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Show ; WITNESSES TELL OF WILD HORSE DEALS Defendants Answer Charge of Using U. S. Mails to Defraud. OMAMA, NVb., r.r. 1" . Wt t nrf-es for t lift d.-iVn.-e in tli"- er n inTtfs suit fiKiinM. tit.i t'n It. --el States I.I vf-Kto-k ministry min-istry mil r 1 11 rijuah.'L hand p.- Investment -onipmv f.r use of the mails to defraud In ni li'.H i,t A r:r.in;i muni h nss, whl h, It Is rnartf.vl. WH fl ff-1 m-.-n t I ns "bred till fmm import fi Jer-her,ns," n nd that Turf-h;iH.-r.s w.-re d-fra u-U-d of $ 1 , ' m i0. 0o0f tret, i' li-Mir"(r.1 I here 'A-.-'iT- "t hou:-:a nds and t hnui-i.-Hiil.M ' of t hn w I lii horse "roaming urouh-l" on the government reservation in .0'Oii!no ciniiitv, Arizona.. I W. A i imld, mo knwin, (V Net It, N'ch., r'-l.if-l how lit: and ". A. Smith, a de-f-n'-l.i nt , had borrowed 4) n.ooit fnun a haulier ;if Newport, N'eh.. find piircl ia.ed nil bra ii'Is (if wild horses on t iui range tlif-v could hfi-ur. I.; na!d they hhw ";',nni (,r 4 mho wild h..i sen and actually auuht 2".') hr.l. whL'h wre whipped to )nri ha h nd i net io tied off." Arnold de- la red li'i wan lilh bidder for a mn-Vu'ltv mn-Vu'ltv of tl.f horne-i and purchn nod them, j.t $::fl a head and diln-d Hiom to hla riinrli. ''in iTis-f' ;J in 1 1 iii i jon A mold ad ml t ted the hordes weiD wild ;i nd might h s.-'-n honift of t hem nevera I times , Rtul counted them among the 3"0u." Arnold te.Mltlrd he "saw something ! bet t r a ml p. !d his interest In the wild )iorn.-s In Kinllh." Witnesses t(ir th government testified i 1 1 hors.-a ere represent ed to 1 hem a s worth 'M) a head. Arnold testified, the "hcyt hfn-Mi-a invariablv got away." It. I,. Mi .idl"lon, hrother of V. W. Mid dle hn of .Minneapolis, wh testified for ! 1hi-4 government he lost SI 5,000 on wild j horses, cot it ran hM ed his hrot her'a tout 1 -! inon.v. Iff fa Id he saw "a thousand liorns and whs surf they could be anight It' a person devoted liia time to the tiiak." T I"i Muted his intent ion to ca telj a number num-ber lii? had pureha:od as soon as the "po e rnmnt finishes this rnse." Wit iifuK-'S for the government testified ! Mils of sale filed at Kings! ntY. Ariz., In-! In-! dhated every wild horse on the Coconino ration had henn sold six times. Arthur Miller and W. A. Antrum, Omaha, I old the jury they saw "several .'a r loads of wild horses whipped to Omaha "hy the I ' nl ted States Livestock com-j com-j iianv." on r:ross-examlnation, they ad-i ad-i tnlttffl the. "horses did not quite come up ! to the tipeutfieations In the hills of sale." ! Kvldi'ii.'n adduced by the government j vas Intended to show bills of saJe for j nt least ITi.ooo horses were given the j defendants, when. In fact, less than 350O wild horses of all brands were known to j ran'e the Coconino reservation. The lunvhasers paid $i0 to J7fi a head for the I nurses, which western ranchers testified j ttrro worMi $S to $20 a head. The wlt-iiessca wlt-iiessca for tho proveniment, a majority of whom were victims of wild horse deals, testified they desired to convert real property or other holdings quickly Into i ash and were willing to tako a chance on Ihe value of the horses. The defense has supocnaed fifty wlt- hesses. |