The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-03-07
POPBOTTLE JACK Is MENTIONED IN PLOT

just before adjcurning on Wednes-
day, Commissioners Tyler and Ibsen
passed a resolution instruCting Jack
0Grady, now more commonly known
as P0pbottle Jack, to write the
bondsmen of Treasurer Dan Olson
requesting that they furnish addi-
tional security in connection with
their respective signatures on Treas
urer Clson's personal bond.
Just the reason for this resolution
is not exactly known as the Commits
sioners have no jurisdiction in the
matter, official bonds being approved
by the District Judge. 1t appears,
therefore that the Commissioners are
ether acting ultra virus" without
authority or else they are acting n-
der instructions or direction of Judge
Conner.
1t is obvious that this action is an
other attempt at stealing a county
Office. By this letter to the bonds
withdrawing from the bond and In
that way they will attempt to oust
Dan Olson from Office.
1t has been common knowledge fcr
some time that all the members of
I
Olson ousted. Tyler and Ibsen are
evidently their willing tools and are
to do the dirty work Conner either
knows nothing about it or else he is
one of the parties in the conspiracy.
If he knows nothing about it. then it
is his duty to assert his rights to
pass upon the sufficiency of the Off
cial bond of Dan Olson, which bond
he himself approved.
Of course, it is ridiculous to ask
the bondsmen to furnish additional
security. They have already signed
for over S58,000 on a $4,000 bond.
If the Judge should require addition
al security he shoHld ask for addi-
tional signers which could be secured
at any time. Instead of that, the
commissioners attempt to perform
this piece of dirty work, hoping that
by soaring the bOndsmen, a number
of them will withdraw and they will
then attempt with the aid of Conner
to declare the office of County Treas
urer vacant and it is reported that
POpbOttle Jack is slated fer the Job,
his proficiency in The seed grain col
lection deals having particularly quail
flied him for the job.
Tyler and lbSen don't like Treas
urer Olson. He has used all county
money collected for taxes to reduce
the huge debt of Sheridan county
instead of stalking The bankers, and
the bankers have finally induced the
Commissioners to try and get him
out of office. Tyler thinks that Rex
MOvius was all right, that it was all
right for Beiseker to steal the county
blind, that the record made by Dan
Olson is causing too much adverse
sentiment towards himself and thru
Ibsen, and with the aid of Conner, he
believes. that he can eliminate Olson
and get his hands and those OF his
crooked friends into the County
Treasury for a few precious months
i between now and March 1st next. He
knows that his days as County Com
missioner are numbered, and that he
will no longer have a chance to per-
form as a tool of the Usurers. He
must use every minute he has left
10 in some manner get rid of the
County Treasurer so that he and his
friends may do the picking and pilfer
the county as in day Of DID,
Reg Tyler has another guess COM
ing, however. The taxpayers know
him and his criminal friends They
viii not stand for q county Office
seal and Tyler will find that out.