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Show TiiMD DISTIUOr COURT. The Elrttricitailmaci Suits are Still Itelnr Funsht. The electric railroad cases still drag along in tlie Third District Court. The title nf tlie case which canto before Judge Zaue yesterday after-ncou after-ncou is the Salt Lake Bipid Transit CornpaOy vs. the Salt Lake City Ilailroad Company, the action being be-ing brought for a decree ol court restiainiug defendant from cutting or detaching the trolly wires at the intersection of the lines of the plaintiff aud defendant, etc The defendants filed a cross-complaint, in which, after deniug the allrga-tious allrga-tious of plaintiff, it praya for an injunction in-junction pending the action restraining re-straining the plaintifT from ln any manner connecting iu wires with these of the defendant, or from con-tluulug con-tluulug such connections or other-wl- lulerieiing with the operations of defendant' matf. J. L IUlins is counsel for the plslutifTand P. L. Williams lor the : defendant. O. c (Jihmai, Superintendent of 1 the dalt Lake Bajiid Transit Com-i Com-i pauy, wascalled, aud testified to the construction of the mad aud other matters. Tue number of crossings where the trolly wires intersected, wltues said, was eighteen, they being be-ing crossed by the company's car. at the rate ot eight-fuur timea an hour, or 1344 limes during a working work-ing uay of fifteeu hours. Oil First :y.ulti Street there was given a ten-Hiluutes ten-Hiluutes service, or twenty-fourdur-ingen hour, there beiui: four trolleys trol-leys on that llioroughr.iv; on Second Sec-ond South Street u twelve-miuute service, ur twenty during an hour: ou Thirl Soutii Street sixteen times, an bcur; oiifclxUi Soutii Street, a X-teeu X-teeu times an hour; on Main und Seventh South Streets, eight times I an hour, a total of eignty-f ur I uovingn an hour, or 1344 tor a full I woi king day. lL M Jones, a contractor, who his i ceu engaged in constructing tuitions of both roa-N, corrolwratrd tlie testimony of air. Upham. He exhibited an appliance of bis own deice whli h lie said rendered the cnsslngiilthetrol ey wires absolute-1 absolute-1 lyfrce Irom danger and whenever ttley had bee-u used ou tile roads they had beeu successful. So far as he knew only three iub-rruplious had occurred to traffic on the electric elec-tric lines ou arcouut of Its wires coming in contact. Mr. Jones was u ridel examination, when the com t adjourned till this morning at lOo'clacfc. Notice cf default of defendants wasentereil in the case of Isaec Barti u vs. David X. Kindtull tt al. The case of S. E. Kinney vs. Cliar.'esT. Nelson was referred to W. E. Brad !y, who will hear the case on the 27th Instant. Ellis J. iJli, a native of Wales, was admitted to citizenship. |