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Show fore Judge Zane at 10 o'clock this morning, on which occasion tho case ol tha Lone I'ino Consolidated Mining company vs. L. E. Holdeo, Harry Den-holter, Den-holter, et al., was called for hearing. The same general principles that have been too frequently ventilated in the mining litigation of the country were brought up for discussion. There is not a country in which mining exists as one industry that the ijuestion, which is simply the rights of the locator, has not been fought, and consequently it narrows itself down to one of the rights under the law of apexes. In the great case of The Bonnybell vs. Tho Durant, which has been pending for years in Colorado, over $500,000 have been expended ex-pended on the issues contained within it, and yet it still lingers upon the open record with as much vitality today as when it wastirst docketed. The case before Judge Zauo involves many interesting poiuts of law, prominent among which is that of the interpretation of tho law of 18N8 ml that of 1H72, in the terms of which there THE DliilCT C0LliT. The Criminal Oalondar Draws to a Close and Leaves an Open Field to Civil Ifa'.tors. THE LONE FINE MINING CASE. An Interesting Discussion on the Bight to Follow up the Continuous Ore Chute. With the Olson tragedy as a reminiscence remin-iscence and the criminal calendar out of the way for the time being at least, tho civil docket is moving forward on an open and unobstructed course, and matters in the District court aro now as dry as a sealess Sahara. During tho , recesses and intermissions the vicissi tudes of the Olsen trial have furnished is a wide diflerence. In this case it ie held that the old law looked more to the location and retention of the ground while the latter conies more under the land law system, providing for the disposal dis-posal of mineral lands and vesting in the locator tho right to follow all veins that may be disclosed within tho boundaries boun-daries of tho claim. The new law authorizes au-thorizes the locator or owner to follow tho dip of his vein so long as it is continuous con-tinuous in any angle or to any horrizon but bars the right to prospect for it be-pond be-pond his own lines. It gives the neighbor neigh-bor corresponding rights and if the claim is located under the old law it gets its secondary rights under the new. The ruling upou tho case will be watched with interest by all persons who are interested in mining iu Utah and adjoining countries. the leading topic for discussion. Counselors Coun-selors who look on such matters with clammy, critical gaze, and who view it solely from :i i rfessional standpoint, declare that n ;.suo was ever more ably or udivitl.v contested in Judge Zane's chamber. The closing scenes will never be entirely forgotten. They will live as long as the records of the court or as memory lasts. Tho spectators will not forget the outburst of gratitude that ciimo from that exultant mother's bosom, tho spontaneous stampede that was made toward Judge Powers as he stood clasping the hand of the woman he had rescued from the dark wilder- ness of despair, and the efforts of a , number of old ladies to hug him. All tho while his quivering client stood with hooded face. It was not her time to exult. The dad haunted her too closely, for her lawyer said that if ever woman idolized man she idolized the inconstant Hall, who, having paved his way to her ruin not with asphaltum, but with blocks hewn from her heart-left heart-left her a reckless waif upon the mercy of fickle silence. Tho time for her to unlock the fetters that had held her was approaching, however, and when, a few minutes later, she fouud herself in her lawyers private office, of-fice, beyond the piercing and relentless gaze of the spectator sho broke down completely. Tho scene was one of the most impressive on which mortal, no matter what his experience, ever cast an eye. "No one knows what my experience has been with this girl," remarked Judgo Powers. "I have seen her with all tho cunning of a Catalino conspiring conspir-ing against her life and when I did begin be-gin to comprehend the real magnitude of her desperation I placed her under tho espionage of a lady who never once relaxed her guard. This was the dark-eyed dark-eyed lady whom you saw seated beside her through the trial and who kept the reporters in a state of such constant speculation concerning her identity. It's all over now. Amanda Olsen is a new born creature. The verdict has recreated her and while she will never be the same in body or mind she is no longer the victim of every man's scorn and contumely." It is understood that she will depart, in a few days for California whither she had started" on the eve of the tragedy. In the meantime Mrs. Hart will nurse her wrath and await an opportunity to arenge the death of the man at whoso aide she was walking when ho was suddenly sud-denly ushered into eternity. Of' the attorneys for the prosecution too much cannot be said In their praise. Ther availed themselves of every on- ' portunity but the fight was one of utter hopelessness from the reading of the indictment. Public sentiment that burst into riot- 1 ous applause on several occasions com pletely submerged them and made the trial, after all. one of the miomolies of court chamber over whiok justice is presumed to preside without reference to humanity or the human heart. Poor Ann Hart is the most dilapidated object in the wreck that has been onrought. But then even the century plant may I bloom and blossom again. 1 An Important Anlt. The old question of the right of the I locator to follow his vein through auy I , and all its wanderings was revived be- |
