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Show IS BOUND OVER TO FEDERAL COURT Special to The Tribune. POCATELLO, Idaho. Feb. IS. E. R. Rickey, who has occupied trie position of assistant yard master with the Oregon Short Line, was given a preliminary hearing hear-ing Saturday before United States Commissioner Com-missioner Theodore Turner on the charge of entering a car containing an interstate commerce shipment and abstracting a case of whisky. He was bound over to the federal court and his bond fixed at $1000. As the car which Mr. Rickey Is alleged to have entered contained an interstate commerce shipment, a consignment of whisky bound from Kentucky to Lima, Mont.," he is charged with a federal offense. of-fense. The principal witness for the government govern-ment was a watchman in the Short Line vards, who testified that he saw Rickey enter the car axid come out with a case of whisky under his arm. When arrested the whisky was in his possession. |