Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-08-21
ANOTHER OFFICIAL
WOEFULLY IGNORANT
He Thinks" a Great Deal But
Admits That He Knows Very
Little of Actual Workings of
Company Now on
Trial.

Denver, Colo, August 21.-Prof
Kari Linderman, the discoverer OF
Lnderman's lake in Alaska and in
terested at different times in many
of the most famous mines in the
world, received 800 from the Lost
Bullion Spanish Mines company for
making an expert investigation of its
property on Bear mountain. And at
that he paid his own expenses. This
was sworn to yesterday by w. Is.
Cameron, vice president of the COM
pany and one of the indicted men.
1t is expected that this fact will be
used as extremely damaging material
by the United States in an attempt to
discredit Prof. iLnderman's evidence
that the alleged limestone cave is
a mine worth $20,000.000. Most ex-
perts receive from $50 to 500 a day
for an expert examination of a mine.
Such an authority as the defense
claims Prof. Linderman to be would
ordinarily get an enormous fee for
an examination such as he made,
lasting nearly IA days.
AS each of the indicted officers of
the company comes to the stand, he
vies with his predecessors in claiming
ignorance of the management of the
company's business. DIR. r. c. Hunt,
first president, testified last week that
he had but little knowledge of the
conduct of affairs and seldom attend
ed meetings. w. B. Cameron said
that he was not responsible knew
but little of the personnel of the staff
or how the money was expended. On
cross-examination he also said tha.
he attended but few meetings al
though he had written strong letter
recommending the stock on the
strength of the assays.
Thinks Mine is Valuable.
In reply to one question from Uni
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to the policy of the directors, of
which he was one, he went so far as
to say that he didn't know, and.
what was more, didn't care" He ad-
mitted to owning 100000 shares, but
said that he had paid for them and
invested his money on the strength
of what he had been told by w. w.
Wilsch.
He said he had signed the minutes
of meetings at which he had not been
present. He claimed to have made
personal investigation of the property
and of all the engineers reports and
from all this he became convinced
that the Lost Bullion Spanish mine
was worth $10,000,000.
The morning session was enlivened
by another sharp rebuke administer
ed to Attorney Ralph Talbot for the
defense by Judge Lewis. 1t was set
tied by the court threatening to make
the lawyer sit down and discontinue
his examination of the witness, Chas.
Du Bois brother of George S. Du
Bois.
Court Rebukes LAWYER.
The admissdbility of a letter re-
ceived by the witness from his broth
er, was in question. The court de-
cided that 1t could not be offered in
evidence. Mr.. Talbot proceeded, in
the face of the ruling, to ask Du Bois
questions concerning the letter.
Mr.. Talbot, 1 am surprised at the
course you are taking" said the
JJudsee You must discontinue that
But counsel for the prosecution
has not objected to my questions"
retorted the lawyer.
THAT makes no difference" said
Judge Lewis, "the court objects"
please note an exception" said
Mr.. Talbot, ito the courts interpos-
ing an objection in the place of coun-
sell"
'Mr. Talbot you are extraordinar-
lily indiscreet," said the court. You'll
have to desist, or l shall be compelled
to make you sit down"
Heard of Mine Before Discovery.
The chief point made by the de-
tense in the testimony Of Charles Du
Bois was the fact that he had heard
of the existence of the old Spanish
mine long before II was discovered"
by his brother, George. He said that
he had spoken of IL to Mr.. KeableS
and other officers of the company az
early as 1904 before the company
was organized or thought of. He tes-
titled to the fact that his brother had
entertained the idea OF searching for
it for many years before young Lee
Du Bois met with his "Yaqui Iu-
dian"
George Du Bois was put on the
stand later in the afternoon. His
evidence was largely a reiteration of
facts that have been put forward be-
fore. II tended to show that the ex-
animation of the property made by
James c. ClimO in the presence of
Postoftice Inspector Macomic was su-
perhcial. He declared that he had
shown Climo some loose ore from
which an assay had shown returns of
more than $500 a ton. He said that
Climo had refused TO take a sample
OF It and had pronounced IL worth
less at a glance, without making any
careful examination at all.
says Examination Was Hasty.
He said that ClimO had taken one
sample from the ironstone dyke, pick
ing up merely one piece at random,
in the face Of his urging that there
were places in which he, Du BOis,
had taken samples and obtained no
values He said that to obtain a
proper estimate Of the value Of the