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Show 1 AN Ol'TlUdf!: Fifty -llvy Muu Inurtiuratad m ldnlio. A peculiar, aud it seems an outrageous out-rageous occurrence has taken place in Idaho Mr. Dunn, uiiuriuicudeut of constructiiiQ on the U. and N. R. R., had a number u( niou eugaged iu cutting limber lOr Iho railway, either ou or nuar the Fort Hall Indian reservation. To prevent a continuance of the labor au iudiclmuut was fouud against Hyrum Smith, ot Bnghkm city, a gang boss, charged wilh cutting limber ou the Indian reservation. reserv-ation. Upou this indictment Hmith :it arrested and placixl iu ths Malad city jail to a wail trial. A deputy imioha! next proceeded U tho timber cutlers' camp for the purpme of ob tainitig witiusMc lo prostK.'ulu the case, and it is presumed that he took jui''.x.-tw, to scours lliuir atleudau.e Not kuomug thtin iia t-tiqtlircd tlie uamea of t1 o cutlers, wtiu h oli.-bly retimed to aunwer, dittibtless Ihrouli ignorance ot his intentions. The depuly theu returned and asked uil-vice uil-vice from tho diolrieL attorney, wneu ho was told to iirmt ibe whole gaug, which he did. Uo tti.ik the men, ufty-fio in number, lo Malad city, and confined them there. This transpired somo ten days ago and the case being postponed until next Monday, the men still remaio incarcerated iu cells iu which they have hardly room to l;e down; Iho lloors ol which are damp; they are only (id two meals a day, lhat beitig bread and I wa er; and are compel le J to sleep ou the damn floora withnul anv cnvnriiiL' whatever. It is even said that, being uuable to crowd the in nil iu the cells, some are compelled to remain outsido uuder guard. If lhee facts are Iruo, and they como from a mosl truth worthy source, the idea of imprisoning to many persons for the simple reason thai they would uot tell their names, is not only a peoiaien of tho veriest idiocy, b it is at lbs saaig lime one of the greatest oatragc ever perpetrated auynhere on civil rights. Il the otScrs who are guilty of this art do mt find a number of uivil suits un their bauds as the result of their iu e lectu.il ep.im, it mill be a wonder. I: is not expected tiil any new develop-menu- will be made until Monday next, when the hearing ia lo take place. It is claimed, in r-rd to the indictment in-dictment thai the limber cutting did not takiJ place within four milcj ol Iho Fort Hall roscrvauou, and if such proves the case, tne authorities of that portion of Idaho will have succeeded in perpetrating an iiumeuse farce if they have done nothing els;:. |