Show m ogden attorneys clear alleged crooked cattle dealers L it rogers and II 11 IV smith returned saturday night from a visit to blackfoot where they and their associates arthur brown and fremont montWood Fre wood 0 succeeded in winning one of a series of important alleged cattle stealing cases emes whereby john anderson of 0 godl spring gets out from under the shadow of thelah the law some time ago two cars care loaded with good beet beef cattle were purchased by E buyer for fry bauhr wholesale butchers and cattle dealers of seattle the stock proved to have been stolen most from the ran range re of the war bonnet cattle company As the foreman of the company had sold the buyers the cattle several arrests and indictments for alleged theft of range stock were made and among those who were accused were fry and bauhr and andrews the striate trials thus tar far havo bavo resulted in acquittal for each party arrested the general opinion ia is that the purpose of the prosecution is to drive it if possible the defendants from the field fry bauhr as well as others are engaged in buying cattle they send sand buyers throughout the country buying here and there as the case may be in ri little bunches and paying g good market prices they havo have thus built ap up a large trade drawing in g business from the others the I 1 local 0 cal dealers c can an not afford to pay the seattle mens prices and therefore they want them to clear out the case is an important one although there are no legal questions to be decided and has created much interest in idaho the cattle on the range are lepor reported ted to be in a fine condition there is little snow la ia tho the mountains and the stock are perfectly able 0 rustle for themselves |