The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-09

AMlAltAJLNs OAkOi
going over the property and 1t Is
said to have been on his report that
the recent heavy buying was bas-
cd. During the past year the Doug
las company has acquired several
additional mines in Mexico and has
conducted vigorous development Of
It's original properties, including the
completion of railroad for taking
out it's ore, and the construction of
a new 1000 ton smelter
The company controls the Anita
Copper Mines Company of Mexico
which owns copper, gold, coal and
timber properties In the State of
Sonora; the Pacific Refining q
Smelling Company, which owns
government concessions In the same
9att, for building and operating
smelting plants. railroads, telephone
and telegraph lines; the Sonora
Consolidated Gold Mines Company,
which owns a group of mines near
the town of Quirego, and the Baroy-
eca coal fields in the same state
This includes ownership OF the
town site buildings and improve
ments at the new station of Fund
icion, on the Cananea. Yaqui River
& Pacific Railroad, which now is
being constructed for the Southern
Pacific Company from Guaymas to
the City of Mexico
As result of the treatment ac-
corded to the unfortunate nen com
PEELED to do jury duty in the mur-
der trial of Harry X. Thaw. 1t will
be harder than ever in the future
to find jury box in New York
City.
| The attitude taken by the State
toward jurors in this trial has been
nothing short of disgraceful. Men
who have been forced to serve on
this jury have been treated more
as they they themselves were charg-
ed with murder than as though they
were to pass upon the innocence or
guilt of the accused.
| As soon as juror was accepted
by the attorneys for both sides he
| was ri'rced in close confinement
From the minute Of his acceptance
the Juror has been under the con-
stant espionage of n court officer
has been prevented from reading let
lters or newspapers. until every line
in them has first been passed upon
! by an official and he has been com
PEELED to forego communications
even with business associates or
family. On each adjournment of
Ecaurt the Jurors have been marched
from the court room to a hotel un-
der heavy guard of officers. as
Nough they were members Ef a
chain gang. and still under guard
they have been confined to special
quarters engaged for them until
time to go back to court again tht
next morning
In the meantime, however, the
judge presiding at the trial has
IIwilhout restriction, gone from the
court room at the end of each day:
proceedings. has dined with his
family or friends, in public or pri
vate as he saw fit, and has ha, y
interference with his private life
The time spent in court comprise
his business hours and he spent hi
other time just as would any othe
professional o. business man afte
;,,N
ors, all business or professional me
during the entire time have bee
ccoped up and herded together lilS
, prisoners.
1T Is hard to see why man. {
sufficiently clean repute 20 act a
a juror should not be permitted
spend time outside the court rool
in normal manner just as tn
Judge is permitted to spend h
time. II this were permitted thel
would be far less trouble in sc
curing jurors, AS it is, one dot
not wonder that New York me
fight as they do against being cal
ed upon for jury duty.
Two bridges from Staten lslar
and one from Manhattan to Il
New Jersey shore have been recon
mended for construction, to the lei
islature of New York and New .Ie
sey by the special joint commi
sion which for several months h;
been considering this subject.
Each Staten Island bridge won
cost approximately 100000. III
Manhattan bridge. which would co
neaa'ly $35,O00,000 would be bu
from a point somewhere betwe
Fourteenth and Seventy-secol
streets and would be suspense,
bridge, one hundred and fifty te
above high water, and with a sp
of 5000 feet, the longest in t
world. The principal part of I
expense would be in the constru
tion Of very deep foundations as t
silt at the bottom OF the Huds
River goes down from 80 to $50 IL
according to location.
1t is planned to use the big brid
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