The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-24
CITY NEWS AND GOSSIP.
A Butte Miner Who Says He Owns
Some Valuable Main Street
Property.
It Is a Lot of Which Joseph Horsky
Has Posses
sion.
If the Miner Wins He and John Mcguire
VIII Build "A Theater-Other
News.

claimant has appeared in the person of
Patrick Moran for very valuable piece of
Main street property. which Joseph Horsky
has possession of. 1t is the site upon which
Weir's hay market stable stands. and has a
frontage of seventy feet on Main street and
is 40 feet deep, running through to Jack
son street. Real estate men value it al
$1,000 per front foot, and if Mr.. Moran
secures possession of it he will be worth
$4,000 more than he is at this writing, and
he hopes to be in possession before thirty
days elapse.
Mr.. Moran is an old miner, being at pres
ent employed in the Anaconda mine, Ii
1865 he was among the pioneers of Last
Chance gulch and had several placer
claims which he worked in those
days, and upon the ground which he now
claims he says he built house. After leav.
ing the digRings he left his house and prop.
erty in charge of L. F. La Croix as agent
and until two years ago never paid any at.
tention to it. He had been rendered several
offers for the property. but as La Croix had
no power of attorney, he could not dispose
of the ground.
Mr.. Moran told an INDEPENDENT reporter
that Horsky simply took the property. tore
his (Moran's) old house down and built the
stable upon it, Last February he made a
demand of Horsky for the property, when
Horsky beGana suit to quiet title. Mr..
Moran then said: "The case came up in
court and l proved by witnesses that had
a pniuerso fitla and ,,rOhafa dand 70 enc
property, and the court sustained my claim.
Horsky asked leave to file an amended COM
plant. but up to this time has not yet filed
il. 1t is my property, and l can get all the
evidence want to establish my claim" Mr..
Moran has employed as his counsel Sanders
d Cullen aud Comfy d Foote. Mr.. Horsky
has Toole d. Wallace.
So confident is Mr.. Moran of winning
that he has already made arrangements
with John Mcguire to build new opera
house on the site. The building will cost
about $4,000 and will have stores on the
Main street side with large entrance to
the theatre. There will also be exits OF
jackson street and when the entire opera
house is completed it will have few equals
III the northwest and it will be known a.
Maguire's opera house. The site is vel
suited to the purpose, being Just few steps
from Sixth avenue, where the street car.
leave for all parts of the city. The entire
community will wish Mr.. Moran success i,
his claim, as that part of Main street ha,
been an eye-sore to all enterprsing anG
progressive citizens. Mcguire says two
other building propositions have been made
to him.
The rumors concerning The Helena hotel
which are going the rounds, can be traced
to no other source than having been mis-
construed from the closing of the Broad
water hotel. One of these rumors is to the
effect that Messrs. Walker and Willy havs
assigned their interest in the hotel to DR.
Cole. The three partners were seen at the
hotel last night and individually and col
lectively denied all rumoPs affecting their
house i'll any way. 1t is true the house has
not paid as we'll as was expected, but the
company. which consists of the gentlemen
named, have no intention of closing the
doors. The home people do not patronize
the hotel as literally as they should. The
Helena IS source of pride to the city, and
greatest expense.
Fire Marshal Worth promises to give
Helena the most efficient service it has ever
had, and will have his men we'll trained fol-
their duties. He has requested the propri.
etors of ali business houses on Main street
to remove the boxes and rubbish in the
rear of their stores between Clore and Jack
son streets, and says he hss met with many
prompt responses. Where the request ia
not needed he will have it enforced. With
the contemplated additions to the service
on the north, east and west sides of tn,
city, Helena will soon be as we'll equipped
to battle with fire as any city in thu
country.
An official of Silver Bow county Who wa
in the city on Monday brought the infor
nation that Mr.. NJ. L. Holland, the al
SCISSOR of that county, had been served Wit
writ of mandamus for the purpose of hay
ing some acre property returned as tow
lots. The land lies in one or two addition
to Butte and appears to have been assesse,
as acre property. The showing made b
Helena has directed the attention of count
assessors all over the state to the system O
assessment employed by the assessor O
Lewis and Clarke county. The gentlema,
from the west side who furnished the item
left there on Monday. The Butte paper
do not contain anything with reference t.
the matter. If Butte has it in hand to in
crease her assessment and draw up along
side the capital in the way of wealth he
citizens are keeping it quiet. If Assessor
Holland has assessed town lots as acr
property, the objection to his action in thi
regard has evidently been raised BY riva
real estate dealers. and MIR. Holland il i,
the real estate business himself.
Col. A. G. Botkin based his demurrer /
the indictments in the opium cases in tn
district court yesterday on the fact that tn
paper rs drawn up by County Attorney Nc
Ian charged the accused with keeping
place where opium was smoked" where's
the law only provides for punishment fo
keeping place where persons resorted fo
the purpose of smoking opium" ''Now,
said Col. Botkin, Il have two offices O
Main street. If Mr.. Nolan were to come I
my place end by some means get an opiuu
outfit and smoke some of the drug, tbs
would not lay me liable to punishment f.
keeping q place where opium was smoked