Show SKOOKUM MINING CLAIM Federal Court at BoIse Decides Important Im-portant Case Boise Ida Jan 1Judge Beatty In the United States court has decided the case of Kennedy J Hanley vs Charles Sweeney et al for a onethird and a oneeighth Interest In the Skookum mining mi-ning claim near Wardner The decision deci-sion Is against Hanley allirming the title ti-tle of the defendants to the Interest Involved In-volved The Skookum claim Is one of very great value embraced in the territory bolng worked by the Idaho Empire State company of which Mensrs Swee ney and Clark aro the principal stockholders stock-holders The great ore body originally discovered In the Last Chance dips Into this ground There has leon a controversy contro-versy between Hanley and hjveen y for a number of years The onethird Interest In-terest has twice been before the Supreme Su-preme court of the State Hanley being be-ing defeated in both Instances Judge Boatty finds that this scorns to be a case In vhluh this court may consider as Its guide the conviction given giv-en the statutes by the State court As lo the oneeighth Interest ho says The conclusion Is that the complainant complain-ant upon whom the burden rests has not made his case by even a preponderance preponder-ance of evidence but he bases his action ac-tion upon alleged fraud upon the part of the defendants In cloning the opinion touches upon a possibly important point In the fellow Ing language Something has been said by counsel as to whether the apex of the ledge Is tIthiln the Skookum claim While that Is not a question for decision deci-sion hero It certainly Is through that complainant has not suffered If the apex Is not so situated and that it is does not seem a possibility from evidence with which this court is familiar fa-miliar In other cases rioil before him |