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Show (by OoserotTelegaiih). HOME NEWS. l'rogreaa of Iht rct Hiiiliig Suit. (8ieciiiL to tholtlKHALD.) Court mot at 10 a.m., and a number of letters from Lightucr to Bull and Moulder, officers of tho Raymond & Ely company, were offered as evidence, by the plaintiff, and admitted. Tho first witness, W. H. Clarke, testi lied to the contract for sinking the Hermes shall, lot before tho incorporation. incorpora-tion. W. II. Raymond testified that learnt told him that he wanted tho four hundred feet of Panacea ground, bought of Box, to put in a now company. com-pany. Previous to tho interview with Hearst, ho received a letter from Lightncr, respecting tho formation of a now company. Hearst wanted to put in Hermes witb the Monitor. Lightncr paid Perley five hundred dollars for tho Monitor; witness under-htoodit under-htoodit waa for property bought from McLane. A oopy of "book A," Meadow Valley Val-ley mining records, was offorcd and admitted as evidenco. llo never offered of-fered to tako tea thousand shares of Hermes and settle; told Hearst if ho had offered 20,000 there would have been some sense in it. Always protested protest-ed againtt oo aim it ting the Panacea titlo. Huarst wanted him to put the Box titles in Hermes. Tho complaint of the Raymond & Ely company ua. tho Meadow Valley extension company and P. MoCannon, dufuudunt, Perley atto;ney, was sworn to by Lightncr and offered in evidence, and admitted; also the complaint of the Raymond & Ely company vs. the Kentucky Ken-tucky mining company, tiled the 21st of October, 1872, was offered, objected to, tho objca.ion overruled and admitted. ad-mitted. D. Wilkins testified that Perley showed him croppings of the Caroline and said they wero evidently croppings of the old Panacea. Ho showed him a shaft about fifty feet west of tho Panacea shaft, and said he was a locator in it, and bad made it in the interest of the Raymond & Ely oom-puny. oom-puny. M. Holland testifiod that Perley told him he had made the Hermes location iu the interest of the Raymond & Ely company, as their attorney. Plaintiffs offered letters showing that tho location of the Hermes was not mentioned in Lightner'a letters, and tho court admitted them. The deed from Hamblin to Ely, and ono from Pulaifer.to Hamblin, of hia interest in the Panacea, afterwards sold to Ely," were offered as evidenco and admitted undor objeotion. Court adjourned. |