The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-08
ITS NEARING A CRISIS
Kinds Will Make Another At
tempt to Gain Control.
GUNS HAVE BEEN BOUGHT
Boston g. Montana Affairs Are Assum-
ing a Serious Aspect = Blodgett
Arrested and Jailed on
Charge of Perjury.

The Boston & Montana receivership
controversy is very near the point
where something decisive will happen,
and in view of the action of the SUI
preme court yesterday it was predicted
that T. r. Kinds could no longer be
kept out of possession Of the property,
and that in all probability he would
get hold of it to-day. Another writ was
issued by Judge Clancy yesterday af-
ternoon and served on the sheriff to
show cause this morning why he should
not be compelled to put the receiver in
possession or be punished for contempt.
In view of possible trouble in carrying
out the orders of the court the sheriff
yesterday purchased a quantity of ri
hes for his deputies, and Boston &
Montana affairs appeared to assume
most serious aspect Yesterdays de-
velopments also had flavor of corrup
ton and scandal, and George A. Blod-
gett, man said to be in the employ of
the Boston & Montana people, was ar
rested, and is now in the county Jail on
the charge of perjury.
Several of the attorneys and other
parties interested on both sides of the
controversy had several sharp eX-
changes of words on the streets yes
terday. and there was also war of
words between Receiver Kinds and the
sheriff's officers, when the receiver
made another demand on the sheriff to
be put into possession of the property
and was refused. The sheriff will ap
pear before Judge Clancy this morning
| and show cause why he has not obeyed
| the writ of assistance.
The affidavit, which is harmless
enough but which caused the arrest of
| Blodgett for perjury, was made in the
| case of Forester against the Boston &
Montana company, and was used in
Helena yesterday in the proceedings in
the supreme court against Clancy, and
reads as follows:
George A. Blodgett, being first duly
| sworn deposes and says that he is a
resident of the city Of Butte, Mont,
and over the age of q years; that he
knows the Honorable William Cheney.
| judge of department II. of the district
court of the second judicial district, OF
the state of Montana, and in and for
the county of Silver Bow, well by sight;
! that on the 9Th day of April, 1899 affi-
ant saw the said Judge Clancy leave
| the court house in the said city or
Butte at $40 o'clock, and proceed to
| the wholesale liquor house of H. L.
| Frank, on East Broadway, IN Sald CITY
of Butte, and while said Judge Clancy
was in said liquor house of the said H.
L. Frank. John MacGinnis, one of the
plaintiffs in the action, went into said
store and remained there about 80 min
utes: that said Judge Clancy remained
in said liquor store and about the
streets of the city of Butte until
| o'clock D. M, when he returned to the
court house and remained in his cham
bers until about $50 O'Clock, when ne
| left the court house and went to the
| McDermott hotel. and left said Nc
| Dermott hotel at 4 o'clock p. m. anc
walked out on the west side Of the sale
Butte city, and at o'clock p. m. wa:
still walking on the west side Tha
affiant is Informed and believes that The
said H. l.. Frank. whose place of bust
ness is above mentioned. is the sans
person who signed as surety the bone
of Thomas r. Kinds as receiver in th'
above action
The affidavit is signed George Blod
gett. and was subscribed and sworn t.
April 6, 1899, before J. A. Galbraith,
notary.
John MacGinnis felt that he had beer