The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15
TABLES TURNED
ON T. AUG. HEINzE
HE, TOO, is DIRECTED TO "sHOW
CAUSE"
Order OF Survey and Inspection of
Certain Mine Workings, Issued from
Judge knowles Court, Said to Have
Been Ignored and Defeated by the
Lieutenants of Heinze.
Special to The Journal.

special to The journal.
Helena, Mont, Dec 15.-In the United
States court Judge Hiram Knowles has
issued an order directing F. Augustus
Heinze, Alfred Frank and j. H. Trerise,
together With the Montana Ore PurchaS-
ing company and the Johnston Minina
company, to show cause on Dec, 16 why
they should not be punished for contempt
Of court.
The proceedings are the outcome OF the
efforts of the plaintiff in the case Of the
Butte & Boston Consolidated Mining COM
pany against the Montana Ore Purchasing
company to secure a survey Of the under
ground workings of the mines adjoi aing
the Rarus, including the Michael Dewitt.
Clerk Sproul last night received a tele-
gram from United States Circuit Judge
James H. Beattie to the effect that he
would arrive in Helena to-day and would
near the contempt proceedings tomorrow.
In the affidavits fled In support Of the
motion some sensational alleg atoms are
made. 1t is allowed that Heinza and his
agents have done everything ia ): their
power to prevent the carrying out of the
order Of survey and inspection heretofore
made In the case by Judge Knowles, even
going so far as to blow up the 700-foot
level, thru which it was necessary to 20
in order to make the survey
Testimony Was PerIured
Like chapter out of one Of the holder
latter-day novels Is a. contribution made
to the records in the office Of the clerk
OF the state board of examiners, it being
letter filed with the clerk as part of
the record in the case of Camille Peres.
now In the penitentiary under a f1ve-year
sentence and to whom Governor Toole
granted an unconditional pardon.
The writer of the letter Is Adrienne
Baque. French girl who was the COM
planning witness against Peres, and on
whose testimony he was convicted Of
criminal assault after a trial In the dis
trict court at Great Falls about two wears
ago.
Some time after the trial the girl re-
turned to her old home in France. and
she writes the letters in question from
Saechan to her father. The girl now
declares Peres innocent. and saws she
repents her perjured testimony Upon
this and other evidence, Governor Toole
mas granted pardon. Peres was a. prom
inent rancher.
Proposed New Waterworks.
At meeting Of the city council last
evening the city clerk read a. form of
contract between the city of Helena and
the Congress Construction company of
chicago, under the terms Of which the lat
ter is to bring in water and install a. dis
lrloutlng system. The contract was, by
a vote of 10 to 1, ratified, and the mavor
and city clerk instructed to execute #
The contract Is conditional upon the
sale OF $614,375 water bonds issued bv
the city, prior to June 7, 1904 The con-
tract price for the plant is s57e, 900, and
the plant Is to be completed not later
than Nov. /, 1905. =
GravelIe's Trial Begun. .
The trial Of Isaac Grayelle. who ia
charged with sending threatening letters
TO officials Of the Northern Pacific com
pany, has begun, and when the court adj
Journed yesterday q jury had been Sc
cured. The crime charged is a felony
Ihere are two informations against Ora
Velle, the basis Of each being a letter he
IS alleged to have written and sent to the
Northern Pacific officials demanding $780,
600 under pain Of having the raiIroa ia
trains dynamited - -
Gravelle has been in the county iail
since oct. IL, when he was arrested in
the vicinity Of Priests Pass by CAPTAIN
heoWn, Frank Latta and Bert REYNOLDS
Inc night preceding q Waterman on the
Northern Pacific near Blossburg discoy-
cred a man digging under rail. The
Waterman fired at him, but it was dark
and the man escaped.
detective McFetridge, who was making
MS headquarters in Helena, was notified
and the next morning directed Keown
Latta and Reynolds to take thu trai, =,
possible. This they did early Sunday
morning, and late that afternoon thev
arrested Gravelle at his cabin and brought
him to Helena
Ihere nave been no explosions since his
arrest, which served as an excuse to sew
eral Venlremen to avoid serving on tho
jury. In all there were a dozen more
or less successful attempts at DYNAMITE
ing.