Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-01-16

II had Alr4aAy spenk appr4xifnake-3
" $1,000 Of the stAke's money IN the
investigation which I had pursued.
and my results and conclusions we're
not essentially difkereDt than What
bad previously bssn accompiishsd:
do. But I did promise. and prom,
ised repeatedly ia, Nr..sBoyen,and to
others, that at, the time they were
able to obtain q, specimen containiuG
the slightest trace OF poison, / would.
Immediately reopen the case and.
pursue the inyestigaixions until va
found where that poison caMe from.
Neither Ne. Bowea.Nnor any one elss.
has ever shown me any indication
the Rowen ranch.
Bowen Shot
-Four months elapsed and nothing
further developed until or the night
of the 3ist day OF July, M. K. Bowen
was shot and killed at his ranch in
Immediately the ieretnaid Of the
ToWnley kept press went up that !
had failed to prosecute disclosed
crime. and since that time one Of
the most bitter and unjustifiedi at
tacks ever made against prosecuting
lawyer. has been waged against me.
Martin Blank. Who edited the league
paper in Beach, stated that my action
in connection with the Bowen cAttte
Roisoning had contributed to the
murder Of NJ. X. Bowen. and out over
the state the other yapping jackals.
owned by Townley. echoed the Same
hue and cry. Today Blank is under
arrest. awaiting trial for criminal libel
for the things he stated in that edi-
torial
9'sTo discredit. the work I had done
in this case, on& the night of August
l, Seaman Smith was appointed by
Governor Frazier special Investigator
and went up to Beach. It is unneces-
sary for me to tell you the record OF
Seaman Smith; you are all acquainted
with him: he was your sheriff for two
years n he lived at Beach. He is
the Seaman Smith whom Governor
things which all OF the other investi-
gators who preceded him had been
unable to find; he is the same Sea.
a Smith who was sheriff at the
time the original complaint was
made by NJ. *. Bowen. and whose
investigations failed to find any trace
of poison or evidence OF cattle steal
ing then: he. is the same Seaman
Smith. who, in d~ischarging the com
"AANSAOA 6AVSIk AlAA " 1OVSk AAOI
Frazier, came to Beach, went out tt
the Bowen ranch, and stood beside
a pile Of dry, bleaehed bones just Ions
enough to have his picture, taken anc
printed in all the league newspaper
that was the nearest he eve can,
to being a great man-he is the sam
Seaman Smith who more than a yea
and a half previous. when the cattl,
, were dying like fleas. white WASHED
the WhN1o .afFoi IL. hA 10 fhA 1I~nA Gao
man Smith who M. X. Bowen sait
was under the domination Of tn,
. men heS suspected, and in with tn,
= people who had it in for him. and HI
is the same Seaman Smith who at tn
!, close Of the second chapter of his in
: ~yestigations returned to Governo
Frazier still unable to produce, evi
dence of the poison that he hady beel
sent to find at the Bowen ranch. Sea
! man Smith is the man and these ar
:. the methods by which the lynn
league newspapers attempted to dis
. credit me. This Is the sum total o
Governor Frazier's serrymander ii
the tragedy that was entitled to ser
!. ious consideration instead Of the po
= lttical submersion which he gave 1t.
3 ut was along with this manufac
= tured cloud Of accusations asains
i. me that every Townley paper carrie
: the headlines that I should be in,
u peached. But today in those sam
, newspapers nothing is being sal
9 about the Bowen cattle poisoning
The special session of the legislator
: has met and it has adjourned. Their
> was the opportunity for which tn
5 men who had charged me. with tn
. failure to perform my duty in con
= nection with this case had led yo
q to believe they were dreaming:tYe
never during that entire special ses
' sion. was the slightest action take
. in connection with the Bowen cas-.
A single vote by these men and ali q
> the records would have been sprea
before them and the concealed dere
= LECTION of duty, had there been any
y brought to the light Of day.
d Silence Prevailed.
WAS any investigation conducted
Was any word spoken then about tn
cattle poisoning -eases? After all tn
n hubbub and tumnlt Of the charge
made by these men. the sphinx q
Egypt could not have been more 81
lent on this subject than these blat
ant towards who made them, an
4 then sat there dumb.
n Nothing has been said these man
d months past, and b scurrilous Town