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Show IGOVERNMENT IS SUING THE mm PACIFIC i .Alleged Infraction of Law Re- garding Slock Shipments P -Is Basis, i i :i j United States District Attorney If. j "E. Booth lins brouclit suit in t he name j of tho government against I lie Union 1 Pacific railroad, for an alleged infraction f of tho hvcnlv-oiglit-lionr law. reffardiuar j j the confinement of animals in a car en-route en-route 1o a given point . ! Tho complaint stales that on October 21. 100S, "Wvati & Wyatt. shippers of j Denver, loaded five carloads of liogs consigned to the Western Meat om-panyi om-panyi South San Francisco. Cnl. These cars were hauled by the Union Pacific bf. far as Ogden, whero rhcy were transferred trans-ferred to tho Southern Pacific- railway. Tho complaint further alleges that while tho hoes were being hauled by the Union Pacific through Wyoming and "Utah., the road, without perinission.Jce.pt the hog3 confined in tho enrs for a jpcriod of forty-two consecutive hours, m violation of an act of congress. After hrAng zeloadcd at Rawlins, the complaint states, on October 23. at 2 n. m. the hogs -were not again unloaded into pens, :where they might have rest and nave water and food, as the law requires, tuitil they, reached Ogden, on October Co at 8 a. m. Thi maximum penalty for breaking tho twenty-eight hour law is a fine of ifSOO and the miniinuni $100. Mr. Booth asks the imposition of the maximum .penalty. |