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Show Coiuliiif to Tliulr cnf . Boiye City, Idaho. Jan. 2. In the United states district court today indictments against nearly a hundred Mormons accused accus-ed of violating the election laws hy rugiy Luring - itod voting in 1KMS, were dismissed, upon motion uf United States District Attorney Woods, The indictments invoked the construction of the Idaho test oath law, which provides that, so long as the Mormon Church re-cog re-cog n i zed anil en cou ra ged poly -gamy, no Murmon should be entitled en-titled lo the right of sulfrage. Woods said that it would he iin-pissihle iin-pissihle for the government to prove that, pre r ions to lSS, the Mormons had not, at the rneet-i rneet-i ing of stake presidents and apostles, enjoined thp further practice and teaching of polygamy, |