The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-04
THE FEDERAL GRAND JURY
FINDS MANY INDICTMENTS


rich of the federal court to pass upon
many criminal charges that had been
filed in the court today returned its re-
port after having been in session since
Saturday morning, and the jury was
dismissed. There were II members of
the jury, Is having been called but one
was excused. They are:
Walt Matthews, Reubens; C. B.
Green Moscow; Geo. N. Lamphere,
Moscow; A. K Carlson, Kendrick;
Walter Driscoll, Troy; Blaine Snyder,
Weippe; John Pearson, Dent John
Harlan, Orofino Fred Frazier, Oro-
fino; James ]. Cox, Russell; R. G.
Grass, Mohler; William Ruble, Kamiah;
Arthur H. Diddock, lewiston; c. A.
Blanchard, Lewiston; Morgan L. Mar
tin, Lewiston William Turner, Winona;
Frank Ranch, Grangeville.
Indictments were found against ID
persons in Is separate cases, exclusive
of the case of J. F. Wall, disposed of
yesterday, when he pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to three years for using
the mails to defraud
Non partizans Indicted.
True Bills" were found against I. A.
CASTOR, nonpartizan league organizer,
who was arrested in Spokane for alleged
abuse of the government, the Red Cross
and opposing the sale of Liberty bonds,
was indicted and will be tried at this
term of court The cases of two other
nonpartizan league organizers was con-
tinued and will probably come up at the
March term of court. Both are under
bonds to appear before the grand jury
when called upon to do SO. The case
against J. w. Brigham, former state sem
ator for this county, who was held to
the grand jury on charge of boarding
food and abusing the government, was
not called before this grand jury but will
probably be called in March.
True bills were found against the fol-
lowing defendants Carl Thyr, of Troy,
conducting a still and manufacturing
liquor; T. A. CASTOR, nonpartizan league
organizer, disloyal utterances; Winston
McKinsey and Dewey Farrar, intro
ducing liquor on an Indian reservation;
Stephen Weller, Moscow, conducting a
still for the manufacture of liquor in the
basement of the Urqullart building ..
Third street, Moscow; Fred I. Ander-
son. introducing liquor on an Indian
reservation; Thomas Banff, selling liquor
to Indians Andrew j. A. Nelson, farm
er near Deary, boarding food; Simon
on an Indian reservation; William Cot
tingham. alias coyote Bill and Guy
Horner, selling liquor to an Indian at
the carnival in Moscow; Joseph R. Bell.
introducing liquor on an Indian reserva-
tion Michael Tobin, same charge;
Henry Herman, wealthy farmer of Nez
Perce county, living between Lewiston
and Genesee, boarding food.
The trial of these cases will begin at
once Judge Dietrich did not start the
trial of these cases until after the grand
jury had finished its work and been dis
charged in order that the grand jury
might have the large court room instead
of the small and poorly ventilated jury
room in which to hold its deliberations,
because of danger of influenza in the
smaller rooms. The following trial
jurors have been called to try these
cases:
VIM. D. Roth, Frank Nicely, A. L.
Ransom, E. J. Armbruster, Moscow; E.
P. Atchson, Kendrick; O. f. McPher- .
son, Kendrick (excused) R. F. Brown,
Kendrick; Emil Gerber, Viola; Ulrich
Princeton VIM. M. Conachen,
Boville; Frank R. Roe, Nez Perce; N. L.
Agrell, Nez Perce; 7. o. Crozier,
Culdesac (excused); Edgar Booth.
Nez Perce; Samuel D. CLEAR, Lew
iston; J. B. Henry, Seattle (excused);
Ralph B. Dixon, Lewiston; Leonard
A. Cole, Snow; R. B. Parks, Leland;
Jesse Hoffman, Leland; Lewis Clark,
Clifford; Thomas D. Barton, Lapwai;
James Surridge, Harpster; Frank q.
Taylor, Whitebird; VIM. Wagner,
Cottonwood; H. A. Sprute, Lapwai;
J. J. Torbert, Fem; George Sly,
Fred M. Moves, Grange
vile; Wallace T. Jarrett, Grangeville;
VIM G. Hanson, Grangeville; M. A.
Marshall, Weippe; George Cummings,
Orofino.