The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-03-24
Commissioners Pass Resolutions Declaring Emergency
Exist Increasing County Attorneys Budget Order
Pay Lawyers
Wheeler Baldwin Get 81 5OO and Vol,n Gets 81 500
Makes $9, 900 Each Paid to Law Firms.
COLLECTION OF $25O,OoO IS MADE FOR COUNTY


passed resolutions declaring an emer-
County Attorneys Budget in the
sum of $4,000, and on resolution
paid the law firm of Wheeler & Bald
win $500 and Attorney Vollum
$500 each for services rendered in
perfecting the collection of the $274,-
900 of Sheridan County funds which
were ON deposit in the Sheridan Coun-
ty State Bank at the time of its fail
ure, December Is, 1920, large part
of which money was illegally deposit
ed and large amount Of which was
not bonded at all and another part of
which was bonded with bonds of very
questionable value.
Beiseker Payment Made
The County Commissioners, meet
ing on February II, In special ses-
sion to consider the request of T. L.
Beiseker for go days more time in
which to open the defunct Sheridan
County State Bank, and to amend
the contract entered into between
Sheridan County and 7. L. Beiseker
and the Minnesota Loan and Trust
Company last September, in con-
formity thereto, which contract pro-
vided for the opening of that bank
on January first, 1922, but which was
amended in the latter part of De-
cember, allowing a so day extension
of time, which ended March 1st, and
to also further amend the above con-
tract to allow T. L. Beiseker to pay
the county in notes bearing 37a per
cent interest instead of Certificates
of Deposits bearing that interest rate,
passed resolution granting the
Amendments to the contract, provid-
ed that T. L. Beiseker made the first
payment, due the county, January
first, 1922, by the fifteenth of March.
The Board of County Commissioners
pursuant thereto recessed the special
session until March 18TH to await the
payment of the first $4,000 accord
ing to contract.
Money Comes
On Monday, March '13, County
Treasurer D. j. Olson received Sheri-
dan County Warrants and a draft in
a sum sufficient to make the first
payment, direct from the Minnesota
Loan & Trust Company, and not
through the hands of Onstad & Greer,
~Jeuported local attorneys of T. [,
Beiseker, who it is claimed, had the
warrants in their possession from I.
L. Beiseker, once before, but who, in
their efforts to prevent Sheridan coun-
ty from making this collection at all,
sent the warrants back to Beiseker,
after trying to blacknail the County
Commissioners into making an
agreement to compound felony, in
a most public and blazen manner, and
then gave out to the public that [.
L. Beiseker would not pay his obli-
cations to the county unless the coun-
ty agreed not to prosecute Chester
Beiseker for the crimes which Ches-
ter Beiseker had committed.
Amendment Ratified
After the payment of T. L. Beis-
eker was assured, the County Board
ratified the Amendments to the con-
tract allowing until May first to op-
en- the Sheridan County State Bank,
and it is reported that T. L. Beis-
eker was in Helena the first part of
last week and completed the arrange
ment to open the bank, which it is
reported, viii be done very soon.
Attorneys Fees Reasonable
Considering the obstacles to be ov-
ercome, and the conditions existing
in this county, the collection of this
money for Sheridan County has been
great responsibility and a giant
task. Almost an infinite amount Of
work has had to be done, that should
not have been necessary, and until the
last three weeks, it has been very
doubtful whether the County would
make a collection or not, and not I'M
til a web was woven about all parties
concerned that could not be broken
was there any real assurance made
that the county would ever get a
cent.
That cent has been collected of
THIS claim, is due to the hard work
and the great abilities of the attor-
neys.
When the first payment by Beiseker
was made, the attorneys presented
their claims, which were paid as set
forth above.
Commissioners Proceeding
The full report OF the Commission
ers proceedings for the regular March
session and the special session of the
fifteenth of March follows:
At 2 o'clock P. M, Wednesday,
March 18th, 1922 the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners met IN special ses-
sion pursuant 10 call; all members
and the Clerk present.
Contract Ratified
The contract to DIR. C.. Sells of
Plentywood, with Sheridan County
Montana, whereby the said Sheridan
County lets and leases unto the said
DR.. Sells for the term and period of
one year from and after the 9th day
of March, 1922, the right and privi-
lege to render all medical and surgi-
cal services and furnish all nedi-
cines and surgical dressings, as may
be required, to the county poor and