The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-09-01
BULLFROG JOHNNIE
SUIT IS SETTLED

Johnnie, New, August 2S.-The suit
for the possession of the property of
the Bullfrog Johnnie Mining compan
has been settled by compromise. by
the terms of agreement Schader John
son comnany gave u. NJ. Thomas a
100000 interest in the company and in
return Thomas gave Schader Johnson
ompany a $500, 900 interest in the Bel
mont Johnnie company, a group OF
claims owned by Thomas. Carl f.
Schader was made president or the
Bullfrog Johnnie company and Thomas
was appointed secretary of both COM
panies; thus was ended one of the bit
terest fights for the possession of min
ing property, where human lives were
imperiled, where miniature armies
ranged on the hillsides waiting Tor the
word of their commanders to open fire
on each other.
Last year Schader Johnson company
took a bono on the Golden Eagle, Pri-
nero and Blu Bell claims from White
and Yount, the locators, and a bono on
the Howitzer and Anna NJ. claims from
George F. Moser, the price quoted for
these claims being $4,000. Schader
discovered and opened up a rich shoot OF
ore on the Golden Eagle and bonded the
property to u. M. Thomas, who repre-
sented New York and San Francisco. in
t~erests, for $4,000. Thomas discovered
a rich shoot on the Blue Bell claim but
did not divulge his find. 1t was then he
commenced suit, and employed Charles
A.. Lee, of San Francisco, as his counsel,
who associated with himself a promi-
nent attorney of Tonopah and notified
the Merchants National bank of Los
Angeles, where the deeds and the papers
were escrowed of the suit, instructing
them not to deliver the papers to Schad-
er Johnson company. Judge II. {. Dill
Ion, of Los Angeles, was retained by
the other side, and he found out that
while Lee had requested the bank not
to deliver the papers he had not secured
a proper injunction from the courts
Dillon demanded the apers in the in
~terests of his clients and after some
consultation with Percy Wilson, the
banks attorney, gained his point.
Schader Johnson now had possession
of the papers but not the property and
thereby hangs the interesting part of
the story.
Schader johnson company telegraphed
for a relay of horses and during one of
the worst rain storms ever witnessed
| here, drove from GOOu springs u
Johnnie, a distance of 10 miles. They
Immediately proceeded to the property
and with some men they had picked up
on the way demanded possession of the
ground. The opponents had ranged men
on the boundary and defied the claim
ants. Schader johnson company repre-
sentatives insisted and a battle seemed
Imminent, when the Thomas forces
capitulated. The claimants removed all
the men and tools and placed an armed
guard on the land.
Conferences began between the attor-
neys and while these were in progress
the great fire and earthquake of San
Francisco destroyed all the papers in
Lees office. AS in all great contests
both parties had certain rights and to
avoid a long and tedious legal battle in
the courts that would retard the devel-
opment of the property, a settlement
was effected, with the understanding
that the mine SHOULD be worked at once
and all the leading interests pooled. u.
NJ. Thomas has just arrived in Johnnie
and started work in the min