The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-07-09
Montana I.lmber Company Attached.


laycd train from the cast Shcrlf i'lakciy
of Gallatin county, served attachment pa
pc,s upon thc Montana Lumber Co. here :t
suit of Crockett L. ShotWcll OF Fargo, for
$lO,nO0. The yard ut Billings was at
tacI,cd Yesterday morning ia the same
suit but the mills at Big Timber and the
comuany's books, accounts and securities
still lemaiu free. The suit Wherein this
att:c ament is made is brought upon Il dis
putcd account and the $4,000 sued Tor
is meant to cover any judgment that may
! he recovered. La the spring OF 1883
Crockett & Shotwcll had Il lumber yard
at Billings of which they wished TO he
rid The Montana Luml'er company took
their stock and agreed to sell 1t upon
commission and make regular returns.
The company claim that they have
performed their part of the contract
promptly and now owe Crockett 4 Shot
we'll only $50, Il large quantity OF the
lumber remaining unsold at Billings.
The attachment, of course, Is adverse to
the assignment, and involves litigation
from the beginning. Crockett u Shot
wells claim will also DC contested by the
company and an infinite amount of legal
controversy seems inauguratcd. Other
attachments will doubtless follow. 'E9.t.
FL Mintie being questioned in regard
to the attachment said he could not bnt
deeply regret it. The company was per
fectlv solvent still, and hoped to get
! through its difficulties without unduly
J distressing those upon whom 1t held
claims. He expected other attachments
would follow from such eastern parties as
/ held claims against them, as he presumed
all creditors would wish to stand upon us
secure !; basis as possible. Their Liv-
ingston creditors had all been abundantly
secured so that they were perfectly easy.
He expected that meeting of the direc
tors of the company would he held before
very long and il definite policy ectcrm
/ incd upon to cxtricxtc themselves from
present difficulties or, at least, to decide
upon Just what course WOULD be pursued.
He hoped it would not he found necessary
to force their debtors to immediate pay
ncnt. ~
Mr.. Shotwell, the attaching creditor,
talked with our reporter regarding the
affair lie said his firm had consigned
the Montana Lumber company a stock of
lumber to he sold on commission with Ger
tain provisions for absolute purchase. Re-
turns were to be made monthly but none
had been made during six months past
He had come out from Fargo to make
some settlement OF the matter and found
Mr. Halfway in St. Paul. With the
assistance of Mr. Allen he looked over the
stock and found that in the neig.lborhood
Of $50, 900 was due his firm. He tele-
yraphed Mr.. Halfway to meet him in st.
Paul and went there but was able to OBJ
tain no satisfactory proposal. Hc learned
that the creditors Of the company were
pressing and returning to Billings put on
an attachment. The stock there was not
sufficient to secure him and
he had the attachment placed on
the Livingston yard also. He believed
the company was perfectly solvent, and
that had its head office been managed
properly it would never have been in this
difficulty. +. l.. Mintie he regarded as
being totally blamelcss in the matter, anil
he desired to see that gentleman placed
in the proper light before the people of
Livingston. Mr. Minte was entirely con
scicntious in believing that the company
owed Crockett l. Shotwcll only $50. and
he knew that until this attachment Mr..
| Mintic was not aware Of the term Of tho
agreement between c. & S. and the COM
pany, or Of any greater sum being due
the former Mr.. Shotwell said his firm
were ready to cemc To- settlement and
an easy one any day, and he hoped that
such settlement would be speedily
reached.
! In La Plata county, in the western part
i &c l,nlnrAld a cattle callln WAS attack d