Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-28
HE|NzE Makes STATEMENT

lIkIuLk mIIIlLU VIuILIuLUl
GIVES HIS VERSION OF THE cELE.
DRAFTED MONTANA CASE.
Declares That the Standard OIL Inter.
ests Are Not Law Respeetins-De-
fends observation-disclosures Offers to
Make Places for Married Men Who
Worked for Amaigamated Company.
Butte, Mont, Oct. 26.-F. Augustus
Heinze has made an interesting state
ment, giving his version Of the cele-
brated controversy with the Amalga-
mated Copper company, and the
schemes for settlement of the question
which has now brought Montana face
to face with an Industrial crisis. Mr..
Heinze's statement was made upon the
heels Of the disappearance Of John
MacGinniss, who, 1t is alleged, fed
from Butte to avoid meeting the COM
mittee of the miners union who sought
to buy his stock in the Boston & Mon
tana company, and thus end the liti.
cation with the Amalgamated Copper
company. A feature Of this statement
is Heinze's assertion that MacGinniss
about year ago was offered twice as
much for his one hundred shares in
the Boston & Montana as the sum
proffered by the miners union, though
the $500 share offered by the miners,
according to unquestionable authority;
is approximately five times the price
the stock can command at the present
time.
His Statement.
Mr.. Heinze said in part:
"The history Of the United States
has not furnished heretofore a parallel
Of the occurrences Of the past 48 hours
in Butte. H. H. Rogers OF the Stand
ard Oil Company is quoted in dis
patch as saying this will be a fight to
finish. and there will be no compro.
mise. Mr.. Rogers and myself have
been engaged In a bitter struggle for
years past. as every one knows. He
has had at various times interested
with him In tho controversy pretty
nearly every large interest in the
state, and he and his followers have
many times prophesied my immediate
impending bankruptcy. In the course
Of this struggle. however, the Snohom-
ish Tramway. the Nipper, the L. e..
r. and Parnell and many other claims
have been developed by me into mines
and they are now all closed by injunc-
tions, some Of which have been In
force for over six years, and In this
way have been prevented from giving
employment to over 20O0 men more
than am now employing.
"Mr. MacGinniss has recently OBJ
tanned an order in his suit as a stock
holder of the Boston & Montana COM
pany. This suit is based upon the al
legation that Mr.. Rogers did not give
due regard to the laws which were
passed by the early pioneers who
adopted our constitution and other
laws. Should the supreme court hold
with Judge Clancy in his recent de.
cision 1t Is possible that Mr.. McGin.
Miss interest in the Boston & Montana
company might eventually prove to
represent 10 per cent or even more Of
that property.
"The offer which the miners union
committee is empowered to make 10
Mr.. MacGinniss is less than so per
cent Of what he refused in 1889 and
many times since. Mr.. MacGinniss
left Butte because most Of the newspa-
pers and large interests In the town
are doing everything they can of q
most iniammatory nature to cause
trouble and to incite riot during a
heated period which in any event can
do nothing but reflect discredit upon
the citizens of Butte.
early next week I will open a
bureau in this city. where I will ask
all the married men who have been
thrown out Of employment recently to
place their applications for employ
ment. will ask the men now work.
ing for companies controlled by myself
to agree to work less than full time,
and in this way hope to be able to
make room for over 1900 men.
III this present trouble is to be used
as a reason for compromise, the eon-
troversy about the Nipper and many
other claims should be considered
simultaneously. A number Of times
during the past three or four years l
have offered Mr.. Rogers to submit the
entire controversy between US to .
board Of engineers, as disinterested
arbitrators, and In each instance
have been met by the condition that
must leave here defeated and cease
to operate in the Butte camp. It would
not have been possible for me In the
past to make the fight which have
made II the miners Of Butte had not
stood by me. believe I have stood
by them faithfully. and I propose to
continue to do So"
FATHER KILLS HIS SONS.