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Show CEMETERY IS A COLD MINE Graveyard Claim la Jumped by an Enthusiastic En-thusiastic Piospector in Montana, Butte, Mont. Tho Jewish come-tory come-tory has been "Jumped" as a gold mine. So has tho entire south half of tho Mount Morlali cometery. All tho land Intervening between tho Catholic Cath-olic und Protestuut comoterlcs has also been staked out to comprise a ton-ncro placer claim known as tho Palm Loaf placor. Hjtrmun Muoller, a wealthy saloon keopor, declares that there Is gold In tho cemeteries. Ho liau locatod his placer claim In ground around thu two graveyards and his corner poutu touch thu Catholic cemetery fence, tho boulevard and tho common, and ono sacrilegious stake has boon drlvon In thu Mount Morlali soil not far rrom thu W. A. Clark plot. Tho Jewish cemotory has been completely ouvoluped by thu location, and, technically, the Jews havo now no cemotory, Jows about town are boiling with Indignation, and public protests have boon made. Indignant citizens havo pulled up tho northwest cornor post of tho Palm Leaf placer, driven noar u headstone, and have thrown It over tho fence. The ground lu supposed to bo tho property of tho Northern Pacific Hallway company, and was given by tho courtesy of tho company to tho various denominations desiring bury lag grounds. Mr. Mueller declares that tho land commissioner rulod that tho ground was a government common. Ho says that bo and Ous Nlcklo located the ground 12 years ago, but that since that time tho mlno has boen abandoned. aban-doned. Ilccontly ho mado.the relocation reloca-tion which Ih causing so much comment com-ment and protest. Muollor says ho diMts not prnposo to let sentiment Interfere In-terfere with his fight for forlunn )N 1 |