Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19
DECISION IN
BOYCOTT CASE
SWEEPING INJUNCTION AGAINST
ALL WHO WOULD INJURE
CHINESE.
CELESTIAL PLAINTIFFS
ARE AWARDED COSTS.
Decree Is Far Reaching in Effect and
Calculated To Make Chinese
Immune From Harm.

Judge Knowles in the federal court to-
day handed down a decision in the ceQe-
brated Chinese boycott case, which Is a
sweeping one and designed, to all intents
and purposes, to be far reaching in effect.
1t is in line with the finding Of Master
in-Chancery Blake before whom the tes-
timony was taken, more than a yea ago.
Hum Fay and several hundred other
Chinese are named as compliments m
Frank Baldwin and other alleged men,
bers of labor unions in Butte are the de-
PENDANTS. The decision shorn of It's legal
v~erbiage, is as follows:
'It is ordered, adjudged and decreed
that the complaints named do have a fl
nal and perpetual decree %enjOining and
restraining the defendants, their agents.,
servants, WOrkmen, cOnfederates, en-
plOyes and co-conspirators and all asso-
Citations and organizations heretofore, at
and before the institution Of the suit, or
which since the institution of the same
have Joined the same and purpose n
mend to continue the boycott and con-
spiracy from maintaining n cOntinu-
ing the same and they and each and all OF
them shall be enjoined and retained from
further combining or conspiring to injure
or destroy the business Of the complain
ants and from threatening, .cOercing, Or
injuring any person or persons becoming
or intending to become patrons of said
cOmplainantS or any of them because OF
such patronage or intent, and from pub
fishing, carrying or causing to he carried
or drawn or published through the streets
Of Butte or in said county any libelous or
defamatOry pictures, transparencieS,
notices, inner or any other devices Of
the Chinese and from remaining in the vi
entity of the places of business of said
compliments or any of them upon the
streets or sidewalks asking or notifying
individuals not to patronize said COM
plainants. OF persons Of Chinese nativity,
descent or citizenship and from threaten
ing such persons In any n if they
do SO and from contributing non to be
used by anybody with the intent and for
the rpo of injury the business of said
compliments and from threatening, coer-
cling or injury any person or persons in
tending to become patrons of complaint
ants for or on account thereof IN from
In any way or name combining or con-
federating together with the intent and
for the purpose of destroying the business
of said compliments or any Of them.
And it is further %adjudged and decreed
that the said clerk of this court under the
seal thereof issue said injunction confor-
mable to the decree and that said injunc-
ton shall be in force and binding upon
the defendants named and each of them
ana their agents, servants, workmen, con-
federates. employees, and co-conspirators
from and after the service upon then
severally of said writ of injunction by de.
ivering to them severally a copy thereof
duly certified by the clerk of the coult
and 1t Is further orde, ed, adjudged, anG
decreed that the said compliments shall
have n recover of and from said de.
PENDANTS their costs in this behalf ex
pended in the sum of 81, 75O.O5 and tina
they have execution therefor against thu
said defendants as upon Judgment a
law"