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Show By IV. U. Telegraph. ARNOLD AFTER LEST. Louisville, 15. Phil. Arnold whose property was recently attached at the instance of Mr. Lent on account of the recent California diamond swindle, has published a lonir defence in the Louisville Louis-ville "Courier Journal" denying tho charge and Baying he never sold a dollar's worth of property to Lent or had a contract with or received money , from Lent at aoy (imp. lie denies that the fields were salted by htm, but alleges that the discovery was honestly made and that the transactions in regard re-gard to it were all between himself, Slack, Uarpending and J. D. Roberts. They were all fair and made after full investigation. The parties making charges against him, are members of a powerful and unscrupulous ring aod guilty of many swindling mining transactions. Privately, Arnold says he has discovered silver mines in Kentucky worth $300,000,000. He has bought for oine millions all the property in the locality of the mino. Wm. Wilson, a promioeot lawyer of Hardin county, whero Arnold restdes, passed through the city yesterday en route for California to bring a libel suit in behalf of Arnold against tho parties connected with the charges of awiudliug mado against him. Wilson says he has been prospecting with Arnold and knows ho has mado tho discovery of Bilvcr mines and tho purchase pur-chase of property. |
