The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-11-04
HElNZE'S MEN BLOW DOWN ALL
THE WORKINGS LEADING INTO
MICHAEL DEWITT CLAIM.
REFUSE TO ALLOW THE
INSPECTORS TO GO IN
In Flaerant Violation Of Orders Of Judge
Knowles, Heinze Men Refuse to Al
low the inspectors to Go Down
the Rarus Shaft.

In order TO defeat Judge Knowles order
OF inspection in the Michael Dewitt case,
issued yesterday, Heinze and his employees
last night blew up all the workings lead
ing into the Michael Dewitt mine from
the Mountain View mine and also de-
stroyed the workings leading to the secret
drift hitherto made by them and through
which the Michael Dewitt claim is said
to have been robbed by the removal of
ore, against the injunction in the case.
i. a. Heinze and his employees are
openly defying the orders OF Judge
Knowles of the United States district
court in their secret and violent mining
operations in the Michael Dewitt claim.
Judge Knowles gave the Butte & Boston
Mining company the order of inspection
in its suit with the Montana Ore purchas-,
ing company involving the ledges in the
Michael Dewitt The object OF the order
was to enable the Butte & Boston company
TO get into the Michael Dewitt. Pcnnsyl-
vania Rarus and Johnstown claims and
discover the details of the Heinze viola
tions of the injunction OF Judge Knowles,
forbidding the working of the ore bodies
there.
Heretofore secret crosscut was dis
employees of the Butte & Boston company
This crosscut was made by people who
entered the ground from the Rarus claim,
and the M. q. F. and Hcinze and his en-
ployes are responsible for this violation
Of the injunction. The inspection is for
the purpose Of securing evidence Of the
violation that will satisfy the court.
The inspection order, the issuance Of
which was fought by Hcinze for the past
two weeks, was granted last evening by
Judge Knowles, and il went into operation
this morning. The inspection order
brought Heinze and his people face to
face with crisis with all exposure which
was certain to be followed by contempt
proceedings and possibly Imprisonment il,
Jail for the head of the United Copper
company and the managers of his Sub COM
panies.
Therefore, Heinze and his managers
were in desperate straits. In order to
meet the situation confronting them two
methods were adopted by them, the blow
ing up of the workings, which would con-
ceal the evidences Of their illicit opera
tions, and still another subtcrfuge.
The second dodge was revealed when
the inspectors of the Bntte & Boston
company, George 7. McGcc who is as
sstant superintendent of the Butte &
Boston properties; Edward Finnigan, who
Is shift boss OF the Silver Row shaft
No. 2, and two miners went to the Rarus
mine this morning to inspect the work
ings under their order.
The inspection order empowered the in-
spcctors to use the Rarus and Johnstown
shafts to enter the mine, and ordered
the Heinze people TO lower and hoist them
through the shafts. Nevertheless, when
they reached the Rarus shaft Supcrin-
tcndent Trerise of that property for
Heinze, refused to let them go down the
shaft, in violation Of the order of the
court.
Trerise told the inspectors that the shaft
was in possession of the Johnstown MIN
ing company, and that they could not
enter for that reason. He referred them
to A. ]. Frank as the person who con-
trolled the Rarus shaft. in disregard OF
the command OF the United States dis
triet court.
The order provides that the Butte Il
Boston shall have the privilege of re-
moving the earth with which a part OF
the secret crosscut was filled in the past
few days by the Heinze people for the
purpose of concealing it from the in
spectors and preventing them from seciir-
ing evidence for the court upon the
matter.
1t further provides that the earth shall
be taken out OF the 700 level of the
Rarus to the 500 level OF the Mountain
View mine For this reason the dyna-
miting of all the workings leading to the
Mountain View practically sets Judge
Knowles order at nattght
Sixty shot were fired by the Heinze
people last night. The noise Of the inces-
SAINT explosions was heard in the Noun
tain View workings and the superintend-
ent from that mine went TO the point from
where the noise came and saw the lights
OF the Heinze miners, toiling in the wee
hours to hide the proofs Of the violation
of the injunction of the federal court by
Heinze and the Montana Ore Purchasing
company and the Johnstown company, all
of which are included in the inspection
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