The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-23


\ UTE. Mont. Oct 22.-Judge VIII
II liam Clancy of the district court
today granted injunctious against
the Boston & Montana and Parrot
Mining companies to prevent the pay
ment Of any dividends to the Amalga-
mated Copper company and ia effect
declared the Amalgamated Copper
company an outlaw without rights as a
FtockhOldcr iu the sub-cOmpanies He
held the matter OF appointing a re-
ceiver for the Boston & Montana and
Parrot companies i'm allegiance, but in
timated that he might appoint one
later if the necessity for it appeared.
The injunction prevents the Amalga-
mated company from collecting divi-
bends. Of which more than S3.OO0.OOO
IS already tied up by the injunction.
Order to Close Down.
The action is the result of the bitter
warfare between the Amalgamated
company and Heinze. the district
judges being uniformly i'm favor or
Ieinze iu all litigation. The result or
the injunction has been an order from
Awalgamated officials to close down all
the Amalgamated properties i'm Mon
tana. including the mines In Butte. the
big smelters i'm Anaconda and Great
Falls. the coal and coke mines an0
plants at Diamondville. Wyo., and
\ Belt. Mont. and the lumber mills at
Bonner. Hamilton and other places.
The order went into effect tonight and
the shutdown viii be indefinite and
about 1900 men viii be thrown out
Of employment $500 IN Butte alone.
1000 Ia Anaconda and 1000 at Great
Fails.
Indignation in Butte.
The shutdown win continue till the
mining companies can get a final de
CisiOu from the supreme court as to
their rights Public excitement I'm
Butte tonight is high and the action
OF the court and the piratical and
WreCkinE litigation carried on against
the Amalgamated company is de-
nounced.
Tn his decision Judge Clancy holds
that notwithstanding the state law that
one corporation can hold and contro!
stock I'm another the common law pre-
walls against the Amalgamated and
that the latter is nothing more than
stranger without any right as
. stakeholder in the Parrot or Boston
Montana.
Minnie Healy Also.
AT the same time CLANCY also de
cided the famous Minnie deaIy mine
case I'm favor of Heiuze and against
the Boston q Montana. turning that
property. walked al s. 900 600 over TO
Heinze on an alleged oral contract en-
tered into with Miles FinIen, a former
owner OF leases and options on the
property. who subsequently sold them
Go the Boston g. Montana and who re-
pudiated any agreement with Heinze.
The Minnie Healy is the mine out Of
which grew the dreadful judicial scan
dial a year ago involving Judge Har-
Eey who tried the case first and was
accused of vicious corruption.
The following properties are affected
by the shutdown.
I'm Buttc-Boston q Montana mines
Anaconda mines, Syndicate group. Butte
n Boston mines, PARROT group. Colorado
company mines. WsshOe group Colorado
Smclter. Butte d Boston smelter. hin
men ON Butte. Anaconda d Pacific rail-
IA Auaconda-W ashoe smeItcr. lime
kilns. Anaconda foundry. brick yards.
At Great Falls-Boston * Montana
shelter.
At Bclt-Bclt Coal d Coke company.
AZ -Blackfoot Lumber company.
AT HOrr-HOrr Coal a. Coke 60 nDauN.
At Diamondville-Diamoud Coal
Valley company.
AT Jefferson county-Lime and silica
Cuarrics.
ln Butte the company employs $500
men. I'm the smCltcrs at Anaconda Butte
and Great Fails 5000 men.
A payroll of over $4,000 "a day is cut off
in Butte.
Wiped Out of Existence.
Representatives of the AmalEam ed
company claim that by the decision rem
Cered by Judge William Clancy today i'm
the Boston q Montana company iniuuC-
ton case tho Amalgamated company is
practically wiped out OF existence and
cannot do business I'm Montana. The de-
Cision. they say. I'm effect brands the
-AIu3lgamatcd as AN outlaw. Its stock
holders are prevented from receiving div
ltends. although S,0lUC00 is tied up apd
huWaitug distribution to the stOckh0fJ-
aCIs. The AmaiEI mated people. finding
II that they are barred from conducting
pension of ail mining operations i'm Mon
TARA
Am the mines and smeIters Of the COM
pauy have been ordered closed and 1850
1.oI Ameu are thrown out OF employment
How long the shutdown viii continue is
1cu months before they can get hearing
before the supreme court
Statement of Heinze.
Mr. Hcirzc issued tho following state
mont tonight; "'lhe action of the Anal
Eamated Copper company iu ordering "a
general shutdown OF an mines of Butte
controlled by their subsidiary companies
has no actual connection with the deCi-
sions rendered by Judge Clancy today.
-His order does not necessitate close
down. AS far as the receivership suit
against the Butte company is concerned
there has been no change I'm conditions
for over two years past An application
FOR the appointment OF a receiver for
their property has been pending that
long and was TO-DAY refused by Judge
Clancy The Injunction against the
PAYMENT OF dividends has also been I'm
force for the same length of time. and
APF PROCFFDINC /