Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-16
KENWO0D MINE A BONANZA
A RICH STRIKE OF COPPER UN-
DER THE CITY OF
HELENA,
COLEMAN WINS THE DEBATE
Montana Wesleyan Speakers Not in It
With the Farmer Lads and
LaSseS.
Special to the Inter Mountain.

Special to the Inter Mountain.
Helena, March 16.-The governor tins
morning approved the following bills:
Senate 76, granting the right to acquire
unappropriated water in streams by ap-
preparation.
Senate 8. amending the law defining
legal fences.
Senate -. giving the state veterinary
surgeon power to appoint a deputy when
necessary at S. day.
House 1856. for the erection of a dor
mitory and installation of a heating
plant at the State Normal school, and
providing for the issue of $4,000 bonds,
secured by land grant.
Senate 20, allowing attachment and
garnishment of public officers salaries.
House joint resolution = instructiny
the state board of education to investi-
gate consolidating the state educational
institutions.
House So, appropratng 81 600 for man.
ual training and $500 for repairs and in
provements at the state reform school.
House IA, appropriating $32, 900 for the
erection of a new wing, enlargement Of
the heating plant. and plumbing at the
deaf and dumb asylum; also $4,000 to
build and equip boiler house and heat
ing plant, and $4,000 TO furnish a new
wing dt Ine Same INSTITUTION.
House 112. appropriating $17 to pay
bill of w. NJ. Biggs.
House 80. authorizing the state land
commissioners to invest the university
bond fund in university building bonds.
House II. authorizing the investment
Of permanent school, university and
other land grant funds in public securl-
ties, and giving the state preferential
right to purchase such bonds at par.
House 81, appropriating 500 to COM
plete the main building at the orphans
home and $1,000 to build and equip
cottage. for nursery at that institution:
House 49, authorizing the issue OF $'o'-
900 bonds On university lands for the
erection of a dormitory ana gymnasium
at the state university.
Henry C. Yaeger, one of the Oldest
citizens of Helena, died yesterday OF
pneumonia. He was born in Baden
Baden, Germany, in 1S45, and graduated
from the university there. He came TO
America in 1862. enlisted as private In
a Massachusetts regiment, was wounded
at the battle Of the Wilderness and Get
tysburg, re-enlisted in 1886 and served
until 1873. when he settled in Helena.
He leaves five sons and one daughter.
His son Frederick is on his way home
from the University of Minnesota, and
The debating contest on the partition
of China between the Agricultural col
lege Of Bozeman and the Montana Wes-
leyan university of Helena was decided
last night in favor of BOzennan. The
names of the debaters We're: Bozeman-
Henry Gardiner, Elers Koch and Zoe
Hartmann: Wesleyan-R A. Crchter, A.
T. Fryckman. Blanche Van Scoy. The
judges were Governor Toole, Judge
Henry C. Smith and Attorney General
Donovan.
The fact has just come out that Gov
ernor Toole reappointed John Byrne AS
state mine inspector and AL. Ingraham
as commissioner of the Soldiers home
the day after the legislature adjourned.
This is a slap at the senate, which had
refused to confirm the appointments.
Harry D. Moore. register of state
lands, was appointed first deputy at
torney general.
The Montana society, Sons of the
American Revolution, will celebrate the
evacuation of Boston. which happened
March II. 1777, by having spread Mon
day evening in Judge Henry N. B!ake's
office.
The Kenwood copper mine. which was
bonded by Charles w. Clark after Helena
men had refused to make payment, is
turning out bonanza. The Old COM
pany drifted east from the shaft on the
eighty foot level to find the ore shoot
Though they struck some ore, it was
badly mixed. Supt. Martin Buckley
drifter forty feet west on the same level
and has struck large body Of high
grade copper ore. Work is now stopped
In the drift, and the shaft is being
pushed by three shifts.
, William Sears, charged with con-
tempt of court in trying to influence
Henry Schotte, one of the Jurors in the
Kellogg murder case, was discharged
with a severe reprimand by Judge
Smith this morning. being given the
benefit of the doubt as to whether he
knew Schotte was juror or not. The
Judge closed his lecture by saying:
You or any other man who has the
tmpertinence to assume. form or ex-
press an opinion as to the merits of
pending cause without being fully ad-
vised as to all the facts obtainable
writes himself down as an egregious
ass"
Thomas w. Poindexter, jr.. former
state auditor, who has been acting as
deputy to his successor. ]. H. Calder
head. resigned today, being succeeded
by Oliver NJ Holmes, who was Calder
heads chief clerk in the bureau of ag-
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