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Show OFF ON TMTIALS. Oonrt Reporters Get Mixed Up and Pin an Unconditional Apology on Their Coat Sleeve. THE LIQUOR LIOEKSE MANDAMUS. The Killing of an Old "Milker'' Again Revived in Court Proceedings Before tha Supreme Judges. Notwithstanding that a decision involving in-volving as much law and sentiment as is contaiued in the issue between the Franklin Avenue Cafo, ex rel the worm in the etill and city council, was vaguely improbable, it did not stop the attendance attend-ance nor disturb the interest that has been taken in it by all classes from the start. The pulpit was represented by a well known insurance man who not infrequently diverges from the tickle path of the "life policy" to wrest the inking sinner from The Quick Bands Into whioh he had wandered. That contingent in the municipal board who believe in limiting the franchises of the Racchanalian god was represented represent-ed by Mayor Scott. There wan a constellation con-stellation from the dramatic firmament as there was also from the kingdom of Epicurus, while the public was subserved sub-served at the reporter's desk." "You scribblers, or some of you, got mixed on the identity of tbe justices yesterday," remarked half a dozen lu minaries of the local bar in chorus. "The idea of intimating that it was Justice Miner who did not understand what the torm vaudeville, with all its vivid reminiscences, its fantastic environments envir-onments and Aurora Rerealean Elfacta when we knew he was a Michigander was too much for the credulty of his old cronies. Now the man who has contented himself with the tranquility of sober and abstemious old Prov and the solitudes of the law library is not expected to be familiar with Folly's alphabet to an extent that would make him an authority on vaudevilles and other aristocratic features ef the dramatic dra-matic world. Now, I was fortunately present during that dialogue, and, if my memory serves me, I think the first letter of The Jaitlce'a Mama was Blackburn. Provo you must know has never seen the skirt dancer nor the exponent of a thing of veneered beauty in all her giddy and intoxicating intoxicat-ing abandon, but we who have lived in Michigan aud in Ogden have even if we were forced to view them through a telescope." The guilty scribblers resigned themselves them-selves to the reproaches, an apology was registered, and the last thrilling cascades of tbe vocal overture having been lost in the bailiffs boss command the mills began to grind upon A Chapter of Formal Matters. In the case of Sarah Jane Weaver vs W. L. Pickard briefs were filed and the hearing was set down for February 4, which in the matter of East et al. vs. Mooney et al., arguments were carried over to February Febru-ary 7. , Not a syllable having yet been heard concerning tho fate of the mandamus the representatives of the various elements ele-ments who have interested themselves in it filed out and the case of The People vs. James Cbadwick and others was taken up on appeal from the First distriet. The cause is an old one and originated in the mysterious and almost instantaneous taking off of A Rd Milch Cow that had been supplying the family of A. K. Anderson in Uintah county in lacteal luxuries of all forms and shapes. The milker wandered away one day and was last seen in the clover-scented pas-lures pas-lures of the Chadwick ranch. It was some time following that her owner got wind of the fact that evidence of her whereabouts might be found in Chad-wick's Chad-wick's barn. A search was instituted, and half of a red hide was unearthed and idenritied ss that which had been cruelly and unlawfully stricken from the back of faithful old bos. An additional ad-ditional search revealed Tha Missing Link and fitted together the brand "A.R.A." came out as plainly and unmistakably unmistak-ably as if it had been taken fresh from the brander's gnawing iron. The defendant was finally indicted, taken into court and convicted. Motion for a new trial was denied by Judge Blackburn and appeal taken to the supreme su-preme court, to which body it has been submitted, counsel for appellant contending con-tending that the bare finding of the hide in Chadwick's barn Was not prima-facie prima-facie or even crediblo evidence that it was placed there by him or by bis consent. |