Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-01-19 | Page 2 | Indictments Against Lumbermen Quashed

m ti INDICTMENTS AGAINST - m j y LUMBERMEN QUASHED " ' fi AlINNli A POU S, Jan. 1 S. Demurrers 'i i to indictments against nineteen promi- i 2 nent lumbermen charging conspiracy to ! ilcfraud were upheld in tho PcderaJ dis- 31? Irict court here today by .Hidge Wil- W.'H. Vmm Loch ran. Tho "indictments were A-4 based uion tho issuanco and operation ; j5ljj. of the plan in the so-called "Black ;' , Book." It was designed, to badger rata- 3,f logue house comjietitors and to pile up , on them useless and costly corrcsp'd- jl i . once. . Judge Lochran heard, counsel for . t'. but one of the indicted lumbermen, and upheld tho demurrers, which ends rh.- 3;j prosecution.