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Show FACES CHARGE OF CONTEMPT. Boise. Idaho, July 22 Charged with contempt of court for sending a telegram to George "W. Fletcher, president of the Idaho National bank of this city, when he was a raembor of tho special federal grand Jury, the contents of the telegram relating to G. W. Thompson cT LevIston, who was Indicted, William Dwyer. a timber tim-ber man of prominence of Lewiston, was arraigned In the federal court hero today before Judge Dietrich and pleaded not guilty. The court will pass judgmont tomorrow. Dwyer does not deny sending the telegrnm, but he asserts he did not know that Fletcher was a member of tho Jury at the tlmo. He charges that Thompson, to whom tho telegram referred, re-ferred, had been Instrumental in securing se-curing the Indictment of many Lewis-ton Lewis-ton men for political reasons, and as ho knew Fletcher was familiar with tho facts he sent the telegram as ox-presslvo ox-presslvo of the hope that Thompson would be Indicted. |