The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-01-15
MOUNT PLENTYWOOD ERUPTS
AGAIN AND FLOW OF LAVA
THERE IS APPALLING
County Officials Arrested on a charge
of Obstructing Justice, Now.

MT. Vesuvius is not the only thing
on this terrestrial pill in a state of Vi
olent eruption. Plentywood, the. seat
of Sheridan county, Montana, is 60
ing through the thrOes of a seismic
disturbance Of a political nature, in
comparison with which the antics Of
the European fire mountain resembles
the thwit of a wet firecracker.
Prohibition Causes Upheaval.
Booze was the cause of the up
heaval, or rather the theoretical pro
hibitiOn of hoOtch was. PlentywOOd's
explosion yesterday was one of a Sc
ries, the first of which excited the
folks in the northeastern county sew
eral days ago when a dry dick named
Brown, from the federal prohibition
Office in Helena, in which the "MaI
from Idaho" Colonel Elias Marsters
is thes admiral, was, pinched by 2
Sheridan county constable when the
dick was making his getaway on 9
train cut of Plentywood. The ar
rest was completed after the dicl
cracked the constable on the heaC
with a blackjack, and in turn felt the
'constable's six-gun boring into hi.
ribs. The charge against Brown wa,
bribery.
Things had sort of quoted dowr
when re-enforcements from the Hell
ena Office moved in last week. The
special dispatch to The Independent
from PlentyWocd yesterday fits here
in the sequence of the dope:
From PlentyWOOd
Deputy United States Marsha
Curt Dennis arrested County Attor
ney Erickson, Sheriff Rodney Sails
bury, Undersheriff Clair Stoner anC
Andy Holm at noon today, on a, war.
rant sworn out by Prohibition Agent
Earl Welliver, charging them will
Obstructing justice. The defendant!
are all out on bail made before Com
missioner Belanslxie. The case arises
out of the arrest of Prohibition Agent
Brown on a train three weeks ago.
Collins of Course Butts In.
Brown was arrested here on a bri
berry charge last Tuesday. Julian
Welliver and Burr Hill, all prohibition
men, and Assistant Attorney Genera
i. K. Collins, have been here al
week. Collins left yesterday, aftel
being asked several questions by Tay
Tor and Wallace, who alleged that ht
influence the justice court.
Says FederaIs' Methods Criminal
"In a statement issued after hi
arrest, Sheriff Salisbury said: Moth
ing pleaSes me better than to get al
opportunity to air in a federal court
the criminal methods resorted to by
prohibition agents to frame up Off
Gals here. These fellows, as we'll a.
some state politicians, will be made
to understand we will not tolerate
any violation Of the state statutes b!
them here"
Would Like to See En- Hung.
When the dispatch from Plenty
wood was read to Colonel Marsters
he seemed to be content in letting tn,
complexity of events run their course
with confidence that the PlentywoOt
county officials will be sent to Leav
enwOrth for a million or so years, OF
maybe, hung by their necks from tn,
gibbett unil they were quite dead, of
ficially, cOrpOreally and in every 9th
er respect in which life can be ex
tinct. That outlook didn't make tn,
"Man from Idaho" shudder a single
shud Indeed, he seemed to get quit
a "lIick" cut of the prospect. Accord
ing to his version of the episode, hi
agent Brown was pinched because /
was thought he was all cluttered VI
with affidavits rejecting on the off
cial virtue of the bunch at Plenty
wood, the possession of which affida
Wits they greatly craved. Wher,
they made their mistake, according tt
the colonel, was in not knowing tina
the affidavitS at that very mOmen
were locked up in his office"