The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-23
A Big COPPER SHUT. DOWN.
12,OOO MEN OUT AFTER DECISION
IN FAVOR or HEINZE.
All Amalgamated Properties In Montana
Closed-Inj junction Prevents tho Conn
panies From Paying Dividends To the

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Amalgamated- Excitement in Butte.
BUTTE, Mon, Oct. 22.-Judge William
Clancy Of the District Court granted In
functions to-day against the Boston and
Montana and Parrot mining companies
to prevent the payment Of any dividends
to the Amalgamated Copper Company,
and in effect declared the Amalgamated
company an outlaw without rights as q
stockholder in the sub-companies
He held the matter of appointing q re-
ceiver for the Boston and Montana and
Parrot In allegiance. but intimated that he
might appoint one later il the necessity
for 1t appeared. The injunction prevents
the Amalgamated from collecting dividends,
Of which more than 100000 is already
tied up by injunction. The action is the
result Of the bitter warfare between the
Amalgamated company and F. A. Heinze
The result of the injunction has been an
order from Amalgamated officials to close
down all the Amalgamated properties in
Montana. including the mines in Butte
the big smelters IN Anaconda and in Great
Falls. the coal and coke mines and plants
at Diamondville, Wyo.; Horr and Belt,
Mon, and the lumber mills at Bonner,
Hamilton and other places.
The order went into effect tonight and
the shutdown will be indefinite. About
II, 200 mon are thrown out Of employment,
$500 In Butte alone. 1900 in Anaconda, and
1000 at Great Falls. The ehut-down will
continue till the mining companies can get
a final decision from the Supreme Court
as to their rights.
In his decision Judge Clancy holds that
| notwithstanding the State law that one
corporation can hold and control stock in
another, tho common law prevails against
the Amalgamated, and the latter is nothing
more than a stranger without any right as
a stockholder in the PARROT or Boston and
Montana.
Judge Clancy also decided the famous
Minnie Healey Mine case in favor Of Heinze
and against the Boston and Montana, hand
ing the property, valued at q, 900, 600. over
to Heinze on an alleged oral contract en-
tered into with Miles Finlan. a former owner
Of leases and options on the property.
who subsequently sold to tho Boston and
Montana. repudiating any agreement with
Heinze.
The Minnie Healey is the mine out Of
which grew tho judicial scandal a year ago
involving Judge Harvey, who tried the
case hrst and was accused Of corruption.
The Almagamated Copper Company will
appeal both cases to the Supreme Court.
There was great excitement In Butte
tonight when news Of the shutdown be-
came public.
Thousands Of miners are on the streets
tonight and several attempts were made
to hold meetings, but the crowds were dis
persed by the police. One meeting got SO
far that a speaker was engaged in denounc-
ing courts and there were cries Of Lynch
Clancy but the speaker was arrested,
and the meeting broken up.
Amalgamated Copper people here said
yesterday that it had been, Of course, a
foregone conclusion what the action Of
Judge Clancy would be. The matter, they
said, will be finally settled in the Montana
Supreme Court. and 1t will be taken to that
court just as soon az the records can be
prepared. On the New York Stock Ex-
change an attack was made upon the price
OF Amalgamated Copper stock and it was