Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-19
But Mrs. Steinberg Would Not
Let Him Talk Bad.
QUARTZ MINING GROUND
A Matter of Contention in Judge Lind
says C0urt-It Has Two
Claimants.

Mrs. Emma Steinberg, colored, residing
at No. 312 Colorado street, called at the
county attorneys office today and
charged Charles Sales, colored, with
having applied to her a few choice ex-
CARNATIONS possessing a tendency to
question her chastity. She was accom-
panied by her daughter, who corrobo-
rated what was said by the complainant.
When Mrs. %Steinberg first entered the
room she exclaimed to Mr.. Kelly:
II want a warrant for a %no-account,
common niggah. I don't allow no man,
black or white, to call me names!'
Then she sat down and told the story
of her trouble.
Last evening I was getting ready to
move" she said, when Sales came
along. He is the big niggah that wears
the belt around town. l told him 1 was
going to move, and he said what for?'
/ told him the house in which I was living
was not as good as the barn back home
in which l kept my horses, and he said,
Go long, you black -. Yo' new had no
horses He said other things, too, and I
can prove it,"
Mrs. Steinberg was given a complaint,
with instructions to fie it in Justice
Nichols court.
In Judge Lindsay's court today the at
torneys for the defense in the suit Of
Stewart VS.. the Singer Manufacturing
company asked and were granted sixty
days in which to prepare and file a state
ment on motion for a new trial.
The suit brought by Medora Mahan
against her brother, George w. Patter-
son to recover judgment for $500 for
money loaned the defendant, was dis
missed as settled at the request of Til
linghast & Rice, attorneys for plaintiff,
in department No. l today. A short time
ago the court ordered Patterson to place
the amount involved in the hands of the
sheriff, and the terms of the settlement
are that this money shall be turned over
to the plaintiff. The plaintiff is to pay
her w costs.
An attempt to secure a postponement
Of the trial of the suit of Ben Baker
against the Butte City Water company
was made in Judge Lindsay's court last
evening, but it failed. A motion with
this object in view was presented to the
court by Attorney Roote of the law firm
of Welcome & Roote. It was based on
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the city.
When court convened this morning the
trial of the action was commenced with
out further ceremony. At first it ap-
peared as though the relation of debtor
and creditor existing between some of the
Jurors and the defendant by reason of
the formers patronage of the water sys-
tenn would seriously interfere with the
work of getting twelve men to determine
he merits of the case, but contrary to
expectations nearly all of those called to
the box said they had nothing against
the company, and the fact that they did
business with the corporation would have
no bearing upon the determination of the
matter according to the testimony ad-
duced and law as applied.
The action is one in which Baker seeks
to recover possession of what he calls
the Keynote lode mining claim, located
in the Highland district. The plaintiff is
being represented by James Healey; the
defendant by Messrs. Welcome & Roote,
with the latter at the helm as the guild
ing spirit In the proceedings. In his
opening statement to the jury Mr.. Healey
said he expected to show that on the
18th of last October the plaintiff located
the claim and called it the Keynote: that
he put up his stakes and sunk a discovery
shaft eleven feet; that on the 18th Of July
this year Mr.. Carroll, representing the
company, made al amended
location on the ground and named it the
Keno; that two days later the plaintiff
visited the claim and found the stakes so
changed that the discovery shaft was %
feet outside of the west line. He would
not, he said, accuse anyone Of having
moved the stakes.
The defendant also made a statement,
which was to the effect that a man
named John G. Lewis had located the
claim under another name several years
and sold it to the water be-
fore Baker staked it, n that Baker
jumped the lain more for the purpose
of levying blackmail on the
than that of esta blishing any real title
to the property.
Baker testified that he was a Ken
tuckian by birth and had been prospect
ing since 1865. He was IS years old.
Some questions We're propounded con-
corning the notice of location, and Mr.,
Baker was excused long enough to allow
Michael Sheehan, one of the deputy clerks
IN the county recorders office, to show by
the records that the notice had been filed
as required by law. A point as to the
admissibility of the notice because It
failed to show certain things was raised
by the defense and argued by both sides.
with the result that the court took the
matter under advisement until 2 O'Clock.
On reconvening this afternoon the
Judge overruled the motion and the trial
of the cause was resumed.
After a copy Of the location had been
read. Mr.. Baker again took the stand.
He said that two days after making the
location he visited the ground and found
that one of the posts had been moved 200
rect up the hill. A man named A. J..