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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23
FIRST ATTACK ON
OPIUM TRAFFIC
(Continued ION First Pagel

tCOnJlnued from First Page)
fumed wrists, are invariably held be-
hind the oaken doors of private homes.
There are no ratty servitors, no
tattoo of night sticks, no furtive sour
rying.
Parties in Rich Homes.
These are often homes of wealthy
people" an oft baffled officer said,
and we can't invade them. Behind
their doors is the threat of suit if
an officer gets the wrong bunch. We
haven't funds to employ the type of
informers we need"
To provide drugs for these alleged
parties the brainiest men of crook
dom, slip across the Mexican border
with cocaine, heroin and morphine.
They smuggle from ships at San
Pedro.
Ring within ring is financed by
men who have made millions in the
traffic and who expend lavishly to
increase the number of victims among
the discreetly wealthy.
Profits Enormous
Profits of dope peddlers are enor-
nous, state inspectors inform me.
Drugs purchased from wholesalers at
$50 to s65 an ounce retail easily at
from 5000 to $500.
zone attorney, apparently respect
able" the dean of the Los Angeles
narcotic squad says, "has made $780,
900 on dope in the last two years and
a doctor has made close to $1,O0O,0 0O
"Their clients are in Hollywood,
Wiltshire and other exclusive resi-
dence districts, none of which is more
nor less vice-pitted than another.
''These men and their ilk can match
every dollar of enforcement funds
with $1,000 to be used in evading de-
lection and capture"
Runs Dope Route
One Hollywood peddIer, long under
surveillance but never caught, oper-
ates a regular dope route like milk
man, making house to house deliveries
IN an auto.
Another recently escaped capture
but lost big cache of morphine Sc
,reted in a hole in canyon back Of
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23

He swore that T. J. Cooney, at
that time with the Thiel agency here,
told him that the department of JUS
tice had a girl stenographer planted
in the Fabian club, an organization
of liberals.
LEAGUE VAULT ENTERED
Balm swore that Cooney helped
the governor of Minnesota spend a
$4,000 appropriation for an investi-
cation of the Nonpartisan league by
bribing a janitor and floor sweeper
to rob the leagues vault.
He testified that Cooney, who is
now manager of the Thiel Office in
st. Paul, rented offices above the
league headquarters and subsidized
the building employees to let him in
the leagues Office one night when the
vault had been left unlocked
Balm swore that Roscoe 7. Sims,
a we'll known negro organizer of the
American Federation of Labor, was
also Thiel operative.
The produced photostatic copies of
a report on radical activities which,
he said, was made to Cooney by Sims.
Among others whom he named as
Thiel operatives was Arthur Proctor,
formerly secretary of the Communist
Labor party in Cook county.
Bomb Squad EmplOye
Proctor, he said, also was. employed
by the Chicago police bomb squad.
Hhe testified that Cooney told him
Lieut.. Egan of the bomb squad said
he kept ProctOr's membership lists of
the Communications party in the
police department vaults.
The witness also charged that
Cooney had faxed report to Alfred
Austrian, attorney for the Chicago
packers, saying that Rafatel Mallon,
Mexican, had asked Proctor for
iterture on how to form a soviet gov
eminent, saying he wanted to send
it to his father, Mexican official.
Balm said he told Cooney when he
saw this report that Mallon's father
was dead, and Cooney replied: "What
difference does that make? The
packers want this stuff and we are
going to supply it."
Tried to Stir Revolution.
Balm swore that a Burns opera
tive named DR.. Abrams went to rail-
road strikers at Cleveland in 1920
and told them he had a $4,000 fund
to start an armed revolution, and
tried to get them to throw bombs and
use guns.
DR.. Abrams, Balm said, was for
merly operative number seven of the
military intelligence section Of the
army.
After the Wall Street bomb explo-
sion, he said, Meyers of the Burns
Office, sent him to an Italian restaur-
ant at 317 Broome St., New York, to
see if he could learn anything to con-
meet William 2. Foster, one of the de-
PENDANTS in the Michigan case, with
the affair.
Meyers told him, he said, that the
steel corporation would "give us any
amount of money if we could do away
with Foster"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23

Hollywood
dope is responsible for 80 per
cent of the crime in Los Angeles, .
says one of Sheriff William Traeger's
veteran investigators, "and crimes due
to drugs are rapidly shifting from
denizens of dives to the upper
classes
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23
DOOLEY

Matt Eaton made a trip to Plenty
wood one day last week after oil for
Decker Brothers.
N. P. Loucks returned from a
short business trip Tuesday.
Tuesday, the trains assumed their
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23
REP. LARSEN GETS BREATHING ze5@s>
AFTER SIEGE OF STRENUOUS =,

Helena, Febr,s,sslS !,
Producers E News, S
PlentywOOd, Montsr
Gentlemen:
Due to the fact i /.
ed here nearly dav ! 4, ., We he,
last week, I have snd Aigis
to write my week., 10y had d
now on we will ~ letter &
have had nearly fen. e @@
Tor Consideration 4 H. d naa
about one hundred .. ,.e a'ss
in the Senate. Nv I I0.slgta
through the Houeo l.''s'ea b
nearly three to M, A god
election bill will #. The
board. We have ! s ]. On t
good progressives T In. '''a
but some Of them win M =, u s'
the axe in the Sena : J, 9I ~
Senate hills co. ~ we han
the House that we win 0',0'a
the axe. WI have
1t has been cold bsr.
bat now it is gettins D /. 'l7
There is a bill in t5o M
ing a Normal School ~ n'oa
and if we can pet tb.t !. 4 VSs,
be to great benefit f., ' y
tana. The Metal MINI, I =.
through the House with - ~
majority. Some of the 4, 1e9
ers Of Eastern Montana 4, n.
Anaconda Copper MininD = y. Z
promises and voted agas,, ~ h
PIES interests at home
way Bill took up considss N
and I believe it is a good ' m...
the way the &c gasoline t VI |. \.
is as follows: 60 per cent =.
State Highway fund, a ~ y,
the General County Scboa n 4.
the other 20 per cent o., \
County Road fund; and ali .u,...
license taxes goes back "a A n
ferent counties. Before tbg 4
to the Highway and it was ui,,
Ny House Joint Memota
United States Congress M 4,
passed the house here last s,S
night. Some of the Lawyers "
motion to kill it, but befor !. ]
through there was not a one s.s
ed against it, as l told them NJ.
under what conditions the ismm
the Northwest are working an
will never have prosperity bsm
riculture is put on business
The children are making psr
gress in the schools here IN B
and we win stay here until ii.
is out. If we are not going q b
an extra session ten more dsu
finish US up, although there ar
of bills of great importance D
should have been taken up ia d
sideration.
Your sincere ssTr
A. 7. LARSl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23
FARMERS COAL CoMPANY- :

A. 1AAeNAL1NAJ OOkAL GNWHA IN a
corporation, and GEORGE SEVER
SON, Defendants.
To be sold at Sheriff's Sale on the
18th day of March, A. d. 1923. at the
hour of 2 o'clock P. NJ. of said dav
at the front door of the county court
house in the town of Plentvwood.
Sheridan County, Montana, the follow
ing described real property to-wit:
Northeast quarter (NEH) of
Southwest quarter (SWH) Of sec
ton twenty-four (24), township
thirty-four (34) North of Range
1ifty-one (51) East Montana
Meridian in Sheridan County.
Montana,
including the surface and mineral
rights to said premises and the min
erals particularly of coal, underlvino,
the surface and all Improvements Io7
Gated thereon and fixtures annexed
thereto, together with all the tene-
ments, Entertainments and appurten-
ances thereunto belonging or III any,
wise appertaining.
Dated this goth day of February
A. d. 1928. ~ '''Ay'
RODNEY SALISBURY.
Sheriff.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23

NOTICE OF sHERIFF'S SALE
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DIS
TRICT OF THE STATE OF MON
TANA, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY
OF SHERIDAN.
DALE FISHELL and LLOYD FISH
ELL, Plaintiffs,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23
COMERTOWN

Ed. Negaard was at the Beaver
mine Saturday after load Of coal.
H. P. Foster was in Dooley Thurs
day on business.
John Series was shopping in town
Saturday.
Ed. Torpin was in Saturday on a
business errand.
Ole Bergebakken was looking after
business in our village Saturday.
Melvin Torgeson was in the latter
part of the week to do some shopping
Larry and Ralph King were in on
business Saturday.
Dan MCGOWAN was hobnobbing
among friends in town Saturday.
Mrs. L. M. Rostad, who has been
visiting in Minnesota, has returned
home.
We understand the ball is rolling
and the humane officer will be here
next week. Anyone who has not seen
his stock this winter will be dealt with
according to law.
Melvin Torgensen and John Series
were business visitors in Plentywood
Thursday.
AdOlph Anderson returned from
points in Minnesota, where he has
been visiting this winter.
Mrs. John Series returned Tuesday
from a hospital at Thief River Falls,
Minnesota, which is in charge of DR..
Kirby. Mrs. Series is much improved.
H. P. Foster was a caller at the
CorcOran home Thursday.
2. S. Strand was in on business
Tuesday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23
SHFRIFE,S SAIE

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DIS
TRICT OF tn ESTATE OF MON
TANA, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY
OF SHERIDAN.
NORTHERN TRUSTEE COMPANY,
a corporation, Plaintiff,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23

Mrs. W. E. Linsey Of Scobey was an
over night visitor in our city Tuesday.
RObt. E. Marshland Of Alkabo, N.
D., is in our town on business We'd
nesday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23
ALBERT E. LUXFORD and HAZEL

LUXFORD, his wife, Defendants.
TO BE SOLD AT SHERIFF0S
SALE, on the 18th day of March, A.
D. 1928, at the hour of two o'clock
P NJ, at the front door of the Court
House of Sheridan County, at Plen-
tywood, Montana, the following de-
scribed real estate:
Lots one ID and Two ~ and
the east half of the Northwest
quarter (E1a NWA) and the
Northeast quarter (NE7l } of Sec
ton seven (7) in Township Thir-
ty-seven $50 North of Range
Fifty-two (52) East of the Mon
tana Meridian, Montana.
together with all and singular the
tenements, hereditaments and appur-
tenances thereunto belonging or in
anywise appertaining thereto.
Dated at Plentywood, Montana,
this 21st day of February, A. D. 1923.
By RODNEY SALISBURY,
Sheriff
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-23

AL HANSEN,
Attorney for Plaintiff,
Baker, Montana.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
Another conferenee AdvIsed.

''In d family" said Uncle Eben.
where de old folks thinks young folks
In too fur ahead of de times an where
de young folks thinks de old folks Is
too fur behind de times, 1t looks to me
like dar ought to be some kind OF
conference wit view to compromise"
Washington Evening Star.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
Worth Rememberlnu.

Just before going to sleep q bit
OF imagination regarding achieve
ment possibilities of the morrow win
steadily and increasingly bear fruit
particularly il all ideas OF dificultyp
worry or fear are resolutely ruled out
and replaced BY those OF accomplish
ment and smiling courage.-Dr. Fred.
erick Pierce.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
hInh Civilization II Yueatan.

Yucatan ia ''the Egypt Of America
An early a. the beginning OF the Chris
tian era the people there built stone
structures Of excellent masonry, true
angles and smooth, vertical faces.
They had astronomical ObservatOries.
an accurate calendar and better syb-
eem of numerals than the Romans.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
Ard the Last Is the Greatest.

Five great intellectual professions
have hitherto existed in. every civilized
nation; the soldiers, to defend it the
pastors. to teach it; the physicians,
to keep it in health; the lawyers, to
enforce justice, and the merchants to
provide, and all these men. on due
occasion, to die for it.--John Ruskin-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

The Osborn Enterprise says that If
a country editor published all the
things his subscribers did not like,
together with what he liked. someone
would be patting him in the face with
an old No. shovel before the sun set"
Kansas City Star.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
Division Of Breeds.

James had heard his parents tell
that their new dog was part bulldog
md part fox terrier When some neigh
Dor asked him what kind Of dog he
had he answered: ~Oh. his head il
real fox terrier. but his tail, guess.
S bulldog
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
Pompey's pillar.

Pompey's Pillar ia beautiful red
granite Corinthian column In Alex
Rndria- The inscriptions show 1t was
erected In 302 A. D., in honor OF the
Emperor Diocletian- No one knows
how 1t came to be called Pompey's.
except that he was assassinated In
Alexandria $50 years before the data
&c the column.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

In 1892, the Santa Maria, Spanish
vessel under the command Of Chris
TOPPER Columbus, traversed the ocean
II 10 days. Some historians say that
the Atlantic between Norway and
Greenland was crossed BY Norwegian
sailors before the year 1000.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

he blew on his pipe. and words
came tripping round him like children
like pretty little children who are per.
feetly drilled for the dance; or came.
did be win II, treading In their proceed
ence, like kings, gloomily.--Max Beer
bohm.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
Cannot Prev On Small Fish.

The big whalebone whale has 50
small a throat that 1t cannot swallow
fish OF ordinary size. Its food consists
Of little life forms found in the sea.
The toothed whales eat any living
thing they can catch
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

The auto had broken DOWN and the
chauffeur was slow in getting 1t bach
into running order AT length llis
employer broke out Hurry IT'D
Henry; there's q lot Of people crossing
the street that we're missing. r-Boe
ton Evening Transcript
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

Aged chorIsters IN London Festival
A feature of recent musical festf
val In London was the singing BY com
bined choirs from the mothers clubs
of the metropolis, many Of the choris
tiers being more than seventy years Of
age.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

In reply to the qae7g, Who brought
gifts to the infant Iesust" which ap-
peared on the Scripture examination
paper of a Skegness school, one pupil
appended: "AIr. Frankincense and Mr.
Myrrh. Christian Life.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

When warm rain occurs over o.
Hncw-cOvered region 1t Is not the rain
80 much as the warm wind that meltn
the snow. An inch Of rain at 30 de-
grees Fahrenheit could melt only three
inches Of light new snow or one inch
or old snow
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

The man who can't da a good turn
without intending TO make 1t pay is as
sontemptible as the man who can't re-
,eiye q favor without suspecting q
wrong motive.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
french Have plscarded Werd.

Encore, while a French word mean
ing again, and used BY English and
American audiences, Is not employed
by the French in the same sense, they
saying his which means twice.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

Lawyers call for more books in tho
library than other professional men.
ministers end doctors the least num-
bers, aceorf one librarian.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
Thouaht for the Day.

Shake hands with file man who is
agreeable enough to encourage you
in your thinking and disagreeable
ennraI ni.~ rnu think harder.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

~WOrk III better dan luclE.~ m1Aa
Uncle Eben. de luck dollar "a all By
itself, but de work dollar tells you
dar's plenty more where he come
from Washington Evening Star.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
MaiL Heard. Y AII Anes.

How great a pity that we should not
feel for what. end we are born into
this world, tin just as we are leaving
it .-Walsingham. 81
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

II ID not Onay difncHtt - my na
fight thing ii the right place. but. faz
more diHcult stiII. TO leave unBald
ehe wrong thing Ut the tempting mo
ANONYMOUS
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

Christianity Is larger than any de0.
nltion Of 1t, and il social rather than
theoretical.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
Separate pomiclle, AS it Were.

1t Is better t. dwell IN the corner
OF the housetop than with a brawling
woman and in wide mansion.-So
onion
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
cheering News for Some parents.

NWsCTTWB NSFFa TT ouIIEN y STI1s-
Cloth Is now made Of iron This
will be cheering news to parents who
have A large Number Of strong chill
6ren. Milwaukee Journal.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
Wanted
Advertising Solicitor

A live or wide awake newspaper
man or solicitor can earn some easy
money by calling on or addressing
the undersigned.
Julius F. Taylor. 6206 S. Elizabeth
street Phone Wentworth 25o7.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

FHIHIGII5C LOoa 1uNoNu y tUots
Sir Robert Hatfield says the world
loses tabout S2.50O000,OO0 year by
the rusting and decaying Of iron and
steel.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

PHONE KENwOoD ass
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09

NORTHWEST
Art Iona Novelty q GIFT
Company,
1909 Milwaukee Ave.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-09
The Commonwealth Edison Company

GLOWING Electric Shops carry full line of Electrical An
and sell the Federal Washer Easy Terms: -
New Britain herald., 1923-12-11
AN INTENTIONAL OVERSIGHT?

The Herald is in receipt of a com munication from the New England Citizenship Conference stating that:
 "A citizens movement. proposed and engineered by citizens and having for ifs purpose more effective law en- foroemout and d more widespread law observance, is under way in New l.uGrand."
 Further explanatory parueraphs are contained in the announcement. There is also a list of honorary yice-chair- men "m each Of the states to bring about a more effective state organiza - tion."
 In vain w search the records for names which ring familiarity on our ears In vain We sean tAe typrcwritten sheets for personages so active in law enforcement in Ncw Britain We reach the end and sigh with disap- pointmcnt There isn't a single Civic Lcagucr th.rc
 As Galusha Bangs would say: "Ah Yves certainly oh dear oh my"
New Britain herald., 1923-12-11
INDIANS aBJCUTR-

| news item telling of the increase Of the nanbar 8g Indians in tE. tinted states. and tho greater theIr wealth. iutrigles. II insists that the Indians are growing richer. and look ing st the fact that ths total value of individual and tribal property is es- tinated at over a billion dollars. an increase of over $500, ,GsU.6gG in ten years, one would say that they We're. Of courss. richer" than they were tan years HE5. And go thsF are.
 Bat tHe 5fsiEtasieas5 person some times wonders if the man of India. Ghandi-Who ls not one Of the In dians'' referred to in the news mem ti0ued-is rot right in bis statement that civilization has brought India g troubles e her. GaaBdi. this person with a great folsHIBg in India and who seeks nothing for himself as far az if has been ascertained. has been a thorn in Engiand's side Tor a long time. So England shut him ap tn prison in aH attempt to make him less troublesome. Bot his ideas have pene- trated the mind oi the peos.s 1ho
New Britain herald., 1923-12-11
UiNNN spNI,KS

No msttor how stern a person be comcs fighting 'hr way most iudivid- uals have to fight in these modern times 10 get along. those comes wave of warmth to the heart when little sparks drnoting human understanding are seem in the news Of today. One Of these hits or hrghtncs. Is tho infnrma- tion that comrs from Concord. New Hampshire. to the effect that an asso- clation has been formed thern, the incorporation paners or which declare that it has for rs object the general purpose of building houses designed for one family only and selling the same without profit to persons having not less than two rhildren." The ofi- cers Of the association are to work without pay
 This attitude ob thr rari Of the in- corporators Of the association does not declare that ii favors families Of great size. Ii may or il may not; that is beside the question. There is nothing dcnunciatory Of persons who have but one child or no children at all. Noth- ing like that. The statement merely recognizes the fact that there are people with two or more children who have hard time finding homes. II is To help theso people get homes as reasonably as possihle--homfs which they may enjoy without being op- pressed hv tbs feeling that thcir ehil- drrn are disturbing others In the same house-that the association is formed. Approve CT disapbrare of large famH- ies as you aiF, thare IS no one who ran fail 10 understand tho great relief surh policy would bring if if were possible to form similar associations everywhere. Without abandoning any prejudices. one may bo glad that there is tn existence one such association and. stil more important. one may add to the other evidences constantly coming Of tire existence Of this human understanding in fhe world. this little event in the history Of Concord.