The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-10-28

BUTTE. Montana. oetpher 81
The hreaeut situation political nd
Industrial prevailing ia the eitY q
Halts Nuntana. IS aHe of tire most
unieae and iutsresttna ~ the modrra
worlds HISTORY fer MANY Years. eestn
Scr Montana. which bass ta share #
unluae histories The flvlnse Anal
Eamated controversy which htE
brought matters t. the present rs7is Is
nf SOME dura tiau. ard esuie giase uFHh
the heels of the famous Care usiY
feud Whieh. after ha0 a hfesfime e
bitterness. ended with the death IT
Ntareus Daily.
+. Augustus Heluxe survived Isssilatie
scene fourteen years aEa. ana began
work as a mining engineer uts career
since their has been meseaHte. Whom
he arrived Ia Butte D. is rrputrd 10
have had aut3 $50 ln has packet. Today
he has wealth 60 an uueeriata amount
reaching inta the millions ifis affairs.
how Scr. are 80 involved with those &c
eastern corporations and Hsuliteates
that many dispute that BE- q rally
wealthy
Therc H. a STORY q the effect that
Senator " A. Clark made hts hraA
stake o. Montana hF e1faeFims The
baking powder % thr mining camp AZ
Hutte and selling IL af bnawn price
1falnze sfuptaYed No such rlstnrntarf
uieths,iz tie heEau - ieth Esthfrtne
the foundations 81 hts fortune aud
presently hefure anyone reaiizsd Whot
he Uas doing he had become a factor
IN the sifuats1n. The sfogy hes it tHst
Itsiuze knew Errat DEAL about IN
tnrtlonu. aud stia guere ahaut anexrs
with theas two wHA 1na fha 0uF5 has
ct ateo. Heiurs tntFosiueea the iunova=
tInm OF doing his uining IN the
asarts" The apex law has probably
ian pat Is the trst more times h
Montana than anywhere else iu the
usafld THIS Las holda that ihe owner
% ru apex. or brauehlnE eeater - ore
lsstdH. ia entitled alsa % the ore %
thaae leads even though they should
run iuta the claim q either properties.
IE6rzr seemed 10 posHssa q rHntus at
IaeafluE these apexos ard made 4 hts
Business % - them into his own
hauds. Then be began an aggressive
sYafeun u claiming his own under the
abeN law
Riaht here vas where TIE trouble
BEGAN.
a great consolidation - miass ard
mining Companies known a. the Anal
eauss ted Copper company had been az
wtoFt for Years on the Butrs HIT pay
ink little heed to lieiuEr and his en-
chnents One DAY fts msna gers
nwoke 70 the fact that Heiune. auunre
- Haw and hacSd up hN the mining
laws. roufrontev them a. e serious dis
turfrr % she 9esn tenor % their way.
the gauntlet was thrown down aud q
LIS been var ever aince
Heiuzs Is man - spieeiid prea-
anra. aad fs1aaaHsan rsauueuf enfec
- A. -
convincing o. an audience Thruugh
this alone snd his magnetic peraarai-
ify Hsluze has many times been able
- sway unffirndiY crowds % rquEh
rrfimers. gather them under his harHer
and march away with theft votes. win
ming them e. sympathy nad ilsEiHuee
sometimes against their own viii and
Under the very batteries 81 an eurmp
helpless 20 prevent TIE wholesale De-
ernation u their ranks.
This virtue ~ pcraaUHi Influence.
coupled with q remarkable maua Eerl4l
ability 10 the eendnet ~ his busin ss.
carried Hefuxe 90 a considerable I'm
portamre In Montana anairs and
opened the way Tor bis active pnftial
petition IN Montana politics The nrs'
real Trouble ~ the Amatg amated com.
pauv begun when lfciaza allied himself
with Senator 81 a clark and thraugh
90 stem ~ autl-Amatzauafe forces
sent clark back 70 TIE United States
asuafe after b. had onee been urae.
ffraHY compelled to resign nn arr1aai
~ an official iuFesfigatigu n chars 2
~ bribery.
Tfe CltfksTFeiHze alliance one ~ uH-
united money and powerful pefsana'
lHnaauee. was not. haFeFer. 60 auduf.
f4r- toua A. soon aB Senator ciaeb
vent - washington There wua o. dis
rdpnon. Teinze aHd clark aef
charged the other with trra HerF
Ilaiuze claimed that Clark had sold 9al
- ths stand 70 oil (which company 9
De the back 1f the AmaIga and
betrayed him Ciark denied al ebiiEs.
t.an % Heinze and paBiisig denounced
liu q traitor.
Meantime. according TO thr pre-eiec'
fiau agreement. fw9 Judges. aftere ard
10 figure ufss @ouHdIuaIy in Montana
history. had 5eehsiected hH the Clark.
Tfeiaze fusion forces. They are rof m
sthe bench and n a tn rententipn -
fha hmmIRamated that theae Indaes
have been bought Tor fHe feat n
their natural lives o. ilsiHza none z.
THIS situation has prevailed fGr the