The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-11-24

Besides the above she following re
port appeared in the Poplar Standard
which story limited that "some h;ue
was about to drap:"
PETITION CANVASSTNG BOARD
TO REJECT THREE PRLCINCFs
Petition Made to CanvAssing Board al
Noon To-day Would Rejec! Balm
vile Preclact Ne. 3. Wolf Point
Precinct No. 81 and Volt Precinct
No. %, and Gisr P. pIsr MI rity
of SIS Wees III the ;, unity sell Of
fetal Returns.
A [. n. {. bomb was exploded in
the Wolf Point camp at one O'Clock
today when DR.. j. L. Atkinson, thru
his attorneys, Geo. E. Ericsson and
Erick Noun, appeared before the
canvassing board in session at the
court house, petitioning them to re-
ject Precincts No. 81, g and 8, which
would change the county seat vote to
read: Poplar, 1900; Wolf Point, TIA
"The board of county commission
vote of the election held the 7th and
adjourned until one o'clock, when the
canvass was set to start. In the ab-
SCilSC Oi SoLlIlbJ So1I1tillSSIO1tC1 I<IiIh
Weinrich, the canvassing board was
made up as follows: Commissioner
Patch, Commissioner Lesson and Treas
urer Tidland. Precinct No. "a was
the first to be taken up and before a
start was made the petition was pre-
sented to the board.
George E. Ericsson presented DR..
Atkinson's case by showing that in
Bainville Precinct No. 8, the election
on Tuesday, November 7th, was no.
held at the proper polling place, the
fire hall, as designated by the board
Of county commissioners, but in a gar
age on another street in the town of
Balnville. The same condition pre-
vailed at Volt in Precinct No. rs,
where the election was held in the
school house instead of in the Volt
postoffice, as designated by the board
''The grounds for asking the rejec-
ton of Wolf Point Precinct No. 81
were that the voting was conducted in
a United States licensed Indian trad
ing post and at sub-agency on the
Indian reservation. The polling place
i'll this precinct being in the S. T.
SOSoo ~ Oh SCOICs 4LiIG SUE,SWSI DOl1lS
a licensed Indian trader.
"This movement on the part of Dr..
Atkinson in protecting the interests
of the taxpayers of the county COM
pletely upset the plans of the large
Wolf Point delegation in attendance
at the meeting to move the county
seat at once, and set their legal adj
visors groping for legal points with
which to construct some sort of de-
tense in the argument Of the points
of law before the canvassing board.
Attorney Geo. E. Ericsson read the
law and cited numerous decisions of
the higher courts to substaniate the
demands Of DR.. Atkinson's petition,
while Attorney Geo. E. Hurd Of Great
Falls, appeared for the Wolf Point
delegation in an attempt to combat
the array Of facts presented by At
tQIney Ericsson. Just how we'll Mr..
HUrd succeeded will be shown by the
decision of the canvassing board,
which, it is said will finish it's work
and render Judgment on the
three precincts mentioned"
Of course this report was published
before the event Of the week in coun-
ty seat affairs had occurred.
PRODUCERS NEWS PROPHET
The Producers News predicted a
couple of weeks ago, that it would be
likely that there would still be some
fun and that a lot of water would
likely slip down the Missouri before
the county seat was moved, and all it's
seem to have been iusti-
fed and that there is going to be a
tight Of statewide interest before the
hurly-burley's done appears from the
article in the Helena Rec
ord Herald of November 21st which
reads as follows:
ROOSEVELT COUNTY SEAT
FIGHT TAKES SUDDEN TURN"
Attorneys for Wolf Point Will Seek
Court Order to Compel Count of
Votes in Disputed Precincts.
Great Falls, Nov. 21.-The battle
for county seat of Roosevelt county
took a sudden turn today when Norris,
Hurd and Rhoades Of Great Falls, at
torneys for Wolf Point, gave notice
of intention to file with the supreme
court a writ of mandamus to compel
the county commissioners of Roose-
welt county to count the votes of
precincts 81, % and in the official
canvass.
'SThe board of county commissioners
completed the canvass Monday even
ing and George Leason, county com
missioner refused TO sign the certifi-
cation County Commissioner r. E..
Patch of Poplar and County Treasurer
W. L. Tidland of Poplar, signed the
certification F. W. Weinrich of
Mondak, county commissioner, had
to serve on the board.
Roosevelt county was organized in
1919 and Mondak named as the tenn
porary county seat. In the election
Of two years ago Poplar and Wolf
Point were the two high contenders
for the county seat. Neither had a
majority and the county seat was To-
Gated at Poplar, the highest contend
er, until the present election. On the
face of the returns Wolf Point won
by 191 votes, gaining one more in the
canvas. The board Of canvassers,
however, refused to count precinct 81,
claiming that the voting was done at
the Cogswell store, on Indian reserve
ground, the Poplar Indian reservation