[Judge Locke of Nevada Territory, Sacramento Union, May 30, 1864]

 

            JUDGE LOCKE OF NEVADA TERRITORY.—The following card appears in the Virginia papers in response to some reports that have been in circulation affecting the integrity of Judge Locke :

            To the Public: Concerning the Chollar and Potosi cases, that were determined at the last term of the Supreme Court, I will state that I had no knowledge of such cases until they were called upon the Supreme Court calendar ; that the Potosi Company, nor any of its members, nor any person connected with it directly or indirectly, ever conversed with me about the case or mentioned it in my presence, except as argued in the Supreme Court. That I ever had any complicity with the Potosi Company is without foundation, and these who circulate such reports are guilty of willful and deliberate falsehood and slander.