The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-27
BUTTE NEWS.
BAKER TO Be RELEASED
Will Not Be Charged With the
Murder of James Cavanaugh.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
An Action to Correct Deed-First Ma
tional Bank Seeks to Recover
$1,000 From G. w. Allen.
Other Matters in Court.

T County Attorney Connolly has deter
mined not to put Richard Baker on
trial for murder and tomorrow will
present full statement of the matter
to Judge Clancy and will ask for
Bakers discharge, and the dismissal of
the case against him. Mr.. Connolly has
just completed a thorough investigation
of it and has read the evidence pro-
duced against Baker at the preliminary
hearing, from which he has concluded
that 1t would not only be useless to go
to trial, but that Baker should not be
convicted. The man whom he killed
was James Cavanaugh and the facts
sof it, as found by the county attorney,
are that on the night of the 18th of last
September Baker, who was living in a
cabin west of the city, awoke and
found Cavanaugh, who was a stranger
to him, sitting in a chair near the bed.
Baker got up and asked him what he
was doing there and ordered him out.
s Cavanaugh, who was evidently drunk,
moved toward the door, and when he
reached it, he quickly slipped the latch,
and then turning on Baker, said: 1--WE
got you, you d, and win fix you."
Baker picked up an axe, and as >Cava-
IduSIl CdLie dL HlI1l, ne STRUCK MIN over
the head, fracturing his skull, from the
effects Of which he afterward died. Be
fore his death, when questioned con-
corning the affair, Cavanaugh said that
he was to blame, which statement
should be sufficient to acquit Baker.
{ The latter has been in the county Jail
ever since, but he will be released to-
morrow.
The Home Investment & Realty COM
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in the district court against Charles S.
Warren for the purpose of correcting
IA deed executed by the defendant to the
plaintiff on July 6. 1893. The deed was
for various interests in a large number
of mining claims and city lots, and it
is alleged that it was the intention of
the parties to it to include in it all
of the defendants interest in the Black
placer and eight lots in block 81 Of the
Original townsite of Butte, but that
through an error the description was
omitted from the deed The court is
asked to order the deed to be amended
and corrected to that extent
An action was commenced by the
First National bank of Butte against
Charles M Allen for Sic s6.75 and in
terest due on an unsatisfied Judgment
the bank holds against the Logan Land
& Irrigation company. The complaint
in the suit brought against Allen alleges
that he is director and stakeholder of
the company, and as such is liable for
the debts Of the company because the
latter failed to comply with the law
relating to the filing and publicati ton
of annual statements showing it's finan-
cal condition.
James A. Murray, through his at
torney, j. K. Mcdonald, yesterday COM
menced another suit against County
q Treasurer Kinds to enjoin him from
selling for delinquent taxes a number
of lots in the Moonlight and Columbia
additions and in other parts of the city.
1T Is alleged that the assessment was
illegal: that there was no equalzation
that there was an absence of affidavits
of the assessor and clerk to the differ
ent records, and that the assessment
was void because it was made against
the respective owners. The taxes are
for 1890, 1893 and 1894. Judge Clancy
= issued restraining order.
The Western Asphalt & Gravel Roof
ing company brought a suit against G.
w. Anderson to restrain him from at
tempting to enforce Judgment he OBJ
tanned in court against some other
party and involving a small piece of
city property. The asphalt company
claims an adverse interest in the prop
erty and does not want the property
interfered with until its claims are ad-
justed.
In the suit Of the Big Blackfoot Mill
ing company against Leila Blume and
George M. Smith for the foreclosure of
lien, an answer was filed in court
yesterday by Mrs. Blume making a
general denial and pleading ignorance
of certain facts alleged in the com
plant.
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The case against the fellow Quinn,
one of the Copper State saloon robbers,
will come up for trial before Judge
Clancy this morning.