Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
UNLESS THE NEW TAX LAW IS
PASSED.
NOT ENOUGH FOR THE YEAR
ANACONDA LIME QUARRY WINS
AGAINST NORTHERN PA
CIFIC-oRE THIEVES.
Special to Inter Mountain.


Helena Feb. 19.-The Helena school
board received the report Of the hnance
committee last night. that it will be
necessary TO close the schools before
June l, unless the legislature passes a
law allowing a special tax levy, as the
school funds will otherwise be exhaust
ed and nothing left to make repairs in
summer for next years work. Several
other cities of the state will be affected
the same way, it is said.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
has affirmed the decision of the Helena
land office that section Z, township 4
north of range west lis in mineral land,
thus settling against the Northern Pa
cific it's contest of Robert Merrll's min
eral entry on his limestone quarry near
Anaconda, which has supplied much
lime to the Anaconda smetecS. The
Northern Pacific claimed the land was
good only for agricultural and building.
Secretary Hitchcock holds limestone to
be mineral, and the land therefore is
mineral land.
The trial of Henry CurnOW for re-
ceiving the ore stolen from the Bald
Butte mine was continued today. Aug
ust Johnson. who furnished the team to
haul the ore away from the hiding
places where it was loaded by George
Trembath and Joseph X. Richards. and
who hauled it to East Helena, complet-
ed the testimony. He told how Curnow
met him at East Helena, and after go
ing from the stable to the smelter to
reconnoiter, returned. saying he was
afraid to go over there because Harry
1.ongmaid, manager Of the Belmont
mine. adjoining the Bald Butte, was
there. Johnson then told him he had
better get somebody else to take it over.
and he arranged with S. p. Willis.
Willis testified that he did so. H. NJ.
Cole, chemist and assistant superin-
tendent of the smelter, testified that he
received the ore and weighd it. Cur
now said it was his ore. that he got
it from the Gold Dollar mine on Little
Prickly Pear creek. Curnow was very
restless and wanted quick returns. ask
ing how quickly he could get them.
There We're ten and One-half sacks
worth $1l62. the receipt for which was
put in evidence.
w. t. Shovel, superintendent of the
Bald Butte mine. testified that he had
been in the mining business all over
America for thirty-tive years. and den-
tilted the ore taken from the sacks. and
made it tally with other pieces as Bald
Butte ore. He said the ore had certain
peculiarities. and would know it any
where from the porphyry and clay tale
it contained. He said Wedlake and
Richards. two of the accused thieves,
worked together and Trembath. the
other accused right behind them.
Richards and Wedlake also roOmed to-
gether. He described the mine and told
of finding the ore sacks from a descrip-
tion given him of the place of hiding.
In the Oss-eXamination. G. B Nola IN
tried to show it to be d physical
impossibility for man to curry a sack
weighing one hundred pounds up lad
der for 800 feet from the level where
they worked; but Shovel said they
would have two resting places on the
way, or they could go down to the 600
level and get out through the tunnel
This tunnel was supposed to be closed,
but was not always so.
Kid Lee and Kid OGlesby last night
fought twenty rounds to draw The
first four rounds We're hard fought. but
then the fight became Il mere sparrjne
match, Oglesby having the best of it.
He would have been given the decision
but for a special condition in the ar
ticles.
The jury in the case of Frank Wilson,
accused as a pickpOcket. this morning
brought in a verdict of not guilty. and
Wilson was discharged. but Immediate
~ rearrested on charge of petty lar
ceny for stealing an overcoat from the
store of E. c. Rabcock. The railroat d
mileage books We're returned to him,
Hall and Meyers.
The bond of the Montana Ore Purch-
asins company in the Pennsylvania
mine case was approved by the supreme
court. Despite the failure of Noyes and
Fitschen TO qualify, other sureties put
up enough to cover the amount re-
quired.
Nellie F, Punches this morning with
drew the charge of cruelty against her
husband. SamEt Punches ana made
the complaint simple desertion. She
was granted a divorce by Judge Glenn
L.