The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-07
WHERE IS CARL A RUMPF2
Creditors Plaster His Business
With Attachments.
GONE SEVERAL MONTHS
The Liabilities Will Aggregate $40. OoO
or 10000 and he Total Assets
Are Not More Than $751;
900 or $4,000.

Carl a. Rumpf. a commission mcr-
chant of South Butte. left town several
months ago and his whereabouts are
uncertain. His business was left in
rather bad shape and yesterday cred
itors closed in ON it and attachments
a~ggregating s30.e2s were levied ON his
stock and book accounts. \ number
of smaller creditors are yet TO be heard
fIom. but little will be found left to sat
isfy their claims. Sheriff Regain last
evening placed a custodian I'm charge
of the attached property. The princi-
pal creditor of Rumpf is the First Ma
81. 22S. 80, of which $40. 600 is on a note
dated on the 9Th OF last January. pay
able one day after date. The remain
der of the banks claim, s2.223.31. Is on
overdraft.
The next creditor in the size Of his
claim Is +. A. Rumpf of Dubuque,
Iowa. a brother of the commission ner-
chant. who holds a note for 5000. dated
Sept. 1, 1897, and he also advanced
money to his brother at different times
since the 18th of last March. aggregat-
ing 900 more. DIR. Louis Bernheim.
who got i'm with the first attachment
holds the third largest claim against
Rumpf presented. amounting to $4,000,
and represented by five promissory
notes. as follows: Jan. Il. 1897. 1000;
June IL. 1897. 1000; Dec. 3. 1897. $1,000;
Nov. 3. 1897. $500: Jan. Is. 1898. $500.
Each note draw Il per cent. interest
and is made payable n day after date.
The banks attachment was the second
one levied and that Of +. a. Rumpf
third The bank also asks for 81 1000 AS
an attorney fee.
1t is estimated that Rumpf's total liza
bilities will aggregate $40, 600 or 10000.
The total assets will not amount to
more thar $4,000 to SIS. 900. of which
about 5000 Is represented by book ac-
counts and the remainder by stock ON
to be worth near 1000. The rest of
the stock is perishable goods. such as
dressed poultry. fruit and vegetables.
and which will have to be disposed of
at once at a special sale and naturally
for a very small part of what they are
worth.
+. A. Rumpf has for some time been
unable to hear from his brother n re-
Gently he came to Butte To look into
his business and see If he could not
straighten ii out. and after looking over
the affairs he concluded to place the
matter in the hands Of Attorneys Nc
Bride d Mcbride, who at once brought
the Bernheim and Rumpf suits. Il. A
Rumpf returned to Dubuque yesterday
afternoon. He claimed To have nc
knowledge Of his brother's whereabouts
or the cause for his absence from the
city. However. j.. II. Burton and MIR
stevens, manager and ~bookkeeper re
spectively for Rumpf. say he went &
Chicago on business. and that whii,
there he was taken down with illness
and is still i'm that city and very sick
They also said that Rumpf had beer
doing $40, 600 worth of business Pc
month. None Of Rumpfs friends abouI
the city seem to know much about hin
or anything relating 20 his absence ol
present whereabouts. He is n wounl
and unmarried man and has had thu
reputation of being n bright and shrewt
business man. Late last evening q
large number of garnishments were
served on business firms in Butte ant
Anaconda. who are indebted to Rumpi
in various sums.