Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-10-03
LOCkharf Paid
The $II7,93S

GOLDFIELD, Oct. with a sug-
gestion of a smile on his bronzed
face, Thomas G.. Lockhart, president
and general manager of the Florence
Goldfeld Mining company, owner of
one of the richest gold-bearing es-
tates in the world, appeared at the
court house yesterday and presented
a certified check for $117, 1886
He was accompanied by one of his
attorneys, E. S. Van Dyck, but ON
veniently behind both of them were
two officers of the law who had been
ordered to place the mining magnate
in Jail unless he came through with
the fortune representing a sum in
dispute between his corporation and
the Little Florence Mining company.
Having faced the music, taken his
medicine and secured a receipt, Mr..
Lockhart smilingly departed from the
court house, while the deputy,sherif
bade him a jolly good afternoon.
The sum named represents cash
that both the district and supreme
courts have found to be the property
of the Little Florence Mining com
pany, the amount being a trust fund
and not subject to the whims of the
parent company. Inasmuch as it mas
finally been lodged in the district
court, the natural conclusion is that
it will be sought by the Little Flor
ence people for their treasury and
will assist in paying a ~long-delayed
dividend.
As has been said, Judge Langan
signed an order Wednesday night for
Lockhart to deposit the money in
court or take the consequences until
he had purged himself of contempt in
not so doing.
About 10 O'Clock yesterday, the
formal order Of arrest for CONTEMPT
of court, was placed in the hands Of
Deputies William Box and Tom
Ryan, both of whom proceeded at
once to the Florence company's Of
fees in the Nixon block. They we're
there told that Lockhart was at the
mines. About noon, the deputies
again presented themselves at Lock
hart's Office and were met by the
president himself to whom was read
the order of arrest. Lockhart didn't
turn a bit white nor did he tremole.
nor did he try to explain matters.
The mere fact that a jail sentence
stared him in the face, didn't appar-
emily cut a bit of ice with him. The
real reason was that Lockhart had
in his inside pocket the necessary
check to keep away from a cell and
he expressed a perfect willingness to
accompany the officers to the court
house. His attorney, Mr.. Van Dyck,
accompanied him.
As soon as presented to the office
of County Clerk and Treasurer
Hardy, Mr.. Lockhart produced a GER
titled check for exactly $t77,933.96
drawn in favor of Lockhart and pay
able by the Colorado National bank
of Denver, the repository of the
funds of the Florence Goldfeld Min
ing company. Mr.. Lockhart had duly
Endorsed this check and Deputy
Rourke gave 1t a rapid, but thorough
scrunity. Then Mr.. Rourke discov-
cred that the check was 81 short. the
judgment being for $177, 1856.
Lockhart, with the same smile that
had characterized his visage ever
since he came into the office, there
upon produced two silver dollars to
square the entire account. Receiving
a receipt for the entire sum, he took
his departure while the officers babe
him adios. The check was at once
sent down town for collection.
Attorney Detch, Carney and Stew
n are representing the Little Flor
ence Mining company, while Watson
and Van Dyck are looking after the
interests Of the parent company.