Show willie protests innocense attorney henry 1 has taken up the cudgels in defense of willie who Is now boarding at the salt lake county jail charged with evading the selective draft mr air seeger had a conference with willie the other day and was told by him that the reports circulated to tl the e effect that he willie had expressed regret or anything whatever relative to his present condition are not true willie declares he has said absolutely nothing relative to the selective draft neit neither tier since his arrest nor before and that ill he has never sought to evade the law nor has he counseled any of his brethren to do such a thing he has been engaged in the work wark of securing legal title to lands which its his people formerly possessed unmolested and his entire activity has been along that line mr seeger secured permission of U S commissioner van pelt tu to have wilie baled out the case will be called tomorrow and the preliminary hearing will nill be waived it if bondsmen can be secured and mr air seeger Is laboring among the friends of willie for that purpose now then the news am amour correspondent will be released and lie he and mr air seeger will leave immediately for wendover from whence the thet will go to the kashute goshute reservation and there gather evidence for use in the trial which will come off early in april mr seeger feels that the friends of willie ought to show their interest in him in coming to his rescue at this time |