Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1920 — Cornish Tin Miners. [ARTICLE]

Cornish Tin Miners.

The men who work in the Cornish tin mines are a clahs by themselves, and all their differences are adjusted by the stannary courts, as they are called from the Latin word stannum. These curious courts have existed in thfcir present form since the middle of the thirteenth century, and. in a simpler form, much earlier; and the miners claim to be free from all other jurisdiction, “except in matters affecting the land, life or limb.”