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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
SILVER WEDDING
ANNIVERSARY

A large number of the friends and
neighbors of Mr.. and Mrs. J. ]. Keith
gathered at their home Tuesday ev-
ening and helped them celebrate their
silver wedding anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Keith who are very
popular in the Redstone community
were greatly surprised when their
friends drove UP to their home, but
gave them all a hearty welcome and
Joined with them in passing a very
pleasant evening in dancing and play
ing different games. A bomteous
lunch was served during the evening
by the ladies.
At late hour the guests after con
graduating Mr.. and Mrs. Keith anc
wishing them many returns of the
happy day departed for their homes.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
GIGANTIC RODEO
AT BRUSH LAKE
Saturday and Sunday, July 25-26-
Where They Go High, Wide and
HandsOme-C. c. Martin Will Sup
erintend Big Event.

Those who love wild horse, buck
ing contests, steer riding, bulldog
ging and all the sports that go with
real rodeo are anxiously waiting
for the annual gigantic rodeo to be
held at Brush Lake Saturday and
Sunday, July 25th and 26th.
G. c. Martin, who is superintendent
of the Rodeo and who has the repT-
tation for putting on the real to-
bacco chew when it comes to wild
west exhibition states that the Rodeo
at Brush Lake will contain some OF
the widest horses and steers ano
best riders ever witnessed in Mon
tana. He also states that "Skyscrap-
er," "Slippery" and Dynamite"
three of the most famous bucdng
horses in Eastern Montana will give
the spectators a real thrill.
The Rodeo is an annual affair a
Brush Lake and draws large crowds
from Montana and Dakota, who en-
Joy the wild riding Of the cowboy
and cowgirls and also have an Oppor
tunity to picnic at the beautiful lake
where they can swim and camp t
their hearts content and enjoy dane
ing at the large pavilion with tn
cool breeze of the lake defying tn
rays cf the warm sUH.
A huge crowd will no doubt atten
the Rodeo at Brush Lake July 25t
and 26th.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10

Next Tuesday, July 14th will be a
memorable day for the baseball fans
of Northeastern Montana and western
North Dakota, when Scobey meets
Plentywood for the last time at Plen-
tywood this season.
John Donaldson, the world greatest
colored pitcher, who won his way
into the hearts of the boosters Cf the
local boys, by the way in which he
set the Scobey sluggers down, viii
again appear on the mound for Plen-
tvwood, and Risberg, the former
White Sox pitcher, will be on the
mound for Scobey.
Baseball fans who saw the game
on June 18th, when these two premier
twirlers met, have net gotten over
talking about it yet.
The word is fast spreading oven
this section of the state that these
two pitchers will meet again and al.
ready reports are coming in that
large delegations of fans from Glas
gov, Wolf Point, Poplar and Sidney
will be there with bells on.
1t is not often that people this ia,
from the big cities have an oppoTtu
nifty to see big leaguers in action, an'
they are coming for miles to witnes
this struggle which means a larg
sum to the winners as well as tn
prestige of being the champions o
the whole Northwest.
The Scobey team contains severa
league players on their team, wh
through some means or other hav
been let out of major league base
ball. but which reasons were not be
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
PIP TICKLER

T5e biggest rib ticker in the weeks
,sws is the solemn proclamation from
t5a International Committee on HUI
name Warfare-that The ban is on
bacteria. This buggy committee is to
make war on bugs so that the "civil-
ireI" armies of the United States
and other countries cannot use "hu"
and other germs on their enemies.
We suppose poison gas will be the
next on the taboo list. When will
These Christian gentlemen place ban
On 5avonets that gouge out the giz-
zards. on powder and shell that blast
ant the CUTS, on navies that drown
YOUR youth, on armies that deface
and defame and destroy all that is
dear and sweet ON the name of the
God they profess to worship. When
will they Danish war altogether in
stead cf offering futile salvOs for Sur
face eczemas. All of these armament
conference, treaties and Dawes plan;
and Wilson fourteen points have
proven to be so much bunk put out by
those whose business it is to misin
form the uninfcrmed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
Federal Marshal SerOes Sum
mons on Prominent Business Men
MUST APPEAR And SHOW CAUSE
WHY PLACES SHOULD NOT BE ABATED

Wednesday, July 8.-U. S. Mar
shal Kirk Dennis arrived in Plenty
wood. in a large roadster, on his way
to. Scobev. and while in the city served
summons and complaint on Geo.
Wright. Hank Krebsbach, John Walt
ers and Carter & Huebner, ordering
them to appear in the Federal Court
at Great Falls, to show cause why
their places should not be abated fer
year, or that the places, where
is being bartered, should not be lock-
ed up for the ensuing year.
The parties served have the usual
time, 20 days, to file their answer,
and it looks as though the lawyers
have some business in the citing.
This procedure grew out of the
raid upon the local pool halls, on
Wednesday, May 27, at the end of
! the big ball game between Scobey and
Plentywocd, just as Burley Bowler
and Barry Stevens were quenching
their thirst at one of the refreshment
stands, when they found a quantity
of beer and whiskey which they de-
stroyed in the alley, and when at the
same moment the raid was pulled in
Plentywood, another band of Federal
Agents raided the huge and famous
Monte Carlo run by Barry Stevens
at Scobey where they secured enough
whiskey, brandy, wine and beer to
float a dreadnaught, and also destroy
ed it right under the nose of Co. At
torney Nyquist and Sheriff Lawrence
much to their surprise ana chagrin
by his wife, left Thursday morning
for Scobey, where he also served
summons and complaints upon Barry
Stevens and others of the prominent
booze merchants of Scobey, also CIR
deTing them to appear and show
cause why their joints should not be
closed.
It is reported at Scobey that Barry
will probably be represented in court
by the famous attorney, Geo. Cudhie
who was removed as a member of the
Scobey school board for corrupt prac
tices, two or three years ago, abou
the time when he was deputy county
attorney, during which time the fam
Gus Sheridan county seed grain stea
was pulled off. Mr.. Sammy Nyquis
is very thick with the Stevens-Benne
gang and Geo. Cudhie is reported t,
be acting as an advisory council, il
behalf Of Mr.. Barry Stevens.
The recent murders and assaults a
: Scobey which have gone unpunishe
in spite cf the fact that there seem
to be plenty of evidence indicating
who committed the crimes, pointin
to a couple of very prominent citizen
Of Scobey, is supposed TO have bee
the cause of the raid at Scobey an
! incidentally at Plentywood.
> 1t seems quite likely that a numbe
of Scobey and Plentywood pool hall
will be abated as a result of the Ma
raid of the Federal Agents.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10

man, one of the fighters broke loose
from the drunken crowd and ran, as
one of the eye witnesses put it, ''like
a bat out of hell"
After the fracas, Barry Stephens,
panic strickened, he being reported
to have become unnerved and jumpy
since the Siegert murder at Scobey
about two months age, fled from the
city, after which the rest of the par
ticipants of the brawl, vanished into
the darkness. 1t is claimed that
Barry was not located until Tuesday
night or Wednesday, when he was ar
rested by Sheriff Lawrence on a war
rant charging him with assault in the
Second Degree, and has him arraign-
ed before Justice of the Peace A.
Kloss, and the hearing was set for
Monday morning.
The Jacobson Brothers of Scobey,
who have no occupation that any one
seems to know about, but who were
inxznlsrad soma. HFF~.- ~ 0+ha1' i'a the
! fracas, We're arraigned along with
Charlie Risberg, also involved
charged with misdemeanor, called
disturbing the peace" and their
hearing will also occur before Justice
! A. KlOSS.
BILL LOOKS -
FOR BARRY
VIM. Stevens, the big boss of the
Republican party, the angel of Bur
ley Bowler, and subsidizer of the
Daniels County Leader, is reported to
have been seen by a deputy sheriff OF
Sheridan county at RedstOne Tuesday
evening looking for his brother, Bar
} ry, who is said to have fled from the
city after the shooting affray.
BARRY
HAS RECORD
Barry Stephens, it will be remem-
bered, has a record. He was tried II
Continued on last page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
CRACK IN CAPITOL
BUILDING

The editor is in Helena this week
where he has an opportunity to OBJ
serve, at close range, that wonderful
aggregation of confidence men an
Enlightened electorate sent to the
state capital to act as custodians of
their taxes and rulers of their state.
Some Of the polite gentlemen referred
to above are now showing visitors a
crack in the capitol building caused
by the recent earthquake. After OBJ
serving the evOlutions of the nicely
gTOCmed gentlemen sitting in we'll
oiled swivel chairs and putting con-
tentedly at high priced cigars one
could not help thinking that the heads
Of the voters were cracked" a long
time before the quake shook the cap
l'oI. The gentlemen who man the
mterlochng and overlapping boards
at the capitol are a living proof of
the truth of the saying that "the
great American desert is not some
Where in Nevada but under the hat of
The average voter"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
ALLEGED STATESMEN

Emphasis is given to another prop
oauon IN this rapid purchase of mo-
,of vehicles by our people. In the
legislature last winter, there were al
Hg5d statesmen who said that we
could afford to build better roads at
1ls time. Still we go right on buy
my the automobiles to tear them to
pieces Herein do we see how sense
!; ;sSs was the opposition of those leg
sla'orS m the last session led by such
SS1Aoo road champions as Senator
se@aIt OF Anaconda who were ready
I,,5i. y 9.' and did destroy, all chance of
OuIung further cooperative high
Ways n this state for the years 1926
.Ae above is not from some liberal
EE-2er It is from the said Great FalIs
1Iune. 1Ioune. Even the capitalist paper.
maoSe masters The majority Of tht
members ~ Of the last legislature serv
~, nave no respect for the "allegec
WI, g,Gc,esmen' and "gumbo' politician.
go, oo IofSoGk the people who electeS
'''l' IN Helena, last winter.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
HUETH BABY DIES
FROM INJURIES

Bernard Hueth, the sixteen months
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Max Hueth
of COalridge, died Wednesday even
ING at the Sheridan County Memorial
hospital, due to fall down an 81-ft
coal shaft. The little fellow landed
on an iron bucket fracJuring his skull
and body very severely.
He was rushed to the hospital and
every possible means was used to re
lieve his suffering, but the little body
could not stand the severe punishment
it had received in the long fall anc
the little fellow passed away with but
a days suffering.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
LITTLE RAESS BOY
BREAKS SHOULDER BLADE

Theodore Raess, the 4-year-old son
of Walter Raess had the misfortune
to break his shoulder blade Sunday
afternoon. The Raess family were
visiting at the E. c. Frederick home
south Of town on that day and while
the youngsters were out playing, the
little fellow was tripped and hCrt. At
present he is improving quite rapid
".
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
? "a 1p,Oll WONDER WE HAVE

larsi iSC cannot convict a million dol
hss' hs' sand an implacable foe of in
TSaCned dishonesty some wears ago.
iato.aa 4o .aacqulttal of VIM. d. SHEPARD. fhe
soTal:. G,oSg OIL a series of prominent per-
ons ','Ilyies lies accused cf committing seri-
~, ~ criminal offenses. wouId Seem r.
mo r'oAe the truth of the above savin % .
Ile fono, applicable than ever todav. The
Of woaiS r.,Is are but few of the names
crimes s'iyny & individuals charged with
We're ere involving moral turpitude who
ment Prosecuted ~ but escaped punish
FAN 6o, ~ the hands Of 1925 iuries,
Loeb VTT1neny, Sinclair, Leopold anC
preseonteeler , waeeler and Sheppard. Honest
claim Sl1t officers might well ex
qCakes.n ~ "ohder we have earth
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
BARRY STEVENS SHOOTS
OFF MANS PROPOSES
Wild Night of Drinking Gambling and CarOusa at Political
Bosses Famous Resort End In Attempted Murder
Mystery Shrouds Shooting.
COUNTY AUTHORITIES ARE in BAD DILEMMA

"Fel0 again broke loose in rproarng wideopen Scobey
last Monday morning shortly after midnight when according to
best information obanabe after Sabbath day OF wild
carousa drinking and gambling Barry Stephens famous resort
regular Monte Carlo which place has become one OF the famous
Joints Montana when Barry Stephens reported to have shot
unknown in attempt to murder him. after
bounced billiard ball off from Stephens head and
another person had hit him spe the face with billiard
cue
After the fired which is claimed have denosed the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
HELL BREAKS LOOSE" AGAIN AT SCOBEY
PIentywood Entertains Large Crowds July 81

Thousands of People Enjoy Festivities and Perfect Order
Prevailed Throughout Both Days-Program Carried Out
to the Minute.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10
NEWL RETURN TO
FROID WITH MORTENSEN'S

Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Hughart and
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Mortensen re-
turned Thursday from several
weeks auto trip through the eastern
states, coming home by way of Kan
sas City. Mr.. Hughart was married
while east and has brought his bride
back here to live. They are consid-
ering buying property here in town.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10

paperNtILllae Ille ads over carefully in this
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10

The Producers News SO per year
, 1925-06-05
Publication.

DUR3UANl to paragraph , of the
1 Charter of Foundati n Of Mer-
chant Wilhelm Smidt's Legacy for
assisting poor persons in 81. Croix,
it is hereby brought to public notice
that the sum of Francs 500.35, re
presenting interest accrued ON the
invested capital of the above named
legacy, will he on hand for distri-
button on July l, 1925
Applications for participation in
this distribution, duly certified,
Should be forwarded to the nnder-
signed on or before the 2Ist day Of
June, 1925.
Despatching Secretary's Office. Chris
tiansted, St, Croix, V. l., e May, 1925.
G. P. SHAMER.
DeSpatchjng Secretary.
, 1925-06-05
Publication.

PURSUANT to paragraph 3 Of the
! Charter of Foundation Of Upper
Chamberlain Valdemar Tully Won
Oxholm and Wife's Legacy for as
sisting needy persons, it is hereby
brought to public notice that the
sum of Francs 1,804.55, represent
ing interest accrued on the invested
capital of the above named legacy,
will be on hand for distribution on
July l, 1925.
Applications containing the re-
quisite information and duly certi-
fled, should be forwarded to the
undersigned on or before the goth
day of June, 1925.
Despatching Secretary's Office. Chris
tiansted, ST. CroIx. V. l., q May. 1925.
G.. P. SHANER,
DeSpGtchjHg Secretary.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-06-25
SOUOMEN SEAL s
lodge by
the Dunes. :"

A Camp for little Indian Child.
rem. Write r. +. ID. No. 2.
Chesterton, Indiana.
The faculty in charge Of this
institution are admirably qualified
for their work. 1t is in charge of
college trained lady who is a
graduate of Smith College for
girls, and who also spent two years
at the Massachusetts, Agricultural
College, and term at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
She has as an assistant q college
trained Indian woman who UNDER
stands the Indian children and is
deeply interested in her work.
Charges are reasonable. Write for
pal ticulars.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-06-25
Just Loved 70 oeena."

Just Loved 10 oeen0.
"one of the most persistent sins
ers we ever had for a cook was a gir
from St Kits. Agnes was her name
Agnes was . good girl. I should have
liked to keep her II only I could have
learned to appreciate her musical abil
ity. She had left sweetheart dowr
In the British possessions. CoEss
quently her sentimental mornings ma
terialized in love songs.
"'How much will 1t cost said e
her one day, to get that young mar
of yours up to New York? II you'll
stop singing I'll advance you enough
money 10 bring him up here
agnes stopped singing then 70,
about two minutes.
"'Oh, Mistah Green she said. you
ve'y kim, but l could neve' stop seen
GIN. I. loves to seeng. II Joseph
comes to Ame'icay we seeng logethe'
THAT settled it. didn't bring
Joseph to New York, and J. shipped
Agnes back to St kits"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-06-25
Find Indians Starving
1dhesmen Suffering From Hunger and
Disease, Is Report

Many of California's 5000 In .
dians are starving and diaeased,
according to Charles Elkus, chair
man of the Commonwealth clubs
Indian section. He painted a
woeful picture of the condition of
the Indians at a conference with
several federal legislators in San
Francisco last week.
THE California Indian never
has had a chance" Elkus said.
They are given only about $29 a
year each. The Indians of this
state get less help from Washing
ton than those of any other state
in the Union. Some help is given
by state and county, but this aid
is not coordiuated by the work of
the government.
"California Indian children are
so diseased that they are not al.
lowed to attend public schools for
fear they will contaminate other
children. Indians land is taken
from them, and they have been
put on worthless soil where it is
impossible to even live, let alone
make a living.
They have insufficient medical
attention, insufficient schools and
insufficient legal aid, so that they
are often deprived of their rights. "
Elkvs asserted that the Indians
were treated more like cattle than
humans.
IF the government would make
sufficient appropriations toward
caring for the Indians the state
could administer it economically
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-06-25
Testing PIeurlsy With Coins.

A novel method Of diagnosing pleur.
lsy Is described by p. Lereboullet In
the Paris Medical. The examiner ap
plies his ear to the patients chest
closing his other ear, while coins are
clinked at the patients back. The
sound of the coins coming through .
healthy, normally aerated lung seems
distant and dull, while through IN af-
fected lung, through solid or homo
geneous tissue n clear. silvery, metal.
lie ring Is heard.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-06-25

There are 6,5OO people IN the In.
dian Bureau whereas there are
scarcely 300, 900 Indians left in the
United States and many thousands
of these are we'll able to handle
their own affairs. AS matter of
fact in Wisconsin many thousands
are earning a decent livelihood
along side of their white neighors.
bureaucracy is the enemy of
democracy. 1t is the substitution
of regulation for free.will. 1t is
uninuelligent, unresponsive, hide
bound and inconsiderate. The
purpose of bureaucracy is to make
positions for bureaucrats. 1t is
word within itself, expanding and
prevediug activities in which it is
given a chance.
1T clutches whatever it touches
and reaches out new creepers con-
, stantly. When a democracy be-
gins to appeal away from its natur-
al sources of power and response
bility (which is the people, to a
far away core of authority it is
like fly appealing to spider in
the nest of the web. If it is the
destiny of democracy to try to re-
duce all its elements to dead
level of uniformity it may be its
= destiny to reduce itself to species
of slavery, the slavery of the in.
dividual of the mass. With the
Indians, Washington takes control
of the private lives of all Indians
with the inevitable reault that In
dians are becoming more depend
ent hour by hour, are. losing all
self respect, are becoming paupers
and even beggers and most shame
ful of all, are passing fast into
degradation and decay with ex-
tinction from disease and vice
facing them.
THE Indian Bureau has within
it's activities every branch of gov
ernment, legislative, executive and
judicial and conducts every form
of governmental activity, except
navy. This is entirely too much
control. Indian mothers are su.
pervised and Indian babies are
born under bureau supervision and
this control continues until that
same Indians tombstone is set in
place and the undertaken paid out
of Indian funds.
What the Indians of Wiscon.
sin need most is the sustained and
we'll Informed interests of all citi-
zens of the state on the facts of
the health situation, of the school
and educational needs and of the
unbiased findings of facts as to the
need of supervision which at pres.
ent prevails and then immediate
remedial legislation by the United
States Congress, which body is, in
final analysis, solely responsible
for Indian welfare.
but where shall we find Con-
gressmen who are not influenced
by local politicians bent on max
ing living off. Indians9 Where
are we to look for Congressman
who are not tied up with the plans
and schemes of the Indian Office
Continued on 4th page)
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-06-25

tagious diseases, ignorance of In
dians along the lines of sanitation
leads to bad results with further
contagion and infection.
Indians of Wisconsin need
tuberculosis sanitaria and hospitals
and above all they need physicians,
nurses aud matrons TO teach the
Indian folk the elements of good
health in their new position as
members Of the white mans civili-
zation.
School and Education
Prospects.
Many, many Indian children
are out of school because of lack
of school facilities. Public schools
are not always available.
THE United States Government
has provided several schools for
Wisconsin Indians but there are
serious objections to some of these
schools, the chief objection being
that these schools have no admit
tance Requirements, which results
in enrolling and harboring under
sirable pupils. Pupils that are
diseased and those undesirables
because of bad morals are allowed
to mingler freely with the healthy
and innocent making for very evil
results. There are several mission
schools in Wisconsin. In these
the moral standards are an i'm.
provement over the Government
schools.
''Another serious objection to
the Government schools is that the
Indians are segregated and given
a special and peculiar education
rather than affording them the
regular eighth grade education
which every white child in the
state has an opportunity to ac-
quire.
Churches and the Indians
THE Catholic church has the
majority of missionaries and as
matter of fact, the majority of
Wisconsin's Indians are of that
persuasion. There are still many
so-called pagans, however in the
State notably the Winnebagoes
who number 1888, almost entirely
pagan. Likewise the Pottawa.
tonnes who number approximately
900. The Oneidas are largely
Protestant, Methodists and Epis.
copalians with the Catholics con.
duct!ng two Catholic schools On
the Oneida reservation.
The Indians of Wisconsin are
not all American citizens. Perhaps
majority are not yet American
citizens despise the fact that many
hundreds left the state to fight in
the World war.
The most distressing thing for
the Indians of Wisconsin today is
the special and minute supervision
under which they must live and
die. There is no more complete
way to stifle progress of any peo-
pie, to kill individuality, to de-
stroy the capability for self de-
velopment and to smother their
ambition and initiative than to
place a people upder bureaucratic
control. The purpose and idea of
the perpetuation of this control