Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-09-01
BITTER CONTEST
IS COMPROMISED


suit for the possession of the property
of the Bullfrog Johnnie mining company
has been settled by compromise.
By the terms of the agreement
Schader johnson Co. gave U. M.
Thomas a 5000, 900 interest in the com
pany and in return Thomas gave Scha-
der johnson Co. a 5000, 900 interest in
the Belmont Johnnie company, a group
of claims owned by Thomas. Carl F.
Schader was made president of the
Bullfrog Johnnie company and Thomas
was appointed secretary of both COM
panies; thus was ended one of the bit
terest contests for the possession of
mining property, where human lives
were imperiled, where miniature armies
ranged on the hillsides waiting for the
word from their commanders to open
fire on each other.
The suit grew out of a technicality
in a bond on the property, on the dis
covery of which Thomas refused to
make his second payment and filed suit
against Schader johnson Co. in the
Tonopah courts for the possession of
the property.
Last year Schader Johnson Co. took
a bond on the Golden Eagle, Primero
and Blue Bell claims from White and
Yount, the locators, and a bond on the
Howitzer and Anna M. claims from
George F. Moser, the price quoted for
these claims being $50, 900. Schader
discovered and opened a shoot of ore on
the Golden Eagle and bonded the prop
erty to U. M. Thomas, who represented
New York and San Francisco interests,
for $3.50, 900. Thomas discovered a rich
shoot on the Blue Bell claim but did
not divulge his find. 1t was then he
commenced his suit and employed
Charles A. Lee of San Francisco, as
his counsel, who associated with him.
self a prominent attorney of TonopaE
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 Schader Johnson Co. Judge
H. c. Dillon of Los Angeles, was re,
tanned by the other side, and he founC
out that while Lee had requested the
bank not to deliver the papers, he haC
not secured the proper injunction from
the courts. Dillon demanded the papers
on the part of his clients and after
some consultation with Percy Wilson
the banks attorney, gained his point
Schader Johnson Co. now had pos
session of the papers but not the prop
erty and thereby hangs the portion o
the story.
Schader Johnson Co. telegraphed TO
relays of horses and during one of tn,
worst transforms ever witnessed her,
drove from Good Springs to Johnnie.
distance of ITO miles. The immedi
ately proceeded to the property will
some men they had picked up on tn
way and demanded possession Of tn,
ground. Schader Johnson Cos. repre-
s~entatives resisted and a battle SCENE
imminent, when the Thomas force
capitulated. The claimants remove
all the men and tools and placed a
armed guard on the property.
Conferences began between the al
torneys and w&le these were in prC
gress the great fire and earthquake {
San Francisco destroyed all the paper
in Lees office. AS in all great contest
both parties had certain rights and
avoid a long and tedious legal battle
the courts that would retard the d.
velopment of the property, a settl
ment was effected, with the understand
ing that the mine should be worked
once and all the leading interes
pooled. U. M. Thomas has just a
rived in Johnnie and started work in IL
mine.