The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
OIL STRUCK IN
TETON COUNTY
COMPANIES STOCK ADVANCED TO
PAR AT ONCE.
Oil Is Lubricant, and Its Quality Is
Vouched for by Inspector Ryan OF
the Great Northern - Estimated
Flow of Twenty Barrels a Day
Stock Held Chiefly in, Montana.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. = M@i4
Helena, Mont, Feb. 27.-The Montana
Swift Current Oil company announces that
the price Of the; stock of the company,
which was 10 cents a share yesterday, has
been advanced to par or 81 a share, in con-
sequence of the company having struck a
good flow of oil; on it's claim near 81.
Ndary's Lake in Teton county.
The stock is held chiefly by residents
of Great Falls, Helena, Butte and Bill
ings.
MI. Somes, who has. been in charge of
Great Falls bringing with him several
quarts of oil, and reports that last Monday
at a depth of between 600 and 500 feet,
their drill struck good flow of oil OF eX-
cellent quality. .s~ #s
They raised five buckets Of oil in an
hour and them being satisfied the flow
the necessary apparatus arrived.
a. Mr. Somes estimates the flow at twenty
barrels day at least and says that Oil
Inspector Ryan Of the Great Northern has
pronounced the oil the finest machine oil
in the world. s}s:@@ sa.'@
- Tests Of Fair Trial Law.
Far more than ordinary interest was
shown In the program in the supreme
court to-day for the reason that the ne"
| fair, trial law is at stake. There was
lively battle between the legal lights ar
rayed against each other on the questions
| involved, the return on five wrlts issued
out Of the supreme court, four of which
call in question the constitutional1ty OF the
law passed at the extra session last De-
cember.
The Boston & Montana Consolidated
Copper and Silver Mining company is re-
lator In two cases, Judge Clancy being re-
spondent iii one and Judge Harvey in thu
other. In one case Mile Durand Is re-
Iator, and J. G. Harvey the respondent
and in another the Anaconda Copper Min
ing company is relator and Judge Clancy
respondent. -
i Other cases present several questions IN
volving the fair trial law. one being tn
general question Of cOnstitutiOnallty, an
other whether a judge can grant chang
to judge in a contempt matter where TN
original case has already been transferred
and another, whether a Judge can separ
ate the case by sending motions to tW
different judges. $50
The hearing has important bearing o.
, the extensive litigation between the Anal
ganated and f. Augustus Heinze III
lawyers for the latter urged unconstltu
tionality Of the several measures, Will
: the Arnalgarnated@ attorneys held to :
contrary view. -,., ..- 49,
4 HIobIka Confesses to Murder.
George Hlobika has confessed to TIL
murder Of George Sedlacek, his travelin
, companion, whose dead body was foun
, Hast week on the trail between Sand Cou
lee and Stockett. While he admits tn
crime and says he expects to hang for. i
The says that he committed the deed in
f lift OF anger.
: The confession was made voluntarily
a 1.-the presence Of several witnesses. Th
] fprisoner informed the officers that his tru
name is George Wayda and that he has
brother Thomas Wayda, living at Gle
Lynn, Pa. He has requested that his brott
Ier be informed Of the serious nature of tt
charge against him and that after he
dead the money which is left, as well as
small amount of life insurance, which
: says he carries in a. secret society In II
: east, be sent to his brother.
: Rich Rancher Falls Dead.
: While talking with rancher in Col
e Efederate gulch on his way from Helena
e Len Lee Lewis, one Of the weaithiest wo
e growers In the state, was stricken WI
e heart disease and died in a few minute
q Mr.. Lewis came to Montana forty yea
ago. He owned one CT the; largest ranch
Y, in the west and many thousand head
IS IS sheep. @.>-> .....
a Young Girls Suicide.
Miss Ida Anna Pilz, 17-year-old daught
a. Of Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Pilz, died toad
n from the effects Of carbolic acid, tax
Monday night with suicidal intent. T
girl told a close friend that she was goi
to kill, herself because her parents we
going to compel her to marry a man who
es she dislil1ed. The story was, however, 8
MED by her parents. During her illne
between the time she took the poison a
A. the time Of her death she told the atten
j. ing physician that she was tired of Ii
or she was very pretty ana was Wen eo
to Gated. ,"