Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-05-13 | Page 6 | Land Fraud Cases in Idaho Dismissed; Government Slow

LANO fRAUD CASES IN III IDAHO DISMISSED IS ENT I OY s Judge Holds Two Years Sufficient Suf Time in Which to Prepare for Trial SPOKANE sOlANE E. E Wash May Ia 13 A 13 A Spokes man Review many a special from Moscow Ida say i t that the government b had d been em ton v. two years since the h indictment of J J. J R B West and i I. I N N. Smith In connection frits w- w t the c North Idaho land frauds fraude In which h t to o prepare to prosecute the caM cac cares s. s 1 yesterday disregarded the t f United Untied States Attorney Gendl Gen Gen- Z bam et for tor r a continuance on nee and d dl jd both hahm men u the case eue was wae taken up In the fedl fed fed- United States court here bare yesterday If A Attorney meY C. C II of or ofA A presented rated a telegram received r Wickersham in which he h. asked t of or the cases a lies until such I oa ula the e appeals in the Kester Ket Kester-Ket- Ket- Ket eh arid and Dwyer cases a now in tho of 01 appeals at San Francisco O w ft bass decided Mr also statement that tha at his request the thed thevan d van t of Justice bad had a appointed pointed a aa a prosecutor Peyton Gordon Gordon for forr r c oin J. J H. H Fo Forney counsel for Smith I f h b the motion for continuance on the ground around tb that t the government had made mado no proper showing of c cause t for such delay kr i ec J and saying that t the e effort was presumptive r e tive and an attempt to dictate to the court what It should do Judge Dietrich then said that h he was not disposed I to a allow the e government any anymore more mor time a and that 7 ho would discharge a both defendants At tn the tb time tilDe he was Indicted Attorney West Welt was register o of the land office at nt n. n Ida Jda and Mr Ir Smith as an attorney attorney at at- torney tomey was charged with being bAing Intimately I connected with the Kester interest In In- In terest I