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Show HEINZE ADMITS THAT HE IS NEGOTIATING WITH THE AMALGAMATED CO. BUTTE, Dec 21 F." "Augustus Heinse, in a deposition before a notary, In a suit brought by the Butte and Boston Bos-ton Mining company of the - Amalgamated Amalga-mated Copper group, to recover 81,500,-000 81,500,-000 for, ore alleged to have been Illegally Ille-gally mined by the Heinse Interests from the Michael Devltt mine, acknowledged ac-knowledged under oath that negotiations negotia-tions were on between him and the Amalgamated Copper company for the sale of his properties In Butte to the Amalgamated. To many of -the questions ques-tions asked by counsel forUe Amalgamated Amal-gamated Mr. Heinse pleaded a lack of memory. x - . Mr. Hein?e claimed he is not now the president of the United Copper com pany or the Montana Ore Purchasing company, although he admitted that be had formerly held both those positions. He claimed that he did not know who is the president or. general manager or any of the board of directors of the Montana Ore Purchasing company. The witness, however, stated that he was still a shareholder of that company and also the United Copper company. Mr. Helnze admitted that he was the first president of the Montana Ore Purchasing Pur-chasing company and that he was connected con-nected with that corporation officially up to a period In the present year, the exact time of his retirement having escaped es-caped his memory. The witness could not remember the time when he had cetsed to be the executive head of the United Copper company. |