The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27
Rare Rum Raid In
Burley BOwler's
Boozey Bailiwick

: By OUR SCOBEY SCRIBE
3 Scobey.-Early on the Lords
8 Day last week Corporal Ted
= Winters and Private o.. Wood
8 ward, well known border pa
= troll officers took into Gus
: today Frank Nash and Jimmie
+ Burke, alleged bootleggers
= who were charged with posses
= sion and sale of whiskey,
: beer, wine and struggled
= goods. Another victim of the
< law-enforcing spasm that grip
= ped Corporal Winters was Les
= ter Flick who was apprehend-
= ed with five gallons of alleged
= alcohol in his car on Saturday
= evening. His automobile was
= confiscated.
Flick was arrested on the
= high road near Flaxville. He
= was accompanied by a -Flaxvil-
liam who acted as chauffeur.
The Flaxville man, however,
was released when Corp. Win
tiers learned that the worst
that he could be charged with
was keeping company with an
alleged bootlegger and driving
a car while in the vicinity of
liquor. Justice, tho blind is
sometimes eminently fair.
Having bagged one rebel
against the "Noble Expert
ment," Corp. Winters conclud-
ed that SINCE the little fish
< were biting he could add to the
= reputation he gained in sur
= veying the alleys of Plenty
= wood by exploring the river
three miles northwest of SEQ
= hey in search of more. 1t is
also banded around Scobey
= that Sir Burley Bowler, editor
: of Colonel Sheridan's House
= organ, has not been doing so
+ we'll of late and that he de-
= manded action from Corp.
= Winters else he would have to
y quit his job, such as it is and
= return to Canada where liquor
= is good and respectable. Bur
= ley's customers have been
: complaining, it is said, that
: he should have at least one
: news story a week in his pa
: per, otherwise he should look
= after some more legitimate
= and visible means of support.
Is Be that as it may, Corporal
< Winters and his associate,
< who is not as overburdened by
= excess avoirdupois as the "Lit-
= tie Corporal" prowled along
x the river banks during the
dead of night and the wee
sma' hours of the mornin'
Working under the protective
mantle of darkness our he
roes sought out a place where
young folks of both sexes are
said to regale themselves with
= forbidden brew. While snoop-
ing around, they saw a man
leave a shack with some beer
which he placed in the river
TO cool. As he returned to the
shack the officers arrested
him with two bottles of whis-
key inside his belt and a case
of beer in his hands. An al
legged confederate was also ar
rested. 1t is reported that
young people ranging in age
from II years to Is were found
on the premises.
After lodging Nash and
Burke in jail, the officers
started out to drag the river
but found only two bottles OF
beer. Continuing their search
they found in a dugout in the
bank several cases of beer
jugs of wine, quarts of whis-
key and imported liquors, all
apparently of Canadian manu-
facture that must have been
Struggled over the border
while Corp. Winters was sur
veying the scenery in Plenty
wood.
1t is reported on the streets
here that the Scobey bootleg
gers were not putting the
"long green" on the table reg
ularly of late. Colonel Sher-
idan's local House Organ oc-
casionally develops fits of NOR
al indignation. 1t is rumored
that those ebullitions coincide
with the thrift seizures suf-
fered by the local bootleggers
Thrift like many other Rotari-
an virtues, while good when
observed with moderation
proves a boomerang when car