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Show THE FAMOUS MIXING SUIT. Eureka. Hill Dissected by the Mining Min-ing Sharps Everybody in Provo Interested in Itnnnins: the - Postoffice. ' Pkovo, October SO The great mining suit still occupies the time of this court, and if things still continue at the present rate, there must be shipped in here a fresh batch of court reporters. The chief interest in the case during the past week was centered in the testimony testi-mony of the world-famed geologist, Dr. Hunt, of Montreal. Of this gentleman the Enquirer here says : Dr. Hunt, the distinguished witness who lately came to Provo to give testimony in the great mining suit now in progress, has a world-wide reputation. He has been actively engaged in the pursuit of his favorite studies geology, mineralogy and chemistry for nearly forty years, and is recognized wherever the language of science is known, as one of her most devoted and gifted students. stu-dents. He is a graduate of Yale College, and was connected with the geological survey sur-vey of Canada for a period of twenty-five years. The greatest honors of the scientific world have been conferred upon him. For six years he was Professor of Geology in the Institute of Technology in Boston. He is a member of the National Chemical Association Associa-tion of the United States, selected from a class of 100; acting as National Chemical Scientist; member of the Boyal Society of London and of the Geological and Scientific Society of Belgium, France, Austria, and many other countries, and past president of many American societies. His theory of the Eureka hill was given like a poem. The whole series of ore chambers found in the lime formation in question were connected like links of sausage, in language peculiar, quaint and interestingly stratified by geological phrases of a practical as well as classroom class-room order. If Dr. Hunt can be relied on as an authority, the very idea of this mining dispute ever coming into court was another evidence of the faults or breaks to be found in old humanity, . He instances the famous Richmond-Eureka, Nevada, case, in order to make his language langu-age plain to the court, and when he closed his day's talk in the direct examination, the Eureka hill was saturated by one broad mineral zone and there evidently was not a crack in the lime big enough to hold Beck's title to anything in the district. dis-trict. Arthur Brown took the Dr. in hand next morning, and the cross-examination was far more interesting than the work of the manufacturer of Wasatch geology. It will not do to say here which got away with the day's fight, Brown or Hunt, but if there is anything of vital importance that was not hunted up and done brown it was because the subject seemed to be worn out. While the counsel showed a disposition to treat the eminent witnesses with all the consideration possible on the cross-examination cross-examination in a case involving millions, yet Judge Towers has a knack of protecting protect-ing a witness and doing justice to the whole bar. The Eureka-Hill side of the case is in and the time of the Court is now taken up in the hearing of the arguments argu-ments on a non-suit. Judge Sutherland, for Beck, and Dixon, for Packard, both made brilliant efforts, but as the question is yet in the judicial mill, we must allow Judge Powers to solve the problem. POWERS ON CITIZENSHIP. Quite an amusing incident occurred in the manufacture of a couple of citizens here the other day, that was also of interest in-terest to future candidates. The applicants, appli-cants, one a Dane the other a WrIkIi occupied a closer relationship than the geographical position of their native countries would indicate. The Cambrian was son-in-law to that Dane. Having secured two witnesses to testify as to his strict morality and abiding faith in the Constitution, the Dane was naturalized first and then acted as a witness for his son-in-law. The relationship in this instance in-stance did not crop out until Judge Pov-ers Pov-ers asked the usual question, " Do you know this man to be of a good moral character, sober and law-abiding ?" And the Dane innocently answered the question ques-tion by asking the Court, " Off dot man vosn't a good man, do you tink dot I vould giff him my Katrina for a vife." That settled the matter. THE PROVO POSTOFFICE. Since the appointment of J. G. Kenney to the Postmastership the air here is full of profanity, indignation and cancelled postage stamps. The Mayor, lawyers, merchants and mining experts have all taken the management of the postal le partment, while the office now and for years past, under, the control of Mrs. McCauslin, has been all that the citizens of Provo desire. Mrs. McCaa-lin is honest, hon-est, capable and obliging. She is the widow of the former Postmaster, and the majority of those for whom she has been a public servant for years desire that she be retained. That the people of Provo have the right to say something on matters mat-ters pertaining to their own particular interests in-terests is well iinrlfrstw1 nt .ill u fact of a general, sweeping condemnation con-demnation of Kenney have any weight ' with the department at Washington? If he is unfit, his peculiar unfitness should be shown. He may not be popular popu-lar m Provo, but he must have been recommended rec-ommended by some one, somewhere, and in order to break up the influence that secured his appointment definite charges must be made and each charge duly sustained.. In the excitement following fol-lowing Kenney's appointment manv good citizens here forget that the change in the Provo postoffice was not altogether the cause of a change in the administration. A good, fair show should be given all round, and if the administration fails to satisfy all parties generallv and applicants appli-cants for an eleven-dollar p'ostoffice particularly, par-ticularly, I can only see one way out of the difficulty, and that is for us" to just quietly secede from the Union. Monotony. |