Show 11 e jl I c n REFUSED Sit j A CONTINUANCE Government Failed F to Prose Prosecute Prosecute i cute Men Indicted for forLand forI I Land Frauds r I t tI tI t Spokane Wash May IS A Spokes I mau special from tro Moscow Ida i says ivy Holding Holdin that the government bad had badil been bien given en two to years yea since tile the Indict Indictment ment mint of DC J B West and I 1 L S N Smith in to iDI I I il tit connection with th the north Idaho land 11 t frauds In 11 which to prepare to pros e I cute the sari cases a c Judge Dietrich yester yesterday yesterday day disregarded the tt request t of United I States State Attorney General k r t 1 for a continuance and discharged both bothI I men menI I j Continuance Asked I When the case casl was waa U taken takeR up In the thes s J federal court here yesterday United If States District Attorney C H Lingen i i k fetter of Lewiston presented a telegram 5 t t received from Mr Ir Wickersham in to rr which he asked the continuance of the Ii cases CaMS until such time as the appeals ap ls In Inthe Inthe the ry 3 11 now in the court of appeals at ata 1 San Ban a n Francisco had bad been decided Mr lr lri i i J also alfO made nde a statement that t at at Rt his hi request the department of o Justice I 1 r i had appointed a II special prosecutor Peyton Gordon for tor these theM cases k 1 i t Judge J II If Forney counsel for or Smith t fought the Ute motion for continuance on ont onI t I j the ground that the that government had made no proper showing of cause couse t for lor such delay and saying that the effort was wa presumptive and an attempt to dic dictate dictate dictate tate to the court what bat it should do Remarks by the Court f JudIe Judge Dietrich then said Id that he was waa not disposed to allow the government any more mort time and that he would die dis discharge d charge charle both defendants df S S Denning Dennin appeared as s counsel for tor West Vest At 1 the time he was Va indicted Attorney West eat was register of the toad land office ofee aoe at Lewiston Ida Ids and Mr Smith as all an ank k attorney was Wall charged ch with being Inti ft JIN ly connected with Ith the Kester Ket Kettenbach i interests l |