The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-17
MINE AND MILL


ers of the Almaden Mines company was
held in room s2S Exchange building,
Denver, on Wednesday, August 7, and
the following board of directors and
officers were elected to serve for the
ensuing year: President, Geo, Neil, To-
peka, Kan vice president A. w. Beatty,
ST.. Clairsville Ohio; secretary. treas
urer, A. X. Const ck, Idaho Springs;
general IN anaeer, F. W. Dickerson, Dan
yer; director, Judge S E, Black, Ell
Dorado. Kan.
After the meeting had been organized
and the routine of business attended to
adjournment was taken for visit to the
company property on Fall riyer. The
stock holders were greatly pleased with
the showing of ore in the different work
ings of The mine and with the excellent
prospects of long period of profitable
operation. vast amount of dead work
has been done and it is believed that
when regular ore production has been
started this fall, that there will he am
pie ore reserves easily kept in advance
to insure a steady outpu, for a long time
to come.
The regular annual trouble meeting
OF the Big Five's various tentacles were
billed for this week in Denver
The schedule was interfered with
by legal proceeding beginning
with last Monlly, when the
Hazen Merrill crowd secured tempo
rary restraining order before Judge
Whitford to prevent meetings of the
of the board Of directors prior to the
regular stockholders meetings, billed fer
Wednesday.
Conspiracy, fraud. forged minutes of
directors meetings and accounts were
charged against the officers of the Big
Five company of Arizona, and the big
Five Tunnel, Ore Reduction and Trans
portation comp 4ny by some of the stock
holders in the first named company.
The officers were restrained from hold
ing directors meetings Aug II, ID and
IS; from forging or falsitying the ac
counts aud boo of the company. and
from removing any of the papers or be
jurisdiction of the court.
The plaintiffs were: Phillip NJ Mother-
sill, J. c. Hopper; "a S. and c. Hazen;
II. H , n. c., H. B., Eta, E c. and
Katie 4. Merrill AMI the Surety Invest
ment
The defendants were: VIM. P. Dan
iels, president, and Edward Lange, sec
rotary; Walter Thompson, G. A. Bea-
ton, o. N. Perry, Abner Graves, directors
and the Big Five etc. company and the
the Big Five company OF Arizona.
1t was charged that the defendants
have entered into conspiracy to wreck
the Big Five company and turn its assets
over to the other corporation. II Is
claimed that the directors are trying to
reuder the Big Five company insolvent,
although its liabilities are only $4,000
aud seeks to have annuled certain deeds
of conveyance Issued by these ofhcers'
1t was asserted that the directors have
refused the plaintiffs the right to exam
inc the books aud accounts and that they
have wrongfully aud fraudulentiy cam
celled the plaintiffs stock; that they have
fixed enteries on the minutes OF the
company, and intended TO remove the
books out of the jurisdiction OF the court.
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy, Better than Thee
Doctors.
Three years ago We bad three doctors
with our little boy and everything that
they could do seemed in vain. AT last
when all hope seemed gone we began
using Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and