Show PORTLAND MINING SUIT 1 Oral Testimony Now Being Bei g Heard eard in inT T Buffs 7 Council la Ta March ll The ThE first t toral oral testimony In hi the Portland mining suit was heard today T M I Howell of Denver testified that James Doyle Dovle the th plaintiff and J T F Burns the defendant lived and worked together on several claims In the Cripple Creek Cr k district an 11 ll the th winter of oC 1892 He lie detailed a conversation which he had d with Burns and Dovle DoIe Do 1 In which Burns stated that there had been beena a failing falling out with the he two other partners and that he and find Doyle were going goins to work together as partners from that time on onIt onIt onIt It has hns been decided d by the county au an authorities that no attempt will be he made to interfere int with the trial because of ex ox expense expense pense pease to the county count |