The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-14
The Receiver from wyoming.

George B. HulRrc OF Billings recently
appointed receiver Of the Yellowstone
National Park Improvement company at
the instisgation of the anti-lIatch inter-
ests, arrived at the Merchants from Lara
mie. Wvo., yesterday. sir. Hulme was
appointed receiver by the court at Wyo-
ming under advice of Eastern lawyers,
who are clear that the appointment as
receiver OF {. l.. Love, secured in Tren-
ton, y. Y, by Rufus Hatch, will not hold
because the property Of the company is
sicuated in Wyoming. Mr., Hulme found,
when appointed, that his bonds-$l5 600
must be given by parties resident in
Wyoming; and as he didn't know any
one, he had to telegraph to New York
for indemnity bonds, which did not ar
rive until last Friday. With these he
readily secured Wyoming bondsmen and
satisfied the court.
Hulme who is manager of the Bill
ings Cattle and Improvement company,
and was formerly in the New York land
department of the Northern Pacific rail-
way-wiil leave to-day for the hotel at
Mammoth Hot Springs, in the park, He
says, upon cursory view, the books and
accounts of the company are about as in
telligible as Runic script would be to a
COWBOY; but, after careful study OF the
vouchers, he cannot discover that the
company is in debt more than S3S,000.
This includes the amount due employees,
which is between 81 900 and $4,000.
Rufus Hatch-the new receiver says
gives the Indebtedness as S22O,0GO, but
that he intends to gobble the whole
, thing Mr. Hume has not any doubt, and
cites as an evidence Of assurance the
listing of the total amount subscribed on
st Jck and bonds as credit to the COM
pany and among the preferred claims.
| The new receiver has not any doubt that
the Trenton court will acknowledge the
authority of the court in Wyoming, and
will accordingly acknowledge him as re-
ceivcr instead of Love.
TVS ABoRTIvE ATTEMPTS.
The latter has not had much luck so
far, since two attempts to secure posses
sion of the hotel and appertaining pro-
pertv have been resisted and foiled by
the unpaid workmen. That they have
been as patient as could be expected Mr.
Hulme is certain, but Is somewhat in q
quanda.y himself. The court demands
that before the receiver pays out penny
he have absolute possession OF all the
property. He wants to paw the EN-
ployes, and says he will do so. but if the!
resist him in taking possession he will bt
unable, legally, to pay any debts. Hi'
present purpose is to call the men toge
ther and state the case dispassionately
and clearly and then ask them to assis
him in paying them by giving possession
staying on the premises meanwhile unit
they are assured Of his good faith. Mr
+ Hulme believes he will be successful an,
can open the hotel by June is, at tn
: latest If possible, he will have it read.
| for guests by the first Of June. One deb
in the list puzzles him. and that is tn
oyerdraft on the Bank Of Livingston, o
which Mr. Stebbins (the real receiver 0
the Hatch Interest," is president and Nj
:. Loye is cashier.
: An Illinois gentleman who had live
: in this hollow world long enough t
| reach his golden wedding day about
year ago, appointed big festival at tn
tavern in the town he lived in. and til
: landlord provided to feed two tllousan
people. Either because nobody care
about eating a tavern supper, or care
: nothing about John Hoffman's golde
wedding, only five hundred came and tn
: fifty years married man refused to pa
for any more suppers than were eatel
The county court at La Sale has just d.
> cided that he must pay for the fiftee
hundred that nobody 'came for to eat"
!, The walls of the Washington mon,
i ment are now of the height of four hui
S dred and twenty feet, and it require
d nine minutes to reach the top in the ell
e vator. Two feet day are now bein
d added to the shaft, which, at the heigf