The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-11

reputation in -Plentywood as a
highly conventional person. He
has been heard to boast that he
formed an alliance with your chief
Of police Collins to put mig" Col
Inns out of business His cronies
were heard to boast when mig
was arrested that now they would
be able to operate their rum-run-
ming and bootlegging without COM
petition. 1t is reported here that
there is one favored bootlegger IN
PlentywOod who was waiting to
see Mig" safely locked in the Big
House before opening up on a
grand scale. 1t is reported that
he is a person named Gottlieb.
As TO Ted's conventional stand
ing in Scobey, the Corporal stays
In the Gorham Hotel, where sew
eral bOotleggers have their head
quarters. 1t is reported that Win
tiers is intimate with certain of
them and with one in particular
who has an attractive wife. Win
tiers is reported seen in this wom-
ans company almost every night,
the exception being when he is
in PlentywOOd, protecting the NOR
ais Of that city.
Making Them Happy.
Winters is said to entertain this
woman when her pigger husband
is out with young girls and mar
ried women, getting them liquored
up and happy. 1t is quite well
known here that a young girl
about IL years Of age, was sent
away to a maternity home and it
IS reported that she stated that
this certain pal of Ted Winters
was the father of her unborn child.
And the pigger's wife, who is re-
ported to be the friend" of Ted
Winters, remarked that her hus-
bands "girl" had "gone away to
have a baby" Now does it look
as if Ted Winters is the proper
man 70 90 to Plentywood to i'm
pose his moral standards on that
town?
Breaking Government Rules
Mr.. Winters is also quite active
IN local politics which is contrary
to government rules, going to the
extreme of using government cars
to haul voters to the polls here IN
Scobey on election day, April Z, in
behalf Of Burley Bowler's candi-
date. Perhaps the rules are sus-
pended In the case of Ted Winters.
People here are beginning to get
suspicious that Winters chief.
Colonel Sheridan knows all about
the operation of the Scobey rum
ring and perhaps profits by it.
1t Is generally believed here that
both the Gorham Hotel and the
Collinson Drug Store, in which a
brother OF Agent Woodward, Ted's
sIde-kick, is a partner-are sup
piled with liquor confiscated by the
border patrol. 1t was banded
around here some time ago that
Agent Woodward's brother kept
this confiscated liquor in his house
from which the booze joints of
Scobey could be supplied as they
needed the stuff.
The Thieves Den.
Burnley Bowler, the Pagan of
the Scobey underworld, is going to
have a tough time explaining to
the people of Daniels County why
he failed to give publicity to the
drunken orgy in the Gorham Ho-
tel, where girls under sixteen were
piled with liquor until they were
carried unconscious out of the
building. The Scobey Chief Of
Police knew about the matter and
ne took no action. All the wires
IN the underworld of Scobev.
which meet in the office of the
Daniels County Leader. were pull
ed IN an effort to quash the story
But the underworld failed as If
always Is bound to fail when de-
cent citizens are aroused.
1t now looks like a cleanup for
Bowler and his gangster allies
Perhaps Ted Winters will walk
the plank with them. Seobev
would be the better for their ali
sence.