The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-19
A LONG COURT DOCKET
Criminal and Civil Matters in
Beaverhead County.
PILE OF TAlLINGS LEASED
New Concentrating Plant Will Start in
the Spring-Dillon Residents Run
a Bluff on aMlner-Football
Team Organized.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Dillon, Nov. 17.-The regular fall term
of the district court for Beaverhead
county will convene next Monday morn
ing with Judge Parker on the bench.
The civil docket is quite lengthy one.
but the criminal cases number but few.
James Voc, Thomas Tapp, John Boruff
and Frank Brouse have to face charge
of gambling. w. H. Gordon, who has
broken Jail three times since last
March, will have TO tell jury why he
has such mania for jail-breaking. C.
T.. Arnold. otherwise known as Jack
Reynolds, but who is a whole lot better
known as Lousy Jack" will be called
upon to explain why he did not pick a
girl over the age of consent to run
away with. His charge is rape and he
was arrested last summer while try
ing to escape into Idaho with a little
girl belonging to family living just
over the line in Madison county named
Estelle. The other criminal case is that
of Mcneil and Flanagan, who were ar
rested few months ago for horse steals
ing and charged with grand larceny
Six divorce gases are on the civil docket
and the mismated couples desire legal
separation. The city of Dillon is de-
PENDANT in suit for $1,000 damages
brought by Henry T. Meisner. Half
dozen cases for debt have been brought
against the Bon Accord Placer company
by creditors. w. A. Clark & Bro. have
case against the Montana Power COM
pany; William Winters ct al. are after
the same comapny for debt, while that
organization has a suit against p. II.
Doman for condemnation. The FIRST
National bank of Dillon is suing the
Old Faithful Mining and Milling COM
pany for debt and the Montana Grass
hopper Gulch Mining company is after
the Coast placers with suit for eject
ment. The balance of the calendar is
composed of petty SUITS mostly for
debt
The Greenwood Milling and Mining
company, an organization of Montana
capitalists, who have secured a lease
on the enormous pile of tailings owned
by the Hecla Consolidated Mining COM
pany, near Glendale, this county, have
just completed their new concentrating
plant and were to start all the ma
chinery in motion yesterday. but owing
to a scarcity of water the project was
abandoned until spring. The machinery
was started one piece at time and as
fast as one part was found to work
satisfactorily another one was started.
The new plant is one of the most mod
ern plants in the country. 1t is equipped
with the latest high speed rolls, auto
matte sizers, Bartlett e. Woodbury. ta-
bles and is as nearly automatic as hui
man ingenuity can make it. Power is
furnished by a 15-inch Leffell and a
four-foot Pelton water wheel and the
mill is lighted throughout with cleo
tricity. The construction work was
done under the supervision of one of the
best millWrights in the country, Thomas
w. Fisher. and the plant was furnished
~ ~. g.1xN
yer. The officers Of the company are
D. T. Haskell of Butte. president;
Charles s. Citing, formerly of Butte,
secretary: c. A. Harvey of Melrose.
treasurer.
Anderson Bros, who some time ago
purchased the Davidson horses, on
Horse prairie, finished shipping the
bunch last week. the last two carloads
being sent out Sunday night from Red
Rock. There were 10 carloads in all,
and they were shipped to st. Joe, Mo.
To-day the firm is shipping three car
loads from the Dillon stockyards. These
We're raised by Mr.. Kirkpatrick, near
this place, and were shipped to the same
point as were the others.
A. J. and Frank Redfern, two young
Ruby valley ranchmen, were over from
Laurin Thursday for brief visit. They
report crops generally ON the Ruby to
be very light this year and that but
very few crops of wheat escaped being
ruined by frost. Threshing is all fin
ished and the Feulng machine moved
to the Beaverhead valley Wednesday,
In this county. however, there are a
great many crops yet to thresh, the late
rains and general disagreeableness Of
the weather acting as serious draw
back. t#
star-gazing has been the popular fad
in Diloln during the past week and, al
though careful watch has been kept of
the heavens, the expected shower Of