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hoping to be ii, early with the wise ones. /,
...1. Stockholders Pinched.
Rogers and Rockefeller were gradually
unloading on the public. They forced the |
price of Amalgamated beyond 100 and
kept it soaring until in 1901. it touched
1870. Then 1t was that the Wall street men
went to work. Thru every agency known
to the schemers the tip was sent forth toll
buy Amalgamated and while the suck
'ers'' bought Rogers and Rockefeller sold /
Every employee of the copper trust in
Montana was given inside information,
as they thought They were told Amalga
ma ted, was going to 200 and so well was
the tip circulated that more than 900
invested their savings in Amalgamated
copper.
Then came the drop. Amalgamated be-
gan to slide down hill. Even the wise ones
learned that Rogers and Rockefeller were
in the business not to produce copper, but
to give the investing public a trimming.
And they did it. Amalsamated Kept
going down until the banks refused it
as security at any. price. The water be-
gan to drip out of it and the quotations
went lower ard lower until it reached
"a a share. a loss of nearly 800 on every
share of stock unloaded by Rogers and
Rockefeller on gullible public. Those
who had bought on margins kept put
ting up money to protect their holdings
until all their savings were swept away.
A few-and a very few-were able to
hold their stock, always hoping for a
rally.
En- Montana Rogers and Rockefeller
spared one. The employees of their
smelter had been coaxed into buying
Anna! gamated; the miners, shift bosses.
superintendent and even the general
manager and chief attorneys of the great
trust were taken in. Rogers and t2ockefel-
Ter had planned a deal in which even
the principal employees of this great con-
Germ were not to be allowed a share in
the spoils. When Amalgamated reached
$35 a share the insiders began buying back
and are to-day acquiring control at that
| figure of shares they sold the investment
mad public at $3.50.
| Heinze Given Notice.
One of the great schemes of the Anal
gamated crowd was to crush Heinze.
First they tried to buy him out, but he
would not sell at their figure. Then they
gave him notice that they would force
him to walk out of Butte penniless, and
! that within six months, But Heinze did
! not take the threat. He fought back. He
| met them in the courts and answered
their suits with others brought by him
| self He went before the voters and told
what the Standard Oil gang was trying
| to do with him, and the people took up
his cause. At every election they have
| downed the trust candidates for office.
/ The latter have lost every battle. The
/ people would not believe them.
! Heinze told the miners that when the
Standard Oil millionaires controlled Mon
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before we set thru with each other our
fight will be a household word from one
side of the continent to the other, and to
your dying day you will never forget
Heinze."
The AnraIeamated Formed.
From that time on both sides have
battled in the courts and at the polls for
supremacy in Montana. 1t has, been
Heinze against the Amalgamated Copper
company. aud the fight has extended to
every corner of the state and to the money
centers of New York and Boston. The
Amalganated was formed with H. Fl.
Rogers at the head and the Rockefellers
and other Standard Oil millionaires to
push the scheme along In Wall street.
The Amalgamated was capitalized for
Sis. 900 and all of the Butte mines ex-
cept those of Heinze and w. A Clark were
taken over at fabulous prices. The alarm
of gigantic stock iobbing swinde was
sounded by Heinze at that time and he
declared that The Amalgamated was more
than half water. But it was in the days
of this country's greatest prosperity and
the public was investment crazy. Know
ing that the Standard Oil was behind this
great scheme for controlling the copper
product of the world the public eagerly
sought Analgamated shares realizing
what vast millions the Rockfellers had
squeezed out of the Standard Oil and
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BY LAPLAND EXPRESS
TO ARCTIC CIRCLE
A Journey On the New Swedish Norwegian Rail
way to North Cape-The Greatest Iron
Mine in the World.
BY JOSIAH S. MOYER.

hundred miles a fine farming country
greets the view. Onward for 800 miles it
is weary monotony of rocky land de-
pleted woods, poor farm lands and marshy
woods, with. however, a nice growth of fir
and birch. AS We go north one by one the
farm products disappear in the chilly arc
tic breezes. The last to hold ou- are GA is
and potatoes and they looked as if they
might ripen by Christmas The beautiful
fir all at once drops from view and the
white birch alone TANKS our side altho
it is no more the graceful tree we saw
twenty four hours ago. After we have
crossed the arctic circle for some distance
there is little animated life left. Bare
hills and snowy mountains are now our
companions.
Greatest Iron Mine on Earth
At Kurina is located the greatest iron
mine on earth. The ore Yields 70 per
cent pure iron and there is a whole noun
tain of it. 1t measures nearly 1000 feet
in height. miles in length and its depth
has not yet been ascertained For the
most part it's surface is bare and there
are no mining obstacles of any sort 1t is
computed to contain over 600 900. 900 tons
of ore. At the present rate of mining
5000 tons per day it will last some 800
years with a yield of nearly 1000. 900 tons
per year. The train halts here for three
hours and the passengers are taken to
the mines only a mile away in a special
car of the mining company. One of the
directors acted as guide and showed us
all over the mines. While they have only
been operated some five months. great
dents are already seen on theh side of the
mountain in many places. Operations are
carried out on a gigantic scale The drills
are operated by compressed air from a
central poWer-h house of 5000 horse mower
Along the side of the mountain, are seer
miles of solid steel cars each having a, ca
pacity Of thirty-four English tons The
loading is all done by automatic machin-
cry. an entire train being loaded in TWEEN
| ty minutes, The ore is of dark steel.
grey color and as hard as rock quite
unlike the Pennsylvania or Minnesota ore
Kurirla resembles somewhat q western
American town of 5000 such as grows vi
over night, The city is sure of its breal
and butter for at least 300 years.
From Kurina to the Norwegian frontiel
lis seen a strange magniicence of gra,
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gamated was in the wrong and had no
right to control the various Montana
companies, the stock of which had been
acquired. The effect of the decision is
that the copper trust will have to re-
organize in order to do business in Mon
tana.
Order to Close Down Issued.
SO incensed at this fatal blow which
had been struck the Amalgamated tina
upon the same day the decision was
made H. Fl. Rogers wired his general
manager. William Scallon, to close down
every property owned by the company
in Montana. The order was received in
Butte att o'clock in the evening. and
by Z O'clock 5000 idle miners walked
the streets.
Not alone were the mines affected. but
the great smelling plants at Anaconda
and Great Falls, the lumber mills and
coal mines and hundred other enter
prises closely related to and controlled
by the trust.
Minnie HeaIy Litigation.
The same day the decision affecting. the
rights of the Amalgamated was made
Heinze won another great victory over his
enemies in being awarded ownership o1
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opportunity and he straishtway started TO
uncover it.
His First Investment.
He went to his home in New York and
pursuaded his two brothers, Otto, an i'm
porter, who has succeeded his father in
business. and Arthur, a lawyer, to en-
trust him with the little fortune that had
come to the three boys from their grand
mothers estate. Returning to Butte he
built a smelter operating under the name
Of the Montana Ore Purchasing company,
and leased the Estella mine from which
he expected to obtain his ores. This was
the beginning of his litigation. for the
owner of the mine. James A. Murray. at
tempted to repudiate the deal and for a
time Heinze was without ore for his
srnelter. Next he took hold Of the Glen
gary. which had been abandoned by other
opera tors, and soon this mine Melted hire
a profit of 100000. Luck seemed to be
with this daring young New Yorker, who
was barely 90 years old when he began OPP
crations here. Every mine he opened
seemed to have concealed wealth for him
and within four years he became a factor
among the copper producers of the world.
His geological and scientific knowledge of
mining and the daring of his opera
lions soon showed him to be a coming man
in the copper industry.
He next took hold Of the Rarus mine
which had been abandoned by both the
Boston & Montana and Butte &c Boston
companies. then among the largest opera
tors in the Butte district. This mine has
proved one succession of surprises. Time
and again new ore deposits have been
opened which have made it one of the
most valuable copper mines Of the world.
The Fight Begun.
In 1895 HenZc extended his operations
to British Columbia. building a smelter
and railroad from the mines to the plant
at Rossland Here he likewise met with
remarkable success. but in 1897 when
the combined copper interests Of Mon
tana. known as the trust, opened warfare
upon the young operator he found 1t nee
essary to dispose Of his British Columbia
holdings and return to Butte to make the
battle of his life against the millionaires
Of Wall street who had concluded they
would do with the copper market what
they had done with the worlds supply OF
kerosene oil.
The fight opened with a suit against
Heinze over one Of his properties and not
understanding exactly why, he was being
attacked, he fastened to Boston anc
sought interview with Albert Bigelow
at the head of the Boston & Montana
company.
Upon this occasion Heinze discovered
that the big mining companies were
smarting from the stings Of the young
mans success in the Butte fields and h,
was told by Mr.. Bigelow that he had beef
selected as the one of whom example
must be made. To this Heinze replied;
If you try to make an example of me
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beauty tho hardly in accepted forms
There are many things to remind you that
you are in the most northery town in
the world. The electric light plant is idle
for three summer, months, but this is no
saving for the townspeople nor loss to the
company. since during the three winter
months the plantsis in, full operation TWEEN
ty-four hours a, day. Vegetables are sold
at drug store prices and apothecary guam
titles. Nothing of this sort can be grown,
even grasses only grow in favored spots.
In the long winter months and long win
ter nights people ply their work with the
same zeal and keep about the same hours
as they do in other chimes. The same
applies to the summer days.
Even this faraway town is not forgotten
in the pursuit of trade by American firms.
Many articles, such typewriters, cash
registers and hand tools can be found
here. <
Neither is commerce alone on the look.
out for extension. At the Jensen Hotel I
asked for an English paper of some kind.
In a moment was handed late copy
Of Leaves of Healing the official organ
of Elijah, the Restorer."
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tana they could expect the same that the
coal miners of Pennsylvania got, and the
possibility was so dreaded that even the
men employed by the Amalgamated Cop
per- company have refused to vote with
their employers.
Beginning of Present Trouble.
Two wears ago John MacGinniss, the
rght-hand man and business associate
of Heinze. brought suit against the Bos-
ton and Montana company. as q stock
holder. to. enjoin the Amalga mated from
controlling the affairs of the former com
pany. The issues were practically the
same as those raised by the attorney gen
eral lin the famous merger or Northern
Securities case. 1t was against the laws
of Montana for one corporation to con-
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The Man, +. Augustus Heinze, and the Battles for;
Millions He Has Fought With the
Amalganated Company.

the famous Minnie Healy mine, valued at
Sl0,000,0O0 This property was sold to
Heinze by Miles Finlen for $4,000 after
the latter had expended that much in it's
development without success. He agreed.
it is asserted. to turn the mine over to
Heinze If he could receive back what he
had expended and Feinze took possession
and within. three weeks had struck ore
and made 1t paying property.
His success piqued the Annalgamated
people to such an extent that they paid
Finlen $4,000, it is alleged by Heinze.
solely for his right of action to dispute
Heinze's title and cause him more trouble.
For one year they had this valuable prop
erty shut down by injunction and when
Judge Harvey gave decision in favor of
Heinze they filed affidavits accusing the
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Jointly the Swedish and Nor
wegian governments have
constructed an Arctic rail
road This road is a continuation of the
Swedish Northern railway, which was
built some years ago as far as Gellivare.
a point just within the Arctic circle. But
since the discovery of the famous iron
mine at Kiruna two years ago, a road to
the Norwegian Arctic coast was of the
first Importance. Lulea, a port on the
Gulf of Bothnia, from which the Gelli-
ware ore is shipped, is frozen up for six
months of the year Consequently an all
year open port was of the greatest mo-
ment.
Nawik, small town in latitude IS,
was selected as the western terminus
The two governments set to work two
years ago, and this spring the road was
completed. In many respects it was a
remarkable undertaking 1 know of no
road that is SO finely built as an initial
undertaking, and none that affords such
splendid service to the commercial world
The road was officially opened by King
Oscar on July is.
The Lapland Express.
Weekly the Lapland express runs be-
tween Stockholm and Narvik, a distance
of LOO miles. This train is made up of
three sleeping cars one combination car
and a dining car. The cars are of solid
t9SSSi5 aSotiStA oStioL, fWoOu ioSi16 suSCu oillJ
asfan inside trimming. They are painted
a deep blue, with gilt trimmings, and it
is altogether a very smart looking train.
The internal arrangement is after the
order of an English corridor car, but
they have in addition a saloon at either
end, which serves as observation quarters.
Our party of thirty was composed of
twenty nine Germans and Swedes and
one-an American-w anderer. The rum
ming time is forty-nire hours. and the
journey is in no way fatiguing. The
dining car service is excellent-in fact.
you are quite ais well taken care of as
in any ordinarily good hotel The govern
n1ent has made an effort to make this
sort of Siberian express tho 1t Is not
SO luxurious as that famous train.
From Stockholm northward several
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came disbarment proceedings against
Shores and other Amalganated attorneys,
and these cases are now pending. having
been postponed from time to time for al
most one year at the instance of the de-
fendant One of the witnesses against
shores 1t is asserted by Heinze, was Of
fered 100000 to refuse to testify.
Why Remanded.
In reviewing the decision of Judge Har-
ney awarding the mine to Heinze, the SUI
preme court found the questions of law
and fact in accordance with the views of
the trial judge, but because Harvey had
failed to file denials of the allegations of
misconduct made by the Amalgamated at
torreys the case was remanded for a, new
trial. This time it was heard by judge
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The central, picture is that of VIM. scallons
president of the Anaconda Mining company, and
the repIesentstiye Of the AmalEsmated company
common miners rig about to descend into the
depths of the Anaconda mine
bachelor apartments where he meets bust
ness and political advisers and discusses
the questions of the hour.
Upon the approach Of a campaign he
gathers from every county of the state his
allies and a plan Of battle is agreed upon.
He listens to the suggestions of all his
friends and is always willing to accept
advice.
In, the last campaign the Amalgamated
paid out, 1t is alleged, over: 100000 to mem
bers, of "a state convention for their votes,
and still they could not defeat this youth
full politician. Heinze makes his tour of
the state in a special train just few
weeks before each election, appealing per
sonally to the voters for their support. For
the past three elections the slogan has
been "antikerosene,"s which the Heinze
crowd has. told every voter of Montana
means that the Standard Oil crowd shall
not gain control of the state.
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UTTF,, Mont, Nov THE great
"A Standard Oil millionaires have
* been practically forced to the
wall by that daring young OPP.
iii orator in Montana copper mines,
T.. Augustus Heinze. 1t was
only thirteen years ago that this
nervy, young man came to the Butte cop
per mines fresh from Columbia college bent
upon finding his opportunity in life Ho
found it and to-day one OF the great
est industrial bubbles ever conceived by
Wall street is trembling upon tho brink of
collapse because this young man preferred
to fight rather than lay down when com
mande6 by the Rockefelers.
When F. A, Heinze first came to Butte
he sought employment as a mining en-
gineer with the Boston & Montana com
pany, working in the depths of the earth
fcu' So a day and to round out In prac-
tical way the education ne had laid a
foundation for while at college. For near
~ twenty years Butte had been wonder
full producer of wealth. Marcus
DAILY and associates had opened the
Anaconda mine which had proved
bonanza Other Independent COM
panies several of which were formed
in Boston developed valuable properties.
but little attention was being given to
new discoveries. Heiuze studied the sit
uation from a practical point of view and
decided that the Butte fill concealed his
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glass in the house to be filed, and he is
cheered wherever he goes. The Silver
Bow club, the swell resort of Butte, sees
less of him than does the California
brewery, the poor mans club.
His business life is not surrounded with
the evidences of exclusiyeness that dsu-
ally mark the successful man. He is ac-
cessible3 to everyone. A miner looking for
a job may stop him on the street and talk
for half an hour, or he will be welcomed
at the office and granted an interview no
matter how pressing other business may
be.
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troll the affairs of another virtually an
antitrust provision Of the statutes.
District Judge Clancy enjoined the Bos-
ton and Montana from paying the Anal
gamated dividends earned by Boston and
Montana shares. Over $4,000, 900 are tied
up by this injunction, and on final hear
ing the the court held that the Anal
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court of corruption and later, it is charged
offered him quarter of million dollars to
reverse hts decision and resign from the
bench. --=r.*s..s5s -
+ This alleged attempted bribery took
place in the apartments of Arthur ].
Shores, chief counsel for the Analgamated
company. Out Of this attempted bribery
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Clancy and the decision was again in fa-
vor of HeinZe.
This defeat and the decision affecting
the right of the Analgamated to- control
the affairs of other mining companies were
such a blow to the Standard Oil people
that they decided to abandon all mining
work with the hope, it is asserted, that
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Generally he spends the greater part Of
his evenings in his comfortably furnished
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Correspondence of The journal.

Of The Journal.
- AMMERFEST. NORWAY Oct
10.-The tourist can now
r. - travel far into the frigid zone
by luxurious express train.
HI Jointly the Swedish and Nor
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-19
'KALIhI CAR POKED
NOSE INTO RICE BED
Eight Persons on Car But None
Of Them We're Injured and
Service Not Delayed.

At 9:45 o'clock last night as car No.
Is of the Rapid Transit line was coming
in from Kaliht 1t went off the track just
after rounding the curve this side of
pumping plant, and after crossing the
road a portion of the car plunged over
the side of the bank in such manner
that the fore portion of the car remain
ed stuck in the mud of the rice field.
There were eight persons on the car
at the time Of the accident, but it was
stated at the scene of the difficulty last
night that no one was injured.
The car was in charge of Motorman
a. Copeland and Conductor A. Jacobs.
An examination afterwards showed
that the front axle of the car was bro
ken. The Kalihi car service was not
delayed by the affair. and workmen
were sent out at once to make arrange
ments providing for again placing the
car on the track
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PASSENGERS.

/ The Claudine sailed yesterday with
the following passengers: D. H. Davis
w. H. Cornwell. Jr., G. Schuman, David
Macrae, j. NJ. Conlon, G. S. Crawley
Mrs. r. H. Daniels, H. L. Hudson, B.
Williams. w. Williams, Miss Williams
Tang Yong, D. Yonckura, Y. Takahu-
wa.
The following sailed on the Alameda
for San francisco: r. G. Henderson, D.
H. Davis, a. Hanback, and wife, F. F.
Cosgrove, a. u. Sherwood, W. T. Sum-
mers, wife, child and governess, Mrs.
Howard, w. L. Gruve, G. c. Hall, c. H
Hall, Hugh Hogan and wife, T. w. Dib-
BILE, P. Matsuda, ]. Tonada, S. Miyamo-
to, E. Nil, K. T. Shushima and wife, E.
B. McClanahan, Mrs. c. c. Rosenwas-
ser, E. POLITE, DR.. Vile and wife, Miss
Vile, Miss Howard.
The Mikaha1a brought the following
passengers from Kauai ports: S. w
Wilcox and wife, K. Shiraishi, Miss S.
Aea, Philip Rice, H Rohrig, Mrs. V
Leong YIN, L. Nakapaahu. A.
Mr.. Fisher. Miss E. Wilcox.
The Lehua brought from Molokai
ports: c. B. Wilson. J. H. Wilson and
J. D. Mcveigh.
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SPANISH WAR VETERANS
TRANSFER AND INSTALLATION
OF OFFICERS.
TONIGHT
AT s O'CLOCK AT ARION BLOCK
E. TAPPAN TANNATT.
64o1 mastering officer.
DAUGHTERS OF THE RE
VOLUTION.

The annual meeting of the Aloha
Chapter of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution will be held at the home
of the Regent. 17O8 Nuuanu Avenue. on
Tuesday afternoon, Feb. Gath, at three
o'clock.
AS the present list of members is
quite incomplete, ladies are requested
to consider this invitation as if per
sonally addressed. 1t will also be a
help if they will kindly send a response
to this invitation before Tuesday. A
cordial invitation is extended to all
ladies eligible to membership and to
members of other Chapters. Business
begins promptly at three O'Clock to be
followed by a social hour A full at
tendance is requested
ELIZABETH VAN CLEVE HALL,
64Of Regent Aloha Chapter. D. A p