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Show JAMES H. WALLtS IS INDICTED BY II GRIN JURY Boise, Ida., Jan 8 James H. Wal-lis, Wal-lis, former state pure food and sanitary sani-tary commissioner of Idaho, now in Salt Lake, and indicted by the grand Jury In session here, will waive extradition ex-tradition and voluntarily return to Idaho .to answer the charges in the two counts returned against him Sheriff Roberts left for Salt Lake City at noon today to get Wallls. Judge McCarthy of the district court announced an-nounced this afternoon the specific charges tn indictments against Wallls will not be made public until formal return Is made in bench warrants. It Is reported the charges against Wallls are In connection with his management of the pure food department depart-ment as commissioner. The accounts carried by that department under the $"0,00o appropriation of two years ago are said to have been so drawn upon as to all but exhaust them prior to the closing of the blennlnm De- were specifically classified by the legislature to be used for certain purposes pur-poses Wallis Is said to have used them for other purposes. In a report of the state board of examiners a detailed statement Is m;idc showing how the accounts were handled It shows that expense money was taken from salary money and vice versa, while other moneys are alleged to have been spent for other niiT-nnrc t h r n fr,r xi-liirh thn tvom appropriated. Wallis tendered his resignation as head of the pure food department on October 4 of last year The resignation resigna-tion was given to Attorney General J H Peterson in Salt Lake, where Wallis was on a leave of absence conducting for the board of health of T:tah a clean-up campaign for towns and cities His resignation was officially of-ficially accepted. No announcement was made as to why Wallls' resignation had been de manded Trior to that time, however, there was threshed out in the federal court what was known as the baking powder case, in which Vaili3 played a prominent part Evidence in telegrams tele-grams was introduced, said to have passed between Wallis and McCabe of Chicago, an alleged representative of the baking powder trust. In which the latter directed the then Idaho commissioner as to how to conduct a case he had against the Crescent Baking Powder company, which was not a member of the trust The Crescent Cres-cent concern s product had been barred by the commissioner from Idaho Ida-ho so far as its sale was concerned This episode is said to have had much to do with the demand for the pure food official's resignation. It is also said that the true bills returned against him charge that the funds, other than in their expenditure, expendi-ture, were not properly handled, and specific Instances are said to have been set forth. |