Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-07
GIANT POWDER IN SHAFT.
ALLEGED THREATS OF DEATH
AND DESTRUCTION. ~
Afhdavits Filed in the Little Mcqueen
Goose Mountain Claim
Controversy.

The hearing of the defendants motion
to dissolve the restraining order in the
suit brought by Dupont B. Vincent
against Meyer Genzberger and others to
determine whether the Little Mcqueen
placer is the Little Mcqueen placer or
the Goose Mountain quartz claim was to
have been commenced in Judge Clancy's
court at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
but when the matter was opened it was
discovered that Judge Lindsay had
granted the injunction ORDER, and Judge
Clancy refused to proceed without first
consulting him on the subject, as it is
not customary for one judge to interfere
in the work of another.
The property in controversy is located
in the Meaderville copper district. The
Genzberger sid claims it on a placer
location and the other side alleges that
it is quartz ground and is holding it as
such.
ONE affidavits in connection with the
controversy have been filed in court, and
if the contents of a few of them are q
criterion by which to judge, h contend
ers have been having q warm time on
the claim.
Among the afidavits is one from
James F.. Inglis, who says he saw J. W.
Swain throw into the shaft five charges
of giant powder, with a fuse attached,
and heard, the explosion of the powder;
heard Genzberger say he had instructed
his men to throw he powder into the
shaft, and would continue to do SO;
heard Genzberger say his men would kill
the men working for Dupont on the prop
erty.
] Continuing, Inglis says that shortly
! after the location notice for the Goose
Mountain was posted up on the morning
of May 8 he saw it knocked over; that
about 1890 o'cloc on that morning he
saw Genzberger take the box in which
Tho ronfioa u-oc nncfoH on6 If ha-
hind the engine house of the Little Nc
Queen shop.
Fred Cobb says in an affidavit that on
May 8 he was employed as a teamster
by the Goose Mountain side, and that
on that day he saw Swain n Genzber-
ger on the claim. He saw the former
throw six charges of giant powder into
the shaft on the Little McQueen-Go0se
Mountain claim and heard the explosions
that followed. He heard GenZberger say
he would kill the sons of guns working
on the Goose Mountain side. r.
j. K. Watson says in an affidavit that
he panned dirt from various parts of the
property in controversy and could not
find a color of gold or any other metal;
that he has mined placer ground in, six
distinct states, and in his opinion the
Little Mcqueen is not placer ground.
Oscar Benson says in an affidavit that
at about 3 o'clock on the morning of May
3 ne saw vincent ulScOtef d VEIN OI
quartz in the ground. It has well defined
walls. On the following day the men
employed in sinking the shaft of the
Little Mcqueen broke into V%incent's
workings, and afterwards some to
affiant unknown threw powder into the
shaft, and it exploded within eight feet
of him; that the explosions endangered
the safety and lives of the men in the
employ of Vincent and they had to leave
the workings.
Edward Spellum ~corroborates the pow
der incident, and adds that a pail of
lighted sulphur was also lowered into
the shaft about the same time the pow
der was thrown down. His affidavit is
supported by Chris Johnson.
Dominic Cesare, a miner in the employ
of Vincent, says that between 1 and
O'Clock on the morning of May s he as
sisted Vincent in putting up the location
notice and setting the stakes of thu
Goose Mountain claim. He saw. he says
the underground workings of the claim
and the exposed vein, and believes any
,prudent mining man would have located
it as a quartz claim.