The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-29
JUDGE CULLEN
FOR HEINzE
Tells of The Miles Fin.
len Case
HOW HEINZE GOT INTO THE Nine
gasGjnniss Stock In Boston G. Mon,
tana In Connection With the
Effort to Get Case In Court.
now HEINZE GOT INTO THE nine

Judge w. E. Cullen, a Montana pio-
.near. who went to the territory "a
-ye.ars ago, but is now a resident OF
Spokane, throws some Interesting
zldelights on the Butte situation, says
he Spokesman-Review. Mr.. Cullen
was formerly attorney for +. Angus
LIS HeinZe.
The Amalgamated interests said
Eze. largely control the press OF
Montana ana the news agents OF the
Associated Press. This control covers
ne newspapers owned by Senator W.
: Clark. Until a few years ago
lark fought the Amalgamated people
md co-operated with Heinze. When
tle Amalgamated was organized, they
.r1ed hard TO get Clark to put in his
u-ouerties. He refused, and for some
Luc marketed the product Of his own
-1lDes independently.
Later he made a deal with the
kmaI1amated interests whereby the
-.roduct of his Montana mines and the
Tinted Verde in Arizona was market
"a through the LeWisshOnS Of New
york. the selling agents of the Anal
9auated. This enabled them TO con
,rEa the copper market of the world.
Since he made this deal he has been
1anupg Heinze quite as vigorously as
Lhe Amalgamated itself.
AS matter of fact, the Amalga-
<,nutdown for selfish reasons are now
-rying to throw the blame for it upon
Hplnze The whole anlmus is clear
y revealed by the New York CORE
gyundent of The Spokesman-Re
n a special dispatch of Sunday morn
g1g According to this dispatch, the
Amalgamated people have 1S0,000,OOO
EGunds of copper in store, chiefly III
LnndOn. This is nearly equivalent tol
J. years production, and the New York
dispatch intimateS that the Amalga-
MATED has closed down to prevent
ESsrproduction and maintain the mar
act. This is probably the fact
Miles FinIen's Bond.
Now as to the Minnie Healy case.
y bout six years ago Miles Finlen of
Butte. a prominent mining man, took
= bond On three-f0urths Of the Min
Cse Healy claim. and undertook to de-
Ss.lop it. After he had spent $4,000
and had absolutely failed to disclose
anything OF commercial value, he
Egas about to throw up the bond and
abandon the enterprise. At this time
Wr. HeinZe, who had studied Butte
hill until he knew it almost as the
mariner knows the ocean, said that
Iase thought Finlen had not looked in
The right place, and that if he would
earn the bonds over to Helnze, he
ssruld so ahead and spend some
E3uney in development, and that if
Es- found anything that would justify
hlm in taking up the Finlen bonds
a-ad leases. he would repay to Flnlen
the $4,000 which had been spent in
"A friutless attempt to develop the
property.
"Finlen was more than glad to do
his, and at once placed Helnze in
possession OF the property. Helnze
spent over 100000 in developing the
Lain. and finally struck a body of
are which is roughly estimated to be
3rurth $10.000.000.
Finlen With AmaIgamated.
But when Mr.. Heinze went to Fin
-en to take up the leases and bonds,
Ar Finlen. who had already trans
ferred his interests to the Amalga
mated, refused to carry out his con-
1ract At the instance of the Amalga-
mated Finlen commenced a suit in
@jectment against Heinze, the Mon
lana Ore Purchasing company and
--Ihers, claiming that Heinze had for
ably entered upon the Minnie Healy
claim and ousted him from its posses
e sion. Mr. Heinze answered the COM
plant in this case and set up the
Eacts as above stated.
1.-THE case was tried before Judge
barney Of the district court Of Silver
Bow county. and resulted in a judg-
nent for Heinze. The Amalgamated
appealed TO the state supreme court
which found every issue in favor of
cause while Harvey had the case un
der Amusement some improper CORE
spondence passed between himself
and one Mrs. Bracket. The chief
justice concurred in a separate opin.
ION, in which he seems to be of the
opinion that the judgment should
nave been affirmed; but that granting
a ~ oJ
maintaining public confidence in the