Show XOTKIIKISV PACIFIC AUorno > > For tIc Hodcii ers rca rc-a at Tncoina TACOMA Wash Aug 9The attorneys I at-torneys for the Northern Pacific receivers re-ceivers gathered here are preparing I to stubbornly contest the suit to oust tihe receivers brought by Counsel Pettit at Seattle ExSenator John C Spooner and C W Bunn general II counsel at St Paul arrived ast night on a special itrain and were joined a little later by exSenator J N Dolph I I of Oregon A long conference was I held with r 1 Ashton western coun i sel at which the plan of defense was outlined The attorneys will go to Se I Httle today and agree on a day for the argument of Mr Pcfttits motion Receiver Payne went to Portland today to-day Mr Bunn counsel at 9t Paul denies that the positron of western counsel l was ever tendered < to Andrew i F Burleigh of Seattle |