The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27
ONLY WANTED 100000
Hon. ". 4. Clark Invited 10 DisSoI6e
Hearty Half Z Million Dollars.
Arrest ut . Yeush who Claims tn Have
Besn KANT tn Receive the Money
-rhreasenimg l1etteru 1te-
ceived by Nr. Clark.

Special Correspondence Of the Standard.
BUTTE, Dec. 26.-At2 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon n young man ID years of age,
with smooth face and n sly manner
walked up the steps of Clark q L~arrabic's
hank handles in q note addrs.ssed, "Hon.
w. A. Clark, City" TIL young man was
shown into n private office with "a request
to wait. He waited q minutes and when
he left il was i'm IN with Chief of
Police Smith. The letter read as follows:
BUTTE, dee. -.
Mr.. Clark: Tomorrow is the day when yoa
were tai pay the SlOO, OO0. II when we see this
young man come out of the hank ne does not
have the money, We will kin you within a week.
II this young man is traced or followed In any
mander, your death will he the penalty.
Signed, u? desperate men tn get St00.OO0.
The young man vas taken to Chief
Smiths private office and interroRatcd
He said that at 2 O'Clock Tuesday morn
ing he was met by "A man i'm an alley of
Broadway and given SO to take that note
to Mr.. Clark. He claimed To know moth
ing about the letter and that the man was
an entire stranger to him. In the opinion
of the chief the young man was lying.
His name is George -StackpOle, and he
says he is u carpenter who has worked
lately i'm Deer Lodge and Anaconda. He
was locked up i'm Jail awaiting AN invcsti-
CATION.
Not much attention would have been
paid to the letter hut for the fact that IL
was The third of the same threatening ma
ture that had been sent To Mr.. Clarke.
Il he nrSt letter nlu culicu attet1tlOn to MT.
Clarke's great wealth and informed him
that on the afternoon of December 23, u
messenger would call for the money.
Nineteen men wcr. banded together to-
kill him i'm case he did not consent. A
second letter reminded Mr.. Clark of the
eInan On December 23 MIR. Clark
was i'm Helena. On returning
Tuesday night, the letter was shown him
and he considered the matter of sufficient
Importance to Justify him i'm tclephoning
to the slieriir's office for N Waterman tn
guard his residence. The letters were all
in the same handwriting. The officers
are not quite sure whether there is actt-
ally IA band camping OH Mr.. Clark's trail
or whether IL il simply the half crazy trick
of u schoolboy. The hoy is in custody
and the police are investigating the
matter.
Young S~tackpolc was this evening m
duced to write "a letter to his father aud by
comparing the writing of this letter with
that of the letter sent to Mr.. Clark, il was
easy to recognize the same hand. Chief
Smith is convinced hat the gang is moth
ing more terrible than four boys in their
teens who have been reading dime novels
too extensively. These are believed To
he the boys concerned, Stackpole, Carnie,
Kcmar and Keng. They asked for S4OO,-
90 which is $1OO,OOO apiece. Stackpole il
evidently the leader of the gang. His
father is greatly panied Over the affair
aud wants to have N settlement made. No
charge has yet been made against the boy,
but one of blackmail will probable bs
prepared.