Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-02-27

Outlook, Mont, Feb. 23rd, 1880.
Plentywood Herald,
Plentywood, Mont.
Dear Sirs:
AS an interested reader of both the
Herald and the News, and also get
ting around amongst the people of
this County considerably and getting
4 pretty fair chance of obtaining ex-
p%ressions from other people who have
been reading both sides of the Plenty
wood newspaper scrap, ! want to
compliment you on your stand in be-
half Of law and order, and | also want
to condemn the attitude of the News
on the stand they take.
| believe the editor of the Produ-
cers News went too far this week
when he attempted to make fun of
the work done by your Commercial
Club, and also in mixing up politics
with religion. Your business men are
doing wonderful work trying to get
good roads, better schools as we'll as
establish a customs office on the bor-
der somewheres between Raymond
and Outlook. There will be thousands
Of people travelling back and forth
across this line that will go thru
your town that will bring in lots of
business, which otherwise would go
to Scobey or Crosby if it were not for
the efforts of your Commercial Club,
and they are entitled to a lot of
thanks instead of a knock.
Why does not this "Dagmar Far
mer" sign his name Hans Rasmus-
sen? Why does not the working
stiff" sign his name Hans Rasmus-
sen? Why does not the disguised
tax payer" sign his name Hans Rass-
mussen? We who know his style and
used to be fairly we'll acquainted with
him wonder about this. We also want
to ask as long as he is hollering about
judgments the County has against
Frank French, why in the name of
COMMON sense don't Hans pay up the
Judgment that Sheridan County has
against him? Like John A. Stahl-
berg we believe that whenever he
finds something with a rotten smell
he does get down on his hands and
knees and stirs it with his fingers,
then sticks his nose into it, and finally
puts it in his lunch kit. He hollers
about hiring people from other parts
Of the country to do the work here
last summer, and then tells about
people are going elsewhere to get
work. What's wrong about that
Hans? You got work down by Froid
and beat someone else out of a Job
down there, SO you hadn't ought to
boiler any more about that.
And getting down to the Sheriff
business. There has been more or
less snarling from Rodney about the
way Madsen performs, but getting
right down to brass tacks, here is the
way it looks to a lot of US people in
northern Sheridan County, where we
know all the possible Sheriff timber
and that is that Salisbury is out for
ever; Hans Madsen has made a much
better sheriff than Salisbury ever
did, but Oscar Collins knows more
about crook catching then both of
them put together, and whenever he
got on the trail Of a crook he staid by
it like a bloodhound and his mileage
was never high like Salisbury's.
Hans Madsen has not had as much ex-
perience with crook catching for the
reason that we had a mighty poor
crop last year and the crooks stayed
away, partly for this reason, and
partly for the reason that the protec-
ton they had for six wears while Rod
ney and Erickson were supposed to
enforce the laws in this County, was
not forthcoming any more.
With prospects for a good crop
back again there is prospects for a
general revival Of Pre-Madsen days
here, and l was down at P~lentywood
the middle of last week and | saw a
couple of alleged gangsters step off
the passenger train that were in
Plentywdod just before the Court
house was robbed. They used to
claim they were from Chicago when
they were here the last time, so Hans
Madsen had better watch his step day
and night now that the roads are get
ting better for fear that someone will
not board with him any more.
If Oscar Collins was back on the
job he would see that those boys
would move at once, while with Rod
ney Salisbury on the job he would
put on a real party with plenty Of
Canadian hooch as the principal re-
freshments for these Chicago visit
ors.
/ believe we should use every effort
to elect Oscar Collins sheriff even tho
in saying this I am hurting Hans
Madsen who is a friend Of mine. /
also believe that you should rip the
hide off of that ex-politician that
persists in writing contributed editor
ials under various non-de-plumes in
the Producers News. Give it to him,
he has it coming.
This is all for this time, but if you
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