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Show JOSEPH F. SMITH Jl OTHERS WILL BE WITNESSES The third week of the Geddes-Ec-cles heirship trial will begin before Judge J. A. Howell tomorrow morning morn-ing at 9; 30 with no certainty as to when it will be concluded.' The plaintiff plain-tiff still has a number of witnesses to examine and It is said to be more I than likely that two or three more days will be taken up on tbat side of the case. Judge King, attorney for the plaintiff, stated Saturday that he had fifty witnesses at his command and would use them If necessary. The defendants are getting ready to open their side of the case and today to-day are making up their list of witnesses. wit-nesses. Col. C. A. Boyd, chler counsel coun-sel for the defendants, stated today that ho would call 12 or 15 witnesses but that they would not take up much time. The longest witnesses will be Theodore Kytka and Albert S. Osborne, Os-borne, the handwriting experts, unless the attorneys for the plaintiff should conclude to make the cross examination examina-tion brief. In the J. H. Martain case, where only about 30 exhibits were examined and testified to by the expert ex-pert Kytka, seventeen days' time was taken up. In the case now on trial there are more than 100 exhibits apd two witnesses to be examined respecting respect-ing them. So that, if anything like as much time is taken on each exhibit ex-hibit as In tho Martin case, the case will not bo concluded before-August 1 or later. Among the witnesses to be called by th? defendants are President Joseph Jo-seph F. Smith. United States Senator Reed Smoot, Theodore Kytka and A. S. OBbnrnc, handwriting experts; David Da-vid C. Ecclcs, administrator of the es tate, L. R. Eccles, an heir and manager man-ager of the Amalgamated Sugar com- pany, r G. Taylor, secretary of the Amalgamated Sugar company, W Bramwell of Plain City, Mrs. Bertha Eccles first wife of the late David Eccles other members of the Eccles family, Joseph Geoghegan of the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company, and L. H Farnsworth of the Walker Brothers bank in Salt Lake. There is a bare possibility that the first witness for the defendants may bo called to the stand Wednesday afternoon, aft-ernoon, and there Is also a possibility that the defendants may complete the introduction of testimony in the course of four or five days, considering consider-ing thp fact that night sessions of court will be held oo |