Arizona state miner., 1925-05-23

inform him that the Hermes people
were rigging up a blackmail suit,
and offered to show him how to beat
it. Raymond was an able man, and it
is good proof of the cleverness of
link Barnes that he was able t.
take him in.
Before the end of the week Barnes
was in the pay and the confidence of
both parties. He suggested names
for jurors, giving lists of the same
names to each party. Through his
influence with the county clerk, with
whom he had early come to an under
standing, he was permitted to lnanip-
ltlate the panel so as to secure thu
selection of those very jurors. Each
side, thinking they had the jury sewed
! up in it's own pocket, warmly congrat-
| ulated link upon his extraordinary
| finesse. In the nature of events it is
| not surprising that both sides accept
ed the jury without challenge, al
though each was at pains to explain
to the court that it was because any
| twelve men were good enough for
litigant whose case was so absolutely
plain and righteous.
link Barnes had no direct design
upon the money that each company
had put up to convince" the jury.
He meant to make his share out of
the stock market. Phoebe had an ex-
change of it's own, but for obvious
reasons he preferred to operate thru
agents in San Francisco. They fur
| nished the money, he the tactics, and
| they had agreed to halve the spoils.
The Inauguration of the lawsuit set
the market for those two stocks dane
! ing like the needle of compass.
Every shift i'll the evidence produced
| a corresponding shift in the shares
| of the Raymond and Ely and of
! Hermes, Barnes, handling both COM
/ panies' cases, SO managed the pro
duction of evidence that it seemed
obvious that Raymond and Ely must
win. Hermes suffered bad slump
and links agents gobbled UP big
blocks of it at low prices.
Weighing the Evidence.
The case lasted many days. An
array of high-priced lawyers exam
ined a small army of mining experts
and professional witnesses and the
evidence adduced put to blush the
most fragrant exhibition of inspired
mendacity ever witnessed in a Com
stock court.
It was night when the jury retired
to deliberate in a room on the second
floor of the courthouse. In response
to handful of gravel thrown up
against a windowpane by link Barnes
a clothesline was dropped out A boot
! tagged Raymond and Ely" and filled
with gold was attached to the line.
70 n nd OrOS1N RhO Ia
down empty and ref1lled with gold.
Presently silver mingled with the gold
and finally the boot went up filled
with silver. Then came the turn OF
the Hermes money. When at last
the boot came up empty the jury
| considered the case as closed and
weighed the evidence" 1t was
found that the Hermes evidence out
weighed the Raymond and Ely and
the verdict was given to Hermes
with heavy damages. link Barnes
and his agents were "long" on
Hermes and 'short" on Raymond and
Ely and he cleaned up a quarter of
a million.
This comedy was about the last
colorful feature in the drama of old
Phoebe. Differing from the Com
stock, where the ore was found in
punches and where when one de-
pOsit was exhausted another had to
be sought for, the ore-shoots of Pi-
oche were continuous. AS q matter
of fact they never were exhausted,
but they became very base on the
lower levels and when silver fell be-
low the profit line the old camp
breathed it's last and Joined the long
procession of ghost cities of the old
West.
It's children scattered to the four
corners of the earth. It was 35 years
after the glory of Phoebe had begun
to wane that two time-seasoned men
gazed at each other across a bar in
Salt Lake. They were alone, for tho
the early evening lamps evoked a
responsive glitter from glassware,
brass rail and polished mahogany, |
and even found reflected points of !
lights in the veterans silvered heads, |
the nightly pre-dinner rush of pre-
Volstead days had not begun.
Saw Ghosts of Men Killed
Johnny" smilingly inquired one
Of the twain, setting down his cock |
tail glass, do you ever see those
men you killed in old Pioche?"
Sure" answered the white-jack- |
eted Johnny, smiling, too, as he care
lessly polished glass. "They ride |
in on horseback every evening, order
their benzine, shoot out the lights, !