The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-11-17
WAOJUMPED THE GROUND
Ex-Governor Haussr, Col. Broad
water and c. w. Cannon Would
Like to Know.
- Fence Built Saturday Night
Torn Down Yesterday In
Hurry.
Mr.. Cannon Says n Any One Claims
the Ownership Lst Him Go
to Court

~ W. cannon W8A very m0co 60IVEASea
man yesterday morning whom be came
down town and learned that somebody had
been trying to jump some of his valuable
property on the west side. II did not take
him long to get into his buggy and reach
the seat of war. The first thing that at
tracted the attention of his keen eye was a
new fence built around eighty acres Of %
valuable ground a. can ba found in that
neiRhborhood. Tho property is some dis
tance this side Of the fair grounds, and the
Northern Pacific and Montana Central
tracks run across the entire tract. The
nearest residence to it il that now occupied
BY Frank =. Lang. which adjoins the
ground on one corner. Mr.. Cannon
travelled around that fence with
many ordinations Of Well, I de-
clarer' He could hardly understand
it, but the fence was there and from tine
general appearance of it the astonished gen
tleman. who stands pretty near the top on
tho assessment rolls, saw that it had been
put up in hurry. The posts had been
hurriedly rammed into the ground at reg
ular intervals. A single line of planking
was nailed to the posts aud above this was
strung a barbed wire all the way around
the eighty acres. Back to town came Mr..
Cannon at clipping pace and hunted up
his partners to whom he told what he had
seen. Then the story came out.
MI. Cannon was rapidly running the in
dex finger Of his right hand up and down
night searching for name.
Henry L. Haupt, Butte.'
THAT'S it, he exclaimed, a. he pulled
out card with Haupt's name ON it
IN lead pencil with the words with Mantle
and Warren, Butte"
Mr. Cannon "a ant In, -
grunts rs his eyes next rested on the register
and read LEO Mantle, Butte, G. A. Camp
bell, with Haupt." He wanted to see
Haupt but Haupt was not in. He left
yesterday" said the clerk. Could he sec
Mr.. Mantle2 No, Mantle had gone too.
register AZ having left.
What is all this about Mr.. Cannon?
Oh, its nothing, it don't amount to
much. We went out there this afternoon
and smashed the whole fence down again.
Sssa Just sb got back This haaupt was
and myself about this ground
He went to the governor and wanted to
compromise for 500 an acre. He said that
he was connected with Mantle q Warren's
real estate Office in Butte and claimed that
our title to the land was defective because
the soldiers land scrip under which we had
bled on this claim ten years ago, had been
transferred to Us by virtue Of power Of at
torney. The young man said that the
power Of attornev was not the proper way
IN which to transfer the script. The legal
decision of some court which have now
forgotten. don't care what 1t was, Wa,
nave held peaceable possession Of this land.
Tor ton years under our filing, and NO ono
has ever attempted to question our titls
:. ..of course the governor would not
listen to Haupt's proposals. Haupt
then came to me with q SIM
liar proposition. I made short work Of II.
The whole affair looked Ikea disseminating
scheme. Az he left he handed mo his card
he could be found at Mantle d Warren's
ONCE IN Butte: never had any occasion
to see him. don't know whether he d
ground or not"
DO You know who put up the fence p
Friday and Saturday. I haven't seem any
pulled it all down again this afternoon.
We took twenty men out there and smash
60 down everything in sight, and 70 will do
again Just a. soon as 1t 10 put up.
H. + they syo1 think IL they have any title %
courts and not sneak around in the dead Of
night 10 an attempt to jump somebody's
NJ. Cannon and his partners say they
VIZ keep close eye on their properly and
around it will have bis banda full. WI
y the first CASE Of land jumping Of any Inn
portance near Helena since the lot iumpino
craze of few years ago whom Mrs. Howard
got quietus on affairs by putting Bloody
Knife and bic crew to flight with gum.
Haupt, Mr.. Cannon said. wanted n. ono
And hA WnnIA rnlinnmSuh ~ M.