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Show AFTER CLARK'S WITNESSES. I According to the Butto Now, w , Clark is not out of the wnn.i : A' the matter of the laia tS ln tana. The News says: 1 Mon- "Growing out of the famm, timber stealing from v aS0 of lands, Involving Senator W Y'n T which is now on appeal by hf, '7K eminent Supreme Court of Lf"'l States. Judge Hunt is tryln, v"? Cobban for subornation of h ': in tho United States court ' j"ry "In view of the matters ,volve,l tho seriousness of the indictment ni tho relationship it may l ave further trial cf the case ag S senator from Montana, .Tudgo Hunt instructed the jury when, by con en of tho attorney for the gov.Sm they were allowed to separate length how they should conduct tlieni selves during the trial of the case "This is only ono of some si) or ninety indictments which C A AHv nard, special attorney for the United' States together with United State District Attorney Carl Basch will bring before Judge Hunt at this time "If they succeed in thU case im-o)oubtq:lly im-o)oubtq:lly convicMon, will follow In all tho others. "Attorneys J. C. Marshall and H c Stiff of Missoula and J. J. Walsh of Helena represent the defendant "Attorney Maynnrd, in outlining his caso, said ho would show that the defendant de-fendant in 1888 visited tho state of Oregon and made himself familiar with the methods which have been exploited ex-ploited so largely before the public In tho Senator Mitchell case, and tiia: Immediately upon his return to Montana Mon-tana ho located himself in Missoula, leaving Butto, where he had been established es-tablished for years in tho real estate business; that ho entered into a written writ-ten agreement with ono Grlswold, a timber cruiser, at Clearwater, In the center of tho vast timber limits. "This contract would be produced In court and they would show there was a systematic method, in fact a conspiracy, con-spiracy, to illegally corral, acquire or steal some 200,000,000 feet of timber. And whereas they could each acquire but 100 acres of land legally at ?2.50 per acre, they secured lands of the value of $175,000 and in turn conveyed the same to Senator Clark. "This could not be done and was not possible under tho laws of the United Stato3 except by fraud, and this ho said ho would probe In a particular caso whore a school teacher, Lydia T. Bryan, was suborned and induced to perjure herself before tho United States land register at Helena on two occasions; that, after having got her final receipt and on her not returning to Missoula to transfer same as per agreement to Cobban, ho sent a rig after her at Como whero she taught school and induced her by constraint to complete tho deal entered into whereby she was to receive the sum of $100 over all nor expenses in mak- 1 ing entry on tho land, I "T. J. Walsh, wno defended Sena- I tor Clark in tho civil action, is outlin- I ing tho defense as tho trlat is proceed- I ing." I |