The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.149-150
We were grieved to know that such a wreck had
been appointed to be our guardian. Not so long after he’s gone an article
appeared in the Great Falls Tribune, where Horace G. Wilson, formerly of this
country, was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary in California for the Man-Act. F.C. Campbell
now came to be our Agent. He had no personal bad habits but he was worse,
because he was a political grafter and he became involved in Joe Sherburne’s
political machine for by this time the latter was secretly running the county
and the Office too. Who is Joe Sherburne, he is our local merchant for the last
thirty-five years, and owns the First National Bank here, (that explains it).
All the money for the Office goes through his bank; that is how he comes to
exert so much influence over the Office. They are linked up like a log
chain-Joe Sherburne, the Office, and the two Big Sheep Corporations; Long And
Clary Sheep Company, and the Frye Sheep Company, the latter is owned (so I am
told) by Swift and Armor and the Great Northern Railway. Results they have
built up a nice little Tammany Hall Clique at Browning. Graft is a hard thing
to prove where members are handy at padding up accounts, one can always put 2
and 2 together.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.149-150
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