The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-07
CARTED Off AT NIGHT
Excitement Created In Butte by a Gang
Of Midnight Carpenters.
The Unique Methods Adopted by
Some Real Estate People to
Avoid Trouble In Nov
ing a House.

Special Correspondence Of the standard.
BUTTE, May 6.-No end OF curiosity
and some excitement as well was aroused
in the neighborhood of West Quartz
street during last night. A gang OF men
began the work Of removing the house
which is numbered 512 i'm West Quartz
street, and stood on the south side of the
street. a little east OF Missoula gulch.
The work began o on after midnight
and from the houses Of the neigh
borhood people swarmed out and
lined the road to witness the operations.
Had the house been moved in the day
time little would have been oc-
casioned, but the removal in the night
naturally aroused a great deal of curiosity.
The house Is n one story shack, OF three or
four rooms, and was not fenced in. IL
was moved across Quartz street into an
alley running northward from Quartz
and around back of he house which
faces on the north side of Quartz street.
As oon as the work of removal was ac-
complisbed, the mysterious gang OF work.
men, having several loads of lumber on
the ground, began building n high board
fence all around the lot where the house
had lately stood. This was accomplished
without leaving a hole or space anywhere
by which the house could in any event be
returned to it's original quarters.
This morning somebody told j. NJ.
Bowcs that his house had been moved.
Mr.. Bowes FASTENED To the place and
gazed silently at the spot where his
house had once been. Somebody said:
Here's a shovel lcft;' but Mr.. Bowcs
still kept silent and went away.
The land on which the house lately
stood is part of the Plymouth addition
and is claimed by the Plymouth company.
member Of the Plymouth company as To
the reason for the hasty removal, was
given the following explanation:
"Our company bought this land OF John
A. Leggat. of course everything on the
land became ours with the purchase and
told me that there had been trouble over
the land. II seems that somebody had
tried TO jump the property and had built
this shack on il. The shack has been
there more than five years, but has not
4. been held adversely that length of time.
Mr.. Leggat demanded h removal Of the
house, several years ago and threatened to
sue for the rents. The party claiming to
own il told Mr.. Leggat to take b house
il he was SO anxious tn possess IT,.
snow. lately this property has become
quite valuable. Fine brick houses have
been built near il, including the resi-
dences of Judge Mediation u County
Clerk Booth. Some cracks have been
made by parties claiming n right To this
land that there would he trouble il any
body tried to build on that land. Several
sales were interferred with in this way.
Furthermore this old house interferred
with the scale of the property I'm he
~neighborhood, and by the removal of the
unsightly building, the lots could
be left free for fine brick resi-
dences. Furthermore. il the house were
removed in the day time he feared there
might he trouble. To avoid the POSSIBLE
ity of quarrels and possible hot guns,
with which he had beer threatened, or to
obviate an injunction, he decided il was
best to move in he night time. Every
thing is moved now and everything is
lovely. II there is anything wrong let the
courts settle il. We were not going to be
frightened into settling the matter. l
don't say who moved that house. Let il
suffice that Il is moved, and that il isn't
going back"
James Maloney was this afternoon
overseeing a M of men vino were tink-
ering at the house and propping it up in
its new location.
~ bought this house from the Plymouth
company" said Mr.. Maloney, and hav-
ing no use for il on their property, il has
beer moved onto my own land"
IL is not known what the other claim
ants 10 the property will do in the matter.