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Show HEINZE ON LAWSON. Butte Man Calls Boston Millionaire a Mountebank. Butte, Mont., Oct. 28 F. Augustus Heinze, when asked by the Associated Press early this morning what he hat to say in reply to the offer of Thomas Lawson looking to a settlement between be-tween him (Heinze) and the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Copper company, in which Mr. Lawson , proposed that an arbitration board arbitrate the price offered by Mr. Lawson for Heinze's Butte holdings hold-ings and the price asked by Mr. Heinze, and the giving as a commission the sum of $250,000 to the Eutte Miners' i:nion to secure the arbitration as proposed pro-posed by Mr. Lawson, elicited the following fol-lowing reply from Mr. Heinze: "The people of Boston and the stock exchange there and in New York know Mr. Thomas W. Lawson so well that It is hardly necessary for their benefit J to characterize his statements. The dis- , patch which I have just read, in which he states that I demanded $7,000,000 for j all my property in Butte, is entirely I without any foundation in fact. I have a number of times, and most re- I cently in December, 1890, permitted Mr. Lawson to have the privilege of talking talk-ing to me, and I consider him as great a mountebank as the recent decade has produced in the United States. "I would not for an instant consider any communication of a business character char-acter seriously from him. I |