidence which will lead to The
apprehension and conviction Of n
poration implicated in said illegal plot
to break the state laws, Mr.. LANCER
has wired William c. Green, states
attorney of Cass county, requesting
that he question the phase OF the
Courier-News story to the effect that
Fargo wholesalers and jobbers last
Thursday evening raised $1,000 to be
put into a. fund of $4,000 which the
Fargo paper alleged is being raised
in the Twin, Cities for the purpose OF
illegally fighting the Consumers Stores
company.
Borrows Money
To relieve the public Of any sus-
picion that he has at this, time sudden
access of wealth, Mr.. LANCER naively
closes his reward notice with the
postscript:
81 borrowed the money"
The notice opens with:
sTo whom it may concern and
especially officers and attorneys
of Consumers Stores Co.. editor
and officers of Courier-News Pub
fishing company, chief OF police
North Dakota, United States
marshall and to A. c. Townley:
"Sirs:
Information having this day
been published in the Courier
Views of Fargo. N. d., that a plot
which there vas a meeting in
Fargo on March 20, 1919, at
which $500 was raised as part
of fund of $4,000 with which to
illegally harrass the United Con-
sumers Store Co.. you arc hereby
notified that I, as an individual
and a citizen of the Estate of
North Dakota. have deposited the
sum of $1,000 in the Farmers
Equity State bank. Of Mandan, at
Mandan. N. D., to be paid as a re-
ward by me personally for any
evidence which will lead to APP
prehension and conviction Of any
person, Individual. association or
corporation implicated in said IL
legal plot in violation of the state
laws.
civilian LANCER.
"Attorney General.
"P. ST. Borrowed the money"
Asks Prosecutors to Act
To William c.. Green, states at
torney Of Cass county, Mr.. LANCER
The Courier-News his morning
states that the Fargo wholesalers and
jobbers Thur; day evening raised $500
to be put into a fund of $40.0 600 now
Cities for the purpose of illegally
fighting the United Consumers Stores
company.
You are hereby instructed to in.
vestigate these charges. I suggest tina,
you Immediately interview the edito,
and officers of the Courier-News anG
officers of Consumers United Stores
company, for the purpose of getting
evidence against n wholesaler OF
jobber and that if you have evidence
even to warrant a prima facia case
that you Immediately arrest jobb@ OF
wholesaler or both. I hereby tender
the services of one of my assistants
and powers Of my office to assist you
1t is my earnest desire that you in
vestigate these charges thoroughly
and impartially and ~assiduously and
that you bring the guilty individual
or corporations to justice. I assure
YOU of my Jealous cooperation" J.