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Show AN IDAHO SENATOR IN A BOX. A Sheep Ilenler Iaken Some, Serious Charges Against a Legislator. Boise, Idaho, Jan. 13. Serious accusations have been made by F.mil Kroinrie, a young sheep herder, against Stato Senator E. W. Jewell, a leader of the Idaho democrats. The herder is now in jail on a charge of perjury, but he will be brought into court today by writ of habeas corpus, as he claims that be is illegally restrained of his liberty. Jewell aud four men named Hopper are very anxious anx-ious to secure control of a fine sheep range in Washington county, and they have long been at sword points over the mailer. Some time ago KrotnriC was arrested upon a false charge of stealing sheep. He was not jailed, and he asserts that the Warrant Of arrest was held by one of Jewell's sous, w ho used it as on instrument with Which to terrify him. One day, Kromrie says, young Jewell took him to a lawyer's Office, w here he met old man Jewell. The latter doffed his coat and told Kromrte that unless he swore to-a statement accusing the Hoppers of stealing sheep, he would be taken out and lynched. The senator said he had fifteen men close at baud ready to perform the deadly work, and the frightened herder signed a statement to the effect that he had seen the Hoppers, who were bis employers, steal sheep from a neighboring drover and alter the brands upon the animals. The Hoppers were ar rested, but at the preliminary examination Kromrie swore that the charges he had made were false aud that be had been frightened fright-ened by Jewell into signing the paper. The Hoppers were discharged and Jewell and Kromrie arrested for perjury. Before the arrest Jewell boasted he would have the boy run out of the country. Owing to the prominence prom-inence of the Jewell- and the Hoppers, the ease is exciting interest throughout the northwest, and man people think the quarrel quar-rel will end in blood. |