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Show NOW FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER. lha Supreme Conrt Will Hear tha Uehrlng Sea lilnputa Argued. Washington, Feb. 2. Chief Justice Fuller today announced that the supreme su-preme court had decided to grant the petition of counsel representing the British government, for leave to tile an application for a writ of prohibition to prevent the district court of Alaska proceeding to carry out its decree of forfeiture, - made ' in ' the case of the schooner Seyward, libelled for unlawfully taking seals within the Waters of the Behring sea. The court VkedV counsel at what date the rule rtyu theAlask court come here ' . .. i " why thrri . virob- IlTtlesTlip f-ely preliminary qtiesiion of the rigkv Co bring the case into tbe court and the matter now to be settled is whether or not the court will decide that the writ prohibition should issue. There must now be arguments on the merits of the Behring sea controvj;x'y. In announcing the determination of the court, the chief justice said that the argument had takeu a much wider range than was necessary and that the court was of the opinion tbat it had jurisdiction by way of prohibition under un-der section 6yn, revised statutes,' to review re-view the proceedings of the Alaska court. |