Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-11
MR.. KING DIFFERS
In Opinion From Other Noted
Biologists.
SAYS WILLIAMS WORKS
Are Not Up to Date--WOuld Give Way
to an Assertion by Prof.
1dingS.

the pennsylvania mine suit will be rush.
ed to a finish. Ever since the hearing be-
gan the hours have been from 10 TO Il
and ? to ) O'Clock. but next Monday there
will be a slight modification and it will be
strictly maintained until the last bit of
testimony is introduced. The hours will
be from 9 until II and l until 5, an addi-
tion Of two hours to each day.
The cross-examination Of Clarence
King was commenced bou $3.50 o'clock
yesterday and resumed this morning. AS
Mr.. King had made several tests of the
rock of the property in controversy ne
was asked today why and in what man.
ner he had made one particular test OF
quartz p%orphyry on a specific gravity
basis. After answering the question in
a direct way he rave a general outline
Of conditions governing this class OF
tests. The usual course for the decompo-
sition Of quartz porphyry in a dyke. he
said, was the action Of water, but other
causes had been ascribed. All of the de-
| tails in connection with the component
| parts Of quartz porphyry were gone into
| by the witness. In searching for sam
| pies in the mine he had found places
| other thar the ones from which he had
! made his selections where the quartz por-
phyry was more decomposed, but he
wanted something that would stand cut
ting for the slides and therefore had
taken the samples from places where the
rock was not so badly decomposed.
Mr.. Kings testimony on "cross-examin-
alton during the larger part Of the day
was along this line.
Mr.. Hughes read several articles writ
ten by mineralogists on the
composition and specific gravity of quartz
porphyry and had Mr.. King compare the
results of his Investigations with them.
One was from Williams works on myth
ology and after it was finished Mr.. King
challenged the assertions of the author.
He said Williams was not a photographer
and odd why. in his opinion, he was not.
Another passage was from Becker. Mr..
King considered him a good petrograph-
er. but not skilled in his line of bust
ness. Mr.. King, in answer to a question
from Mr.. Hughes, said he himself was
not a skilled Photographer and was taker
to task by MI. Hughes for criticisinS the
work of others in this line. He considered
Professor Idings a thorough Photographer
] and said he was willing to give way tc
any assertion made by him on the sub
iect. Williams book, he thought, was
not up to late. but he would have to read
the book through in order to satisfy him
self as to the particular points of weak
ness. He believed the article read to De
generally correct.
Other articles on the analysis of quartz
porphyry were read and Mr.. King agreed
with their authors. One was a bulletin
from the pen Of Professor Pierson, a Yale
man and m of the geological sur
vey. with direct reference to the Castle
mountain mining district of this state
The witness said there was a difference
between the definition given by Professor
Williams and the II by Professor Pier
son-.the latter made direct reference tt
the magnetic differentiation, while the
former did not.
Referring to the component parts oi
quartz porphyry and indurated clay Tho
witness said they both contained silica
iron. water and aluminium. but still the
process of decomposition would be differ,
ent.
]. B.. Knight, who formerly acted as
constable in Justice Smiths court a
South Butte, is one of the many men tha1
have mysteriously disappeared from
Butte during the last few years. 1t is
not suspected that his body is at the
bottom of an abandoned mine shaft, bur
led in the old placer diggings south oil
west of the city, or in someone's cellar
but nevertheless no one seems 10 knoN
where it is.
A few weeks ago a complaint charging
Mr.. Knight with having appropriated the
larger part of a cash bond deposited witt
him in a civil suit was issued from the
county attorneys Office, but the warrant
that followed never touched him because
he could not be found. At that time /
was stated that Knight had lost the bono
money playing faro, but 1T has since
transpired that the game was poker. The
amount placed in his hands vas $3.50
When the owner of it concluded to take
it down and substitute collateral he wen
in search Of the holder and found hin
engaged in a game of poker in the Orig
inal Mug saloon at IA East Park street
He had lost all save $35, and this he sur
rendered. Three other men were engaged
in the game; men, it is alleged, wh'