The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-21
RUNNING TO ATTACH
An Exciting Race Between Officers of
the Law.
A BRUCKNER WAS THE GOAL
Attachments Levied on the Prop
erty by Z. M. Trask and the
SchatzIein Paint Company
Both Claim the Stakes.
BRUCKNER WAS THE GOAL

Deputy Sheriff Hooking and Consta-
BILE Bordeaux were the participants in
a record-brealSing race Wednesday ev-
ening near Divide, and as there were
no witnesses to the finish, each claims
| to have won by a neck. On Wednesday
| IL. M. Trask commenced an action in
| Justice Almon's court against the Idaho
| Gold Mining & Reduction company of
| Gibbonsville, Idaho, for $3.50, alleged to
| be due him for unloading from the cars
| at Divide and storing a large Bruckner
furnace. which is still lying near a
switch about a mile and a half from
Divide. An attachment was issued and
placed In the hands OF Constable Bor-
deaux to be levied on the furnace,
which is worth about 81, 900. About the
same time the Schatzlein Paint compa-
ny heard that the Idaho company had
some property In this state and through
Attorneys Carroll and Leehey COM
menced an action in the district court
for $500 alleged to be due on account
and for money loaned. An attachment
was also issue din that case and placed
in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Hook
ing, who left on the 4 o'clock train for
Divide to levy on the Bruckner fur
mace. He had no knowledge of the
Trask suit until he met Constable Bor-
deaux with Mr.. Trask and Attorney
Guy Reed on the train. 1t did not take
them long to discover each others bus
mess, and then IL became a question
as to who would reach the furnace
FIRST. Mr.. Trask had a horse waiting
somewhere in Divide for his constable,
and felt sure OF a good start ahead of
the deputy sheriff.
On arriving at Divide, both officers
left the train as Il shot from a cannon.
Deputy Sheriff Hooking fortunately
found the ST. 90 driver waiting at the
a
and ordered the driver to drive for his
life. Constable Bordeaux had some
trouble In finding the horse he expected
to be waiting for him, and Mr.. Trask,
recognizing the danger of delay when
he saw the stage driving away with the
deputy sheriff and the constable shout
Ing for horse. he resorted to strategy
and called Justify to the stage driver
The latter stopped and waited to see
what Trask wanted The deputy sher-
III eXpostulated with the driver and
told him IL was a trick to delay the
race and finally induced the fellow to
drive on. Mr. .Trask then rushed into
the station and asked the agent to call
the driver back. The agent fell into
the scheme and the stage driver was
again brought to a halt, and by the
time the deputy sheriff had convinced
the driver that the latter was a BANKED
fool, Constable Bordeaux hove in sight
on the back OF Trask's horse. He was ,
not much of a rider, and may have had !
some trouble i'm keeping on the horses |
back, but he set the pace for the race
The stage driver finally got onto the |
situation and urged his plugs to their |
utmost speed. The deputy sheriff |
shouted and pulled his hair, and the |
constable bumped up and down on his |
horse and waved his arms like wind |
mill and passed the old stage coach, |
and worried the deputy before the race /
was more than half run. When Hook |
ing reached the furnace he found Bor- |
deaux lacking up his attachment no.
tices. but the latter was so excited and /
laughed so hard at the deputy sheriff's /
discontinue that he had some trouble |
In getting his notice up and Hooking, |
so he claims, got his papers posted |
fully a minute before the constable
completed his work. Bordeaux, how
ever claims the stakes.