The Irish standard., 1897-04-24

with abundant capacity for taking caro-
Of himself under all ordinary circums
stances; while even more pfsposterous
appeared the suggestion hazarded BY
one or two excited imaginations that
the young man, overwhelmed by sense
of defeat at finding his principal Wit
ness flown, had simply Thrown up the
sponge" and remained away from court
of his own accord. Not a theory was
advanced which might not be beaten
down by another, that in turn to be
proved equally unstable; but that theirs
must have been foul play of some sort
was generally accepted.
When court convened again at two
o'clock there were still no tidings Of
the missing man, and Donald Bartels,
never more icily calm, began his I'M
equal contest in the spirit Of Travis at
the battle Of the Alamo. OF words he
naust build his only bulwark, talking
against time. He began his address to
the jury with careful description Of tho
locations Of the two mines, describing
with minute particularly the Mascot
lode, it's dip and trend, the width be.
tween foot and hanging wall and the
character of its ore. He waxed elo-
guent in the story Of Harvey Neil's,
long time Of toll on the bleak hillside,
through storm and sunshine, summer
and winter, Handicapped by poverty
and even more by his boyish inexperi-
ence, bravely keeping on even when al
times scarce so much as & slice of bacon
remained between him and starvation.
So pathetic was his word picture of this
weary time of working and waiting
that couple of mining men On the jury,
who had perhaps suffered similar ex-
periences in that same gambling game
with nature, were visibly affected, their
faces frightening alphabetically when
the speaker went on to tell Of the rich
strike which at last had promised mets
reward for all that had gone before.
Skillfully the clever speaker skinned
the surface Of the troublous times with
the miners afterward, paying $shrewd
tribute to the avowed aims of the union
while at tho same time delicatefy up
holding the man who would not tdis4
charge a faithful and efficient work.
man at the behest Of any man, prefer
ring to run the gauntlet Of rrecrimmina-
ton and enmity rather than BE recreant
to his conception Of an employers duty:
summarizing the whole matter as mere
~ an unfortunate misunderstanding
which, in retrospect, should be consid-
a H0 CID
From this he went or: to show how the
Mascot vein had developed in 1richnesd
with depth until envy had cast
its evil eye upon a neighbor's pros,
perity, showing how the Grub
stake mine had been relocated, the
trend of it's side, lines so changed
that larger section of the Mascot's
rich territory might be covered by the
intersection of the two lodes-if. it
could be said that there were two lodes.
For he would undertake to prove, the
speaker went on to declare, that never
had any mineral been discovered in this
so-called Grubstake lode until after this
relocation; they would show that the
present management of the Grubstake
mine, mining men of acknowledged"
skill and experience, had sunk q. shaft
upon ground revealing no smallest vein
Of mineral, ground utterly barren, and
experiment of which the xmerest. tyro
IN: mining could scarcely be guilty
without the set purpose which became
apparent when from that unprounising
shaft drift went creeping out to the
westward, q drift which to the un-
initiated must have seemed no less des:
titute of rational design than the work
al the outset, since it followed no lead,
the method in which madness only be-
coming clear when that drift cut into
tiny fault or fissure which had pre-
viously been uncovered in the Mascot
hanging wall. Then it was that the
Glubstake claimed a true assure vein
paking turn at this point into the
Mascot's rich ore body, although even
then they had not ventured to. reveal
their purpose by cutting into tho
Mascot workings, preferring rather to
delve in the wealth they had opened up
beyond, where they, might work un-
detected for the time. They could show
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the Mascot at the time this small, fault
in the hanging wall was uncovered. had
had full direction Of the. Grubstake
workings which led to the latter dis
covery, so-called, a. man Influenced no,
less by personal enmity toward bis late
employer than through zeal for the man
who now paid him: wage to do. SUCH
dirty work.. From this he went on to-
quote the decision Of the supreme court
Of the United States in the, Amy Silver
smith case, as determining the extra
lateral rights of the mine owner, ar:
guing that even if through ignorance
or willful blindness To the trfth this
fault in the rock which constituted the
Grubstake's only real claim to discov-
cry, could be considered q true vein, It's
direction, running as tt did aoross' tho
side lines Of the Mascot, effectually
barred the Grubstahe owner Of any
extra-lateral rights wthHattevef In that
so-called discovery. In relocating the
claim; plainly the intent had been to
bring the richest portion OF the Mascot
territory within tho Grubstake side
lines; but nature had been so inconsid-s
crate as to put that little slip in tho.
hanging wall Just q few feet too far