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Show A STKAN...E CASE THAT HAS RECENTLY EXCITED THE STATE CF MONTANA. In.lHo Vlho II 1. l.l llrf.i.rrt ,i Are. M m llrlltp nt Pinn.noil from Ihe t-ter t-ter Tru.l l'o.r Man Maile Klrh b? lie. I.I i Hui io Mont., teller ) The old political filed between ?"U atnr Dark and ihe lute Mtircua Hilly In which em h of thcae m ignatea spent nillllona to d'fcat the nUu and ambitions ambi-tions of the other, never rreaied aurli n aenaiillnii In the Stale ata did the churgca of Judicial aunt eptllilllt y to venality hroiixlit aK'ilnat JudK" 10 W llttrney, nwlng to hla recent derlalnii In a mining caae. The whole matter la niinh Involved; and al the outlet It should he Imriie In mind that Judge f Harney not only ft . Tj denies that he waa vj T Influenced In favoi !V ft. 'I of those benefitted iP j ' ;' by Iho decision. iyVvli' u"' t'n"",'",h,,, ""' -V'r - oppugn party MkJ5) thnae now arcualng ' if h:m of '"lllllv-'l7 '"lllllv-'l7 offered him :T0.-000 :T0.-000 If he would find Judge Harney. ln lno,r fllvor A, thmiigh the whole Intricate maze tha figure of a woman. Mrs. Ada II. Ilrackett, passes. The Mining Caae. Tha mining rare la known aa the Minnie Henley, from the name of the mine, and It Is valued at IIO.CftO.OnO. A few yenra ago the worth of the lulne waa not known, but with an eye to Its possible development and profit one of Marcus Daly's frlenda. Miles Flnlen. received an option on the property. At that time F. Annual us llelnie. who was In litigation with the Html on and Montana Mon-tana Company, a compnny then op-poled op-poled to Daly's Interests, obtained permission per-mission from Flnlen to work the prop, erty. According to Flnlen permlaelon to exploit the mine waa granted to llelnie In order thnt the poult Ion ot the latter against the Huston and Montana Company might be strengthened. According Ac-cording to lleln.e he became absolute owner of the mine for a aultahle consideration. con-sideration. Hclnze developed thn property and demount rated that It was a valunhle axset Just at this tlmo Miirrua Daly switched bis friendship from Hclnze to the llOBton and Muntnna Company and to the newly organized Amalgamated Copper Company. Its successor. Whereupon Where-upon Flnlen dlaavowed the deal with Helnza. Nnturiilly the ense went before be-fore the courts for adjudication, and recently Judge Harney decided In favoi' of Mo'njrc. ' , ... ; Mrs. Ilmkell-e Tart. The Amalgamated Copper Company Immedlntely demanded a new trial on the ground that Jiulgo Harney bad been unduly Influ enced and have filed affidavits which reflect upon tha character of 7 t. g--. Vf the Judge. And iSZ" V here Is where one 'i ! t jh it gets a peep behind 'llhV. JJ !;! the - acenes; here. JJ.'lT'xllI1 too. Mrs. Ada H. W rtfiffi? Ilrackett begins to ' J f' flgurn. It mny be '''t'lf' stated that the ap- AlU 1)ra,kkl.tl. plication for a new trial lias not been as yet pronounced on. Mrs. Ilrackett Is a former Vormont woman, a native of llurllnKton, who. In 1HK4, waa married at Dubuque, In., to Will O. Ilrackett, a traveling an lee man of Minneapolis, Minn, A year m;t Ilrackett secured a divorce. Mrs. Ilrackett Prat appeared In Montana lost fall, and was an Id to be In tbe employ em-ploy of Hclnze and his corporation, tin Montana Ore I'urcliaalng Company. At tha November election Judge Harney was elevated to the Dlatrlct bench, anl Mrs. Urackett, who Is a stenographer, obtained a position In his office. I.aier she obtained a committee clerkship Is the Leglalaturo, where aha Is said to have been active In tha advocacy of a bill which Hclnze waa Instrumental In having Introduced. From their first acquaintance. It is charged, that Mrs. Ilrackett and Judge Harney wore very friendly and that Mrs. Urackett sought to Influence sod did Influence Judge Harney. The Amalgamated Company any that they Intercepted a letter, written to Judge Harney by Mis. Ilrackett while employed em-ployed in the office ot Attorney OeorK" fl. Dygerl, wherein the case was discussed dis-cussed and the favor of the court solicited so-licited for tha Ilelnze aide. Other letters, let-ters, alleged to have been written by Mrs. Ilrackett, were Intercepted and copied, as were also lettera sa d to have been penned to thn woman by Judge Harney. In one of her alleged letters Mrs. Ilrackett f-- f-- fercd to furniib the '"st A Judge Willi money (f provided ha felt ln K,f,ff n,,!(1 of i(. nl1 ,llld ''SL'l.! , 'ie was In a poal-A poal-A Hn to promise him JX .J L cenaln thine that f I '"r8 y' ,tla" tlvo to the money loan Mrs. Brat kett . A. Uelnzn. , m.r gttnbuted letter rather In-genuoiiHly In-genuoiiHly explulned that the loan was offered "not to Influence you; It la entirely en-tirely for the purpose of preventing you from being Influenced either way " It Is contended further by the Aniul-gnniated Aniul-gnniated Company that after Id decision de-cision favoring Hulnz? Mrs Brackett exclaimed. "I did It! I did it!" These I I snd other 1! .,, ,nptii,g undue Influ- ' enre to Juh, Harney make the haais of the Am, mmnic.l Ci.mpany a demand de-mand tt I . trial llnrery llenle.. Of court. Ju.ls;,. , mny denies the charge zi i ,im (,iy, ,, Amnl-timaled Amnl-timaled a. ,,, ,,rr-iil him IJiO.lMHI for s fnvoT,!,! ,..,.tf,,n Hm frher claims lliarf ),,, w, threatened wilh ruin and fituiy d,r.ne If he refuacl Niilurnlly ,hr ra , ,.,,;, , leep lllt. reit people ,new f corrup- tl.in In I'llii ,, thl, niti-mpt -auc eiaril r rim a die render may de-termlne de-termlne for hlniilf- tn coiiupt the Judiciary h. cuu.ed a aiMiantlon. The iilrtimaied Company aaya the Hurt W.nl.,; the Judge denies It. but ny the r niipinv ouKhl to do It. A dlliiierr,ted party might any thai liolh sides aiiiiglit to corrupt. Viewed from any flandpntnl. the rafe la a a id-deiilng id-deiilng one to lovers of public probity and mnrsiity. |