The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-17

County under the Hans Madsen-
Grant Blackwell regime.
Nobody would expect that Grant
Blackwell, the financial agent of
Otto Stadig and Bill Gottlieb, boot
leggers immune and extraordinary,
would clean up the county. Bake
well is a cog in the machine of
Ed. Powers of Medicine Lake, Joe
Dolin of Medicine Lake and Frank |
French of Medicine Lake. Nobody |
but a burglar could be in the Ed |
Powers machine. An article by
Senator Taylor which will appear
in the next issue shows what kind
of crook Ed Powers is and indi-
Gates that anybody who operates
thru the Powers Dolin- French gang
cannot be anything but a political
: gangster.
But people should expect differ
emf. from Hans Madsen.
q 4 What are the facts?
, Gambling is running wide open
IN Plentywood.
Right next to county attorney
Grant Bakewell's office the dice
gambol and the worries roll. Does
Sheriff Madsen know about it? Of
course he does. Sheriff Madsen
, visits the Mint, the one of the two
speakeasies that are allowed to
operate in Plentywood 1t is true
that Madsen is taking his orders
from Oscar Collins, the notorious
! ! roue and drunkard, but the people
did not elect Oscar Collins sheriff.
: Madsen knows that gambling is
: being conducted in The Mint and
: that hundreds of dollars are lost
daily in games in that notorious
: dive.
e The fact that Grant Blackwell
y loaned Otto Stadig $1,000 to i'm
i ance a batch of moonshine for the
n fall trade should not deter Hans
y Madsen from his duty.
d Is it not a sight for the gods
i and for the good women who went
y out two years ago slandering ROD
Il ney Salisbury to the effect that
/ he was a friend of gamblers, boot
o leggers and hi-jackers, to have
boys now throwing dice right in
front of tse county attorneys of
flee?
Is it not a fine piece of irony
for those good people to know that
Otto Stadig, who borrrwed $1,000
from Grant Blackwell last spring
to finance his moonshine opera
t;Ons, and Bill Gottlieb, the shifty-
eyed gangster, were sent out by
Hans Madsen and Blackwell to line
up the underworld against A. C.
Erickson and Charlie Norton?
And the reports are that the I'M
derworld went one hundred per
cent for Madsen and Blackwell.
Why?
Why not? What has Madsen,
the alleged puritan done to the
underworld since he came into Of
flee? Remember that he promised
to run "Nig" Collins out of the
county inside of a few months or
resign. Well, he did not run Mig
out of the county. Perhaps his
conscience advised him that mig
was no worse than his old friend
Phil Bouarssa, who ran the bawdy
- house known as the Grand View
Hotel, where liquor was sold and
women trade for cash in the no
torious room 25. Perhaps Han:
Madsen had some decency left in
him even. after he was gotten hold
iof by Lou Onstad and the ape that
walks ike a man, to-wit, Lard S
Olson. Perhaps it did not look SC
good to Hans Madsen to raise SC
much hell about "Nig" when he
knew that Phil Bourassa was pay
ing protection money 10 Oscar
Collins for permitting girls te
work out of room rs, tho Phi
was mighty sore at Oscar demand.
ing the attentions of the girls free
of charge. No doubt Hans Mad.
sen knew that at any hour of the
day or night libidinous men could
be seen trekking the back stairs
of the Grand View Hotel to the
aforesaid room where women were
bartered for cash. We think Hans
knew.
But what we are getting at is
e this. Gambling, bootlegging and
&c attendant evils are rife in Sheri.
dan county RIGHT NOW.
III Where?
Let US be specific.
&c The Stadig and Gottlieb saloor
IS known as The Mint is notorious
Stadig and Gottlieb used to have 6
little ad in The Producers News
but they pulled it out because o.
The Producers News war on boot
leggers. Gottlieb Is no sneakinS
aesthetic, He is an underworld
character and works in A GANG
He intimated that he was ordered
. to pull out the ad by Ted Winters
border patrolman, who works un
e der Colonel Sheridan from Grea
n Falls. Bill Gottlieb knew that hi
er lousy ad meant nothing to tn,
ID, Producers News but it was hi
at way of showing that The Produc
n ers News was in bad with the UN
DERWORLD. Gottlieb intimate,
IS to many of the habitues of hi
"a dive that the brentwood Heral
n was the organ of the underworld
20. and that anybody who stood i
ng with Winters. Collins and Lard S
le- Olson could be assured of favor
ne able treatment in Great Falls.
nd So The Mint is running wild
sk. open. Wet as the ocean and Their
is no kind of game known to tn
gambling fraternity that is no
Ice pulled off in the Mint.
I'd Down the street we see Bi
IN Jack Dwyer, who is reported t
TN have been strikebreaker year