Show JOSEPH r R SEELY JELLS TELLS WHY development of sunnyside Sunny side mines I 1 auant aunt I 1 greater market for the products of a and other v ther sections how a man inan of affairs could con aider alder it a good proposition to sell for a one fourth in interest terest in a sc section kioh of coal land patents to f f which coat cost upwards of and upon which the th sum ef c 1700 had s been mad in enllie the way of improve 44 f ments formed tho the basis for questions put by district attorney booth f to joseph sely in the coal land hearing friday seely is a resident of mt pleasant Pica sant and upon the LN the entire forenoon thein the in propounded to him were of a moat most searching character and were intended to bring out whether or not the witness had been used usail as a dummy in f hlina supoj challands coal lands seely stoutly mal e d tha ethere had been zao previous un ferstanding as to the entry of the land but that lie had acted absolute tin o 0 good faith he ile was forced to admit that he had never spent one dollar on tho proportion either for filing upon che the quarter lection the fee of fifteen dollars per acre au or in anyway any way of improving the pro property larty everything had been done eaid seely through john 1 thul who had bad been appointed agent of the or to which witness belonged the agent had rever called upon the principals for any money and seely dec declared lured ha he did not know where the means came from tidwell said witness appointed appoint nd as I 1 subagent robert forrester and it was the latter who b brought to seely seel a i s mak deed to D oe e signed and also turned over to him a check for though the price namo camol I 1 on the deed was witness did dit not know exactly who the grantee was wm but but thought it may have been the pleasant valley coal company or the utah fuel company the filing was made july 2 1900 1000 and the deed WAS signed nineteen days later rin win explanation plana tion of why he became connected with the coal proposition in cie first place seely kald it was ivas with an object of fost fostering eting fhe the devel development op of mines that markets might inight be afforded for the products product a of farm and range in his section of 0 countr although ml MR pleasant is a hundred miles from junny side he had ship ped vast consignments of df cattle and hogs to feed the miners of the coal regions john A williams of 5 cofield ofield w james pittman of clear creek creck ta tac 1 1 ned fied that tha each teach had received fifty dol lars from the pleasant amant valley coal company for filing upon certain coal lands tb tho better wit ness of the two from 04 government standpoint as he deemed quite willing to tell just anat arrangement was alleged to hav been maae mae with forrester For reter company geologist williams explained that the papers marking the transfer of the tho coal el continued on I 1 JOSEPH SEELY setly TELLS WHY arnow aage argell 41 lands had been signed gig ned in salt lake city he lie was not rot quite certain whether the company had provided a railroad pass pan to come to salt lake city or not tho the fact of the matt matter was as the witness teamed teso fled that Iv williams illiams and pittman carried a largo large bottle with witto a stick in iton it on their trip to zion for this good and sufficient reason williams memory is clouded on certain 1 of the subject ile ja certain that there was an understand ing whereby the company was to pay all the fees necessary to secure the lands williams was intended to act only as a dummy in the operation he Is one of th first witnesses who would franl frank aranksy jy Sy admit as much although the government has made oth otaw confess jt t A all that they were ere hardly less pitt mans caze was similar in nearly every chaee to that of williams he lie also received fifty dollars hyrum tidwell of NV wellington ellington testified that he had sold land upon uron which he filed to the company for IGO the explanation of his hs transactions were similar to thoe of his 1 relatives A n little vague and indefinite and hardly satisfactory to explain a purely business proposition where the company paid the filing fees and where the witness only signed his name flame to various documents prior to receiving pay the united states A atri ct attorney and his deputies being busy in the federal court hearings before the master in chancery wilt will not bo be resumed for several days there are gre numerous other wit witnesses yet to be 6 heard |