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Show THE HOLDEN TRIAL- Iairoriajliyn of TtstiiLOsy. Sir. akCoribei on tbe SUcd. An Extraordinary filinute Boofc. Yesterday's proceedings in the trial t ol Orviile D; Ford and others agaiut Liberty E. Holden and others in the Tnird district court, before Cnief Justice Schaefler, excited increastd interest, the court room being crowded crowd-ed more or less during the whole of I the day 'a hearing. Couusei tor lie plaiotifl opened the fare with announcing that Mr. C. F. Smitb, bookkeeper to Welle, Fargo fc Co., had been selected to represent the plaintiff aa expert to examine the books which tbe defendant had been required to produce. On the oilier side, it waa announced that Mr, B. F. lUybjuid, cashier to Witlker Brothers, was to join the ex pert on ine oiner siue. inis was iui-lowtd iui-lowtd by a little cross fire, aa to a certain note lor $5,000, beariog date February 1st, 1S76, and a check and note of February 4th of the same year, in which it was claimed for the defendant that a message bad been forwaided to Cleveland, bat the desired de-sired pipers were not yet forthcom ing. Certified copies ot the patents issued to the Old Telegraph Mining company of toe Roman Empire, Nez PerceB Chief, ine No You Dout miuea and the Western Extension Telegraph mine were otlered in evidence. evi-dence. Alter wbich the books of tbe Nez Percea Silver Mining company were aUo offered, for tbe purpose, pur-pose, aa stated by counsel fjr ttie pltintifl, of drawing the attention of the opposing counsel and the court to the entry on these books of the stock tranafera reported in the name of Holden to Ford, the plaintiff, plain-tiff, on February 1st, 1876, and other ir&oafera. THE BINGHAM CiSON AND CAMP FLOYD RAILROAD FREIGHTS. The testimony of the plaintiffs was opened by Mr. Silas R. Bebee, who was called to speuk to the books of the Bingham Culon and Camp Floyd railroad, for the purpose, according to plaintiff 8 counsel, ol showing the amount of ores passed through the Nez Perccs and the Old Telegraph mines. Objection was taken by opposing counsel, ou tho ground that, while there was no objection to any statement state-ment of the amount of ore, wbich, it was confessed, had been large ns to the output, but, as far as the plaintiff, Mr. Ford, was affcetgd, it wag per' fectly immaterial. A little legal fencing, in which later transfers than that of Ford were put forward as ground for admission of the testimony was settled by . The Court Well, gentlemen, I will let in anything that occurred belore the consummation ot theae alea, iu amount of ore that wna shipped before that time. Mr. Bebee therefore obtained a hearing, and stated, as agent and operator for the Bingham Canon and Camp Floyd railroad, that the baoka of that road were in his charge and moat of the entries were made by him- self, and he had prepared a statement of the ores marked Nez Perces and Old Telegraph, showing the consignor, con-signor, the amount of ore of the Nez Percea and Old Telegraph mines, the date of shipment, the uamo of the consignee, the weight of the ore shipped and the charge for freighting the ore. . THE VALUE OF NEZ PERCES AND OLD TELEGRAPH ORE. Mr. J. B. Meader, an nssayer of seven years' standing in Salt Lake city, recognized a paper handed to him by plaintiff's attorney aa a copy of a record showing certain assay made ou Nez Perces ore for the Utah Forwardiug company, f The original copy he made on or about the 14th or 15th of December, 1 1877, when he was giving a deposition m the oase ol Jfora vs. tioiaen anu others in Cleveland courts. It showed all the assays made on samples marked Nez Perces, from the 13th day of September, 1875, to the 25th day of February, 1876, inclusive. Another record showed all the assays mnde on the Old Telegrnph ore by the Utah Forwarding company, from March 3d, 1876, to December 14th, 1877, Tbe origiual of that was mftde at the same time as the other. The assays were made at his office, by himself or his assistant, at the request of the Utah Forwarding company, of which Mr. George Y. Wallace whs the only person in charge. Mr. Hol den frequently took the assnys himself; him-self; they were delivered nometimes to him, but mostly to Mr. Wallace. Mr. Holden always had the privilege of seeing the assays. They formed tho basis of the market value of the oro, All the assays were of marketable ore, and none of them assays of ore belore it went to the jigger. Mr. MnCornick, banker, was the next witness, and hia testimony with regard to the business of the Old Telegraph Mining company and the Nez Peroes Miuing company, was, with one exception, the chief feature of the day's proceedings. On February Feb-ruary 24th, 1876, waa tho first deposit made, and, he thought, Mr, Holden opened the account on behalf of the Old Telegraph company. The checks were signed by Mr. Holden, the deposits being usually made by Mr. George Y. Wallace. The account had continued up to the present time. Witness estimated tho totals for the months from books produced which showed that the deooBite bad been made aa follows: 1S70. Fabruarj 2,531 Sl March J7.SIU 70 April - . la.wuin Mt . .7 Jun .... 17. BM Jaly !M92 ru Auauit ?4.iHfl Eop:mbBr.- to n.7 VI October 71.327 18 NoTembar (W.(G'i85 Doc ember &6,30 S3 Total .... Hl.m 20 1B77. January t 7,47RO0 February 7I.WS Mireli 48,' 2 7fl April- -.rtii 07 M7 SS Bl US June 89.hu S'4 July - - Ite.fc l 3.T Aaiuil 2ft .Ii24 41 i'trmber 3VM 7.s 9"iobr v.,vri 22 Movamt'er - . JUl,':c 75 Da;emio- bh.-h i t Tota' . lMS,fc7B Total dp;s:f ,tWM03 99 Witness next gave a detailed statement state-ment of the drafis in favor ( L. E. Holden, drawn on New York aod other banks, defendant paying for liiem by drawing ina check on the company. Tnt-y did doI have but tbe ooe account. Toe checks were signed "Uid Tfiiegraph Mining Com pauy, by L. E. Holden, manager." Tne drain, to the bst of bis recoliec tion, were hr.CLd in in payment of Ihr-Kfi checks. Some discimion as to the alteration alter-ation or non -a iteration of the name of the company in tbe bank books from Old Telegraph c mpany to Old Telegraph Mining! and S;i:elt:ne company w.s elid by! the plaiutiti's attorney cai::: for the j Nez Perces .-counts. Tv.c .'CiT'Uir.t ' was opene ' September S.h. 1374, by dm- fli.OA1; 14:u, , i3.90u:"N'.v. lotb, $S,07u41; Nov.-' Nov.-' 2J, $10(5.25; Dee. 5:h, $500: LVe. I2th. $M7 7S; Dec. 17th, $2,759; Deo. 19th. $1,000; D,c. 2oJ. $1,000; Dec. 2yth, $300; Jan. 15:h, 1S75, $3$0.02, which was the wh.iie amount, the arrouut terminating on February 1st, dS7i. There wis nj cros rxaDiin.uion, and counsel for the pUiutitl ihtit read aomo items from tne "minute book" of the O.d Telegraph Alining company. This book seems to havt pastd iuto the po-ejsion ot the defendant de-fendant at the time he received the other books ot the Old Telegraph company from the bauds of the teiro tary, on the representation, as coun lei BlAted, that he had purcbsied all, or nearly all, of the eh.ires ol the company. The book was not offered in evidence to mis-tsin mis-tsin any of the acts c! H j ; d : , by re son of r eso I u lions and proceedings that were recorded in the volume as having occurred by his procurement, but were introduced with a view to show the. invalidity of all the acta of Holden, in & far as he had c!a;med to act as the president of the corporation. Tbe book contained tbe articles of association and bye laws of the com pany and the proceedings of the corporation cor-poration and other points bearing I directly upon the issue before tho court. : |