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Show MAJORS WITHDRJIW SUIT SWT era War Department's Orders Obeyed and Idaho Regiment Regi-ment Is on Move. Special to The Tribune. BOISK, Idaho, July. 7. The three majors ma-jors of the Second Idaho regiment who sought to hlock the appointment of Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Colonel Crow, named by Governor Alexander, withdrew thetr application to prohibit Captain Oarber, mustering officer, offi-cer, to muster Crow In for fear of possible pos-sible court-martial, and after a stormy suasion of the supreme court today that tribunal quashed the temporary writ Issued. Is-sued. The regiment broke camp this afternoon aft-ernoon and tonight between 8 and 9 o'clock left for the Mexican border in three special trains via Salt , Lake. A censorship has been placed on the point of border duty. Attorney General Peterson presented the request of the majors to the supreme court to withdraw their application to oust Crow and in doing so charged that politics was taking- the place of merit in the promotion of officers. Captain Gar-ber Gar-ber ignored t he court's writ and swore Crow in last night. Because of this act A ttorney General Tctcrson declared the supreme court had been "outraged and Insulted." Referring to Governor Alexander, Alex-ander, he cried heatedly, "I do not charge the secretary of war Intended to conspire con-spire to circumvent the law. I prefer to think that lie has been misled by someone some-one who lias a perverted Idea of the functions func-tions of the laws of Idaho." In replv to this, former Governor Haw-ley Haw-ley charged Peterson with being unfair in his taeiirs. "What you have said here," said Hawley, turning to Peterson, "had better been left unsaid." Having been sworn Into the federal service and under orders to move, tiie regimental majors feared If they pressed their action they would be laying themselves them-selves liable to court -martial for obstructing ob-structing the orders of a superior, the secretary of war. Governor Alexander, It is known, proposes pro-poses to bring pressure to bear on the war department to have Colonel Edel-blute Edel-blute ousted and the majors with him. He will probably prefer charges against them. Captain Garber's orders from the war department were to "decline to recognize the jurisdiction of the supreme court of Idaho '-o decline to comply with the writ, and rot to submit to arrest if a warrant for contempt was Issued." |