The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-01-11
Die Hads Hold Meeting BoIsters Hall Devise Ways and
Means to Stage Political Come Back in Sheridan Coun-
ty Next Fall.
MEETING POORLY ATTENDED AND
"YES We HAVE NO MONEY TODAY

Inc OIQ gang, InS DQnC0 IElaC
plunged Sheridan County so deep into
| debt by their wild antics and ques-
| tiOnable activities, under the guise of
| the Klu KluX Klan, are making an
elephantine effort to get control of
! Sheridan County again, and return to
! the picking of yore, when the means
of the county were squandered in wild
riots of spending, and Sheridan
county was plunged into a debt of
! 100000 or more each year Un-
til the million and a quarter mark
was past, and Sheridan county was
bankrupt.
All, those are the never to be for
gotten days, when the gangsters lived
in a way befitting the tastes of those
who live on the sweat of other mems
brOws.
The county's debts having been re
duced over half a million dollars, and
the tax levy reduced these gangsters
are almost mad, they are wild because
they are net in office, because they can
not get their hands into the cOunty's
money bags and grab the money which
the farmers administration has saved
to the overburdened taxpayers: they
= are beside themselves with rage be-
: cause they again behold a chance to
plunge the county into debt to
the limit as they have in Roosevelt
and Valley counties, and feather their
n own nests while doing it.
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e This gang, beside themselves with
g chagrin when Joe DOlin sold the Pio-
j neer Press to the Producers News,
S and being unwilling to work with c.
; S. Nelson, and the Plentywood Her
aid got behind the Sheridan County
= Farmerine, and induced Messrs. Scetb
IS and Bessire to engage in that dismal
} venture which has already ended in
le a wreck for these unfortunate boys,
II who can neither get out a readable
ID paper or make the thing ride fnan-
% cially, when they felt that the day
h was going to be saved for the "Old
2 gang" and dreamed of juicy plums to
20 be picked. now that Dclin was not
4 here to Jonah the scOW. But the
II farmers for some reason or other did
not take to the Farmerine, and its
IS "Pity the Poor Farmer" editorial re-
I'd ferring to the farmers as a bunch of
boneheads, etc., and it is claimed that
lg Bessire & Scott sent out the S. 0. S.
n for mazuma, which put the "gang"
l into panic. Something had to be
w done if the farmers who are redeem
Of ing the county from its financial dol
droms were to be put cut of office
IN 1t was a fOrlorn hope, but still un-
rt daunted they still must try.
II Jud Matkins came down from the
n ranch at RedstOne and interviewed
nd several members of the "Old guard.
e DR.. Storkan, the county health Off
or Ger, was drafted into service; FREQ
Ibsen was persuaded to put his shoul
by der to the wheel, and Ray Lang was
es hoped up to wheel his little pop gun
ud into action, the fiery cross was burn
he ed, and the dreams were dreamed fOl
an the launching of a newspaper tha
i'm was to redeem Sheridan county from
it Socialism and put the masks
On the night, December 18th, afte
lty the Legion dance at the Orpheum, tn
K. kluxers, headed by Len Rue, hie
lty away tc Antelope and met in the oil
lrd theatre. DR.. Storkan made an i'm
ter passioned speech and deplOred tn
" Producers News and its vile activi
" ties in exposing his capers and antic
zen to the staring world and insisted tina
er- something had to be dOne-as he wa
)rk nearly done good and plenty-he ha
M just made the rounds of PlentywcO
trying to beg the business men an
others to contribute to a fund to hire
special attorney to prosecute TaylO
for telling the truth about him an
his ways, and found that most of tn
bows were not interested in hiring al
IA tOrneyS.
sU At the nocturnal Antelope meetin
it was decided to launch real new:
paper. Some of the boys thought
By would be a good move if Brother Ne
& sons Plentywood Herald could
purchased and the Fermerine bOugl
and the two consolidated into OF
paper, throwing in the Antelope Il
ak dependent and the RedstOne Rev
90 for good measure, thus taking b;
100 mess off from the hands of Bessi
j, & Scott, and guaranteeing to Len RI
the the return of the money he had z
ready put into the Farmerine, t
gether with the price of a couple
Ver ads he had inserted in that public
j., tion which had not netted him
wac "heluvalot" After laying great pla
a subscription paper was reported
Dy have been passed and $4,000 sign
ara for. The meeting then adiOun6
e.; Negotiations were started, being ur
MS ed by cries of want from the She
dan County Farmerine. Members
Isa- the gang met and projected plans
plenty Of money was subscribed,
by very little was available for imme'
Asol ate use.
S; Finally someone thought that, pro
ably Ray Lang and Doc StOrkan, tn
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