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Show JUDGE ZA1S COURT. His Honor Makes a Pointed Little Speech Respecting Eailroad Super-. Super-. intendents. , PLEA OF NOT GUILTY ADVANCED. Speotators Interested in Some Oases and J Await Aotion of Jury Harrison a Lucky Man Notes. Sunshine and "steam heat killed tlw chill of the district court room this morning ere the business was commenced. com-menced. The principal part of mat ters transacted pertained to railroads. And why not? The city is full of railroad rail-road gossip which Includes the Deep Creek scheme and other things of like matter. Judge Zane made a sound speech respecting re-specting the relation existing between the employer, employe and fellow employes. em-ployes. In the case of the people vs. Walter . Walker, tho defendant urged the plea of not guilty. Tho cate of Albert T. Webb vs. the Denver and Rio Grande Railway company com-pany is in course of trial. Kick Against an Extra Tax. James Lowo. Frank Mitchell, Charles Livingston and Orson A. Woolley, "for themselves and in behalf of others similarly simi-larly situated," yesterday brought suit in the Third district court against the board Of education, of this city, and its treasurer, J. B. Walden and Collector Hardy, in which they ask that Collector Collec-tor Hardy be restrained by Injunction from collecting any special school tax from the taxpayers of said district in excess of 4 mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the property in said district and that the assessment be decreasod from 1 per cent to 4 mills. Harrison In Great Lack. George Harrison in his case against the Rio Grande Western Railway company, com-pany, in whioh he sued to recover $5000 for damages alleged to have been sus-' sus-' talned by him while working In the defendant's de-fendant's machine shops last November, ended yesterday evening in a verdict of 94000 for tho plaintiff. |