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Douglas County Man Will Preserve Order In Shelby, MontanaShell Alsup, Jr., is Sheriff cf County in Which FijjhtComes Off.cipaled that a plentiful supply of “liquid refreshments’ will be smug-fried across the border into the town where the Independence Day frolic |will be staged, according to Alsup.Order will be maintained, however,and all such practices will be prevented if possible. Chief Alsup declared. He writes to friends* in Douglas County that Shelby will be an unhealthy place*’ for crooks and lawbreakers, before, during, and after the title bout.Scarcely two years ago Shelby was a dot on the map a little “cow town” —with only a population of about 500 pe• lt;o , areo'-dim to Alsup. Oil j w.-is discovered near the town and the population increased to about 4.~-000. A few months ago Cate again stepped in and Shelbv was selectedas the place at which the Dempsey ribbons championship bout would Ik? [held. The population began to increase by leaps and bounds, Alsupsaid, until today Shelby is a place of bustling activity.When the little “cow town” awoke one morning and found that the title bout of the world would be held there July 4th its citizens realized the task that was before them in making provisions for handling 40,000 visitors or more, with a minimum of discomfort, Alsup said. At that time the pop u kit ion was only 4000 and. only about 1,000 visitors, at the most, could be provided for, he said.Houses, buildings, and hotels be-t,an to spring up immediately, according to Alsup and are still being erected daily. The Great Northern Railway plans to house and feed 10,000 people in puliman cars, and 300 railway employes in a new barracks. A000 motor cars can transport, with gas, water, shower baths- a barbed wire stockade and police protection, is being rushed to completion by the fcity, Alsup writes. Over U)0 hotels and rooming houses will take care oflt; fly Associated Prem)UVA, Mo., June 26.—When Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing cham- 1pion of the world, and Tom Gibbons, ! aspirant for the heavyweight crown, meet in the squared circle at Shelby,Montana, July 4, in their world title bout, a Missourian- Shelfc Alsup, Jr.,) a native of Douglas County, will bo! the man who will be responsible for,peace and order in the . “little cow . town,” that has grown ib a popuia-! tion of thousands almost overnight. \Shelt Alsup, Juniors, father has pervert as sheriff off Douglas County on two different occasions' in past years. Alsup, Jr., left DouglasCounty a few years ago for the west ; where he made a record, while serv-1 ing as constable, by rounding up I gangs of cattle thieves. This led to!his election as|sheriff of the countyin Montana in which Shelby is loca- ? ted, and now* Alsup, * Jr., has been j elected chief of the police of Shelby.He is also the cousin of Noel Alsup ' county clerk of Douglas County. iglfAlsup is mobilizing!a (special no- (lice force of 1,500 men to assist in . . , t M,maintaining1 order at Shelbv, accord- !nonsU‘,1' Atoun8t camp- capahI« of arc‘ ing to word just received from him |^!Tm0,latmfir.as muny per!*on* a* and on this special force of law enforcers will lie some of the best police officers found in the leading metropolitan centers of the United*j itS.The Canadian bolder is just a fewmiles north of Shelbv and it is anti-17’000 n,ore an,! U 5s e*tirnated thatmore than 1,000 will come by automobile and trains from points within a 200 mile radius, for the day of the fight only.Alsup won fame for himself as a peace officer in the west as a constable a few years ago, at a crossroads store neaY Shelby, he captureda number of dangerous cattle thieves He was elected sheriff for two terms j and is now chief of police of Shelby, once a “little cow town,” and now a bustling city, completing additional preparations each day for the coming world’s championship fistic battle between Jack Dempsey and Tom Gibbons on Julv 4th.'
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Jefferson City Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Wed, Jun 27, 1923
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