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Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
S1O,OOO DAMAGE
 SUIT IS ENDED OUT OF COURT
Counsel For Mrs. Pagan Ad- nits That This Action
 Had Been Taken.

The $10,00o suit started by Mar garet Pagan, administratrix on the estate of Edward J. Pagan, against the Connecticut Co.,, was settled out of court today. Attorney E. J. Me- Manus, counsel for Mrs. Pagan, ad- mitted the action had been settled but declined to state the amount.
 Pagan was killed in November, 1916 as result of a fall from 8 troll ley car. He was standing on the rear platform of a Barnum avenue car and as it reached Mill Hall ave- nue it was claimed that the car was going so fast that it lurched, throwing Pagan to the ground. He was so badly injured that he died a short time afterward. Efforts have been made on several occasions to bring the action to trial but absence from the state of important witnesses pre- vented this.
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
F.E BRAKEMAN
 IS REELECTED
 STATE MASTER
Secretary Reports Member ship of 16,00O in Subordi-
 nate Oranges.

Hartford, Jan. 14-Election of of fcers and reports of special and standing committees took up much of the time of the Connecticut State Grange at Foot Guard hall today. the second of the annual meeting.
 Resolutions presented included one favoring the construction and main tenance of a national highway sys- tenn; others protesting against an in crease in the state tax, but others that the states further needs should be met by indirect taxation; that capital and labor cooperate with farmers in increasing production; that bona fide farmers be placed on all of ficial boards, state and national, where agriculture was involved.
 Secretary Weldon of Plymouth re-
 ported a membership of more than
 16,00O in 147 subordinate granges.
 All the present officers were re-
 elected for the coming two years. Leonard H. Haley of Woodstock was reelected 8 member of the executive committee for three years Howard
 D. Sikes of Suff1e1d, whose one-year term as a member of the executive committee expired, was elected for lhe 1uI terH oI tnree yedIS' O1icS1~ elected are:
 Master, Frank E. Blakeman, Strat- ford; overseer, Allen B. Cook, Mid dlebury; lecturer, Charles A. Wheeler, Storrs; steward, Minor Ives, Meri- | den; assistant steward, Louis G. Tolles, Southington; chaplain. Rev. Dr. J. Howard Hoyt, New Canaan; l treasurer, Norman S. Platt, New Ha- ven; secretary. Ard Welton, Ply | mouth; gate keeper, William F. l Clark, Lyme; Ceres. Mrs. Ruth T. Randall, Bridgewater; Pomona, Miss | Talulaha Sikes, Suff1e1d; Flora, Mrs. | Cora A. Hine, Orange; lady assistant 1 steward, Mrs. Mack Taylor, Le- 1 banon.
 A resolution disappearing the day I light saving act was submitted and | referred.
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
Chinese BOISheViki Are
 To Aid Soviet Troops
ORENBURG AND URAL REGIONS CLEARED OF ENEMIES OF SOVIETS-FRONT SAFELY
 HELD AT TURKESTAN.

London, Jan. 14-Russian Soviet troops which have reached Balai sta ton, almost 400 miles east of Taiga, will be aided by Chinese Bolsheviki, according to a Moscow despatch, quoting advices from Cheliabinsk. It is said the Chinese will operate in the "coastal region.''
 The Bolsheviki expect soon to en- counter Japanese forces sent to east ern Siberia, and the Moscow despatch states the Soviet forces will not "un- dertake any aggressive action calcu- lated to prov a collision" It says, however, that 't1e menace of the Japanese and of the entente vassals in the west will compel the Soviet authority to devote a great part of it's forces to military purposes
 While Polish and Lettish forces have driven ahead along the northwestern Russian front and have forced the Bolsheviki to retire. at number of points, their offensive is said by Mos COW to be merely local.'
 Odessa has been occupied by Ukra- nian soldiers, assisted by Galician units, it is reported. These troops do not appear to be fighting as comrades of the Bolsheviki, although they are opposing the troops formerly com manded by General Denikine in south ern Russia Advices state that Den- ikine has dismissed General Schillins as commander of -Bolshevik troops in Odessa and appointed Gen. eral Ignatief commander of the gar rison with orders to organize the de fense of the city.
 BolsheviGz official reports state the Orenburg and Ural regions have beer cleared of opponents and that the Turkestan front could be considered as being safely held by Soviet forces.
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
HI. S. CUMMINGS
 TO BE SPEAKER
 AT NEW HAVEN

New Haven, Jan. 14-Announce- ment is made today of arrangements for a dinner to be given here Thurs day evening, Jan. 29, a part of the entertainment by New Haven Dc7as s5- cratic women of Mrs. Geore~ sass, chairman of the Women's national Bureau of the Democratic party Homer s. Cummings, chairman of the National committee, also will speak. Invitations to attend will go to party workers throughout the state.
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
BOURGEOIS IS
 CHOSEN TO HEAD
 FRENCH SENATE

Paris, Jan. 14.---Leon Bourgeois was elected president of the Senate by that body on the third ballot taken today for the choice of a presiding officer. He received 147 votes as against 125 for Antonin Dubost, the retiring pres- ident of the Senate. Justin De Selves former foreign minister, who received IT votes on the first ballot and 60 votes on the second, withdrew from the race after the second ballot, in conformity with the rule that only the two highest candidates can be voted for on the third ballot.
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
OLD YALE SONG FINALLY DROPPED
 BECAUSE OF AIR

New Haven, Jan. 14.---A formal mo- tice was issued by the student coun- cil of Yale college and the Sheffield Scientific School student council to- Iay recommending the discontinu- ance of the use at Yale undergraduate gatherings of the old Yale song "B-ight College Years" because it is set to a German tune.
 The notice reads:
 -'In view of the fact that 36 per cent. of all undergraduates in the col lege and Shelf and 51 per cent. of all the undergraduates who voted last month are opposed to the singing of a Yale song to the air of Die Watcht am Rhine" the combined students councils recommend that its singing be discontinued at undergraduate xatharinEz'
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
ACCEPTS NOMINATION

Mexico City, Jan. 14-Pablo Cox zales, formerly general of a divtxfen in the Mexican army, last night sc- cepted the presidential nomination before the convention of the Demo- cratic League, which had selected him for it's standard bearer. General Gonzales Is the second candidate 10 announce himself. General Alvara Obregon has opened his presidential campaign with the issuance of a manifesto from his home in the state of Sonora.
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
|DESCHANEL IS CANDIDATE FOR
 PRESIDENCY

Paris, Jan. 14-Paul DeschaneI was suddenly thrust forward as a candi- date for the presidency of the rspub- lie in the Chamber of Deputies last night, seemingly by spontaneous i'm pulse on the part of members of the radical socialist groups The candi- dacy of M. Deschanel promises to liven up the congress of Versailles which will meet Saturday to elect a president, and the expected walkover for Premier C1emenceau. which was regarded by everyone as foregope conclusion, may not materialize.
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
EDELIN, WILL BRING TROOPS
 FROM SIBERIA

New York, Jan. 1.-The army transport EdelIyn, the first of a feet of vessels that will take from Siberia the troops of Czecho- SIovaJi and the United States regulars commanded by Major General William $. Graves, will leave here today with her announced destination Vladivos- tok. The steamer will go by way Of the Panama Canal and will call at Honolulu for coal and supplies.
 The other ships of the fleet for Russia, it is understood will be the President Grant and America.
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
SHEPPARD SOLD

Washington, Jan. 14-Bay1es Ship yard, Port Jefferson, Long Island, was sold by the Shipping Board to- day to A. P. Allen of New York, for s2,000,000. There are four uncoTn- pleted 5000 ton cargo vessels on the stocks and two substantially com pleted tugs together with six other vessels It was estimated that it would have cost the government about s1,250, 900 to finish these ships. ard shipping board officials decided f. would be more profitable to sell the plant.
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
.bACLEY WANTS SAME H0N0RS
 AS REST. GET

Washington, Jan. 14-Com- n1aIsdcr David ". BagIey, broth er-in-law of Secretary Daniels, has cabIed tho navy department he bo considered only for such decoration as was conferred upon all captains of destroyers serving ill the war zone.
 Commander Bagley was recom- mended for navy cross by the war decorations board, but Sec retary Daniels awarded him the Distinguished Service Medal along with captains of other naval ships submarines
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
SEVEN KILLED BY STORM

Brussels, Jan. 14-Seven persons are reported dead and many injured as a. result of the storm which has been prevailing over Belgium for the last AS hours. Numerous factories have been obliged to close and much damage has been done by high water.
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
SCHOONER AGROUND.

New York, Jan. 14 The Dutch schooner Pioneer. which left here to- day for Nassau. is reported aground near Sandy Hook. A high wind is blowing with rough sea-
Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
BEACH NOMINATED.

Lansing H. Beach was nominated to- day to be chief of army engineers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-05
cp,M1NA1 WARRANTS MAY BE ISSUED

vised of the opinion of Judge Conner
in the Dolin Mandamous Case, A. A.
Major, County Clerk & Recorder, is
sued these illegal warrants, which
were presented Immediately to Rex
Movius, County Treasurer, and ne at
once paid them.
County Clerk Major had, since the
middle. Of last week, when Messrs.
Timmons and Matkins allowed these
Gains illegally over the head OF the
county auditor, been constantly SUD,
.iected to all sorts of intimidations and
pressure by Mr.. Lockwood, and sever
al others who are probably IN on q
cut in the classification graft and
needed the money. Mr.. Major had
been constantly in secret conference,
behind closed doors, with the board OF
county commissioners, and with Mr.
T lockwood and others, who have coax
ed and caiolled him, threatened h1m
with all sort Of legal torture II ne
did not issue the illegal warrants, and
YESTERDAY, Thursday noon, he sue
cnmh Is the threats or blandis shments
IF Mr. lockwood, and signed the war
rants which were Immediately cashed
hv ,- Co.,ntv Treasurer Movius, who
From ali appearance was IA on the
deal to illegally pay these warrants.
Major, who for some time has been
cnlf;vat;np the good will of the old
canr %, !, of grafters, was after all, seem
mrlv 4 willing tool, and sought long
and hard for an excuse to issue these
warrants MAR for his friends, who seem
~ exercise q remarkable inauenee 0v-
(Continped on page z
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-05

ID to Another Hopper Kolored Attorney to
Figure Out Better Scheme to Change
the Laws on Our Stahite Books Next

Teleerams were received just before
ming to press that the primaries are
sssved sd again. The opposition played
the;r last trump card in a last des-
aerate a effort to rob the people OF the
"a A suit was brought before the Su-
0rpme Court, in Helena, in an endeay-
r. r. f. show that there was not a sui
scient number of signatures on our
referendum Petitions.
THERE WAS ENOUGH.
We secured two more counties than
the law required. But the Copper
crowd was attempting to invalidate
enough signatures from three counties
to defeat the Referendum and bring
sthe Primaries in April instead OF Aug
ust - =.
The Old Gang is desperate, and they
mean business. We must keep up the
frht, This will no doubt be a hard
and dirty political fight, but eve VIII
Stick" and win by fighting a clean and
honest fight. Let the people rule.
Information as to the call for coun-
ty conventions will be given later
There will no doubt be a change from
the call given out from headquarters
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-05
COUNTY ROBBED IN DAYLIGHT

County Treasurer Mov;s Pays the illegally Issued
Money Transferred From Other Funds In order TO ray
Same.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-05
POST
sg9E5 MASTER EXAMINATION

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an exafi1l-
nation to be held at PlentyWood,
Mont, on March 27, 1920, as a result
Of which it is expected to make GER
tifeation to fill contemplated va
cancy in the position OF fourth,claSss
postmaster at Dooley, Mont, ana oth-
er vacancies as they may occur at that
office, unless it shall be decided IN the
interests OF the service to flll any va
cancy by reinstatement. The com
pensation of the postmaster at thls
Office was 1914. for the last f1seai
year.
Applicants must have reached their
twenty-first birthday on the date OF
the examination, with the exception
that in a state where women are de-
clared by. statute to be at full age
for all purposes at eighteen years.
women eighteen years OF age, On the
date of the examination will be ad-
mitted.
Anplicants must reside within the
territory supplied by the post ofhce
for which the examination is announc-
The examination is open to all clt1-
zens of the United States. who can
comnlv with the requirements. !,
Aunlication blanks, Form l!o3, ana
fnll information concerning the re-
on,iren1ents of the examination can De
s.r,frea from the postmaster at the
nlace sc vacancy or from the onteo
stafes Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. &. o.
Applications should be properly exc
cnted and filed with the COMMISSION
at w Washington, D. c., at the earnest
lnractical date.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-05

Scathinq Denunciiaion Of At
torney General Palmer Scores
Hit With Farmer Audience

; Great Falls, March 1.-Speaking
before the greatest crowd which has
ever attended Co-Operators' con-
gress meeting, former United States
Attorny B. K. Wheeler last Friday
night was accorded the greatest re-
ception f any of the speakers who
have appeared before the congress.
A. G Iownley, who also spoke, was
given an ovation R. B. Martin, or
ganizer for the Nonpartisan league,
was another speaker and he, too, was
vel received.
Attorney Wheeler, speaking on
'seThef Constitution, declared that the
constitution was being dragged in
the gutter by Attorney General
Palmer and others and that it is up
To- the toilers to rescue it" The
speaker denounced in no measured
words the anti-social acts Of the Of
ficias whom, he declared, were dom
mated by the interests and said the
workers must do the job Of recon-
struction, and no one else.
The meeting was. the last Of the
Co-Operators' congress and was the
greatest in history. More than 1000
persons who sought admittance had to
be turned away.
AT the conclusion of the meeting
the vast crowd demanded that w. F.
Dunn of the Butte Bulletin editorial
staff make an address and refused
| to leave the hall, until at the expira-
| ton of 10 minutes OF cheering and
| shouting for Dunn, Alfred Budden,
who resided at the meeting, anrounc-
ed that Dunn was not in, the build
ing. The crowd then left, expressing
disappointment.
There was no mistaking the SEN
time11t. Of the congress and the con-
vention Of federation delegates:
They are going, home confident OF
success in the coming campaign, but
determined to keep working so that
no ground will be lost. There was
not the slightest doubt in the minds
Of the delegates that # the election
were to be held tomorrow the farm
ers and wage earneTs would win.
The latest attack On the primary
removed the last doubt Of the corrupt
character of the opposition. The
'tkept press" was jeered whenever
mentioned and plans were lald here
for starting more than one lndepend-
entt daily newspaper in the state.
It was the consensus OF the oplnlon
that there was no question but that
the congress marks the turning point
in the affairs Of state.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-05
WHO WERE CAUSE OF
CENTRALIA TRAGEDY?
Bv John Nicholas Beffel
Staff Correspondent,
The Federated Press

Centralia, Wash.-TIais town re-
CARDS a stranger with menacing eyes.
On the streets he is watched at every
turn, commented On, questioned II ne
stops anywhere long enough TO De
Questioned. There are two kinds on
people here, those who were IN tne
mob on Arn1istice day OF who are III
sympathy with the mob's acts, ana Inc
people were scared white by the
lawless ones, and are still scared.
| spent a day here going with an
eye witness of the rioting to the scene
Of the attack on the I.sW. w. hall ana
the killings there; to the gray. ru1hea
Mo-story frame building when nau
been the first headquarters or Ihe IL
dustrial Workers, wrecked following
Red Cross parade in April, 1913; 70
the little orange-colofed store Wlncr'
Blind Tom Lassiter, neWspoy ane :,
W, W. member, occupied pelolg
prominent citizens kidnapped nm anu
exiled him to another county.
We went also to the Chehalls river
bridge, where Wesley Everest was
lynched after being subjected 60 M III
credible torture and mutilat1on. Inc
recital turns ones blood to ice.
| examined the bullet holes IN tne
front of the cooperative store, III liz
mediatelv south of the raided 1. ". W.
headquarters, and discovered q ma
terial discrepancy in the states ,e, ev1-
dence. Fred G. Clarke, Seatele idm I1e+
yer and rifle expert, had testlfled s!d. az
he sighted through bullet hole Wmcl lea
pierced the upright sill IN 1ront =, +he I
cooperative; and that dlrectly Ii uu.,sar "a.
line Of his vision he saw tne uro ror,
windows of the Avalon hoteI, .soo.l =
which the state contends mem1Se.s =
the l. w. w. fired on the paraaelL Lela
l also sighted through that no1s, -
and stuck lead pencil INTO y ~
establish the exact directaon LEN as,.
which the bullet came; and you Ell ~
not see the Avalon hotel az ;
through that hole; nor did the f1@s IS.
pencil point twoard the Avalon. - u.
stead, on looking through, you u1 ~
the front of the Hop Jack sols Lev t,,,
parlor, 100 feet south OF tne ass.g,. ~ 81.
No contention has been made y -. =.
state that any shots We're na1 J;rectio1
Industrial workers from tile - s
OF the Hop Jack. .:,;1;tv tha
This suggests the possipihss a y
somebody elsein addition g .lle ~ Nov
". may have been shooc1ns -
II.
In The Centralia Daily Cnromsl' Cn1ni,
for Oct. 21, 20 days before tns at;ne sin 5
/ found a story. about 2 mees.ast meaet;u )
the Centralia Citizens ro.s1 ra;cl 4
Assn, lately formed. The Gl,,.,hb II ,,,oh
said, to solve the city's e q ~ -
lem. ~
Continued on Page E'sns, {,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-05
LABOR SPEAKS
FOR THE TEACHER

The New York State Federation OF
Labor, at its seth annual convention
at Syracuse, N. Y, August, 1919, IN
cluded in its program OF resolutions
one favoring "a thorough going and
complete revision upward of teachers
salaries, which at present are out
rageously low, especially in rural DIS
tricts. and a state law to the effect
that the minimum annual salaries for
teachers shall not he less than $1,000
a wear" This received the unanimous
vote of the convention.
Afiliation Of the teachers with Or
ganized labor is the only means OF
escape from the domination OF spe-
cial interests, and of connecting them
with the one group which is lighting
for real democracy, declared DR.:
Harry E. Overstreet of the college OF
the CITY of New York. This stand
was taken during a luncheon in the
Hotel McAlpin under the auspices OF
the Public Education Assn, IN which
the subject of organization OF the
teachers was discussed pro and con.
"The traditional unwillingness OF
teachers to align themselves with
so-called partisan labor has actually
delivered them into the hands OF par
.tisan interests said DR.. Overstreet.
"The schools and the colleges are not
public spirited in the sense OF beng
above all partisan attachments. Ihey
are hagrantly partisan, being govern,
ed in large measure by the ldeals ana
interests of the dominant status quo;
Radical, even progressive soclal ana
educational thought, has little oppor-
tunity to express itself. Our pubic
spirited' teachers are compelled TO
teach doctrines which are really IN
the interest of a very special class.
"Afiliation with labor connects
teachers With one group that is con-
! sistently fighting for a real demo
cracy-that is, for industrial demo
cracv. The great need of teachers to-
day is for democracy in their working
onditions-security Of tenure, free
dom of thought and speech, the r1gn1
To a voice in the organization OF thel1
work. Affiliation with labor subjects
teachers to the dangers Of lncurr1ng
the ennity of the forces of autocracy
and Junkerism in education. Ihls
should be enough to bring out heroic
1 1esnonse from the teachers, to save
themselves and American education
from the fermentation OF petty OIL.
garchies that are un-Amer1can noul !,
| IA their outlook and their methods.
| A blanket raise OF S4OO to $5OO
year has recently been granted :, tt
the teachers Of Chicago schools. The
salaries are still less than the mini
mum (s25OO) which Chicago teachers
are demanding. At the hearing Of
representatives of the teachers or.
panization, one of the teachers o.
/ mentally defective children declaret
/ that two Of her former pupils WIN
are feeble-minded were receiving.
higher salary than many OF tns
teachers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-05

What is probably one Of the most
high handed acts ever puiied, OF IN
Montana, was pulled this week Wnen
the BOARD of County Commissioners
~ Messrs. Timmons & Matklns, pass
"a the claims of Lockwood T. Blakes-
loo M over the head of County Auditor
n,cradv. a procedure absolutely con-
trary to law, according 70 Ine ue11s ra,ea1
recently handed down by Judge oomo na
or ia the Dolin Mandamus case
AGAINST A. A. Major, in which case
Dolin sought to compel Clerk q re
cor.ler A. A. Major by law, TO sign @
and issue a warrant to Joe DOM LOT
on s. amount allowed by the County
s sconnmissioners above the amount aP
n,oved by County Auditor OGraoy'
md . uarallel procedure to the pro-
cal,,re -. taken by the Board OF Com
~ issioners in the classification trans
action.
II nassing the claims of Lockwood
e n P,aEeslee. filed against the county
fcr e so-called justification OF the lands
- - +S;s - county. and which claims the
oa,,.tu - . auditor had disapproved, tne
% eo,,,ty commissioners, or Messrs
nored massI''t the &c opinion handed down by >,
the tn court in the Dolin Mandamus cas- :
ar5 srJ Ii allowed the claims, contrary g
the law, after refusing TO issue 9 :na.ra maa'
rant n payment Tor these N.Y. ~,
CLAIMS for nearly week, ana al.s' :
sarnrinr an opinion from County -:
tovnev Gunther 10 the effect tna1 - !.
wnnld Be illegal for HIM 70 issue ma 81
;iieraI .sosl 3 warrants, and after being aa
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-05
Marriage Licenses

Arthur R. Trace, Bowbells, n: u,
age % years, and Nellie A. Lund'
Dagmar, Mont, 20 years.
Andrew Anderson, Froid, Mont, are
81 years, and Nellie Muessman, frold,
Mont, age 35 years.
The following marriage licenses
were issued from Clerk of Court
Chapman's Office the past week:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-05
LUTHERAN SERVICES

I r;v;ne services at the Norwegian
r ,,fbaran church of Outlook will be
.conducted CONDUCTED Sunday, March 14th, be-
sni;Y,rninp at II a. m.
s. @ sarn;ces @ at the Henry Brelje resi-
dsnee northeast r19 od 1oWa MAM a zisv pastor. = -
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-05
Major Issues Illegal
Warrant on County

lockwood & Baleslee Inmiate Clerk & Recorder Into
Signing Illegal Warrants for Nearly len !, thousand Dol
lars In PAYMENT Of Classification Graft Claim
Of County Attorney Ignored and Recent Decision OF
Judge Conner Sp,nned.