Idaho Semi Weekly World

The jury in the libel case of Page vs. the Chronicle stood six for acquittal and six for conviction, and were discharged, there being no probability of an agreement. As Page took the usual course of bringing his case before the court in his own county, instead of the county wherein the Chronicle is published, and failed to find more than six men who believed he was libeled, he had best now throw up the sponge. The defeat of Page, Sargent & Co. is ignominious, considering the advantage they took by dragging the De Youngs away from their home and onto their own dung hill to fight.