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Show S SffltD 1 1 Clear Case Against Miners in m the Mohawk Fails Upon a SS Technicality. m FEDERAL INTERVENTION . If MAY BE REQUESTED Biggest Operator in Goldfield flj'i Camp Says He Will Spend . '? Millions in Figb- M i Special to The Tribune.' IlfSlI GOLDFIELD. Nov., Dec. 2S. Three miners arrested for alleged theft of ;N1 rich ore from tho Frances lease on the ' ffl Mohawk mine were today acquitted on En a technicality, the cases having been ESj continued in the justice's court for HH more than two day3 at a timo and sMp there having elapse'd more than six days ikI' heforo tho lieanne was held, contrary ,- j" 1o the statute. While the accused men : a were caught in the act of carrying : fljl rich oro off shift, it wns impossiblo to 4 m convict, tho identification 01 the rock- j proving a stumbling block. No straight- 3; er caso has ever been brought into 'S court and tho mine owners are con- ) JI vinced that "high-grading" can never SI bo stopped except by Federal interven- iU tion. 1 Upon that theory George Wingfiold 17' secured the authority of the Circuit W Court to station armed guards at tho yi various workings of the Mohakw mino and in an interview in San Francisco, where he is now rusticating, stated t mk that he is determined to put an end to I 9m the thieving of fabulously rich ore if it iaH costs the valuo of his twenty-million- m dollar holdings. 1 '.xT, Victim Probably Known. Wit II. is low thought that tho unknown Wf man, whose horrible death by dragging J under a train from Tonopah to Gold- E1 field was reported to Tho Tribune, was I . Harry Blackwell. a' miner who had been, 1 working at Ramsey. It ' Two holdups who havo perpetrated ui cevoral robberies recently wero cap- t'i 1 their names as William Ryan and If James B. Ryan Their favorite diver- ilr sion was the holding up of saloons and gambling houses outside the center of ftr, the city, , 50 Josoph Davis, a pioneer of Nevada 2ff camps and a raining man of high , re- Bjl pute, died of pneumonia today. , Ha . S formerly worked in various camps in $Jj Utah, but more lately lived in Los An- fljl gcles, whither the remains are being shipped. Tho deceased was the dis- m coycrer of tho Dromedary Hump in llt Fairvicw district, and once practically Inf. owned the now famous Nevada Hilfa and Fairvicw Eagle. m ' At a depth of a hundred and fifty m feet in the shaft, 011 the Polevard claim wt of the Jumbo Extension group, tho. K Jumbo Extension Lensing company has ' R , cut a ledge of sulphide ore identical fjFij in appearance and valuo with that of tho Mohawk and thought to be an ex- ill tension of that load. Ill Nevada Hills Strike. , IVI A new strike on the Nevada Hills ij at Fairvicw shows five feet of ore that V$ui averages $400 per ion. This is in num- , JJf bcr five tunnel, which is driving under mV tunnel number four, and gives a work- trwjf ing depth of one hundred and forty J feet. - II Superintendent Joe Morris, of. tho ' IV Fnirview Eacrle. which Joins Nevada ' ;B Hills, reports the discovery of praoti- !.W cally the namo sort of oro on tho Eagle (j uud" states that its extension is also y found on the Fairvicw Ar.tec. which ' cndlincs tho Eagle. Nevada Hills is 1 m 11 owned largely in Salt Lake, as also is tho stock of Eaglo and Aztec. Mana- 'if gcr W. H. Weber of tho Novada Hills m is also manager of tho Aztec and Georgo H Wingfiold of Goldfield of Goldfield ia managing director of tho Eagle. S |
