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

Inc oIner Gay down at Jer
Jensen's sale over east of Ant,
lOpe, the boys were operating
little crap game in a box on
patch of grass in the shade of til
trees. Hans Madsen, the great hi
sin-chasing sheriff who was goin
to make the county So white an
pure that Frank French, Lard q
son, Harry Polk, Burley Bowie
and the rest of the republican ont
fit could live here without helm
tempted, they say came along an
the boys moved to another place
they moved several times 50 as +
keep out Ofsight. Finally they say
Hans was approached and ARRANGE
ments were made with him Tn
boys do declare that the congenia
sheriff showed the crap PLAYERS ,
place in the turkey shed where tn,
gamblers could shoot out of hi
sight where they would not embar
rass him by his seeing them. Tn,
crap game operated all Afternoon
without being mOlested. Some o,
the boys say there was a consid
Grafton but we only say what the,
say.
s. IS
The crap game at the turke,
shed is not the only crap game II
the county: there was a big one
again the other day over at Gott.
lers joint. 1t was not molested
Then there was another big game
down to Reserve and Gottlieb went
down with his bones. He LOST cor
bucks: went back next night won
$1,000 back, they say. In PLENTY
wood there are two or three poker
games running steady. Hans Mad
sen knows where these games are
just as we'll as Mutt does, even If
he does spend the most of his time
at the ranch at Archer instead Of
trying to earn his money policino
the county. There are booze Joints
operating right here in PLENTY
wood that have run wide open for
the past two years and have never
been pinched even once: Gottlieh
and Jack Dwyer and Hank Krebs-
bach. Jack Dwyer was pinched
once but the case was 0uashed
down at Great Falls and he never
came to trial. He was pincbed
Just for the looks of it. Hans
Madsen knows all about this as
does Oscar Collins, the chief of
police, and the border patrol and
Otto Waddel, the enforcement ag-
ent, However if anyone starts
selling in the alleys in competition
with these above-named men who
compose the Plentywood whiskev
ring, they are pinched soon enuf
Winters coming down from Scobey
to make the raid. A fellow the
gang didn't like opened a Joint at
Antelope about a month ago. 1t
was pinched quick but the other
fellow who has the franchise. was
not bothered. No one at Medicine
Lake has been bothered since Hans
Madsen went into office and no one
will be either. Gambling of all
sorts runs wide open there and
has been so running without inter-
ruptlon. There are booze Joints at
Reserve where gambling is going
IN: there are places at Outlook,
Redstone, Raymond, Dooley, Com
ertown and Westby, where gambl-
ng games operate steadily. I
mention gambling, because Mad
zen is especially charged with the
of the gambling laws,
here are no state prohibition
avs.
Sheriff Madsen was going TO
top all of this, however, in six
months or he was going TO resign.
lie hasn't stopped it, has not tried
o stop it and he has no resigned.
When he is wanted to police the
Ounty, or to run down burglars,
lie can't be found-he is at home
n his feather bed and Oscar Col
ms is called upon to go out to
lee what he can do. Bob Smith,
We are told, says he is forbidden
o do anything on his own initia-
i've. When Hans is called he just
urns over and walls:
Please go way and let me sleep
DON'T disturb my slumbers deep.
Sleep to me is such a treat, treat,
treat!
Don't you wish you could earn
bout two hundred dollars a
month, sleeping at the farm and
ooking after things there? 1t
would help some during these
lines, wouldn't it?
Last spring Sheriff Hans had a
zig speel about slot machines and
low he was after them in the
bladder. Just show 'em to me he
houted. Well, slot machines are
'perating everywhere. One can
70 most any place and watch the
ids slipping their nickels into the
nachine-high school boys and
grammar school boys and some
ines the little girls put their
money in these thimble rugged
lickel grabbers. And where is the
zig boy who was going to eat 'em
live?
So = =
Now shooting crap is okey with
I'D Mutt. People will gamble.
some shoot crap and others bet on
he farm board or board of trade,
,r buy chances on crazy quilts at
ladies' aid bazaars.
Folks will have their home-brew
and moonshine: always did and al
ways will. Boys will be boys and
girls will be girls as long as the
world endures: flesh is flesh and
blood is blood. Hans Madsen cam
not make anything different even
# he thot he could, if he ever thot
so. However Hans was willing to
make campaign on promises of
the impossible in order to get
elected to office. He cannot kick