| Show DEVELOPMENTS IN I IA I i A BIG MINING MING sum SUIT i iI I Interesting Testimony Given in inCase inCase inCase Case Against Silver King Coalition Company i I F J WESTCOTT ON STAND STANDi INTRODUCES KEARNS SALES SALESi I BOOKS AT HEARING I IThe I Tho The trial of the thc case ca of the Silver Sliver Kin Bing Ing Consolidated Mining company against the silver KInK King Coalition company compan which has hag o the attention of United States Slates fr Christy the past ten days con continues s to be productive of many interest interesting Interesting ing developments especially with refer with ti I e to underground mysteries itch Ch the th average averRe layman Is but little littler i t Notwithstanding the intro introduction of ot volumes chimes of testimony the case is still fur from being finished and antI it 1 it 11 expected r ted it w will ill be some time next week I r I any un decision Ision IB is rendered fin Tue r ill barse baTRe against the t 1 company is IB the extracting of silver silvere e cr i from the property of the tho Silver SIEr King to which it is ib adjacent The ThO ThOis Thes s j t j iy is the outcome of an Investigation i ire n in 1908 19 l h by Solon Spiro one of the th 1 F r pill flat owners of the Consolidated that I It It un when he suspicious t ire rf being taken from the mouth of the I C It In workings was as really belli lwIn mined m t 1 S II territory the I I t 1 j a a being the th Vesuvius and antI Ande I r fl rf re was an extended legal battle nt t the tile Coalition company compan headed by byI I f T m it I iv as Kearns Kearne and David Keith KJ before it l r Spi Spiro iro ro was enabled to secure lecure s sI I r t I i t f enter the workings of the Coalition C e i nv along with his engineers J to in Inti instigate ti ate conditions there with reference t to Jj hi belief that the Coalition was ille ilk ilkI ul I extracting tire ore re through underground i t rings 1 into Consolidated territory II Ili so IO ho lie claims that the tile Coall company had bad extended the I 1 tl II fur lor a distant distance of about a mile under t ti r e A Y ia mining claims and had hadi hadt i t I k kd n out a It large larRe holy body bod of ore The court iid H ii as order compelling the Silver SUvEr King company to account 8 for this c and the value of this is now being il d til It mined In by b the hearing S Developments in Case Casei i i e f f has haR brought out a mim num 1 h I oi ei Ii interesting developments in con conn n lion with ith tin the tI ease case According to the ther r of counsel for the plaintiff the 1st mt manager and foreman of the i put in to shots of dyna d na nat r i t md ud blew down the workings HO so 0 as ast t j ent ai t 4 to tl t them h m In III attempting t i e tam bin b a ine u re to I th nand of the Sil i r Kins hing mine min und Ir r an order lOrd of the thet t c Tt rt t it tras vi Y n u ir try i tur rr n Mr Ir Spiro to tow tow tow w that th 1 h il l t i u had I worked the ground of the tho Consolidated company com pan and the manner In which the Coalition company compan had run long IonS drifts which they had concealed from people not in their employ The fact of a It secret bulkhead built under the instructions or Mr Ir Kearns larns Was as brought out In cross examination The Consolidated Con company compan has no 1300 level the entrance to the joint prop property property property erty was made through the 1300 level leel of the th Coalition mine v The testimony of or yesterday was given ghen by Frank J Wescott in ht showing from the sales saks looks hooks of the Coalition mine the amount of ore taken out and the value alue thereof H II S Beatle Beatie assistant settle settlement settlement settlement ment clerk of the American Smelting S Refining company compan was waa examined to show from the settlement books boo of or the com company company i pany the amount of ore taken out during the period 13 I to 1905 the time from the beginning of the workings under un r the Vesuvius claims claim and the Ih time wh when n Mi stir h Spiro dl i the existence of the workings there |
