Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

LIVINGSTON NEWS.

! push, and will make it hot for his OPP
ponent should he be nominated. He is
! inclined to look with disfavor upon the
| nomination, and to-day informed the
Inter Mountain man that he should not
run. But he may be prevailed upon all
the same.
So far there is no one talked of for tn ,
position of police magistrate. Samuel
Hosford might take it, If it was offered
him. He has been a justice of the peace
off and on in Livingston for a number
OF years. Aldermanic favors will be
handed out later in the game.
,, The democracy is trihe at sea for
| a man to run for mayor. John II. Smith,
the present mayor is sick and tired of
the job and would hardly consent to
run again. He has made an excellent
officer however. and if he could be pre-
vailed upon to run he might pull through.
There is some talk of naming Hon. Thos.
NJ. SWindlehurst to make the race. That
young gentleman is thoroughly popu-
lar, good business man and hard
man to beat. E. NJ. Sybert will prob
ably be the candidate for city treasurer
while Judge Frank Bender will probably
be named for police magistrate.
left the first of the week for Spokane,
after number of days spent in this
city looking after business matters. Mr.
Taggart is president of the Robinson
Mining company. while Mr.. Bush is also
heavily interested in the same corpora
ton. The gentlemen spent several days
here endeavoring to arrange an ami
cable settlement of the litigation which
is pending in the courts over the prop
erty Son which the Robinson company
wishes to operate. Mr. Taggart was
seen by the Inter Mopntain representa-
tive and asked how things looked for
his company during the coming summer
I'VE are not in a position just now to
say much regarding our affairs" re-
marked the gentleman. land will not be
until after court meets next Monday
There are several things which must
yet be arranged before we can start out
You may say, however. that an amicable
settlement of all difficulties is pending
and that we expect to be able to start
our engineers in on the property as
soon as the weather will permit. The
Robinson company wants to start in
Park county with clean hands-that is,
we want to be entirely clear of the
quarrels and litigation which has kept
Bear Gulch back SO long. Another thing
we have the refusal of sufficient CAPT.
tai from Boston parties to carry our
undertaking through to a successful
issue. On this score there is no trouble
We have the money, and if we can get
the property upon which we now hold
options. there will be no further trouble
Our people are shrewd, capable business
men, who understand mining in all it's
branches They are prepared to spend
money literally. but they will make no
foolish breaks or mistakes. If the peo-
pie whom l represent come in here, you
can depend on it that things will be
done in shipshape manner. You un-
derstand that l am here in dual
capacity. 1 represent, as a member of
the firm of Cheney & Taggart. brokers
and members of the Chicago board of
trade, certain capital in Boston. Also
l am president of the Robinson COM
pany. You can readily see that my posi-
ton is somewhat embarrassing. l must
be absolutely certain of my position be-
fore l can say to my people Everything
is all right come ahead But l think
that I shall be able to say that very
shortly Mr.. Taggart was cautious
in his utterances, but at the same time
he left the impression that he was al
most certain that his company would
shortly be working the Revenue mill
and the claims adjoining it.
Alexander Livingston, for four years
treasurer of Park county will relinuuish
his office Monday to George Il. Cham
bers, who was elected to the position
at the November election. Mr.. Living
ston will engage in mining and in bank
ing. Mr.. Chambers will be placed in
charge of the county funds at the meet
ing of the board of county commission
ers commencing next Monday.
Judge Frank Henry returned Friday
morning from Bozeman, where he had
been trying several cases before the
district court of that county, wherein
Judge Holloway was disqualified be-
cause of the fact that he had acted as
attorney in them. Judge Henry will re-
open court here Monday morning. The
calendar for Park county will occupy
considerable number of days. The
jury appears Monday
Roy Clark, who suffered broken COL
lar bone some three weeks ago in a fall
from bicycle, returned Thursday even
ing from the AIissoula hospital.
John w. Hefferln returned Friday
morning from a trip to the coast in
search OK new business location. Mr..
Hefferlin is very favorably impressed
with Seattle and will probably locate
there. He will return to the Puget
sound city next week.