The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-06
STORY OF A CAN OF GOLD
Found by Boys, It Got Their
Fathers Into Trouble.
ONE Is NOW A BANKRUPT
Judgment Was Obtained Against Him
for SANDER. and He Swore He Could
Not Pay It-Judge Knowles
Calendar for September.

| Judge Knowles convened the. Septem-
Der term of the United States circuit
court yesterday afternoon at o'clock,
| and after disposing of few bank
| ruptcy matters adjourned until this
| morning. In the matters of T. l..
Christian and Ben e. Harris the court
ordered discharge, and Chris Chris
tofeson of East Helena was adjudged
| bankrupt, and thereby hangs a bit
| of tail
| 1t will be remembered that on the
22d of August last year Otto Christie
feson, son of the petitioner, Clarence
| Carlson and Gust Anderson, boys,
| while playing beneath a tree near East
| Helena, discovered tin can contain
ing $1,000 in gold buried at the roots
of the tree. The story goes that Carl
| son, the largest boy in the trio, grab
| bed the can and ran home with it,
| Then the trouble began. Fathers Chris
| tofeson and Anderson waited upon the
| elder Carlson and demanded their
share of the prize money and it is al
| legged that Mr. Carlson wouldn't yield.
| So the other two men went to Helena
| and swore out a warrant charging
Carlson with grand larceny. From this
| stage of the game the case resolved
| itself into a case Of SANDER, Carlson
| bringing suit against Christensen for
| defamation of character. Christensen
| is a laborer in the East Helena smelt-
err.
On May 22 this year the district court
of Lewis and Clarke county awarded
| Carlson a judgment for 5000 and costs,
| in all $267.30 With this judgment hang
| ing over him Mr.. Christensen petit
| toned the court yesterday to be adj
| judged a bankrupt, and his petition was
granted.
The judgment claim is the only liza
| bility shown in the schedule, and the
assets are house and lot in East
Helena, exempt from execution, and
| $50 due as wages from the Ole Eggan
estate. In his petition Mr.. Christensen
represents that This claim (the judg-
ment is judgment obtained by John
A. Carlson against petitioner for caus-
ing his arrest and the jury awarded
to him damages for 5000 and costs of
$780, Petitioner never had any value,
and endeavored several times to set
tie this judgment within his means,
but of no avail. and the Judgment
creditor wants the whole amount and
petitioner cannot pay the same"
In the meantime an old settler came
up and claimed the gold and furnished
his proofs. SO the boys got nothing.
The motion for the discharge of the
receiver of the Butte Street Railway
company will be heard to-day. as will
the hearing upon the exceptions and
objections to the findings of Special
Master Blake in the famous Butte Chi
nese boycott case of Hum Fay ct al.
VS.. Frank Baldwin ct al.
Evan o. Jackson and M p Gilchrist
d
eral courts.
A grand jury will not be drawn until
A. H. Barrel, jury commissioner, re-
turns to the city. He and Clerk Sproule
will each put $50 names in the jury box
from which the venires will be drawn.
The old force of baliffs and the court
crier are retained.
Following is the calendar for the
September term:
Causes in which the United States is
a party: -rt
United States VS.. Marsh and Can
non ct al; cause submitted for decision
of the court
E. Rollins Morse VS.. Montana Ore
Purchasing company ct al; action in
equity; issue joined April 81, 1897; ac
ton awaiting trial of cause No. &c at
law
Montana Ore Purchasing company VS..
E. Rollins Morse: action in equity; is
sue Joined Dec q, 1897.
Colusa- Parrot Mining and Smelling
company VS.. Anaconda Copper Mining
company; action in equity; issue join
ed April 30, 1898
Franklin Farrell VS.. Boston & Mon |
tana Consolidated Mining company; ac- |
ton in equity; issue Joined May 10, |
1898 |
Franklin Farrell VS.. Montana Ore |
Purchasing company: action in equity; |
issue Joined May 10, 1898
lsador ID. F'reund VS.. Great Northern
Railway company; action at law; is
sue Joined May Il, 1898.
Harriet Wood VS.. A. j. Davis ct al:
action in equity; issue Joined June g.
1885,
c. c. Parsons vs. Monitor Gold Min
ing company; action at law; issue join
ed June Fl, 1898
Butte & Boston Consolida ted Mining
company VS.. Montana Ore Purchasing
company Ell al; action in equity; is
sue Joined July 3, 1898.
{. {. Parsons VS.. Monitor Gold Min
ing company; action in equity; issue
Joined July 6, 1898.
Boston & Montana Consolidated Cop
per and Silver Mining company VS.
Chile Gold Mining company: at law: is
sue Joined May 13. 1898; trial ordered
stayed until trial of cause No. &c.
Butte & Boston Consolidated Mining
company VS.. Montana Ore Purchasing
company ct al. action at law; issue
Joined July 6, 1898: action ordered stay
ed until trial of cause No. &c.
Boston & Montana Consolidated Cop
per and Silver Mining company vs.
Montana Ore Purchasing company: ac-
ton at law; issue joined July IS, 1898
Anaconda Copper Mining company
vs. Colusa-Parrot Mining and Smelling
company; action in equity; issue Joined
Sept. 5, 1898
Erwin Davis VS.. A. j. Davis jr., ct |
al: action in equity; issue Joined Sept.
5, 1898.
w. J. Ladd vs. Montana Ore Pur-
chasing company ct al: action a law;
issue Joined Nov. 10, 1898.
w. j. Ladd VS.. Montana Ore Pur-
chasing company ct al; action in
equity: issue Joined Dec. %, 1898.
Butte & Boston Consolidated Mining
VS.. Montana Ore Purchasing
cOmpanN: action in equity: issue Joined |