Show MOUNTAIN STATES PARDON Hill fOR CHHIST AS GIFT 1 4 I 11 j SODA S MAM i c BY IDAHO l 7 I T We and Du Bob Boh Meeks Me e ks Will Know I V R Their Fate late Later lator Brothers Freed L g fi and Kept In Prison on S CS l to Th The Boise Ida Nov 24 Louis Forest Poteet received a pardon as u a a Christmas pres present prest I t t ent eat the board of pardons giving him bin hima himI t ta a pardon today to take Affect Dec S The extension of ot clemency is condition conditional I j al on the convicts refraining retraIning from the i use of liquor on his retraining from fron I 1 carrying firearms and generally x on his i Ii good behavior ii f On Cia or about June f I L 17 Forest Pores I j 1 killed John Martine Martille a Mexican at a t i sheep camp near Soda soia Springs He was wa wai i 1 sent to the penitentiary Dec 19 It i J for nine years under Conviction for foi r j manslaughter It appears that Mar fa 1 tine had repeatedly threatened Forest FOIest the two being at work together as a i 4 partners One night Martine chased chase 1 t Forest Fe t away way a from the camp with a aKun I IS I t S Kun gun declaring he would kill him Dur lt t lag ing the night Forest got back to the thi wa wagon o for lor shelter from the storm thiS He Hi S II got his gun arid nd waited until morning i When Then Martine awoke woke a the be t latter renew renewed rene I ed eel the tile attack but ore t killed him hin t before he could carry out his threats S cl The petition for pardon of Forest Fore t wa was a I j signed by y an imposing number of ot o t Ii Bannock county v lui business as men board al o considered the c cof of Te Ye We the t Chinaman I 1 t S who was sentenced to hang Dec 1 1 for killing Ye Y Wah Wab Tab at Halley In May Aay 1889 1 No fo action was taken but it is under understood I stood to life Ufe sentence will wilt 11 he be granted Ji Brothers Pure Pre Differently t I Ir In the Ute case e of hares Charles S and William 1 i TS L Thompson tile tie board paroled U tit 5 latter to f kc r c effect May I 1 1901 1991 and rejected the application of the former J The two tiro men are brothers Charles be S iv ing tag some seine ten years older than the theother theother other They were sent tent prom om Lincoln a county in October tober 1897 for grand lar larceny M ceny cony for seven aven years having been con oon convicted conS of chaining brands S S on cattle f From Front the showing made th the board was waz IU JJ 4 satisfied ibe he younger y unger brother had been If 14 led into the Time rime by b he the other A similar case esse was that of George S i J and nd Eugene Eu ene Hamilton from Canyon tit county They were sent up in April of S this year fat fot f three years each for steal i ng C cattle George is only twenty years S old ld there was a 11 large e petition for his 11 I pardon and a special letter from How Howard Ho HowS S dr ard wi Sebree for whom W Om he wot 01 ked He if was paroled paNed to take effect Ja JatO i 1 1901 1991 S 5 but the application of his brother who J l led him into the crime was wa rejected i i Meeks Case Cane Is Heard t The board hoard has taken the case of r r Henry Meek known as Bob Meeks i I under uDder advisement adi nt He was sentenced S Jf S f to years for r in i the robbery ot of the Montpelier Mont eUer bank in InS S i S It la In claimed he be was wac wa not a participant participant i pant in the daring crime and those thOe S J the application for his hill pardon i present evidence ce which bich they tb y hold bold sub t their contention The T e case osse was wai w gued ed before the board by J 3 H wan Wallis sid and K E E EL Chalmers S The board rejected reject d the of S Peeler Foster from fro Owyhee county for manslaughter t r S Similar action was taken on the ap a of frank J T Smith sent from Lemhi county for tor manslaughter S S The application vt t John 1 hn J and An n tone Valk sentenced from front Kootenai I county aty for tor robbery was WILS likewise re |