Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-02
THE FAMOUS MINING SUIT.
Eureka Hill Dissected by the Min
ing Sharps-Everybody in Provo
Interested i'm Efunning the
POStOfffce.

Provo, October 30.-The great mining
suit still occupies the time of this court,
and if things still continue at the present
rate, there must be shipped in here
fresh batch of court reporters.
The chief interest in the case during
the past week was conferred in the testi-
mony of the world-famed geologist, DR..
Hunt, of Montreal. OF this gentleman
the Enquirer here says:
DIR. Hunt, the distinguished witness who
lately came to Provo to give testimony in
the great mining suit now In progress, has a
worldwide reputation. He has been actively
engaged in the pursuit of his favor1te
studies-geology, mineralogy and chemistry
for nearly forty years, and Is recognized
wherever the language of science is known,
as one of her most devoted and gifted stu
dents. He is graduate of Yale College,
and was connected with the geological sur
vey of Canada for period of twenty-five
years. The greatest honors of the scientific
world have been conferred upon him. For
six years he was Professor of Geology in the
Institute of Technology in Boston. He is a
member of the National Chemical Associa-
ton of the United States, selected from a
class of 100; acting as National Chemical
Scientist; member of the Royal Society of
London and of the Geological and Scientific
Society of Belgium, France, Austria, and
many other countries and past president of
| many American societies.
His theory of the Eureka hill was given
like poem. The whole series of ore
| chambers found in the lime formation in
question were connected like links of
sausage, in language peculiar, quaint and
Interestingly stratifed by geological
phrases of a practical as well as class
room order. If DR.. Hunt can be relied
on as an authority, the very idea of this
mining dispute ever coming into court
was another evidence of the faults or
breaks to be found in old humanity. He
instances the famous Richmond Eureka,
Nevada, case, in order to make his langu-
age plain to the court, and when he closed
his days talk in the direct examination,
the Eureka hill was saturated by one
broad mineral zone and there evidently
was not crack in the lime big enough to
hold Beck's title to anything in the dis
trict. Arthur Brown took the DR.. in hand
next morning. and the cross-examination
was far more interesting than the work of
the manufacturer of Wasatch geology. 1t
will not do to say here which got away
with the days fight, Brown or Hunt, but
if there is anything of vital importance
that was not hunted up and done brown
it was because the subject seemed to be
worn out.
While the counsel showed disposition
to treat the eminent witnesses with all
the consideration possible on the cross
examination in a case involving millions,
yet Judge Powers has knack of protect
ing witness and doing justice to the
whole bar. The Eureka-Hill side of the
case is in and the time of the Court is
now taken up in the hearing of the argu-
ments on non-suit. Judge Sutherland,
for Beck, and Dixon, for Packard, both
made brilliant efforts, but as the question
is yet in the judicial mill, we must allow
Judge Powers to solve the problem.
POWERS ON CITIZENSHIP.
Quite an amusing incident occurred in
the manufacture of a couple OF citizens
here the other day, that was also of in
terest to future candidates. TIE appli.
cants, one Dane the other Welshman.
occupied a closer relationship than the
geographical position of their native
countries would indicate. The Cambrian
was son-in-law to that Dane. Having
secured two witnesses to testify as to his
strict morality and abiding faith in the
Constitution, the Dane was naturalized
first and then acted as witness for his
son-in-law. The relationship in this in
stance did not crop out until Judge Pow
ers asked the usual question, "Do YOU
know this man to be of a good moral
character, sober and law-abiding?" And
the Dane innocently answered the cues
ton by asking the Court, 'sOff dot man
vosn't a good man, do you tink dot |
would Gift him my Katrina for a vife.'
That settled the matter.
THE PROVO PosToFFICE.
Since the appointment of J. G. Kenney
to the Postmastership the air here is full
of profanity, indignation and cancelled |
postage stamps. The Mayor, LAWYERS.
merchants and mining experts have ali |
taken the management of the postal de-
partment, while the Office now and for
years past, under the control of Mrs.
McCauslin, has been all that the citizens
OF Provo desire. Mrs. McCauslin is hon
est, capable and obliging. She is the
widow of the former Postmaster, and the
majority of those for whom she has been
a public servant for years desire that she
be retained. That the people of Provo
have the right to say something on mat
'ers pertaining to their own particular in
'erests is well understood; but will the
act OF a general, sweeping con-
iemnation of Kenney have any weight
With the department at Washington /?
i he is unfit, his peculiar unitness
should be shown. He may not be popu-
ar in Provo, but he must have been rec
by some one, somewhere,
md in order to break up the influence
hat secured his appointment definite
harges must be made and each charge
July sustained. In the excitement fol-
owing Kenney's appointment manv good t
Itlzens here forget that the change in the ,
'rovo postoffice was not altogether the
ause OF change in the administration.
good, fair show should be given all /
ound, and if the administration fails to t
atlsfy all parties generally and appli- S
ants for an eleven-dollar postoffice par h
cularly, / can only see one way out OF n
ne difficulty, and that is for us to lust +
uietly secede from the Union.
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