Show L Dhr u TAX STANDS hcb LL o i p tr forilhiUll Refrigerator i Transit f Co Loses Suit Against t Treasurer Lynch I fCJ 1 llnln trf S STATE E GOURT UPHELD C h h1 ture Decision Affirmed by United I States Supreme Court RT S OPINION BY CHIEF JUSTICE L Case Involved tho Right of the Stale i fno Board of Equalization to Tax the z Oat Used by the Company in S the Transaction of its 1 Business Busi-ness in Utah Taxes were Paid by J tho Company but Under Protest and Suit was Brought to Recover on Ground that i is a rorcign Corporation Having No Offices in i S poration Ofces IC Utah U S Supremo Court in its Followed Doctrine Laid 1 Opinion Folowcd Doctrno Down in Similar Case from Colorado Colo-rado Viz that Stato Authorities r Had Right to Tax Company TRIBUNE BUREAU C01 Fourteenth street 1 Washington D C April 3 1900 Tho Supreme court In tin opinion by i rhlcf Justice Fuller today alllrmcd the opinion of the Supreme court of utah In the ease oC thc Union Kcfrlgeralnr Transit company against Stephen II Lynch Treasurer of Salt Lake county The case Involved the right of tho State Board of Equallxallon to tux the cars used by lha company In tIle Irans action of business hfTItab l The taxes were paid by the com > a bttiUflt S nrolcst and milt was brought to recover re-cover the amount on the ground that It Is a foreign corporation bavlngno offices In Utah C The Supreme court in its opinion today to-day followed the doctrine laid down In a similar case from Colorado which wa decided la8t year lii which It WitHheld WitH-held that the State authorities had the right to lax the company on the valuation valua-tion of Its cars used In Interstate commerce com-merce in the State 5 ADMITTED TO PRACTICE John W Lacey of Cheyenne Wyo was today admitted to practice befor the Supreme court on motion of Assistant Assist-ant Attorney General Vandcvantcr PUBLIC BUILDING FOR RENO A favorable report watt made In the Senate today on Mr Sicwarts bill for tho erection of IL public building at Reno at a cost of 70000 PRIVATE DANVERSS CASE The petition of parents of Private Wllford Danvers of Utah company A Fortieth Infantry United Stales vetS vet-S unicorn praying for a discharge ot their Bon has been referred to the soldiers sol-diers commanding olllcer at Manila for investigation j LUCE APPLICATION REJECTED The War department today rejected the application of Francis II Luce of S Salt Lnlcc city for permission to extract ex-tract Handntono from quarries 8lluat don d-on Fort Douglas military reservation Adverse action Is I undoubtedly the rc 1 ult of unfavorable report of the military mili-tary authorities at Fort Douglas PROTECTING FOREST RESERVES S Representative Wntorss bill to prevent t pre-vent forest flips on public domain was today reported favorably to the Senate I from the Committee on Public LandH The bill provides that any person who D shall wilfully or maliciously cause lobo tJ I lo-bo net on lire any timber underbriiHh lu or gran or who shall fall to totally it Sj cxUiiRulsh A lire which he had made near any Inflammatorymaterial on the i public domain shall he guilty of IL mls Icmeannr which shall punishable le by S a flno nf not more than 5500Q or Iwo years Imprisonment or both rt MEXICAN WAR VETERANS Representative Snodgrnsiss bill cr 1 tending provisions of act granting Increase tt In-crease of pension to soldiers of the Mexican war in cerlaln cases to all inj Mexican Moldiers was today pusswd by the lions ELt jJ S INFORMATION IS DESIRED Senator Clark of Wyoming today Introduced 4 In-troduced a resolution dlrocllng the PostmasterGeneral to rejwrt upon a pbedMic to the Senate the readjusted il9S salaries of all poPlmasier who nerved TOi In the Territory and Smte of Wyoming between July I l6l nnd July 1 1S74 0F vhoKc names as claimant appear In 3 S the Court of Claims In the case entitled S Edwin S Whit tier and other versus the United Stales It wa reternMl 1 to I the Committee on Postofllce and Post J3 Roads iEM |