Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-16

but said that he did not then have the
papers but could get them inside of
two hours.
knight left and at the end of two
hours failed to make an appearance.
An order was at once issued for his
arrest on charge of contempt of
court and subornation of perjury.
The warrants were handed to the mar
snail who at once detailed four depu-
ties to find Knight. Twelve hours
they searched and it was finally settled
beyond fact that Knight was in hid
ing upon the steamship St. Paul, which
was due to sail the following morning
for Seattle. But the deputy not being
very familiar with the ship could not
locate Knight on .ne boat, but declared
that he knew he was on board. Judge
Noyes then sent word to the captain
of the ship to lend every endeavor to
hand knight over to the officials on
pain of being involved in the matter,
and further that if knight should es-
cape through the medium of the ship,
he, the captain, would be liable to the
court and would be arrested the first
time he appeared in port. The COM
manding officer of the revenue cutter
McCulloch was also communicated
with and his assistance in searching
the st. Paul asked. But the officer
refused to take any hand in the mat
ter.
The next day the St. Paul sailed and
on it's arrival here, the fugitive knight
was among the passengers. He did
not stay long but left at once for San
Francisco. Metson came on the same
boat and the two had several confer
ences with Messrs. Jackson and Hatch
who has been associated with them
during the litigation over the Anvil
creek claims. Jackson and Hatch
have appeared in the local papers with
denunciations of the court at Nome
and the receiver of the Anvil creek
claims, Alexander Mckenzie.
Mr.. Reese also came down on the
St.. Paul. He says that he was ap-
preached once on the voyage down by
Knight to make supplementary affi-
davit in regard to Judge Noyes. He
| declares that Knight offered him a
large sum of money for these papers,
naming $1,000 or $1,000 as the amount
which such a service was worth. Reese
fatty refused to do so and thought the
matter ended. But on the arrival of
the ship at Port Townsend, while
Reese was eating his dinner, he was
sent for by Knight and again asked to
sign the supplementary affidavits. A
notary had been brought aboard by a
friend of Knights. Everything was
all ready for him to sign, the papers,
| pen and ink and the seal to be at
tached. Reese said that he had had
about enough of their work and told
them so. Heretofore Knight had been
rather smooth and persuasive in his
manner, but according to Reese he then
began to get abusive and attempted
to bulldose him into signing. But Reese
was firm and the affidavits were not
signed.
A third effort was made here in Sc
attic, reinforced by threats to have
Reese arrested if he did not sign. A
man went to Reese and told him that
he had seen the warrant for his arrest
and advised him as friend to go and
have settlement with knight. The
self-styled friend was so earnest in his
endeavors to keep Reese out of trouble
tnat he told him that in case he,
Reese, did get into trouble that he
would help him, but he thought it best
to settle the matter. This friend was
none other than Robert Chipps, the
former claimant in the Anvil creek
litigation who sold out his interests
to c. L. Johnson, Nelson's partner.
Chipps told Reese that he was stop
ping at certain hotel under another
name and gave the number of the
room. Reese was suspicious, however,
and sent friend to investigate, with
the result that Chips was shown up,
no man of the assumed name or de-
as no such room was in the hotel, and
S: ription was stopping there.
Since the turning over of the prop
erty involved in one case, the Discov-
cry claim on Anvil creek, by Receiver
Mckenzie to the defendants, Lind
blom, Lindeberg and Brynston, it ap-
pears that the plaintiff in the case,
Robert Chips, has sold all his inter-
ests in Discovery claim to G. L. John
son, who is attorney for the Pioneer
Mining company, who are the defend
ants in the case. A deed for the trans
fer was filed with the recorder at
Nome on Oct. 20 and the consideration
named was 81, but as the document
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