Show I RH H DEfENSE CLOSES CLOSS CASE A OUT READY RADY fOR OR JURY SENATOR ORAH TAI TAS THE SS CHAIR CHR AT JW rK T Id Idio ho kind Declares De- De clares Th Tt l He Had Hd Nothing Noth ing to Do o With Wilk Any Timber Land fraud i BULLETIN s 3 P. P M. M BOISE IDA OCT 2 SENATOR BORAH CONCLUDED HI HIS TESTIMONY TESTIMONY MONY AT NO NOON N AND THE DEFENSE DE DE- DE- DE PENSE IMMEDIATELY REST RESTED D ITS CASE OASE ARGUMENTS WHICH WERE VERE BEGUN THIS AFTERNOON WILL I 1 SENATOR W. W E. E BORAH OF IDAHO PROBABLY BE PINI FINISHED HED TOMORROW TOMORROW TOMOR TOMOR- ROW V MORNING BOISE IDA OCT THE 2 THE THE TRIAL OF 01 U. U S S. S SENATOR BORAH CONTINUED CONTINUED CONTIN CONTIN- TODAY TODAY JUDGE WHITSON RE- RE Court Refused to 10 Instruct to I I INot Verdict of Not the Defense tn in traduced its ils EvS- EvS dence FUSING THE MOTION OF 01 THE DEFENSE DE DE- PENSE FOR POR AN INSTRUCTED VERDICT VER VER- DIOT DICT OF NOT GUILTY SENATOR BORAH TOOK THE STAND AS THE FIRST WITNESS IN HIS IUS OWN O BE BE- HALF SENATOR TOR BORAH SAID HE HAD BEEN A PERSONAL FRIEND OF FORMER GOVERNOR BERG FOR POR YEARS PRIOR TO HIS DEATH BUT NEVER WAS EMPLOYED EMPLOYED EMPLOYED EM EM- AS HIS InS ATTORNEY HE BECAME GENERAL COUNSEL FOR POR THE BARBER LUMBER COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY COM COM- PANY IN 1903 AS SUCH COUNSEL HE HAD SEVERAL CON CONVERSATIONS CONVERSATIONS CONVERSA CONVERSA- VERSA VERSA- WITH TI TIMBER mER INSPECTOR SHARP IN REGARD TO REPORTS OF 01 FRAUDS AND ASKED TO BE INFORMED INFORMED IN IN- FORMED WHENEVER A FRAUDULENT FRAUDULENT LENT CLAIM WAS UNEARTHED SO HIS IDS COMPANY WHICH WAS A JA I REA HEAVY VY PURCHASER GOULD COULD BE PROTECTED I The visit tto to t former Goy Gov Governor Morrison Morri son son was s a-s ex explained l i e by bl Senator S n t i r Borah BorK h hi i with th the fhe stat statement ment that the Ba Barber ber- ber Lumber 11 company had ad purchased a Ilu yuan quan- n 1 of land land- scrip and had pre prepared to r. r lP i fi etina c state state- 1 hd 1 finally decided to th take up ip acres Th Tho Company's idea was as to scrip the theland theland I land ahead of Governor Morrison did not give him hint any specific information About About Deeds In cit His Office As Co to de deeds deeds' ds' ds going through h his office S Senator Borah Borab said lid that altogether I deeds had llad been been so 80 recorded He He had bad nothing to do with wili an any auy of tho the purchases n many my o of which were made long before he hj became attorney for the company compan No 10 controversy arising over tho the deeds I nothing in regard t to them was was over o referred referred re re- re- re to him lim His inquiry as to why tho the lands had been taken in the names of Rand Lon Long and others brou brought ht forward forward for for- ward vard the by government go as dummy trustees Senator Borah said was answered answered an an- by the he company ers to tho the effect that if it known known a corporation corporation corpor corpor- was in the tha field tho the lJ price CC nf of lands would have been doubled For this same reason tho the Barber mill site here hero in Boise was also purchased in Rands Rand's name Says He Did No Wrong Senator Borah called on the prosecution prosecution prosecution tion to produce these deeds in corroboration of this statement I never prepared a de deed derl d from rom au any auy or trustee said Senator Bo Bo- Bo rah I 1 do not and never ne did own a a t dollar of stock in the Barber Lumber company My 1 compensation has always been a fixed salary and I never had hail any I contin contingent fee or interest whatsoever I |