The producers news., 1927-12-09

and the Sheridan county sheriff ad infinitum ad
nauseum, is Burley every time. He never has a
new idea, and as is to be expected, anything to
lead the mind of the public away from the known
facts, by talking about something else and resort
ing to plain falsehood to prejudice those who now
laugh at Al's predicament.
Burley does a lot of explaining of the impress
sion that "the Producers News conveys and found
things conveyed that no one else found or could
find This impression that Burley found conveyed
was a great help to Burley in penning his apo-
ogy for Al, and in squirming out of the hole that
ackass officer got them into in his efforts to pull
another one of his stunts that AL is so prone to
pull, to make it appear that he is something other
than just what he is and to make lot of pure
falsehOods concerning Sheriff Salisbury appear
true. Al works overtime on this stuff and is an
easy victim when there seems to be chance to
embarass the Sheridan county sheriff
Bowler heads his editorials, Don't Like Detec-
tives," for an obvious purpose, of insinuating
something where fact do not justify theory. We
confess, don't care much for "stoolpigeons"
and dicks" of any sort. We have always found
these to be the scum of the earth, entirely
devoid of all principe=men who will do absolute
ly anything for 6noney, who when they can't find
thieves, blackmailers. thugs, and perjurers. We
never yet met man in the detective game, and
we don't believe that any one else ever has, and we
know that Burley's opinions of "dicks" are on
par with ours.
Now answering the Leader editorial paragraph
by paragraph.
Take paragraph one for nstance-could any
thing be more ridiculous? Could the intelligence
of even ordinary people be more impudently i'm
posed upon? Read it. Now on what grounds can
the Leader say that we have more than an ordin-
ary dislike and contempt for dicks" Sheriff Sal
isbury has not arrested one of them nor in any,
way inconvenienced them. He has not had any
of them identified, nor marched through the
streets shackled. He has not interfered with any
of them in any way, and there has been at least
forty of them in Pentywood, sent in from differ
ent sources since the robbery of the treasury last
fall. These men have come and gone to what
avail we do not know. Their presence makes good
business here. They all seem to enjoy themselves
while in Plentywood and the sheriff says he has
no objection to their coming here in as large a
number may be desired
/ Read the first paragraph again Now is not
ihat good? When a comes into Plentywood
and acts like Sunday school superintendent, saws
ms prayers, don't drink or play cards, or date up
with ladies of "easy virtue" and otherwise be.
haves himself as a gentleman, Sheriff Salisbury
and the Producers News Immediately suspects hin
of being dick" And we presume bv the same
formula, Sheriff Al and his false alarm unofficia
band of bandit baggers here in Plentywood. in tn,
person of Jack Bennett, L. j. Onstad Oscar Col
Inns, Jack O'Grady, L. S. Olson and Game Warder
hrost, suspects him of being bank robber ant
sends for the Daniels County Sheriff to come ov
er to arrest him. and march him shackled thru
the streets in spectacular display of stage he
roles Of coure all sapient people know that de
cent men are never detectives, and that anv detec
tive coming to Plentywood or Scobey either. is 90
ing to do just the things that Bowler supposes h
would not do A person who comes to Plentvwoo
and carried on Burley outlined would not b.
suspected of being 'dickp by Salisbury or anv
body else, except perhaps Sheriff Lawrence and
dick" would do that very thing-"he would he
come booster for cock fights, participate i
games be bad man in general, in order to gail
confidence of those whom he would betrav can
bring to justice" and Mcdonald played his gam
along this line as do all the others who come here
This answers also paragraph and as well
The pure bunk of this stuff is ridiculous
Now paragraph 4: Here the Leader editor pre
tends to quote Salisbury as quoted in the Pro
ulcers News last week, deliberately making It an
pear that Salisbury spoke of the operatives. dis
paragmgly when he spoke of such bandit hound
as Jack Bennett, L. j. Onstad, L. S. Olson ant
Game Warden Krost and others, the men who dis
covered the "robber" that All arrested. Salisbur
nor the Producers News did not say "those dick
could not catch cOld," but that the home taIen
bandit catchers referred to above "could not cate
cold. When he spoke of ''rumdums" he spoke o
the Onstad, Olson, Bennett, Krost outfit. an
well the leader knows that That line was dc
hberately misquoted by the Leader editor for tn
wllful purpose of conveying impressions" Sbel
III Salisbury spoke plainly of the local granc
tanders who are chasing bandits for political Nh,
poses, and IN their activities causing the opers
tive OF the American Bankers Association to be q,
rested, marched through the streets with a bi
gat poked into his kidneys, as captured ban
roooer, captured right in Plentywood if YOU pleas
when he said, "If these rumdums, who couldn
even catch cold, keep performing, there will be n
chance to catch anybody; or convict him if caught
Now, Burley, we can suppose that after II
identification of Mcdonald by Kingsley, and ii
identification of two others in the same cigar sto
by the same man, that he could be used in a cou
IN Daniels county to identify somebody else. eve
II they were the "real" bandits. couldn't he
Stunts Of the sort just pulled and the persistei
f nEA Al~--