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AN was what we deem a most flagrant exhibition of f wrath and unreasoning reasoning pre audle in the third district court this morning an idea ot of the character ol of the spectacle can be formed by a perusal of a brief account acco of the occurrence ne e in our local columns the question before beffre the court was the continuance of a mining suit it was incidentally mentioned that mr george A was a witness in the case this brought down upon that gentle gent lemans nans devoted head the thunderbolts of the wrath of judge zane lie he offered him a dechar ing tha tibe would not believe him bim un der onah and that he would not bear a case in id which mr was a witness i i thus from the bench ati inconsiderate and ill tempered 1 I judge adge offered a personal affront under lauder cover of his official position aud and advanced years that he be probably never would think of being guilty of except under such c circumstances if cum stances it is ia so easy to throw mud at an enemy from behind a barricade while he is ir in the open such exhibitions exhibition sare are unseemly and humiliating from mortals in the most anost ordinary walks of life hie but when they come from professed administrators of the law tae m tn inexcusable excusable and tend fend to bring axe nah into contempt i it is interesting to note the cause of the tae passionate explosion it had reached the ears of his honor wast that mr had said some hard bard things about the court and add some of its to officers As to whether he be had made arde the statements however the judge had no knowledge according to his bis own admission he had bad been informed he bad sod and his wrath was therefore the result ol of i rumor he considered this without any wither with mr as dent ground to q denounce him as guilty pt of falsehood and misrepresents aulty tiou on he had bad heard one side ot the story and chatin mr zanes panes estimation was sufficient ground upon which to base a a judgment and justify a condemnation of the gentleman in question the manifestation of the violence of the judges temper may maybe be explained on the tae ground of aa the particular parties against whom the alleged aspersions of mr were cast the court and some of its officers it appears to a 4 person efto tap a tree and looking down on a quarrel in which he is 14 not IL a party that if the judge was aware of certain accusations having been made in chic which he was oneff one of the parties animadverted anim adverted upon he be should court an investigation ahls would be much more consistent than to fly into a blinding rage and abuse and v illicy the person alleged to have made the objectionable statements it seems however ho wever that investigation full and completo complete is just juit what some people object to what to la vulgarly termed bulldozing seems to suit their purpose much better |