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Show COURT PROCEEDINGS. Tblrd Dialvict Court., McKean, C. ' presiding. Tuesday, Juno 17.. ' Tho C 1. Ji. II. company m. II. L. Sciuincll wna cidlod up. The net ion is ono in which the defendanl was nr-rcttul nr-rcttul .some day uincc on a charge of embezzling $1,000 currency and S12T coin, whilo acting as Nugent fr the pliuntifl', at Corinne. Scnnncll had given x)iwls for Wm appearance before the court, and Mr, Whitney made a motion to discharge the prisoner. Mr. Uoyle argued the motion on the pari of "tho company. Tho motion wat overruled and the defendant held to answer. Court took a recess till 1 o'clock to allow tin to to procuro witnesses for t tho ptxwecution in tho case of the People, Ac., Haskins. Jl-r. Ueorgo A. Black, after reeeses, testified that in tho fall or winter ol 1870, ho and C. K. Gilchrist made a copy of the records of Mountain Lako Mining District, which he believed be-lieved to be correct. Mr. 1'. H. Brunei- teslified thai he hail been mining in Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood during the past seven years, and , knew nothing alout the Great Ka-t-ern or (ireat Western mines. . Mr. W. MeClosky testified that he hail Iwn Incatcd in tho Great Eastern and Great Western claims ahonta. year ago; ho did not know where tho claims were, and had never authorized nny one to work on the same, but the other members might have done so without his knowledge. Mr, W. I Appleby slated that in the spring or summer of 187-, he, in company with Col. Stevenson anil Major Gorlinski, went to lind the locations loca-tions of the Great Eastern and Great Western claims, hut did not succeed; he found the ground unbroken and no traces of any work having been done; Stevenson pointed to a decayed stick, which ho said was the initial point of the Great Eastern. Mr. J. E. Matthews testified that he bad been mining in Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood since April 1870; bad passed over the ground which was claimed as the Great Eastern many times, and had never seen any work done on the same; did not knowthat such a claim had been located. Mr. W. H. Gillespie testified that, at the request of Haskins he made some diagrams of the claims in dispute; dis-pute; the original maps from which lie made the diagrams he found at the land ollicc; had never been on the ground; B. F. Datum had instructed in-structed him in the principal Hants of the diagrams; had seen the original origin-al record of Mountain Lake District, and also a copy of the same at Mr. Haskins' oMice; he thought the record rec-ord of the location of the Great Eastern East-ern was the same in the copy as in j the original. ! ;.) r- .;.!. i.: i him to make the diagrams; Smith made the original diagrams and he (witness) made copies; Haskins never nev-er instructed witness aliout making the diagrams; when he saw Mr. Haskins' copy of the record there were no erasures, in the location record rec-ord of the Great Eastern, and it read as the original now reads. The further hearing of the case will be bad this morning in chambers. Court adjourned to 10 o'clock a. m. of the first Monday in July. |