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Show CEMETERY IS A GOLD MINE j Graveyard Claim Is Jumped by nn Enthusiastic En-thusiastic Prospector in Montana. Uutto, Mont. Tho Jewish come-tery come-tery hua been "Jumped" as a gold mine. So has the entire south half of tho Mount Morluh conietery. All tho land intervening between tho Catholic Cath-olic nnd Protestant cemotorloa has nlso been staked out to comprise a tonncro placer claim known as tho I'alm Leaf placer. Herman Muollor, u wealthy saloon kcopor, declares that there lu gold In tiro cemeteries. He has locatod his placer claim In ground around tho two graveyards and Ida cornor pwits touch tho Catholic cemetery fence, the boulevard and tho common, nnd one sacrilegious stnke has been driven lu the Mount Moilah soil not Tar from the W. A. Clark plot. Tho Jewish coniotory hns been completely enveloped by tho location. and, technically, tho Jews have now no conietery. Jows about town aro boiling with Indignation, and public protests have boeu made. Indignant citizens have pulled up the northwest cornor post of tho Palm Leaf placer, driven near a headstone, and hnvo thrown it over tho fonro. Tho ground la supposed to be tho property of tho Northern Paclllo Hallway company, nnd was given by tho courtesy of tho company to tho various denominations desiring burying bury-ing grounds. Mr. Muoller docliireti thnt tho land commissioner ruled that tho ground was a government common. Ho says that ho and (Jus Nlcklo located tho ground 12 years ago, but that slnco that tlmo tho mlno hns been abandoned. aban-doned. Itocontly ho inndo tho relocation reloca-tion which 1b causing so much com-niont com-niont nnd protest. Muollor says ho does not propoao to lot aontlmont In-terfere In-terfere with hla fight for fortune. |
