Schedule 13G
Name of Issuer: Chieftain Int'l
Title of class of securities: $1.8125 Convertible Pfd
Cusip number: 168672202
1. Name of reporting person: Rothschild/ Pell Rudman
IRS identification number: 52-0964693
4. Citizenship: Baltimore, MD USA
5. Sole voting power: 164,300
6. Shared voting power: 0
7. Sole dispositive power: 164,300
8. Shared dispositive power: 0
9. Aggregate amount beneficially owned by each reporting person: 164,300
11. percent of class represented by amount in row 9: 6.8458
12. type of reporting person: IA
Item 1
(a) name of issuer: Chieftain Int'l
(b) address of issuers principal executive office: 1201 Toronto Dominion Tower
Edmonton Centre
Edmonton, AB T5J 2Z1 Canada
Item 2
(a) name of person filing: Rothschild/Pell Rudman
(b) address of principal business office: 300 East Lombard Street Suite 1100
Baltimore, MD 21202
(c) citizenship: Baltimore, MD 21202
(d) title of class of securities: Convertible Preferred
(e) cusip number: 001801109
Item 4
(a) amount beneficially owned: 164,300
(b) percent of class: 6.8458
(c) (I) sole power to vote or to direct the vote: 164,300
(II) shared power to vote or to direct the vote: 0
(III) sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of: 164,300
(IV) shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition of: 0
This statement is being filled to report the fact that as of the date hereof the
reporting person still remains the beneficial owner of more than five
Date: 1/13/99
Signature: Dave Donabedian
Name/ Title: Dave Donabedian/ Senior Vice President
