The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-02
The Policy of Eastern Owners
Detrimental to Local Inter-
ests.
Local Notes and Personal Mention
"A Police Court Scene.
Special Correspondence of the MINER.

| Will SHOFCly De up anu OUT again.
]. X. Pardee, who has been visit
ing Butte and the Springs, returned
this evening much improved il
health. I understand that since hi
return he has secured all of th'
Princeton mine at the Boulder, an(
will shortly put men to work devel
oping it. Experts consider this prop
erty the best in that district.
| 1t is as yet unknown whether the
Granite Mountain Mining Company
| will run the Algonquin mill or
fact, 1 have it from good authority
that the company is awaiting the
completion of the N. z. R. r. to ship
to St. Louis. This appears the more
probable for the reason that the stock.
holders have already an abundance
of money and care but little for the
mine-only as a possible contingency
against the dreaded rainy day.
What this camp needs is more men
of'the Charles Clarke stripe-ener-
getic, pushing men, who are miners
practically and theoretically. A
mining superintendent who is tied
down by, and in Difference to, the
opinions of those who do net know
his duties or requirements, can dc
but little with such property as the
Granite mine, more particularly when
its vast reserves of high grade ore
must be left practically untouched
through the penurious frugality of
its controllers does this camp and dis
trict suffer. No one here is gratified
to learn that the company can save
SO per cent. in st. Louis of the bullion
in the ore shipped there for reduc-
ton, as against a guarantee of IS per
cent. here, in the now idle Algonquin
mill, mill that is only two miles on
q down grade from the Granite mine.
But it is evident that a loss of 4 or 5
per cent. in reduction would badly
cripple the incomes of the frugal @s-
thetic gentleman interested, and it is
q greater pity the mine could not be
taken up bodily and transported east
to them so as to avoid the ne, essity
of their expending anything here
ut all
The Trout mine has vlvsed down,
for how long it is not known. A
large quantity OF good ore remains
unstoped in the lower levels, with
about 1880 tons on the dump. 1t
appears that Caplice & Smith could
not make satisfactory arrangements
with the Algonquin company, and
preferred to stop work rather than
sacrifice their ore. In this connec-
ton l note the departure east OF
Chris. Hart, for many years the fore
man and Superintendent of the
Speckled Trout mine. This gentle
man, as a working miner, has no
superior in the Territory. Oi great
executive ability, he combined with
it all of those excellent qualities es-
sential in commanding the respect of
those over and under him. His loss
to the camp is severe one, and it is
to be hoped that circumstances may
yet force him to return to it again.
He is one OF the many creditors of
the Northwestern Company yet un-
settled with, that company, or its
agents, owing him a balance of near
ly $1,000, which it is extremely
doubtful if they will ever get time to
pay.
To-day in our police court most
amusing scene occurred, whereby
the audience was treated to an ex-
hibition of temper on the part of an
un nwilling juror summoned to serve,
and the attorneys on either side Of
the case to be tried. The juror being
summoned, insulted the constable
and refused to attend the court. His
honor issued warrant and COM
PEELED attendance. The juror was
brought into court and in response to
the demand of the court why he did
not appear when first ordered he
said he had to mind store and had
no time, that he was prejudiced and
knew all about the case and could
not render an impartial verdict. The
court increased the finances of the
school fund $500 and dismissed him.
AS the irate citizen walked out he as
sured the court that he would camp
on his trail until justice was done
him. During heated discussion of
some technical point of law affecting
an issue of interest to his client, the
attorney for the defense (the village
school MASTERY, intimated to his op-
posing brother "a recent arrival and
practitioner of medicine), that il he
was not more successful with his
client than he was in performing
certain disreputable operations upon
his patients, that he had better drop
the case altogether.
"What do you mean by such ID
impertinence," yelled the outraged
NJ. d. "You police court shyster; I
have authority to practice and you
have not"
"You're liar" howlcl the school
master.
"You're another" responded the
NJ. D.; II got papers in California,
and can get them in five minutes
into court"
II got mine in Maryland" cried
the P. NJ, pounding the table; land
you're a liar, II you think did not"
After exhau.ting themselves, great
ly to the regret OF their appreciative
auditors, the opposing counsel got
down to BUSINESS, and remarkable to
say without being either fined or rep
Timanded by the court. would here
suggest, in the future that his Honor,
instead Of taxing the ignorance OF
those unacquainted with the laws,
(iike the unwilling juror, for in
stance,) by = heavy fine, simply to
instruct them as to- what is required,
and discharge with reprimand,
placing the fine, where it properly
belongs, upon those who wiltully
violate a law of etiquette, or other
wise, which they know the exactions
OF and should by virtue Of their
intelligence set the example of re-
specting. Should anything Of the
Kind occur here again my remarks
upon the matter will not be pleasant
reading for the principals engaged.
Men who follow respectable calling
should act in respectable manner.
NIOBRARA.