The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20

others. He said that Corporal Win
ters was not a school chum of
Grier, the Brush Lake home-brew
dispenser, whom Winters once
raided and charged with running a
nuisance before the police court
and did not present to the federal
court as he did old Gus Olson.
HOgged the Fine Money
The Colonel said the border pa
trolmen cooperate with the local
notice departments and sometimes
bv arrangement with the local po-
lice. who preferred to see the fine
money go into the city treasury
instead of the federal, certain men
were presented before the local
magistrate. He admitted, howev-
err. that when the whiskey vendor
was presented before the local
magistrate, they were not subject
to having their places abated in
federal courts. When asked if he
did not think that the bootlegger
would be willing to pay for such a
favor, the colonel said he did not
know about such things.
He said also that he did not be-
Ilieve Corporal Winters was knock
ing over little sinners like old
Gus Olson, in order to put the
competitors of the Creightons out
of business. He also said that he
did not think Winters was getting
money from the CreightOns, and
that he had inquired at the Scobey
banks and that Corporal Winters
did not have an account at either
of the banks and that he did not
believe Corporal Winters deposited
"huge wad" of money one da!
in the bank at Scobey, for Winter:
always sent his checks to his wife
Winters Not ''That Kind"
Colonel Sheridan did not believ,
that Winters had entertained ''wlIC
women" from Havre at the Scobe!
hotel, for he did not think tn,
Corporal was that kind of a man
The customs collector said that h,
did not own any apartment hous'
in Great Falls, that he had bough
an option on a fine property blu
had sold the option and that h,
did not own any Anaconda stock
and had never owned any-tha
"Jack" Slattery had started tina
story going. When informed tina
Ed Donovan of the Great Falls pc
lice force had informed The Pro
ducers News about the apartment
house deal, and that Donovan ha'
said that he, the Colonel, ha,
bought the place, where Donovan
lived, had taken possession and or
dered him, the patrolman out
which was an unusual thing on al
option, the federal officer ap
4 peared non-plussed.
The Colonel said that for som
! reason Attorney "Jack" Slater,
did not think any too highly o
him and seemed to be continuall
baying on his trail, which was no
so pleasant.
Not Enough PatrOlmen
Colonel Sheridan declared tina
the Canadian border was a lon
affair and he only had a few pa
trolmen to guard it. Not one
tenth enough and that it was yer
difficult to proven whiskey run
ners from crossing with their car
goes. The Producers News re
porter said, for that reason, pee
pie wondered why Corporal Win
tiers did not patrol the border in
stead OF Plentywood alleys whic
were no part of the border. TIL
Producers News reported told Co
; Sheridan that it did not care ho7
much good whiskey came over tn
: border; people were going to US
; alcohol and no one could stop them
that the paper only resented tn
privilege granted to certain pee
pie to run booze and the stoppin
of others and the butting into Ii
cal and county politics, and tn
knocking over" of the small fir
while the big fish were unmolesi
ed but permitted to operate out /
: the open every day without fea1
that it resented the obvious CON
bination between Corporal Winter
and Oscar Collins, chief of polio
of Plentywood, to exploit tn
| booze business in this town. an