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Show 0C!)E HIS THE DAY. Tbe Bo -them Pacifio Gomes Before the ' Supreme Gonrt on an Appeal From a Jury's Verdict. AN IMFOfiTANT ATTACHMENT. The If aniamns License Issue to be Argued. Wednesday An Embea-t Embea-t zlement Oase On. Tho supremo court resumed its labors la-bors at 10 o'clock with Chief Justice and Associates Auderson, Miner and Blackburn all present. It had been rumored in the lobbjej that the report of Judge Stone on the Dyer receivership receiver-ship would receive attention this morning morn-ing und tho effect was an unreasonably largo attendance by both lawyers and litigants and spectators. It was a false alarm however for went on the regular regu-lar calendar was taken ud and the following orders made: R. G. Baker et al vs. John Larsen; .' passed for the moment in favor of An Ogden C in which council from abroad were anxious to get a hearing. This case was then taken up on appeal from Judge Miner's district and is entitled E. E. and David Spechts vs L'nited States Marshal Parsons. The case is ono in which Valentine K. Harding mado an assignment of all his property to tbe plaintiffs: An attachment was subsequently lodged aud it is on the merits of this proceeding that - the issue has arisen,' Argued and submitted. submit-ted. Following this was the case of Malola Pool vs the Southern Pacitic Railway '. company in which plaintiff seeks to recover for the Killing of Her Ha. band in tho yards of the company at Ogden. Judge Marshall appears for the appellant-defendant and Messrs. Kimball & White and E. M. Allison for the respondent-plaintiff. At the time of decedent's de-cedent's death he was in tbe employ of the company as a railway car repairer. In company with Frank J. Towers they were repairing a freight car and were working under the drawhead and between the tracks when they heard an approaching switch engine. A yardman signaled the engine to check up whioh it did within six feet of the damaged car. Pool and Towers again resumed work ' rnrier the Drawhead when a yardman, ignorant of their presence, signaled the engine to back up. It did and the repairers sprang to their feet. Towers was thrown to one side and beyond the the fatal trail while Pool was caught between the drawheads and sustained injuries from he died the following day. Damage proceedings were Instituted by his wife aud a verdict for $10,000 was awarded by the jury. An appeal was taken by the company and arguments began today. to-day. Before Norrell, At 2 o'clock ; this afternoon John Donaldson, a young man who has been in the employ of the Denver & Rio Grande Express company, was arraigned arraign-ed before Commissioner Norroll on a charge of embezzlement preferred by Manager Kelly. The arrest was mado yesterday afternoon by Deputy Marshal Joe Bush, the complaint citing that the defendant had appropriated $102 in cash nnd merchandise of the value of $150 between January 9 and 15. The arrest caused considerable of au agitation agita-tion among the friends of the prisoner who were shocked. , i The License Case. The hearing of the issue between F. J. Perry & Co. and the city council on the application of plaintiffs for a license lic-ense authorizing the sale of wet goods in the basement of the Franklin avenue theater will take place upon the mandamus man-damus proceedings on Wednesday next in the supremo court. Tho arguments promiso to comproheud a largo amount of ground and will be among the most elaborate of the present te'm of the supreme su-preme court. On the one side are arrayed ar-rayed United States Attorney Vnrian, his chief assistant, E. B. Critchlow and County Attorney Murphy. On the other are , Judge Powers and Dickson. The bar in general are looking forward to the issue with irrepressible irre-pressible interest while lncal authorities authori-ties are anxious to ascertain the exact position that the law intended them to occupy, In the meantime the petitioners petition-ers are resting on their oars and will be governed by that policy until the supreme su-preme couit has passed upon the problem. prob-lem. i |