The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-16
RECEIVER BILLY WOODS
The De Kreko Brothers Anxious
to Get Rid of Him.
PETITION TO REMOVE HIM
Objections to the Report OF Referee Camp
bell in the Suit Of E. M. Bowers VS.,
e. II. Sherman-Frank Willard
rt'E
Sued for Divorce.

| OF Receiver Billy Woods, who was ap-
pointed few weeks ago on the appli-
cation Of Charles Dockman a member
| OF the eastern congressional brother
hood of De Krekos, and yesterday they
petitioned the court for the removal of
the receiver. In their petition they refer
| to the receiver as BILLY Woods, alias
| Ernest Bradstreet, alias -, whose
| true name is unknown" and then they
charge that he is wholly irresponsible
and is an unfit person to be receiver in
this action or of anything else The
brothers relate that Woods was APP
pointed receiver on Aug. 3 as Ernest
Bradstreet and qualified under that
alias, and under color of authority as
receiver he took possession of the prop
erty of the brothers. On Aug. 10 he
was ordered by the court to return GER
tain property, belonging to individual
members of the company, to them, and
he defied the courts order. When the
sheriff served the order on him he de-
MED that he was receiver, and said he
did not know how he came to be APP
pointed didn't know who his bondsmen
were, denied that he had any property
or that he knew where 1t was, but
finally, after he had been threatened by
the sheriff, he disclosed the where
abouts of the property, consisting of
two trunks, which he had hidden under
some straw in an old barn, a mile and
half from town, owned by the World
Messenger company. Woods had no
money with which to pay the storage
and A. X. De Kreko had to pay for it
out of his own pocket. 1t is further al
legged that the other property of the
hi ntN tIno n
rected to take care of, is not taken good
care of by him, but has been thrown
into an open wagon in livery stable.
The brothers say they have been in
formed that Woods intends to turn the
property over to Dockman. 1t is also
related that while Dockman stated in
his complaint that the property which
the receiver was to receive was valued
at 1000, Woods gave bond for only
$3.50. The brothers also filed motion
that Dockman be required to give
$500 bond for costs. as he, too, is ffnan-
cially irresponsible and is resident of
the state of New York, and without
bond from him the defendants would be
unable to collect on any judgment for
costs they might obtain against him.
The defendant in the partnership ac-
counting suit of E. M. Bowers against
E. H. Sherman yesterday filed in court
exceptions anu cDJeCtlDuS 10 Tie Iepo!t
of Referee A. j. Campbell. 1t is alleged
that the referee erred in his conclusion
that there was no mutual mistake be-
tween the parties in the accounting
they had on Sept. l, 1893, and that the
conclusion of the referee is not supported
by the evidence and is contradicted by
the pleadings and records of the case.
1t is alleged that the referee erred in all
his other conclusions and findings, in
Guiding his finding that the defendant
had collected for the plaintiff prior to
Jan l. 1898, the sum of 81 ,957.69 or any
other greater sum than $lO,951.69. 1t is
claimed by the defendant that there is
no evidence to support the referees
finding that there is due the plaintiff
the sum of s1,639.94, and that he erred
in not finding in favor of the defendant
and against the plaintiff for $4,4O4.3l.
The defendant claims that the referees
findings are erroneous upon their face
and the court is asked to reject them
and make findings of it's own, or re-
refer the case for a further hearing.
In the condemnation suit of Eugene
Carroll against James A. Murray and
others, Murray yesterday filed his an
swer in court. admitting that he is the
owner of the Metallic and Tzarena lode
claims and that the right-of-way
sought to be condemned over them is
worth $500 for each claim. He denies
that Ludwig Streicher and the numer-
Gus other German heirs of the Streicher
estate have any interest in the Hum
boldt lode claim, and also denies that
Pat Conlon and others have any inter-
est in the Corona lode claim.
A suit for divorce on the ground of
non-suppOrt was brought yesterday by
Laura Willard against Frank Willard.
In her complaint the plaintiff says they
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1890, and alleges that for more than
two years the defendant has failed to
provide her with the common necessar-
les of life.
David Morgan. administrator of the
estate of William c. Flynn, deceased,
filed his final account in court yeSter-
day and asked for an order of distri-
button. He reports that the residue
amounts to but $331.50.
Emanuel Richie yesterday filed his
bonds as special administrator of the
estate of Frank ProulX, deceased, in
the sum of 1000, with James Chapleau
and Andrew j. Davis as sureties
Fayette Harrington, Edward Hickey
and James H. Lynch, appraisers of the
estate of the late Stanislas E. Hirbour,
filed their report in court yesterday,
showing the total appraised value of
the estate to be $132, S64.79 The real
estate and valuations are as follows:
Lot u, block 25. S25 900; lot and house
on the Stanislas lode, $4,000; half inter
est in another lot on the Stanislas, 800;
half interest in the Garibaldi lode claim,
$4,000 two-thirds in the Malone, 81 900;
one-third in the Lilly, $1,000: two-seV-
enths in the SnoOzer, $1,000; one-third
in the Stanislas 1000; one-fourth in
the Venus, on Camp creek. 500; half in
q flTt Of Lot lnylr
So, Butte, $4,000; one-third in the North
Star lode claim, 81, 900; third in the
South Star, $4,000: third in the
January, $4,000; one-third in the Ceie-
bration, in Madison county, 81 900; to-
tai real estate, $4,000. The appraisers
also reported $40, 319.03 in cash in the
Silver Bow National bank, s11 ,056. 80 in
the bank of w. A. Clark & Bro, S5S0.44
in the hands of d. w. Connole, s1S4.24
in the Silver Bow National bank in the
name of the Garibaldi mine, and cash
received from rentals amount to 81 .105
or in all, $55,245.10 in cash belonging to