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Show CONSPIRACY CHARGED IN IDAHO LAND DEAL RDTSF. Ida. June J. Tharred with conspiring to defrattd the axvernment out of valuable lrri(Htlon lands Included within with-in the Payette-Boise project. Intimidation of en try men and threats to kill tn order to secure relinquishments, Horace, Nathaniel and Isaac Bray, and Walter Kyle, four prominent lend dealers of Boise, were nrrnluned before Judge Frank H. IMet-' rich in the federal court here and pleaded not a-tiUty. Their counsel Intimated that the defendants will fight the chars; to th bitter end. Jud-e Ptftriff. stated that In all probability prob-ability a sperial trial will be given the defendants during the latter part of the present month. They were released under un-der f 1.000 bonds each, which they fur-nishad. fur-nishad. It Is charged by the irovemment that- the four defendants conaplred to fraudulently secure the homestead entry of William Walter Selby, of Nampa, and rovernment land. In support of this si-Feral si-Feral ton It Is elaimed that the Brays and : Kyle endesvored to force E. H. Hulser. a j Boise attorney, to acknowledge the forged signature of He thy to th rejtniutshment to his land and thst when Hulser refused a revolver waj pied at his head and he war told to matte, the acknowldgment or h would he k Mled. Hulfier escaped by a ruse. lister. It ie said, th notary's seal was stolen from his office, used on fti relinquishment snd th latter presented st th land offlc here, wher It waa re f us d. |