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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21
KEYNOTE CASE DECIDED
Against the Butte City Water
Company.
VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF
Wins Out on All the Issues OF the
Cause.-The Water Company Was
Not in Possession When Suit
Was Brought.

The Butte City Water company lost
another suit in court yesterday, the
jury deciding the Keynote case in favor
of the plaintiff, Ben Baker. When the
jury first returned with a verdict it was
found, after they had been polled. that
they stood seven to five and the court
sent them back. In a short time they
against the water company to sustain
the verdict. The general verdict was
for the plaintiff upon all the issues in
the case; that he is the owner of and
entitled to the possession of the Key
note lode claim and that the defendant
withholds the possession of it from him.
The special findings were that the wa
ter company was not in possession of
the ground in controversy at the time
of the commencement of the suit; that
the discovery shaft sunk by the plain
stiff was not sunk outside of the lines of
the Keynote location: that the shaft
was 10 feet deep from the lowest part
of the rim at the surface and that It
showed well defined Crevice or valu-
able deposit.
The jury was polled on the verdict
the second time and stood as follows:
For the verdict-James Downey, Jo-
seph NJ Parland, P. j. Murray, Patrick
OFarrell, j. H. Beck. Pat O'Leary, re-
ter McDermott and Philip Prior.
Against the VERDICT. o. Dugan. John
J. Harrington, Charles Hess and Tim
Dalton. The juror who changed his
vote was Joseph NJ. Pariand.
During the trial vest ArdaV afternoon
the plairtiff objected to the introduC~
ton in evli9n :e by the defa ldin; of the
location notice of the Keno lode claim
under which the water comptly claims
title to the premises located by Baker.
The objections urged were numerous,
the principal of which was the fact that
the location notice did not conform to
the present statutory requirements
with regard to the contents of the de-
claratory statement which must be filed
with the county recorder within 80 days
from the date of the location of a min
ing claim.
The court, in passing upon the objec-
ton, said that the location notice Of
fered in evidence was not in certain
particulars in accord with the present
statutory requirements. The defend
ant, said the court, could not claim title
to the premises in controversy by virtue
of having located the Keno lode in the
manner evidenced by the notice of loca-
ton. The declaratory statement which
it is required shall be filed with the
county clerk must contain the certain
verified statements and in more than
one essential feature the notice sought
TO be introduced was lacking. The court
sustained the objection to its introduce
ton.
The ruling left. as the only matter to
be considered, the question as to wheth-
er or not the location of the Keynote
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21
A Long Martyrdom.

1t was a long car, with seats at the
sides, and the motorman seemed a little
green at the business. says the Cleveland
Plain Dealer. Any way, the car maze
surprisingly sudden stops and starts.
Presently an elderly man, whose clothes
suggested the old soldier came aboard.
The only vacant seat was near the front
door, and he made an effort to reach it.
He was almost there when the car gave
frightful lurch.
The old soldier threw up his hands.
swayed backward and sat down squarey
in the lap of very stout woman.
Everybody laughed except the two prin-
cipals in the affair, and the old soldier
scrambled into the vacant place as quick
ly as he could.
''Ne1,' he said to the man beside him,
Il guess dere wasn't no damage done
No said the man. Il guess not. Wo-
men get used to being sat upon
The old soldier smiled.
well, | guess dots right" he chuck ed
"und some of dem need it. / got yum I
been settin' down upon fer der last dirty
fife years"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21

meant. The same thing precisely could
be witnessed by making a trip to the
outlying bayous of Grand lake.
Secluded as they have been, the liti-
cation already referred TO is not the
first event that has brought the Chi
nese shrimpers to the attention of New
Orleans officials. About II years ago
tremendous row was raised at the post
office over some unknown matter that
was tainting the mails with a peculiar
and villainous odor The trail being
as evident as the aura of a soap foun-
dry. the government sleuths were not
greatly overworked in following it to
certain mysterious hieroglyphics. The
bundles contained dried shrimp, pre-
pared after a special and odoriferous
formula and sent as tidbits to friends
of the colony. Needless to say, they
were promptly confiscated under the
rules of the postal service, but the mail
ing went on, to a wild chorus of public
protest One day the superintendent
was passing his window just as Chi
naman dropped a tabooed parcel in the
slot. The official was a man of action.
Grabbing the package, he hurled it in
stantly at the retreating Celestial, who
turned just in time to stop it with his
nose The Chinaman emitted a howl of
anguish, and from that day to this not
a single shrimp has ever perfumed the
mails.
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lode claim by the plaintiff had been
perfected in accordance with law. 1t be-
Ing commended that the discovery shaft
described in the Keynote location was
situated outside of the exterior boun-
daries of the claim
The plaintiff objected to the introduce
uon of any evidence tending to show
the whereabouts of the discovery shaft,
but the court held that the water COM
pany could not be ousted from posses
sion or dispossessed by a person maxi
ing an invalid location of a mining
claim, and that if it could be shown
that the discovery shaft of the Key
note lode was outside the exterior boun-
daries of the claim, then as against a
party confessedly in possession the
plaintiff had no rights and that If the
location had been improperly made, it
was as though no location whatsoever
existed.
Evidence was offered by the defend
ant on other points in the case, after
which the attorneys made their argu-
ments. Considerable feeling had been
engendered during the trial and both
Attorney Roote, who represented the
the water company, and j. E. Healy,
who appeared for Baker, became some
what excited during their arguments.
Roote went outside the evidence and
Healy tried to stop him, but Roote sim
ply shook his finger at the opposing
counsel and yelled: Don't you inter
rupt me; don't you interrupt me-"
which he repeated dozen times during
his argument. He charged that Bakers
suit was nothing but a Matchmaking
scheme, but the jury, Judging by the
verdict, did not believe him.
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Won Ont nv n Nose,

A Brown man of the class of 80
whose admiration for Latin and Greek
perhaps distances his love for athlet-
les, came very near losing his degree
because of the fact. Just before com
mencement young Mr.. Senior engaged
in a race for the coveted document
which he probably will long remember.
The college man won-won out by a
nose 1t happened this way:
The young man in question had
passed all the examinations and natur-
ally was entitled to the parchment.
Two days previous to commencement
however, he received a notice from
the faculty to the effect that he had
neglected his gymnasium duties a
sufficient number of days to foot up
to half a term. AS the gymnasium
course is just as much a part of the
college curriculum as any of the reg
ular studies, and as the senior had
of cuts" he would not receive a di-
ploma the notice stated.
The 18th hour had arrived, but the
student did not lose heart on that ac-
count. Bright and early one morning
he entered the gymnasium hall, took
off his coat and commenced swinging
dumbbells, jumping hurdles, etc. All
day long, until after sunset, he work.
ed away for dear life and the degree,
and before he left the building he had
the satisfaction of knowing that the
morrow would find him on the plat
form with the rest Of '99, awaiting his
turn to receive the precious document.
This is said to be the narrowest es-
cape ever recorded at the college on
the hill.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21
WHY THE BULLDOG is LIKED.
He Is Good Companion and Is Loyal to
the Death.


From the Criterion
A real lover of dogs is apt to have a
preference as to type. but he is apt also
to be fond of all good dogs, no matter
what the class or their special purposes
in the world. The dog lover is very like
in this regard the truly gallant mamie
may prefer blue eyes and fair hair or the
opposite, but his heart goes out to all
women who are good because they are
good. To the unnitiated an affection for
a bulldog seems a perversion of taste. for
the bulldog is not symmetrical is not
graceful and sometimes appears to lack
intelligence. About this intelligence.
however. there is more than one opinion:
about his affection and his loyalty there
can be no doubt whatever. His affection
knows neither hesitation, wavering nor
change, and he is a rare comrade. He is
not noisy, he il not nervous and he is not
given to demonstration. He fills the re-
qurements that Emerson formulated as
to perfect companionship. He does not
need to speak to show his sympathy.
He can tell you what he wishes to say
with his little eyes. and he can be eloquent
with the waggings of his stumpy tail.
This kind of a companion is not such as
commends himself to all persons, for there
are those in the world who like chatterers
ana consider the amending small talk of
the drawing room the highest and most
pleasureab.e expression of human wit
For such as these the bulldog is not likely
to have the greatest attractions. Let such
have a froicsome dog or kitten that will
chase its tail. But the bulldog is a good
companion for quiet man of a thought
full and phlosophic cast of mind. The
bulldog will not disturb his musings, the
bulldog will not say the wrong thing at
a time when silence is precious for the
bulldog rarely speaks. When he does he
is short though not sharp, in his COM
munications and very much to the pur-
pose.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21
HISTORY OF A WINDOW.
1t Was Not Intended for the Club House
in ST. Louis.


From the Chicago Chronicle.
In the Kinloch club at st. Louis there
Is stained glass window with an odd
history. 1t is not an ordinary window,
with its parts joined by frames of lead.
but is of the finest kind of colored
cathedral glass, so perfectly joined that
the seams are not visible. 1t is paneled
in shape, and in the colored glass ap-
pears the face and form of a beautiful
woman. She is in the costume of a
dancer and her skirts fall but little be-
low the knees. The figure is perfect in
its proportions and the face is one of
surprising beauty.
When the club house was finished the
art committee looked around for come
thing unique in the way of decorati ton.
They found it in Chicago, where they
had gone exploring. Entering an art
store they told the dealer they wanted
to see the choicest thing he had The
dealer replied that he had a beautiful
colored window panel, which was left
on his hands through a peculiar chain
or circumstances. A rich Chicagoan
had, Immediately after marrying, de-
cided that as a part of the decoration
of his new home he would have a win
dow in which the face and form of his
wife would appear. He got together
the necessary photographs in appro-
pirate costumes and brought them to
the glass window concern, where esti-
mates We're made as to the probable
cost. He wanted naught Iut the best.
and was not content to have the picture
painted or burned into the glass. He
wanted the work done in the actual
colored glass.
The dealer was obliged to send the
Photographs and an extended explana-
ton of what was wanted abroad, and
there the window was made. 1t took
months for its completion, and when
it was finished and returned the dealer
notified his rich patron. But the win
dow never found place in the rich
mans house. They had been married
long enough to become estranged and
divorced. The rich man had completed
the house he built for his bride and
was living alone in it. There were
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21
A HORSE ON THE CHIEF
How Mollie Murray Escaped
From the Jail.
WORKED A CLEVER TRICK
Mollie Had Serious and Determined OBJ
jections to Serving Another
Term in the County
Jail.

A pretty good "horse" on Chief Of
Police Lavell which has been very care
fully guarded leaked out yesterday. 1t
is story of how Molly Murray, the
notorious negress, made her escape from
the city Jail by working clever trick
on the chief.
Molly is one of the depraved crea-
lures the police have to deal with. Her
besetting sin is drink and because of
her appetite she spends about two
thirds of her time in Jail for vagrancy
and she will do almost anything to es-
cape a sentence which she knows she is
sure of every time she goes into court.
She was only short time ago released
from the county Jail after serving u
term and had acquired a great thirst.
The result was that she had no sooner
returned to her old haunts in Pleasant
alley than she entered upon a deter
mined effort to quench the fire in her
throat She wound up by being run in
again Monday morning for vagrancy,
and Tuesday she was obliged to face
the stern countenance of Judge Sull-
van once more. She entered plea OF
not guilty and had her case set for
trial to- day.
Chief Lavell generally officiates as
officer Of the police court and was pres
ent in that capacity Tuesday. There is
a stairway leading from the woman's
department of the city Jail up to the
police court chamber which is styled
the chute and it is customary, when
a prisoner is committed, to turn him
or her into the chute to go down stairs
to be locked up by the jailer. When
Molly entered her plea she could not
give bonds and as usual was ordered
committed pending her trial. Chief Of
Police Lavell directed Acting Detective
Ray to turn Molly into the chute" and
send her down stairs and Officer Ray
obeyed instructions. Her case being
the last on the docket, the chief left
the court room and gave the matter
no further thought But Molly saw
another long term in the county jail
ahead of her and made up her mind to
escape it if fortune was good to her. So
she quietly sat down on the stairs OF
the "'chute" out of sight of Tailor
Boyle. who, not knowing but she mad
been discharged, did not miss her She
waited till the court room and the other
upstairs offices at the city hall had
been deserted for the night and then
sailed forth, for no precaution to lock
the upstairs door of the "chute" had
been taken. piece of negligence she
evidently figured on, and there being
nothing to hinder her progress, she
walked down the city hall stairs and
disappeared She has not been seen
since.
See Tasselrs show windows for bar
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21
BUTTE NEWS.
HELD A NIGHT SESSION
Judge Lindsay's Trial Calendar Is
Overcrowded.
He HAD NO EXPERIENCE
Defense in the Case of F. W. Cowan
Against the Minneapolis Gold Min
ing Company Other Mat
tiers in Court.

Judge Lindsay found it necessary to
hold a night session of court, his trial
calendar having become overcrowded
with cases that had to be continued
from day to day. The case called last
night was that of F. w. Cowan against
the Minneapolis Gold Mining and Mill
ing company and its officers Cowan
claimed there was due him $3.50 for
services as superintendent. The de-
Tense to the action was that COwan
got the position on the plea that if he
was appointed certain eminent men in
Missouri would buy the stock of the
company and that he could sell 10000
shares al % cents share. He signed
a contract to sell the stock of the COM
pany. and the defendants claim that
the company would he released from
all obligations to him if he did not sell
the stock. 1t is also said that he rep
resented himself as an experienced
mining man and promoter, when the
fact was he had had no experience.
The trial was not concluded last night.
In a suit of Elizabeth F. Lown
against John Boyle and Mary f. Boyle
to recover $400 on note due, the de-
PENDANTS fled an answer in court yes
terday in which they make the plea
that the note was obtained from them
through fraud and misrepresentation
They bought some property from the
plaintiff. of which she claimed to be the
sole owner, but after 500 had been paid
her the defendants discovered that she
only had title to a portion of the prop
erty and that her interest was not
worth more than $780,
Annie NJ. Westlake against whom
David Lawrence recently secured a
judgment on account of some merchan-
disc furnished her husband and others
while they were operating the Gold
Bug mine under a lease, yesterday filed
in court motion and affidavits for a
new trial. She says she thought the
plaintiffs claim to recovery was based
solely on the ground that she was the
wife of Edward Westlake at the time
the debt was contracted, and she was
therefore taken by surprise when at the
trial the plaintiff claimed that she was
a party to the mining lease having
Blight She could not find Blight in
time to rebut that testimony, but has
found him since and he also makes an
affidavit that he never sold an interest
in the lease to Mrs. Westlake, but says
he sold it to her husband in the pres
ence of Lawrence and the latter was
Informed of it. Blight says that when
the sale was made to Edward West
LAX ethe latter's name was substituted
on Lawrence's account against the firm
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21
AT A SHRIMPING CAMP.
Fondness OF the Chinese for Sending the
Odoriferons Fishes Through the Mails.
From the New Orleans Times Demo-

Odoriferous Fishes Through the Mails.
From the New Orleans Times Demo-
crat.
Hidden away in the labyrinthine ba-
youS of lower Jefferson parish, and
scattered about the margins of Grand
lake, Little lake and the unsteady
named Cheneire Caminada is a strange
colony, the bare existence of which is
practically unknown. 1t numbers, all
told, about 1000 people, three fourths Of
whom are Chinese and the rest Ma
nilamen and undesirable mongrels.
They live in brushwood camps near the
edge of the water, their habits are in
credibly simple and semi-savage, and
their business ms the catching and dry
ing of shrimp.
This singular settlement recently came
to surface in some litigation on the cal.
endar of the local courts over the own
ership of piece of adjacent property,
but the industry has been quietly pur
sued from time out of mind in almost
unbroken isolation. Its product is new
er seen in the New Orleans market, but
is shipped direct to San Francisco and
New York and consumed entirely by
the Chinese. At certain seasons the
shrimp are caught by the millions in
rude hand nets and spread in layers on
platforms built over the surface of the
water. The hot sun soon shrivels them
up and they become desiccated. When
thoroughly dry they are brown and
brittle and have a sweet, nutty flavor
that is far from disa agreeable. In this
condition they are packed loosely in
barrels holding about $50 pounds each
and sent to native merchants in Mott
and Doyers streets, in New York, and
to the famous Chinatown of Frisco.
At both places they are in lively de-
mand, and are eaten either as condi-
ments, without further preparation Or
with a curry of rice. Even American
barbarians find them very good.
The scene at the shrimping camp IS
so strangely Oriental that it is hard
for visitor to realize that he is in the
neighborhood of a big American city.
AS a matter of fact. the industry is
imported. and exactly the same process
of fishing and drying is pursued on a
vast scale in China. Almost all the
Colonists come from families of shrimp
ers. and when they have sufficient
money they return to the Flowery king
dom and send back relatives to take
their places. There are thousands of
common Chinese fans in the stores of
New Orleans bearing pictures of shrimp
fishers and dryers, and no doubt many
a purchaser has been puzzled over the
queer dauhS and wondered what it all
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21

The Midland Railway company of Eng
land has ordered from the Pullman Palace
Car company of Chicago four sleeping
cars for introduction upon their London
to Scotland service, and according to the
terms of the contract they are to be de-
livered in four months
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21

Crystal Springs is the best pleasure
resort near Butte, only five miles from
town. Finest bicycle road in Silver
Bow county. Electric fountain display
every evening. Boating on lake; mod
ern improved plunge and private baths
in connection Excellent cafe and bar.
Service strictly first-Class. Open night
and day. Give us a call.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21

enough sad memories about the house
without having the face of the woman
from whom he had separated looking
down on him from one of the great
windows, so the work was never ac-
cepted. That is the reason the mem
bers of the Kinloch club were able to
get such a truly beautiful and original
window as a decoration over their
manteI
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21

We have lot of jobs to dispose of in
fine shoes. See show windows. Tas-
sells, % West Park.
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of leasers. Mrs. Westlake, says Blight
had nothing whatever to do with the
operations of the mine and was not in
terested in the lease.
In the suit of j. A. Rddell against
the Fidelity and Deposit company
surety for the Peck Williamson Heat
ing and Nentilating company to re-
cover damages for breach of contract
by the heating company, an answer
was filed in court yesterday. The heat
ing company had a sub-contract for
heating and ventilating the school of
mines building, but according to Con-
tractor Riddell's account, refused to
complete the work and he had to do it
himself. The Fidelity and Deposit
company alleges that the contract was
broken by Rlddell and that he pre-
vented the Peck Williamson company
from doing the work
In suit for possession and damages
of A. G. Greer and NJ. A. Nunan
against Sheriff John Conley of Deer
Lodge county and others some of the
defendants yesterday filed answers
making general denials and others de-
INJURED to the complaint.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21

Repsold select vintage wines will
grace the board of prince or lord. P. j.
Brophy & Co. sole agents. Butte.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21

If you want fine smoke try Anna
Held cigars.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21

See Tassell's show windows for bar
gains in shoes, % West Park.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21
Isabel CasSidy'S Toilet Articles
Rouge Book
DeodOriZing Powder
JYNICs AND CRUsTY BACHELORS

Removes and prevents the odor
of perspiration from any part of
the body or clothing, in wooden
bottle; price 35c.
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Chamois Finger Nail

Polisher, with wooden handles, two
sizes, six and seven and a half
inch; price 75c each.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21
Court Balm

The best skin food ever prepared
1t removes wrinkles by nourishin,
the skin and taking away the il
effects of time; price 75c crock