Show FEDERAL COURT Eckman et al vs the Old Telegraph Mine on Trial In the tJnhed States district court jes lerday the suit of William Eckman and I j i John Neilson against The Old Telegraph Mining company and the Societle des Mines de Lexington was on trial before I Juclue John A Marshall and a jury Judge 1overs represented the plaintiffs and Messrs Thomas Marshall Rankness and W C Hall the defendants In the complaint it is alleged that the I plaintIffs on November IS 1S93 > leaded a portion of the Old Telegraph mine from the defendants for a period ending February Feb-ruary 29 3896 which lease was afterwards after-wards extended until June GO 1896 The compan was to have 50 yer cent of the net proceeds of the ore taken out and the balance was to go to the lessees I Plaintiffs alleeed they took out varous cjuanttes of oe whch yielded them as their share J3724 and that within the period of the lease the plaintiffs stuck a large and rich body of ore which the blocked out when the defendants without cause or excuse forbid and prevented the I plaintffs from taking out the same to f their damage in the sum of S75000 for I nt1ist which judgment Is prayed The defendants as justification for turn in out thp nlilntffs allpced that the plaintiffs worked the mine in I an unminer like manner > nd spoilt the workings it being provided In the contract that the work should bo done in a scientific and proper way Defendants also claimed that the difference between them and the plaptffs had been settled before the suit waS brought The hearing is likely to be very lengthy as there s a vast amount of expert and other testimony to bo Introduced The case vrill certainly consume all of this week |