The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-01
ALICE COMPANY CON.
TROvERsY.

TIE ALICE COMPANY CON
TRovERsY.
The public is no doubt tired Of the
apparently interminab!e controversy
which has for some time past been
kept up in regard to the Alice Min
ing Company and ita management.
The Inter Mountain began its on.
slaught on that company-or rather
on the President -some time ago by
vague hints of Encouragement If not
of corruption on his part.
The charges at first were too in
definite to require or even to admit
of notice by those assailed, or by any
one c~onvelsant With the facts or in
terested in the affairs of the compa-
ny. At length they took a more
tangible shape, and it was directly
alleged that Joseph R. Walker,
President of the Alice Company, In
making the contract which he did
with Caplice, McCune & Co. for
wood at seven dollars a cord, was
derelict to the duties which he owed
the Alice Company a. its President,
and that the contract vas made in
the interests OF Walker Brothers and
to enable them to dispose of a stock
Of goods and other property which
they desired to get rid of.
This statement called out a COM
munication from w. E. Hall, Super
intendent of the Alice Company, In
which he stated positively chat prior
to making the contract with Laplice.
McCune 4 10. for wood at seven dol.
lars per cord, he tried to make a con-
tract with some responsible party to
furnish wood at a less rate, but was
unable to do 80. This statement has
been since corroborated by Caplice,
McCune T. Co., who state that the
contract price at which they agreed
| to furnish the wood was as low as
they would have undertaken its de-
livery for cash, and further state that
the sale Of the property by Broughton
& Co. to them was an Independent
contract, and had nothing to do with
fixing the price of the wood.
Here is the evidence of persons
familiar with the contract and all the
circumstances under which it was
made, clearly refutiug all the insinu-
atoms of Encouragement or charges
of q worse nature made by the Inter
Mountain. |
In the light Of these facts what
other conclusion can any one arrive
at but that the charges of the Inter
fountain were wholly fabricated or
otherwise the paid Distractions of
some enemy of the Alice Company
or of J. r. Walker. This opinion is
strengthened by the treatment &C.
corded by the Inter Monmtatn to the
publications made by Mr.. Hall and
Caplice, McCune s. Co.
Although both these communica
tons were entirely courteous to that
paper it attempted to ignore entirely
MI. Hall as the author of one and
seized on what it well knew was only
a typographical error in the commu.
nication, Of the other to wholly dis
tort and pervert its meaning and
made 1t the basis of an editorial cal
culated and no doubt intended to de-
ceive the public. Yet that paper
talks of the disingeuuousness of 9TH
ers. 1t has not and cannot ans.
wer the statement of Mr.. Hall or
Caplice. McCune, & Co., ..aud as a
mode of retreat out of the dilemma
in which 1t has involved itself it re-
sorts to its old tactics Of detraction
and insinuation, aud throws out
hints of great abuses In other direc-
tons and actually attempts to
be facetious because those who
AucW lu0 AdCl6 nave 6Ccu
lit to reply to its defamations.
Such having been the course Of that
paper, what, if any, credence should
be put In any other OF the charges it
may have to make. From one we
can judge of all.
Since the foregoing was written,
we have received from Mr.. Joseph r.
Walker, President of the Alice Co.,
the comprehensive statement which
we publish this morning concerning
the Alice Company and its manage
We invite the attention of all
stockholders in the Alice and the >.
at large to its statements. If :
t does not silence the Inter Mountain
t will at least deprive its past defam- I
ltions as we'll as those which will
doubtless follow, of their intended
,Aoof a