| Show I TH MARION AND GEYSER The Hearing for Contempt Comes I Up This Morning The Geyser contempt case will come up for hearing before Judge Riles today to-day and it is stated that it will be avery a-very interesting case as the difficulty between the Marion and Geyser mining companies has been so well aired in the courts during the past year that a lively live-ly tilt between these two companies is no always expected when they cross sworJs which is quite frequently of lateThe The Marion company as complainant in the contempt case charges that the Geyser company took out ore to the value of 530000 from ground the title to which was pending in the courts and that meanwhile both the plaintiffs and the defendants in the controversy ane had been enjoined from extracting ore from the ground in dispute In speaking of the case yesterday Mr Bruback of the Marion sid that he had nothing to say concerning what the Geyser company had done on the disputed I dis-puted territory since Judge Ritchies I decision and the dissolving of the injunction in-junction but that before that time and while the injunction was still in force the Geyser had persisted in entering en-tering upon the ground and in taking ore therefrom which he claimed was i a clear case of contempt and he for one proposed to see that they were punished for it as far as lay in his I power 11 Bruback further stated that the lawyers for the Geyser people had been warned that the client were I working on the ground covered by the restraining order and that they had promised to have it stopped I Coloneh Miner of the Geyser when spoken to on the subject by a Herald reporter stated that the company had I not been taking ore frum the ground in dispute while the injunction was in effect but that since it had been dissolved i dis-solved they had been working this I portion of the property I is ridiculous I ridicu-lous said he to ask damages in the I i sum of 30000 for the extraction of I ores from ground that the court has I decreed the property of our company and we can prove that we were not I working the ground in question while the restraining order was in force I |
