Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-03-26

HANDED DOWN
Federal Grand Jury Caus=
ing Anxiety in Some
Quarters

There will be more than one sleep
less pillow tonight and some of them
may not be as far away as Lewiston,
says the Boise Statesman, commenting
on the land fraud Investigations.
For the grand jury handed out a
package Of indictments yesterday aft
ernoon, a wad big enough to choke a
grown-up shark
There were apparently about 40 !
pages of the report, which, with one
name on page, would make perhaps |
40 interested people who have reason !
to lie awake to think it over.
The jury, however, is not believed |
to have indicted quite so many as that
yet Whatever the number of counts
| against certain ones, it is not a far
off guess to say that four indictments
were returned-part of them for Lew
iston men who have heretofore APP
| peared before the court in timber
cases, and others for prominent men
of the same section who are expected
! to appear when the court gets it's
hands on them. The men are said to
have been talked over for a long time
And the jury is believed to be hardly
more than one-half through. More
sleepless pillows may be found in the
next two weeks
The report was received In the open
court during the afternoon, while the
| Garshweiler damage suit against the
! Oregon Short Line was being heard.
Judge Beatty was informed by the
! United States marshal that there was
a communication from the grand jury
He Immediately ordered the trial jury
to retire to the back seats of the court
room, vacating their places in the jury
box for the grand jury, which soon
filed in
W. B. Grigsby, foreman Of the grand
jury, handed the Judge big envelope
full of papers, almost as fat as a boz
logna sausage, but bigger. The Judge
took the document, opened it in the
presence of the whole court turned
page after page, read here and there
to be sure that 1t was entirely correct
as to form and then handed the papers
to Clerk Richardson. The jury was
then dismissed, when they returned to
their work upstairs.
7 From all that can be learned, the
, jury is hardly more than half through
! its work. While no exact division can
be made, as to where the half mark
is, the work yet before the Jurors, or
believed to be before them, would in
dictate that there is still a lot to do
The jury has been in working session
two weeks. In that time they have
heard some other than north Idaho
witnesses but these others are believed
to be principally corroborative as to
methods, rather than for their direct
testimony of local affairs. Most of the
witnesses have been from north Idaho,
and the list is not exhausted. Two or
three witnesses from that section are
still in town, with the probability that
others may be called later.
1t is understood that the jury will
continue to devote its energies to the
north for some time to come-just
how much longer its not known. But
with the continued presence OF Miles s.
Johnson the indefatigable assistant
district attorney from Lewiston, 1t may
be assumed that north Idaho is still
slated for investigation.
Coming closer home the large num-
Der of witnesses who have been called
in within the past few days gives rise
to the belief that the north Idaho
cases were brougt up first, but that a
lull was taken in the work from that
section after a dozen or more wit
nesses were examined, and then the
local witnesses were taken up for cases
nearer Boise, while the indictments
, we're being drawn on the evidence
, against the northerners. While there
, are still some cases pending against
other men in the north, as inferred by
, he continued holding of valuable state
witnesses from that section, It is a
; safe guess that most of the work yet
= to be done will concern timber matters
much nearer Boise.
, There Is no intimation that the
grand jury will take up anything other
, than timber and stone filings at this
session; and that has been It's sxclu-
q sive work thus far. It is believed the
y jury will be in session well along to-
+ ward the time for the sitting of tht
federal court at Pocateiio. the 9Th o.
April. Even should the session las
= up to the last day before the Pocatellt
4 term, there would be but IL working
II days after today-and from the crol
h of limitations that float around tn
: federal building, that is not a yer
long time after all for what there is t
% do.