Show > or A JIItJOX TJIK following appeared in the Anaconda Standard Iu the Con or a 2SthA special from Butte dated Hare A letter was received in this cly today from J n Carrington of Jrg ham City Utah stating that h by bad been kidnapped or had run aay that he understood tbo boy was In Butte and in tbo bands of rbUe named GnehL In the letter Carrio tan also professed that the boy a abducted hut summer that ho had been unable to get him back and requested the assistance of tho lulo police In ascertaining the whereabou of the boy A Stnmlanl reporter mud Inquiries Into tho matter today To firm of J S Grachl t Co does an cxtcnnivn produce business M Grachl was seen by a reporter and aid In reference to thU charge Mr Carrington knows just a well her the boy I as we do The Ia < l Is abut 1 yeais old and will lo nothing to do with his father Je take tho name of Grachl and alwrny has Ills father has not treatct Mm right and tho lad alE bears a grndgo on account of his mother treatment by Carrington I seem Carrington 1 a Mormon and under tho new law in Utah the boy mother cannot b called Carrin tons legal Ill 8 tho boy grandfather last summer look charge of him when ho ran away from his father The boy would not ban anything to do with ha falhe and once wanted to borrow aiy pistol to shot him Tho boy was put on a ranch in Utah but he bad to work a bar and was 8 Iwdly off that I pitied him I took a fancy to him and offc ed to bring him to Butte e Bule and take good care of him He h my half g This scheme was n reablc to tho bys mother to Carrington and all tbo r I brought him to Butto and ho remained mained with me three or fonrmonlh Wo kep In communication ih Carrington as to where the Crngn a wher boy wa but Butto is a pretty tough place to bring up a boy In and lately wo sen him with Hial Graehl to tho later ranch on Snake Hirer in Idaho IIe has nothing to do but hunt and thh and father bo positively will not return to hi Jlr Graehls explanation of tbe matter w perfectly clear and con sistcntand shotted conclusively tha the kidnapping exit only In the mind of Carrington Mr GAhl l visited Carrington only la t week 3ml old him all about the boy and where ho was Carringtons inotivo seems t have been solely to cet Grachl into trouble The pole authorities here are satisfied that the boy I In mnc better hands than in Utah and wonl < not interfere in tha matter even if they could legally do so1 Carrington i not u Mormon but has figured as nn ant Mormon Mor-mon an alleged doctoraud asaU S Commissioner Ho has abx > been in our opinion conspicuou a a crank |