Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-19
by our laws OF they will have to get
out of Idaho"
REPORT OF GRAND JURY.

REPORT OF GRAND JURY.
After two weeks of earnest effort
and investigation the special grand
jury has submitted Its report,
declaring that 1t has failed to md
combine among either the meaI or
coal dealers and that the jury had
exhausted every effort to learn OF facts
which might show the existence of
trust agreements, and to find such
evidence as would have incriminated
guilty parties. The report sets forth
that tnerc has been community OF in
terest among Boise coal men for
number of years and an effort made
to control the price of fuel supply,
but aside from the assertion that the
farmer IS not receiving price for his
live stock proportionate to the price
charged for meat by retail butchers
the report contains no statement that
would indicate the existence OF
meat trust. These were the only mat"
tors considered during the inquiry
which affect the cost OF living aside
from the sale of short weight lard in
violation of the state pure food law.
FIVE TRUE BILLS RETURNED.
In addition to the indictments. return
cd from tine to time during the past
two weeks in criminal cases. when the
Jury submitted IFS report and asked to
be discharged, IT, foreman handed the
court five true bills. Two of these
were made public and the others were
filed bv the clerk until such time as
service of process might be procured
on the defendants named.
Louie Him, Louie Moon and Louie
Duck were Jointly indicted for assault
TO kill Fong Sue. one of the city's
yTcalthiest oriental merchants, The at
tack upon Sue by the accused hntche;-
men was made during the recent Tong
troubles
The second Indictment published was
against Charles Bruneau and charged
burglary
LAND FRAUD CASES.
The celebrated trials OF the north
Idaho land fraud cases which have
been pending in the United States
courts for years. have narrowed down
to one charge covered by three In
dictments, under which the defendants,
William + Kettenbach, George H
Kester. William Dwyer and Harvey
]. Stefney went to trial before Judge
F S. Dietrich Tuesday morning. Spe-
clal Assistant United States Attorney
General Peyton Gordon, in argument
before the court In support of his mo-
ton to consolidate the five outstanding
indictments. committed the prosecution
10 abandon the two remaining In
dictments, which would not he af-
fectcd by the order of the court. Judge
Dietrich sustained the motion OF the
government and ut the same time de-
MED an application OF Kcttenbach for
n separate trial. All tecnnicalitics have
been swept aside and the case Will be
tried on its merits.
The Kester- Kettenbach cases, as they
are known. have been among the most
celebrated ever brought to trial I'm the
northwest At the first hearing under
the general charge of conspiracy to de-
fraud the government, the defendants
were convicted An appeal Of tho
cases was carried TO the United States
circuit court of appeals at San Fran
cisco. where the judgment OF the low
cr court was reversed. The matter was
for the second time presented to the
grand jury last fall and second set OF
indictments returned upon which the
present proceedings are based
jury was selected yesterday and
Judge Dietrich forthwith ordered that
they should be locked up during the en-
tire proceedings, which arc destined to
last about two weeks.
To CONTINUE COAL RATE WAR.
The sitting OF the interstate COM
merce commission IN the southern Ida
no coal rate casc against the Oregon
Short Line and the Union Pacific rail-
ing q decrease in the tariff on ship
ments from the mines in Wyoming to
Idaho points. has been scheduled for