The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-09
SCANDAL.
a $4,000 Suit Planted in the
Third District Court.


Third District Court.
Late On Friday evening the follow
: ing complaint was flsd tie Clerks
!. Office of the Third District Court, by
Messrs. Williams & Young:
. Third Judicial District of Utah Terri
tory. County Of Salt Lake.
: Ferdinand Dickert, plaintiff, rs.
9 Alien G. Campbell, defendant.
n The said plaintiff complains of the
: said defendant and alleges that he is
now, and hes been iOr Thirteen years last
z past, a resident of the United States,
. and for eleven years last past has re-
sided in the said Territory of Utah,
2 and that during all that time he has
, been Of good name, fame AMI repu.
tahon.
That plaintiff is, and has been for
twenty years last past, e civil and
! mining engineer, and has during all
the time he mas resided in Utah Ter
r.tJry, Is aforesaid, been employed IN
his said profession.
That at the time OF composing,
writing an1 publishing the false,
scandalous and malicious libel here
matter mentioned, he was, and for
seYeral years prior thereto be had
been 6 duly appointed, qualified and
acting deputy United States mineral
lsurVeyer, in and for said territory.
THAT as such civil and mining en-
gineer and deputy mineral surveyor,
he has always conducted and de-
meaned himself with honesty and
fidelity, and has never been guilty or
suspected of being guilty of any mis-
conduct or malpractice 10 sal bust
ness AID profession.
That heretofore, to-wit: On the "a |
day of February, AID. 1880, the said
defendant WIliuly and maliCiousiy, |
contriving how he could draw and |
bring the plaintiff into disgrsce, con-
tempt and ignominy with the citizens
and residents Of said territory and else
where, and thereby Intending 70 in
jure the plaintiff IN his good name
and reputation, and in his said busl-
uess and profession, did, in a certain
letter addressed to one James Love,
OF Salt Lake City, in said territory,
devise, compose, write and publish,
and caused to be devised. composed,
written and published a certain false,
scandslous and malicious libel OF and
concerning him. the said plaintiff, OF
the tenor following, that Is to say:
OFFICE OF HoRN SILVER MINING
COMPANY,
FRISCO, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH,
February D, 1880.
Mr. James Lore.
Dear Sir.-Your favor, Seth January,
at hand, with Dickert's statement 10
surveyor general; also surveyor generals
report, Why did he not In his report to
the department tell them that the GisoOV-
ery OF Carbonate Mine had not been
moved? And why does Dickert persist
in that falsehood if he IS not what we call
him. q blackmailer? And why did he
as q government officer, make a protest
survey for a mining claim where there
was none, nor sign Of any, as against
true vein of ore, if he is not q black
mailer? And why did he propose 20
survey the ground for an interest before
ever seeing It? and why did he after seeing
it and knowing 1t was III dispute, and
knowing there was no vein, bed, ledge or
deposit of ore, and that it was not pos
sible to make a location according !
to law, I say why did he buy
into it if he is not blGckmailer,
and did not intend a. the time 10 try snd
make the Carbonate Company pay him
something for what he knew was moth
ing? or, in other words, pay HIN some
thing for his meddlesome, rascaIly
schemes? Then again, if we could not
get q lawful order from the surveyor
general 10 have our survey made where
we had g good vein OF ore, and which
had bean worked from the date Of It's |
discovery, how could Mr.. Dickert get q ,
lawful order to make a protest survey |
where he did not have anything IN the |
shape Of a mine, let alone having his !
ground no better marked than ours was?
Dickert, in speaking Of the discovery |
of the Carbonate, utters falsehoo6s when
he says the discovery Is tioated ninety, or
any other number OF feet. The survey
made BY Instead was made from the
discovery Of the nina, and the only dis
covery there ever was, and the only shaft |
there was at the time Olmstead made the |
survey. I csn show TO Mr.. Dickeyt, in ten
minute, if he will come here like = nan,
that he Is a falsifer. lst-I will show (
him that the working shaft IS but thirty
six feet from the discovery shaft, aud |
that the discovery shaft Is there Snd =
in good shape. But no, Mr.. Dick
ert all the way through shows dlrt.
He met Mr.. Wheeler and proposed to |
survey the ground for an interest. He
slipped in and made his survey unbe-
known to any of the owners OF the Car |
Donate Nine bought piece Of ground
from q party that had no right TO sell 1t, !
even if it had been a mine, then sneaked
out and entered his protest without a
word. Fer Wba.? let me ask. He knew | {
there was not even prospect there; he {
knew the location was not lawful one, |
and he knew the Carbonate people |
claimed fhe ground. Then why did he
buy in to 1t? The fact is too plain. lie |
thought he would make the Carbonate |
pe-p7e pay him. Is it possible that he
has been playing ,hese dirty tricks on
other people ever since 1872 and can 1t |
be possible that the department will
allow such a man to continue 10 office?
If such Is to be the case, then the miners
had better quit trying to get patents and
prepare themselves with shOtguns 20 pro-
tect their interests. l would ike 10 have |
Mr.. Dickert. and General Solomon IS
Well LOT ne HAS G-fNbl M ASA~t NV
word. tell me how they can make ninety
feet between di5covery shaft and work
ing shaft, or as he (DickerD calls 1t, new
discovery, when the two shafts
come together at the depth OF
sevsntv-one feet. Then 1 want to
ask Why General Solomon took DickeTts
word for these things and reported TO the
department substantiating all that he,
| Dickert, had reported? when be,
Solomon, was asked when on tue ground, |
10 90 into the nine and could have made |
these surveys himself, and II he had have
done so he would have found the nina |
lust as herein stated, and just as any man |
| or men would have to report who would |
| MAKE the examination. Anderson Is at |
Beaver; you will get psPers from there by |
tie time you get tbis.
Yours respectfully,
&. @. CAMPBELL.
p. S.-Mr. Lowe, 1 think it best fo- |
you 10 secd my letter to General |
| Williamson. I would also like you to |
show it 10 General Bane and Colonel |
! Neal: YOU can slso show 1t to General |
Solomon and Dickert If you wish; l have !
not done anything 10 receive such treat
ment from the hands Of government
officers. l do not wish to speak DIS;
respectfully of them, but l shall tell
| truibs and defend my interests lIrespec-