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Show Still at It. The latest style of sustaining a claim to an old mine is to make affidavit that the claimant was terrorized into leaving it some six or seven years ago because of the "bitter hostility of the Mormons" to mining. That is decidedly rich, seeing that at the time specified prospecting parties were exploring every mountain and canon within a hundred miles without let or hindrance. The individual who swears in that reckless style might go it blindfolded amoDg the shysters of Xew York, without risk of coming out tnond-best. Why don't the fellow otell how many times ho was killed and buried in an unknown shaft and saved by some kind of miraculous interposition? interposi-tion? Or lay the time half a century earlier, and tell how he fought and was done to death by the aborigines, and now returns from the heart of an ancient an-cient Indian mound to "elaim his own again." Either or any of these allegations allega-tions might be just as consistently made affidavit to by the "alligator." |