| Show f TRUE JE FOUND AGAINST SWITZER Boise Butcher Sold Lard That Violated a Dozen Sections Of the Statute SPECTATORS CHEER WORK Trust to tilt tho Fullest l Support or the ti coille of the Sp Spec Correspondence Feb true bill has luts BOISE B been found Cound against George Switzer president of the Boso Bohse Butcher company compan for selling short hort weIght lard Jard II by the tho grand Iland jury jur noW In In n this city called by byi i order ot or tho th district court to f gate the allee alleged 1 meat milk coa and I Iother other local trusts trust formed COrine 1 In restraint I of oC trade Verdict was returned with b but t a moment deliberation the jury Imply walked Into Its room and out The statute provides lUI as a penalty In such cases a fine fino of oC or ImprIsonment In the county jail for tor six months or both such lIne and andi i Imprisonment at the ot of the court Tim The hearing whIch lasted all day Tuesday was as replete with exciting situations At a certain interval In Inthe inthe the trial a body ot of citizens gathered In the corridor and cheered the court and the prosecution The Tho principal witnesses for tor the tho prosecution ero State Pure Food Commissioner James H Wallis VallIs and State Chemist Claude D Mason The Tho former stated state 1 In his testimony that he ha purchased a three pound bucket of lard from the Boise Butcher corn com Imn paying GO 60 cents for tor which lie he took a receipt Then I weighed aU all or of lard con continued continued Mr aills Including the 3 5 and 10 pound buckets with th the re suit Hult that I found that eve every I bucket was under tinder weight Switzer came over overto overto to where I was weighing the lard tard and asked How Is It going I said to him It Is all short weight and there Is not a bucket that gives the consumer the tho amount ot of lard he Is to tobe tobe be getting when ho he buys bUs It Switzer said I dont pretend preten 1 to give the tho consumer three pounds net I simply aim to give him a package weighing three pounds for lard and bucket both Mr Wallis Vallis stated that he had cob coh more than two tons of so called lard ard the greatest part of which was simply compound 1 corn com composed posed of 1 15 per cent beer beef fat and only 86 per cent hog fat Cat Altogether the buckets or oC lard as the they were sold lold comprised violations ot of more than a dozen sections ot the pure food tood law a score ot of r regulations made b by the tho state board or of health I LAW INADEQUATE Tn In giving Instructions to the jury jur Judge Wood of the district court declared that the antitrust Ill law passed by the last session or of tho legislature Is 18 Inadequate to meet the tho present situation This Is the only net act said the judge called to the tho at attention attention ot of the court In an any wet way affect affecting ing the monopolies In restraint ot of trade and an Inspection ot of the act at once discloses the tact fact that the legisla legislation legislation tion Is ot of little If an any value In reach reaching Ing those trust agreements where here both parties thereto are not Incorporated companies I therefore Instruct you In Inthe inthe the absence ot of an any direct legislation on the subject It if you ou find that cons com combinations have been entered Into b by two or more persons persona In restraint oat of trade such auch acts would be common law misdemeanors and Indictable under it provIsion ot of the laws ot of this state Hard Hardly has hag news been received by noise Boise citizens In years ears with such lIuch ac l F v X y X X X t z y yf yX f t X 1 X A r A x Y 1 I Ii i It A A I A Ay Az y z y Y A Y A Y A AX Ay X AX X y PARLEY DONEY PARKINSON Cache Valley Do Boy to Represent tim tho State of Idaho ut at the United l States tur tory ut at Point Parle Done Doney Parkinson ot of Prest on Idaho whose portrait Is shown above enjoys the distinction ot of being the youngest man In a class of which will enter the United States m academy at West Yest Point New NewYork York on Mardi March I 1 1910 At tim tho time ot of lila his entrance at the academy lie he will have just reached the ago age ot of Ii 17 which Is the youngest age at which a I person can be admitted to the United States military academy Mr Par Parkinson Parkinson kinson is IR the son ot of George C Parkinson and was named b by Senator Win Vm WinE E Borah as prIncipal to appear before a U S army examining board at Fort Slocum New York Tork on Jan 12 to be examined physically and men mentally tally for appointment as cadet at the United States military academy Ho He has just received official notice tro from the war department to the effect that ho he pa passed d this technical examination with an exceptionally high rat ratIng rating Ing h u u u claim as the announcement from Crom Salt Lake that the tho Oregon Short Line would construct Its main line IIno through Boise within a very short time J E Clinton a prominent Boise banker who just returned from Salt Lako stated Mr Bancroft told mo me Satur Saturday lla day that the work ot of securing a loco ben bention tion ot of the new central Idaho line IIno would be taken up at once and as soon as this Is completed the th layIng ot of rails mils wIll commence EXTENSIVE RAILROAD BUILDING Mr Clinton further stated that ho he had haj bC been n informed b by General Manager that It t hUd had been decided to I the Falls Falis branch anch ot of the theline line beyond BuhI to Nyssa Or to double track the line from McCammon to to construct a line 20 miles In length from Burlo to Oakley through the heart of a rich agricultural section to build a line from Rupert to Bliss an and 1 to extend the present line from Cerro Grande on the branch to ta the town ot of McCollum He also stated state 1 that It had been decided to extend the line In Oregon from Yale Vale up mow Crook Creek for or a distance ot of 25 miles The extension ot of the Twin Falls branch to N Nysa a will necessitate the construction err of the second highest rail railroad railroad road bridge In the tho world across the Salmon river MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE The wife and friends or of Thomas ThomasB B Jackson Jockson who sho mysteriously disappeared from hl hIs home last Saturday are still uninformed and are with despaIr over er the case The wife SUM sus suspects pe ts foul Coul pIa PlaY or 01 suIcide but the police pollee and his former employers the tho Boise Artesian Hot Cold water company I think The They suspect that he I simply got tired or of supporting 11 per persons sons Mn on a 1 salary ot of 16 15 per week Ac to his wife he has haq In the tho last five fie years on this salary poid off orr nn an indebtedness ot of and paid for tor a ahome ahome home In the sum of He H has no children though Ws his wire wife brought into Ino I the tho faintly two boS b a former mar It Is claimed that Jackson has been supporting 11 persons Including besides his own family several ot of his wife wite His employers state that ho was a model ot of good lOOd habits In the district court Vera Vern and A W Heckner will be tried triei on a charge ot of committing a crIme against girls under the ne age ot of consent An In Indictment Indictment was returned the tho above aboe named b by the gr grand nd jury jurO sitting In the justices court and they were bound over to await trial In the tho dis district court They are charged with be beIng belag lag Ing agents of the white slaNe and placing in a house ot of ill III repute In Ontario Or Henrietta Henriet Loh Lohman Lohman man and Carrie Hountz aged 16 and 17 years The case will be beer bevery very er sensational In character and the tho testimony as revealed In the preliminary nar nary hearing Is unprIntable Two Io Nampa men ot of tho Dewey Palace hotel were wern followed to this cU city and chasM chased through the streets by the tho chief of police and a pa patrolman ot of that elt city and overtaking the taught a desperate hand battle resulting In the capture ot of the tho young men They Thoy are Wanted In the tho Junction elt city on a 0 charge chArgo of committing n a statutory offense against Della aged 16 years who Is also an ot of the hotel above abovementioned mentioned The names or of the tho young Oung men mea are Raymond Drown Brown and Frank Hannigan |
