The producers news., 1927-11-11

ms interview was reprinted in the Plentywood
Herald, The Medicine Lake Wave the Wolf Point
Herald and the Daniels County Leader, and
Wheeier's labor paper, published by Ed Manson
at Great Fahs, the Searchlight. No doubt Burton
sent small check along with the clipping to these
papers with the request to print-we say small
consciously.
The Senaor, however, did not send copy of
this interview nor small remittance to the
Producers News We would, however, have been
pleased to have reproduced it for the Senator if
ms check had not been too small.
Ot course the interview was given bv the Sena-
Tor TO get even' with those in this section of the
s'aVe VINO are exposing his corruption and to draw
fea herring across the trail of his own iniquitv.
Now, we agree with the Senator that many de-
plorable things have recently occurred in North
eastern Montana. Three or four banks have been
robbed in broad daylight: farmer was brutallv
murdered by two Williams in an attemnt to rob
nm. These things have occurred in the three or
four counties in the northeastern part of the state
There have occurred many robberies all along the
mghlne-stores have been broken into, oil sta
uons have been robbed, cars have been stolen
wmskey is being run, bawdy houses are running
and beng patronized by many whom we see in
the front pews in the churches in all of the prin
opal towns along the highline, and the rest of the
treasure State as well as in Northeastern Mon
tana.
over IN Butte one day last week, eighteen or
nineteen automobiles We're stolen There are over
a hundred houses of prostitution running in the
great mining metropolis, unannoyed by the law. In
the same town gambling is running wide omen
and saloons run openly as in days of wore.
There has occurred four or five murders. dozen
SUICIDES and forty or fifty street holdups during
the past ten days
Sucb tbin0c ooo,,,
Helena the capital of this fair state In Helena
there has been two banks robbed in the davIigbt
during the past year, and one big bank looted from
The inside, in which the depostors lost their all
Inc conditions in northeastern Montana are bad:
tney are to be depored. Crime here. the same
as everywhere else seems to be on the increase
IN TACT there are just as many robberies and hold
ups across in Canada where they have the famous
ponce, as there are here-the robbers in nearly all
instances are not caught
Butte IS Sen. Wheeler's own town-while he NAV,
nave found regrettabe things here, he did not find
cohalVions one-tenth as bad as ne knows them to
be IN Butte. However, Wheeler did not saw
anything about the Butte conditions-we wonder
why? "0iu0'
NOW Just as many crimes have occurred in
Roosevelt Daniels and Valley counties. and IN tbe
adjoining Dakota counties to the east &c have
occurred In Sheridan county No one can denv
mat crime is deplorable in any county or anv.
where But does Sen. Wheeler, when he refers r.
Northeastern Montana, mean to cast aspersions IN
Sheriff Al Lawrence of Daniels county. and Sber-
III Anderson Of Roosevelt county, as well as on
Sheriff Salisbury Of Sheridan County? We sure
ly hope not.
OF course it is the usual afternoon pasttime
to cast aspersions on Sheriff Salisbury Every,
body is used to it and it is the common thing. No