Show BOISE c CITIZENS z m STILL SHOUTING Acquittal of Senator Borah of the Crime of Conspiracy Cause of Great Joy BARBER CO ALSO INNOCENT INNOCENTS INNOCENTI S I INFAMOUS ACTS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Boise Ida Oct 3 Boise is still celebrating cele celebrating celebrating brating today over the acquittal of United States Senator William E Borah who will go to Washington soon to take his seat for tor the at the coming session ses session sion sian of congress After he had taken the stand as the only witness for the defense yesterday afternoon Senator case was submitted to the Jury j ry upon pon the evidence and the argument of th prose prosecution prosecution prosecution cution A verdict of not guilty came as scon son as It could be voted and prepared in written form torm The court room rang with cheers a demonstration In which even members of the Boise bar gathered within the counsel rail joined vociferous vociferously ly From the moment of the announce announcement announcement announcement ment of the Jurys findings until far into the night the remarkable celebration con continued continued continued Senator Borah made two brief addresses being taken from his home on the second occasion and carried on the th shoulders of his admirers to the upper balcony of f the Idanha hotel in inthe Inthe inthe the evening he had been at t the hotel In response to a demand d for tor a reception his hla approach being heralded by a spectacular run of the city fIre department the ring ringing ringIng ss ing of the city bells bells the the music pf brass bra brabands bands and the cheers of the dense dene throng of or people On both occasions the senator expressed his appreciation of tho the demon demonstration demonstration demonstration In honor of his vindication and the many man evidences of confidence which had come to him during the trial The night celebration was more picturesque than that of the late afternoon The rhe downtown streets were a blaze of light fireworks filled the air all and behind e a l I band d of f forty a crowd of citizens which filled the street from curb to curb and extended for tor several blocks marched and cheered Several of the Jurors were found at their homes and placed In car carriages carriages carriages at the head of the procession Ban Banners Banners Banners ners were quickly Improvised and some of them contained comments on the trial One of them read Borah right with the Jury jUl and people Or CS Shoulders of Admirers Another was as follows Borah Ida Idaho ho hos s Foremost Citizen while still an another another another other was painted No Politics Just I Borah On one banner a lemon was painted with the inscription For Ruick the United States district at temey After hearing Senator Borah at atthe atthe atthe the Idanha the procession moved to the city Ity hall from the steps of which a num number number number ber of local attorneys and orators spoke The special assistants to the attorney general who came here to take charge of the case for tor the government S SU SIt SR U R Rush of Omaha and M 11 C Burch of Detroit are leaving for home today toda The decision of the defendants counsel not notto notto notto to argue the he case deprived Mr Burch of making the tile closing address for tor the prosecution pros prosecution Mr Rush who made the open opening openIng opening ing and only onI argument before the Jury jur declared that he hI wished to be candid and fair tall He placed d before the Jury all the facts in inthe the possession of the government and asked only for an Intelligent consideration consid f ration of them believing he asserted that no other Inference could be drawn fian tJan that the defendant acted in com with the other conspirators In Ini inese i IP ese alleged Idaho land frauds Foremost Citizen Senator Bomb Borah has received many tele telegrams prams grams of congratulation from all parts of fIr the country In a statement today he heald said ald J 1 have hae but little to say sa I was tried before an eminently able and fair fall judge and by a Jury of the leading citi citizens citizens zens of or the district men of unquestioned Character and standing We e cro fined but two of their forty witnesses made no objection to their line of evl evi evidence dence although much of It was wholly Irrelevant Introduced no witnesses other than myself made no argument to the jury jUT the juS was out eleven minutes It was an ex parte proceeding from the beginning to the close and you all know he the result I stated to my m counsel In the beginning that there should be no tech technical technical technical defense of or any an kind made and none were made madeI I said In the commencement of oC this affair to my m friends that the prosecution was actuated by personal and corrupt motives and the above record ought to tol tobe l be f sufficiently conclusive on that point The rhe evidence not only demonstrated my of any wrongdoing but that unusual and exceptional care was taken at all nil times by b my m office to protect the titles of my m company The Barber Lum Lumber Lumber ber company was clean In all Its trans transactions transactions transactions actions Many Congratulations The stone and timber Umber law Is a piece of Infamy as administered bythe by the gov government government government The government makes a man swear that he does not take It on spec speculation speculation speculation and the department construes that to mean he must not take It with a aview aview view of or selling it it There Is not a man mM In Inthe Inthe inthe the department of the interior and pre presumably presumably In the department of Justice but knows full tull well that ninetynine men menor me menor or women out of a n hundred take up these claims with no other view than selling them as soon as they get title standing this knowledge the government continues to issue final receipts and thus connives at the doing of that which they afterward seek to visit upon some so e one as fraud The government ought to establish establish lish fish a rule which would at least not am ambush ambush ambush bush men Into wrongdoing Undoubtedly Undoubtedly Undoubtedly edly there are some instances of wrong wrongdoing wron wrongdoing doing and they ought to be punished but there are arc hundreds and hundreds of Instances where the people would not think of taking land except in accord accordance accordance accordance ance with the law 10 which however Is often construed by the government to be benot benot benot not in accordance with the law although it has issued final receipt with full knowledge of how it was taken I do not Justify any man in doing wrong But I Isay Isay Isay say this deliberately that the government has blundered shamefully In the adminis administration administration administration of the stone and timber law |