Show I CONTEMPT OF COURT Editor James A McKnight Sent to JaiL COLORADO IS FOR MR BLAINE IThe Result of a Canvass Bepubllcan Editors Drowned In Sloans Lake Demand on the Union Pacific Employees BCTTE Mont July 24Special telegram tele-gram to Tun HCIULDIT I A McKnight editor of the Helena Journal was sent to jail hero this evening by Judge J J Mc tattoo of the department of the district court for contempt of court This is the case in which Editor McKnight City Editor Bowie and Manager Boose of the Journal were cited to appear before Mc Hatton last Saturday to show cause why 1 they should not be punished for contempt I I ih saying through the columns of the Joujjialon tho Gtn instant that the judge I and every one else in Silver Bow county I leaned in one direction in the Davis estate 1 of case and that the contestants the alleged will could therefore t not get their just dues The I article was published in the state of an interview i in-terview purporting to come from an Old 3 purportng Montana Man Editor McKnight took I the responsibility of the article and on hisS his-S appearance alone in court last Saturday at which time he was cited to appear was given until last evening to tell who furnished fur-nished the material for the Interview Mc Knight returned t Helena after being released re-leased but came back last evening Accompanied Ac-companied by City Editor Bowie and Manager Man-ager Boose whom tho judge also cited to appear without fail Tho two latter were discharged however and McKnight granted grant-ed twentyfour hcurs in which to divulge the name of thc person whom he had interviewed inter-viewed This evening he again appeared in court accompaniad by Attorney Weed of Helena and still insisted on keeping mum whereupon the judge ordered him to be locked up in the jail until such time as be concludes to give tho desired information informa-tion Tomorrow his attorney will apply to the supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus and the result remains to be seen Mc Knight takes his confinement coolly and says bo will stay in jail fifty years before he will tell the name of the man with w10m be had the interview |