Show DEFENDANTS DISCHARGED The government has received a aMock ablack Mock black eye in another one of oC the land fraud cases started with irith such a flour flourish flourish ish i h of trumpets under tho the late lat la In lamented administration J 1 B West and arni andI I N Smith of Idaho who have been under indictment for tor a a couple of ot years past have hare been discharged dl from cus CUI custody custody tody tOO by b Federal Judge Dietrich in face of or a request from fresh Attorney General Genera Wickershain that the cases be continued contin continued continued There Thore has hu been overmuch cry Cr Crand and little wool as a result re of these land fraud prosecutions or persecutions as the case may be If the men In ques question questOn queston tOn tion were really guilty they the should sh uld have been tried long ago and their punishment fixed or they should hive been given a chance to prove provo their In Innocence noe lt will go down into history as the man who started things which were Elre never neer completed n |