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Show LOTTERY iyDICTMESTS. 'ij. Th' Officer and Tiirectors 3Iust Answer for Csing the Mails. Falls, S. D., Oct. 24. The United St'i - grand jury has returned eighteen in-dif in-dif ' . icais against the officers and directors ofj Louisiana lottery. The evidence was s'4 ' before the grand jury in the form of adiTjf JftV- and kept with the utmost secrecy. J - artment at Washington brought the 'cli ' -ii before this court for the reason th aerrt efforts in other states before the Un'.d S'ites grand juries have been frus-tra'V.i. frus-tra'V.i. i'Tjie United States marshal and dei iflesr are leaving this evening for New Grlrt&s , to arrest the president, vice-presi-dcLt, tfjretary, treasurer and directors of the lo ry company. The indictments are fcxr .t'nsmitting lottery advertisements through the mails in violation: of the anti. lottery -4 aw passed last session of congress. Th extreme penalty is five years' imprisou-jne-st and S5C00 fine. "?w Orleans, Oct. 24. Speaking of the Indictments found in Sioux Falls, S. D., against the Louisiana Lottery company for violation of the lottery mail laws. President Conrad of the lottery company said today thai there had been no violation of law. The wiifle trouble, he declared, grew out of the rnafrig of a pamphlet containing the decision de-cision of the supreme court of this state in the tysadamus case against the secretary of a4a!t, -lomppiling that orflcial to promulgate tift roporsed revenue amendments to "the A. .' |