The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-14


vein, and not on it. Sowl explained
this by saying he did this to hold the
| ground for himself as against his part.
ners, as he owned all OF the Anna
Jane. piece of fraud on the face OF
it, as said the so-called Little Mack
is also claimed to be located across
the vein, and two northeast corner
stakes are on this so-called Locations,
and not trace Of a discovery shaft,
or a notice of location; on the SO.
called Gold Leaf. there was no cor
ners that can be lawfully called cor
ners. and the notice of location on
record, calls for Il ''Stake set ut dis
c1very shaft where this notice and
statement is posted" There is pos
| itlvely no s.shaft" or s'dlscovery,' no
stake and there positively never
was a notice or statement posted,
although Sowl swore to the fact and
recorded the same. / called Sowl's
| attention to each of the above facts,
and on the ground told him. that L
would not recommend these prospects
until they were legally staksd and
notices of location posted, and went
with him and placed legal stakes ON
the end of his so-called Tiger lode.
and while doing so | caught this par
agon of man tearing down the notice D
OH the Pinafore lode, located by VIM.
F. Gray. l told him of the cense-
quence and penalty for SO doing. but
he stated that Gray never had any
thing recorded. How he became aware
Of this fact is a question. The above
fact will come out on Mr.. Gray's
prosecution. This notice and dis
coyery shaft, is embraced ia the So
called Tiger ground. Sowl assured
me that if / would go at once and
hurry up the purchasers, he would !
give me his word of honor he would
finish the stalking and post the notices
and'haye everything square and correct
on the arrival of the parties. I left
then and sent a gentleman friend Of
mine, Mr.. James George, known for
his rustllng qualities added to which
is his soliciting power. to Helena. :
armed with two letters from me, four
packages of sample ore, four gold
products from the same samples, to
Messrs. Hotter and Hauser.
wrote Mr.. Hotter to come at
once, explained to him the prospects,
stated financial embarrassment of
Sewl, aud, be prepared to pay $1,000.
Mr.. Hotter wrote to me this letter is
before me) that he would come at
once. He sent Mr.. Wolf III advance,
and came himself; was pleased with
the property, although he did not him.
self see it. Mr.. Hotter paid down to
Sowl, $4,000 purchase money fer the
Gold Leaf. Mr.. George had with him
letter from me to Sowl, directing
him to pay the S 900 to him-George
which he promised to do, but failed;
lodged away and went off on a general
drinking. and gambling expedition
with anumber of friends (?) following
in his wake. borrowing his money and
playing marked cards, and other dis.
honorable tricks which he--Sowl--
told me only succeeded as far as bor-
rowing the money was concerned.
repeatedly sent after Sowl, demanding
the money. lie wrote me several let
ters, which are before me, promising
to pay and make everything right,
which he failed to do. After waiting
Eve weeks, was then determined to
protect myself. Armed with the ab-
stract OF title Of al the so-called Ioca-
lions, went up to the prospects with
MI. Il, G. Graham. and two other gen
.lemen, to see if SowDs had staked and
posted notices as he agreed, and found
hat he had not even been Oh the
ground, except with Mr.. Wolf to ex-
anime the mine for Hotter. Mr.. Gra-
lam and myself then and there made
wo locations, calling tlle one IN the
lorth the Brewster lode. and file other
he Teller lode. The Teller lode Isl.
'ein of quartz, and Gre in the quartz
te. and crosses at right angles the So
allied little Mack and Anna Jane,
nd il they, the ss,-called owners, can