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Show INS FORTUNE I IN THLGOUBTS I Former Lieutenant - Governor I Hutchinson of Idaho Far Richer Than He Was. NEVADA HIGHEST TRIBUNAL DECIDES IN HIS FAVOR Declared Owner of Immensely Valuahle Mining Stock and Rich Dividends. J. T. Hutchinson, who was lieutenant governor of Idaho when Governor Steu-nenberg Steu-nenberg occupied tho executive chair, has B every reason on earth to feci at peace B with all tho world, to be satisfied with himself, to declare the courts are all right JHVJ and that everybody and everything Is all JHVJ right. Governor Hutchinson's great con- jJ tent has a reason. The reason is that IJHb Governor Hutchinson is Just $317,000 bot- HBVJ tcr off now than he was Thursday. J Governor Hutchinson camo to town JBVJ from his home in Boise to attend to af- JBVJ fairs of business. Ho was a guest at JBVJ the Cullen. Friday afternoon he received a telegram from Carson City, Nov., to JBVJ the cffocl that tho supremo court of that stato had affirmed a judgment In his fa-vor, fa-vor, first rendered by the lower court at HBV Goldlleld. The caso Involved tho qucs-tion qucs-tion ns to whether Governor Hutchinson was entitled to the credit for tho Idea of the great combination of mines in Goldficld, or whether the Idea was worth nothing, and whether or not ho was on- titled to stock In the Consolidated Mines company, which is now selling at SS.25 a share to .10,000 shares of this stock and to $100,000 accrued dividends. Tho supreme court holds that Governor Hutchinson is entitled to all these History of a Mining Deal. On April IS, 1006. the date of tho San Francisco earthquake, a phenomenal dls- BBV covery was mado on tho Hayes-Monetto lease at Goldlleld. From this discovery spread the boom in southern Nevada in HBfl gold. Immediately after tho amazing find the country was located for fourteen miles In a horseshoe. Tho mining claims HBH of prominence were then known as the Mohawk, Jumbo. Red Top. Combination. Clalrmont and Velvet. The discovery of the remarkable ore was mado on tho Mohawk No. 2. and from this claim the astounding fortunes were mado by Al HHH Myers, Tom Murphy, George Wlngfleld and Senator Nixon. Wlngfleld merged tho Mohawk, tho Red HBV Top and the Jumbo. Hutchinson and his associates secured an option on what was known as the Combination mines, which claimed the apex on the claims mentioned to the cast, and through this option Interested J. P. Loftus and J. R. Davis, wealthy mining men of Goldficld, and they, in turn, sold their option to Nixon and Wlngfleld in tho St. Francis hotel iu November, 1907. From this deal there was formed tho Consolidated Mines company. Wingficld having interested J. IT. Carstarls. II. C. Frick of Pittsburg. Charles Hayden of Hayden. Stono & Co., and J. IL Hubbard of Chicago. Decision Is Affirmed. The Consolidated was capitalized at a HVJ high figure. Hutchinson brought suit for two-thirds of the capitalization, less 5000 shares given to lawyers. In other words, Mr. Hutchinson sued for 30,000 shares of the stock. The lower court decreed that tho Gold-field Gold-field Consolidated cancel certain ccrti-flcalos ccrti-flcalos resting in the name of C. II. Botsford, Hutchinson's associate, and is-sue is-sue now certificates In lieu thereof. This decision has been affirmed. Botsford shortly afterwards disappeared and is now supposed to be in Brazil or Franco. HflB Somo of the certificates aro now claimed bv so-called Innocent purchasers, but Mr. Hutchinson has little fear that purchasers of this stock can make their claims "stick," as notices of the cancel-latlon cancel-latlon wore posted in San Francisco. Los Angeles, New York. Paris and London. HBJ whero the stock is listed. Ono hundred thousand dollars in dlM-dends dlM-dends has accrued and this amount Mr. Hutchinson will now get, In addition to tho 30.000 shares of stock that Is quoted at iS.'Mi. HKV |