The producers news., 1927-11-11

local crook is above this-it attracts attention
away from himself, so he welcomes it, but
surely no insinuations are meant towards Lawr-
ence and Anderson. No! the Gods Forbid
Robberies and serious crimes have been commit
ted in Roosevelt county and the criminals have not
been apprehended: robberies and serious crimes
have been committed in Valley county, and the
criminals have not been apprehended: robberies
and crimes have been committed in Daniels coun-
ty and Sheriff Lawrence was in Flaxville at the
time of the bank robbery there and was accord
ing to the Daniels County Leader right hot on
their tail, yet the robbers got away, going across
the Reservation toward Wolf Point and the GRIM
inals rave not yet been apprehended Robberies
and crimes have been committed in Sheridan coun-
ty and the criminals have not been apprehended.
So things are about on a par in all of these
record is on a par with the
best of them.
Sheriff Anderson and Sheriff Lawrence have
the right to come into Sheridan county to look for
criminals, and have just as much authority here
as Sheriff Salsbury-so if they feel that there are
crooks and burglars hanging about here they are
well equipped by law to investigate and find out
Plentywood is an Incorporated city The citv
administration is not in control of the same group
Chat controls Sheridan county 1t has three men
drawing salary from the taxpayers as policemen
q 1orce as large as the sheriff has-they should
oe able to handle things in this city and properly
Investigate matters here if they so desire.
Vi course these criminations and recriminations
are Just cheap way of passing the buck" AS
Tar as Sen. Wheeler's remarks are concerned if
Is Just cheap politics to aid him into breaking
into print and answering by detracting attention
away from, the exposures of his corruption ennan-
atlng from this sectiOn-just that and nothing
else.
Now, the Producers News deplores the conditions
existing in this section and in all the rest of the
state, and in the entire union We wish thew could
De remedled and we stand ready to assist in every
way that we can in cleaning up Plentvwood. Sher-
ldan county, northeastern Montana and all Mon
tana, and the entire Northwest If Senator Wheel
er can get congressional investigation into af
lars here, we would welcome it for the good if
might do. 1t could do no harm anyway. and #
might satisfy the Senator. The Senator saws he
VIII have state investigation also,-he will move
heaven and earth. We don't know what autbori
" the Senator has in the State-he may have
Iot OF influence The Attorney General has been
mere on several occasions. We might if the Sena-
tor thinks best, have legislative investigation of
AeAiOetoOCAil
that all the senator would have to do is inst 70
indicate that he wants it, and it will be forthcom
ing-no doubt about it. Wheeler might send
up Flathead Johnson to look things over and talk
to Lard Olsen, Jack O'Grady, Lou Onstad. Oscar
Collins Jack Bennett, Pete Stewart, and the rest
of the outfit They would entertain him as en-
thusiastically as they did the Senator.
But when the Senator moves for this investiga
ton let us hope that he will make the scope gen
erous enough to investigate the Beiseker Bank
deal and his connection with it in which he robbed
Ihe taxpayers of Sheridan county of $4,000 fees
ana then failed to appear at the trial; to take in
IN certain white slave case; to go into the Camp
oell m-Jacklng affair; to look into the South Da-
kota mess which the Senator is so glad that it has
outlawed; to inquire into his many maleodion
outlawed; to inquire into his many malodorous
deals with Horsethef Kelly with whom be etiIl
seems to be quite intimate
There is altogether too much crime in tbis soc+io,,
Of the country. Anything that can be done nons+
oe done about it, and the sooner start is made
the better. If Burton Wheeler can do anvtbino
TO heip suppress the prevalent lawlessness pre
vailing over the Northwest the quicker he is about
1t the better, and we opine that he can serve his
country better in this way than in chatting to
pink tea parties about China which his talks have
already disclosed that he is as ignorant of as
heuy's pigs. But we hope that the Senator will
not only look for bank robbers and such criminals
but that he will help bring out the truth about the
hl-jackers of old people and widows-the Senator
should make the scope of the investigation broad
we want all of the criminals-so broad as to in
clude the Charley Baer affair of which the Sena-
tor himself is quite familiar.
If the Senator will do this, we will be glad to
cooperate with him. and while he is here we will
see to it that the Comertown farmer does not ask
INN any embarrassing questions but promise him
that we will treat him just as he would himself
treat anyone else in the same conditions.