Show IDAHO INVESTIGATION TION i TO MINERS I I Inquiry by Grand Jury Alleged to Have Been Started by I W. W F. F of M. M MAY PREVENT CONVICTION t Contention is Made That I I Statute of Limitations Will lill Save Indicted Ones nl Boise e. e J Ida April pIli 2 2 A report In Indignantly Indignantly In- In denied leniel by Federal officers 1 to t he the effect feN that the disclosures which led hell to 0 the thc pre present enl grand jury investigation investigation in gation of or alleged lan land lanil frauds were I made as ns a n result of the agents of the Western Federation of Miners is if being heing he- he ing circulated Il here Ie It Is charged that the disclosures which the grand Jury will make will discredit the lh late GOrnor Governor Gov Gov- for causing whose ho af assassination as the thc officers of the federation federation fedoration federa fedora tion ar are soon oon to be bf placed on trial anti and United Stat Stats States Senator elect Borah one one of the attorneys for 01 the thc prosecution In Inthe inthe the thero Moyer Pettibone ro Ha CI wood ca case It is known n that tran transactions in which both hith and Borah fi figured urel ore are being looked Into rhe These o oI transactions actions took tool pinco while I b berg r v was as connected with the Barber ber i Lumber company after his bis term of ot office office of of- fice Ice as governor go had bad e expired What hat the tho grand grami Jury lr has learned is not nOl yet known Imo hut but it will cause no surprise If a large largo number of Indictments Im Implicating irn- irn prominent men will be re returned re- re lurne turned and all of the Barber Darber Lumber com company pan lla l transactions ma may be aired airel Incourt in Iii con com court rt t. t It is contended 1 by those who hio are al already already al- al ready under indictment enl and others who are on the anxious seat that re- re s of or the facts In iii the case all the transactions on which the Indictments Indict indict- mints ments are based took place more than I till thil t years ago fiFO and for fOI this reason then there can cam be no nn prosecution the time statute of or limitations making convictions im un- pos possible It I is understood r however howe that the tho district attorney all and special 1 agents at weHl on the ca cato case e have o found that in lit many Instances some tome features o of the tran transactions have occurred within the three years years' Curs limit which makes the tho offenders rs liable for their theil acts |