Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-19
BUSINESS
OF THE COURT
JUDGE CLANCY'S CITIZENSHIP
MILL rs RUNNING FULL
BLAST.
JUDGMENT ALLOWED FOR
BUTTE HARDWARE co.
Judge Lindsay Is Examining Into the
Mental Condition Of Alex
ander Mckay.

ouoSS SloiNS obillitiSA hiNS
and sixty men to full citizenship yester-
day, and opened his mill for business
again at 10 o'clock this morning. He
was confronted by the customary full
house with standing room only in the
corridor outside. There We're repre-
sentatives from all the countries of the
globe except hin .and Japan. A
noticeable feature among them was a
collection of %blackened eyes, presumably
the result of political or domestic differ
ences. One of the questions usually
asked an applicants witnesses is:
Have you ever known this man to be
involved in any t%rouble?' When a man
with a discolored optic sandwiches him
self etween two witnesses for eXamina-
ton as to his qualifications to become
a voter, he usually tells the court the
bad eye was acquired by contact with a
stick of wood, and the court takes his
word for it.
There We're three black eyes in the
crowd this morning.
For some reason the Judge is sign
ing all of the slips of those who pass
through the ordeal. Heretofore it has
been customary for the clerk in his
department W 40 tnlS. After q man mas
been admitted to citizenship a slip of
paper containing the statement that he
Is entitled 10 final papers is handed him
with verbal instructions to present it 1t
the clerks office on he first floor, where
the papers are made out. This is neces-
say for the reason that applicants
could impose upon the clerk by claiming
to have been admitted when they were
not. The deputy clerks in the court
rooms have always given the applicants
these slips up to yesterday.
In the suit brought by the Butte Hard
ware company against Lulu F. Largely,
as the administrator of the estate of p.
A. Largey, to recover possession of
property which Largely, as president of
the company held in trust for the COM
pany, Judge Clancy has signed a judg-
ment in favor of the plaintiff. The
property consists of a quarter interest
in the Oxford mining claim, a half in
the Wanderer, quarter in the Paymaster,
half of the Hardfoot, and a third in the
Ivanhoe and all of lot 8 of block 40, of
the original townsite of Butte. The
case was allowed to go by default.
Judge Lindsay will hold a session Of
court tomorrow and in addition to hear
ing exparte matters and divorcing a few
aliens from their native country and
uniting them with this country will lear
the following notions:
Estates-A. ]. Davis, John McClosky,
Joseph Frazier, C. f. Moss, H. H. Helms,
Aladia Marshall, NJ. S. Largely ct al, and
E. G. Ebert. settlement of accounts. Pc
titions for letters on the estates of P. A.
Julien James j. Murray and F. S. Bry-
ant. Return on sale of real estate in the
estate of Charles Provost.
Hearing of demurrer in the case Of G.
]. Marks VS.. the City of Butte.
Hearing of motion to strike in the case
of M. F. Gilligan VS.. NJ. P. Lavell as ad-
ministrator of the estate of J. w. Gill;
gan.
Hearing of motion to dismiss the ap-
peal in the case IF e. B.. Tracy VS.. Pet
er Vucash.
Plaintiff proofs in the suit of Dominick
Be:toglio VS.. F. p. Grady ct al.
Inquiry into the mental condition of
Alexander Mckay was made a special or
der of business in Judge Lindsay's de-
partment at 4 o'clock his afternoon.
About a month ago Mckay fired a bullet
through the door of a cabin in Meader-
vile without known p~rovocation and
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Joe Laz-
zeri and lodged in the county jail. Since
his incarceration he has shown signs of
insanity and it was thought best to
make an investigation of his case. Yes
terday a complaint was filed against him
by LazZeri.
Mckay is the man who has been writ
ing threatening letters to a number of
people of Butte. To one of the former
owners Of Columbia Gardens, Mckay
wrote a letter a couple Of years ago from
Denver. In the letter he claimed tina
his brother had located the gardens, but
had been murdered n the property stol-
en-. The story was pure fiction. Other
letters were written to Meaderville peo-
Pile threatening TO dynamite them for
imaginary grievances.