| Show QUESTION OF usually the settling of disputes and rights of title are referred to courts i where both sides of the question at issue aro presented for settlement the plaintiff and defendant procure witnesses who are properly sworn and aro supposed to agne a correct account of what they personally ally know of the case pending and aiom such testimony the judge and jury after properly weighing it render their decisions litigants very often feel that they hae the best side of the case and it matteis not what verdict may be reached an appeal to the higher courts 13 determined upon before their case is disposed of tho court where it is being tried appeals and changes of venue are provokingly vo slow especially when men are engaged in some kinds of business where delays are detrimental lo 10 the successful prosecution of their own in teresta scarcely a litigant in any court and especially in the west where erupted woi k upon mining claims is of tho most gravest importance to the owner he knows that alow suit means a year or more of a bitter con testas ell as the idleness of bis property before he can proceed with his work of do the question of light to land or mining claims and the ami cable settlement of boundary lines in all mining camps seldom is agreed upon without prolonged trials in courts or bloodshed each miner or feels hira elf justly entitled to the full limit of alie law defining the area of his claim and if it be located in a region where mineral in biving quantities ex idt he is bound to claim and posses every inch of surface ground which may bo his and which has been set forth in the united states laws bovein ing the location of mining claims pronty of location it has been decided by the land commissioner gevea to the locator the full number of feet sai to a mining baim daim and any attempt to claim any portion thereof by later location when the original claimant has complied with the law is considered an infringement upon the rights of tho said prior loca or and de fend ahm he vill at gi eat cost the cutting of timba irom raining claims baui s many serious difficulties and large outlays of money as well often as life the settlement settle mint of these questions of arc numerous and varied some hae recourse to lav others adopt a moro speedy and crual remedy the gun a mining camp exists of any importance whatever but what can boast of some one giving up his life in defense of his lights as he bees them the prospector may laboi long and bard to develop a mining claim and bring it up to a state of perfection fec tion and when he reaches such a point in his labors who can blame him if he adopts positive measures to defend his property even at the coat of his life or of that of a fellow man but this method is to bo deplored in tho absence of courts years ago perhaps such clars were necessary to get rid of an intruder and even then it was a depraved proceeding manlike is worth something more than the price of any mining claim and if disputes as to richt of possession and cannot be compromised let the matter bo taken before courts life is not waith the living it men aie to bo shot down like the vocation the reckless taking of lifo upon some amill pretext is too frequent in tins country and measures should be adopted at once to stop it |
