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Show AFTER THE SCALPS OF THEJCALPERS Fight to Be Made Against the Ticket Brokers ot Salt Lake. COURT MAY BE ASKED TO ISSUE INJUNCTION Brokers Tell Their Story and Determine to Make a Fight. The railroad companies and th tlelcet brokers brok-ers ure again at wur and hot 111 t li-s are liable to break out In this city any .lay. In faet T. A. Harrington of citicaso, the representative of the Western Passenger association, Is ot present perfecting his plans Eb go into court and ask that an Injunction be IhmucJ restraining restrain-ing the neoip-r. us thy nie generally called, from ile'illrig In transportation purchased from iranslenti! nn.i soiling the return halves to the public. Legal Sattle Expected. Mr. Harrlnston has been in .Salt inke for ten days, a guest, at the Wilson. During his Hotuurn he has not been Idle, but has been busy Investigating conditions locally, inter- rlSWini railroad men, discussing the proposed litigation with thu legal representatives of the railroads und now. It Is understood, thrt the complaint hr.s been, drawn and Will be flleij ln court shortly. Brokers Restrained in Denver This movement Is only In K'-epint; with tlv action taken by the usslitlon in Denver, PuSblO, Colorado Sprlne and Cripple I I 1. a few weeks ago an injunction whs lsr-uea at Denver restraining the broken from doing business-. The order v.as madi by .lu.ig. Dlx-0H Dlx-0H f Pneblo, and permliiK a leaflrm of Ihe appial by the Supreme court the brokers In thejio cities have had to close sho:i This Is said lo be tho only Injunction that has been I-.-H. .1 .md the d.-ctsib.n ..t tin hlgliel . "U.l la awaited with much Interest. A Ticket Broker's Stoiy, TKsri ai-e live brokers doing bualness ln this cii : K. H. Qroshell. A iittinger. L Kabn, u. Bnglehart and K. 1. Darllnx. luid they do not proMjte to elt Idly by and ivltne.es this at-tiiipt at-tiiipt to drive them out ot business without putting forth ?.n effort to help themselves. Whv un Injunction jde.uld be asked for Is an enigma, as recourse to thin leol procedure Is only taken in a cose of emergency, and it is .o l i here h no emergency prevalent here at this time. To obtain tho lew of the brokers as to the onslaught that Is be Ins made upon them, a Tribune representative called iiion One of the lraiemlt last evening and obtained ob-tained rr.im him the following statement 'Two years ago thu tVoilern Passenger as-s..h as-s..h latlon enjoin-d the ticket brokers In Chicago Chi-cago from handling any form of tickets Whatever, What-ever, However, they Wl ro ai'rald this Injunction Injunc-tion would not stand In court, so they had the document modified, and entered Into an agreement agree-ment with the brokers of Chicago and St I.ouls to tho effect that If the brokers would refrain fro-n handling ull tickets which were stamped "I.. P. E." I Louisiana Purchaso Exposition!, Ex-position!, the roads would not Interfere with them hnndllr: any oth r form ot ticket. Case Goes to Supremo Court. "The Injunction suit was brought up before one of thu Circuit court .lodges In Chicago, and an ag-ecment was arrived at between the railroad companies and the brokers that tho esse be carried to the Supremo court of the I'nlted States, with the understanding thai b that decision tho ticket brokers' business would either stand or fall This action I still pending and tho brokers contlr.uu to do busl-ii-sa tn the Windy City. President Ottinger Takes Up Fight. "Last Saturday A.ioiph Ottinger, president Of the American Ticket Brokers' association, ps sed th. -.ugh Ogdea en route to Washington, D. c. to i .nsuit with the Attorncy-Genersl and. If possible, to have an Immediate Hearing. Hear-ing. Of the use. on the ground that It Is one of emergency und something which should not be delayed. "Some ilnut ago the Central I'asseng.r association asso-ciation nppii-d to Judge Shackelford ICUler, al Louisville, Ky . fur un Injunction to restrain the brokers of that city from doing business, and the Julgc handed down a lengthy decision la which he held thut there was no emergency and overruled the motion. This hus leen the case ln numerous Instances, in fai t the D.-n-wr Injunction is the only one grant, d. The American Ticket Brokers' association has i raised B fund of liJ".fHAl to defend lli.-li ens before the Supreme court of the I'nlted StSl and Intend to make a strenuous light." |